Chapter 58 Invest but don't invest money
A day later, after the Penguin wanted to wholly acquire the company, it was natural to immediately look at their R&D plan, with the technical team owned by Penguin, it would take more than a month at most to develop a software that was the same as WeChat, as for the name, this is not known for the time being. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
And the person who is fully responsible for the relevant research and development work is none other than Zhang Xiaolong, the real developer of WeChat, Zhang Xiaolong is a very famous program developer in this era.
He joined Penguin in 2005 as the Penguin R&D Manager, responsible for the mailbox business.
In the original history, he had to start the WeChat research and development project at the end of November 2010, at this time, he had been the vice president of Penguin for several months, so he also proposed the WeChat project, and then organized the research and development personnel, it took more than 3 months to get WeChat out, and it was only the internal test version.
After all, it is the first time to develop, and the speed is naturally not very fast, because the various functions and solutions in it are the key.
Yang Yu is different, he has told Liu Hong all the functions and icons of WeChat in detail, that is to say, these programmers only need to get it out according to the requirements, and the speed is definitely much faster than everything planned.
To put it simply, it is a speed of creation, and copying.
Can you create something as fast as copying it exactly?
For example, the original developers of the software games that Penguin has always copied may have thought about it for a long time and prepared for a long time to come up with it, but Penguin only needs to take a month, or even less to be able to completely copy it.
A week later, the number of downloaded and registered users on WeChat has exceeded 20 million, which is already very high, because at this time there are only more than 200 million mobile phone users in the country.
Although the number of Penguin registrations has exceeded 1 billion at this time, everyone can apply for countless numbers, so this 1 billion lives more than 200 million, and the number of people online at the same time is only tens of millions.
In other words, at this time, WeChat is not comparable to the number of user registrations of QQ.
After all, at this time, not everyone has a mobile phone, and half of the more than 200 million mobile phone users in the country are young people, so it is already scary for WeChat to have 20 million users in just one week.
No, now there is a super shady curtain about the sudden rise of WeChat on the Internet, of course, there are such achievements, which are naturally inseparable from Yang Yu's investment of a large amount of money.
After the initial 200 million advertising expenses were smashed, 500 million were smashed again, and the scale of the company has also expanded several times, not only renting new offices, but also recruiting a large number of new employees.
In short, these days, Yang Yu is busy every day, and he hasn't even played games with a few of his beauties for a long time.
However, at the critical moment of the rise of WeChat, Yang Yu still has a clear priority, so he naturally will not delay the future money-making weapon for the sake of coveting a momentary gentleness.
The penguin side saw that the rise of WeChat was so rapid, and they also felt extremely dignified, and Yang Yu's crazy advertising investment exceeded their expectations.
At the same time, they also paid more attention to the development of products, so they once again accelerated the work of imitating WeChat.
And the name of their imitation of WeChat has also been determined, and there is only a one-word difference between WeChat and "Tengxin".
However, Yang Yu doesn't know about the penguin's actions at present, because when he was on the 8th, he received an unexpected phone call, which was sent by Zhang Shao, who invited him to a high-level party.
The purpose is also very simple, that is, they Zhang Shao want to invest in his WeChat and invite him to talk in detail in person.
Yang Yu only thought about it a little, and then agreed, so the next day he asked Wu Di to drive him to the hotel where the appointment was realized.
"Mr. Yang, please let this bodyguard of yours wait outside. When they came to the outside of the room, Yang Yu and Wu Di were stopped.
And Yang Yu didn't care about the other party's request, and directly said to Wu Di behind him: "Wu Di, you wait outside!"
Because even if Wu Di is not outside the door, he can know Yang Yu's situation at any time, and Yang Yu feels that since the other party invited him to discuss investment, he should not make any small moves. Otherwise, Yang Yu wouldn't care about the other party, what kind of identity it was, how big it was, as long as the other party hit him with his head, he would definitely not show mercy.
After all, the exclusive guards of several factories under him are not vegetarians, even if you are big, Yang Yu can also have a way to deal with it.
After entering the room, Yang Yu saw three young people in their 20s and less than 30 years old talking and laughing together, and after seeing Yang Yu come in, Zhang Qichao, the leader, greeted Yang Yu with a smile: "Mr. Yang, long time no see!"
"It won't be long!" Yang Yu smiled and found a place to sit down casually.
Obviously, there were not these people present who deliberately curried favor with them because of their identities, and Yang Yu, who had enough confidence, didn't care about these at all.
After all, there is not a certain one in China, or a few people have the final say, so Yang Yu will not be a certain one, or a few rat traps!
"Yes, there is a personality!Okay, Brother Zhang, let's get down to business!" One of the young men also smiled when he saw Yang Yu so casually and said.
"That's right, Yang Yu, let's be honest, we are very optimistic about your current WeChat, and we want to invest in some shares. ”
"What's the problem with investing, anyway, I'm planning to raise money! But I don't know how many shares you want and how much money you plan to pay?" Yang Yu said unhurriedly.
Seeing this, Zhang Qichao just smiled and didn't care, and continued: "That's the case, a few of us want 30% of the shares, and we don't plan to invest money in you. ”
Speaking of this, Zhang Qichao saw that Yang Yu's face changed, and then made a slightly calming gesture to him and continued: "Don't be in a hurry to get angry and angry, although we won't directly invest money in you, we can provide you with some things that money may not be able to do." ”
When Yang Yu heard this, he didn't speak, just glanced at him, meaning to let him continue.
"Do you know that your WeChat directly uses a mobile phone number to register, and WeChat's language intercom function, has been noticed by several major domestic communication companies, in fact, what you don't know is that if it weren't for our relationship, you may have now received the relevant orders from the government, and your WeChat can no longer continue to use mobile phone numbers to register. ”
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