Perfection of Rebirth

Chapter 142 Happiness Comes So Suddenly
At the welcome banquet in the evening, a vice president of Penguin came, plus Manager Gao, Manager Xu, and Penguin Game Platform's project leaders responsible for "Happy Farm" and "Happy Fighting the Landlord", a total of six people.

I ate at a Hong Kong-style restaurant. Shenzhen is close to Hong Kong, so both food and working methods have been greatly affected.Everyone chatted about some local customs and interesting things that happened recently, but no one mentioned work.

After eating and confirming the meeting time for the next day, Jiang Hui went back to the hotel.

The Penguin headquarters is now in the Fiyta Building, and several floors are rented for office work. The Penguin Building built by the company will not be completed until 2009, and there is no shadow yet.

After breakfast at the hotel, Jiang Hui took a taxi to the Fiyta Building. Manager Gao was already waiting in the lobby.Jiang Hui followed Manager Gao to a conference room on the tenth floor. Not long after he sat down, Boss Ma entered the conference room with several people.

Although the Penguin Company was co-founded by Boss Ma and five other people, there is only one soul of the company, and that is Boss Ma.

Speaking of which, Boss Ma is a legend. After graduating from Shenzhen University in 1993, Boss Ma entered a company in Shenzhen and started working as a software engineer. In 1997, Boss Ma got to know ICQ for the first time.As soon as we met, he was attracted by its infinite charm, and immediately registered an account.But after using it for a period of time, he felt that it would not be easy to popularize ICQ with English interface among Chinese users.So he thought, can he make a Chinese version tool similar to ICQ? In November 1998, Boss Ma and his classmate, Boss Zhang, registered Penguin in Shenzhen and decided to develop a Chinese ICQ software.Since then, he has embarked on the journey of entrepreneurship.

Like other Internet companies that have just started their businesses, capital and technology are the biggest problems for Penguin. "First, there is a lack of funds, but the funds cannot keep up with the software." In early 1999, Penguin developed the first "Chinese flavor" ICQ, which was welcomed by users.When Boss Ma was in trouble for funds, he came up with the idea of ​​selling Penguin, and negotiated with four companies successively, all of which ended in failure.Boss Ma had to go around to raise money. In the second half of 1999, from the United States to China, the Internet began to heat up. Inspired by his old friend Boss Ding’s overseas financing, Boss Ma took a business plan that had been revised six times and had more than 6 pages and started looking for foreign venture capital. I met IDG and Yingke Digital, and they gave Penguin an investment of 20 million US dollars.From then on, a new round of entrepreneurship began.

Since the launch of "Happy Farm" and "Happy Landlords", the number of Penguin registrations and game users has increased rapidly.As of today when Jiang Hui came to negotiate, the total number of registered users of Penguin is 3.21 million, the number of active users is 1.05 million, the highest number of simultaneous online users of Penguin Communication is 1690 million, and the highest number of simultaneous online users of Penguin Games is 578 million, making it the largest casual game portal in China.

"Mr. Jiang, you are really young and promising. You have created Xiaonei and developed many popular games in a short period of time. You are the savior of our Penguin game platform." After Boss Ma walked into the office, he quickly came to Jiang Hui. He said while shaking hands with Jiang Hui.

"Before I came to Shenzhen, I still thought I was great, but when I saw you, Mr. Ma, I felt ashamed. Penguin earned more than 3 million yuan last year, right? But Xiaonei is still a grassroots team. There is no formal office space," Jiang Hui said with a smile without saying a word.

"When I was a computer major at Shenzhen University, I only thought about dealing with various viruses, and I often did some pranks of locking the hard disk in the computer room. Unlike you now, you started your own business when you were a freshman, and you still do it. It’s impressive,” said Boss Ma.

"Let me tell you, Mr. Jiang and Mr. Ma are not simple. They belong to the heroes among men and the red rabbits among horses. There is a saying: counting the most romantic people, let's look at the present," Manager Gao said.

"Mr. Ma, I actually envy you very much. The current Penguin company not only has the veterans when it was founded, but also a group of outstanding talents. The future of Penguin is limitless," Jiang Hui said.

"Mr. Jiang is too humble. Now the most limitless thing is your brilliant game. I really don't have the same vision as you. When Manager Gao signed the contract with you years ago, he also reported it to me. At that time, the Penguin game platform The total number of users of all games is less than 100 million. Although I am also very optimistic about the creativity of these two games, I never thought that "Happy Farm" and "Happy Landlord" would be so crazy, and they would develop like a rocket. ", Boss Ma said.

"The rapid development of these two games is due to the large platform of Penguin. "Happy Farm" is also available on Xiaonei, but the number of registered people on our entire Xiaonei is currently only a few million, which is far from Penguin's [-] million. So it is my good fortune that Brilliance Games met Penguin Company," Jiang Hui said.

"Does Mr. Jiang have any thoughts on the future development of Brilliant Games? According to the contract, now Penguin pays 1.2 million cash and 30% of the game revenue to Brilliant Games," Boss Ma said.

"For now, let's focus on web games. I just launched "Angry Birds" on Xiaonei. It is still in the state of a grassroots team, without even a formal office, the next step is to improve the situation first, Jiang Hui said.

"Actually, the development of Xiaonei.com is already on the right track. The more people the Internet company has, the better it is. The key is to have good ideas and core talents; office buildings are not expensive to rent, and they don't need 1.2 million. That's a lot of money. Has Mr. Jiang thought about making good use of this money?" Boss Ma said.

Jiang Hui felt that today's drama should be coming up.

"I would like to hear more about it. What's your opinion, Mr. Ma?" Jiang Hui said.

"Actually, I think so, and I don't hide from you. Penguin is preparing to go public in Hong Kong. It is currently optimizing the composition of shareholders. We are not short of money, but we lack the confidence of investors in us. Now "Happy Farm" And "Happy Landlord" let Penguin find a new profit direction, which is very good for enhancing investor confidence. Investors have confidence, the company's valuation will be high, and it will be able to raise more funds when it goes public. Funds. Has Mr. Jiang ever considered joining Penguin?" Boss Ma said.

"How do I join? Does it mean that I will work for Penguin or become a shareholder of Penguin?" Jiang Hui said.

"If Mr. Jiang is willing to come to Penguin, I agree with it with all my hands, but I don't think you will be willing to come. I suggest you consider investing in Penguin," said Boss Ma.

Happiness comes so suddenly!Jiang Hui suppressed the surprise in his heart.

(End of this chapter)