Rebirth, I really don't want to be a warm man

Chapter 482 Head-to-head confrontation
On November 11th, under the intervention of the upper echelon, the 5q war that had lasted for nearly a year finally subsided temporarily.

Qihoo 360 has offlined "Koukou Bodyguard" and issued an open letter stating that it is willing to shelve the controversy.

On the 10th, 360 announced that Koukou and 360 are compatible again.

On the 21st, Penguin also issued a letter of apology to the public.

Penguin and 360 can be regarded as "shake hands and make peace".

Without the restraint of 360, Penguin immediately turned all its spearheads to Fundong Group.

On November 11, Fundong Group released the data of Funchat for the first time.

In the 18 days since its launch, the number of users of Funchat has reached more than 2400 million.

The purpose of keeping a low profile before was to avoid stimulating Penguin too early, but now that WeChat is going to be online, there is no need to hide it anymore.

Penguin's response speed was faster than Li Zhe expected, and WeChat was created in just half a month.

As soon as this data was released, it caused a shock in the industry, and the media also reported it one after another.

In 18 days, more than 2400 million users, this speed is too amazing.

At present, there are only more than 1 million smartphone users in China, which means that in just over two weeks, Funchat has grabbed [-]-[-]% of the market.

However, as soon as possible, the prospect of Funchat seems to be excellent, but not many capitals actively contacted Fundong Group. Even if a few capitals proposed to buy shares, the valuation given was very low.

Ten years later, there is a saying that to judge whether a project has investment value, you must first see whether BAT will do this project.

It's the same now. Although Funchat has a lot of advantages in the early stage, there is a huge gap between Fundong Group and giants like Penguin.

It's hard to say how much the Fun Chat will win. Once the Fun Chat project fails, all investments will be in vain.

Capital is like this, it will always add icing on the cake, never give it a helping hand.

Li Zhe didn't care about this either. Now they are unwilling to make a bet. When Fun Chat develops in the future and they rush to invest again, they will bleed heavily.

Besides, he is not short of funds now.

On November 11, Penguin officially released WeChat. This version of WeChat has basically the same functions as Funchat. You can send text messages and pictures, voice messages within 12 seconds, and have Moments.

However, with the synchronization of Koukou and a strong publicity campaign, WeChat has nearly 300 million users in just one day of its launch.

Penguin has also set up an offline and online promotion team, but due to the haste, the promotion team is far from the fun chat team, mature, experienced, and efficient.

And just two hours after the launch of WeChat, Fundong Group released the Funchat 2.0 version.

This version of Fun Chat adds location-based services "Nearby", "Drift Bottle" and "Shake", allowing users to connect with strangers nearby.

On the first line of Fun Chat 2.0, the number of new users per day rose from more than 50 to nearly one million.

Instant messaging software, the most important thing is the social function.

Just like the first group of people who chatted all night long were all for "making friends".

"People Nearby", "Rafting Bottle" and "Shake" were social (y) and social (p) artifacts when they first came out.

"Borrowing from" the goose... No, it was Penguin who responded very quickly. Only five days later, it also released WeChat version 2.0, which also added functions such as "people nearby", "drift bottle" and "shake".

At this time, Fundong Group announced that the reward for newcomers of Quchat has increased to 50 Qubi (5 yuan) per person, and you can apply for cash withdrawal when you reach 2000 Qubi.

And Qucoins between users can be traded with each other.

In other words, as long as you get a new user, you can earn 5 yuan, which can be reflected when you reach 200 yuan, and you can sell Qubi to others if you don’t meet the 200 yuan withdrawal request.

As soon as this strategy came out, Fundong Group made it clear who was going to burn more money than Penguin.

Fundong Group is Li Zhe's word of mouth, but a listed company like Penguin must consider the opinions of shareholders and shareholders. It's not that Xiao Ma can spend a huge amount of money for promotion with a single word.

To use huge amounts of money, high-level meetings must be held to discuss.

The competition between Fundong Group and Penguin is time.

Under the lure of high rewards for attracting new users, Fun Chat's daily new users were more than one million, and it didn't drop until a week later.

On December 12, 10 days after Funchat was launched, the number of users exceeded 51 million, with an average of nearly one million new users every day, accounting for less than half of the market share. It can be said that it has created a promotion miracle.

The price is to burn 40 billion funds.

At this time, the number of WeChat users was less than 2000 million, more than 600 million to be precise.

After the explosion of WeChat in the early stage, the subsequent development has been weak.

The main reason is that the market is preempted by Fun Chat, and users are reluctant to change after they are used to Fun Chat.

