Thursday, August 17, 1995, the day before the opening of the first China Internet Conference. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Lei Jun stuffed a few folded changes of clothes into the suitcase, closed the lid, and closed the zipper, and suddenly a sad mood surged out in his heart, and he couldn't help but sigh softly.

Mrs. Zhang Tong, who was standing in front of the wardrobe sorting out his belongings, turned her head to look at him and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing. Lei Jun sat down on the edge of the bed, and said with some interest: "I begged Bai Jun to call me last night, saying that Zhang Xuanlong went to Cloud City this time and was going to sell Jinshan to Snapdragon." ”

In the impression of many people, the famous Kingsoft was founded by Qiu Bojun, but in fact, Kingsoft was originally a company established in Hong Kong in 1973 by Zhang Kaiqing, a returned overseas Chinese, and was managed by his son Zhang Xuanlong after the 80s.

Zhang Xuanlong has a very business vision, in Zhongguancun just established when to invest, and Sitong Group to sell 286 compatible machine, is one of the earliest compatible machine manufacturers in China, in 1988 because of a printer driver software to know Qiu Baijun, so he invested in him to develop Kingsoft Hanka and WPS1.0, and then cooperated with Founder Group, defeated Lenovo and giant and other competitors, occupied the dominance of the domestic word processing software market, and became a star product in domestic software.

In 1994, Founder Group invested in Hong Kong Jinshan, reorganized and established Founder (Hong Kong), before the reorganization, Zhang Xuanlong gave Qiu Baijun a villa worth 2 million, and funded him to establish Jinshan Computer Co., Ltd. in Zhucheng, nominally the two of them each accounted for half of the shares, but obviously, as an investor, Zhang Xuanlong has more say in the company's major decisions.

At the end of 1991, Lei Jun, who graduated from university for only half a year, got acquainted with Qiu Baijun, who had achieved fame at that time, and was highly appreciated by him, went to Zhucheng for internship in January 1992, joined Jinshan in July, returned to Zhongguancun in August to found Jinshan Jingcheng R&D Department, in July 1994, the R&D Department was upgraded to Beijing Jinshan Software Company, Lei Jun was only 25 years old as the general manager, and received a Jetta sedan presented by Qiu Baijun, which can be described as a young ambition and high spirits.

However, the world is impermanent, only a year later, the initial high spirits turned into discouragement, because it took three years and spent more than 2 million funds to develop the "Pangu module" after it was launched in April, the response was far less than expected, and the reputation and sales were very bleak, which put Jinshan in a predicament.

On the one hand, Microsoft's aggressive blocking, on the other hand, Snapdragon's poaching at any cost, the company is panicked, the prospect is bleak, and it is reasonable for the big boss to want to sell the stop loss, but Lei Jun has been in Jinshan for 4 years, and has invested a lot of effort and emotion, and it is difficult to accept the fate of being acquired for a while.

"What do you say?"

"Microsoft opened a high salary of 700,000 a year to poach him, and he is still thinking about it. ”

"So much?" Zhang Tong was surprised and said: "Microsoft is worthy of being an international giant, with deep pockets, and this salary is almost equivalent to the total salary of the six gentlemen of Snapdragon." ”

"Snapdragon is also recruiting him, and his salary is not as high as Microsoft's, but he has option dividends. Lei Jun was silent for a few seconds, and then said: "Qiu Baijun doesn't want to work for the Americans, and he is not sure about the future of Snapdragon, so he has been hesitating, he plans to go to Cloud City to have a look first, and then make a decision." ”

Compared with Qiu Baijun, Zhang Tong was more concerned about her husband's future, and she asked while packing up her scattered personal belongings: "Last time, Du Qiu said that if he acquired Jinshan, he would ask you to be the general manager of the Beijing R&D Center, which is at least ten times larger than now, right?"

"He said ten times is ten times?" Lei Jun was a little disapproving, and said: "Kingsoft Hanka and WPS software sold more than 200 million last year, and when Founder and Kingsoft merged, they bought 50% of the shares for only 40 million, and the valuation was only 80 million, and Snapdragon only sold $4 million of products to Microsoft, and it could be valued at more than 2 billion? I don't believe it." ”

"Those venture capital companies in Silicon Valley think it's worthwhile, what's the use if you don't believe it, and don't you admire Du Qiu's technical strength there?"

"I have nothing to say about technology, I just think he is too impetuous, so happy, he wants to do everything, not focused enough, and he hypes it in the media as soon as there is a stir, computer software is not a health care product, technology first, as long as the product is done, someone will naturally buy it, what's the use of engaging in those gimmicks?"

If Du Qiu was present at this time, it was estimated that his jaw would fall to the ground when he heard this, you must know that Xiaomi is one of the companies that are best at gimmick marketing more than ten years later......

"Didn't you reflect a few days ago that Pangu didn't sell well because the marketing didn't do a good job?"

"That's different, we have already made the product, the marketing has not kept up, they have no shadow of the product, and they start to engage in marketing ......"

The husband and wife were gossiping, but they heard a knock on the door outside, Zhang Tong said: "It is estimated that my colleague is here, you go and open the door, and I will be fine immediately." ”

Zhang Tong and Lei Jun are college classmates, both graduated from Jiangcheng University with a major in computer science, and are currently working in Founder Group, while Jinshan and Founder have very close business ties, in the 90s, state-owned enterprises have housing benefits, and many people have not yet bought a house, so the husband and wife have been living in Founder's collective dormitory building.

Lei Jun walked out of the bedroom, opened the door, and saw a guy with a small flat head and glasses outside, this person had met at a dinner before, named Zhou Hongyi, like himself, also from Hubei Province, a new employee who had just joined the Founder Group in July this year, and worked in the same department as Zhang Tong.

