From 2000 to 2004, the cold winter of the Internet, in China, was finally used by Gu Kun to perform several sacrificial knife operations, drawing the strongest voice of the times.

Since then, Gu Kun has never interfered with the specific operation of the invested entrepreneurs in the cold winter period of the past few years, and the values have been anchored to ensure that the general direction of the investment project does not deviate, and the specific operation is not the responsibility of a layman like Gu Kun.

Of course, even if Gu Kun did not intervene, the progress of the business in the past few years has been very stable, and those entrepreneurs who are favored by Gu Kun are working hard.

In 2002, the most popular crowd network game Bao boss, in the three years from 02 to 04, the business has grown more than three times the scale every year, and the revenue in 04 has been ten times that of 02, from five or six billion yuan, to 7 billion yuan!

However, Boss Bao's business is not the most imaginative, because he is only in a period of pure financial inflation, and there is no new business model, and he may not be able to step on the transformation of netizens' game preferences-

Gu Kun didn't interfere with the other party's business, and he didn't bother to take the initiative to remind Boss Bao that "with the improvement of computer performance and network speed performance, players' preference for online games will upgrade from 2D games like Legend to 2D games like Miracle MU." After all, history has changed, and the development speed of China's Internet-related industries has indeed accelerated, maybe the future world will not need this step of miracles, and will directly enter the Warcraft category from the legendary category?

The most critical reason is that Boss Bao is just a defensive pawn of Gu Kun after all, and the money he earns is all a head, and there is no other resource to replace.

In contrast, although Ma Feng's Ahri Baba has never had any growth in profitability, the expansion and imagination of the business are as amazing as history, and even more amazing than the same period in history.

Because Alipay, a payment tool, was born in advance, and it began to accumulate users in the second half of 2001. By the end of 2002, the number of Alipay users reached as many as 3 million, all of which were in the mode of paying monthly account fees and engaging in MAC address binding anti-theft.

Especially in the second half of 02, as the group of Internet café owners across the country has basically become Alipay users, and those domestic self-employed groups who want to travel to Lanzhou to obtain visa convenience, they have also joined a considerable part of it, Ma Feng finally thought of developing Alipay users to the traditional B2B e-commerce supplier users of Ahri.

In the second half of 02 years, most of the "Chinese suppliers" on Ahri Baba have also become users of Alipay, and have obtained "margin authentication", which is equivalent to the operation of the real-name system plus V in later generations, which can increase the credibility of the information posted by certified corporate customers on the Internet. Alipay has grown from 2 million users to 3 million users, and finally the extra 1 million are almost all corporate customers across the country who have opened accounts on Ahri Baba.

Such a number of users and such a popularity rate have made Ma Feng's retail e-commerce ambitions germinate earlier than the same period in history. Ahri Baba started to develop an application called "Taobao" at the same time from the second half of 02, which is equivalent to at least five months earlier than the original history.

But don't underestimate that this is only five months, because the birth of Taobao in the original history was based on some public health safety incidents in early 2003, and then it was a temporary decision (at least it temporarily strengthened the originally vague and hesitant long-term goal, and made up its mind to do it immediately).

So when Taobao first came out in history, the public health incident was almost over, and the user experience of the early version was not good, and there was not much development in 2003, until the end of 04 After Alipay came out, Taobao was considered to have entered a period of full-speed development.

And now, although it is only five months in advance, it has made Taobao, which has just been born, catch up with the pain point of "many cities have to stay at home and it is inconvenient to go out to shop", and has firmly picked up a handful of online shopping wool that is just needed, so that the growth rate of Taobao's early users can be said to have soared.

Especially because in this life, Alipay was born earlier than Taobao.com, Alipay has been used to sell point cards, books, and online B2B e-commerce sample order payment for nearly two years, and the payment tool is already very mature.

At the same time as Taobao was launched this time, Alipay's technology has been iterated to the level of "no need to bind MAC address, users only need to download it on the website by themselves, and bind a bank card, you can use it", and the security factor is basically the same as the level of the end of 04 and the beginning of 05 in the history of another time and space.

In this way, Taobao will have a complete Alipay that can be used as soon as it is launched, which is even more powerful.

Afterwards, Ma Feng also showed Gu Kun the user growth data of Taobao and Alipay. Gu Kun glanced at it and roughly estimated that in the middle of 2003, when the public health and safety incidents of that year subsided, the scale of users and the number of stores were basically equivalent to the level of the original history in early 2005.

In other words, it took Taobao half a year to complete the road that originally took two years to develop in history, and it was two years ahead of the pace of development.

The online shopping habits of the Chinese people in this life in 03 years are already equivalent to 05 years in later generations.

A series of chain reactions have made the growth flywheel of Ahri Baba and Alipay stronger and stronger, step by step. Originally, it may not be until 2007 to go to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for the first time IPO, but now it seems that according to this growth momentum, it will be able to go public by 2005.

You know, 2005 was just the end of the Internet winter. If the history has not changed, the domestic Internet companies that can be listed after 01 and before 05 years have only Shengda (04 years) and Du Niang (05 years) who do online games.

Now Gu Kun invests in more than 30% of the shares, Ahri Baba was able to IPO in 2005, which further strengthened his prestige in the rivers and lakes, and made his urban legend as the godfather of business in the Chinese world further thunderous and sung to future generations.

Of course, the historical Shengda online game can also be listed in 04, and now the other giant in the online game industry, Zhonglian Games, is of course not difficult.

As a result, as the wheel of history entered 2005 and the cold winter came to an end, the world discovered that among the top three giants in the Chinese Internet circle, there was already a Huang Yi of Ding Sanshi, which was indirectly controlled by Gu Kun during the cold winter (Gu Kun did not wash Ding Sanshi's shares, but completely washed the shares of News Corporation, that is, the Fox Department of Oceania, and the shares of Huang Yi held by Murdoch in history were all in Gu Kun's hands)

In addition to the first three giants, among the last four dragons newly listed in 04/05, that is, Zhonglian, Shengda, Du Niang, and Ahri, there are actually Zhonglian and Ahri, both of which are Gu Kun as the largest shareholder.

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