Chapter 23 Plan ahead
After reaching a cooperation agreement with Microsoft, Du Qiu became anxious about gains and losses, because this agreement means that he will replace Microsoft and become the real murderer who killed Netscape. It also means that he has become a wing and has enough energy to change the future. In the future, in the Internet industry, a completely different pattern from the original time and space will appear, and the Internet will radiate into other industries. Therefore, as time goes by, the advantage of foresight will become weaker and weaker.
Are you making a fortune in silence and following the historical context?
Or should we rewrite the historical development process according to our own wishes?
Just as Liu Yunlai was used to the superiority brought by the system and did not want to change, Du Qiu was also used to the superiority brought by time travel, and did not want to change. Fortunately, he was not an indecisive person. He understood the principle of not breaking or establishing. He quickly adjusted his mentality and immediately took action, changing his previous style of being cautious and step-by-step. As soon as he arrived in the capital, he offered a high price to recruit Liu Yunlai, the son-in-law's "gold tax project" now has only a prototype. Local governments are fighting on their own. Since they have done it, we should just be bigger and strive to turn Snapdragon's electronic tax calculation software into a national standard!
If the cakes that second generations can eat can’t be eaten by the time travel party?
Therefore, after his visa to Japan was rejected, Du Qiu did not rush to go to the United States, but continued to stay in Beijing. Instead of his previous passive otaku mentality, he no longer stayed in the hotel to write code, but walked out and visited and visited many well-known software companies, such as Sitong Group, the largest high-tech private enterprise in China led by Duan Yongji, Xintiandi Software Company founded by Wang Zhidong, Jinshan Company Beijing R&D Center under Lei Jun, and even the offices of multinational companies such as Microsoft, I and HP in China. After exploring the virtual and real, he sent the list of programmers he liked to Qin Mu, asking him to inspect and poach people.
After several days of trouble, Chen Dayou, who had already returned to the United States, sent an email to urge him. Du Qiu was preparing to leave Beijing and go to Seattle. Before leaving, he set up a dinner at the famous Tanjiacai restaurant in the Beijing Hotel through the threading of Liu Yunlai and his wife, and invited several company owners who worked in the Internet industry to come to the party.
At this time in 1995, there were less than 10 companies engaged in Internet business in China, and there were only a handful of them. Among them, except for AsiaInfo and Snapdragon, the only ones who could name were the five companies that obtained Internet value-added service licenses. Among these five companies, one was far away in Pengcheng, one had the license but no movement, and one had the noise but little movement. Therefore, there were only two companies in Beijing doing Internet business with great fanfare, one was called Yinghaiwei and the other was called Zhongwang.
As a brilliant meteor in the history of the development of the Internet in China, many people in the 1990s learned and understood what the Internet was through Yinghaiwei's publicity. Unfortunately, they were born at the wrong time, started too early, and were weak in succession. When the Internet industry just flourished, they fell down and became enlighteners and martyrs full of tragedy. So until 20 years later, the name of this long-lost company was still talked about and sighed.
Yinghaiwei's founder is Zhang Shuxin. He and Liu Yunlai's wife Sun Shaojie were colleagues before. Both had worked as reporters at the China Science Daily newspaper under the supervision of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Later, one went to the Science and Technology Daily as an editor, and the other resigned and went into business. However, the relationship between the two was good and they still maintained, so they arrived as soon as they were invited.
Zhang Shuxin is probably the most famous strong woman in the history of Chinese Internet. She has a generous personality and is very straightforward. She first arrived at the private room, and after getting to know each other, she said straight to the point: "Mr. Du, Shaojie showed me the chapters you wrote about the Internet. They were very well written and gave me a lot of inspiration. However, the theory is a bit too advanced. Many people in China don't know what the Internet is. There are too few netizens. The e-commerce, portals, etc. you mentioned cannot be carried out for the time being. Is there any business that is more suitable for the current domestic environment?"
"I am a software man, and I don't know much about Internet value-added business. Those chapters are not so popular science, but rather science fiction." A clever woman is hard to cook without rice. In 1995, there was no soil for Internet value-added business in China. Not to mention traveling through the party, even gods cannot make flowers even when they come. Therefore, Du Qiu could only shirk: "The Internet industry in the United States is more developed than in China. You can go and inspect and choose some businesses with relatively mature business models."
"Last year, my wife and I went to the United States to visit. We plan to learn O.D. and do Internet dial-up access services. What do you think?"
"Of course dialing business can be done, but I think OL's business model may not work in China, and it is difficult to become bigger and stronger." Du Qiu warned in a chat: "The telecommunications industry in the United States is open to the society. OL can form its own network. China's telecommunications industry is monopolized. Private enterprises cannot own their own networks and can only rent lines from the telecommunications department. Telecom itself is also doing dialing-up Internet service, and it is difficult to compete with them as referees and athletes."
