The richest man

Chapter 232 Profit Model Shocks the World
Three days later, icq accepted investment from America Online, received an investment of 1200 million US dollars, and sold 40% of the shares.AOL is the company that most wants to acquire or invest in icq among all companies,
It's just that icq only accepts investment at present, and investment companies such as Sequoia Capital, Morgan Stanley, and KPCB are watching, so AOL can only choose to invest in icq in the end.

In order to drive other competitors away, America Online gave icq the highest valuation.

America Online has strong strength and is involved in e-commerce, portals, chat communities, etc. It is currently the biggest competitor of Legend Technology on the Internet.

With the birth of the QQ chat software, America Online was caught off guard, and the chat community almost collapsed.

After icq appeared, the boss of America Online, Keith, was ecstatic and wanted to win the company immediately.

When icq company received investment from America Online, it reached a series of cooperation. In short, icq has already belonged to America Online, providing chat services for various products under America Online.

After icq cooperated with AOL, various promotional resources emerged one after another, coupled with its own abundant funds, it immediately made icq take off quickly.One million new users were added in a week, which is really shocking.

Legend Technology did not sit still, and quickly withdrew the minimalist version of QQ, which is fast and smooth, with a simple interface and simple functions.

The promotion resources of Legendary Technology Company are naturally not comparable to ICQ and AOL. In addition, there are a lot of QQ users, and your relatives and friends are using QQ. If you don’t use it, you can’t contact them.In the past, some people may have criticized QQ, thinking it was too complicated and didn’t like it, but the minimalist version of QQ has come, and there is no reason not to like it.

As expected, downloads of the simplified version of QQ have skyrocketed.

Within a week, it exceeded 280 million.

In contrast to icq, the number of new downloads decreased rapidly, and even faced the danger of users defecting.

Many people have both downloaded icq and are using QQ.

However, with the increase of QQ users, under the Matthew effect, icq will definitely lose.

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In the market, the battle between icq and QQ is incompatible.

Microsoft is working overtime to develop msn, and wants to join it as soon as possible to get a share.

Bill Gates sits in person and joins the software development team himself.

It is not difficult to predict that the battle between instant messaging software in the future will be extremely tragic.

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At this moment, Southeast Asian countries are a little excited.

Zhang Jun actually focused his investment on them.

For several months, Zhang Jun inspected investment projects in Southeast Asian countries and became a guest of honor from various countries.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Jun took out 200 billion U.S. dollars to invest in power stations, tap water, telecommunications, and food industries in Southeast Asian countries.

Due to the large investment and many projects, a mere 200 billion US dollars is not enough, and most of the money still needs to be solved by bank loans.Fortunately, the banks in Southeast Asian countries have great confidence in Zhang Jun, and one by one they took the initiative to come to Zhang Jun and lend money to Zhang Jun.

In just a few months, the combined loans of major banks amounted to more than 350 billion U.S. dollars if converted into U.S. dollars!

Zhang Jun did not cheat Southeast Asian countries. After the funds arrived, major projects were launched one after another, which increased local employment in each country and drove local economic development.

Seeing Zhang Jun, all countries in Southeast Asia regard him as the God of Wealth, and he is very popular.

In October 1996, Zhang Jun ended his trip to Southeast Asia.

Zhang Jun's operation almost made Soros of the Quantum Fund lose his job. He was going to short Southeast Asia. What the hell is Zhang Jun doing? But then he saw that Zhang Jun was frantically borrowing money from major banks in various countries. I suddenly understood...

There is quite a tacit understanding among the masters.

Soros knew that it was absolutely impossible for Zhang Jun to go short in Southeast Asia, but it did not mean that Zhang Jun would not take advantage of this Southeast Asian economic crisis to secretly profit.

When Zhang Jun borrowed money from major banks, he was actually cooperating with Soros.

The more money Zhang Jun borrowed, the more difficult it would be for Southeast Asian countries to resist when Soros launched an attack, and the currencies of various countries would depreciate on a large scale. Zhang Jun could use the exchange rate to repay the loan with only a small amount of US dollars.

Soros smoked a cigar and laughed heartily. He admired Zhang Jun, the genius richest man in the world, and felt a little sympathy for him.

Since then, Soros has become more confident, and began to speed up the pace of action, secretly contacting international hot money, and fighting it hard together!
After Zhang Jun's trip to Southeast Asia this time, he felt a lot of emotion.

