The youngest son of the chaebol family, Hu Mou Xianmin

Chapter 98 Mirabilis, the lion's mouth
George's work efficiency is very high. The next day he got the relevant information, "Chen, this ICQ was developed by three Iraqis, Weisger, Vardy and Goldfinger. They established Mirabilis last year. , and launched the ICQ software in November, providing Internet instant messaging (Instant Messenger, IM) services to registered users. At present, their users have exceeded 11, and the number of users will continue to increase.”

"Chen, it seems you have discovered something good!" George teased Chen Daojun, "It's just that many organizations have already noticed this company. You have to act quickly, otherwise others will get in first. Bar."

"Has an organization already been targeting it?" Chen Daojun frowned, "Don't worry, let's get in touch first and see the situation." It seems that he is not the only one who has ideas about this emerging field of instant messaging, but I don't know anyone else. What a price you are willing to pay!The early instant messaging software was a pure bottomless pit of money. Even if they occupied a huge market share, it was difficult for them to convert traffic into green dollars.

The original AOL company purchased ICQ and later launched 99a, 99B, 2000 and other versions with more functions, trying to increase advertising in ICQ and gain revenue. As a result, users began to hate ICQ, which also gave rise to MSN Messenger and SkyPE. Wait for the software to take advantage.

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Under George's arrangement, Chen Daojun quickly came to Mirabilis and met the three founders of ICQ, Weisig, Vardy and Goldfinger.They heard that the person who came to visit was introduced by Goldman Sachs Group, and the three of them were a little overjoyed.However, when they saw the young and somewhat exaggerated Chen Daojun, their enthusiasm instantly cooled down. There was obviously no sincerity in sending such a young man over!

"I'm Li Wenxuan from Goldman Sachs Group. I'm very interested in the ICQ software you developed. I want to invest in your Mirabilis company. I don't know what the three of you think?" Chen Daojun said with a smile (Come out and use your real name? The waistcoat is causing trouble, it’s a pleasure).

"You want to invest in our Mirabilis company? How much money can you invest?" the leader, Visig, asked somewhat suspiciously. After all, it was introduced by Goldman Sachs Group. He couldn't just chase people away, so he had to patiently ask symbolically. .

"I can invest 1000 million, but I need 30% of Mirabilis' shares." Chen Daojun quickly responded.However, the three founders who were technicians were quite disdainful of Chen Daojun's offer. "Are you kidding? You want to buy 1000% of our Mirabilis shares for 30 million?" the bearded Goldfinger complained.

"If you are willing to pay 5000 million US dollars, we can sell you 20% of the shares." Wadi quite agrees with his partner's statement. Their ICQ software is very popular now. According to the latest statistics from the office , there are almost 50 cumulative registered users!Now in the entire beautiful country, apart from them, there is no other company that develops instant messaging software. This is "Scorpion's only one"!

Although Visig didn't speak, he still agreed with his companion's idea. Now that their ICQ has become popular, only fools would sell the company's shares cheaply!

Chen Daojun looked at the three lions in front of him and couldn't help but smile. "It seems that our ideas are too different. This investment will probably fail, so I'll leave first." Looking at Chen Daojun, he didn't even counter-offer. , it didn’t look like they were investing sincerely. The three of them were even more convinced that this young man was [-]% a liar and a speculator who wanted to gain benefits from them.

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On the way back, George thought of Chen Daojun's actions just now and was puzzled. Finally he couldn't help but ask, "Chen, aren't you very optimistic about that ICQ? Why did you stop suddenly? Is their price too high?"

Chen Daojun looked at George's concerned expression and said with a smile, "Although I am very optimistic about ICQ, it is because I am optimistic about its future value. Now, ICQ, which is just starting up, is obviously not worth so much money. I am an investor. I don’t bother to do business at a loss!”

"With the money to acquire such a small share, why don't I spend 2000 million US dollars to let my game company develop better instant messaging software?" Chen Daojun sneered, "I remember that their Mirabilis company seems to only Have you registered the patent of the beautiful country for ICQ?"

"...It's like this. The materials they sent only mentioned that Mirabilis only registered a few patents for the ICQ software in the beautiful country. Moreover, the instant messaging software is a new technology, and the beautiful country also has There are no relevant patent law regulations that have been formulated or improved.”

"That's it! Since ICQ's patents are not complete, we can naturally develop the same type of products, and we don't have to worry about copyright patents. The three guys who developed ICQ still understand what they developed. The real usage and profit point of this instant messaging software is based on the number of registered users, and it is nothing more than deceiving laymen with a lot of money.”

In addition to being dissatisfied with the previous attitudes of Weisig, Vardy and Goldfinger, Chen Daojun also discovered that these guys did not understand how to operate an instant messaging software at all, and they did not even transfer the huge traffic attracted by the software. monetize and grow their revenue.For an unprofitable software, the more users register to use it, the more they will lose!
When Brother Xiao Ma of Goose Factory led the team to develop Little Penguin, he also faced the same problem. In the end, he connected the account of Little Penguin with many games of Goose Factory to divert a large number of Little Penguin users. In the Goose Factory game, the final profit is achieved through the game profit model.And now Chen Daojun happens to have a game company, whether it is Westwood Studios in Pretty Country or Nexon Game Company in Bangzi Country, wouldn't it be easy for the game designers in the company to develop a communication software with similar functions by referring to ICQ!
Chen Daojun made up his mind and quickly made a call, "Louis, I need you to allocate manpower now to make an instant messaging software similar to ICQ. Don't worry about funding, I will have someone transfer 800 million US dollars to your company account. Go. If you can develop it within 3 months, I will also sponsor 1500 million U.S. dollars for publicity and promotion, and give the R&D personnel another 100 million U.S. dollars as a reward!"

After hearing Chen Daojun's order, Westwood Studios CEO Louis Carstone immediately agreed. His boss was so generous, so there was no reason to refuse!

(End of this chapter)