"So in the future we have to walk on two legs, one type of enterprise users and another type of individual customers. We still have some connections in Pengcheng and Yanjing.
We have to first make enterprise-type QQ products, and then find companies with which we have a good relationship to promote them, and sell enterprise-type QQ to them. After selling to them, we will have several cases before we can promote it nationwide.
In addition, unlike enterprise computer products such as SAP, the essence of enterprise QQ is still instant messaging, which is a faster method than email transmission. Therefore, we do not require project managers and developers to go deep into each project like SAP does. For enterprises, a project lasts at least three months.
Because an enterprise business management system like SAP requires customized development based on the actual needs of customers, it requires SAP staff to have an in-depth understanding of the nature of the enterprise's business.
Therefore, their business model is relatively heavy-duty, and Guanghua State has nearly a thousand people responsible for its implementation.
For enterprise QQ, we only need to grasp the common needs of enterprises for internal communication, develop all these functions, and then sell them to them at different prices. So we don’t do customized development, we only sell products and deployment.
They provide a server environment, and our engineers can help them deploy it locally within one day.
In order to prevent other companies from cracking it, a lot of confidentiality work must be done on the code.
Finally, Zhou Xin told me about the functions that enterprise QQ should implement, such as check-in, group creation, and read functions, including charging fees that are as detailed as the maximum number of people that can be accommodated in a group, and the maximum number of groups that can be established. .
After listening to these, everyone felt that Zhou Xin was so awesome and well-deserved. These functions are very suitable for the actual needs of enterprises. We were able to find him to invest and it was the most correct choice to participate in this Internet conference.
What I want to say is that these are Zhou Xin’s thoughts, not your thoughts, nor mine.
We can't rest on Zhou Xin's thinking. His thinking about products is indeed very powerful. He grasps the needs of users almost instantly and meets the needs of users through functional design. Just a few words, if I were the management of a large enterprise, I would be interested in the enterprise instant messaging software he mentioned.
His thinking can only help us open up the situation in the first year, and our advantage will be maintained for at most half a year. The companies in Zhongguancun have a very keen sense of smell. Zhou Xin developed Quora in Silicon Valley. In just one month, China had a benchmark product.
The same is true for our enterprise QQ. Once we achieve temporary success, benchmark products will soon emerge to compete with us for the market.
So we need to have our own thinking, and you don’t want to. Every time, we call Zhou Xin across the ocean and ask: Newman, what difficulties have we encountered recently? Do you have any good solutions?
He is our investor, not our product manager, and what he said to Tencent is valuable enough. In my opinion, these are more valuable than the $2.2 million. This is what can really keep Tencent alive.
We cannot always rely solely on his thinking. We need to have our own thinking. We must be able to truly touch the fundamental needs of corporate users and think about how instant messaging can meet their fundamental needs.
So everyone should move as soon as possible. Zhidong, You and I are responsible for the product development of enterprise QQ. Li Qing goes to find out which large enterprises on the market have similar needs. Chenye and Yidan are responsible for the development of QQ virtual images. "
After Zhou Xin and Pony Ma finished their exchange, Pony Ma went back to the hotel to hold a meeting that was a turning point in Tencent's development. In the next three days of the Internet Conference, Tencent's founder team went to participate in exchanges and lectures at the Internet Conference during the day, and wrote code in the hotel at night.
They were skeptical about whether avatars could really make money, but this idea was proposed by Zhou Xin and Enterprise QQ, and they called it one of the two paths. Zhou Xin's vision forced them to pay attention to it. .
After pointing out another direction for Tencent, Zhou Xin continued to meet other Chinese Internet entrepreneurs.
One of the companies, Yitang.com, left a deep impression on him.
The founder of Yitang.com is a Harvard MBA, and then he found 4 other Harvard MBAs and 2 University of Chicago MBAs to establish the company. It received US$50 million in financing based on its entrepreneurial plan alone.
From the very beginning, he and Zhou Xin boasted about providing life information and fashion and cultural information services to the new generation of consumers and establishing the company's brand.
After establishing the corporate brand, we will make Huaguo's own fashionable consumer products and use the Yitang brand to empower the products.
After hearing this, Zhou Xin knew that this path was feasible, at least from the perspective of capital operation. Vancl Eslite is a pioneer. If it does not make so many products and focuses on clothing, it may not be able to achieve the shape of Uniqlo.
Later, SHEIN was an advanced form of Vancl Eslite.
The reason Zhou Xin did not choose to invest in Yitang was that Wu Shiqiang told him in advance that there was a problem with the company's founder team.
