As school officially started on September 1, 1998, Zhou Ming immediately registered a company in BJ and named it Maxis Holdings Co., Ltd.
Taking out Zhou Ming's identity information to invest and hold 65% of the shares, and holding 15% of the shares in the name of Chen Xingjie, the last 20% will be used as incentives for all employees.
Immediately afterwards, Zhou Ming, who was self-proclaimed general manager, recruited programmers throughout BJ and officially announced the development of an instant messaging tool RR. You must know that Qicq, the predecessor of QQ, had not yet been founded.
Because Zhou Ming has clear development plans and goals for RR, it becomes very easy and simple to develop RR. It only requires a large number of programmers to do it easily.
Then just one month later on the National Day, Maxis officially launched the instant messaging tool RR, and then opened its own Internet era.
The manager of Maxis Technology's RR promotion department walked into Zhou Ming's office, "Mr. Chen, as soon as our RR was launched on the Internet, the number of users exceeded 100,000."
"Well, we need to hire more part-time college students, and register them all as female users to chat with new users. We must promote our RR to the greatest extent." Zhou Ming nodded with great satisfaction, and then said what he said promotion plan.
"Yes! Mr. Chen, will this affect the situation in a bad way?"
"For commercial promotion, this is the simplest operation."
"Yes! Mr. Chen, I know what to do. In addition, our programmers also have corresponding chat tasks."
"Very good! It's important that you can draw inferences from one example." At this time, Zhou Ming was very satisfied with the manager of the brand promotion department in front of him, and then talked about the next promotion work, "Next, your RR promotion department will recruit a large number of part-time staff, and go directly to Go to university campuses and middle school campuses to promote it, and your department will be given 1 million in product promotion fees this year."
"Okay! Mr. Chen, I'll go down and make arrangements."
"Manager Chu, in addition, the company's goal for your promotion department is to have one million users. If you fail to meet the target, you will leave immediately. If you exceed the target, you will naturally receive generous commission rewards."
"Yes! Mr. Chen."
At this time, QQ's predecessor QICQ was just a plan on paper. Tencent, which later dominated the domestic Internet, had not yet been founded, so Zhou Ming's Maxis Technology became the first company to take the cake.
Immediately afterwards, Maxis Technology developed some stand-alone games, which immediately enriched the various functions and playability of RR, and prepared to launch RR Farm at the same time as the RR2.0 version was launched.
Seeing his scientific and technological career developing steadily, Zhou Ming was undoubtedly very excited at this time.
Zhou Ming's electrification professor at Tsinghua University called Zhou Ming to the office, "Chen Xingjie, I heard that you opened a company in partnership with others?"
"Yes! The company is called Maxx Holdings Co., Ltd., and it has launched an instant messaging tool called RR. It is very convenient to communicate on the Internet." At this time, Zhou Ming quickly introduced with a smile, and unknowingly it was Think of Professor Lin in front of you as a potential user.
"Okay! I'm not one of your RR users. There's no need to introduce it to me in such detail. I think you should focus on your professional studies."
"Yes! Professor, I will definitely not miss my professional courses."
"Chen Xingjie, although you are the top scorer in the college entrance examination in the country, it is like a tortoise and the hare race. In addition, we at Tsinghua University have so many geniuses. Remember not to be complacent or complacent."
"Yes! Professor, I will definitely listen to your teachings."
"Go ahead! Make sure you don't make any mistakes in the next professional exam."
"Yes! Professor."
After Zhou Ming left the professor's office, Professor Lin in the office muttered to himself, "RR? What is this?"
Then the curious Professor Lin opened his computer, entered "RR" and started searching. Then he downloaded the instant messaging tool from an official website.
Soon a cute little panda pattern appeared on his desktop. Professor Lin curiously clicked on the panda pattern with his mouse.
Naturally, I first applied for an RR number through simple registration. After logging in, a very indirect and beautiful interface appeared.
Immediately afterwards, a small speaker icon appeared again, informing myself that the following RR users might be my friends.
Surprised, Professor Lin quickly added them one by one and found that almost all of them were his colleagues or students.
At this time, Professor Lin also put away his contempt and realized that the development prospects of this RR were definitely not simple.
When he thought that his students had developed such awesome software, Professor Lin started to play happily.
Whether it is stand-alone games such as chess and cards, or the recently launched RR Farm, they have attracted the attention of Professor Lin and all RR customers.
The life that seemed dull and boring became rich and colorful, and it also gave them a new way to communicate with each other.
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In the end, Zhou Ming underestimated his own promotion methods. Only three months had passed since RR was launched, and the number of RR users exceeded the terrifying one million.
One million users is a very scary number. You must know that the number of Internet-connected computers in China is less than 750,000, and the number of Internet users is only a pitiful 2.1 million.
In addition, as soon as RR was launched, it started a crazy profit model, and there was no confusion at all like Ma Huateng and others when they started their business.
In November 1998, Ma Huateng couldn't hold himself back anymore and he still entangled four other guys to establish QICQ company. He originally thought that he could take advantage of the traffic of the ICQ company in the United States.
However, they all copied RR in their daily operations, and they were immediately noticed by Zhou Ming, who had been paying attention to them.
At this time, Zhou Ming was not short of money at all, so he immediately took the new QICQ company to court, and spent a lot of money to promote public opinion and start a public opinion war, which immediately made the new QICQ company a street rat in the Internet world.
Zhou Ming knew that it would be difficult to deal with Ma Huateng and others under the current laws, but the pressure from public opinion was still terrifying. In addition, the American ICQ company soon joined the lawsuit against QICQ company, and Ma Huateng, who had just started his business, was immediately punished. The five of them were very anxious.
"Lao Ma, what should we do next?"
"Hey! I don't know either."
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