At the end of June, as soon as he got home and put down his things, Lin Zhi went to his company.

At present, the company is still developing rapidly, if it were not for the worry about her son and her hard-earned money, she would definitely not have taken the liberty to leave Shenyong for a week.

This time I went to Hangzhou, in addition to playing, Nyingchi also gained a lot.

During this period, she talked with Ma Ling for a long time, and Ma's father successfully fooled Lin Zhi with his invincible eloquence, making her 100% believe in her son's vision.

She learned what Internet thinking is and had a slightly different idea for the future development of the company.

"The Internet is the future!"

This is what Gu Zhi said when he chatted with Lin Zhi on the plane back.

After a few days of baptism, Gu Zhi believes that with his mother's wisdom, he must know how to develop the company in the future.

In the next few days, Lin Zhi was busy with the company's affairs, but there was new news on the consultant's side.

"Xiao Zhi, I got in touch with the person named Ma Huateng. He graduated from our school in 1993, and he was indeed my student, a very good-looking young man. ”

In the evening, after eating fried rice with tomatoes and eggs, Consultant Zhi and Gu Zhiye sat on the sofa and chatted.

Lin Zhi was too busy, and basically he could not go home until 9 o'clock in the evening, if it wasn't for the car at home, the consultant would not have worried that his wife would come back alone at night.

In December last year, the family bought a domestic car, the Hongqi Nova sedan, which was a new civilian car produced by Hongqi in 98.

When buying a car, on the one hand, considering that the consultant is working within the system and should not be too public, and on the other hand, it is also to support domestic brands, so he chose the red flag, not the German and Japanese cars.

Gu Zhi put down the apple he had bitten in his hand, and hurriedly said:

"How is it, have you made an appointment with Brother Pony to meet?"

He couldn't wait to meet Brother Pony, and the legend was within reach, so he couldn't help but be excited.

In Gu Zhi's eager eyes, the advisor shook his head and gently fanned the small pu fan in his hand.

"I had a phone call with him at school, and he was recently working on a job called O... What IQ project is, it seems to be an instant messaging software, and MSN is of the same type.

He said that he really doesn't have time at the moment, and he has to deal with massive amounts of data every day, and he can't leave. Let me give you a number and chat with him online through his app. ”

As one of the advisors spoke, he handed Gu Zhi a small piece of paper with an English name and a simple string of Arabic numerals—pony, 10001.

"Pony is his screen name, and you have to download the app he made before you can chat with him. What is the name of that software?,The name is quite tongue-twisting, I remember..."

“OICQ！”

Gu Zhi held the small note in the palm of his hand and said to the advisor with a smile.

"That's right, that's right! OI C Q, that's the name. Hey, little stubborn, how do you know?"

"Now young people are using it, two days ago I have installed one on our computer, Dad, you can also use it when you have time, don't you can't keep up with the times." ”

The consultant didn't take his son's words to heart, and he didn't want to contact this OICQ at all.

He is a typical email faction, and he basically sends emails to solve the problems that can be sent at work, and even MSN is not commonly used, let alone OICQ, a new thing.

Gu Zhi couldn't wait to run into the room and turned on the computer.

This computer is Gu Zhi's pocket money that has been saved for a long time, and it was configured by himself last year, and it cost a total of about 3,000 yuan.

At that time, the boys in the high school class usually liked to tinker with computers, and those with strong hands-on ability would assemble them by themselves, and then compete with each other for performance.

At the same time, home computers have gradually become popular in many families, and Internet cafes have begun to rise in China.

Trendy students like to work on computers, not on foundations.

Gu Zhi skillfully opened the penguin logo on the table, added Xiao Ma's buckle number, and waited for his consent.

He didn't expect that Brother Xiaoma's buckle number was really 10001, which was worthy of being the first employee of Penguin.

Brother Pony founded Penguin in November 1998, and in February '99, OICQ was born, and then changed its name to Buckle.

Originally, it was just a small piece of software in Penguin, and Brother Pony's original intention was just to make a little money with it.

However, the buckle was much easier to use than Microsoft's MSN at that time, and it quickly defeated MSN and occupied a sufficient market share.

