In mid-May 1999, Chen Zier sent an email to Yang Runling, instructing her to pay attention to a fabless semiconductor company called Portal-Player, and her first choice was to acquire it, and even if the acquisition failed, she should consider investing in shares and becoming a major shareholder qualified to appoint directors.

Portal Player, which is responsible for semiconductor design and firmware development, as well as the supply of SoC semiconductors for digital audio players, is a newly established company that only designs and does not produce itself, and dispatches the actual production to foundries.

The company provides audio chips and processors for iPods, and its Portal-Player 5002 is used in iPods I, II, Three generations, is one of the biggest contributors to the success of the iPod, this is a small and beautiful company, the whole company is just more than 100 engineers, no factory, no skyscraper headquarters, engineers are the core of the company, a bit similar to the later chip design giant Arm company, they do not produce chips, do not sell chips, only sell the design architecture of chips, the whole company has more than a thousand people, but the products are basically all over the vast majority of smartphones, so that Intel Company, which has tens of thousands of employees, has a headache.

In the newly established small company, money is not a problem when it is acquired, but whether people are willing to sell it is a problem, so Chen Zier asked Yang Runling to do it first, and if he succeeded, he would scare Qiao to help him, and if he didn't succeed, he would also be able to get the same chip as Qiao's helper.

It's not a small problem that money can buy it. Apple is a big company, portal-player is a small company, and Jobs is very domineering, the contracts he made are basically 'you can only sell me', and what is the product we co-designed, but 'the patent is all mine', anyway, it's unreasonable, this is all his own doing, if you don't promise me, I will enter your industry to squeeze you, see you die first, and finally portal-player has to give in.

Handheld music players are still too big and ugly, or the memory is too small, and no company has a product that makes people shine. Now for Chen Zier, micro hard disk, appearance design is not a problem, the problem of winning the portal-player chip can also be solved, and the remaining parts such as batteries and headphones can be purchased, and the American market will not dare to say that there should still be no opponents in China.

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Things moved forward in an orderly manner, and Cai Zhaoxi recruited two people, a man and a woman, who were busy building the 'Internet Investment Division' that Chen Zier said before.

But Mr. Chen had just invested 12 million to go somewhere else, and the shares of China.com had no time to cash out, so he was thinking about loans in order to meet several future Internet bigwigs with confidence at the end of September.

This is the correct posture of the reborn, if you have money, you must invest, and if you don't have money to borrow, you must invest! Don't fool yourself, where is it so easy to succeed!

Loans are also a small thing, now is not as tight as in previous years, in fact, because the economy was overheated before and then the blow was too hard, now the overall economy is a bit deflationary, it is to encourage you to spend money, he has people, and assets, it is no problem to accommodate a loan of 350 million yuan, and so on for the New Year, a set of stocks can be repaid.

In the mailbox of Shengshi Investment, I still receive a lot of emails, some people have replied, and some have not replied and keep sending.

However, what Chen Zier didn't expect was that Brother Xiao Ma in Shenzhen suddenly called him, and said a few polite words: Boss, don't play with me, whether you vote or not, I won't last until the end of September.

Chen Zier sweated for a while, he thought that Brother Xiao Ma could hold it, but then I thought about it, this is actually normal, I started my business at the end of 98, and it has been almost a year now, and there is no income just expenses, and the number of OICQ online in February has increased to tens of thousands in a short period of time, and the server hosting fee of one or two thousand must be anxious Brother Ma scratches his hair, and it is an 'ordinary family', and parents must not see anything that just sprinkles money and does not make money.

It's a matter of course to find money all day long.

Chen Zier thought to himself, then you can come.

So the next day, Brother Xiao Ma flew from Shenzhen to Zhonghai and came with a business plan.

As a Chinese, Chen Ziyi is more in favor of and willing to see Ali's various splits and the establishment of independent companies to reduce SoftBank's voice in the entire Ali empire, and when he sees this news, he will give a thumbs up, shouting well, Ma's father is shrewd, good means, little Japan has earned enough.

But as an investor, Chen Zier prefers Brother Xiaoma, no matter where you are involved in the future, how big the company is, it will be placed there as a whole, and you will have my share, don't wait for the wings to be hard, and after a while, this will be dismantled and say: This has nothing to do with you, then move and say that this has nothing to do with me, what is this for?

The phone call was made the afternoon before, and Chen Zier saw someone the next day, and Chen Zier specially instructed Han Xiaojun to take him to his office.

He arrived at three o'clock in the afternoon, white-skinned, wearing small glasses, honest and polite, and now he was still a 28-year-old young man.

Chen Zier didn't want to meet this big guy so quickly and suddenly, he stood up and shook hands with him, looking at him with ambiguous eyes, and he himself may have been a little nervous and didn't pay attention, just said: "Mr. Chen, hello, hello." ”

Chen Zier laughed and said, "Sit down." ”

After sitting down, he found that Chen Zier was still looking at him, and he gave an embarrassed but polite smile at a loss, which made Chen Zier feel very funny.

Mr. Chen...... Much younger than I expected. Little Brother Ma found the topic and said.

Chen Zier also put away his joking thoughts, and said: "Anyway, you didn't see the wrong person, I am Chen Zier, and my voice doesn't sound old." But what's wrong with you? So urgent? After saying it yesterday, I'm here today. ”

"The growth of users has exceeded expectations, and we went from one server to two or three... Now this rental cost is already a relatively large expense. ”

"Have you got a business plan in your hand? ”

Chen Zier is pretending, where else do you want to see this investment?

However, as he flipped through the papers, Xiao Ma's nervousness increased slightly, and after a minute, he said, "Shall I tell you?"

Chen Zier didn't look up and said, "No need, I understand." ”

The word OICQ kept appearing on the document reminded him of one thing, he said: "I remember that there is an instant messaging company called ICQ, right?

Brother Xiaoma's heart sank, what do you mean, what I said before is so good, I never mentioned this question, I came all the way and now I have an opinion?

He hurriedly explained: "Mr. Chen, we are different from their company, and the name is only similar at most......

Before he could finish speaking, Chen Zier interrupted and said: "The company has just started, and there are many things to do, don't get involved in a lawsuit for this, otherwise the follow-up financing will also be affected." So let's change the name? ”

It's very comfortable to grab a wave of naming rights.

"Huh, change the name?" Brother Pony cried and laughed, what is this called, "Can you not change it?" Users now know that our name is OICQ. ”

Chen Zier said: "If you don't change, I won't vote." ”

Wayward.

Little Pony: "......"