Reborn in 2000 as a scholar

For netizens born in the 70s or 80s, Zhonglian chess and card game platform can be regarded as an indelible product in their Internet memory.In the early days of China's Internet development, after this game platform was born in the online world that was extremely lacking in entertainment content, people suddenly discovered that the online world can also be entertained besides studying and working.

The earliest Zhonglian chess and card game platform was just an online battle platform for everyone to play chess and go. However, as netizens’ requirements for entertainment content increased, various chess and card games entered one after another, and even Mahjong and other slightly Games with gambling properties have also appeared.Since the Zhonglian chess and card game platform provided the most abundant entertainment content at that time, the development speed of the Zhonglian platform was also close to the speed of light.The Zhonglian platform, which has a large number of users, is naturally unwilling to be a small game platform, so when Penguin launched OpenICQ, they also launched their own GameICQ.

It can be said that in China's Internet instant messaging software market at that time, apart from Microsoft's MSN, Zhonglian's GameICQ was the most lethal to Penguin.However, after Pony heard about the design concept of the new version of Penguin software from Lin Jinqi, coupled with membership services and red diamond services, Penguin communication software not only got rid of the infamy of copycat ICQ, but also became a new model of domestic software with simple and friendly software experience. benchmark.The membership service and red diamond service made Penguin start to make profits, and the scale of the profit made many investment analysis companies drool.

When the Penguin communication software has made great progress, Zhonglian's GameICQ will naturally be impacted, so Zhonglian tried to find a way to deepen the connection between GameICQ and the platform.But when Zhonglian was actively carrying out self-rescue, the investigation order of the national supervision department came down.The reason is simple, the Zhonglian chess and card game platform is suspected of gambling.

"Zhonglian really deserves it this time!" Pony gloated when he called Lin Jinqi.

As Zhonglian's main rival at present, Penguin must increase investment in the instant messaging software market to consolidate its market share.Penguin's idea is very simple, even if I don't make money on the chess and card game platform, I still want to disgust you.However, with the operation of this period of time, Pony also has to admit that the turnover of the chess and card game platform is too mouth-watering.

The original target user group of chess and card games is the adult group around 30 years old. They already have a relatively fixed income, or already have their own house and car. ah.Chess and board games do not have any copyrights, and the development difficulty is almost zero; and the game platform technology does not have any threshold, and all the costs are actually in terms of bandwidth expenditures and server stability.

To be honest, people in the circle certainly know that Zhonglian is not as innocent as it claims, at least its unfavorable supervision is indeed a booster that leads to the prevalence of online gambling.But everyone also knows that their business is to make money, and they are not confident that they can stick to their hearts in the face of the temptation of Zhonglian.

"However, the chess and card game platform is really making money. If we can take advantage of Zhonglian's busy time to stab the knife, not only our instant messaging software market will be considered stable, but we will also be able to set foot in the game market. Compared with those Large-scale game software, chess and card games are relatively easy to make money."

"But in this area, Zhonglian has already done the best in the industry. How can we grab customers from him? Although he is currently under investigation, once they calm down, they will still be that terrible tiger. "Lin Jinqi couldn't help reminding.

"Yeah, unless the country kills Zhonglian this time, everyone will definitely not be able to play Zhonglian." Pony also agrees with Lin Jinqi.

But Pony knew that as long as Zhonglian didn't end in person, the country would at best give a warning and a fine.After all, the state is also encouraging the development of the Internet, and Zhonglian is also a major taxpayer in the local area, so we must be punished without teaching, right?Therefore, Pony is actually not optimistic about the move to enter the chess and card game market when Zhonglian is in trouble.

"It's not that there is no chance at all. If we can achieve these three points, we can open up our differentiated positioning with Zhonglian." Now that Lin Jinqi is one of Penguin's shareholders, he must think about bringing new opportunities to Penguin. profit growth point.

"First of all, we must close all the loopholes that may induce gambling. We can't take advantage of policy loopholes, otherwise when the country settles accounts, we will be in big trouble. In this regard, my suggestion is that we must give the game platform a separate Design a game currency, such as game beans or game gold coins. I recommend game beans, which can reduce the feeling of gambling and highlight the true nature of entertainment. Penguin coins can only be exchanged into game beans in one direction, and game beans cannot be reversed Convert it into penguin coins."

Lin Jinqi’s suggestion is also the method that Penguin will adopt later, but at that time, because the country believed that Penguin coins were suspected of money laundering and endangering the country’s financial order and security, Penguin had to implement the measure of only one-way exchange between Penguin coins and game coins , to prevent Penguin from becoming a de facto financial token.But now this problem has not been highlighted, and Lin Jinqi doesn't want to appear to be too worrying, so he only plans to implement it on the chess and card game platform.When this trouble really arises in the future, everyone will know how to deal with it.