As an instant messaging software, all the data of contacts and chat records are bound to the computer where you log in, as long as you log in to another computer, then all the data on your account cannot be read.

That's because in the United States, almost every household has their own personal computer, so MSN can take advantage of this way to spread the word.

But Microsoft has forgotten that personal computers in China have only just begun to become popular, and most people surf the Internet either at the company or in an Internet café, and it is difficult to make it the same computer every time you log in.

Unlike Buckle, it uploads all the data to the server, so users can quickly find their friends on any computer they log into.

Therefore, the buckle defeated MSN from the front, not the rumors on the Internet, because of some protective policies within China.

The development speed of the buckle is far beyond the imagination of Brother Xiaoma, in October 99, the number of users of the buckle has reached the million level.

The large number of users online at the same time overwhelmed the server, and the deduction did not bring any income to Penguin at that time, Penguin did not have the funds to continue to buy servers, and the company had a serious funding gap.

Brother Xiaoma, who was in financial distress, even wanted to sell the deduction, and the quotation went from 3 million, 2 million, to 600,000 below psychological expectations.

He looked for Ding Sanshi from the pig farm, and thought to the computer giant, and finally Yangcheng Telecom bid 600,000 yuan, and Brother Xiao Ma was reluctant to sell his hard work, so he had to borrow money while struggling to find financing.

In the end, IDG and Li Zekai, the son of Li Jiacheng, each contributed $1.1 million each, in exchange for a 20% stake in Penguin.

By 2001, the two investment firms had wavered in their attitude towards Penguin, and they decided to divest and sell their shares to MIH, a South African investment firm, and eventually the largest shareholder of Penguin became MIH of South Africa.

Unfortunately, when Penguin first started to develop, domestic investors were generally not optimistic, and they missed this great opportunity, once again allowing most of the shares of an Internet giant to be acquired by foreign capital, which is embarrassing.

At present, Gu Zhi has taken Ali, and even if SoftBank injects capital into Ali, Ali's largest shareholder will also be him.

As long as he successfully invests in penguins, his early layout in capital will be considered a successful completion.

The avatar of Brother Xiao Ma was buckled and did not move for a long time, and he never agreed to Gu Zhi's addition.

He wasn't in a hurry, he just added it again, and at the same time left a message to Brother Pony in the verification message, indicating that he was very interested in the buckle project, and hoped to meet and chat.

At present, it is only the end of June, and the buckle is growing rapidly, and Brother Xiao Ma has not encountered financial problems for the time being, and he can't help but be in a hurry in September and October.

At that time, Gu Zhi appeared in advance with funds earlier than IDG and Yingke Capital, and counting the existence of the teacher-student relationship between his father's advisor and Xiao Ma, Xiao Ma basically had no reason to reject him.

Compared with investing in Alibaba, it is obviously much easier to successfully invest in early penguins.

In a word, proper!

In addition, Gu Zhi didn't think that after waiting for a few more months, and after Brother Pony was cornered, he would directly invest in the deduction and buy it, and become the head of the future penguin.

However, the idea was quickly rejected by him.

One is because he is not here.

His goal is the entertainment industry, and he has worked so hard to make capital, in the final analysis, in order to lay a solid capital background for himself.

Capital is used to serve him, not to bind him.

If he had mastered the penguins himself, he would have no time to accomplish his goal.

When the time comes, let alone entering the entertainment industry, it is estimated that even watching a movie will have to squeeze time desperately.

The second is because he has no faith.

After all, the penguin is the penguin of Little Pony, and it is not certain that the penguin can become the Internet giant of China without Little Pony.

Even if Gu Zhi grasps the general trend of development, Penguin's growth from a small business to such a terrifying behemoth is impossible without a core leadership team.

Pony and his founding team are one of the keys to penguin's growth, and it is difficult for them to succeed alone.

So he quickly dispelled this idea and silently waited for Brother Pony's reply.

At the same time, the movements of his hands did not stop.

Gu Zhi opened Office Word 98 on the desktop, thought for a while, and entered three words on the first line.

Written by Wukong.