"Thank you, Minister Hu, we will strive to live up to the high expectations of the ministry. Hu Yiting said perfunctorily, thinking that if you really value us and re-shine, how could you have such a moth at this juncture.

He knew in his heart that many of the officials' words were verbal checks, and promises made out of thin air could not be taken seriously, and in the face of these political figures, only a real exchange of interests was the basis for cooperation.

"Okay, you work hard, the future of China's electronics industry is yours. Minister Hu hung up the phone after speaking.

Hu Yiting put down his mobile phone and breathed a long sigh of relief, feeling that he was already sleepy.

Xiao Ma raised his eyebrows and asked, "Mr. Hu, are you done?"

"Well, our visit quota is back, all the core technical personnel on the plan list left for New York on the 17th, and the Chinese Consulate General in New York was responsible for the ground pick-up, visited Bell Labs on the 18th, and visited IBM's headquarters in Amunk, New York on the 19th. ”

"Great, I'll make arrangements to book flights and hotels early tomorrow morning. ”

"You've worked hard for the past two days. ”

"Where is it, Mr. Hu, you are a real genius, in these days, the more I come into contact with our products and technologies, the more I feel that you are our company's Einstein, von Braun, is the brain of our company, and the future of our company must be brilliant." ”

"Hehe, do you really think so?"

"To tell you the truth, last month, AOL's human resources manager came to me and wanted me to change jobs. ”

"Oh!?" Hu Yiting was taken aback.

Xiaoma smiled and said firmly: "But I refused! AOL offered me an annual salary of $300,000, and planned to invest $5 million in me to set up an instant messaging software company, saying that he was willing to give me 10% of the shares, and let me help them poach people from Chongguang Software and change jobs to a new company." ”

Hu Yiting stared solemnly at Ma Huateng and re-looked at the high-spirited 24-year-old young man in front of him.

Pony was a little embarrassed to look at him, lowered his head and continued: "To be honest, this treatment is very tempting, but I have a contract with Chongguang, and there is a competition clause in the contract that stipulates that I cannot join any IT company or engage in any software development work for three years after leaving the company, so I refused. ”

Hu Yiting smiled, and said that Xiaoma was also sincere, and it was estimated that if he hadn't put the terms of intra-industry competition into the company's standard contract, it would be difficult to ensure that there would be no chaos.

Xiaoma continued: "And I know that without Mr. Hu's technology, without our Chongguang currently more than 100 core patents on the QQ project, this company would not be able to do it, if you want to bypass our Chongguang This large number of instant messaging patents to start a new research and development, it will take at least one year to make a product, and in one year, the number of North American users of our Chongguang QQ will already exceed two million!" As you know, the number of QQ users in North America has exceeded 370,000 at the end of October, and AOL currently has more than 7,000 chat rooms and more than 400,000 registered members. By the end of the year at the latest, it is a certainty that the number of our users will surpass that of AOL!"

"You've done a great job! I assure you that the friendship between you and me is higher than your loyalty. You know, the reason why I chose you in the first place, and eliminated all interference to let you reuse you in one step, is because of the natural attraction between people, I think you are born to be a person who does business! This is fate! As long as I am at the helm for one day, you will always be the CEO of QQ! You know, QQ is a gold mine, if you leave, it must be that you are confused, there is no second reason. Hu Yiting praised the pony in a resolute tone.

Xiao Ma smiled heartily: "Thank you, Mr. Hu, although you are younger than me, I take your words seriously, and I will never forget them!"

Saying that, he swallowed his saliva and continued: "In my opinion, the core competitiveness of our QQ lies in user stickiness, as long as the user applies for a QQ number and makes friends, it is almost impossible to change the door, because this is equivalent to a person abandoning all his previous friends and immigrating to a strange new country." ”

"You said it very well, QQ is a way of life, a living environment, as long as we don't have problems ourselves, there is no reason for users to leave. ”

Xiaoma nodded and said, "Mr. Hu, we have an opponent now in Chongguang QQ." ”

"You mean Microsoft. ”

"Yes, they launched an MSN at the end of August, and now the number of users is growing rapidly, although it is not as good as us, but it is not to be underestimated. ”

"I know MSN, they are an instant messaging software based on a mailbox system, and in my opinion it is very flawed. First of all, they are bundled with the Microsoft operating system, which means that in the eyes of ordinary users, this is a paid software, and the price is included in the operating system. Secondly, I have already used this thing, and the experience is very poor! Not to mention the slow running speed, it also takes up a lot of system resources, because of the inherent deficiency of the mailbox, which causes it to drop frequently. Third, Microsoft designed the target at the beginning of the business crowd, I think this positioning is wrong, we QQ don't learn from their eyes, we have to lock up young people, seize young people, grasp the most ordinary public needs, this world is ours sooner or later. ”

In the face of Hu Yiting's leading 20 years of experience in guiding the country and talking eloquently, Xiaoma nodded frequently, admiring, and felt that Hu Yiting was really worthy of being a genius, not only with extremely vicious vision, but also with lofty ambitions.

Hu Yiting knew in his heart that when ICQ was launched, it was still in November 1996, when MSN had been online for 15 months, and the user stickiness was already very high.

But even in such a difficult situation, ICQ actually fought its way out, and the number of users exceeded 1 million in just 7 months, and two years later in 98 years, the number of users exceeded 10 million, which can be described as a head-on blow to MSN.

The tragedy of ICQ also happened in the 98th year of creating brilliance, the three founders of ICQ sold ICQ to AOL for 407 million US dollars under the temptation of money, and AOL, whose main business is chat rooms and access services, is extremely short-sighted, not only did not transfer the main business to the ICQ platform, but regarded ICQ as a money-making tool, and first inserted the hateful permanent advertising column in the software! In addition, in order to increase the search traffic of the US online portal in order to compete with Yahoo, a search bar was added to ICQ! It is no exaggeration to say that AOL single-handedly played ICQ to death, wasting this epoch-making instant messenger in vain, you must know that if it was operated properly, ICQ would have had the opportunity to become a monopoly software that dominated North America, just like QQ was to China in the future.

Thinking of this, Hu Yiting changed his words and said to Xiaoma: "You are now a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan, plus a monthly post subsidy of $3,000 for the position of CEO of the American branch, right?"

"Yes. Xiaoma licked his lips and added: "I think the company treats me well, and now Sister Wang is only 15,000 a month, and my income has doubled compared to Sister Wang." ”

Hu Yiting said: "It is true that you are not thin, and it will be better in the future, and the good ones are beyond your imagination! In my plan, Chongguang Software will be the first in the group to eat separately in the future." ”

Pony's eyes lit up, "You mean?"

"Well, when the number of QQ users exceeds 1 million, Chongguang Software will divide the stove to eat, I will give you the original shares, the company strives to go public, believe it or not, in 20 years, the market value of QQ will exceed 100 billion US dollars. ”

"Hahaha......" Pony thought Hu Yiting was joking, in his opinion, this was definitely Hu Yiting's joke.

"Mr. Hu, you don't need 100 billion, the market value can be 1 billion US dollars, if you give me 1% of the shares, it is already 10 million US dollars, I am content in this life, hahahahaha. ”

Hu Yiting smiled and said in his heart that in the future QQ in the Hong Kong stock market, the total market value is as high as more than 2 trillion Hong Kong dollars, which is 300 billion US dollars!