Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

Beijing, Google Xiaguo Product R&D Center.

Holding hot coffee, Li Kaifu looked at the heavy snow outside the window, but his heart was filled with warmth. He finally ended his non-competition agreement lawsuit with his old employer, Microsoft.

Although Li Kaifu is entangled in lawsuits, Kai-fu Lee's reputation has also spread. After all, Microsoft and Google will not hesitate to go to court for him. Such talents can be regarded as one of the few in the world.

In fact, Kai-fu Lee's ability is indeed extraordinary.

As a top student, he won many awards when he was studying, and then he went to work for Apple, and soon made his mark, and was followed by Microsoft, who did not hesitate to pay a lot of money to poach corners.

Afterwards, it also proved that Microsoft's poaching was very valuable. Windows XP, which is famous in the history of software, was able to achieve great success, and the human-computer interaction designed by Kai-Fu Lee was indispensable.

Only two years after joining Microsoft, Kai-Fu Lee became Microsoft's global vice president by virtue of his talents and achievements.From 2000 to 2005, Kai-fu Lee directly brought at least tens of billions of dollars in revenue to Microsoft, so Google couldn't sit still and offered a higher price to poach him from Microsoft, which led to this lawsuit.

Kai-fu Lee, who has already achieved fame, is now well-known at home and abroad thanks to the lawsuit between Microsoft and Google. Today, he is full of ambition and plans to flex his muscles.

Drinking coffee and singing songs, Li Kaifu was very happy.

"You think I'm exaggerating? I'm exaggerating because I'm afraid. If it looks like wood or stone, does it get attention?"

Eason Chan's "Exaggeration" rang on the phone, drawing Li Kaifu's attention back to reality. He took a closer look and found that the number displayed on the screen was exactly Lin Bin's number.

The corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and Li Kaifu pressed the answer button with an expression of "Life is really lonely like snow", "Hey, Lin Bin, how are you doing, have you finally figured it out?"

"Well, yes, Mr. Li, I have resigned from Microsoft."

"Just resign. I welcome you here at any time. You made a decision very quickly this time. I thought I would have to wait for a while."

Li Kaifu is in a good mood, recruiting a general like Lin Bin is like a tiger with wings added to him.

"Mr. Li, I have accepted the invitation of the richest man Lu and joined Maomao Mobile."

"..."

There was a long silence, and the deathly silence on the other end of the phone was suffocating.

"Hey, Mr. Li? Are you still there, Mr. Li?"

"I... I'm here, what did you just say?"

Li Kaifu's voice trembled a little, and he only hoped that what he just said was an auditory hallucination, not true.

It's a pity that Lin Bin's voice shattered his last illusion: "It's Mr. Li, the richest man Lu came over a few days ago to invite me to join Maomao Mobile. You know how I am, although the richest man is very Money is also very sincere, but I actually refused at first. Until the richest man Lu showed a product that Maomao Mobile is making..."

Li Kaifu didn't listen to a word of the following words. The talent who he deliberately planned to poach was cut off by others?

For some reason, Lee Kai-fu felt a little pain in his heart. It didn't hurt so much when he saw the girl he had a crush on fall in love with other boys!

It seems that hundreds of millions have been lost all at once.

Li Kaifu obviously didn't want to let go: "Lin Bin, why don't you think about it again? Google is a great company. If you come to my side, the future development will definitely be smoother."

"I know that Lu's richest man is still a shareholder of Google."

"..."

Li Kaifu was so angry that he wanted to smash the phone, but he could only endure it, and then discussed with Lin Bin in a good voice: "I admit that the richest man Lu is very powerful, but Maomao Mobile is not a well-known company, right? The main business is What, if you join in, can you really use your strengths?"

"Maomao Mobile is a mobile phone company, and I think it is quite reliable."

"Do... make a mobile phone!?"

What the hell is this?
Li Kaifu supported his forehead, and he didn't even have the strength to scold his mother. It's still the era of feature phones, and the two words "smart" and "smartphone" are incompatible.

He really couldn't figure out what a domestic mobile phone manufacturer would hire a software expert to do.

"Do you want to stop thinking about it?"

"I'm sorry Mr. Li, I've thought it through very clearly."

After hanging up the phone, the smile on Li Kaifu's face completely disappeared. Now he just feels that life is so hard.

Zhonghai, the headquarters of Maomao Mobile.

"Welcome to our cat cat family!"

