Rebirth starts with small money

If we only talk about the product itself, Chen Li is actually very confident in the products that Red Pony Technology has not launched yet.

Needless to say, "Red Pony Security Guard", this thing was transformed by Xiaomeng's black technology before it was exchanged.

On the one hand, it makes this product more suitable for the current mainstream configuration, and on the other hand, it strengthens the functions to a certain extent.

At least ~ at this point in [-], the functionality of the security guard is very likely to be the strongest in the industry.

In fact, according to Xiaomeng, security guards are currently number one in the world in terms of network protection.

But there is a problem here, that is, the security guard's own programming technology is not like "The Ultimate Y[-]K Vulnerability Patch".

The reason is simple, Y[-]K Ultimate Pudding is not a technological product of the current age.

However, "Red Pony Security Guard" was originally supposed to be a security software developed by Zhou Hongyi a few years later.

Although it has been systematically blessed, the technical core of the security guard is still the technical school of the current era.

Once the security guard is officially launched, there will definitely be elites in the industry who will conduct research on this security guard.

This is why Chen Liming handed over the security guard to Ma Xiaoyun last month, but Red Pony Technology Company has not released this software for a long time.

It's very simple~ Ma Xiaoyun needs to ensure that the Red Pony Technology Company itself has sufficient understanding and awareness of this software.

Because as early as when Chen Li handed over the software to Ma Xiaoyun, Chen Li said that the team behind him would not be responsible for the follow-up research and development.

After all, for Chen Li, if he didn't exchange a version, he had to pay the corresponding mall currency.

And for Red Pony Technologies, they can't always count on help from outside the company itself.

To put it bluntly, Chen Li can help the red pony lay a foundation, but what kind of house the red pony will build later is something that Ma Xiaoyun and Zhou Hongyi need to consider.

Of course~ this is not to say that Chen Li really doesn't care about the technology of the red pony.

He just needs to give the red pony a certain amount of room for development, otherwise the red pony will just blindly rely on the team behind Chen Li. Then it will be meaningless.

What Chen Li can guarantee is that he will come up with the right things at the right time.

But the problem is that the operation of an enterprise sometimes does not just rely on the product to speak.

Although Chen Li in his previous life had never done business, nor had he ever been a boss himself, it did not prevent him from knowing something about the Internet circle.

For example, bullying the small with the big in the Internet circle!
In fact, such problems exist in every industry. Some people think this is a normal business behavior, while others think it is a kind of commercial hegemony.

But no matter which point of view one takes, such things are real.

Ordinary people only see the prosperity of the Internet, but behind this prosperity, there are countless gray or even black real existences.

The reality is like this. Many people pay attention to the many emerging Internet companies that pop up around the world every year, but few people pay attention to the small businesses that go bankrupt every year.

Among these small businesses that went bankrupt, some were due to poor management, some due to lack of funds, and some
Well~ In short, there are many reasons for failure!But one of these is when small businesses compete with large businesses. The competition fails.

It's fine if it's just the failure of the competition on the product, but sometimes...some things beyond the product itself have a great impact.

If you want to get rid of these influences beyond the development of the enterprise and the product itself, the only solution is to put a layer of armor on your own enterprise itself.

To put it bluntly, it is to let the company itself find a background or backer with a strong enough relationship.

Don't underestimate this point, sometimes industry competition is quite cruel.

The most famous of them is probably the "Oriental micro-point case" that happened around 05!
At that time, after Weidian proposed the "active defense" anti-virus core, it encountered rebuttals from many domestic anti-virus software.

If the two parties are just competing in the normal industry, that's all. The big deal is to rely on product quality and word-of-mouth to speak.

But this incident finally developed to the point of "outside the market", which also put Weidian, which was in a good situation at that time, into a huge predicament.

Ma Xiaoyun and Zhou Hongyi couldn't imagine such a thing at all.They don't feel that competition in the industry will reach that point.

But as someone who has been there, Chen Li has eaten a lot of melons on the Internet.

So he knows very well that sometimes talking out the tricks in some industries can make people sick to death.

