Chapter 120

Viggs subconsciously took two steps back.

Zhang Chen followed two steps closely, staring at Viggs with both eyes, "Who gave you hope when you were desperate? It was me! Who disregarded your reputation and desperately helped you hype it up in front of the media? It was me! Who helped you design the promotion plan? Or me!"

"Now that ICQ has been launched, you see that the number of registered users has increased, so you want to kick me out? Zhang Chen looked at the red-faced Viggs mockingly, "And don't forget, I am the largest shareholder of ICQ, I just gave up part of the voting rights, but if some people can't put themselves in the right position, I don't mind exercising the remaining part of the rights." ”

Viggs's face was flushed, and Goldfinger's heart was secretly happy, but he was still busy playing the round.

Seeing such a founding team, Zhang Chen also sighed in his heart.

He is also reluctant to invest in such a team if there is another way.

Essentially, he and Moretz have a similar investment philosophy, which is to invest in people on the basis of a given track.

In later generations, there are many so-called venture capitalists who pretend to be forced by Valentine's phrase "bet on the track, not the racer", and when they encounter an outlet, they will rush into it and speculate the industry with hot money. There are countless examples of this, from the photovoltaic industry of traditional manufacturing to the group buying of the Internet, from the mobile Internet taxi software to the shared bicycle and even the shared power bank. But the result?

It was still those predators who had the last laugh, and they entered the market not earlier and earlier, but later and later, just to see what the trend of the entire market was.

Therefore, choosing a good racer is not inferior to choosing a good track. And the founding team of ICQ, from the current point of view, really can't be considered a good racer.

But Zhang Chen can't recruit a team to start anew, on the one hand, the ICQ software is not small, there is still a certain technical content. If you find another team to reverse develop, the construction period alone will take about two months, and the software produced may not be better than the current ICQ. A month or two later, ICQ's hegemony in the European and American markets has become a success, and it is not easy to shake it.

ICQ, on the other hand, already has a first-mover advantage. In the Internet industry, the first-mover advantage is very important. Especially for instant messaging software, the user stickiness brought by the first-mover advantage is something that latecomers need to pay a hundred times more effort to catch up. This can only be done if the first mover has to make a mistake, if the first mover does not make a mistake or can quickly recognize the mistake and correct the mistake, no matter how hard the latecomer tries, it is useless.

One step at a time, one step at a time.

So from the beginning, although Zhang Chen was not optimistic about the ICQ project in the long run, he still made up his mind to invest for this reason.

The purpose of investing in ICQ is, first, to make quick money and sell it before the dot-com bubble bursts. In addition, through ICQ, we will enter the emerging technology industry and venture capital circle in the United States.

Seeing that Viggs was so embarrassed, Zhang Chen didn't care about himself, and the beating should have been enough. So he softened his tone and said, "Since I have invested in you, I won't joke with my own money." But you must understand that the company is yours, but it is also mine. I can delinquish most of the power to you, but there are important issues that we must agree on beforehand. I can contact Moretz to see if I can get it back, but only this once, not again. ”

Goldfinger breathed a sigh of relief and gave Moretz's contact information to Zhang Chen. ICQ has had such a good start that as an entrepreneur, it may be this opportunity in this lifetime. If it collapses at this time because of the arrogance of Viggs, there is really no place to cry.

After Goldfinger and Viggs left, Zhang Chen called Moretz.

"Hello, Mr. Moretz, I'm Zack. Goldfinger told me, you want to talk to me?"

Hearing that it was Zhang Chen's call, Moretz was still a little surprised. Although the ICQ team made him feel a little disappointed, he was still a little interested in this teenager who dared to invest in ICQ with nearly half of his belongings.

Moretz pretended to be cold, "Hello, Zack, I don't think we should choose ICQ, your performance is too clumsy." ”

Zhang Chen immediately said: "Okay, I understand, although you voted for Yahoo, from this moment on, you missed a bigger business than Yahoo." After speaking, before Moritz could react, Zhang Chen hung up the phone.

Moretz was stunned for a few seconds, but he didn't expect Zhang Chen to be so decisive. Moretz smiled, with his experience, he naturally wouldn't be as knowledgeable as Zhang Chen, so he dialed back according to the number Zhang Chen called.

I dialed it once, and it was disconnected as soon as it was connected, and then it was disconnected again. Realizing that Zhang Chen deliberately did not answer the phone, with Moretz's self-cultivation, he couldn't help but be angry.

But Moretz felt a little uneasy again, what hole cards did Zhang Chen dare to directly cut off the communication channel with him?

Refusing to answer Moretz's phone call twice in a row, a smile appeared on the corner of Zhang Chen's mouth, and he found a number from the phone book and dialed it.

"Hey, Steve, how are you doing? Are you interested in doing a big business?" Zhang Chen smiled.

A hoarse voice came from the other side of the phone, "Oh, damn Chinese boy, it's not enough for you to make $2.8 million from me, do you want to trick me again?" said Steve Case, the president of AOL.

Zhang Chen said with a smile: "Forget it, since you acquired my million-dollar website, you put the rest of the grid into online auction, not only to return to the capital, but also to hype it up." It seems that your advertising revenue has recently increased by 17% compared to the same period last month, right? ”

Keith laughed: "I'll often forget your age when I talk to you, let's say, what's the new idea this time?"

Zhang Chen said with a smile: "You know, ICQ was invested and developed by me. Recently I had a plan like this。。。。。。。 Zhang Chen said his thoughts.

After listening to Zhang Chen's thoughts, Steve Keys laughed and said, "You seem to be more suitable for this fucking era than me, the idea is good, but why should I cooperate with you?

Zhang Chen said with a smile: "Sequoia's admission is enough to double your money, and this is the benefit." And..... Zhang Chen paused and continued: "You can gain my friendship. ”

Steve Keys was silent for a while, and laughed: "Dog's friendship, but it can make Moretz an old boy deflated, I'm willing to participate." ”

Zhang Chen smiled: "Then it's decided." ”