In the years after 1992, the stock market has become a hot spot in the Chinese economy, especially in Pengcheng, stock speculation has almost become a national "sport", there was a while, the stock market fell into madness, at that time there was no limit to the limit, there is a company downstairs is the business hall, in the business hall to see the plate or 5 yuan a share, run upstairs to find someone to buy stocks, has risen to 6 yuan, downstairs it became 7 yuan, a morning account is more than hundreds of thousands, eat do not know what taste, is simply picking up money.

In this situation, only more than a year of work of the little horse brother also followed the tide into the stock market, in the stock speculation at the same time, small horse brother found that there is a kind of board installed on the computer can display the stock trend through the network in real time, which is undoubtedly convenient for those who want to understand the stock market at home can understand the actual dynamics of the stock market.

"If others can do it, why can't you do it yourself?" Brother Xiao Ma and a few friends analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of various stock boards existing in the market, and imitated related products, developed a popular stock card, and even sold out of the famous SEG electronic market in Pengcheng for a period of time.

Cold sweat broke out on Xiao Ma's forehead, and he looked at Lu Chong in horror: "How do you know so much about me?" What are your intentions? ”

Lu Chong smiled slightly: "After I finish signing the fans, I will talk to you in detail." ”

Xiao Ma was extremely frightened, stood still in place, and looked at Lu Chong blankly.

After Lu Chong signed with the fans, he took Brother Pony and came to the Mercedes-Benz.

Brother Pony asked again, "How do you know so much about me?" You're not just a star, are you? ”

Lu Chong smiled slightly: "In addition to my interest in singing and acting, I am also interested in investing in science and technology industry, so I spent a lot of time and energy to observe the young scientific and technological elites who are now more potential. Now, I have my eye on you and want to invest in you. ”

Originally, Lu Chong wanted to wait until a few years later, when Xiao Ma ran out of ammunition and wanted to sell the penguins.

Last time, in October 1999, Penguin suddenly received a thick letter package from the United States, which opened it and saw that it was an English lawyer's letter from AOL, which had filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court against OICQ for infringing ICQ's intellectual property rights, and demanded that Penguin cease using the OICQ.com and OICQ.net domain names and return them to AOL. After getting this lawyer's letter, Xiao Ma called the other four founders together that night to discuss countermeasures, and everyone looked at each other and didn't know how to respond. Chen Yidan, who has studied law, said to everyone: "We don't have the money to fight this lawsuit at all, and even if we do, it will be more than lucky, it will rain, and my mother will get married, so I have to go with it." ”

By November 1999, Penguin only had 10,000 yuan in cash left in its account, and Brother Xiao Ma wanted to sell Penguin, but almost all companies said that they "did not understand the value of Penguin's technology and intangible assets", and some proposed that they could only buy according to Tencent's "number of computers, how many tables, chairs and benches", and the valuation of the company was up to 600,000 yuan.

When the cash was almost cut off, several founders had to borrow money from friends with shy faces, and people who knew a little bit in Pengcheng were borrowed by them, at least two rich friends lent Brother Xiao Ma 200,000 yuan and 500,000 yuan respectively, Brother Xiao Ma asked them if they could use Penguin's shares to repay debts, they all politely refused, and one even said generously: "You really have no money, it's okay if you don't pay it back, but I don't want your stocks." ”

Lu Chong had the patience to wait until that time, but he thought about it carefully, and when he made a move at that time, it felt like he was taking advantage of the fire to rob, which gave Brother Xiao Ma an extremely bad impression on their entrepreneurial team, and it was difficult to keep the cooperative relationship between them unchanged for twenty years.

The biggest difference between Lu Chong's appearance now and his appearance two years later is that Lu Chong appears now, putting forward the various framework strategies of Penguin, and he has become the strategic core and soul of the whole project, and Xiao Ma Ge and others are just executors. In other words, now the penguin was born by Lu Chong, and Brother Pony is only responsible for helping to raise it, and when it is raised in the future, the penguin is still Lu Chong's biological flesh and blood, and Brother Pony has no right to take it away.

If you wait until two years later, Lu Chong buys it at a low price, the nature will become, Brother Xiao Ma and others give birth to penguins, they can't raise them, and sell them at a low price, Lu Chong pays for them to raise, once Brother Xiao Ma raises his own flesh and blood, he will definitely try to find ways to seek the ownership of his own flesh and blood, and the team will definitely not be stable.

Hearing Lu Chong's words, Xiao Ma was completely stunned and didn't know how to deal with it.

Lu Chong continued: "I know that you have several college classmates who are like-minded in software development, and I am very optimistic about the capabilities of your team, and I have a very good project that needs to be followed up by your team. ”

At this moment, Brother Xiao Ma was completely led away by Lu Chong's words, and asked in a daze, "What project?" ”

Lu Chong said with a smile: "In July this year, three Israelis, Weisge, Wadi and Goldfinger, got together and decided to develop a software that enables people to communicate quickly and directly on the Internet, and they named the new software ICQ, which means I-SEEK-YOU, which translates into Chinese, which is what I mean when I look for you." ICQ supports functions such as chatting, sending messages, and delivering files on the Internet. The three men formed Mirabilis, a company that provides Internet instant messaging services to registered users. The number of users using ICQ has grown rapidly, and just a few months later, IC has now become the world's largest instant messaging software. With the development of the domestic Internet, the demand for this instant messaging software will increase. I hope that your team can develop an instant messaging software that is more suitable for the needs of Chinese people on the basis of ICQ. ”

Lu Chong said very quickly, Brother Xiao Ma was stunned, and he didn't react, and when Lu Chong said it again, he understood what Lu Chong meant: "Are you asking us to help you develop a software?" ”

Lu Chong nodded, and then shook his head: "Not only the development of software, but also the operation and peripheral content development, I have already thought of the name of this software for you, QQ, the pattern of the software is a cute version of the penguin, and the name of the company is also called the penguin, you don't underestimate the prospect of this instant messaging software, when one billion people across the country use QQ, the resulting wealth is at least 100 billion." ”

Brother Xiao Ma was dumbfounded: "100 billion? ”

Lu Chong smiled secretly, now that Brother Xiao Ma has earned a net worth of one million through stock trading, he already feels that he is quite rich, but Brother Xiao Ma would never have imagined that twenty years later, he will be worth 100 billion. (To be continued.) )