In fact, if it was someone else's industry competition, then Chen Li would be happy to eat melons.But now the red pony is facing the same predicament just like the micro point at the time.

Because the security guards transformed by Xiaomeng also follow the "active defense" style.

To put it bluntly~ This is equivalent to Red Pony Technology Co., Ltd., directly reaching out to grab food from the bowls of other antivirus software companies.

No~ If Red Pony just releases an anti-virus software, that's all. At most, Red Pony and other anti-virus software companies are grabbing food together.

But once this active defense genre comes out, it's not just grabbing food, but taking away everyone else's food.

So ~ if there is no accident, the red pony safety guard will definitely encounter various crises after it goes public.

Although~ the red pony is not without amulets.

After all, Chen Li's donation of US$5000 million and Ma Xiaoyun's donation of US$200 million were not in vain.

If you really think about it, Ma Xiaoyun has met several big leaders.This is actually a potential human connection of Red Pony Technology Co., Ltd.!

But~ don't think that with such contacts, no one will have any crooked thoughts about the red pony.

After all, your red pony has already started serving the pot, so why don't people jump up and hit you on the knee?

And those leaders are not low-level~ It is impossible for the red pony to run to trouble others when something happens.

As the saying goes, the king of Hades is easy to see ~ the little ghost is hard to deal with. At that time, as long as the other party makes some small moves casually, the red pony will definitely be made quite passive.

However, this situation is actually quite easy to solve.

It only needs to introduce one or two capitals with sufficient strength to enter the red pony~ No matter what tricks those people do, someone will naturally help the red pony to solve all this.

After all~ the capital side will not allow the money they invested to be thrown into the water by some inexplicable means.

If the strength is not as good as others or there is a problem with the investment vision, it's fine, but if it is overwhelmed by some off-the-market tricks, it is estimated that even the capital side will be looked down upon.

And in order to protect the interests of the capital side, the capital side will definitely do their best to help the enterprise.

After all, only when the enterprise itself develops can capital gain more benefits.

In commercial behavior, profit is king.

Marx said:
As long as there is a 50.00% profit, capital dares to take risks!
If there is a [-]% profit, capital dares to trample on all human laws!
And when there is a [-]% profit, capital dares to commit any crime, even at the risk of being hanged!

So ~ from Chen Li's point of view, he actually hopes that Red Pony can find one or two suitable capitals for financing.

Because this also involves a big reason~ that is the Internet bubble. It is about to burst.

With the current capital reserves of Red Pony, if it does not suffer from those "outside tricks", it can actually operate benignly.

But~ the competition on the internet is brutal.

Especially now that the domestic Internet security market has long been divided up, the sudden appearance of the red pony is bound to be collectively boycotted by the original Internet security giants.

Not to mention that the red pony is taking another path, a path that other security companies may have nowhere to go once the red pony goes down.

If the red pony is allowed to go on smoothly, then those other security companies will either open up a new path, or they will only be eliminated by the times.

So ~ in order to avoid such a situation from happening, the red pony will definitely face very great competitive pressure.

This also means that if the Red Pony wants to gain a foothold in the security industry, sooner or later it will have to fight with these established security companies.

But if this is the case~ the current cash flow of the red pony is not so safe.

Shortage of funds~ is definitely the most likely to occur and also the most difficult problem to solve in the development of enterprises.

But it's okay~ the red pony is not afraid of this.At least ~ before the dot-com bust, the red ponies weren't afraid of this.

Now ~ including Softbank ~ Goldman Sachs and many other investment institutions are very optimistic about the prospects and future development of Red Pony Technology Co., Ltd.

It can be said that as long as Ma Xiaoyun let go, the red pony will immediately have a large amount of money in the account.

It's just~ Correspondingly, the red pony also needs to share a part of the equity in exchange for these funds and the help of these investment institutions.

Just like Ding Sanshi~ After accepting the investment from the capital behind Xu Xing, Wangnan not only got a large sum of money, but also found a CEO.