Even if you download WeChat for fun, you will uninstall it soon.

Funchat always organizes activities, using Funchat to recharge phone bills, book tickets, have discounts for members and Qubi, and the subsidy is far more than WeChat.

At this time, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Quchao has gained a firm foothold.

Even if Penguin still has a chance to move back to the situation, it will have to pay a huge price and fight a long-term battle with Fundong Group for users.

On December 12, Penguin optimized the Koukou mobile version and added functions such as voice messages and friend updates.

In fact, as early as 2003, Penguin launched the mobile phone version of Koukou (Mobile Koukou). Because most of the mobile phones at that time were feature phones and Symbian systems, the interface of the entire software was relatively simple, which could only meet the most basic online needs. chat needs.

Penguin imitated the function of WeChat to optimize the mobile version of Koukou in advance. On the one hand, it can be used for two-line chatting between Koukou and WeChat, and on the other hand, it has also prepared for the failure of WeChat.

Even if the WeChat project really fails, Penguin can still turn around and focus on running the Koukou mobile version, and once again compete with Quchat.

Koukou has a huge user base of 8 million people, and it is still unknown who will win.

This is also the background of Penguin Company as a veteran instant messaging industry overlord. Even if it loses one or two games, it can regain its strength and fight again.

However, as an emerging challenger, Fundong Group cannot lose a game, and if it loses, it will be out.

Seeing that Funchat has resisted the competition from WeChat and is expected to succeed, the whole Fundong Group is rejoicing.

If the fun chat project is really successful, the options in everyone's hands can be cashed out.

At that time, even ordinary employees can get hundreds of thousands.

Executives can even become millionaires, multi-millionaires or even billionaires.

Once when Li Zhe was condolences to the employees, Yang Function asked him if he could exchange more options.

In fact, not only Yang Function, but many people have this thought.

A lot of capital also came to the door one after another, wanting to add to the cake.

However, Li Zhe was not as optimistic as the employees.

Fun chat is just a game won first, until the end, the outcome is still unknown.

The next two years will be the key to the development of Funchat, especially since 12, when the shipment of smartphones will explode. If Funchat cannot grab enough new users by then, it may be caught up by WeChat or even surpassed. .

Moreover, even if Quchat beats WeChat, Penguin also has a mobile version of Koukou, which can still continue to compete with Quchat.

It is impossible for Funchat to monopolize the instant messaging market like Koukou.

It just broke Penguin's dominance of the instant messaging industry.

At that time, it is likely to form a pattern of long-term competition between Funchat and Koukou mobile version.

The mobile version of Koukou actually has great development potential, but Penguin has relaxed the operation of the mobile version of Koukou after WeChat became available.

Therefore, even if the WeChat project fails, the development potential of Penguin will only be weakened, and will not really decline.

Back to the beginning of November.

In the CEO's office, Li Zhe was being interviewed by the Shanghai TV station.

Twice on the rich list, worth more than 200 billion, becoming the youngest billionaire in the world, and openly challenging giants like Penguin, which made Li Zhe the target of the media.

Recently, the media has come to interview him every day. At most, more than a dozen media came in a day.

But how could Li Zhe have so much time to deal with the media, and basically rejected all the interviews that could be turned down, and only selectively accepted interviews from a few big media.

He just accepted an interview with "Fortune" magazine yesterday, and today the Shanghai TV station came again.

The Fundong Group has a good relationship with the local Shanghai TV, and the Shanghai TV has interviewed Li Zhe many times, and it is really impossible to shirk it.

This time, the Shanghai TV station is here to give him a more detailed special report.

The Shanghai TV station attached great importance to this interview. A deputy director personally led the team, and a group of more than a dozen people came. They not only wanted to interview Li Zhe, but also had a deep understanding of the entire Fundong Group and shot a lot of material.

The person in charge of interviewing Li Zhe was Yang Yue, a senior TV reporter who had interviewed him once before, and two new reporters, a man and a woman, were her assistants.

One of the female reporters was the intern Xiao Yu who came with Yang Yue last time, a very beautiful girl.

More than a year has passed, and she has officially entered the job as a trainee reporter, and she can become a regular after the assessment period.

The interview lasted for a long time, and Yang Yue and Li Zhe talked a lot.

It started with Li Zhe when he was a child, and kept talking until recently when he was on the Forbes rich list and posted interesting chats.

For Yang Yue's question, Li Zhe answered very modestly, and didn't say anything, spending money is more difficult than making money with a small goal of [-] million, I'm not interested in money, I'm face-blind and other pretentious words.