From the late 80s to the early 90s, affected by the Persian Gulf War, the bursting of the Japanese economic bubble, and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the U.S. economy was in a downturn and the U.S. dollar index weakened.At this time, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and other countries achieved rapid economic growth, which was once called the "Asian Miracle", attracted a large amount of international capital, and a large amount of short-term foreign debt entered the field of real estate investment. The bubble is getting worse.

The general trend is like a river flowing, irreversible and unstoppable.

Even if there is no Soros' attack, sooner or later the economic crisis will break out in Southeast Asian countries, just like Japan, it is only a matter of time.

Zhang Jun sighed, turned his head and lay down on the bed to rest.

Over the years, despite investing in many large projects, there will be a net profit ranging from 100 billion to 300 billion US dollars every year. Zhang Jun has to deposit this money in Standard Chartered Bank. Today, Zhang Jun has 2100 million in net profit deposits alone. billions of dollars.

And the further you get to the back, the higher the annual net profit will be.

Zhang Jun really has too much money to spend now.

He only has one small goal now. If others have a market value of one trillion U.S. dollars, he will deposit one trillion U.S. dollars in cash.

In fact, this small goal is not too high, Apple's cash reserves are almost 3000 billion US dollars.

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The war between icq and QQ has not yet come to an end, and Microsoft released the msn instant chat software at this time.

Microsoft should not be underestimated, its strength is stronger than America Online.

Windows is bound to msn. Based on this, Microsoft can have more than 2000 million users.

Seeing this, Zhang Jun picked up his mobile phone, called the person in charge of QQ software, and asked about the development progress of "QQ Game Center".

"Boss, I just want to report to you! The development of 'QQ Game Center' has been completed, and the versions of each country are different, with a total of more than 80 games!" Ray Tours, the general manager of QQ, looked confident.They spent a lot of energy in developing "QQ Game Center". He believes that players from all over the world will like QQ Game Center. The development team has made the game localization to the extreme, and all of them are high-quality games that local countries like!
Zhang Jun asked Ray Tours to send him the link, and he wanted to download and test it himself.

The company's broadband is very fast, and Zhang Jun quickly downloaded "QQ Game Center" and started playing.

This test version of the QQ game center, you can choose the country.

Once selected, the games inside will vary.

Zhang Jun is most familiar with the Chinese version, so he chose China first.

There are many categories in it.

1. Casual competitive games: Rush to Hong Kong Cubes, Beauty Find the Difference, Lianliankan, etc.
2. Mahjong games: Rush Mahjong, Happy Mahjong, Sichuan Mahjong, Wuhan Mahjong, Changsha Mahjong, Guangdong Mahjong, etc.

3. Card games: happy landlords, four-person landlords, upgrade, double button, hoe the earth, arch pig, three-on-one, etc.
4. Board games: Four Kingdoms Army Chess, Chinese Chess, Flying Chess, QQ Checkers, Backgammon, Go, etc.

4. Board games: Three Kingdoms, Heroes, etc.
There are only these for the time being, and more rich games will be developed in the future, such as strategy, simulation management, development, role-playing and other types of games.

"QQ Game Center" has already started testing internally, and many people have downloaded this software, so many people are playing games online.

Zhang Jun entered his QQ account and password, logged in, and started playing the game.

I couldn't stop playing this game. I played more than ten times just fighting the landlord.

After two days of testing, he was satisfied with the "QQ Game Center", and then notified QQ General Manager Ray Tours to officially launch the "QQ Game Center".

After Ray Tours received the order, his face was full of excitement.

"QQ Game Center" is the trump card, and it will definitely play a decisive role in the current highly competitive instant messaging software market.

On the first day of the launch of "QQ Game Center", Ray Tours used the group's resources to start large-scale publicity.

At the same time, the QQ software pops up to remind the user that QQ is updated, and the function of QQ Game Center is online.

With such a strong publicity, after a week, the download volume of QQ Game Center exceeded 1500 million.

And this is not what surprised the peers and venture capitalists the most. In the eyes of many people, the huge publicity efforts, coupled with the QQ itself pop-up prompts to update, have this result, as it should be.

The most surprising thing is that the profit model of QQ appeared.

"QQ Game Center", players need QQ currency to play games - Q coins, the official recharge exchange rate, 100 Q coins = 1 US dollar.

Playing games at the "QQ Game Center" is very cheap, and you only need 1 Q coin to play a game.However, most of the games can bet on money. If the players are highly skilled, not only do they not need to recharge, but they can also make money.Of course, "QQ Game Center" will extract 30% of the tax.

"QQ Game Center" is almost an online casino, but more entertaining.

Needless to say, "QQ Game Center" became popular, and it was a huge mess!
Every new QQ user registers and logs in and only gives 100 Q coins, which is not enough for many people.