This was requested by Ding Sanshi himself, because he is considered a technical guy and doesn't know much about business management.

So Ding Sanshi asked the investor to help find a professional manager.

Although this incident can be regarded as a huge hidden danger for the future internal disputes of Wangnan, it even caused Wangnan to be almost sold.

But at the moment, Ding Sanshi is still very happy, because he really feels the benefits of capital.

After all, people give money and give it to others, Ding Sanshi only needs to concentrate on technology.

And the most important point is what he paid. In fact, it is not as much as imagined.

And this~ is Xu Xing's brilliance.

Greed~ is actually a kind of nature!
But being too greedy~ is not an option.

How to measure the degree of this is a question that managers like Xu Xing need to consider.

During the investment process, some investors will extract too much enterprise value due to profit reasons.

But it turns out that this may be able to achieve better "results" in the short term, but in the long run, this is actually very undesirable.

Xu Xing is very clear about the way of doing this, so when investing, he can be regarded as more measured.

Of course~ this "property" is only relative.

The reason why Ma Xiaoyun did not agree to the investment from Softbank and Goldman Sachs~ was not that he didn't want the other party's money and the resources behind it, but because the two investment institutions gave less~ much more!
But this is understandable, because although the red pony shined in the previous millennium bug problem, the red pony also faced many competitors.

In addition to those established Internet security companies, Yinshan also launched its own security software this year.

And the most important point is that there is a big crocodile behind Yinshan.

Fantasy technology!

This is a giant in the domestic PC market~ well-deserved NO1!

It can be said that with the support of fantasy technology, Yinshan Antivirus has a much greater advantage than other Internet security companies innately.

Coupled with other established Internet security companies, it is still somewhat difficult for Red Pony to make a bloody breakthrough in this industry.

To put it bluntly~ If it wasn't for the Red Pony's excellent performance on the Y[-]K problem, it would be the same for the Red Pony Technology Co., Ltd. itself.

Mainly because there is a big problem here, that is, the team that solved the Y[-]K crisis is not affiliated with Red Pony Technology.

If the team behind Chen Li really exists and belongs to the red pony, then investment institutions such as Softbank and Goldman Sachs will naturally increase their ratings on the red pony.

But it's a pity~ This team was originally fabricated by Chen Li, so he naturally couldn't let this "team" come to the front of the stage.

That's why when Ma Xiaoyun talked about investment with investors from Softbank and Goldman Sachs, the conversation collapsed.

In Ma Xiaoyun's eyes~ even without the addition of Chen Li and the team behind him, the value of the red pony is still very high.

Because the red pony holds the big killer "Security Guard", which is enough to win a huge victory in the product competition.

So ~ just hearing the quotations from investment institutions such as Softbank and Goldman Sachs, Ma Xiaoyun temporarily blacklisted the other party in his heart.

Well, this is actually very spiritual for the time being.

Because Ma Xiaoyun is very clear that when a company develops to a certain stage, it is inevitable to deal with these capitals.

It's just that Ma Xiaoyun intends to wait until "Red Pony Safety Guard" is launched, and then discuss investment with these people after achieving certain results.

At that time, these investment institutions will naturally look at the red pony with admiration, and accordingly ~ these investment institutions will naturally increase the valuation of the red pony by N levels.

But if you do this~ then "Red Pony Security Guard" will inevitably be attacked by other competitors after it goes online.

If there is no help from the capital side~ the red pony will definitely encounter a lot of troubles then.

So. The problem arises!

It is to accept investment first, and then use the resources of investors to help resist competitors' attacks.

Or wait for the results first, and then use the excellent results to seek better investments.

This is a multiple choice question!
But~ at this time, a person who is not particularly "greedy" appeared, and this person was Xu Xing.

So~ that night, when Chen Li brought his girlfriend to the appointed restaurant
Chen Li saw Ma Xiaoyun and Xu Xing with smiles on their faces~!

From this glance, Chen Li knew very well that the two should have reached a cooperation intention.

So. Chen Li decided to order a few more expensive dishes tonight!