Chapter 381 Chen Li’s overall plan

At Yanjing Airport, Chen Li saw off Ma Xiaoteng and Zeng Lijing who were returning to Shencheng.

The two came to Yanjing with the idea of ​​selling Tengxun and OICQ, but ultimately failed due to price reasons.

Hmm~ In fact, it can't be regarded as a return without success. After all, Ma Xiaoteng met another netizen, and Chen Li and him can now be regarded as friends.

In China, there is a saying that many friends lead to many paths, so this time Ma Xiaoteng can't be regarded as fruitless.

The reason why I say this is because Chen Li told Ma Xiaoteng when he left.

If there is anything we can help with in the future, we can help each other.

This sentence may be just a polite remark in the eyes of others, but to Chen Li, it has his own purpose!

The Tengxun duo came to Yanjing this time, and they were reluctant to sell OICQ and Tengxun because of the price.

They even plan to raise funds themselves to support it a little longer, and then talk about selling it when OICQ’s users reach a certain level.

But Chen Li knew very well that in a few days, Ma Xiaoteng would probably regret not agreeing to Ma Xiaoyun's acquisition conditions during this trip to Yanjing.

Now~Tengxun and OICQ Ma Xiaoyun are still willing to pay 3 million for the acquisition, but if it takes another half a year, Ma Xiaoyun may not be willing to pay this price.

You don’t even have to wait half a year. Once MSN is launched in July, Tencent’s OICQ will be greatly affected.

Yes~ Even though MSN had to wait until 2005 to officially enter the country, its influence did not need to wait until 2005.

In fact, MSN entered the country a little late. If MSN had entered the country when it was first released in 1999, there might not have been anything wrong with Tencent.

This is not to say that MSN is more popular than QQ, nor is it to say that MSN is better to use than QQ, but that Microsoft and Tencent are not on the same level at all.

After all, this enemy is Microsoft, the same company that gave birth to the world's richest man.

In addition, Microsoft is still a giant in the IT world, and it is simply a super platform that scares countless people. Such an enemy entering China with an MSN that has already achieved success overseas will simply make countless people shout "Wolf is coming!"

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But what about actually?

When MSN entered the domestic market in 2005, the market for instant messaging social software had already been almost divided up by Tencent and other products.

But even so, MSN still set off a wave of waves in the domestic market at that time, and was particularly popular among some social elites, especially white-collar workers, and its market share once reached the second-ranked level.

Although it was second, the gap between second and first was quite big. In the end, MSN only persisted for less than ten years and then directly withdrew from the Chinese market.

To say that it has persisted for ten years is to say that, in fact, MSN has been beaten by Tencent in just three years after entering the domestic market.

After all, when MNS officially announced its entry into the domestic market in 2005, it was facing Tengxun, which had just gone public and raised funds.

And at that time, Tencent had already established a firm foothold in the online game industry, and its development speed could be said to be rapid. No matter how strong Microsoft's golden brand was, and even MSN still had a huge user base overseas, it was nothing in China.

Especially the negative news that appeared when MSN was competing with QQ for a while, especially the joke that "those who use MNS look down on those who use QQ" Well~ This is not actually a joke, these things did actually happen at that time

Passed.

MSN initially gave people the impression that it was more relevant to the workplace, and most of its users were white-collar workers and other social elites.

In fact, the reason for this situation is that in the early days when MSN did not enter the Chinese market, only those corporate elites who needed to deal with foreigners would use it.

Also affected by this, when MSN entered the domestic market, it quickly became popular among a large number of "white-collar workers."

At that time, white-collar workers were not as cheap as they would be later. The income and social status of white-collar workers at that time were indeed much higher than those of ordinary people.

Unlike the later white-collar workers, they were known as "white-collar workers", but in fact the money they earned was probably not as much as others delivering food, so they later came up with the name "gold-collar worker"!

So at that time, compared to QQ used by ordinary Internet users, MSN seemed somewhat "high-end".

But this kind of high-end is not a good thing, especially MSN is a pure instant messaging software, which is not as good as QQ that keeps pace with the times in terms of functionality and entertainment.

You must know that the positioning of white-collar workers is very limited, and in terms of functional design, MSN's office efficiency may not be higher than that of QQ. However, this positioning also caused MSN to lose a large number of potential users.

In fact, these users are the main force of the domestic Internet, that is, young people!

And losing these young people means losing the future, so MSN has only one final outcome. That is to be eliminated!

Of course, this is the future development of MSN and QQ, but until this result is announced, no one in the social field can ignore the golden brand of Microsoft.

So after Microsoft announced the launch of MSN, almost all social software was affected.

The most typical one is ICQ, which was acquired by an American company.