Therefore, countless QQ users started large-scale recharge behaviors.

To recharge, you need to register PayPal and bind your bank card.

This has also led to the crazy development of the third-party payment software PayPal, with a surge in registered users and more internationalization.

During this week, almost 800 million people recharged, ranging from $10 (the minimum recharge requirement) to tens of thousands of dollars, with a total recharge of $36 billion.

The global venture capital companies are all stunned!

Shares of Microsoft and AOL skyrocketed!

Yes, in the face of the strong attack of "QQ Game Center", the stock prices of these two companies did not fall but rose!The reason is because Microsoft and America Online also have instant messaging software, which can replicate the success of "QQ Game Center"!

"Holy shit, shit, shit!!! The stock price of Microsoft America Online is going crazy!" The unknown stockholders were stunned.

But soon, everyone knew why the stocks of Microsoft and AOL had risen so sharply.

Immediately, everyone was crazy about buying and buying.

That night, Microsoft and America Online announced successively that they would develop "msn game center" and "icq game center".

Good guy!As soon as the news spread, Nasdaq went crazy. When the market opened the next day, the stocks of Microsoft and AOL shot up like rockets.

At the same time, hundreds of instant messaging software companies were born overnight in Silicon Valley.

Internet concept stocks have been pushed to a higher peak.

Many companies don't even write a single code, just an idea, and they can get millions of dollars in investment as a result. If they develop instant chat software, the valuation will be even better.

The profit model of QQ is actually a game after all.

How could other companies have done Legendary Technology.

Zhang Jun was very happy when he saw the rise of Internet stocks.

Yahoo's market value has exceeded 1000 billion US dollars, Zhang Jun doesn't know what to say.

"If God wants to destroy people, it must first make people crazy!"

From Zhang Jun's point of view, in this life, the Internet bubble is gone, and the bubble may be even bigger than in the previous life.

I am still stable, investing in more industries, and after the Internet bubble, I will come to buy bottoms by myself.

At this time, the network broadband has begun to gradually increase. Zhang Jun feels that it is time to develop large-scale online games, and don't let other companies take the lead.

Legend Technology Company is developing a game called "Legend of Blood", the idea of ​​which was of course proposed by Zhang Jun.In addition, there are "Stone Age", "Fantasy Westward Journey", "Dungeon and Fighter", "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive", "Cross Fire", "Maple-Story Online".

The development cycle of online games is relatively long. Zhang Jun wants to make these games more classic, so the investment and development cycle far exceed those of his previous life.Zhang Jun hopes that these games will be popular in Europe and America, so as to export culture.

When foreigners understand or like Chinese culture, the difficulty of promoting the game will be greatly reduced, and it will be more conducive for Chinese companies to cut wool from foreign players.

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"While the green hills are outside the mountains, the buildings are outside the buildings, when will the West Lake dance stop. The warm wind makes the tourists drunk, and Hangzhou is called Bianzhou!"

The picturesque scenery of the West Lake can't help but make people intoxicated.

With the expansion of Zhang Jun's industry and the gradual transfer to the mainland, he has decided to move to the mainland.Whether in BJ or Hangzhou, Zhang Jun has his own manor.

The famous "Hangzhou Guozhuang" was bought by Zhang Jun.

Guozhuang is located in the north of Wolong Bridge, Xishan Road, West Lake, Hangzhou. It was originally a key cultural relic protection unit in Zhejiang Province.In the 33rd year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1907), it was built by Song Duanfu, a silk merchant, and is known as "the crown of classical gardens in West Lake".The garden is close to the lake with terraces and pavilions, with docks and a pool as the center.The "Jingsu Pavilion" in the village is facing the Sudi, and you can see the scenery of the outer lake.Guo Zhuang is elegant and clean, and is praised by the gardening circle as "the most ancient and interesting among the West Lake pools and pavilions".

Covering an area of ​​9788 square meters, the water surface is nearly 3000 square meters, and the total construction area is 1629 square meters.

In order to keep Zhang Jun, the world's richest man, living in Hangzhou, the Hangzhou government agreed to sell "Hangzhou Guozhuang" to Zhang Jun.

Unlike BJ's Prince Gong's Mansion, the government dare not sell it to Zhang Jun. "Hangzhou Guozhuang" was originally a private estate, so selling it to Zhang Jun was not uncommon.

Zhang Jun was also very generous, buying this manor for 5 million yuan, which was a sky-high price at the time.

At this time, Zhang Jun met Ma Yun in Guoyuan.

(End of this chapter)