The richest man

Chapter 231 The Battle of Instant Messaging Software
After the small Shenzhou supercomputer defeated the world champion, the news spread uproariously, causing people to discuss it for more than half a month.The reputation of the legendary technology company has been further improved, and the brand awareness has become the world's number one, which has greatly boosted the sales of its products.

Inside Legend Technology Company, Zhang Jun personally ordered to invest a huge amount of money to create a super project - AI Nuwa.

In ancient Chinese mythology, Nuwa created man.

Well, Zhang Jun's ambition is not small, he hopes to develop AI Nuwa and create artificial intelligence!
The data of many products of Legend Technology Company will be used by AI Nuwa in the future, using big data to support the development of artificial intelligence!

The development of artificial intelligence is very difficult, but Zhang Jun is very rich now. Last year, his net profit reached more than 700 billion US dollars.

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December 1996, 3.

The instant messaging software QQ was officially released, and Legend Network Company directly publicized it on the entire network.

As long as you surf the Internet, it is impossible not to know QQ software.

"Shock! ! !Legendary Technologies has once again released a new product to bring the world closer together! "

"The world's richest man Zhang Jun strongly recommends, the new products of the legendary technology company are coming! "

"QQ, a free instant chat software! "

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QQ's advertisements are bombarded indiscriminately.

After people download and use this software, they quickly like it.

Using QQ to chat is so much more convenient than sending emails, and it doesn't cost money to send messages.

The QQ group function is even more popular, with 80 various groups established on the first day.

"Do you know the QQ instant chat software? I will build a QQ group for our class later, and then pull all the students in the class into this group. If there are any activities in the class in the future, I will announce them in the QQ group!" Podium On, a university head teacher said.

an office building.

"Dear colleagues, Legend Technology released a software instant messaging software QQ today, which I think is very suitable for us. I strongly recommend that everyone download and register a QQ account, and then I will create a QQ group belonging to our project development team. If you have anything to communicate, you can talk in this QQ group at any time..." The project team leader of a certain company said.

The student group is the most, followed by the office group... Chatting and building groups, sending and receiving files, many companies feel that work communication is extremely convenient after using QQ.

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Sequoia Capital.

CEO Don Valentine and a group of people in the company are testing the software QQ.

Everyone was in the toilet, amazed at the same time, discussing the advantages of this software and its development prospects.

"Boss, QQ is a great software, very convenient! I'm sure QQ will become popular all over the world!" A man said excitedly. He was almost attracted by the charm of QQ, and the rich and powerful functions made him addicted to it.

As soon as the voice fell, several other testers echoed and expressed their agreement.

"QQ is perfect, every user can't live without it!"

"I think, when I go online in the future, maybe the first thing I do is to open QQ to see if any friends have sent me messages..."

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Don Valentine couldn't help nodding when he heard the words. He himself was also attracted by this instant messaging software.

"I also think that QQ has great potential for development and will definitely become popular all over the world. But how will QQ be realized?" After Don Valentine finished speaking, he looked at other people with a questioning look.

Everyone shook their heads.

For a while, I couldn't see how QQ could be realized.

There are very few monetization models on the Internet today, most of them rely on advertisements, and the most representative one is the Yahoo website.

And QQ's interface is very small, there is no place to advertise.

Once advertised, it will greatly affect the user experience.

If a competitor appears at this time, then QQ will surely fail.

Don Valentine thought for a while and said: "It is said that this software was designed by the super genius Zhang Jun himself. With his monstrous mind, he must have figured out how to monetize QQ a long time ago. However, as long as there is traffic and users , sooner or later we will be able to get along with the method of monetization! Alas, what a pity, QQ is launched by Legendary Technology Company, not short of money..."

Don Valentine showed regret on his face. As an investment company, Sequoia Capital is most depressed about such companies that are not short of money.

The next day, Legend Technology announced to the outside world that QQ had over 200 million downloads on the first day, with around 150 million registered users.

As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused a sensation in the entire United States and the investment community.

However, the next day, word of mouth of QQ spread, and countless "old users" invited their relatives and friends to download and register QQ.

