Rebirth of the Wild Age

In the evening, Song Weiyang and Xiao Ma's car took several shareholders of Tencent out for dinner.

Brother Xiaoma looked at the Hummer in surprise and said, Old Song, you don't usually buy goods, so how did you buy a pickup?

Song Weiyang smiled and said, Don't you think the pickup is very manly?

Brother Xiao Ma said: I just want to spray paint the butt of your car and write the words 'loading 1 ton'.

Hahahaha, you can actually make jokes. Song Weiyang couldn't stop laughing.

Zhang Zhidong walked around the car, making no secret of his envy: This car is so majestic!

When the company grows bigger in the future, I will also buy one. It will be very face-saving to drive out. Xu Chenhua said, patting the car body.

Hong Weiguo and Song Weiyang sat in the front row, Zhang Zhidong and Xu Chenhua immediately got into the back row, and the blind monk and Chen Yidan could only ride in Xiao Ma's car.

Zhang Zhidong stroked the seat leather and said, It's real leather, it feels great!

It's not real leather, it's artificial leather. Song Weiyang said.

Xu Chenhua was surprised: Is artificial leather used for such a good car?

Song Weiyang said: The artificial leather made of alantara, made in Italy, is more expensive than real leather. I spent 50,000 US dollars to have the original factory replace it.

Awesome! Xu Chenhua sat up and bumped his butt twice. I don't know if it's a psychological effect. Anyway, I think this seat is very comfortable.

The car was driving slowly in Huaqiang North, the sky was getting dark, the lights were on, the noise was like daytime, and there were a lot of people's voices.

Xu Chenhua looked at the street scene outside the car window, and said with emotion: Huaqiangbei is getting more and more lively. There were not so many people at night before.

Next year may be even more lively, and more and more counterfeit mobile phones will be made. Zhang Zhidong said.

Xu Chenhua smiled wryly: At this rate of development, every person in China may have a mobile phone in the future. We will die sooner or later as a paging system.

Yes, in Huaqiangbei at the end of 1998, some people were already making counterfeit mobile phones!

In the past, the quality here was still a factory area, but in 1998, Huaqiangbei began to transform into a commercial street. In the electronic product sales industry, a spark has sprung up since the summer, and it has been burning vigorously in a few months.

By 1999, Huaqiangbei's electronic products would start to catch fire. At that time, 280 million mobile phones were sold globally, and there were 700,000 counterfeit mobile phones produced in China, most of which came from Huaqiangbei.

How popular was Huaqiangbei around 2000?

A bigger store requires 60 salespeople. From nine o'clock in the morning to two o'clock in the morning, three shifts are used to deliver goods in rotation. Dealers from all over the country line up outside the store from morning till night.

At that time, a shop of less than 10 square meters in Huaqiangbei cost hundreds of thousands of yuan to buy. And this is still the market price. You may not be able to buy a store even if you have money. You have to rely on relationships and spend millions of dollars to let others change hands.

So, if you were reborn in Shencheng in 1998, you don’t know what to do with 1 million yuan in your hand. Then don’t rush to invest in Tencent, buy 20 shops with only a few square meters in Huaqiangbei, rent them out for two years and then resell them, 1 million yuan can become more than 20 million!

Everyone chose a roadside food stall, sat down around a small table, and asked the boss to bring two cases of beer.

Except for Hong Weiguo drinking tea, everyone else was full, and they had a cup before the dishes were served.

Dry!

Brother Xiaoma is a super old smoker, he is eager to smoke when he puts down his cup. He lit one himself, and he was as happy as a fairy, swallowing his clouds and saying: Let's talk about business first, and then talk about other things. How much money does Lao Song plan to invest?

The other four shareholders also put away their other thoughts and looked at Song Weiyang in unison.

Song Weiyang said, How about 5 million?

Tencent's registered capital is 500,000 yuan. In the past few months, the messy revenue has been around 400,000 yuan. Li Qing just received an order of 300,000 yuan. Ma said, If you invest 5 million yuan, what is the share price? ?”

Yes, how about shares?

Song Weiyang couldn't take 80% of the shares all at once.

Although Xiao Ma said that Tencent earned 400,000 yuan in a few months, in fact, strictly speaking, it didn't make much money. Take Tencent’s first business as an example. Hebei Telecom offered 200,000 yuan, and Xiao Ma took leave of absence to fly four times before negotiating.

