Tencent has an office with an area of more than 30 square meters. There are all bosses sitting in it, there is no serious staff, and the cleaners are looking for property management every week to solve the problem.

Even, three of Tencent's five founders are still working in the original company. Because the future of the company is uncertain, it is possible to say that the gang will be disbanded, and you have to keep your previous job, at least you can leave a way out for yourself.

When Song Weiyang came to Tencent, there was only one person in the company: Zhang Zhidong.

Zhang Zhidong was frantically typing on the keyboard to write a program, and when he heard the sound of the door, he didn't raise his head and said, "Li Qing is back?"

Song Weiyang smiled: "The blind monk went to the jungle again?"

Zhang Zhidong realized that he had recognized the wrong person, and looked up and asked, "Who are you looking for?"

"I'm looking for a pony. Song Weiyang said.

"The ponies won't come until after work, so you can wait. Zhang Zhidong said and continued to type on the keyboard.

Song Weiyang was not polite, he directly turned on a computer, dialed up the Internet and began to soak in the chat room, and scolded a group of sand sculptures.

Suddenly, the blind monk who had gone out to fight in the jungle returned.

As soon as Zeng Liqing entered the company, he shouted: "Lao Zhang, I have pulled the order! Shencheng Information Port promised to let us make a mailbox system, and the quotation was 300,000 yuan, a full 300,000 yuan!"

Yes, Tencent is robbing NetEase of business again, and they find that it is very profitable to make an email system, so they use their previous personal relationship to receive email orders.

"Really?" Zhang Zhidong stood up suddenly, and if there was no income, the company would be unable to open the pot.

Zeng Liqing found out that there were two strangers in the company, glanced at Song Weiyang curiously, and asked, "Lao Zhang, these two are customers?" ”

Zhang Zhidong said: "I'm looking for the pony." ”

"Looking for Brother Xiaoma?" Zeng Liqing immediately reacted, "You are Song Weiyang Boss Song!"

"Hello. Song Weiyang said with a smile.

Zhang Zhidong also suddenly came back to his senses, shook hands again and again, and said: "Boss Song, I was sloppy just now, disrespectful, disrespectful!"

Song Weiyang is definitely a big man in today's Internet industry, and he has single-handedly held Sohu.com, and in the minds of all Internet entrepreneurs, he belongs to the existence of the top big boss.

This year's top 10 commercial websites in China are Sohu, Sina, 163 E-mail, NetEase, Net China, People's Daily, Shenghai Hotline, aByte, Capital Online, and Yahoo China. They are all news and information portals, with almost no profit model, and they only focus on traffic, and the content is secondary. Some rely on the proprietor to support development, some rely on angel investment to grow, and some rely on the founder to program to make web pages to survive.

Lianzhong Games has been created, but it is unremarkable. The Cardinal Sect Master has also begun to make a navigation website, named 3721, which can only be regarded as a gadget. As for the Sogou search founded by Ding Ming, after a period of exposure, it has become obscure again - although many netizens are using Sogou, it is still not favored by the industry.

In these days, portals are king!

Brother Xiao Ma is very low-key, although he has a good personal relationship with Song Weiyang, he never shows off everywhere, and only occasionally mentions it to one or two friends.

Including Zhang Zhidong and Zeng Liqing, they all know that Brother Xiao Ma knows Song Weiyang. But what's the use of getting to know each other? They never expected that the well-known Song Weiyang would actually visit Tencent's broken company in person.

Zeng Liqing was more active, and after chatting casually, he pulled Song Weiyang to look at the computer, pointed to a piece of software and said: "Boss Song, this is the 'wireless network paging system' we developed, which can connect pagers and Internet users. Our system has a lot of features that allow users to send messages to pagers online without having to make a phone call. There is also an email paging service, where users can see their email subject and part of the content on the pager. There is also a network secretary service, where users can enter their daily itinerary on the Internet, and the network secretary will send the schedule to the pager at a set time. By the way, we also have a virtual paging service, users don't need to have a real pager, friends can call the pager directly to the pager and send the message to your email. This system is very practical, if Boss Song is interested, we Tencent welcome you to invest. ”

"You Tencent, are you stumbling with a pager?" Song Weiyang couldn't help but laugh.

In a few years, no one in China will use pagers, and Tencent's development direction is unique enough.

Zeng Liqing said: "Wireless network paging system is our main business. We also have other businesses, such as helping people make mailboxes, such as helping people make web pages, and our company's technology is very powerful!"

