Chapter 488 Xiao Ma seeks advice from Da Ma?

"I don't understand~!"

"Dong dong dong~!"

"I remember I told you before that if there is financial pressure, I can help."

"Why did you just sell the company?"

"Dong dong dong~!"

"And even if you want to sell, you can tell me in advance, right?"

"It's not like I don't have money~ and we're still friends!"

"Tell me~ why are you doing this?"

"Dong dong dong~!"

In the office, Chen Li scolded Brother Ma across from him and banged the table.

To be honest, his hands were numb from the action, but he still didn't stop doing this.

Because he really doesn’t understand!

It’s only eight million, and it’s not like he, Chen Li, can’t afford it now. If Brother Ma really decides to sell the company, then he, Chen Li, will definitely spend the money to buy Tengxun and OICQ.

But the problem is~ until the news came that Tengxun was sold, Chen Li didn't get any news from his netizen and friend Xiao Ma Ge.

This is why Chen Li was angry and angry, and also why Brother Ma was so embarrassed before.

"Old Chen~ It's really my fault for this!"

"But don't get angry yet~ Just listen to my explanation!"

"It was difficult to talk about this matter online before, so this time I came to Yanjing for business, I came over to explain this matter to you."

"Look at this first~!"

Brother Xiao Ma looked at Chen Li helplessly and pushed his laptop over.

"Haha~ Then I would like to listen to your explanation."

Chen Li smiled reluctantly~ After all, he really didn't understand why Brother Ma did what he did.

He has long expressed his interest in Tengxun, and he has a certain personal relationship with Brother Ma, so Brother Ma should give him an explanation both in public and private matters.

Then he saw the email open on Brother Ma's laptop.

"Your English is better than mine, so you don't need me to translate, right?"

Brother Xiao Ma stood up, walked to Chen Li's side, stretched out his hand and tapped the computer screen and said:

"It was because of this email that I sold the company as quickly as possible."

"We are friends~ so I won't hide it from you, and I can't hide it from you either."

"This email is genuine, I have confirmed it."

"And what is said above is actually true."

After saying these words, Brother Ma returned to the seat opposite Chen Li, picked up the water glass and took a sip of water.

At this time, Chen Li had already turned his attention to the laptop in front of him - no, it was the email on the screen.

Although this is an email, it is also a lawyer's letter.

To be precise, this is a letter from a lawyer on the other side of the ocean, the United States.

The person who sent this lawyer's letter to Brother Ma - no, it should be said to be a company, but a company in the United States called America Online.

Chen Li had some impression of this company, but he didn't think of it for a while, but when he saw the content of the lawyer's letter, he instantly remembered some information about the company.

America Online is the parent company of ICQ.

It is ICQ~not OICQ. The two seem to be very close, but they are not the same thing.

But in fact, there are many connections between the two.

ICQ~ is an instant messaging software launched by an Israeli company in 1996.

Once this software was launched, it received an immediate global response and quickly gained a large number of users around the world with its unprecedented creativity.

Even in Asia, where the Internet was not very developed at the time, the number of users in the market accounted for 70%.

Six months after its launch, this software became the most popular instant messaging software in the world at that time.

A year and a half later, in 1998, ICQ was acquired by America Online for a high price of US$280 million.

And it is said that in order to acquire the company, America Online paid an additional US$120 million to ICQ's founding team.

In other words, America Online spent a full US$400 million to acquire ICQ!

It is worth mentioning that the time of this transaction was 1998. You can only imagine how valuable this $400 million was!

And perhaps it was because of seeing this transaction that Brother Ma came up with such an OICQ at that time.

Yes~OICQ is actually a copycat of ICQ.

Even though OICQ and later QQ achieved far better results than ICQ, a copycat is a copycat.

No matter from the product concept or operation method, even the name has not been spared.

OICQ and ICQ have almost the same meaning as Master Kong and Shuaifu Kang later.

Of course, it’s actually understandable that Xiao Ma has done this before.

After all, this thing was originally designed to bid for network paging systems.

It doesn't matter if we choose a name like OICQ. Anyway, after the bidding is successful, the name will probably be changed by Party A.

I just didn’t expect that the bidding for this thing actually failed, and in the end, Xiao Ma and others had to run the project themselves.

At this time, ICQ, an instant messaging software, had actually entered the domestic market.

It's just that the computer Internet in China is not that developed these days, so ICQ doesn't look down on the domestic market at all, and has not made any adjustments to the domestic market.

So. At this time, OICQ appeared.

Perhaps they wanted to capitalize on ICQ’s fame~ Fujin News didn’t even bother to change the name and just continued to use the name OICQ.

To be honest~ At this time, Xiao Ma had no idea that OICQ would become a big hit.

The reason why they operate this software is actually to sell this thing after achieving certain results.

It's just that they didn't expect that foreign ICQ sold for 400 million US dollars, and their OICQ was actually lost.

But at this time, the Five Tigers of Tengxun were actually a bit stuck.

After all, after spending so much time, effort and money on it, it’s impossible to pay back the money, right?

So a few people just gritted their teeth and persisted until the beginning of the year. Brother Ma went to Yanjing to find people to invest or to see if anyone was interested in OICQ.

In his previous life, Brother Ma's trip to Yanjing must have been a failure.

After all, the domestic Internet industry is still in its infancy, and the domestic market for this so-called instant messaging software is not large.

There are not many personal computer users in the country, and the mainstream of the market is BBS and online chat rooms.

So no one is interested in this thing at all.

But this time, Xiao Ma's trip to Yanjing was obviously influenced by Chen Li, the butterfly.

Because Chen Li, the butterfly, valued OICQ, Ma Xiaoyun, an Internet upstart who was influenced by Chen Li, directly offered a high price of three million!

This little Ma is not a fuel-efficient guy. Looking at Ma Xiaoyun’s offer for three million, maybe someone else will offer a higher price later.

Although the cold reception later made Brother Ma somewhat sober up, it also made him realize that OICQ was not as useless as he thought before.

Otherwise, Ma Xiaoyun would not have been able to offer such a high price to acquire it.

So the five tigers of Tengxun gathered together another million and planned to carry on.

With this million, the development of OICQ naturally accelerated to another level, and then it was sued by ICQ.

Yes~ The email on the laptop in front of Chen Li at this moment is exactly the lawyer's letter sent by America Online to Tengxun.

The other party plans to appeal against the fact that OICQ plagiarized ICQ.

After hearing this, Chen Li finally understood why Brother Xiao Ma was selling so happily, and at the same time he also understood the tricks in it.

But he was even more confused.

Because this incident also happened in the previous life?

In the previous life, OICQ changed its name because of the lawsuit filed by America Online.

So isn’t this just a matter of changing the name? Why did you let Brother Xiao Ma sell the company?

Chen Li looked at the lawyer's letter and fell into deep thought.

He didn't ask Xiao Ma directly because he knew about the past life, but Xiao Ma didn't know!

Don't tell me~ Chen Li thought for a long time and really understood some of the tricks in this.
To be continued...