Lu Yiming opened his arms and warmly welcomed Lin Bin's arrival. In the field of software experience, with the addition of Lin Bin, a super talent, it was finally completely stable.

However, since there is a need to develop an exclusive operating system for Maomao mobile phones, as well as various follow-up software, no amount of talent is too many, so Lu Yiming couldn't wait to ask after cleaning up for Lin Bin: " There should be a lot of software talents in the Microsoft Asian Academy of Engineering, right?"

"Lu's richest man, don't you want to catch all the talents Microsoft recruited in Xia Guo?"

"No, Bill Gates and I are good friends. How could we do such an outrageous thing? At most, we can only poach half of the people. Let's keep a line of people. We will see each other someday."

"..."

Lin Bin couldn't laugh or cry, he felt sad for his former boss, met a friend like the richest man in the world, Mr. the world's richest man was really bad luck for eight lifetimes.

With the addition of Lin Bin, the research and development progress of the Hongmeng system has suddenly accelerated. In the field of scientific research, the role of geniuses is infinitely magnified. The role that a top talent can play is often greater than 100 or 1000 people, or even irreplaceable. of.

February 2006, 2, the fourth day of the Lunar New Year.

Lu Yiming received a call from Zhou Hongyi: "Happy New Year, Mr. Lu, are you free? Come out and get together."

"Okay."

The two made an appointment at a restaurant to drink morning tea together.

Because it was the Spring Festival period, the restaurant was buzzing with people, so Lu Yiming walked into the reserved private room, and Zhou Hongyi was already waiting inside.

Soon, he ordered a table of delicacies, including barbecued pork buns, rice rolls, crystal shrimp dumplings, dry steamed siu mai, glutinous rice chicken, custard buns, ginger milk, radish cakes, quicksand buns, and chicken feet.

The two chatted while eating, Lu Yiming asked: "The Chinese New Year is not at home resting, why did you come to see me?"

"I must have something to discuss with Mr. Lu."

Zhou Hongyi showed a flattering expression.

Lu Yiming looked disgusted: "I still like your rebellious appearance before, please recover."

Zhou Hongyi hurriedly begged for mercy when he heard the words: "Don't, I know I was wrong, Mr. Lu, you don't remember the faults of villains, so don't haggle over me."

"Wrong? What's wrong with you?"

Lu Yiming ate the barbecued pork buns and ordered two more bowls of Tianjiuchi, and then happily watched Zhou Hongyi sing in front of him.

Don't look at Zhou Hongyi as a technical school, but he is quite fierce in fights. This person is very aggressive by nature, the kind who dares to bark his teeth at anyone.

Otherwise, there would never be a 3Q war in history. A company engaged in anti-virus software dared to fight against the flourishing goose factory. Although it did not do it in the end, there are indeed few people with his courage.

If it was someone else, Zhou Hongyi might have turned his face when he rolled up his sleeves at this moment.

However, it is Lu Yiming who said this now, and his father who is the benefactor. No matter how upset Zhou Hongyi is, he can only keep his head low. He offered Lu Yiming a cup of tea and admitted his mistake: "I admit that I was a little bloated before. Don't worry, Mr. Lu, don't worry, I've reformed myself now."

After finishing speaking, Zhou Hongyi grinned and forced a smile towards Lu Yiming. Before, he thought that if he got into Yahoo, his career would be just around the corner, so he didn't pay much attention to Lu Yiming. He even thought that sooner or later, he would be able to replace him.

However, Lu Yiming is not the old Qin Shihuang, and Zhou Hongyi is not the young and vigorous King of Chu.

In August 2005, after 8 months in charge of Yahoo China, Zhou Hongyi parted ways with Yang Zhiyuan cursing and cursing many times in private, "Yang XX is a stupid X".

18 months, Yahoo forcibly wasted 3721 months of his good time. Originally, [-] company could still compete with Qiandu in the search field.

But after 18 months, 3721 can't even break one of Qiandu's fingers, so why is this so unreasonable?
So Zhou Hongyi and Yahoo, although they didn't fall out directly, they broke up unhappy.

And it was when he met Yahoo that Zhou Hongyi remembered Lu Yiming's goodness again. Although Lu Yiming's acquisition of 3721 was a "coincidental robbery", Zhou Hongyi made money after all, and during the operation, he did not like Yahoo. Neither give money, but also point fingers.

At any rate, Lu Yiming respected his founder's opinion and did not interfere with the company's personnel affairs.

