Silicon Valley

The current task of 360 Antivirus is to create security defense programs for PayPal and Williams Internet Banking. As for the 360 ​​antivirus company's own products, it can be developed in the future. In addition, Henry has issued a formal acquisition application for McAfee.

McAfee was founded in 1987, and the company's address is also located in California. Excellent performance in three years. However, the current antivirus software is generally sold as CDs, limited by channels and expensive prices, the CDs of antivirus software can't actually sell much! It can sell 100,000 CDs a year, and the results are already very good!

A hundred dollars for a CD, that's ten million dollars. Excluding channel sharing and costs and expenses, McAfee's annual profit is less than $4 million!

Henry valued his company at $50 million! ! !

In 2010, Intel, the world's largest chip maker, spent $7.68 billion to acquire it. Henry felt that winning McAfee as soon as possible was a sure-fire business! Not only that, but also to consolidate their strength!

McAfee has agreed to Henry's acquisition application, and the two sides intend to enter the negotiation stage.

No way, money moves people's hearts.

McAfee makes less than $4 million a year, and with the rise of the Internet, CDs are getting harder to sell. Everyone copied it, copied it, and even pirated copies appeared on the Internet. As a result, McAfee's performance began to decline. At this moment, someone is willing to offer a high price of 50 million US dollars to acquire it. As a major shareholder of the company, it is undoubtedly heart-wrenching!

Subsequently, Henry sent someone to contact McAfee.

In order to suppress and force McAfee to agree to be acquired as soon as possible, under Henry's instruction, there are more and more pirated software of McAfee on the Internet, which makes the sales of McAfee antivirus software in reality plummet!

Within a week, only 100 McAfee antivirus CDs were sold in the United States! In the past, at least a thousand copies could be sold.

The entire McAfee company was hit by this data. The company immediately launched an investigation and found that McAfee anti-virus software was found on various pirated download sites on the Internet. I searched for antivirus, and the next row was full of pirated sites for downloading McAfee software. Nima, when the people from McAfee saw this, their hearts suddenly went cold!

However, misfortunes do not come singly. Newspapers, TV, and the Internet are all raving about McAfee, believing that the anti-virus technology is not good, the anti-virus is not clean, and it is useless! ! !

This time, it's like rubbing salt on the wound!

Henry, as a salt spreader, did not hesitate to spend money to buy a lot of salt. How can McAfee resist?

Under the internal and external troubles, McAfee was forced to surrender! ! !

In fact, the people at McAfee naturally realized that someone was deliberately suppressing them. Just after Henry launched the acquisition, so many things happened, how could it be so coincidental? ? ? However, they were so weak that they could not wrestle with the super tycoon, and the price Henry offered was very fair. The major shareholders of McAfee held a meeting and finally decided to sell the company!

Two weeks of negotiations, the blitz generally won McAfee.

Subsequently, Henry merged 360 Antivirus and McAfee. Diluted shares, that's a must. As a capitalist, this skill must be learned! Even if you are given 40% of the shares, you will be diluted to 10% in the end! ! ! However, Eugene Kaspersky's share is only 1%, Henry is generous only to dilute his share to 0.5%, and the option reward can only get 2.5%! In fact, the market value of McAfee is 50 million US dollars, and the 360 ​​antivirus company is only 10 million US dollars. Eugene Kaspersky's shares should be reduced to 0.167%, and the option reward should be reduced by 6 times!

But Henry was worried that the shares given to him would be too small, and it would not be good to do things like foreign workers!

This time, Henry merged the two companies without diluting his stake to the appropriate extent. This undoubtedly shows that Henry attaches great importance to him, and Eugene Kaspersky was almost moved to tears! A scholar died for a confidant. Eugene Kaspersky was very grateful to Henry. Even if someone paid a high price to poach someone, he would never quit! ! !

Henry also found that Eugene Kaspersky respected him more and more. It seems that buying people's hearts is also a lesson that must be learned!

After the merger of the two companies, the name is called 360 McAfee (called 360 antivirus company, I am afraid of being harmonious...), Eugene Kaspersky serves as the company's CEO and concurrently serves as the chief technology officer.

After the acquisition of McAfee, the newly merged company has the extra manpower to develop its own antivirus software. McAfee just sells antivirus software CDs, and that's clearly the end of the line.

Free is king!

Internet antivirus client is the key to hegemony!

What's the point of selling CDs?

Henry's first order to acquire McAfee was to cancel the sale of CD-ROMs and instead develop an antivirus client!

Henry called Eugene Kaspersky to the office, Eugene Kaspersky, you are now making an antivirus client for users to download and use. And this client must be free!!!

Eugene Kaspersky was stunned when he heard this, looked at Henry, and hesitated: Mr. Williams, you said it's free?! If the software client is free, how can the company make money? Eugene Kaspersky was puzzled.

Yes, it's completely free, our antivirus client doesn't charge users a penny!!! You know, in the Internet age, traffic is the most important thing. And free can bring huge traffic to our antivirus client. After that, we You can open various value-added services to make money. Henry briefly explained.

Eugene Kaspersky thought about it and seemed to make sense.

Okay, then I'll arrange for people to develop the client right away!

Henry nodded and said, Go ahead. By the way, the security testing programs of online banking and PayPal are also added to the client to ensure the safety of users' online property!

no problem!

After Eugene Kaspersky left, Henry asked about Tiantian Music Company.

The daily music client has been officially launched on November 1st. The client is hung in the ICQ chat software, and users can click it to open it. in addition,. The mp3 website has a separate daily music client download option to provide downloads! After the Tiantian Music client went online, there was a download frenzy. In particular, ICQ has promoted it, and the huge traffic has made the daily music client download more than 100,000 times in just one week!

Tiantian Music quickly became very popular and became the first choice for playing music!

Because Tiantian Music has the largest music library, users can listen to music online. How awesome was this feature at the time! ! ! Other music players are just players. Tiantian Music is already high, so let's play online audition!

However, there is one thing that Henry expected, and that is. The number of song downloads on the mp3 website and the daily music client is not satisfactory.

On the one hand, it is because of the inconvenience of recharging music coins. On the other hand, most users choose to listen to music instead of downloading music. Think about it too, if you have internet, online audition is enough, why download...

Therefore, after the user spends all the music coins, the download volume of the song drops to the bottom in vain!

The major US record companies did not see Tiantian Music Company creating benefits for themselves, but instead caused huge losses! One by one only to listen to, not to download, how to play?

Since everyone is listening to music online, the physical records of record companies are not selling well, and they can't make money online. As a result, major records have protested and asked Tiantian Music to ban the audition function. Henry thought about it and refused the record company's request. When online banking has not yet developed, users will not spend money to recharge music coins. If the trial listening is banned, it will be equivalent to self-destructing the city wall and losing a large number of users...

In the end, the major record companies felt that they had been cheated, and could not help but terminate their contracts one after another. The previously licensed songs were regarded as paying tuition, and then they stopped licensing the latest records to Tiantian Music Company! ! !

Henry's head went big when he heard the news.

Damn, you don't have any credit! ! !

You will be able to make money when your brother's MP3 is on the market! ! ! ! (Please recommend and collect!!! The author has built a book group: 424930141, everyone is welcome to join...)