Reborn? The Kind You Can Choose!

Wednesday, March 24, 2004.

Ma Huateng woke up from his office early in the morning. He worked overtime until 1 a.m. last night. When he couldn't bear it anymore, he made a floor in the office.

The same is true for Zhang Zhidong and others.

This kind of working situation was actually the norm a year ago. It was only in the last year that Penguin's income began to increase that they gradually formed the concept of commuting.

But last night, several major founders obviously felt a long-lost sense of urgency.

The opponent Xiaonei Network really made them a little excited.

"How's it going, Zhidong?"

"What is the growth rate of Tongtong.com users?"

Ma Huateng walked out of the office and took the breakfast handed to him by his subordinates. Zhang Zhidong and others were already sitting in front of the computer and immersed in work.

"Not bad, it will soon exceed 2 million users!"

"The network-wide promotion started at 9:30 last night. After the new version went online, there were quite a lot of users using "070" to connect to the classmates network!"

"I predict there will be a huge increase at noon and evening!"

"It should be no problem to reach 5 million early this morning!"

At present, 50% of QQ users are students, who have to go to class many mornings, and only at noon and evening, they have time to surf the Internet, so Zhang Zhidong's inference seems to be well-founded.

"That's not bad!"

"Is there anything wrong with the member?"

Ma Huateng also sat next to Zhang Zhidong. Zhang Zhidong took two bites of the buns and said vaguely: "Ask Da Li about this. He is responsible for maintaining the stability of the members. I guess there will be some troubles, but not too much!"

"Okay, don't worry about membership. Think about the next version update!"

"And how to promote it?"

Zhang Zhidong subconsciously opened the traffic statistics software and entered the URL of the school network.

"The current traffic of the school network is more than five times that of the classmates' network. I estimate that the other party's website has many more registered users than ours, and the stickiness of the first batch will also have an impact!"

"The promotion of the four major portal websites is really fierce!"

"Even if we have traffic from QQ, it will be difficult to catch up in a short while!"

"So, we can only think of ways to improve user stickiness!"

"We have to distinguish our classmates' network from our school network as soon as possible so that users can see the advantages of our classmates' network. The idea of ​​a personal show you proposed yesterday is a good one. My suggestion is to directly launch version 1.1 of our classmates' network tomorrow so that we can Liangcheng will get it out as soon as possible!"

"Otherwise, if it's too late, I'm afraid the gap in the school network will widen even further!"

"They also have a lot of help with instant messaging software. I just checked that the traffic of NetEase Paopao and other software has obviously increased!"

"Interconnection has indeed raised the user experience to a new level!"

Zhang Zhidong analyzed all his opinions, and Ma Huateng also felt the current urgency.

Although the first crisis of the online classmate network has been overcome, the competition has just begun.

"Okay, I'll ask Liangcheng to do a personal show right away...and convene a meeting with the employees of the product department!"

"You also ask the development department to think of ideas and strive to release version 1.1 tomorrow to completely overtake the school network!"

"We actually have a huge advantage over the school network!"

Ma Huateng suddenly smiled and said: "At least, we have many more people than the school network. Zhifan reported to me that there are only about 10 people in Yuanzhou Technology including the boss. How can we have more people with so many ideas?" ?”

"So, relax, we will definitely win this battle!"

Ma Huateng said loudly, and several programmers in the development department also laughed. The atmosphere in the entire office seemed quite harmonious.

Although they were ambushed by the unexpected promotion of Xiaonei.com yesterday, they still did not take Xiaonei.com seriously. After all, Yuan Zhou's age and the size of the company are far from reaching the level of Penguin.

How can a small company with ten people compete with a penguin with more than 800 people?!

In their view, Xiaonei.com’s current lead in traffic and users is only temporary. Once Penguin users and QQ exert their power at the same time, how can Xiaonei.com, the polished commander, be an opponent with both swords combined?

"Everyone has worked hard these days!"

"After the classmate network is stabilized, I will invite all departments to have a meal together——"

Ma Huateng was there to win over people's hearts, but Chen Yiyi walked in from the outside with a gloomy face.

Looking at his expressions, Ma Huateng and Zhang Zhidong's expressions became a little tense for a moment.

This is the company's keystone. He is responsible for maintaining legal, government relations, etc. He usually smiles. Seeing him like this, his intuition told the two of them that something must have happened.

"What's wrong, once?"

Ma Huateng asked, but Chen Yiyi didn't talk nonsense at all and said directly: "Zhidong, open Sina!"

Zhang Zhidong quickly entered the website address of Sina.com.

"see it?"

Chen once pointed to a piece of news under the headline on the front page - "Strongly condemn the evil behavior of Penguin Alumni Network plagiarizing the school network!"

"I am Yuan Zhou, the founder of Xiaonei.com, an 18-year-old high school student. Xiaonei.com is a website developed by me in my spare time in high school. My original intention is to let students like me have access to the Internet. Find your former classmates!"

"Elementary school, junior high school, high school... I developed this website purely out of interest!"

"But what I didn't expect was that the website was recognized by countless friends as soon as it was launched. On the first day it was launched, more than 10,000 users registered, and it only took a week to grow to more than 300,000 users! "

"I am grateful, countless people have helped me, and Penguin also contacted me not long ago and wants to fund the purchase of my website!"

"Because I didn't understand the acquisition, I didn't agree on the spot, but what I didn't expect was that just yesterday, they openly posted a classmate website that plagiarized the school website on the Internet!"

"Even, this message was pushed to every QQ member!"

"Before pushing it, I never thought that the classmates network, which is a replica of the school network I developed, would use a free software I developed to make money for QQ members. This is something I can't bear!

"I'm just a student, and I know I can't compete with big companies like Penguin, but I still want to appeal to every user who uses the school network to use the school network I developed!"

"This is a completely free website. You can find your classmates and colleagues on this website, chat and interact with them!"

"At the same time, I want to warn Mr. Ma of Penguin Company here!"

"The vitality of the Internet comes from the creative spirit respected by the industry!"

"The plagiarism of the school website by Penguin Classmate Network is a 3.2 egregious and disrespectful behavior, and it is also a naked injury and trampling on the innovative spirit of the Internet!"

"As a social networking website, Xiaonei.com welcomes and encourages other practitioners to engage in healthy competition. Through healthy competition, we are committed to providing Internet users with a high-quality user experience and social environment!"

“However, Xiaonei.com opposes and strongly condemns and resolutely resists Penguin’s direct plagiarism... Such plagiarism cannot bring real innovation to the industry, but can only cause innovators to be violated and harmed. !”

"Finally, I would like to say to those users who love the school network, thank you for your support!"

"The school network will continue to serve every student who loves the campus environment. The new version 2.0 will meet you as promised in 3 days!"

- Yuan Zhou, written in the early hours of the night on March 23, 2004. .