Chapter 293: Containment 360
Entering 2006, Lin Feng began to feel that Fengxing was on the right track, if nothing else, the development of the past two years should be able to lay the foundation of Fengxing's industry hegemony!
The year 2006 should be a time when all parties are accumulating strength and striving for development.
Although the Internet is still exciting, it will not be like in 2005, a number of new forces will emerge that affect the industry pattern.
The three major portals of the older generation, Sina layout blog, Sohu plus games, NetEase is still running towards the road of self-developed games.
Shanda, Baidu, and Alibaba, after experiencing major changes in the previous year, are all in the process of internal digestion and adjustment.
The new generation of startups is still in the early stages of development.
The competitive environment around this time can be said to be the best period since the start-up, and there are almost no opponents to find as far as the eye can see!
With the release of EZ Pod, Chen Tianqiao has gone further and further on the "box strategy" that he has in mind, and he is determined to open up a new media empire......
In fact, many people already feel that Shanda has gone a little wrong, and there is no shortage of opposition within Shanda, but these objections have been suppressed by Chen Tianqiao's domineering.
Shanda doesn't have to think about it...... , just wait for the collapse of the bang, Shanghai Fengxing can accept a large number of game talents.
Tencent has now become its own family, and with the deepening of business exchanges between the two sides, Tencent's founders have gradually discovered the benefits of cooperation with Fengxing, and the "dual platform" strategy formed by the two sides in social networking and games is almost invincible and unstoppable.
Although Baidu has raised a sum of money from its listing, it is still under siege from various search engines and has not expanded other businesses for the time being.
Ali and Jack Ma focused entirely on the internal integration after the acquisition of Yahoo China, and they found that the cultural integration of the two companies was not so easy, and they were in the throes of the acquisition.
In the past few months, the only thing that Lin Feng has paid attention to is the appearance of Qihoo 360!
The emergence of this subversive in the Internet industry, the initiator of countless industry wars, and the largest "catfish" in the Internet industry will obviously have an unpredictable impact on the otherwise stable Internet landscape.
As a vested interest and the ruling class of the industry, Lin Feng certainly did not want to see this impact spread to the prevailing people.
It is estimated that at this time, except for Lin Feng, no one would have thought that the "Cardinal Master" and his digital company would bring such a big disruption to the industry.
Lin Feng didn't dare to despise Zhou Hongyi.
You must know that in the previous life, 360 was chased and intercepted by all Internet companies all the way, and everyone shouted and beat the situation, fighting all the way and making enemies on all sides, but in the end it was still brutal and counterattacked, and it grew stronger.
This kind of combat effectiveness and fighting spirit is really terrifying to think about.
And just like Tencent back then, Fengxing happened to be on the way to 360!
The real rise of 360 is to rely on the phenomenal product of 360 security guard, in view of the disorder of the antivirus software market in the domestic Internet industry at that time, and the current situation of "rogue software" driven by the "3721" assistant founded by Zhou Hongyi himself in the current situation of rampant on the Internet, 360 launched 360 security guard with the strategy of uninstalling rogue plug-ins and free, breaking through the encirclement in one fell swoop, and staged a "rogue godfather" to eliminate "rogue software" drama.
In the previous life, 360 was able to succeed, in addition to the fact that traditional antivirus software companies such as Rising and Kingsoft were not familiar with the way the Internet played, but also because Internet giants such as Baidu and Tencent ignored the threat of 360, or did not pay enough attention to the security market, thus giving 360 enough space and time for development.
Another important reason is that the giants have not taken into account the importance of the browser, so they have given 360 the opportunity to launch the browser.
When browsers, security guards, and antiviruses formed a closed loop of the Internet, 360 rose with the trend......
In this life, Lin Feng didn't dare to make such a mistake.
The lesson of Tencent's "3Q war" was very painful!
You know, at this time, the "FF Safety Doctor" occupies the largest share of safety in the market......
Therefore, Lin Feng also unfolded his layout.
In March 2006, the same month that Qihoo 360 was officially established, Fengxing wholly acquired the 33% share of the domestic browser market at that time, second only to IE, at a price of 18 million US dollars!
Lin Feng placed the browser in the FF business group, and Zhang Xiaolong, who is now the first person in the company's internal products, will personally manage it.
In this way, first of all, in the two core battlefields of browsers and security doctors, Fengxing occupies a first-mover advantage.
After doing a good job of strategic defense in business, Lin Feng also made a move to "draw salary from the bottom of the kettle"!
He personally stepped forward and dug Fu Sheng, who was still the person in charge of the 360 security guard project at this time, with an annual salary of 1 million + 500,000 popular options + the position of deputy general manager of the security platform department.
To be honest, Fu Sheng at this time has not yet turned his face with Zhou Hongyi, and he can be regarded as his diehard fan.
