In the evening, Song Weiyang and Xiao Ma's car drove several Tencent shareholders out to dinner.

Brother Xiao Ma looked at the Hummer and said in surprise: "Old Song, you usually don't pull goods, how can you buy a pickup truck?"

Song Weiyang smiled: "Don't you think the pickup is very manly?"

Xiao Ma said: "I just want to spray paint the butt of your car and write the words '1 ton load'. ”

"Hahahaha, you're joking. Song Weiyang couldn't stop laughing.

Zhang Zhidong circled around the car and made no secret of his envy: "This car is really majestic!"

"When the company grows bigger in the future, I will also buy one, and it will definitely be very face-saving to drive it out. Xu Chenhua patted the car body and said.

Hong Weiguo and Song Weiyang sat in the front row, Zhang Zhidong and Xu Chenhua immediately got into the back row, and the blind monk and Chen Yidan could only sit in Brother Xiaoma's car.

Zhang Zhidong stroked the seat leather and said, "It's leather, it feels great!"

"It's not leather, it's artificial leather. Song Weiyang said.

Xu Chenhua was surprised: "Such a good car uses artificial leather?"

Song Weiyang said: "Alcantara artificial leather, Italian goods, is more expensive than genuine leather, and I spent 50,000 US dollars to have the original factory replace it." ”

"Awesome!" Xu Chenhua sat and shook his butt twice, and he didn't know if it was a psychological effect, anyway, he felt that this seat was very comfortable.

The car drove slowly in Huaqiang North, the sky was getting dark, the lights were on, the noise was like day, and the voices were boiling.

Xu Chenhua looked at the street scene outside the car window and said with emotion: "Huaqiangbei is getting more and more lively, and there were not so many people at night before." ”

"Next year may be more lively, and there will be more and more counterfeit mobile phones. Zhang Zhidong said.

Xu Chenhua smiled bitterly: "If it continues to develop at this rate, China may have a mobile phone in the future, and our paging system will die sooner or later." ”

Yes, at the end of 1998, Huaqiangbei was already making copycat mobile phones!

In the past, it was still a factory area, but it was in 1998 that Huaqiangbei began to transform into a commercial street. The electronics sales industry has a glimmer of sparks from the summer, and it burns vigorously in a few months.

By 1999, Huaqiangbei's electronic products would begin to burn the prairies. At that time, there were 280 million mobile phones sold worldwide, and there were 700,000 copycat mobile phones made in China, most of which flowed from Huaqiangbei.

To what extent was Huaqiangbei popular around 2000?

A big store needs to hire 60 salespeople. From 9 a.m. to 2 a.m., three shifts rotate shipments, and dealers from all over the country line up outside the store from morning to night.

At that time, a shop of less than 10 square meters in Huaqiangbei cost hundreds of thousands of yuan to buy. And this is still the market price, you may not be able to buy a shop even if you have money, and you have to spend millions of yuan to get someone else to sell it.

So, if you are reborn in the deep city in 1998, you have 1 million yuan in your hand and you don't know what to do. So don't be in a hurry to invest in Tencent, buy 20 shops with only a few square meters in Huaqiangbei, rent them out for two years and then sell them, 1 million yuan can become more than 20 million!

Everyone chose a roadside food stall, sat down around a small table, and directly asked the boss to bring two cases of beer.

Except for Hong Weiguo drinking tea, everyone else was full, and they touched a cup before the dish was served.

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Brother Xiaoma, a super old smoking gun, put down the cup and was in a hurry to disperse the cigarette. He lit one himself, happy like a fairy, swallowing clouds and spitting fog: "Let's talk about business first, and then talk about other things." How much money does Lao Song plan to invest?"

The other four shareholders also put away their other thoughts and looked at Song Weiyang together.

Song Weiyang said: "How about 5 million?"

"Tencent's registered capital is 500,000 yuan, and in the past few months, the messy revenue has been about 400,000 yuan, and Li Qinggang received an order of 300,000 yuan," Xiao Ma said, "If you invest 5 million, how to calculate this share?"

Yes, how to calculate shares?

Song Weiyang can't account for 80% of the shares all at once.

Although Brother Xiao Ma said that Tencent's revenue was 400,000 yuan in a few months, it was technically not profitable. Take Tencent's first business as an example, Hebei Provincial Telecom bid 200,000 yuan, and Xiao Ma took leave to fly four times before negotiating, and the round-trip accommodation, air tickets and other costs have exceeded 50,000 yuan.

