After ICQ was acquired, the three founders did not join AOL. The superposition of internal and external factors also led to ICQ

The current development is completely free-range.

After introducing foreign competitors, Tao Xiwen introduced several domestic competitors.

"The information people of Wandao, network elves and Feihua are almost all pixel-level copy ICQs, and do not have their own innovation capabilities.

I don't like them.

However, a few months ago, an OICQ appeared in Shenzhen. Instead of learning ICQ, they copied a lot of our stuff.

I also know the leader of our Huiduo.com."

Speaking of this, Tao Xiwen was a little amused and crying.

Lin Chaoyang asked: "Won't that webmaster be PonyMa, right?"

"You uncle, do you know him, too?"

After asking this, Tao Xiwen felt that his problem was a bit redundant. His eldest uncle was also a computer enthusiast. He probably communicated with PonyMa online.

"It's him."

Lin Chaoyang cursed: "This kid is so shameless. It's not good to do something at a young age. He has to copy it!"

His words attracted the approval of Wu Xiaoguang and Feng Linyi, "That's right, I'm so shameless!"

Originally speaking, the topic was suddenly turned into a wrong way. Tao Xiwen coughed and did not politely talk to Lin Chaoyang, and talked about the important matter.

He invited Lin Chaoyang to the studio today for financing.

QQ has developed to this day, and its expenses are getting higher and higher. In the past year, he has invested only a few million yuan in succession.

His software company was quite profitable before, but as Tao Xiwen devoted most of his energy to QQ this year, the software company's revenue also decreased a lot, and he could not give QQ much help.

Tao Xiwen still has nearly 1% of the shares of Asia Pacific News. According to the current market value of Asia Pacific News, these shares are worth more than 20 million US dollars, but unfortunately, the ban period has not yet reached.

After understanding the current situation of QQ, Lin Chaoyang did not hesitate and asked happily: "How much do you want?"

Wu Xiaoguang and Feng Linyi were immediately happy when he heard this, and Tao Xiwen looked calm, "5 million."

"Value?"

"You can get 20% of the shares in the financing amount."

Lin Chaoyang laughed and scolded, "You treat your uncle as a Japanese cheating?"

5 million for 20% of the shares, wouldn’t that mean that QQ’s valuation is as high as 25 million yuan? This number is a bit outrageous.

Tao Xiwen also knew that his offer was not kind, but his aunt said it well, feelings are feelings, and business is business.

"Then——4.5 million?"

Lin Chaoyang:

"I'll give you 600,000."

Although Tao Xiwen is so proud of the price, he actually knows that the current situation of QQ is not worth that much money at all. He asks for the price everywhere, and pays it back.

"This money is too little, and it won't last long enough. I will ask you for money at that time, right?"

"You are planning to cheat me alone! It's enough to last for a year or two. Isn't the ban on Asia Pacific News soon?

If you cash out at that time, do you still have to worry about QQ's financing?"

Tao Xiwen shook her head, "Who can start a business with other people's money, but who can use his own money?"

Good boy!

Lin Chaoyang felt that he had misunderstood. This eldest nephew seemed loyal but actually had a thick face and a dark heart!

"It was all taught by my sister-in-law." Tao Xiwen explained.

Teach the children all the wrong ones!

Lin Chaoyang complained in his heart and said, "I'll give you 2 million, right?"

"How much do you want in that share?"

"You can watch it."

Tao Xiwen felt a little embarrassed when he was so generous, and thought to himself, "That 30%?"

Lin Chaoyang looked at his eldest nephew with a smile, "Don't you regret it?"

30% of the shares were exchanged for an investment of 2 million yuan, which was equivalent to a valuation of nearly 6.7 million yuan. Tao Xiwen made a profit no matter how he calculated it.

"No regrets!"

"Okay, sign the contract."

Tao Xiwen had already prepared the investment agreement. After signing it on the spot, he agreed with Lin Chaoyang to go to the industrial and commercial change tomorrow.

Lin Chaoyang first wrote him a check, and Tao Xiwen said, "Grand uncle, don't worry."

"Take it, you dare to cheat my money?"

Tao Xiwen had no choice but to take the check.

Looking at the thin check, Wu Xiaoguang, Feng Linyi and Zhao Manting were very excited. They did not expect that the career they had fought for for more than a year could really win so much investment.

While several people were cheering, the studio door was pushed open from outside.

Zhou Mei walked in from outside with a lunch box. Tao Xiwen pulled her to talk about the investment happily. She couldn't help but cheer and was happy for Tao Xiwen.