As a result, the number of downloads on this day exceeded 400 million, and the number of new registered users exceeded 360 million.

A week later, the total number of QQ downloads reached 2500 million, and the number of registered users reached 2100 million. Everyone was stunned.

QQ seems to spread like a virus, and it has become the most popular software in a very short period of time.

Numerous venture capital companies have expressed their intention to invest in QQ to Legend Technology.

It's a pity that the legendary technology company is not short of money, and will not start financing now foolishly.

Moreover, QQ in this life has versions in various countries, and it was ambitious to monopolize the global instant messaging software market from the very beginning.

In order to achieve this step, the new generation of Hongmeng computer system is directly bundled with QQ software.

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Undoubtedly, seeing that QQ is so popular, it shouldn't take long for competitors to appear in the market.

Microsoft Corporation.

Bill Gates was using the QQ software, secretly amazed in his heart, and his eyes couldn't help but glow.

"You said, if Microsoft also develops an instant messaging software, will the stock price rise wildly?!" Bill Gates smiled.

When everyone heard the words, they couldn't help but nodded.

"Internet concept stocks are so hot right now, if Microsoft develops a similar instant messaging software, it will definitely be popular!"

"Although the market share of our Windows system is far lower than that of the Hongmeng computer system, it still has 20%. The number of these users adds up to tens of millions. If our Windows system is directly bundled with an instant messaging software, then we are very happy. We will soon have a large number of users.”

"That's right, we have a Windows system. It's relatively easy to promote any software. We can't take the first place, but we can also take the second place!" A vice president said loudly, judging from what he meant, he seemed to be the second child , quite proud.

Having said that, they have always regarded Legendary Technology Company as their biggest competitor, but they don't know that Microsoft's current largest shareholder has actually changed.

Paul Allen, one of the founders, left Microsoft due to illness, and then cashed out most of his shares and sold them all to an investment company, and the behind-the-scenes boss of this investment company was Zhang Jun.In fact, Zhang Jun already holds 52% of the shares of Microsoft Corporation.

Bill Gates has also been cashing out funds over the years, and the Microsoft stock he holds is actually less than 25%.

In the conference room, Bill Gates immediately made a decision to develop the instant messaging software MSN Messenger.

Microsoft in this era still has Office and IE browsers, but the names are different.

And Microsoft's market value is very high, 380 billion US dollars!
Many government projects in the United States are developed by Microsoft, and the Hongmeng system has long been excluded.

The United States is suppressing the Hongmeng system openly and secretly. Unfortunately, the Hongmeng system is too powerful, and ordinary American consumers just like it.

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The number of QQ downloads made the entire QQ development team very excited. They never expected that QQ could achieve such a huge success.

But now is not the time to relax.

Other competitors will come in soon, and only by defeating other instant messaging software can QQ's position be consolidated and its strength proven.

conference room.

Zhang Jun ordered the secretary to turn on the projector and play the PPT.

"Although there are many downloads and users of QQ, the user stickiness is not high. We must find ways to increase user stickiness. For this reason, I decided to develop the QQ Game Center to retain users through games."

"Everyone, please take a look at the PPT. This is the "QQ Game Center" I designed. It gathers all kinds of leisure puzzles, mahjong, chess and card games in the "QQ Game Center"..."

Zhang Jun talked about the QQ game center, and with the PPT, everyone quickly got to know the QQ game center.

"Boss, this design is very good. Americans like playing chess and card games very much. "QQ Game Center" must be very popular!" "

"A game of chess and card games doesn't last long. QQ Game Center is specially developed to take advantage of players' fragmented time, and it has considerable market potential!"

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Everyone spoke one after another, expressing their approval of QQ Game Center.

Zhang Jundao: "I only wrote a part of how to design and develop the games in the QQ Game Center, and you have to think about the rest. In addition, special attention should be paid to localized development and the development of chess and card games that local users like to play. For example, Texas Hold'em is popular in the United States, but it is not acclimatized in China. There is a game called "Fighting the Landlord" in China, which is very popular, and chess is the main board game.This chess is not international chess. When you develop it, you must recruit local game designers and let their opinions prevail! "

"Yes!" The crowd responded in unison.