But it was different in Yahoo. He, Zhou Hongyi, was nominally the president of Yahoo Xia Guo, and was in charge of the strategic formulation and execution of Yahoo and 3721.However, during his tenure, whether it was the launch of "Yisou.com" or the business of 1G free mailboxes, he was constrained by the head office.

If you spend a little more money, you have to report to the higher authorities first, and then wait for the approval. The time span is often several weeks, or even one or two months.

The efficiency of the Internet is calculated on a daily basis, and it can even be said that every second counts. With Yahoo's efficiency, Zhou Hongyi really can't bear it.

So after working for eighteen months, he just walked out on his own.

And after Zhou Hongyi left Yahoo, relying on some money in his hand, he changed his career like Lu Yiming and became an angel investor. He even officially joined IDG as an investment partner and successively invested in Xunlei, Discuz!, Cool Dogs and other very successful Internet companies.

Can watch others start a business, how can you enjoy your own business?
Zhou Hongyi, who couldn't bear the loneliness already, had a new idea now, so she ran from the capital to Baiyun to discuss with Lu Yiming.

"Mr. Lu, I have a bold idea."

"Old Zhou, our country of Xia also has a complete criminal law. The current situation is not as good as before. The Internet is not a place outside the law."

"..."

The corners of Zhou Hongyi's mouth twitched, but he was powerless to refute Lu Yiming's ridicule. After all, the things he did before, now, there is a high probability that he will really go in.

The reason why I didn't go in was because the law was not as good as before.

Seeing Zhou Hongyi's expression of choking to death, Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Okay, I'm just joking, tell me, what other ideas do you have?"

Zhou Hongyi said excitedly: "That's it. I think the current domestic antivirus software market is so chaotic that users are at a loss. Didn't you say you wanted to make a free antivirus software with me before?" Is it? I think it's a great idea, and now is the perfect time."

"I remember you scoffed at free antivirus before?"

"Ahem, I was too superficial at the time, but now I have figured it out, free antivirus is the future, this project is very interesting!"

Zhou Hongyi really thought so. The reason why he changed his mind was mainly because the number of Internet users in Xiaguo had soared, which made him see huge business potential.

What's more, Taobao and QQ both rely on the free model to kill the Quartet and acquire a large number of users, thus becoming the overlord in their respective industries.

It was only then that Zhou Hongyi started thinking about free antivirus. Although it was costly and risky in the early stage, the number of Internet users in China has exceeded [-] million, and the proliferation of online viruses and Trojan horses has made antivirus software a must. a necessity.

However, the antivirus software on the market costs dozens or even hundreds of dollars, and the antivirus capabilities are very limited, which cannot keep up with the speed of new viruses.

If there is an anti-virus software that is easy to operate and does not cost money, the number of installed machines will definitely be astonishing!
In the Internet industry, having users means having unlimited business potential.

Zhou Hongyi was quite well prepared when he came to see Lu Yiming this time, and explained to Lu Yiming the mode and idea of ​​anti-virus one by one.

Obviously, Zhou Hongyi had enlightened ahead of time and was about to set up Qihoo 360.

As the originator of domestic rogue software, Zhou Hongyi really understands Trojan horses and viruses, so his 360 antivirus is really powerful, and it is a model of "fighting poison with poison".

Lu Yiming looked at Zhou Hongyi with a smile: "You just smashed the pot of other colleagues after you finished your meal. Do you think this counts as murder and arson and being recruited?"

Zhou Hongyi replied with a sneer: "Boss Lu, I should tell the prodigal son to turn his back on money. From now on, I, Zhou Hongyi, will definitely be a law-abiding citizen."

"Okay, your project is good, I voted for it."

"Thank you, Mr. Lu!"

Zhou Hongyi's face was flushed. Although he drank morning tea and didn't drink alcohol at all, he was already a little drunk after successfully getting the angel round funds from Lu Yiming.

This is called wine is not intoxicating, everyone is drunk, and people are refreshed on happy occasions!

Soon, Zhou Hongyi took Lu Yiming's investment and his own money to establish Qihoo 360 Technology Co., Ltd., and became the chairman of Qihoo 360 himself. Later, he announced that he would use a free business model to promote A revolution in the antivirus software industry.

All of a sudden, there was an uproar in the country, and everyone thought Zhou Hongyi was crazy.

In particular, leading domestic antivirus software companies such as Rising and Jiangmin are even more confused. They don't understand what a "free antivirus" is.