At this time, the sad rain man sent a confession.

"Xiaoxue, I've found that the two of us can talk quite well these days, and we even have a good screen name, or you will be my girlfriend?"

Ma Huateng's head was big for a while.

He discovered a pattern, whenever he pretended to be a woman and chatted with a male netizen for two or three days, the other party would definitely confess to him and let him be his "girlfriend".

Are these male netizens so lacking in love?

However, judging by the data, this should indeed be the case.

At this stage, there are hundreds of thousands of registered OICQ users, and the background shows that 70% of the users are male, which is the absolute majority.

There are about 10,000 daily active users every day, and 78% of them are men!

At the same time, there were about 3,000 people online at the same time, and 75% of them were men!

And the only thing these male users do after going online is to chat with female netizens.

In this way, female netizens are stretched.

After all, the ratio of women to men is 1:3, that is to say, a female netizen must chat with at least three male netizens, so that male netizens will not find someone to chat with.

Some male users couldn't find female netizens, and soon gave up the product and never logged in again, which made Ma Huateng very depressed.

In desperation, he could only mobilize everyone, use all the available time, disguise himself as a female user to chat, and ask for nothing else, just to prevent users from losing quickly.

That's the bitterness of entrepreneurship.

And that's just one of the many bitternesses.

The greater bitterness is the lack of money.

Because there is no money, the current OICQ, on a technical level, is like an overloaded and broken bus.

The car is too broken, so it can't pull too many people, and it can't load too many goods, and it will often be overloaded, almost to the limit, and if it exceeds a little more, it will have to stop eating.

At present, the maximum load capacity of OICQ's servers is 6,000 people online at the same time.

With more than 6,000 people, the server carrying capacity will be cool.

Moreover, these 6,000 people are online at the same time, and the chat is not so dense, but if the chat information is too dense, the server bandwidth will not be enough.

Once the server is not moving, or the bandwidth is full, all users will be affected.

For example, information delay, stuck, or even unable to send and receive messages, and in serious cases, many users will even be squeezed out of the line.

These situations have a significant impact on the user's experience.

It stands to reason that this is the most taboo thing to do products, but Ma Huateng has no choice.

On the one hand, he hopes that OICQ's users will continue to grow, but on the other hand, he is worried that if he grows by another thousand days, he will have to buy a new server.

But now, he basically can't afford to buy a new server.

Because OICQ does not have any profit model now, from the establishment of the company to the present, the books of Tengxun are only in and out.

Employee salaries, office space rent, office computers and other equipment purchases, server purchases, bandwidth usage fees, every expense is constantly consuming what little savings he has.

Don't talk about the family environment of a well-off family, this year, the family has tens of thousands of deposits and is already a well-off family, and more than 100,000 are rich households, but as far as the cost of Tengxun is concerned, hundreds of thousands of dollars are not visible at all.

Ma Huateng has been throwing money and money since he started his business, and the foundation of the original well-off family is basically lost by himself.

Seeing that a company, a product, and hundreds of thousands of users have been smashed, it is uncomfortable that you can't earn a penny back.

It's like opening a bus company.

There are more and more passengers in the car, and more and more vehicles, drivers, conductors, and dispatchers are needed.

On top of that, there are a lot of fuel costs and maintenance costs every day, and the larger the scale, the higher these costs.

But the most important point is that passengers don't have to spend money on the bus......

As a result, the entire company becomes a bottomless pit that burns money.

No one knows when it will burn to a head.

However, Internet companies are not bus companies yet.

People have the habit of taking the bus to buy tickets, but they don't have the habit of chatting online and still buying tickets.

Even if Ma Huateng wants to sell tickets on OICQ, he can't find an entry point at all, and if he forcibly sells tickets, users will definitely run out.

At first, he tried to sell some ads, but the advertisers were not interested in OICQ at all.

This is mainly because OICQ's daily activity is too small and too scattered, and local advertisers are very weak to invest in it, maybe there are not even 100 local people who play OICQ every day, and large national enterprises do not look down on him at all.

Seeing that OICQ has become a gold-swallowing beast, Ma Huateng's mentality has long been a little unstable.

He has been trying to raise money, but no one wants to invest in him after a lot of talk and a lot of words.

Because everyone thinks, what's the use of your thing chatting online?

In their eyes, OICQ is just a gossip on the Internet, they don't feel much fun, they don't feel any future, and the most important thing is that there is no business model.

Other operators' text messages are charged at least a dime.

It's good for you, you don't ask users to collect money, and you have to build all kinds of costs yourself, who dares to invest in this kind of stupid business?

Later, Ma Huateng thought to himself, just sell this OICQ.

Sell to mature online platforms, such as Sohu or something, or sell to state-owned enterprises, such as telecommunications or something, and let them be an online tool, right?

