Du Qiu received an email from Chen Dayou the next day, and learned the details of his cooperation with AOL. He was quite impressed by his ability to take advantage of the situation. Because this guy asked AOL to preinstall iView, he not only did not pay any price, but instead got an advertising contract. He set up a product column for AOL on the iCard homepage at a discount of $30 for a thousand clicks.

This guy has a thorough understanding of the "Internet thinking" that I instilled...

It increased the number of customers, expanded its influence, and earned an advertising fee, which can be said to have three goals in one fell swoop...

In 2016, software companies had to pay a large amount of money to preinstall their products for promotional fees, but in 1995, the situation was the opposite. If operators and hardware manufacturers wanted to preinstall some kind of software, they had to pay the software companies in turn. So AOL knew that users did not like their Booklink browser, and they were unwilling to change it to Netscape-Navigator, because if they did that, they would have to pay millions of dollars a year.

So Du Qiu told Zhou Yuan that as long as NetView is still charging, it is not worth worrying, because the traditional business model will not work in the Internet era. After users are snatched away by the free iView, there will be no way out.

But Netscape also has a hidden secret because it has nearly 300 employees, and its monthly salary will cost millions of dollars. If it is free, it will go bankrupt in a short time. Snapdragon has only 6 formal employees in total, and its monthly salary expenditure is less than 10,000 US dollars, which is completely affordable.

After Snapdragon Software Company raised funds at the end of April, it divided the funds into two parts. The 7.8 million Chen Zhiyang obtained was left in China, and Du Qiu's 5 million was converted into US dollars through the investment bank in New York, and transferred it to the branch account in the United States. After having the money, Chen Dayou rented the second floor of Wei Zhiqin's garage as an office and living room.

Although doing this saves money, it is not a long-term solution after all. So when I heard that Microsoft was interested in acquiring the company, Chen Dayou gritted his teeth, found a relatively cheap office building, rented an office about 90 square meters, and then hired a beautiful blonde girl as a receptionist to keep the scene going.

However, to his great disappointment, Microsoft only sent two very low-level employees to negotiate. They neither visited the company nor inspected the technology, nor mentioned the acquisition. They only said they wanted to buy iView's closed source authorization, and the offer price was extremely low, only $200,000.

Although it is clear that Du Qiu could not agree to Microsoft's acquisition of Snapdragon, such a low offer made Chen Dayou feel a sense of arousal that I would shine on the moon, but Mingyue shines on the ditch. He felt that he was not worth it for his heavy bleeding and renting an office. So he turned a blind eye and asked directly: "You spent 2 million on Spyglass's browser technology authorization, but only gave 200,000 to us? Spyglass' technology is very backward and cannot be compared with us at all."

"We purchased technical licenses from Spyglass. Your iView browser is open source software. We have researched the technical aspects." One of the employees said with a clear sense of superiority: "Microsoft attaches great importance to copyright and is not interested in open source, so they just want to buy a closed source authorization letter. $200,000 is a very reasonable price."

Damn, do I know nothing?

Once you get a closed source license and create a twin brother, how can iView survive...

After Chen Dayou patiently sent these two unknown guys away, he immediately asked Zhou Yuan to return to his old business and spread the news that AOL and Snapdragon reached a strategic cooperation on the Internet in the form of a navy force, and was about to preinstall the iView browser for customers.

If Du Qiu's UN2758 is a small bait for fishing goldfish in the park, then AOL pre-installed iView browser is a super bait for fishing sharks in the ocean. It caught many big fish in one go. Chen Dayou quickly received hundreds of calls, including media reporters, venture capital managers, cooperative merchants, and even Netscape CEO Jim Buxdale.

Barksdale once again proposed the intention to acquire Snapdragon, and this time the offer was twice as high as the last time. The cash price was 4 million US dollars, plus the 6 million US dollars of Netscape stock. He even invited Du Qiu to replace Mark Anderson as Netscape's CTO.

The $5 million in March once excited Chen Dayou, but now he has opened his eyes and his mind has changed. 10 million can no longer satisfy his appetite. He rejected the proposal cleanly and neatly, and then waited for Microsoft to come to him again.

When Chen Dayou was busy in the United States, Du Qiu was also facing harassment from the media.

