In the conference room of Sohu, Ma Huateng was introducing to everyone that he and his team developed a real-time chat software OICQ, in order to let Gu Bei and others understand this software more intuitively, they also deliberately moved a computer over.

Gu Bei glanced at the dialog box, not only did he not feel familiar at all, but he also felt ......

Shabby!

The overall painting style is rough, and the function is also very simple.

Chat software like this is actually not new, but it is not completely independent like OICQ.

Speaking from the heart, Ma Huateng also took a lead, preempting other chat software to come out, cultivating a group of loyal customers, if it is really on the same starting line, the future of Tengxun may not be able to win.

If it weren't for the rebirth, Gu Bei wouldn't be interested in listening to Brother Ma and Lao Wang touting his own software like selling melons.

But who made this man a little brother?

In the future, a bigwig in the field of domestic Internet communications, a super-rich man with a net worth of billions.

However, now Brother Xiao Ma is just a fledgling newcomer in the IT industry, and in order to survive his small workshop, he has to beg his grandfather and grandmother to seek investment.

There was news in the previous life, it is said that in the early days of the business, Brother Xiao Ma almost sold Tengxun at a price of 600,000.

Because even the famous Tengxun later faced a very embarrassing situation in the early days of its establishment.

There is no income.

If you want to cultivate customers, you can't rush to gather wool.

Chinese people have this common problem, free of charge is popular, once it comes to the issue of fees, immediately slip away.

Therefore, even if Tencent's simultaneous online customers exceeded one million, there was still no revenue of a penny.

If you can't make money, you have to keep throwing money into it.

Brother Xiao Ma is not from a rich family, where can he hold on.

After a long time, the money in the pocket is gone, and it is natural to think of giving up.

In his previous life, the first to take a sip of Xiao Ma was at the venture capital conference, and Li Chaoren's son gave the first investment.

It seems like $1 million.

That little money is nothing to Li Chaoren's eldest son, but it has allowed Xiao Ma to survive the most difficult period since he started his business.

"You've said a lot, I'd like to hear what are the advantages of this software?"

Li Yanhong was the first to ask the question.

He was also called back by Zhang Fox, and like Gu Bei, it was the first time he saw that chat software.

"Timely and convenient."

I can understand it in time, type a text here, click send, and it will be immediately transmitted to the dialog box of the chat partner through the Internet.

But it's a bit of nonsense to say it's convenient.

Now that smartphones are still a shadow, OICQ can't be downloaded to mobile phones, the so-called convenience is to let customers carry a computer with them, and have to hold the main chassis under their arms?

If you really want to talk about advantages, the most important thing to be pointed out is free.

Now a text message costs a dime, but if you use OICQ to chat, you don't need to spend an extra dime except for the Internet fee.

"Mr. Gu, what do you think?"

Li Yanhong didn't pay attention to Brother Xiao Ma anymore, and turned his head to look at Gu Bei.

After all, Gu Bei is the majority shareholder of the company, and if you want to invest in this software, Gu Bei's attitude is the most important.

Brother Pony standing next to the computer looked nervous.

Before coming to Sohu, he had already looked for several possible investment targets, but without exception, all of them failed.

It has been a few years since the Internet entered China, but it is still a very unfamiliar thing to Chinese people, and it is not even an emerging industry.

It is estimated that if Brother Xiao Ma comes to the door and tells people that he is going to go home and package thousands of acres of land to grow vegetables in greenhouses, it will be more likely to get investment.

"How long has it been since you developed and operated this software?"

Brother Xiao Ma knew that this person in front of him was the main owner, and immediately cheered up: "The software was officially developed in February this year, three months earlier than Lao Mei's AIM, and it has been in operation until now...... It's been three and a half months! ”

"How many users are there?"

Speaking of this, Brother Xiao Ma is much more confident.

"At present, the number of registered users has reached 70,000."

The reason why there are so many is that as long as Xiao Ma and his team choose the right path and directly take the software to the university to do publicity, the city where Tengxun headquarters is located is at the forefront of reform and opening up, and people there are the most receptive to new things, especially young people.

To have a live chat software that doesn't cost money and is purely free naturally has an unparalleled appeal to college students.

Hearing the number of 70,000, even Li Yanhong was a little moved.

A software that has only been developed for more than three months can have 70,000 registered users, which is very rare.

Then after listening to the operation method introduced by Brother Xiaoma, Li Yanhong and Zhang Fox couldn't help but give him a thumbs up.

Smart enough!

