Reborn? The Kind You Can Choose!

March 2004 was definitely the darkest month since Penguin started its business, except for selling the company in 2000.

The reason is that Penguin’s instant messaging software QQ is too powerful.

With as many as 400 million users, all Internet companies feel a threat.

Although the current Penguin is not the strongest Internet company in China, and it has not yet been listed, everyone can predict that when Penguin knows how to monetize its customers

That's when it rises.

Therefore, before that, they must destroy this company.

Even if QQ cannot be killed, it must still get a share of the instant messaging market.

Almost at the same time, a campaign against QQ took place in the Internet field. In 2004, all portals began to launch their own instant messaging tools.

Everyone has already seen that Penguin, which has a large number of users, will be a major problem for major Internet companies.

The first battle was of course initiated by Ding Sanshi of NetEase.

Just at the beginning of March, two heavyweights appeared at the Royal Capital International Club Hotel, and each of them launched a challenge to Penguin.

The reputation and financial resources of these two people are higher than those of the current Ma Huateng, namely Ding Sanshi of NetEase and Bill Gates of Microsoft.

On March 15, 2004, Ding Sanshi, who rarely appeared in the media, traveled north to Beijing and held a large-scale press conference to promote NetEase's instant messaging software, NetEase Bubble, in a high-profile manner.

This is the first time that Ding Sanshi and Ma Huateng, two of China Internet's best product managers who were born in the same year and month, have faced off at such a close distance on the same battlefield. The two were friends before.

In fact, NetEase had already launched NetEase Bubble as early as November 2002. It copied QQ without any difference. As long as QQ has it, NetEase Bubble has it.

In just one year, thanks to the large-scale promotion of "hang up Bubble and send text messages", NetEase Bubble's registered users have reached 15 million, with a record of 500,000 people online at the same time.

This has also become the second largest domestic instant messaging tool in the Chinese market after QQ.

Last month, Ding Sanshi brought an explosive weapon. He claimed that NetEase had successfully developed an instant voice communication tool similar to Skype. This was the reason why he was confident that he could challenge QQ at this time. .

Following Ding Sanshi's first battle, Microsoft followed up three days later. Just yesterday, Bill Gates announced that MSN has officially entered China and is preparing to set up marketing and R&D centers in the imperial capital and Shanghai.

For a time, countless people poured into this instant messaging software that was more for work than entertainment.

In the past few days, Microsoft and NetEase are far from the only companies that have rushed into the field of instant messaging and tried to compete with Penguin.

Yahoo China officially launched the Chinese version of Yahoo Messenger 6.0!

The person who serves as the president of Yahoo China is Zhou Hongyi, the founder of Future 360, known as the "Red God"!

Sina also announced yesterday that it would acquire Langma Company for US$36 million.

Langma UC, an instant messaging software, has 80 million registered users and a maximum of 310,000 online users at the same time. Its market share is second only to QQ, MSN and NetEase Paopao. Sina changed its name to Sina UC. !

Of course, in addition to these four companies, there are also Sohu's SoQ, Tom Online's Skype, and even telecom operators want to come in and disrupt the situation and launch VIM... This late March is destined to be extraordinary.

Heroes compete in the Central Plains, officially starting the 2004 War of the Gods.

This was the hottest battle on the Internet in 2004, which lasted for more than half a year and ended with the emergence of QQ Space.

Penguin had the last laugh.

But now, on March 19, 2004, Mr. Ma of Penguin is quite worried.

He has to deal with various meetings every day to contend with opponents who appear suddenly.

He knew that they all felt the crisis.

As long as it survives this wave, Penguin will no longer be afraid of anyone.

However, everyone knows that the darkness before dawn... is the most difficult to get through.

"call"

It was another extremely irritable day. Several opponents failed to defeat him, and Ma Huateng was completely exhausted!

He rubbed his temples and sat at his desk.

"Uh-huh, uh-huh!"

The old man's coughing sound came from the computer, which was the sound of QQ messages.

Ma Huateng opened his eyes, picked up the glasses on the table and put them on, then cheered up, rubbed his face, and clicked on the QQ profile picture.

The information was sent to him by his partner Zhang Zhidong.

Zhang Zhidong is one of the five founders of Penguin. He currently serves as Penguin's chief technology officer and is the engineer with the strongest R&D capability in Penguin Group.

He is now fully responsible for the development of Penguin's proprietary technologies, including the development of instant messaging platforms and large-scale online application systems.

Everyone knows that Penguin’s boss is Ma Huateng, but in fact the developer of QQ is Zhang Zhidong!

QQ software was written by him, and Ma Huateng was just the proposer.

Zhang Zhidong and Ma Huateng were classmates in junior high school. They were admitted to Shencheng University together. Then Ma Huateng chose to work, while Zhang Zhidong continued his studies and obtained a master's degree in computer application and system architecture from South China University of Technology in 1996!

In 1998, under Ma Huateng's persuasion, they founded Penguin Company together (good job, Mom)

"...~pony, let me show you a website. Many of my classmates, as well as Xiaoguang and the others, are talking about it recently!"

"I think... we can end this war of the gods this time!"

"Um?"

Ma Huateng, who was originally exhausted, suddenly became energetic after seeing his brother's words.

Can the war of gods end?

The battle of the gods was an order he gave to the company.

Now, when he heard that this war could be ended, his body and mind immediately became excited.

"I'm not lying to you, but hurry up and take a look now!"

"Okay, don't lie to me!"

Ma Huateng smiled, and after sending the message, he subconsciously opened the website Zhang Zhidong shared with him.

The first line that catches the eye is three big characters—Xiao Nei Net!.