Du Qiu received an email from Chen Dayou the next day, learned the details of the cooperation with AOL, and admired his ability to take advantage of the fire, because this guy asked AOL to pre-install iView, not only did not pay any price, but got an advertising contract, at a preferential price of $30 per thousand clicks, set up a product column for AOL on the iCard homepage. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This guy understands the "Internet thinking" I instilled in me very thoroughly......

Increased the number of customers, expanded the influence, and earned a sum of advertising expenses, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone......

In 2016, software companies wanted operators or hardware manufacturers to pre-install their products, and had to pay a lot of money as a promotion fee, but in 1995, the situation was the opposite, if operators and hardware manufacturers wanted to pre-install a certain software, they had to pay the software company in turn, so AOL knew that users didn't like their Booklink browser, and they didn't want to change to Netscape-Navigator, because in that case, they would have to pay millions of dollars a year。

Therefore, Du Qiu said to Zhou Yuan that as long as Netscape is still charging, there is no need to worry, because the traditional business model will not work at all in the Internet era, and after users are snatched away by the free iView, there will be only a dead end.

After raising funds at the end of April, Snapdragon Software divided the funds into two parts, Chen Zhiyang got 7.8 million yuan to stay in China, and Du Qiu's 5 million yuan was converted into dollars through the investment bank in New York and transferred to the account of the branch in the United States.

Although this saves money, it is not a long-term solution after all, so when he heard that Microsoft was interested in acquiring the company, Chen Dayou gritted his teeth, found a relatively cheap office building, rented an office of about 90 square meters, and temporarily hired a beautiful blonde girl as a receptionist to prop up the scene.

However, to his great disappointment, Microsoft only sent two low-level employees to negotiate, neither touring the company, nor inspecting the technology, let alone the acquisition, only saying that they wanted to buy iView's closed-source license, and the price was very low, only $200,000.

Although it is clear that Du Qiu is unlikely to agree to Microsoft's acquisition of Snapdragon, such a low price makes Chen Dayou feel a sense of grievance that I would have liked to illuminate the moon, but Mingyue shines on the ditch, and feels worthless for his behavior of renting an office heavily, so he is not polite, and asks bluntly: "You spent 2 million to buy their browser technology license from spyglass, and only give 200,000 to us?" ”

"What we bought from Spyglass is a technical license, and your iView browser is open source software, and we have studied the technical aspects. One of the employees, with a clear sense of superiority, said: "Microsoft takes copyright very seriously and has no interest in open source, so it just wants to buy a closed-source license, and $200,000 is a reasonable price." ”

, when I don't understand anything, do I?

Once you get the closed-source license and make a twin brother, how can iview still live......

After Chen Dayou patiently sent these two unknown guys away, he immediately asked Zhou Yuan to return to his old business, and spread the news that AOL and Snapdragon had reached a strategic cooperation on the Internet in the form of a water army, and was about to pre-install the iView browser for customers.

If Du Qiu's UN2758 is a small bait for goldfish fishing in the park, then AOL pre-installed iView browser is a super bait for shark fishing in the ocean, and many big fish were caught at once, Chen Dayou soon received hundreds of phone calls, including media reporters, venture capital managers, cooperative merchants, and even Jim Bucksdale, CEO of Netscape.

Barksdale once again proposed to buy Snapdragon, this time at a price twice as high as the last time, $4 million in cash, plus $6 million in Netscape stock, and even invited Du Qiu to replace Mark Anderson as Netscape's CTO.

The $5 million in March once made Chen Dayou excited, but now that he has opened his eyes and changed his heart, 10 million can no longer satisfy his appetite, so he rejected the proposal very cleanly, and then waited for Microsoft to come to the door again.

While Chen Dayou was busy working in the United States, Du Qiu was also facing media harassment.

