In the evening, Song Weiyang and Xiao Ma Ge's car took several Tencent shareholders out for dinner.

Brother Ma looked at Hummer and said in surprise: "Old Song, you don't usually take goods, so how can you buy a pickup truck?"

Song Weiyang smiled and said, "Don't you think the pickup is very manly?"

Brother Ma said: "I just want to paint your car butt and write the words 'Loading 1 ton'."

"Hahaha, you can even joke." Song Weiyang laughed uncontrollably.

Zhang Zhidong walked around the car without hiding his envy: "This car is so majestic!"

"When the company grows bigger, I will also buy one. I will definitely be very proud of driving it out." Xu Chenhua said as he patted the body of the car.

Hong Weiguo and Song Weiyang sat in the front row, Zhang Zhidong and Xu Chenhua immediately got into the back row, and the blind monk and Chen Yidan could only take Xiao Ma Ge's car.

Zhang Zhidong stroked the seat leather and said, "It's real leather, it feels great!"

"It's not real leather, it's artificial leather." Song Weiyang said.

Xu Chenhua said in surprise: "What a good car is made of artificial leather?"

Song Weiyang said: "Alantara artificial leather is Italian, which is more expensive than genuine leather. I spent 50,000 US dollars to be replaced by the original factory."

"Awesome!" Xu Chenhua sat and slammed his butt twice. He didn't know if it was a psychological effect, but he felt that the seat was very comfortable.

The car was driving slowly in Huaqiangbei. The sky was getting darker and the lights were on, and the noise was like day and the sounds were buzzing.

Xu Chenhua looked at the street scene outside the car window and sighed: "Huaqiangbei is getting more and more lively. There weren't so many people at night before."

"Next year may be more lively, and more and more people are making counterfeit phones." Zhang Zhidong said.

Xu Chenhua smiled bitterly: "If we continue to develop at this speed, China may have a mobile phone in the future. Sooner or later, our paging system will die."

Yes, at the end of 1998, someone was already making copycat phones in Huaqiangbei!

In the past, the characterization here was the factory area, but in 1998, Huaqiangbei began to transform into a commercial street. The electronics sales industry rose a little from summer and burned vigorously in a few months.

By 1999, the electronic products in Huaqiangbei will begin to spread fire. At that time, the global sales of mobile phones were 280 million, while there were 700,000 Chinese-made counterfeit mobile phones, most of which were leaked from Huaqiangbei.

How popular was Huaqiangbei around 2000?

A big store requires 60 salesmen to hire. From 9 a.m. to 2 a.m., shipments are shipped in three shifts. Dealers from all over the country line up outside the store from morning to night.

At that time, a shop less than 10 square meters in Huaqiangbei cost hundreds of thousands of yuan to buy. And this is the market price. You may not be able to buy a shop even if you have money. You must rely on relationships to spend hundreds of millions of yuan to get others to transfer.

So, if you are reborn in Shenzhen in 1998, and have 1 million yuan in your hand and don’t know what to do. Then don’t rush to invest in Tencent. Buy 20 shops with only a few square meters in Huaqiangbei, rent them out for two years and then sell them. 1 million yuan can be turned into more than 20 million!

Everyone chose a roadside food stall, sat down around a small table, and asked the boss to bring two boxes of beer.

Except for Hong Weiguo, everyone else served them all, and before the dishes were served, they would just have a cup of them.

"Dry!"

Brother Ma, a super old cigarette gun, put down his cup and rushed to dissipate the cigarette. He lit one by himself, and was as happy as a god, swallowing the clouds and blew the mist and said, "Do talk about the serious business first, then talk about something else. How much does Lao Song plan to invest?"

The other four shareholders also put away their other thoughts and looked at Song Weiyang in unison.

Song Weiyang said: "How about 5 million?"

"Tencent's registered capital is 500,000 yuan. In the past few months, the messy revenue has been about 400,000 yuan. Li Qing just received an order of 300,000 yuan," said Xiao Ma Ge. "If you invest 5 million yuan, how do you calculate this share?"

Yes, how do you calculate the shares?

It’s impossible for Song Weiyang to hold 80% of the shares at once.