"At the beginning, there will be 70,000 registered users, as long as you can stick to it, I believe that the prospects of your software will be very good, in this case, why choose financing in the first place?"

Choosing financing will inevitably have an impact on the control of the company, which is something that any entrepreneur should try to avoid.

Especially at the beginning of the business, at the beginning, you will be forced to accept the intervention of the investor, and the future development cannot be completely carried out according to your own ideas, and even how to go next, you will be forced to endure outsiders' fingers.

"I ...... No money! ”

To ensure the operation of the company, the money for renting servers alone is not something that their students can afford.

In fact, if there was no rich second generation in the original development team, they would not have been able to survive at the beginning.

Hearing Brother Xiao Ma say this, Gu Bei and the others all laughed.

"That's pretty honest, so why did you find our company?"

Gu Bei is most curious about this, he is at the forefront of reform and opening up, and there is no shortage of rich people there, he doesn't believe that no one can discern pearls.

In his previous life, the eldest son of the Li family took a fancy to the prospects of OICQ and invested 1 million, which was still US dollars.

It's a pity that the eldest son of the Li family only wanted to make a short-term investment, and then Tengxun just had an upward momentum, so he chose to sell his shares to a venture capital company in South Africa, so that foreigners picked up a big bargain.

"This is because Sohu is the first company in China to form an influence in the IT industry, and the portal developed by your company is also the first to achieve profitability, and ...... I had approached a lot of people before I came and they ......"

Little Brother Ma shrugged helplessly.

He also wanted to say more about the benefits of Sohu, but after all, he was only good at technology research and development, and he didn't know much about business negotiation methods.

Since you don't understand, just tell the truth, at least you can end up with sincerity.

The final decision still fell into the hands of Gu Bei.

Is there a need to hesitate in this matter?

Don't look at the current software of Brother Xiaoma, few people can look at it, but the future Tencent is a super giant with a market value of trillions of dollars.

Vote, must vote!

The reason why Gu Bei kept holding up and not expressing his position was that he didn't want to appear too eager.

Now everything that should be understood is understood, and everything that should be asked is finished.

"How much investment do you want to get?"

Brother Pony hesitated, he had thought about it before he came, but he was a little hesitant at this time.

After all, Gu Bei was the first to show his investment intentions, and he was worried that once it was too high, it would scare Gu Bei away.

Belch......

"Three...... Million! ”

"Dollars?"

What?

Little Pony's heartbeat missed a beat.

The conscience of heaven and earth, what he wanted was RMB, but what Gu Bei said was US dollars.

He didn't doubt that Gu Bei would be able to come up with so much.

Although it was the first time I had seen it, I had never known about it beforehand, but how could the boss behind the scenes not even be able to come up with three million dollars to support such a large company.

However, if this investment is accepted, will the company sell it directly to others?

This software is the brainchild of their entire team, and if possible, Brother Ma still hopes to grow with this software.

Just like those who sell literature will not easily give up the copyright of their works, they are also very precious to their children.

"Mr. Gu, I'...... This software isn't worth that much. ”

Gu Bei was also a little embarrassed, of course he knew that the current OICQ was not worth anything at all, 70,000 users, which sounds like a lot, but how many people can be online at the same time?

The development of Tenson is not achieved overnight, in fact, if Tenson wants to achieve profitability, it will take a long time to do so.

In the future, there may be continued blood transfusions, just like Sohu.

Gu Bei has money, but he has a lot of things to do, and it is impossible to invest all the money in the future.

"In this way, I can take out 10 million at the moment, this time in RMB, now talk about your conditions, how many shares can you give me??"

That's what matters!

The future Xiao Ma only holds 14% of Tencent's shares, and he is already a billionaire.

Gu Bei is not greedy, but he doesn't want to suffer either.

Brother Xiao Ma quickly calculated in his heart, he didn't want to give up too much, let alone give up control of the company.

But the company needs funds so much that if there is no capital injection, I don't know if it will survive this month.

Halfway??

No, absolutely not!

Brother Xiao Ma knows very well that the company needs more funds in the future, and the shares in his and his team's hands will definitely be constantly diluted, and if Gu Bei is given too many shares now, it will be difficult to seize the control of the company in the future.

“40%。”

When he said this number, Xiao Ma's heart trembled, of course he knew that the company was not worth the price at all, let alone 10 million, even if it was 1 million, it exceeded the value of the company itself.

But this is his bottom line, in fact, after saying it, he regretted it, he should press it again, and it is convenient to bargain.

"Deal!"

What?