Song Weiyang said, "I heard that you made a Chinese version of ICQ?"

"Oh, you're talking about OICQ," Zhang Zhidong said, "that program is still in internal testing, constantly adding new features, and it is more suitable for Chinese than ICQ." Just purchase our wireless network paging system and we will give away the OICQ applet for free. ”

Song Weiyang said: "In other words, OICQ is not open to the public, but only an internal product for the paging station?"

Zhang Zhidong said: "We are also preparing to launch a public version, which has been put on the company's agenda. However, this thing has no future, there are many similar products, and there is no profit point at all. ”

As early as 1997, there was a Chinese version of ICQ in the bend, called CICQ. This year, CICQ launched a Chinese Simplified Chinese version and changed its name to PICQ in the mainland. At the same time, similar software has also appeared on the mainland, called "Internet Elf".

In Xiao Ma's usual style, ICQ abroad has made so much money, how can he not pay attention?

Before founding Tencent, Xiao Ma planned to make a Chinese version of ICQ, but after discussing it with many colleagues, everyone thought that it would not make money.

But why did Little Pony do it again?

This has to start with Huadu Telecom, which announced a tender news and wanted to buy a live chat tool similar to ICQ. Brother Xiao Ma was worried that the company had no business, and while developing software, he ran to bid, but the result was naturally no play - Huadu Telecom had already selected a collaborator, that is, the bent company, and the public bidding was just a procedure.

Song Weiyang opened the OICQ internal testing program and registered an account with the number 10006. After using it casually a few times, Song Weiyang asked with a smile: "If this thing is changed to a different computer, is the friend list that I added before still there?"

Zhang Zhidong said: "Of course there is no more, it must be added again." ”

"Why don't you make an online chat tool that allows you to see your friends even if you change computers?" Song Weiyang said.

Zhang Zhidong said: "Then you have to rent a server, it costs money." ”

Song Weiyang was speechless and said: "This reason is very true. ”

After chatting for a while, the other three founders of Tencent finally came in full swing. They usually have to go to work, and only after work or on weekends will they come to their company to work.

Of course, you can fish during working hours.

Brother Xiao Ma often works in the paging business of Runxun Company, taking other people's salaries, using other people's phones, and doing telemarketing for Tencent all day long.

"Boss Song, why are you here in person!" Chen Yidan and Xu Chenhua were also surprised.

Coupled with Brother Xiaoma, Tencent Five Tigers are these five.

Song Weiyang pointed at OICQ and said with a smile: "Brother Xiaoma, if you give me No. 10001, I will agree to invest in Tencent." ”

Brother Xiao Ma said indifferently: "You can take it if you don't invest." ”

"I'm serious. Song Weiyang said.

"Are you really willing to invest?" said Xiao Ma excitedly.

Brother Pony is not stupid, judging from the situation in the past few months, the wireless network paging system is a joke. Now that he has lost confidence, he really doesn't know what to do, Song Weiyang's investment is equal to great news, at least he can maintain the company's temporary immortality.

The other four founders also looked at Song Weiyang nervously, they had invested all their net worth, and they had long been looking forward to someone to take over.

Song Weiyang said: "I can invest in Tencent, but Tencent must give up the paging business and specialize in OICQ in the future." ”

Brother Pony asked, "Are you really optimistic about online instant chat programs?"

Song Weiyang said: "When ICQ first appeared abroad, I talked to you online, and this is a big potential market. However, if you want to beat similar domestic products, you must make improvements. ”

Brother Pony said, "Tell me about it." ”

Song Weiyang said: "First of all, the smaller the program, the better. Nowadays, the Internet speed in China is extremely slow, and many people use Internet cafes to access the Internet, and the Internet fee is very expensive, and it only takes one or two hours to surf the Internet at a time. I just looked at the size of your program, no, by the time the user has downloaded it in the Internet café, it has not yet started the Internet chat, and it has already arrived in an hour or two. ”

Brother Xiao Ma nodded: "It really should be improved." ”

Song Weiyang added: "Also, China is different from the United States. Many Internet users in the United States have their own computers, so they don't care too much about losing their friends list if they change computers. As for China's Internet users, most of them surf the Internet in Internet cafes, and only chat tools that do not lose their friends list can eventually win the market. ”

"That's the truth. Little Pony said.

Song Weiyang continued: "Also, the name OICQ has been changed, which is too awkward to read. ”

Brother Xiao Ma smiled: "Then you come and take a Chinese name." ”

Song Weiyang said: "I don't need a Chinese name, just call it QQ." ”