But as a result, other big companies are not interested.

The mentality of big enterprises thinks that you dare to ask for millions of dollars with a broken program?

Don't say you can't see anything awesome about this thing, even if it is, I'll let my programmers develop one based on the gourd drawing scoop, why buy you? The key is that I don't even bother to copy you.

Now, OICQ is in the hands of Ma Huateng, and it can't be sold, and the investment can't be brought in, and it is almost to the point of exhaustion.

He and his team have started borrowing money from all over the world in order to keep the company running, but the amount of money they can borrow is limited, which is a drop in the bucket for the entire company.

In this case, I have to take the time to pretend to be a female netizen and chat with a male netizen every day, and the irritability can be imagined.

Seeing that he didn't reply to himself, the "sad rain listener" sent another sentence: "Xiaoxue, don't have too much pressure, I just want you to be my girlfriend online, if there is a chance in the future, we can meet, if you think I'm not suitable, we can separate at any time, what do you say?"

Ma Huateng felt as disgusting as if he had eaten a fly.

But he can only reply directly to the other party according to the example of the script he accompanied the chatter: "I'm sorry to listen to the rain man, although I have a good impression of you, but I'm not ready to fall in love now, give me some time to think about it, okay?"

Although it feels disgusting, I can't refuse myself, because once I refuse, I may lose one daily active user.

"Okay, I'll wait for you to think about it!"

The other party really didn't lose heart immediately, after all, it seems that the female netizen has a good impression of herself, and she is willing to consider it, she still has a chance!

At this time, several more greeting messages were sent, and the dripping voices in his ears continued one after another, making Ma Huateng a little overwhelmed.

He rubbed his temples and thought to himself, if we might as well be here tonight, I really couldn't talk anymore.

If I continue to talk like this, I'm afraid I'm going to be schizophrenic.

At that moment, he heard a coughing sound coming from his headphones.

He couldn't help but feel a little big-headed.

Another male netizen has added himself, it's really annoying!

Generally, new netizens add themselves, and they have to pass everything as soon as possible and chat with others first, because this kind of person who comes up to add people is likely to be new users.

If a new user comes up and finds that the addition does not pass, and the other party does not speak, eighty percent will lose interest in this software.

So, he immediately clicked on the little trumpet that flashed, thinking that he would see verification applications such as "Hello Beauty!" and "Chat with Beauty!", but after a closer look, he suddenly became excited.

"Hello, I am an angel investor and am interested in OICQ. ”

"Angel investors?!"

When Ma Huateng saw these five words, his heart was excited.

During this time, I found many so-called angel investors, but they were not angels at all, let alone investing, they didn't even have a good face, and some even ridiculed themselves.

Now, there are angel investors who have taken the initiative to come to the door, is this about to come to work?

After calming down, he suddenly hesitated, could it be a prank?

He looked at the other party's information, Jeremy Xu, and left an email address, which seemed to be quite the case.

Then, he thought to himself, whether it's true or not, there's nothing to lose by chatting.

So he clicked pass.

At this time, Xu Yiyang was in front of the computer, looking forward to it with his hands folded.

He expects this pony to be able to apply through his friends as soon as possible, and everyone will quickly talk about the investment.

If it's okay, I'll take the time to sign the contract, pay the money, and then make the industrial and commercial changes, and the rest will wait for the Tengxun rocket to ignite.

After waiting for a few minutes, a prompt popped up on the computer: PONY has passed your friend application!

Xu Yiyang was so excited that his heart was about to jump to his throat.

He immediately opened the dialog box and said, "Hello, are you the head of OICQ?"

Ma Huateng received the message and replied: "That's right, I am, may I ask who you are?"

"My surname is Xu, and I am currently in the education industry, and I am interested in investing in some Internet companies. ”

Ma Huateng hurriedly replied excitedly: "Hello Mr. Xu! My surname is Ma, my name is Ma Huateng, you can call me Ma." ”

Xu Yiyang: "Hello Mr. Ma, I am very optimistic about you, and I am also very optimistic about your OICQ, and I have the idea of investment, so I want to know, has your OICQ been invested now?"

"Not yet. "We are currently looking for the first round of funding. ”

Xu Yiyang asked: "Is there a financing plan? If it is convenient, please send a copy to my mailbox, I want to read it first." ”

"Yes, no problem, you give me an email address, I'll send it to you now. ”

Although the business plan is also considered confidential information of the enterprise, because it is made for investors to see, Ma Huateng knows that he cannot hide it from investors.

However, he was also a little worried.

I can't find investors everywhere, why did one suddenly pop up on the Internet?

As soon as he came up, he said that he wanted to invest in himself, and he asked for a business plan, what if this person was a liar? If it is a competitor, what should he do?