Zhang Shu, who was drinking tea with his head down, felt deeply the same, put down the teacup and sighed: "The telecommunications bureau charges too dark. The monthly rent of a telephone trunk is 6,000 or 7,000 yuan per month. Even if someone dials up the Internet 24 hours a day, each user has to charge more than ten yuan per hour to barely guarantee that he will not lose money. More than ten yuan is equivalent to the family of three for a day's food expenses. Who would be willing to spend so much money to surf the Internet? So I told me, the people in the Telecommunications bureau are all vampires, ********** of China's information industry!"
Sun Shaojie didn't know much about Internet services and said with a smile: "Sister Zhang, you can be a company user. For the company, more than ten yuan an hour is nothing."
"Enterprise users have high bandwidth requirements and generally rent DD dedicated lines. The type is more expensive than dialing up on the Internet. The telecommunications bureau does not charge by time or bandwidth, but by traffic. The more you use, the more expensive it is. It may be hundreds of thousands of dollars a month." Zhang Shuxin shook his head and asked Du Qiu: "Mr. Du, how much does your Snapdragon charge every month?"
"We are now using the scientific research network route, which has a state subsidy, which is a little cheaper than the Telecommunications Bureau, but it is not much cheaper. The company only has a few more than 30 people, and it costs about 10,000 yuan a month, which is a heavy burden."
At this time, a handsome man in a white shirt walked into the box under the guidance of the waiter and joked with a smile: "Didn't Mr. Du just earned $4 million from Microsoft? What can't afford it?"
Liu Yunlai got up and said hello, introducing: "This is the boss of China Open Company, Mr. Wan Ping Guowan."
"Hello, Mr. Wan, I often see your company's name in newspapers these days, and I have long admired it."
Zhang Shuxin started from scratch and started his own business. After leaving China Science and Technology News, she worked as a civil servant in the High-tech Enterprise Bureau of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for three years. She resigned in 1991 and started a planning company. In 1992, she organized a charity performance for Cui Jian, who was banned for several years, and then went to do the paging platform business. The paging platform was a huge profit industry in the early 1990s, but it was already in a small profit state around 1995. So she transferred the paging platform, mortgaged the property, got a loan from the bank, and raised a total of 15 million to establish Yinghaiwei, and transformed into an Internet business. This vision and courage can indeed be called a hero among women.
China Net.com founded by Wan Pingguo is a different story. He is a talent with high IQ and high education. He first studied at Qingcheng University, and then went to Stanford University in the United States to further his studies. He obtained two master's degrees within one year. He returned to China to start a business in 1994. He raised RMB 30 million in investment in less than a year. After obtaining the Internet value-added service license in May, he waved his money and purchased more than 7,000 routers and dozens of servers from Cisco and Su, and he boasted that he would carry out Internet access services in 10 cities across the country. The grand procurement plan made Cisco and Su attach great importance to it. The two companies also sent vice presidents to Beijing to take charge of themselves, and the momentum was no worse than Snapdragon, which attracted Microsoft's vice president.
Like Zhang Shuxin, Wan Pingguo was the president of the student union in college. He was a very talkative and sociable person. The atmosphere in the box quickly became familiar. The name of this gentleman and that gentleman was also changed to the name of the man. After chatting for a while, he asked, "Didn't Lao Tian and Ding Jian from Asia News come?"
If we really want to talk about the leader of the Chinese Internet industry in 1995, it is not Snapdragon, nor China. But AsiaInfo. Whether it is capital, technology or connections, it is a separate existence in China. The two founders are of extraordinary origin. One is Tian Suning, who studied for a doctorate at Texas University of Technology in the United States, and later became the founder and CEO of China Netcom. It is said that he is a classmate with a certain core leader's son and has a deep relationship. The other is Ding Jian, who graduated from Beijing University and studied for a master's degree at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is said to be a genius with extraordinary IQ. He personally set up the first LAN of this world-renowned university. Ten years later, he will have a scandal with a famous female anchor on Phoenix TV, which is well known to everyone.
Du Qiu went through hard work to recruit senior talents like Qin Mu, Xiao Wu and He Lixing. His ability in technical research and development is not bad, but he is not good enough in front of Asia Information, because according to Liu Yunlai's introduction, the company's employees include postdoctoral fellows from Harvard University and doctoral fellows from the State University of New York. They helped Pengcheng Securities Exchange develop a web system as early as 1994. The order price was 2.2 million US dollars, which was much higher than Snapdragon's official website for the Cloud City Government.
"The two of them went out to do business and were not in Beijing."
"Oh, that's a pity. Lao Tian and Ding Jian admire Du Qiu very much. They have wanted to know you for a long time."
"I really want to see them too, but unfortunately I have no chance to know Jing, so I can only wait for next time." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!