"The second is to strengthen the anti-cheating strategy; and the third is to allow players to match players with their own level. In short, the first is to reassure the country, while the second and third are It is to highlight that we are a "professional chess and card competition platform", while Zhonglian is a "mass chess and card entertainment platform". This is the difference between us and them.

In addition, we also need to design a series of events, such as weekly preliminaries, monthly rematch, quarterly finals, and annual finals.Because of the competition, we have to give points to the competition and make a ranking of the competition.The gold, silver and bronze medals of the finals will also be displayed on their communication software panels to attract more people to pay attention to this honor, and then to our game platform.In addition to this kind of league-like competition, we also need to design college competitions for college students, and city competitions for adults.If the future actually matures, we can even do Asian Chess Championships or even World Championships. "

After Lin Jinqi finished his concept, Pony fell into deep thought.

After thinking for a while, he said: "I have to admit that your operation strategy is perfect. As long as there is technology to support your strategy, companies can probably succeed. First, I don't think there is any problem. Since the country has stipulated that gambling is illegal, we naturally have to abide by it, so you can use one-way exchange of game beans according to your ideas.

But the question now is, if there are so many game beans and we don’t consume them on the platform, what is the appeal of game beans?Over time, our game platform will also make players lose interest.

For the second point, it’s not difficult. There are very reliable anti-cheating technologies at home and abroad, and we can just purchase one set.But the third one is more troublesome. This set of algorithms does not seem complicated, but it seems that there is no mature algorithm in the world. "

"Actually, I have a set of algorithms here, but I can't provide them for free." Lin Jinqi said in Shangyanshangdi, "My suggestion is to set up a Penguin game company, and the current Penguin Holdings and my company will jointly invest. I will Software usage rights or copyright shares, and possibly a series of operating strategies. What do you think?"

"Set up a new company? Is it too early?" Pony was a bit reluctant.

Although membership services and red diamond services have already made Penguin a lot of money, the income from the game platform is actually not in Pony's eyes.But the penguins have just grown up after all, and everyone still has the idea that mosquito legs are also meat.After all, if a business unit is turned into a subsidiary, the income will be calculated independently, which is not cost-effective for Huaxia Internet companies that want to go public.

"I understand what you think. It is nothing more than that the listing of the parent company may be affected after the separate split. But have you considered another possibility, turning the parent company into a holding company and letting the subsidiaries be listed in different markets around the world? ?" Lin Jinqi threw out another bait.

"The holding parent company does not go public to ensure our control over the subsidiary's operating level; at the same time, using the subsidiary's listing to raise funds for the parent company, isn't this a better choice? Of course, I am not a professional financial analyst. I think you It can be decided after discussing with shareholders and professionals. If there is no split, then I can only sell my algorithm according to authorization. In this way, I can neither guarantee that Penguin is exclusive, nor can I guarantee that I will sign contracts with other companies in the future. exclusive."

"Well, how about you give me the beta software first?" Pony asked.

"No problem, I will send you the trial version and the documentation." Lin Jinqi also knows that he is not the kind of shareholder with a strong say in Penguin, so Lin Jinqi is not sure whether he can persuade the current Penguin board of directors.

After sending the trial version of the matching algorithm to Pony, Lin Jinqi hung up the phone and began to check the relevant data of the two software and the two websites under his name.Today, the share of the optimization wizard has reached a point where investment companies are jealous. Lin Jinqi has received inquiries from countless investment companies in his mailbox, including many established investment companies like Sequoia Capital.

The download volume of Thunderbird's mail client can only be said to have just started, and not many people have asked about purchasing the enterprise version.However, judging from the current topics on the discussion board on the official website, everyone is still very satisfied with Thunderbird's anti-spam function, and secondly, they are satisfied with Thunderbird's portability.

As for the million grids, due to the intensive media reports last time, the number of grids sold has been close to half, and the second batch of donations has been transferred to the World Wildlife Fund.Lin Jinqi also received a donation certificate from the other party and a report on their protection of the Yangtze finless porpoise and baiji dolphin.

Of course, Lin Jinqi's Hi123 has already vaguely become the top 5 Chinese website traffic trend, and more and more companies want to acquire Hi123, and the price has gradually increased.If Lin Jinqi hadn't known that the Internet winter would be imminent, he would really plan to sell this website.But he also understands that as long as he survives this cold winter, the price of Hi123 will not be the current price.Anyway, the operating cost of Hi123 is not high, so Lin Jinqi declined their acquisition proposal one by one.