Du Qiu had seen many farces created by Taiwanese media before traveling through time, so he disagreed with reports such as "agents" and "killers". However, in 1995, many people in the mainland - including some official people - were not sure how low the IQ and moral integrity of those guys across the strait were, and attached great importance to nonsensical reports. So in the name of an interview, he sent Xinhua News Agency reporters who called Chiang Mai that day to Yuncheng.

"Mr. Du, my name is Liu Yunlai. We talked to each other on the phone last time."

"Mr. Liu, please sit down. Zhou Yuan introduced me to me and said that you are the master who brought him into the industry."

"I dare not take it, but I am a few years older, and I just do this job two years earlier than Xiao Zhou."

Liu Yunlai is a middle-aged man in his 30s. He is taller than Du Qiu, with a square face and thick eyebrows. He looks more like a gun, rather than a pen. After the greetings, he took out paper and pen and asked about what happened in Chiang Mai.

"When I returned from New York on April 18, I saw a travel magazine on the plane..."

"Mr. Du has high requirements for accommodation details, so before I went to Thailand, I specifically inquired about the room layout of Meiping Hotel through a travel agency..."

Du Qiu hosted Liu Yunlai in the dormitory where Chen Dayou lived before, accompanied by Jiang Danfeng. One of them spoke and the other added, and told the story of what happened in Chiang Mai during those days. Liu Yunlai almost didn't ask anything, just a simple record. After the end, he asked: "Mr. Du, Zhou Yuan said you have an article that you want to publish?"

"It's not a single article, it's a series." Du Qiu took out a bound manuscript and said: "I think the Internet is another revolutionary and great invention in human history after steam engines and generators. It will have a profound impact on many aspects such as politics, economy and technology. However, the country does not pay enough attention to it at present, so I wrote some popular science articles and wanted to find a place to publish it."

When Liu Yunlai took the manuscript, he counted it and found that there were more than twenty pages and tens of thousands of words. He said in surprise: "So many?"

"After I returned from the United States in April, I originally planned to write a book, but I didn't have time, so I wrote some small articles in the form of essays. Reporter Liu helped me see which ones are suitable for publishing."

In 1995, there were two very famous bestsellers, both related to the Internet. One was Bill Gates' "The Road to the Future" and the other was Nicholas Negroponte's "Digital Survival", which had a considerable impact at home and abroad. Du Qiu planned to use the trend of the two of them to make a similar bestseller.

Several books on Internet economics and sociology were stored in the smartphone. Du Qiu excerpted some chapters with good ideological and interestingness, combined with the future development of the Internet, and perfunctorily formed more than a dozen articles, intending to publish them first, and then make them into a collection to publish them, bewitching the ambitious bureaucrats in the telecommunications department to work hard and be used as cannon fodder for the development of China's Internet.

When Liu Yunlai opened the first article, he found that it was related to new online media. He was immediately excited because he was studying this area recently.

In the 1990s, not only local tabloids like Yuncheng Evening News had to transform into the market, but national authoritative media like Xinhua News Agency also had to transform into the market. They had established more than 200 subsidiaries, from real estate to pagers, and almost all business was done, but most of them were losing money, and urgently needed to find a reliable and generous way to make money.

There is a public relations company at the Hong Kong branch of Xinhua News Agency, whose manager is Ma Yunsheng. In 1994, he joined hands with two computer experts to develop a National Middle School Network project, intending to use Xinhua News Agency's political resources to build a network to isolate the domestic and international Internet. Users must pay before they can browse the filtered and filtered Internet information.

This plan is very stupid, but it is a monopoly-type hot commodity in the eyes of bureaucrats. In order to realize this plan, Xinhua News Agency specially registered and established China International Network Communications Co., Ltd., referred to as CIC in Hong Kong, and then obtained US$25 million in startup capital from some business tycoons in Hong Kong.

However, in January 1995, Jingcheng and Pujiang successively launched international Internet access services, which disrupted the plan at once. So CIC planned to change Guozhong.com to a network that specializes in providing economic and financial information for domestic business users. However, in this way, it clashed with international giants such as Dow Jones, Reuters and Bloomberg. These three companies have a very wide influence in the political and economic fields. The pressure and condemnation every few days made Xinhua News Agency tired and embarrassed.

Liu Yunlai once stayed in Hong Kong and knew the predicament of CIC, so he attached great importance to Du Qiu's article. After reading it, he flew back to Beijing that night.
Chapter completed!