After receiving huge investments, the founder team lived an extremely luxurious life and invested heavily in publicity, but could not see any results.
It claims to be making fashionable consumer products, but there has been no substantial progress.
When Zhou Xin chatted with the founder of Yitang, he only heard him talk about the prospects. Regarding the current situation, he only talked about the number of users, not the revenue.
This left Zhou Xin speechless. Instead of investing in Yitang, it would be better to wait until Lei Jun's Joyo.com is established next year before investing in his Joyo.com.
With his guidance, Joyo.com may not be acquired by Amazon.
After talking for a few days, Zhou Xin invested approximately US$50 million. He basically invested in all Internet companies that could survive the first decade of the 21st century.
Except for Sina, it was purely a personal grudge, so much so that after the news came out, major Internet forums in the country started talking about it.
The investment circle is also discussing whether Sina has risks that they are not aware of.
Zhou Xin's behavior directly led to Sina's investors talking to them about divestment.
Because of Zhou Xin's investment behavior in China, it can be seen that his threshold is obviously very low. In the eyes of investors of multinational companies in China, giving back to the motherland is the first priority, and investing in the Internet is second.
With such a low threshold, Sina did not receive investment, which also cast a thick shadow over Sina's listing.
"China Youth Daily: (Reporter Wang Yongzhi) On December 31, 1999, Yanjing time, the five-day Internet Conference came to an end in Beijing.
At this Internet Conference, representatives from more than a thousand Internet companies around the world had full exchanges through the conference. The conference resulted in a total of on-site signings of cooperation intentions exceeding US$100 million, on-site investment promotion areas reaching cooperation of over RMB 1 billion, and a total transaction intention of over US$200 million.
Some economic commentators pointed out that after the Nasdaq crisis intensifies, Chinese Internet companies may usher in new development opportunities. Because compared with Americen Internet companies, the valuations of Chinese Internet companies are generally low and belong to a value depression."
In the five days since the Internet Conference was held in China, the decline of the Nasdaq index has not stopped at all.
Especially after the District Court of Columbia ruled against Microsoft, Microsoft fell by 30%, bringing down the entire Internet company.
Bill Gates, who originally planned to stay in China for the entire Internet Conference, hurried back to China the next day.
Others like Jerry Yang, Gerald Wright, etc. did not stay for five days. The market value of their companies was falling, and the board of directors was waiting for them to go back for a meeting to discuss how to stabilize the stock price.
Riot Games' stock price is also falling, and the decline is not small. It has already dropped by 20%.
But Zhou Xin is not in a hurry. He knows that after this bubble ends, a large number of Internet companies will go bankrupt, and the market value of a large number of Internet-related companies will fall to a very low price.
Riot Games is no exception, and we can take advantage of this opportunity to recycle some of Riot Games' shares.
As well as acquiring some other companies, Zhou Xin can now think of Nvidia and ARM, which can be bought.
Like Intel, he can afford it but cannot buy it.
In this crisis, all information technology and Internet-related companies cannot escape the fate of plummeting.
Therefore, Zhou Xin knew that there was no point in rushing, and he was not in a hurry at all. He had never thought about monetizing Riot Games.
When companies like Amazon and eBay realize the importance of electronic payments, they will definitely find ways to build their own electronic payment software. Once they drive NewPay out, Riot Games is likely to be NewPay's most important payment channel.
Zhou Xin will not sell Riot Games just for NewPay. He will also buy back the games in large quantities to maintain stronger control over Riot Games.
"Senior, long time no see." Zhou Xin wore a mask and asked the other party to have dinner at the Lanrun Hotel next to Yan University.
When she received Zhou Xin's invitation, Li Jingyi couldn't believe it.
Because she met Zhou Xin at a lecture organized by New Oriental last year and got his email address from Zhou Xin, Li Jingyi wrote an email to Zhou Xin and wanted to ask Zhou Xin for more specific details about studying abroad. .
She left her contact information in the email but received no reply.
Later, I watched Zhou Xin become more and more famous, richer and richer, and his fortune was faster than riding a rocket.
This name appears on Yanda's BBS forum every day. If you don't see it for a day, it seems like something is missing.
Originally, Li Jingyi just wanted to ask this junior some questions, and didn't have many ideas. Moreover, being able to transfer to Berkeley only proves Zhou Xin's strong learning ability, and does not prove other things.
Even after Zhou Xin became famous, Li Jingyi never looked for Zhou Xin again. Unexpectedly, Zhou Xin would call her and ask her to meet together on the first day after entering the 21st century.
The place Zhou Xin decided was at the Lanrun Hotel on the edge of Yanda. Cao Yongluo invited them to eat here before.
