Chapter 419: 3721
"I see that you just came out of the venture capital company, are you starting a company by yourself?" Henry looked at Zhou Hongyi with a smile on his face, and asked in a slow tone.
Zhou Hongyi was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but look at Henry. Henry is 185cm tall, his face is biased towards American, his skin is fair, he looks resolute, sunny, handsome, and there seems to be a majesty between his eyebrows. The smile on the corner of his mouth was full of charm with a strong sense of confidence.
Zhou Hongyi looked at Henry for a while, and said in his heart, this is a face that can fascinate thousands of women!
"Yes, I started a new company with my relatives and colleagues, the full name is 3721 Technology!" replied Zhou Hongyi.
"3721?hehe, as expected!" Henry couldn't help but smile when he heard this.
As soon as Zhou Hongyi talked about his company at this time, the conversation box immediately opened, and he began to introduce his company in front of Henry and Lu Zhishan, "3721 technology company provides Chinese Internet access services, users do not need to memorize complex domain names, and directly enter Chinese name in the browser address bar, and they can go directly to the corporate website or find the company, product information, ......."
"Sounds interesting," said Henry, "hehe, if you don't mind, let's have a good talk at a café! maybe...... I would be willing to invest in your company!"
"Are you ......?"
"I, my name is William," Henry didn't want to reveal his identity for the time being, because 3721 was doing a search, and Isearch was also doing a search, so he deliberately said a fake identity. Immediately, Henry pointed to Lu Zhishan and introduced: "This is Uncle Lu Zhishan, the chairman of Mingyue Supermarket, and at the same time, my father-in-law!"
When Zhou Hongyi heard this, he couldn't help but be surprised, although he didn't know Lu Zhishan, but Mingyue Supermarket is famous, with a market value of tens of billions of yuan, and supermarkets are open all over China. In a word, it is very rich!
"Hello, Mr. Lu, it's a pleasure to meet you here. My name is Zhou Hongyi!" Zhou Hongyi's attitude was very respectful.
"I'm glad to meet you, young man," Lu Zhishan smiled faintly, "Look at you, you're only in your twenties...... Well, you can start your own business at a young age! Yes, yes, young and promising!"
"It's nothing. Our company is still short of development funds. So, I had to seek help from venture capital!" As he spoke, Zhou Hongyi's eyes burned at Lu Zhishan and Henry. When he learned Lu Zhishan's identity, Zhou Hongyi knew that he had met the financier, and as long as he grasped the opportunity, he might be able to get investment. Although Lu Zhishan is not very interested in his company, his son-in-law seems to be very interested!
Henry smiled: "In this case, there is a café in front of it, and we drink coffee and talk at the same time." ”
"Okay!" Zhou Hongyi nodded hurriedly in response.
After a few minutes, the three walked into the café and asked the waiter for three cups of fine coffee.
"Mr. Zhou, how many employees does 3721 have now?" asked Henry, "How's it going?"
"Counting me, there are only 25 employees in total, including 8 programmers!3721's main business is to provide 'network real-name' registration for the time being, each registration requires 100 yuan, and there are currently more than 800 users. Online real-name registration is just the beginning, and the ultimate goal of 3721's development is to use online real-name and then turn to Chinese search. ”
"Huh, the ambition is not small!" Henry said, "but as far as I know, Isearch has occupied an absolute monopoly in the Chinese Chinese search market. How does 3721 break this deadlock?"
Lu Zhishan had just picked up the coffee cup and was about to drink coffee, but when he heard their conversation, he couldn't help but be stunned. He looked at Zhou Hongyi with a strange expression. The big boss of the Isearch company sat opposite Zhou Hongyi. And he didn't know the details of Henry, and he still talked in front of his competitors, isn't this sending his head up to cut off?
Zhou Hongyi said confidently at this time: "Although it is not said to surpass Isearch, at least it can also steal a lot of market share from it!3721 In addition to the means of online real name, there is another trick! However, this requires your investment, I can only say!"
Henry pursed his lips and said in his heart, what means do you have, I don't know yet? Isn't it just a hooligan? Forced installation, not uninstalled! For example, when a user opens a certain web page or installs a certain software, the 3721 plug-in will be forcibly installed into the user's computer through various means such as bundled installation, and even professionals cannot completely uninstall it. At the same time, 3721 works with many personal websites that pop up 3721's window ads, some of which simply can't be closed.
Once 3721 becomes bigger and stronger, it will force other companies to buy its online real name. The 3721 network real-name is a little similar to Baidu's bidding ranking, that is, if you don't spend money to buy, then you can't search for content.
Speaking of which, 3721 has become a thriving Internet company in China by playing hooligans, and it should be regarded as the most powerful Internet company in the early stage. While other internet companies are struggling, 3721 has made a fortune.
It competed with 3721 and launched the Baidu Soba plug-in, adopting the same method as 3721 to brush hooligans, but it couldn't do 3721. Baidu can't do it, so it has to go home to find "mother" and sue 3721 in court on the grounds of abnormal competition, as if Baidu itself has not used hooligan competition methods......
However, although Baidu won, it was useless, and 3721 lost tens of thousands of dollars and sent Baidu away.
3721 occupies the absolute market, and at the same time, it is almost "the anger of people and gods". At this time, Yahoo threw an olive branch, and Zhou Hongyi didn't resist the temptation and sold it for $120 million. 3721 was then renamed Yahoo Assistant, but unfortunately, 3721 was tossed to death by Yahoo Inc. instead.
Tencent, Baidu...... Which company has not played hooliganism? Although Zhou Hongyi named the company 3721, he did not do it himself.
Regardless of his "three-seven-twenty-one", persistence is victory!
From the end of the 90s of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century, it was the best era of China's Internet, but it was also the most chaotic era. Seize the opportunity to achieve greatness.
At present, although Isearch search occupies the Chinese market, even Google has been jointly suppressed by Baidu and the Chinese government, and finally has to withdraw from the Chinese market. Henry didn't have much hope for Isearch either. Search is very important for a country. You can only watch what the state wants you to watch. If you don't want to see it, you must definitely ban it! To put it simply, it is to control people's minds!
Therefore, unless a foreign Internet search company is willing to become a tool of the Chinese government, the state will definitely find ways to get rid of your company...... From time to time, one or two policies will be introduced, and if you don't correct it, you will block the website, and if you do it a few more times, you must not be played to death!
Therefore, whether Isearch should bend and submit to the Chinese government is a question that makes Henry very entangled.
(To be continued.) )