Du Qiu had seen a lot of farce in the Taiwanese media before he crossed over, so he was not impressed by reports that he was slandered as "agents" and "killers," but in 1995, many people in the mainland -- including some official figures -- did not know how low the IQ and integrity of those guys on the other side of the strait were, and they attached great importance to nonsensical reports, so they sent the Xinhua News Agency reporter who had called Chiang Mai that day to Yuncheng in the name of interviews.

"Mr. Du, my name is Liu Yunlai, and we had a phone exchange last time. ”

"Mr. Liu, please take a seat, Zhou Yuan introduced me and said that you are the master who brought him into the industry. ”

"I don't dare to be it, it's just that I'm a few years older, and I did this job two years earlier than Xiao Zhou. ”

Liu Yunlai is a middle-aged man in his 30s, taller than Du Qiu, with a square face and thick eyebrows, looking more like a man with a gun than a pen.

"When I returned home from New York on April 18, I saw a travel magazine on the plane......"

"Mr. Du has high requirements in terms of the details of accommodation, so before I went to Thailand, I specially inquired about the room layout of Meiping Hotel through a travel agency......

Du Qiu entertained Liu Yunlai in the dormitory where Chen Dayou lived before, accompanied by Jiang Danfeng, one of the two of them gave a lecture and the other supplemented, telling the story of what happened in Chiang Mai in those days, Liu Yunlai almost didn't ask anything, just a simple record, and asked after the end: "Mr. Du, Zhou Yuan said that you have an article you want to publish?"

"It's not an article, it's a series. Du Qiu took out a bound manuscript and said: "I think the Internet is another revolutionary great invention in human history after the steam engine and generator, which will have a profound impact on politics, economy, science and technology and many other aspects, but China does not pay enough attention to it at present, so I wrote some popular science articles and wanted to find a place to publish them." ”

When Liu Yunlai took over the manuscript, he counted it, and found that there were more than 20 pages, tens of thousands of words, and he was a little surprised: "So many?"

"After I came back from the United States in April, I originally planned to write a book, but I didn't have time, so I wrote some small articles in the form of essays, and reporter Liu helped me see which ones were suitable for publication. ”

In 1995, there were two very famous bestsellers, both related to the Internet, one was Bill Gates's "The Road to the Future" and the other was Nicholas Negroponte's "Digital Survival", which caused a lot of impact at home and abroad.

Du Qiu excerpted some of the more ideological and interesting chapters in the smart phone, combined them with the future development of the Internet, and perfunctory them into more than a dozen articles, which he planned to publish, to bewitch the ambitious bureaucrats in the telecommunications sector to work hard and become cannon fodder for the development of China's Internet.

Liu Yunlai opened the first article and found that it was related to online new media, and his spirits immediately lifted up, because he was studying this aspect recently.

In the 90s, not only local tabloids such as "Yuncheng Evening News" had to transform into the market, but also national authoritative media such as Xinhua News Agency had to transform into the market, with more than 200 subsidiaries, doing almost everything from real estate to pagers, but most of them were losing money, and they urgently needed to find reliable and lucrative ways to make money.

In 1994, the Hong Kong branch of the Xinhua News Agency had a public relations company with a manager named Ma Yunsheng, who joined forces with two computer experts to launch a plan for a national network, intending to use the Xinhua News Agency's political resources to build a network to isolate the domestic and international Internet.

In order to realize this plan, Xinhua News Agency deliberately registered and established China International Network Communications Co., Ltd. (CIC) in Hong Kong, and then obtained $25 million in start-up capital from some business tycoons in Hong Kong.

However, in January 1995, Beijing and Pujiang successively opened international Internet access services, which suddenly disrupted this plan, so CIC prepared to change the national network into a network dedicated to providing economic and financial information for domestic commercial users, but in this way, it clashed with international giants such as Dow Jones, Reuters, and Bloomberg, these three companies have very extensive influence in the political and economic fields, and the pressure and condemnation from both ends in three days made Xinhua News Agency exhausted and embarrassed.

Liu Yunlai had stayed in Hong Kong and was well aware of CIC's predicament, so he attached great importance to Du Qiu's article, and after reading it, he flew back to Beijing that night.