Reborn since 1993

Chapter 343 Standing on your own
By the time Tianya Input Method had survived a few years thanks to the co-branded Shenzhou USB flash drive, the domestic Internet was almost in full swing.

By then, whether it is putting online advertisements on the input method, or launching hardware products such as simultaneous interpretation headphones and translation machines, Tianya Input Method will not lose money. If it is even more outrageous, it can even be split and listed.

Furthermore, in the future it will become one of the most important traffic platforms under Dongling Hi-Tech. Even if it really suffers a loss, Tianya Company can afford it.

For Tianya Input Method, Li Dongling has given corresponding countermeasures, both now and in the future, allowing Zhou Zhiliang and the input method R&D team to continue to develop and upgrade Tianya Input Method with peace of mind.

After hearing Li Dongling's proposal to bundle it with the Shenzhou USB flash drive to solve the urgent problem of Tianya Input Method, Zhou Zhiliang, Zhu Chongjun and others looked at Li Dongling with complicated eyes. They felt that this trick would definitely work.

Now Shenzhou U disk is still selling well, or in other words, as long as the number of new computer users continues to increase, the number of Shenzhou U disk users will continue to increase.

Is Pinyin input method a rigid need? Before other Pinyin input methods appeared, in a certain sense, it was also another rigid need. For users who have just come into contact with computers, or those who do not have time or are unwilling to learn Wubi, it is a rigid need!

Taking these two rigid demands into consideration, it would be hard to understand if the sales of the Tianya co-branded Shenzhou USB flash drive were not boosted.

Now Zhou Zhiliang and others suddenly understood why Dongling Hi-Tech could develop so rapidly!
Guo Jingyun and Zhou Hongyi also looked at their fellow apprentice sitting in the first seat in amazement. They had a preliminary understanding of Li Dongling's skills and vision, and they felt that it turned out that it was possible to play like this and use such tricks.

At this moment, Master Zhou looked at Li Dongling with the same eager and unfulfilled look as when he looked at Lei Jun in his previous life, who was making waves on the Internet and using endless marketing methods to sell mobile phones and new energy vehicles...

"If Shenzhou USB is willing to lend a hand to our sister department, the input method team won't have to worry about funding!"

Guo Jingyun smiled and said that now a 16M Shenzhou USB flash drive sells for 60 US dollars, or 480 RMB. If the sales volume can be increased to units, it will be a revenue of million. After sharing it with the Tianya Input Method team, the or million in funding will be enough for the next upgrade.

"How far has Tianya Forum been developed now?" Li Dongling asked.

Compared with the input method, Li Dongling pays more attention to Tianya Forum. Of course, with it, in addition to being able to post spam, the most important thing is that Li Dongling hopes that Tianya Forum can become a flag of Dongling Hi-Tech on the Internet!

In the future, with the emergence of various websites and mobile apps, forums may have declined, but from now on, in the next ten or even more than ten years, forums will be in their heyday. They have an astonishing number of users and influence on the domestic Internet.

To a certain extent, the forum's activity and traffic-generating capabilities are even stronger than those of portal websites, and its influence is also greater. At its peak, the number of monthly active users reached 100 million, which may be a bit exaggerated, but it is definitely far more than that of its peers.

Of course, it is impossible for Dongling Hi-Tech to cling to a forum, but as long as Tianya Forum exists, Dongling Hi-Tech can attack and defend in the PC Internet era in the next ten years and have its own place.

Guo Jingyun looked at Zhou Hongyi, "The technical development of Tianya Forum is currently mainly done by Hongyi and his technical team!"

The fact that the forum development work was handed over to Master Zhou clearly shows that they have great trust in him and recognize his technical ability.

"It is now in the later stage, and we are mainly developing the functions of the five major sections of Tianya Chat, Tianya Entertainment, Tianya Sports, Tianya Literature, and Tianya Finance according to your requirements, Mr. Li!

Now there are several sections that have been developed and are being tested. If all are developed and tested, it will probably be around the end of the year before Tianya.com can be officially launched! "

Zhou Hongyi said to Li Dongling, hesitated for a moment, and then spoke again, "Tianya Forum, if there are too many online functions, I am afraid we need to rent or buy servers to maintain so many functions of the website!"

There is no such thing as crossing the river by feeling the stones now. Dongling Hi-Tech and Tianya Company are the first to try out the Internet. Even their peers in Silicon Valley do not have these and can only rely on themselves to explore bit by bit.

Li Dongling put forward some requirements to Tianya Forum, but Tianya Forum is completely different from the current BBS forums. The website interface design, layout, function design, etc. all require Master Zhou to lead people to explore on their own.

As for whether the forum will make money or how much loss it will make after it is opened, no one can tell for sure. Just like the BBS forums across the country now, they rely entirely on the enthusiasm of the webmasters and fill them with their own money. Without some net worth, it is impossible to maintain a BBS site.

