Chapter 84 Entrepreneurship: Free Antivirus?

Gu Yuze was really interested in computers, and pestered Xu Mo to learn computers with Xu Mo, and his parents didn't want their children to have nothing to do at home all day long, so they said that Xu Mo would take Gu Yuze to learn together.

Xu Mo doesn't care, anyway, he doesn't need to pay his own tuition, so why not give himself a labor force for free.

Before leaving, Gu Yuxin's mother said a few heart-to-heart words to Xu Mo, and she said that she could see that Xu Mo was a more mature boy.

"The three of you are going to study in other places, and we parents can't watch from here, and Yu Xin and Yu Ze will trouble you to take care of them in the future, Xu Mo. Yuxin, this child, has been obedient and sensible since he was a child, and we haven't asked much about it, so I'll leave it to you in the future. ”

This is a casual conversation around the dinner table after dinner, Gu Yuxin's two children are also here, Gu Yuxin felt funny when she heard this, and said: "Mom, what you said is the same as if I was going to marry tomorrow." ”

Roman glanced at Gu Yuxin, and said to Xu Mo very sincerely: "Xu Mo, although Yuxin is sensible, he is a child after all, if there is anything willful in the future, you will be more responsible." ”

"Mom!" Gu Yuxin is not happy about this, how can she talk about her daughter like this, she doesn't seem to have made her angry since she was a child, right?

It's strange to say, obviously I have only been in contact with Xu Mo twice, but I don't know why, I always feel that Xu Mo is very mature, Roman even feels that his daughter likes Xu Mo a little more than Xu Mo, so he is always afraid that Xu Mo will empathize with her in the future, and it is Gu Yuxin who hurts.

When Xu Mo was leaving, Roman also said, Yuxin, this child, don't look at her simple, in fact, she is very stubborn in her bones, if you have anything in the future, you don't have to tell her everything, so as not to worry her.

Xu Mo could understand Roman's meaning as a mother, but he didn't think about the meaning of this sentence, and it wasn't until much later that Xu Mo realized that the old mother-in-law was really an unpredictable prophet.

The time is from June to July, and the weather starts to get hot.

The scorching sun hung high in the air, the scorching heat felt like it could squeeze the air out of shape, and there were summer cicadas everywhere chirping tirelessly.

In just half a month, Xu Mo got his driver's license, and Gu Yuxin was still taking the second subject, and hung up twice, the first time was when he just got in the car and reversed into the garage without wearing a seat belt.

The coach winked at her, and she asked if the coach was uncomfortable.

The coach couldn't help it, so he sighed: "Get out of the car." ”

Afterwards, I told Xu Mo about it.

Xu Mo said, next time you bring the eye drops, the coach will wink at you again, and you will hand him the eye drops, maybe he will let you pass with a happy time.

Gu Yuxin's face was so angry that her face turned red, and she pouted and said, "I just don't take the test, I won't drive after the test anyway." ”

In fact, Gu Yuxin didn't think about taking the driver's license test at all, it was because she watched Xu Mo's test that she wanted to take the test and have fun together.

Gu Yuze followed Xu Mo to learn computers, but as soon as he came up, he encountered an obstacle, programming requires English, Gu Yuze's English is rotten, so he came over to fish for three days and dry nets for two days.

I finally got up and wanted to learn programming, but the computer froze.

The teacher didn't fix it for a long time.

Gu Yuze immediately became a little impatient, and muttered, "Teacher, your computer won't be infected with viruses, right?" Why don't you kill the poison? ”

The teacher said, "Where is there so much money to buy antivirus software, antivirus software is so expensive." ”

06 years, the computer is a little dizzy, everyone's first thought is whether the computer is a virus, to kill the virus, but unfortunately most of the antivirus software is charged on a monthly basis, just to pay the cost of antivirus software will cost a lot of money.