This poaching was very difficult, first the headhunter came forward, and then Li Dong came forward, but Fu Sheng refused.
In the end, Lin Feng personally stepped out.
The two are about the same age (Fu Sheng is 78 years old, one year older than Lin Feng), Lin Feng is like a friend, and he and Fu Sheng have an appointment in a café on an equal footing and have an exchange.
If Zhou Hongyi is Fu Sheng's mentor, then Lin Feng can be said to be Fu Sheng's idol - in the hearts of Internet people at this age, Lin Feng, who created Menglong from scratch and is popular, is definitely the most powerful entrepreneurial idol in the minds of his peers.
Lin Feng didn't say anything bad about Zhou Hongyi, and he said that people behind his back were not authentic.
He first introduced the culture, goals and vision of Fengxing Company, then expressed his appreciation for Fu Sheng's ability and talent, and finally analyzed the current situation of the domestic security market from the perspective of Fengxing's business development.
Especially when Lin Feng finally said that at the right time, FF Safety Doctor could be independent and listed independently as a security company, Fu Sheng was completely conquered.
Being able to independently run a company and carry out internal entrepreneurship, with the mountain of popularity behind it, as well as generous treatment and shares, this kind of opportunity will not be encountered several times in a person's life.
Fu Sheng is only 28 years old this year, and he is also ambitious.
He's also a smart guy.
Fu Sheng finally agreed to resign from 360 and join Fengxing.
This also made Lin Feng very happy.
In China's Internet industry, among people of the same age as Lin Feng, there are two talents who are very good in technology and management that Lin Feng admires the most: one is Fu Sheng, and the other is Wang Xiaochuan, who is in Sohu at this time and is working hard to run Sogou.
Sogou and Wang Xiaochuan are actually one of Lin Feng's goals in the future......
In any case, at this point, Lin Feng felt that he had preliminarily prepared a defensive strategy against the rise of 360.
Of course, with Zhou Hongyi's unyielding character and his senior qualifications in the Internet industry, he will definitely launch a "revolution" in unexpected directions.
In this regard, Lin Feng has done what he can do, and the rest can only be to see the move.
However, I believe that if Zhou Hongyi still has a clear mind, in the early stage of 360 development, he should not be so unwise to target the industry's giant - Fengxing.
The size of the two sides is too different, and if Zhou Hongyi wants to start a war with Fengxing at the beginning, he will easily be crushed by Mount Tai.
He should still cut from a small angle, picking some soft persimmons and pinching them first.
At least in the past two years, through this series of measures, Fengxing can temporarily not worry about the subversion of 360.
After being busy with all this, Lin Feng was in a good mood, and he still had time to go to Europe for Ye Weiyu and take a short vacation.
Just in time for the best season in March, Lin Feng and Ye Weiyu skied a snow in the Alps and had a good time.
Back in China, Xie Jiaren summarized the invitation documents for the recent period to him.
Lin Feng finally saw what he had been waiting for.
Invitation letter for the first CEO class of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.
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In the process of the development of China's private economy, several top-level business circles have gradually formed.
The older generation of private entrepreneurs, Liu Chuanzhi (Lenovo), Zhang Ruiming (Haier), Duan Yongji (Sitong), Feng Lun (Wantong), Shi Yuzhu (giant) and other 16 people composed of "Taishan Club".
The "China Entrepreneur Club" will be established in the second half of this year.
There is another one, which is the "Huaxia Alumni Association"!
The main members of the Huaxia Alumni Association are a secret circle composed of the CEO class of CEIBS in 2005 and the first CEO class of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in 2006.
The people in these circles are almost the same, and the degree of repetition is very high, that is, if you join one of them, you can almost say that you have entered these three circles.
When CEIBS' CEO class started last year, Lin Feng happened to be in the United States, so he didn't catch up.
He will definitely participate in the "Whampoa Phase I" of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business this time.
Doing business in China, the importance of favors and connections, Lin Feng is of course very clear.
In the first CEO class of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, take a look at the list of students: Fu Chengyu, Chairman of CNOOC Group, Li Dongsheng, Chairman and President of TCL Group Co., Ltd., Niu Gensheng, Chairman of Mengniu Group, Guo Guangchang, Chairman and President of SH Fosun High-tech (Group) Co., Ltd., Ma Yun, CEO of Alibaba, Wan Jianhua, President of China UnionPay Co., Ltd., Wang Licheng, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Holley Group, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Focus Media (China) Holdings Co., Ltd., Jiang Nanchun, CEO of Wumart, and Zhang Wenzhong, Chairman of Wumart Group......
Ma Yun was able to enjoy such a high reputation in the business world in his previous life, and I have to say that it is inseparable from his active integration and interaction with these circles.
The four major irons in life, together with the window is one of them!