Later, it was said on the domestic Internet that QQ defeated ICQ, and this thing was just treated as a joke.

In fact, ICQ was defeated by MSN!

In fact, before the emergence of OICQ, the predecessor of MSN and QQ, there was only one king in the field of instant messaging, and that was ICQ!

Moreover, ICQ actually entered the Chinese market, but the ICQ at that time did not launch the Chinese version, so this was the later OICQ.

OICQ is based on ICQ, and it is also a Chinese version. Naturally, there are not many people who choose the original ICQ.

In overseas markets, MSN easily defeated all other instant messaging social software at the time by virtue of its binding to Microsoft systems.

Seeing this scene, does it feel familiar?

That's right~ In fact, Microsoft also engages in bundling, and they do it so smoothly that they get sued every day!

Therefore, the MSN that Tengxun faced at that time was not just a cat or a dog.

In fact, when Microsoft launched MSN in July 1999, the software swept the global instant messaging software market with lightning speed.

If Microsoft had not paid attention to the Chinese market at that time, and there were some corresponding domestic policy protections, it is estimated that Tengxun would not have been able to do it at all.

But no matter what, in the end, Tengxun won the final victory in the Chinese market and became the giant of the domestic Internet.

As for Chen Li, who has the memory of rebirth, it is naturally impossible for him to give up this opportunity.

In fact, when Ma Xiaoyun proposed to acquire Tengxun, Chen Li was extremely worried. He was worried that due to his influence, Tengxun would actually be sold.

You know, he has already lost Ali Baba. If he loses another Tengxun, he will be really speechless.

Chen Li knows very well that although it is the same software, if different people are responsible for the operation, the final results may not be the same.

Tengxun in the previous life eventually became a Fortune 500 company in the hands of Ma Xiaoteng, and Ma Xiaoyun’s Ali Baba was also a Fortune 500 company.

But let Ma Xiaoyun manage Ma Xiaoteng's Tengxun. Let alone the Fortune 500, whether it can do it well is a big question.

Different companies, led by different people, take completely different paths.

Although both of them were leaders of Fortune 500 companies in their previous lives, if they were to change positions, they might not be able to succeed.

So after Ma Xiaoyun and Ma Xiaoteng broke up, Chen Li was still very happy.

But he didn't take advantage of this opportunity to take action, not because he didn't want to, but because he couldn't!

There are many reasons, the biggest one being that Chen Li has no money.

To be precise~ Chen Li now has no money left on hand!

System Xiaomeng plundered almost all the money he earned from using the Y2K patch. Ideal Fried Chicken did have 2 million US dollars, but that money had already been planned accordingly.

However, even if Chen Li has money on hand now, he will not directly acquire Tengxun.

Even if it is an acquisition, he will only acquire a part of the shares, and the remaining shares must be left to Ma Xiaoteng and others.

Only in this way will Ma Xiaoteng and others continue to stay in Tengxun, otherwise Ma Xiaoteng will sell out to Tengxun and go do something else.

So~ the best solution now is for Chen Li and Ma Xiaoteng to continue to maintain a good relationship.

Because there is a big problem in this, and that is that today’s Tengxun is actually not at the point where it must be sold.

This time Ma Xiaoteng came to Yanjing to take action on Tengxun and OICQ. The biggest reason was not even because of financial problems.

Although funding constraints are one of the problems Tengxun currently encounters, it is not actually the main reason.

The biggest reason is that the OICQ software was originally designed to be sold.

Just like Ding Sanshi designed a free email system and sold it to other companies, the OICQ that Ma Xiaoteng and the others tinkered with was actually for sale.

However, Tengxun failed after participating in the tender.

In other words, the OICQ they designed was a hit.

To put it bluntly, the biggest reason why they operate OICQ is that this thing has not been sold.

But the product has been designed, and since it can’t be sold, we have to make it ourselves first.

While doing it, looking for buyers at the same time, this was the original idea of ​​Ma Xiaoteng and others.

Originally, Ma Xiaoteng and others did not have much confidence.

Although ICQ sold for nearly 300 million U.S. dollars, Ma Xiaoteng and others also knew that theirs was not the same thing as others.

They had some thoughts at first, but after hitting the wall one after another, they seemed a little discouraged.

However, meeting Ma Xiaoyun this time can be said to have given Ma Xiaoteng and Zeng Lijing enough confidence.

They felt that since Ma Xiaoyun dared to ask for three million, it meant that there was a market for this thing.

So~ they decided to keep going!

Their decision caused Chen Li's original plan to take the opportunity to spend a small amount of money to invest in shares to be aborted.

Chen Li originally thought that Ma Xiaoteng and the others did not sell Tengxun and OICQ this time, but Tengxun still had some minor financial problems.
To be continued...