Zhou Hongyi is not tall, only about 1.7 meters, carrying a bulging backpack, looking a little top-heavy, he is very emotional, and he is a little impatient to say: "Lei Jun, are you ready? ”

"Come in first and sit for a while, Zhang Tong is packing up his things, and it will be fine immediately, a few minutes. Lei Jun beckoned him in and casually asked, "What's your name on Cfido?"

"Cfido is so outdated, I rarely go to it, and I usually go to Snapdragon's BBS. Zhou Hongyi was a little proud, and said with a smile: "I wrote a post about software engineering on BBS, and Du Qiu thought it was a good write, so he replied to the post and asked for contact information, and then personally called me to visit Snapdragon." ”

What's the big deal about Du Qiu calling you......

When Lei Jun was studying at Jiangcheng University, he not only won several national and provincial competition awards, but also developed encryption software, antivirus software and commercial works such as Hanka, and wrote two programming books in his spare time after joining Jinshan, which were published by Jingcheng University Press and Qingcheng University Press, with his early 20s, he is definitely talented and has extraordinary achievements, and there is no talent who is not arrogant, so he is not very cold to Du Qiu, and even has a bad impression of Zhou Hongyi, thinking that he is too superficial.

After Zhang Tong packed up his bits and pieces, Lei Jun drove the Jetta car sent by Bai Jun to the location of the office building of Jinshan Company in Beijing, where he planned to gather with other netizens, and then take a chartered flight to Cloud City.

Beijing has superior conditions, colleges and universities gathered, is the city with the strongest Internet atmosphere in China in 1995, this time a total of more than 100 netizens want to go to Cloud City to participate in the Internet conference, Liu Yunlai in Du Qiu's support, in line with the idea of making a big news, directly chartered a Boeing 737 plane, the netizens who have enough time to gather together and send them to Cloud City, as for other scattered netizens, the itinerary is self-determined, and then reimbursement of air tickets or train tickets will be made after arrival.

Located in a small four-story red brick building near the east gate of Renmin University, the mottled and yellowed exterior walls, dimly lit corridors, and the gender-shared toilets hidden at the corners of the stairs are similar to the small red building where Du Qiu lived when he was working as a notepad at Yuncheng University, and belong to the same era.

When Lei Jun and others arrived, there were already many netizens gathered in the Xiaohong Building, and the commotion was very lively, but fortunately, there were a few people wearing Snapdragon company's cultural shirts to maintain order, but it was not chaotic.

Zhou Hongyi saw that the leader was a beautiful woman with long hair and a shawl, with a pretty face and a gentle temperament, which was very eye-catching, so he asked: "Is that a piece of maple leaf love?"

Piece Maple Leaf Love is Jiang Danfeng's screen name, but it is limited to the dragon's sky BBS, and the pinyin abbreviation dfeng is used on Cfido, because Cfido does not support Chinese ID, Kingsoft Company has not yet opened the Internet, Lei Jun rarely goes to BBS, is not familiar with it, and asks: "Who?"

"Jiang Danfeng, Du Qiu's female secretary. ”

Lei Jun has never seen Jiang Danfeng, but he has seen this beauty, and introduced: "Her name is Dai Yi, she used to be the secretary of Snapdragon CEO Chen Dayou, and now she is the assistant to Liu Yunlai, vice president of Snapdragon." ”

"Yes? There are so many Snapdragon beauties. ”

Zhou Hongyi was very interested in Dai Yi and ran over to talk, at this time a taxi drove at the mouth of the alley, and two men walked out of it, Lei Jun knew that one of them was wearing a short-sleeved polo shirt Wang Zhidong, the general manager of Stone Lifang, and the other person with long hair, wearing a floral shirt, dressed like a rock star, did not know.

"Mr. Wang, I heard that you went to the United States for an inspection last month, when did you come back?"

"Just came back the other day. ”

"Are you also interested in the Internet?"

"I went to the United States this time to open my eyes, and I felt that simply making software was outdated, and the Internet was the future development trend, so I planned to visit Cloud City to see how Snapdragon did it. Wang Zhidong chatted with Lei Jun with great interest for a while after going to the United States to investigate his experience, and introduced: "This is Zhang Chaoyang, a postdoctoral fellow in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he wants to return to China to start a business and build a China-online website, and I heard that Yuncheng is going to hold an Internet conference, so I plan to go and see it." ”

A postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology actually returned to China to build a website?

Is the future of the Internet really so good?

When Lei Jun met Zhang Chaoyang in the capital in the north, in Yangcheng in the south, Ding Sanshi, who had just worked in the South China office of Sybase for 3 months, boarded the train to Pengcheng, ready to meet with Ma Huateng, a netizen on Cfido, and then take a plane to Yuncheng together.

At the same time, Ma Yun, the boss of the Hangcheng Haibo Computer Service Co., Ltd., and his wife, got on the train bound for Yuncheng, preparing to take advantage of the opportunity of the China Internet Conference to recruit a few talented people who can make web pages -- Haibo is an intermediary company that helps domestic enterprises make web pages, and each project charges 20,000 yuan, of which 12,000 yuan will be handed over to the American web page production company.

On the eve of the gathering of the sages, Du Qiu stood in the warehouse of the Institute of Quantum Physics, looked around the empty room, and said with emotion: "An era is over. ”

"Mr. Du, pose a pose, and I'll take a few photos for you as a souvenir. ”

"Let's take a group photo together. ”

At 5 p.m. on August 17, 1995, Snapdragon completed all the relocation work, leaving the warehouse of the Institute of Quantum Physics and officially moving into the headquarters building in the city center.