The teaching institution that Xu Mo and Gu Yuze were looking for was just a computer store run by a small company on the second floor of the Trade City, and they just wanted to make some extra money, so they didn't think about spending money on antivirus software at all.

What's more, where is this virus, it's because it's too hot in summer, the computer is aging, and the blue screen is just fine, just debug it a little.

Gu Yuze said cool words over there with his hands on his chest: "Alas, it's rare that I want to learn, but I didn't expect to give it a chance, and when I learn it in the future, I will get a free antivirus software to kill viruses for others." ”

When the teacher heard this, he pursed his lips and said, "You are thinking this now, and you will not have this kind of idea in the future, you think, others charge 30 yuan a month, you charge 10 yuan, and 1 million users will earn 10 million a month." ”

"So much?" Gu Yuze was surprised.

Xu Mo couldn't help but be curious: "Isn't there any free antivirus software yet?" ”

"Who is so stupid to do free antivirus software?" The teacher debugged the computer and asked Gu Yuze to try again.

Xu Mo sat in his place to learn programming, but this time Xu Mo was a little absent-minded, during this time, Xu Mo has been thinking about where to start making money, but after thinking for a long time, he didn't find a suitable one, until the antivirus software here, reminded Xu Mo.

So Xu Mo tentatively searched for 360 Guardians on the Internet.

As a result, the window that popped up was not related to 360, and there was no entry for 360 on the Internet at all.

When searching for Zhou Hongyi, a lot of information popped up, such as the founder of the 3721 website, the vice president of Yahu East Asia, and the founder of Qihoo Technology.

According to the information obtained on the Internet now, Xu Mo knows that Yahu has just been acquired by Ali, and Zhou Hongyi, who was the vice president at the time, took a group of old Yahu employees to jump back and set up a new company called Qihoo Technology.

If you want to talk about Zhou Hongyi, it can be said that he is an old rascal, but it must not be said that he will not make money, starting from the age of 28 when he went to the sea to start a business, Zhou Hongyi created a website called 3721.

At that time, it was still the late nineties, the computer was a new thing, and even logging into the website required entering a complex URL, and the kernel of 3721 was just entering the Chinese name of the URL, and you could jump directly into the website. It means that no matter what you give you, what I give you is the simplest.

Time came to around 2000, the Internet ushered in a blowout development in China, and the development of 3721 users was slow.

That is bundled installation, and a number of Internet companies reached an agreement, as long as the software is installed, the default installation of 3721, so the number of downloads of 3721 has grown rapidly, in 2002 the annual revenue has been as high as 200 million, net profit of 60 million.

Later, many companies learned Zhou Hongyi's trick of bundling installation, Zhou Hongyi also realized that although bundling installation makes money, it is hated by users, and this kind of forced buying and selling will be abandoned sooner or later, so while the current data is still beautiful, Zhou Hongyi quickly sold 3721 at a high price, in 2004, 3721 was acquired by Yahu and renamed Yahoo Assistant, and Zhou Hongyi was also adopted by Yahu at this time.

Yahu's acquisition of 3721 cannot be regarded as a loss-making transaction, because even if it is acquired, 3721's wealth collection speed is still the fastest project in Yahu, until 05 years, Yahu was acquired by Ali, Zhou Hongyi took his own team to set up his own portal and founded Qihoo Technology.

Qihoo Technology was founded in 2005, at the beginning, Zhou Hongyi didn't know what to do, with more than 100 million US dollars in his hand, Zhou Hongyi thought about doing it casually, between 2005 and 2006, Zhou Hongyi successively invested in two companies, namely Xunlei and Sogou.

At this time, Zhou Hongyi also wanted to use the means of bundling and installation to dress up his enterprises and sell them.

It turns out that fuck, the online is all tied up in accordance with?

Isn't this taking the customer for a fool?

That's not going to work, I have to think about the customer, I have to design an anti-bundling plugin.

What is more interesting here is that when Zhou Hongyi first started his business, he mainly focused on rogue installation, and later sold it to Yahu, which is equivalent to selling it to Ali.