Every time Zhang Jun puts extra emphasis on localized design, which has become the corporate culture.Everyone who develops software now will also attach great importance to this point.

Seeing this, Zhang Jun nodded with satisfaction, encouraged everyone to make persistent efforts and work hard, and then left.

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Israeli company.

Several programmers looked at the QQ interface on the computer, all of them looked decadent.

One of them sighed and said, "Oh, the instant messaging software icq we developed crashed with QQ. QQ is so powerful, how can our icq compete with it?"

"Today, I took icq to find a venture capital company, but the people from the venture capital company said that Legendary Technology has developed QQ. How can your icq be able to compete with QQ? So they rejected us!"

"If ICQ is launched earlier, maybe there is still a chance..."

"There is no investment, and the software development speed is slow. How can we launch it earlier? Moreover, even if we launch it earlier, the only function of the software is online chat."

Several people were frowning, months of painstaking efforts were in vain, everyone discussed it, and decided to act as a living horse doctor and publish icq on the Internet for free download by netizens.

In the previous life, icq was the earliest instant messaging software in the world, and it had hundreds of millions of users in a very short period of time. Unfortunately, the company could not find a way to make a profit. In the end, it could only be sold to America Online for $2.87 million.

Tencent’s early situation was actually the same as that of icq. Ma Huateng and others could not find a way to cash in. The more users, the greater the loss.

The icq company couldn't hold on any longer and sold itself to America Online.

Tencent was lucky enough to carry out Monternet value-added services and developed "Mobile QQ". From January to March 2001, the total number of short messages sent by "Mobile QQ" reached 1 million. A monthly income of more than 3 million yuan.

The three founders of icq company soon distributed the icq software to major BBS on the Internet, allowing users to download it for free.

However, they never expected that ICQ, who is a dead horse as a living horse doctor, is alive.

icq has very few functions, but it also means that icq is very small and compact.Not long after the release of this software, it has attracted the likes of many people.Some people think that QQ has too many functions and is too bloated. Instead, they prefer icq, a small and simple instant messaging software.

Only a few hundred people downloaded icq on the first day, but after a week, the number of icq users rose to more than 2.

In less than half a month, the download volume of icq exceeded 30.

icq has not undergone any publicity, but the increase data is very surprising.

Not only the three founders of icq company were stunned, but also the others.For a while, icq attracted the attention of many venture capital companies and Internet companies.

Venture capital companies want to invest in icq, and Internet companies want to acquire icq.

"Wesger, Vardy, we succeeded!!!!" Gothe danced excitedly.

The three Israelites hugged each other and wept with joy.

"Microsoft and AOL have sent acquisition offers one after another; Sequoia Capital, Morgan Stanley, KPCB, DFJ Venture Capital, and Carlyle all want to invest in our company!" Gold said excitedly, "Among them, Sequoia Capital wants to invest 500 million US dollars and take 40% of our shares!"

Weisger said: "Gold, we can't be in a hurry now, I think there should be venture capital companies bidding higher than Sequoia Capital! We are up for sale now!"

"That's right! We are up for grabs!!!" Gothe nodded excitedly in agreement.

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Zhang Jun looked depressedly at the icq software on the computer desktop.

icq adopts a minimalist style, its functions are so simple that it would die, but it survived, which made Zhang Jun very speechless.

There is really something wrong with the aesthetics of foreigners. If this thing is placed in China, it will be absolutely dead, and it will be crushed into scum by QQ.

Zhang Jun is a little worried that icq will develop into whatsapp.

Zhang Jun thought about it, should he directly develop a minimalist QQ by himself? In other words, many products in the previous life had a minimalist version, so there is no problem at all with the minimalist version of QQ. QQ itself already has a large number of users. As long as the simplified version of QQ is launched, it will definitely have an advantage over icq. Users of the simplified version of QQ can communicate with all QQ users, which is impossible for icq.

Thinking of this, Zhang Jun got up and went to the QQ development team...

(End of this chapter)