Moreover, after this business is completed, no other company is willing to buy it. They can only reduce the price to 100,000, 80,000, 60,000... In the end, they help people make a network paging system at a loss, just to earn a little maintenance fee.

Song Weiyang ate fried Niuhe with chopsticks and said with a smile, Just give me 15% of the shares.

Brother Xiao Ma said: It seems to be a little less.

We've known each other for several years, so there's no need to be so fussy. Song Weiyang expressed his affection and righteousness.

The five Tencent founders present were greatly moved. Zeng Liqing said: Boss Song is righteous, come, let's toast Boss Song with this glass of wine!

It's easy to say. Song Weiyang raised his glass.

Dry!

5 million, a small amount, is an emotional investment.

If they want too many shares, these guys probably won’t have the enthusiasm for starting a business. It’s hard to say whether they can concentrate on making Tencent bigger.

And with the development of Tencent, the 5 million funds will not last long, and Song Weiyang will have to invest in it. At that time, it's time for the brothers to settle the accounts clearly, lest they use Song Weiyang as a cash machine, everything will follow the procedure, and they can take as many shares as they should!

Brother Xiao Ma was very happy: Since I have money, it's time for the company to move and change to a bigger office.

It's not that Xiao Ma is concerned about face, but that the office he is using now belongs to the owner of a port city. The boss of Hong Kong City is also a pager, and he once paid a high price to poach Xiao Ma, and when he learned that Xiao Ma started his own business, he rented the spare small room to Tencent at a low price.

This is obviously an emotional investment, waiting for Tencent to go bankrupt, and then digging Xiao Ma over.

Unexpectedly, Tencent has not failed for several months. The boss of Gangcheng became impatient and kept urging Xiao Ma to move out. Historically, Tencent quickly moved to the next building, with an office area of ​​more than 100 square meters, which can be regarded as three times the size of the company.

Zhang Zhidong said: Also, recruit a few more programmers, we are short of manpower now.

Yes, yes, there is not enough manpower, Zeng Liqing said, You three, quit your jobs quickly. Now that Boss Song is investing, are you afraid that you will not be able to eat in the future?

Brother Xiaoma said: Programmers are ready-made. Lao Song still remembers Xiaoguang, Gangzi and Yemao?

Remember, they are all friends at the horse station, and they chatted very well before. Song Weiyang said.

Brother Xiao Ma said: They are also unhappy in the work unit. As long as Tencent improves, they will definitely be willing to join us.

Xiaoguang, Gangzi and Yemao are the first generation programmers of qq.

Zhang Zhidong is responsible for project progress and cost management, Gangzi is responsible for writing the background code, and Xiaoguang and Yemao are responsible for writing the client.

Song Weiyang was most impressed by Yemao. After he left Mazhan, he set up a site called Yemao Inn, and sent an email asking Song Weiyang to go to that site frequently.

In the next period of time, Tencent moved to the new building as a whole, and all five founders resigned, and finally started a full-time entrepreneurial career. Three new programmers also arrived one after another, and with the addition of five shareholders, the number of employees finally reached eight.

At the end of November, qq officially launched the public version and started the public beta.

The No. 1 qq of the public beta was still given to Andy Hua, who was the leader of China Huiduo.com back then, so he naturally wanted to express his admiration. This guy is engaged in real estate in a mountain city, and he hasn't been bubbling up on the Internet for a long time, and he has nothing to do with Song Weiyang.

Brother Xiao Ma is full of enthusiasm for starting a business, sending emails to former netizens everywhere, and pulling people to download and use QQ.

In order to increase the number of users, Xiao Ma also pretended to be a female netizen and went to various bbs forums and chat rooms. He first chatted with people in a nonchalant way, all kinds of shyness and reservedness, which made the male netizens confused, and finally said: Oh, the chat room (bbs forum) is really inconvenient. I know that there is a chat software called QQ, it is not as good as you Go download QQ, let's chat in another place.

The legendary women's clothing boss!

Song Weiyang was thinking about it there, the qq public beta version came out ahead of schedule, can Xiao Ma still get to know his wife through qq?

Yes, Brother Xiao Ma's wife met through online chat on QQ.

As for the so-called Penguin Princess Ma Manlin, she is not the daughter of Xiao Ma, and the rumors have been refuted countless times.