Zhou Xin felt that the environment was good and it was close to Yanda University, a ten-minute walk away.
After Li Jingyi sat down and took off her scarf, she looked a little reserved when she saw this face that she often saw in the news and on the Internet: "Junior, do you mind if I call you this?"
Zhou Xin took a closer look and found that the other party was even more beautiful than when they met last year. He was already good-looking, and the more he looked at her, the better he looked.
However, as a veteran driver, Zhou Xin seemed particularly familiar: "I don't mind if I call you senior. Doesn't this mean that I don't mind if you call me junior?"
Let’s take a look at the menu. What would you like? "
Li Jingyi said: "Just keep an eye on it."
After Zhou Xin randomly selected a few signature dishes and circled them, he called the waiter to come over and gave his orders, then said: "We haven't seen each other for probably more than a year."
"Yes." Li Jingyi wasn't sure why Zhou Xin came to her.
Zhou Xin said: "I know it is very presumptuous to call you out this time. To put it simply, it is like this, I need to have a girlfriend, whether in public or privately, I need to have a girlfriend.
Would you like to play this role? "
Li Jingyi had guessed the purpose of the meeting before she came to see Zhou Xin, but she didn't expect the other party to be so direct. She subconsciously asked: "Why me?
We seem to have only met once before? "
She knew that the only things she could offer were her appearance and academic qualifications. To Zhou Xin, it didn't matter what her family was like.
Zhou Xin: "Because I think you are suitable. I don't want to have a political marriage. I don't want to find someone abroad or from within the company.
During the time I returned to China, there were many people who tried their best to introduce their daughters or the daughters of relatives to me.
In the foreseeable future, this will only happen more and more. Not only from China, but also from abroad, there are many people who want to introduce their daughters to me.
I want to avoid this from happening, I need to have a girlfriend in public. "
The privacy of Lanrun's private rooms is guaranteed.
I’ve seen a lot of people in China, excluding the ones I mentioned above, the one I’m most familiar with is you. We’ve had a few conversations at least.
And I also asked someone to ask, you don't have a boyfriend before now, and you haven't had a boyfriend before, so based on the above, I think you are very suitable.
What do you think? "
Li Jingyi hadn't realized it yet. For a materialistic person, becoming Zhou Xin's girlfriend was absolutely pie-in-the-sky.
But as a student of Yan University and a student majoring in science, Li Jingyi was very calm. She kept herself calm while drinking water.
Because she knew that this was a decision that could change her destiny.
For many people, choosing a job, choosing who to date and get married, and choosing which city to go to will have a major impact on their lives. But they don't realize it at the moment they make the decision.
Anyone who is an individual knows that the option given by Zhou Xin now will bring about earth-shaking changes in his life if he agrees to it.
"I don't know. The class gap between you and me is too big. I don't have any channel to judge whether what you say is true or false." Li Jingyi said.
Zhou Xin replied: "These things are easy to verify, you will become my girlfriend in public.
I will go to Shenhai next. I want to invest in an entire semiconductor industrial park in Shenhai. At the same time, two semiconductor companies under my name will also be established in Shenhai.
When I go to see the leaders of Shenhai City, you will attend as my girlfriend.
To put it simply, in the future, if I need a female companion in any public occasion, it will be you. We are not in an underground relationship, and you will also have to appear in front of the media.
As for how we started dating, it was when I was giving a lecture at Yanda, I gave you my email address, and then we had a cross-border online relationship for more than a year.
After we finally meet back home, I will introduce you to the outside world.
Quite reasonable, isn't it? "
For a cold-blooded animal like Zhou Xin, he only needs a girlfriend to help him avoid a lot of trouble. It doesn't matter who she is.
Of course looks are still very important.
Zhou Xin continued: "Don't think that being my girlfriend is a great thing.
You just said that there is a huge class difference between us, so when we get along, you can't have your own little temper and you need to put my feelings first at all times.
I can't guarantee that I'm the only one with you, you're only the one in public. "
Now that the foundation is not deep, Zhou Xin dare not mess around.
Before he came to eat in Lanrun's private room, he asked his security team in China to confirm in advance that there was no eavesdropping device.
"Of course we will have a lot of time to get to know each other, and we will fully respect your opinions regarding physical contact during the relationship, except for close contact in public to accommodate the outside world."
"What is mentioned above is what you have to pay. As for what you can get, I think it is probably something you have never seen before.
For example, from the establishment of a company to its listing, the customs and customs of different places around the world, the nature of government operations at all levels, and the intrigues in the financial industry.