Then after coming out of Yahu, Zhou Hongyi developed a software anti-rogue installation.

In fact, it is equivalent to turning the face and not recognizing people.

So if you count Zhou Hongyi, you will find that he really offended people from the beginning, and he has never been liked by others, but making money is really making money, when Qihoo Technology first started to engage in anti-installation plug-ins, in fact, he didn't think about anti-virus at all, even the source code came from Eastern Europe and put the skin of Chinese directly to use, there is no anti-virus effect at all, but 360 has two obvious big words, that is, "Free"!

Before 07, all antivirus software was charged on a monthly basis, and the more famous ones were Kaspersky, as well as Rising, and the lowest was thirty yuan a month.

At that time, the installation of computers in the country had begun to spread among households, but the computer virus had put everyone at risk.

I remember that when I was in the computer class, I had to bring a plastic bag when I entered the computer room, and I asked the teacher why, and the teacher said that it was to prevent viruses in the computer.

Therefore, Zhou Hongyi's move won the hearts of the people, and in just one month, the number of downloads exceeded one million.

This scared Zhou Hongyi, because he didn't want to make antivirus software at all, and the generation of 360 had no antivirus function at all, so he could only clean up plug-ins, contact bundling, and build acceleration.

However, this data explosion made Zhou Hongyi see a business opportunity, so he quickly formed a team to specialize in virus detection and killing.

In the following three years, Zhou Hongyi renamed Qihoo Technology to Qihoo 360, relying on the word free to seize the market frantically, in just three years, the paid security software was killed, and when it came to professionalism, 360 must not be compared with those paid software, but to say free, no one can compare with 360.

Until 2010, Emperor Penguin saw the 360 software, Mr. Ma was shocked, I rely on, such software actually occupies 90% of the domestic anti-virus market, and this money is too easy to make.

No, I'll get a piece of the pie too.

Then came the famous '3Q' battle.

Lao Zhou is really business-minded, his start can be benchmarked against Shuangma, and even if he didn't go the wrong way in the later stage, the future Internet landscape should be 'TABLE' (Teng, A, Bai, Lei, Zhou. )

It's a pity that in the next few years, when everyone was busy developing the mobile Internet, Lao Zhou had to go backwards and stumble on the browser, which led to Lao Zhou's getting worse and worse now, and by 2020, the mobile Internet was developing rapidly, and 360 had gradually disappeared.

With such a destiny start, it's a pity that Lao Zhou didn't make good use of it.

And now Xu Mo searched on the Internet for a long time and did not find the news of 360, the current time is July 2006, which means that 360 is currently in preparation.

It may be too late for Xu Mo to make antivirus software now.

But if he misses this opportunity to enter, Xu Mo is afraid that he will never find the opportunity again.

So browsing the information on the Internet one after another, Xu Mo was hesitant to give it a try, now the market for free antivirus software on the Internet is blank, and he can definitely eat the first crab by entering the game, even if he says that he has no level of antivirus, then as long as he first engages in a software, threatening that he can check and kill the Trojan, and then the essence is to optimize and accelerate, clean up garbage, system repair, and a series of simple functions, it can still take the lead.

Now Xu Mo has five million in his hand, two million to buy source code in foreign countries, and then find someone to translate, make a Chinese skin, and three million to use for publicity, but it is really impossible to use his identity as the top student in the college entrance examination to do publicity, I believe it will definitely cause the market to be hot.

When the time comes, you will accumulate millions of users in a short period of time.

Even if 360 is done, it will definitely come and buy itself, millions of traffic, plus a complete anti-virus cleaning system, it can sell for 30 million!

The more Xu Mo thought about it, the more he felt that he had a head.

At this time, Gu Yuze, who was bored playing minesweeper next to him, said stupidly: "Hey, brother-in-law, this minesweeper is really fun, do you want to play?" ”