Although Brother Xiao Ma said that Tencent's revenue was 400,000 in recent months, he actually didn't make much money. Take Tencent's first business as an example. Ji Sheng Telecom made a bid of 200,000 yuan. Brother Xiao Ma asked for leave and flew four times before the negotiation was completed. The round-trip food and accommodation, air tickets and other costs had exceeded 50,000 yuan.

Moreover, after the business was completed, no other company was willing to buy it. They could only reduce the price to 100,000, 80,000, or 60,000... In the end, they helped people build online paging systems at a loss just to earn a little later maintenance fee.

Song Weiyang ate a chopstick and fryed Niuhe with a smile: "Just give me 15% of the shares."

Brother Ma said: "It seems to be a little less."

"We have known each other for several years, so there is no need to worry so much." Song Weiyang looked like he values ​​affection and friendship.

The five Tencent founders here were deeply moved. Zeng Liqing said: "Boss Song is righteous, come on, this glass of wine toast Boss Song!"

"It's easy to say." Song Weiyang raised his glass.

"Dry!"

As for 5 million, a small amount, just use it as an emotional investment.

If you want too many shares, these guys probably don’t have the enthusiasm for starting a business. It’s hard to say whether they can only focus on growing Tencent.

Moreover, with Tencent's development, 5 million yuan will not last long, and we will have to invest in Song Weiyang. At that time, it's time for brothers to settle the score clearly, so that they will not treat Song Weiyang as an ATM. Everything will follow the procedures and take as much shares as they should!

Brother Ma was very happy: "Since you have money, it's time to move the company and change to a bigger office."

It’s not that Brother Ma loves to save face, but the office he is now using is a property of the boss of the Hong Kong City. The boss of the Hong Kong City also works as a pager and once paid a high price to poach Brother Ma. When he learned that Brother Ma was starting his own business, he rented the idle small room to Tencent at a low price.

This is obviously an emotional investment, waiting for Tencent to go bankrupt and then poach Brother Ma.

Unexpectedly, Tencent had been holding on for several months but did not collapse. The boss of Hong Kong City was impatient and kept urging Brother Ma to move away. Historically, Tencent quickly moved to the next building, with an office area of ​​more than 100 square meters, which is three times the company's scale.

Zhang Zhidong said: "Also, we have to recruit a few more programmers, now we don't have enough staff."

"Yes, yes, yes, there is not enough manpower," Zeng Liqing said, "You three, quit your job quickly. Now that Boss Song invests, are you still afraid that you won't be able to eat in the future?"

Brother Xiao Ma said: "The programmer is ready-made. Lao Song still remembers Xiaoguang, Gangzi and Night Cat?"

"I remember that they were all friends from Ma Station and they were very familiar with each other before." Song Weiyang said.

Brother Xiao Ma said: "They are also unhappy in the company. As long as Tencent improves, they will definitely be willing to join us."

Xiaoguang, Gangzi and Yemao are the first generation of QQ programmers.

Zhang Zhidong is responsible for project progress and cost management, Gangzi is responsible for writing background code, and Xiaoguang and Yemao are responsible for writing client.

Song Weiyang was most impressed by nightcats. After this person left the horse station, he set up a site called "Nightcat Inn" and sent an email to ask Song Weiyang to go to that site often.

In the next period of time, Tencent moved to a new building as a whole, and all five founders resigned and finally started their full-time entrepreneurial career. Three new programmers also arrived one after another, and with five shareholders, the number of employees finally reached eight.

At the end of November, QQ officially launched the public version and began public beta.

The No. 1 QQ for the public beta was still given to Andy Lau. The leader of China Huiduo.com, naturally, had to express his admiration. This guy is engaged in real estate in Shancheng and has not been bubbling online for a long time and has no contact with Song Weiyang.

Brother Xiao Ma is full of enthusiasm for starting a business, sending emails to former netizens everywhere, and recruiting people to download and use QQ.

In order to increase the number of users, Xiao Ma also pretended to be a female netizen and went to major BBS forums and chat rooms. He first chatted with people and was very shy and implicit, which made the male netizen confused. Finally, he said: "Oh, the chat room (bbs forum) is really inconvenient. I know there is a chat software called qq. Why don't you download qq and let's talk again in a different place."

The legendary women's clothing boss!

Song Weiyang was thinking about it. The QQ public beta version was released in advance. Can Brother Ma still meet his wife through QQ?

Yes, Brother Ma’s wife met on QQ online chat.
Chapter completed!