Moreover, after the business was completed, no other company was willing to buy it. They can only reduce the price to 100,000, 80,000, 60,000...... In the end, I helped people to build a network paging system at a loss, just to earn a little maintenance fee.

Song Weiyang ate a chopsticks and fried Niu He, and said with a smile: "Just give me 15% of the shares." ”

Brother Xiao Ma said: "It seems to be a little less." ”

"We've known each other for several years, so we don't need to worry so much. Song Weiyang looked affectionate and righteous.

The five founders of Tencent present were greatly moved, and Zeng Liqing said: "Boss Song is righteous, come, this glass of wine is for Boss Song!"

"Well said. Song Weiyang raised his glass and said.

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5 million, a small amount, should be used as an emotional investment.

If you want too many shares, these guys probably don't have the enthusiasm to start a business, and it's hard to say whether they can focus on growing Tencent.

And with the development of Tencent, the 5 million fund will not last long, and Song Weiyang will have to invest in it at that time. At that time, it will be time for the brothers to settle the accounts, lest they treat Song Weiyang as an ATM, everything will go according to the procedure, and they will take as many shares as they want!

Brother Xiao Ma was very happy: "Since you have money, it is time for the company to move and change to a larger office." ”

It's not that Brother Pony loves face, but the office he uses now is the property of a Hong Kong City boss. The owner of the port city also makes pagers, and once dug Brother Xiao Ma at a high price, and learned that Brother Xiao Ma started his own business, so he rented the idle small room to Tencent cheaply.

This is obviously also an emotional investment, waiting for Tencent to go bankrupt, and then digging up Brother Xiaoma.

Who knew that Tencent had not collapsed for several months, and the owner of Hong Kong City was impatient and kept urging Brother Xiao Ma to move out. Historically, Tencent quickly moved to the next building, with an office area of more than 100 square meters, which is also a three-fold expansion of the company's size.

Zhang Zhidong said: "Also, recruit a few more programmers, now we don't have enough manpower." ”

"Yes, yes, there are not enough people," Zeng Liqing said, "You three, hurry up and quit your job." Now that Boss Song has invested, are you afraid that you won't be able to eat in the future?"

Xiao Ma said: "The programmer is ready-made, Lao Song still remembers Xiaoguang, Gangzi and Night Cat, right?"

"I remember, they were all station mates at the station, and they used to talk very well. Song Weiyang said.

Xiao Ma said: "They are also unhappy in the unit, as long as Tencent improves, they will definitely be willing to join us." ”

Xiaoguang, Gangzi and Night Cat are the first generation of programmers in QQ.

Zhang Zhidong is responsible for project schedule and cost management, Gangzi is responsible for writing background code, and Xiaoguang and Night Cat are responsible for writing the client.

Song Weiyang was most impressed by the night cat, after this person left the station, he set up a site called "Night Cat Inn", and sent an email to Song Weiyang to go to that site often to play.

In the following period, Tencent moved to the new building as a whole, and all five founders resigned, finally starting a full-time entrepreneurial career. Three new programmers have also arrived, and with the addition of five shareholders, the number of employees has finally reached eight.

At the end of November, QQ officially launched the public version and started the public beta.

The No. 1 QQ of the public beta was still given to Andy, the leading brother of China's Huiduo Network back then, so he naturally wanted to express his admiration. This guy is engaged in real estate in Shancheng, and he hasn't been bubbling on the Internet for a long time, and he has no connection with Song Weiyang.

Brother Xiao Ma is full of entrepreneurial energy, sending emails to former netizens everywhere to pull people to download and use QQ.

In order to increase the number of users, Xiao Ma also pretended to be a female netizen and went to major BBS forums and chat rooms. He first chatted with people blindly, all kinds of shyness and subtlety, and made male netizens confused, and finally said: "Oh, the chat room (BBS forum) is really inconvenient." I know there is a chat software called QQ, why don't you download QQ and let's talk in another place. ”

The legendary women's clothing boss!

Song Weiyang is pondering there, the QQ beta version came out in advance, can Brother Xiao Ma still know his wife through QQ?

Yes, Brother Xiaoma's wife met on QQ.

As for the so-called penguin princess Ma Manlin, she is not the daughter of Brother Xiaoma, and she has already refuted the rumors many times.