"Thank you, my uncle." Zhou Mei said to Lin Chaoyang,

"No need to thank you, Xiwen is capable. But Xiao Zhou is not bad, he is such a virtuous supporter!" Lin Chaoyang teased.

Zhou Mei looked shy when she heard this, "It's because he has the ability, and I can't help much."

She and Tao Xiwen were in love for more than a year, and only in the past six months had they come to the studio to help. She didn't know anything else, so she could only do administrative work.

Before leaving, Lin Chaoyang reminded Tao Xiwen again: "QQ is developing well now, and now it has a lot of funds.

You can't just rush to write code, but you should also promote it appropriately."

Tao Xiwen looked puzzled, and this aspect was indeed his weakness.

"You should know Song Ruhua, the southwest? You ran to Chengdu and found a brand of "Western Software Park" and became a nationally renowned figure overnight.

These days, what you can do is worse than say. I am not asking you to cheat, you have to learn to market yourself and promote the company."

Song Ruhua, who Lin Chaoyang mentioned, is also a person like Liu Bo. He was an associate professor at a university. In 1992, he responded to the call of the elderly to go into business and founded Top Electronic Technology Development Company.

In 1996, he participated in an Indian inspection organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology. He saw a large number of software companies clusters and rise in Bangalore, the "South Asia Silicon Valley". After returning to China, he became interested in setting up a software park.

He first ran to Hongguang Town, Pi County near Chengdu, selected a vegetable field of 100 acres, and erected a large wooden sign "Western Software Park".

This incident was soon noticed by the media. Domestic government departments were setting off a climax of informatization construction. At the beginning of that year, SC

The province has listed the information industry as a "primary industry" for development.

When the Song Ruhua brand stood up, it immediately became the official Xiang Rao Rao.

No matter what kind of monster you are, the man wants political achievements and promotion, and he will be promoted to you.

Almost overnight, Top became the most famous high-tech enterprise in western China, and the Western Software Park was successfully listed as one of the four "first batch of national-level Torch Program Software Industry Bases" in the country.

In 1997, Top successfully listed with the backdoor of Sichuan ZG Changzheng Machine Tool Co., Ltd., and the stock price once hit a miracle of 24.58 yuan. Many people have no idea about this stock price. At that time, the company's price-to-earnings ratio was 1,900 times.

Tao Xiwen nodded, "I understand."

Lin Chaoyang stopped talking and left Tao Xiwen's studio. He came to the home of Professor Wang Yongxing of Yan University, and once again gained a "reading experience" that sprinkled thousands of words.

The old man gave a very high praise to his new book Volume 2, saying that he was getting better.

Such an evaluation made Lin Chaoyang very happy, not because he was praised, but because the quality of his works was guaranteed.

More than a week later, Lin Chaoyang read the newspaper while having breakfast and saw an article in Yanjing Youth Daily, "Stanford top students return to China to start a business and create a new domestic instant messaging ecosystem"

Exclusive interview with QQ founder Tao Xiwen: Filling the gap in China with technical confidence. "In the winter of 1998, a domestic instant messaging software called QQ was quietly released on the Yan University campus.

This instant messaging software developed by Tao Xiwen, a master of computer science at Stanford University, has exceeded one million users in one year after it was launched, becoming the leader in the field of domestic instant messaging software with its end-to-end encryption algorithm with completely independent intellectual property rights.

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Lin Chaoyang read a piece of flowers carefully for several minutes, and finally appreciated the accompanying pictures in the newspaper.

The picture shows the scene where Tao Xiwen is discussing product optimization plans with the team. You can also see Zhou Mei sitting there quietly in the corner.

"This kid has a very high execution ability!" Lin Chaoyang praised with a smile and handed the newspaper to Tao Yushu.

After the Chinese New Year, Tao Yushu went out for more than half a month and just returned to Beijing the day before yesterday.

This time, I came back mainly to participate in a meeting organized by the above. At the end of February, the leaders of the National People's Republic of my country presided over the external publicity work conference and pointed out that the status and role of external publicity under the new situation are more important, and we must form a propaganda force commensurate with our country's status and reputation internationally.

Tao Yushu has powerful media power, so he naturally became the guest of honor above.

"Does there be millions of netizens in China now?"

Tao Yushuzhu asked the words on the report.

"Don't care about these details, the point is that your eldest nephew is going to become a model for Internet entrepreneurship!" Lin Chaoyang's tone was a bit ridiculous.
To be continued...