When Yang Yue asked him why he was able to achieve such great achievements at such a young age.

Li Zhe even attributed his success to the development of the country, the opportunities given by the times, and a little bit of luck.

He also emphasized that he is not a giant of the times, but this era has made him.

The stronger a person is, the more humble and prudent he must be.

Not to mention that Li Zhe is still so young.

It is impossible for Jack Ma, Richard Liu, and Boss Wang not to understand this truth.

But it's too complacent, and it's inevitable that it will be a little drifting.

During the break in the interview, that pretty trainee reporter named Xiao Yu came to Li Zhe with a notebook.

"Mr. Li, can you sign me?" She looked at Li Zhe with admiration.

Now Li Zhe has become the entrepreneurial idol of many young people.

Many people on the Internet call him the Bill Gates of China.

The same started a business in college, the same started from scratch, and the same achieved amazing achievements at a young age.

The inspirational story of Bill Gates is very popular now.

Many people in China really think that Bill Gates is "self-made" and regard him as an idol for learning.

What he didn't know was that his family was actually very rich. His grandfather was the governor of the National Bank, his mother was a director of the banking system, and he was a good friend with the director of IBM.

The family is basically a second-generation entrepreneur.

Just like Brother Ma in the "ordinary family", the "ordinary family" who could afford a computer in 84.

The vast majority of successful people have backgrounds.

"Of course." Li Zhe took the notebook from Xiao Yu and signed it.

After Xiao Yu got the signature, he didn't leave immediately, showing hesitant to speak.

"Why, is there anything else?" Li Zhe asked with a smile.

"Mr. Li, can we have a fun chat?"

This request is a bit too much. People at Li Zhe's level will not easily give others contact information.

However, Li Zhe readily agreed without hesitation, "Yes."

A TV reporter like Xiao Yu is worth making friends with.

Well, it has absolutely nothing to do with her being pretty.

When Xiao Yu heard this, joy appeared on her pretty face, and she quickly took out her mobile phone to exchange interesting chats with Li Zhe.

Yang Yue, who was sitting not far away, felt a little emotional watching this scene.

When she came to interview Li Zhe last year, the other party was just a young entrepreneur who had just made his mark. Who would have thought that in just one or two years, the other party would become the youngest business tycoon, an existence she looked up to, and this change was too fast!
By the time the interview was over, it was already past 6 o'clock in the evening.

Li Zhe didn't work overtime tonight. After the interview team left, he took Yu Xiangzi and left the company surrounded by five or six bodyguards.

After the exposure increased greatly, Li Zhe increased the security force around him. Not only did he transfer Shen Baoshan back from the security department of the group, he became his security assistant and took full charge of his security work.

Also recruited a few real masters.

One is a master of Bajiquan, and the other is a retired soldier king of special forces.

There is also a beautiful bodyguard who studied in a martial arts school and served as a soldier since childhood.

Among them, the Bajiquan master was Li Zhe's personal bodyguard, who would block bullets for him at critical times.

In addition, Li Zhe also ordered a bulletproof extended Maybach, worth 1600 million.

In fact, the country, especially the mainland, can be said to be one of the safest areas in the world.

Things like the frequent kidnapping of rich people on Hong Kong Island in the 80s and 90s are almost impossible to happen.

Until 2021, Li Zhe had never heard of any top rich man in the country being kidnapped.

However, safety issues must be prevented before they happen, and no one can take advantage of them.

……

Bentley Arnage RL came to Huangpu and stopped in front of a restaurant called Dexing Pavilion.

Dexing Pavilion is a time-honored hotel with a history of more than 100 years, which was founded in the ninth year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty.

This restaurant is the most authentic local cuisine (Shanghai cuisine) restaurant in Shanghai, which originated from Suxi cuisine in Jiangsu Province.

After getting off the car, Li Zhe took Yu Xiangzi and the bodyguards into the Dexing Pavilion, and went up to the elegant room on the third floor, which is the box.

Shen Baoshan, Zhou Chao and the others guarded outside the box, Li Zhe only brought Yu Xiangzi and walked in with the newly recruited beautiful bodyguard Shu Mei.

Seeing Li Zhe and Yu Xiangzi walking in, a middle-aged man in his 50s in the box immediately stood up and greeted him very warmly.

"Mr. Li, I'm Yu Zhenmin, and I welcome your honor."

Li Zhe took a look at the other party. He had short hair, a medium build, wearing a pair of rimless glasses, and a gentle and humble smile on his face, which gave people a feeling that he was easy to get close to.

However, there was a businessman's shrewdness in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)