Chapter 32: Invest in icq
Weisge, Vardy, Goldfinger.
Through a simple conversation and self-introduction, Zhuke confirmed the names of the three of them. The three of them had just completed military service and retired in Israel, and learned of the exchange activities in Silicon Valley, and they flew to the United States.
As early as a few months ago, they had the idea of creating icq.
They found that the e-mail box on the Internet is often filled with unimportant information, making some very important information submerged without timely feedback and response, so they decided to invent a faster and more direct Software that transmits information.
At this point, the world's first chat software icq was born!
Even Dahuaxia’s QQ was created by imitating qicq. However, qicq is a pirated version of icq.
A certain coffee shop.
"Three, can I take the liberty to ask your icq software, what is the approximate development progress? Of course, if it is a trade secret, you don't need to answer." Zhu Ke said.
Weissg, Vardy and Goldfinger looked at each other.
"Mr. Wald, there is nothing hard to say, because we have just completed our military service and currently only completed the preliminary work of icq. When we return to Israel, we will start the formal R&D and programming work."
The three creators of icq are not idlers.
Especially Visger!
After the success of the icq project, Visger has successively invested in more than 80 Internet companies, and 5 companies have been successfully listed. In the future, he will be a billionaire with a wealth of billions of dollars.
He is smart!
In other words, people who can succeed, without coincidence, are smart people! The reason why he was willing to speak out was because he saw that Zhu Ke was interested and had investment intentions.
"Three, if possible, I am willing to invest in three icq projects." Zhu Ke said without hesitation.
Hearing the words, the three of Weisge were immediately ecstatic.
"Great, our project can start right away."
"Yes, Wesg. We will succeed soon."
...
Among the three, Vardy and Goldfinger were so excited on the spot that they all thought about it.
Wesger looked at Zucker and said solemnly: "Mr. Wald, we thank you for your importance, and we are willing to accept your investment, but there is a prerequisite. In angel investment, I, Vardy and Goldfinger three As the founding team, we need a controlling stake in icq."
"No! No~!"
Zhu Ke shook his head on the spot: "Three, you are the founding team. There is no doubt about this, but I am a real dollar bill. In the first round of angel investment, I occupied the leading power of icq, which is my right and interest. ."
"Mr. Wald, we cannot accept this."
Weisge vetoed.
In the following time, Zhuke and Wisger discussed the dominance of icq. As for the other two creators of icq, they did not have the shrewdness of Visg, and they watched the whole process, acting as a crowd.
During the argument, Zhu Ke didn't think about setting aside the three of them and forming a team to develop icq.
But.
These three guys, or Visger is too **** thief. The reason why this guy said to Zhuke was because he was sure to let Zhuke compromise. As early as their first step into the United States, they contacted attorneys to apply for icq's patent.
(The United States is so **** sometimes. Not only can the developed technology be registered for patents, but also technical ideas can be registered for patents.)
Visger, who had patents in his hands, completely blocked Zhuke's path to copycats.
Of course, Zhuke is not afraid of this.
Isn't it just a lawsuit? I am still afraid of this when I live in the United States?
However, being afraid is a problem. Zhu Ke does not have this time, or not enough energy is another problem. The most important thing is that Zhu Ke can use qq and icq is correct, but he does not understand how to develop! Even if you find a group of professional IT workers to program, but when the development is completed, the three people of Weisge may have already listed icq.
compromised!
That's right, Zhuke has no bottom line!
"Well, you persuaded me." Zhuke said.
"Thank you, Mr. Wald, I am sure we will never let you down."
The next morning, Zhuke and Wisger completed the signing of the investment contract under the witness of the lawyer.
Zhu Ke invested 400,000 US dollars, occupying 40% of the shares in the icq project, and in the subsequent round A, B, and C rounds of investment, Zhu Ke also enjoys the priority to continue to invest.
"Weige, the company's office location, I don't think it should be established in Israel. You must know that Silicon Valley is the center of the Internet in the world today." Zhu Ke suggested.
Regarding the location of the company, the three readily accepted Zucker’s suggestion.
After all, Zhu Ke is a man in a building on the outskirts of Silicon Valley. He rents them one floor without any problem.
rent?
That's right, it's renting!
One thing belongs to the same thing. It must not be confused. This is in line with the laws of business, and it is Zucker's principle.
After the three of Weisge left, as Zhu Ke’s personal lawyer, Zhang Wei said: "Boss, 400,000 dollars is nothing to you, but do you really think you can succeed?"
"Hehe." Zhu Ke smiled mysteriously.
Is the Icq project successful?
is a success, not a success!
Once this software was launched, it immediately responded to the world. With unprecedented creativity, UUReading www.uukanshu.com soon had a large number of users all over the world in just six months, even when the Internet was not well developed at the time. In Asia, the number of users in the market also accounted for 70%, and it accounted for 80% in the Great Tian Dynasty.
In 1998, AOL (America Online) acquired icq at a high price of US$407 million at the time.
At this point, icq is successful. You must know that at the time, Tencent's Xiaoma had not founded Penguin.
But, if icq is not considered a success, it is indeed not considered a success.
because it did not achieve the expected profit!
During its development, due to multiple decision-making failures, it did not go on the right path, and it did not make effective use of its huge number of users to realize the egging of related industries, such as games and film and television. At the same time, it has not developed a non-English version of icq.
This is particularly deadly!
has made many non-English speaking countries derive a large number of native language versions of chat software. For example, Da Tian Dynasty was born QQ.
(Actually, even if icq develops a Chinese version, it will not be able to occupy the market of the Great Heaven. From 2020, whether it is Amazon or Google, which one is not famous, is it not the Great Heaven? )
In 2010, AOL sold icq to the Russian investment company DST for US$187.5 million.
"Successfully investing in icq, it's really good!"
Zuke was in a good mood, and wanted to participate more in such activities in the future.