When you make this decision, your life will be completely different from before. "
Zhou Xin talked a lot, and Li Jingyi remembered that more than a year ago, he was talking like this in the middle of a large classroom in the teaching building of Yan University.
Facing the seniors in the audience, Zhou Xin acted as if he were a teacher.
Li Jingyi said: "I know what you just said, and the deal you proposed, I think it is a deal.
This transaction was too sudden, and you also said that this was a decision that would completely change my life.
How can I get back to you so quickly? "
Li Jingyi knew that she would eventually accept it. Once this opportunity was missed, she would never have it again.
But she still hopes to know more about Zhou Xin and Zhou Xin outside the media.
If the other party walked away because of this and Li Jingyi lost this opportunity, she felt that she would not regret it.
Because of Zhou Xin's proposed deal, this option never appeared in her planned life.
This is like you are playing an RPG game, and the NPC in the RPG game comes out and asks you if you want to enter this world and experience it.
Zhou Xin smiled after hearing this. He also hoped to chat more with the other party.
For Zhou Xin, the personality of the person she chooses is not important, because no matter what her true personality is, she must accommodate him in the process of getting along with him.
But it is of course better to know more about the other person's own personality.
"Okay, let me briefly introduce myself. I have just said so much and I haven't introduced myself yet.
My name is Zhou Xin, a native of China. I am a Ph.D. student in the field of integrated circuits at the University of California, Berkeley, studying under Professor Hu Zhengming. Executive director of CAAS and executive director of the Committee of 100. "
Yes, at the end of last year, the internal committee of the Committee of 100 gave Zhou Xin the position of executive director.
"Member of the Board of Directors of the Internet Association of China, Honorary Trustee of Yanda University, there are too many titles. Let me pick a few that impress me. This Internet Association was established because I wanted to hold an Internet conference in China.
In addition, I have established several companies and invested in several companies. Some of these companies are still managed by me, some have been sold, and some are managed by others.
That's about it. "
Without Zhou Xin, the Internet Society would not have been established until 2001.
After Zhou Xin finished speaking, Li Jingyi looked at the young man in front of him with a childish face, and it was really difficult to associate him with the titles above.
Li Jingyi seemed to have remembered something, the corners of her mouth raised, and then she stretched out her hand to shake hands with Zhou Xin: "Let me also introduce myself. My name is Li Jingyi, from Yanjing, majoring in applied mathematics at Yanjing University, and a senior student.
You have so many titles that I can’t remember them all, so I just treat you as my junior. "
After Zhou Xin shook hands with her, he also grinned. Being with a beautiful woman always makes people feel comfortable: "The more titles you have, the more tiring your life will be.
The most relaxed time for me was when I was studying at Yanda University. At that time, I just had to study well.
I am still a student now, but just reading books well is not enough. "
"I just heard you say that you are a senior, what are you going to do after graduation?
If not I will give you another choice. "
Li Jingyi replied: "I have already contacted the University of Hong Kong and will go to the University of Hong Kong to study for a master's degree after graduation."
Zhou Xin asked: "I remember when you asked me last year, didn't you want to go to America to study?"
Li Jingyi: “That was my original plan, but Americen’s master’s programs are very expensive. I thought about it and decided not to go. Xiangjiang’s universities are more cost-effective.
At the same time, I want to switch to computer science as a graduate student. The computer science program at HKU is pretty good.
The only disadvantage is that it is not easy to find Internet internships in Xiangjiang.
However, it should be about the same to study abroad in the Bay Area. Now that the Internet industry is in recession, it shouldn't be easy to find an internship, let alone stay. "
Zhou Xin: “Compared with Xiangjiang, no matter how good Silicon Valley is, there are still many more job opportunities.
But it is true that being close to the Bay Area means that prices, accommodation and tuition will not be cheap.
The important reason why I took over the job of New Oriental last year and came to give you lectures was because I was going to Berkeley to study for a Ph.D. and I was short of money.
I was so short of money. Before I went to Berkeley, the total amount of my whole body was only four digits of RMB, and it was still a four-digit number starting with 1.
He couldn't even afford a standing ticket for Zhang Yanjing's flight to San Francisco. "
After listening to this, Li Jingyi felt that Zhou Xin was very down-to-earth and had no airs about him: “It’s really difficult to save enough travel expenses just by working for New Oriental.
Therefore, when Heaven is about to entrust this person with a great responsibility, he must first strain his mind, strain his muscles and bones, and starve his body. "
Zhou Xin shook his head: "No, Professor Hu bought the air ticket for me. I don't have to pay for my own travel. I work for New Oriental just because I want to have some money on hand."
My daily schedule has gradually changed again.
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