Tianya Forum, compared with the various sites of Huiduo.com, is much larger in scale. If the server is added, the cost will be even higher!

"After the website is opened, buy a server as a backup!" Li Dongling said directly.

Different from the input method, even if Tianya Forum temporarily loses money, Dongling Hi-Tech can accept it. This is a fortress of Dongling Hi-Tech in the Internet industry, and it must be defended. Everyone on Tianya.com can hear that Li Dongling values ​​Tianya Forum so much that he obviously doesn't care about the gains and losses in the early stage. Naturally, he didn't mention whether there will be losses after the website is launched.

After discussing Tianya.com, Li Dongling glanced at everyone in the conference room and said, "The agency rights of Silicon Valley Internet company Yahoo are currently in the hands of Zhixing Foundation!"

"If Yahoo can successfully list on NASDAQ next year as expected, we will also start building the Yahoo mainland website.

If nothing unexpected happens, Yahoo Mainland will be operated by Tianya, and the president of Yahoo Mainland will also be appointed by Tianya!"

Li Dongling once again revealed a piece of explosive news. Upon hearing this, all the senior executives at Tianya Company showed anticipation on their faces.

If Yahoo were to be listed on NASDAQ, it would be a public company worth hundreds of millions of dollars. If he became the president of Yahoo Mainland, he would also become a big figure in the domestic technology industry!
"Mr. Li!"

When the meeting was about to end, a voice with a Shandong accent suddenly came out, and it was Wang Jiangmin who spoke.

Wang Jiangmin is thin but has a determined look on his face. He contracted polio when he was a child and has some problems with his legs, but he likes hiking, swimming, etc. He has a much stronger personality than most people.

Among all the programmers in the conference room, he was the only one who had not received any formal training and had entered the computer industry halfway through his career. However, no one present dared to question his ability, especially in the field of computer security.

He is responsible for the development of the security program of Tianya Input Method and the Tianya Forum security which is currently under development.

After coming to Zhongguancun, although Wang Jiangmin was working at Tianya Company, his reputation had already spread to Zhongguancun. He does not yet have the title of the father of antivirus software, but the name of Zhongguancun computer virus expert has already appeared in Zhongguancun.

Before this, Wang Jiangmin had already developed several antivirus software, including KV100, but they were basically small-scale products that were only purchased by companies that had heard of his reputation or had needs.

When they came to Zhongguancun, many companies encountered difficult computer virus problems and they all turned to Wang Jiangmin for help. Wang Jiangmin was basically able to solve the problems. In other words, the computer viruses that emerged in the country were no match for Wang Jiangmin.

Li Dongling looked at Wang Jiangmin. Wang Jiangmin hesitated for a moment, but still said, "Boss Li, I want to withdraw from Dongling Hi-Tech and Tianya Company!"

As soon as he said this, Zhou Zhiliang moved his lips, but Zhu Chongjun and Wu Xiaojun's expressions did not change, obviously they knew about it.

"Dongling Hi-Tech and Tianya Company treat me well. The salary I get is much higher than what I get at the Shandong Bearing Instrument Factory!"

Wang Jiangmin subconsciously touched the pocket where he put his cigarette, then moved his hand away with an apologetic look on his face. The treatment given to him by Tianya Company was indeed high enough. Guo Jingjingyun and even Master Zhou, who had always been at odds with him for some reason, all respected him very much.

"But I'm already 45 years old this year. Time is merciless. If I don't do what I want to do, I'm afraid I'll never have another chance in my life!" Wang Jiangmin said to Li Dongling.

Li Dongling chuckled when he heard it, looked around at everyone in the conference room, and asked Wang Jiangmin, who was a consultant at Tianya.com, "Consultant Wang, what do you want to do?!"

"In the anti-virus software industry, I plan to establish Jiangmin Anti-Virus Software Company and treat this industry as a serious business!" Wang Jiangmin said without hesitation, obviously having thought it through long ago.

Li Dongling nodded, was silent for a few seconds, then raised his head, "Advisor Wang, if you are willing, Dongling Hi-Tech and Tianya Company can invest in your antivirus software company!
Even if you leave, you are still considered a member of Tianya Company, and people from the same company must help each other. In the future, if people from Tianya Company break up peacefully with Tianya Company and leave to start their own business.

As long as you don't steal jobs from Tianya, if Tianya can help you when you need it, we will definitely help you!"

Li Dongling's words were also telling Zhou Zhiliang, Zhu Chongjun, Wu Xiaojun, Zhou Hongyi and others that as long as they did not compete with Tianya Company for jobs after leaving, they would start their own business, and Tianya Company would be willing to invest in the company they established.

Early technology companies, whether Kingsoft, Sohu or Alibaba, have produced many big names. Sohu is even known as the Huangpu Military Academy of the Internet, and has produced many Internet bigwigs.

(End of this chapter)