They’re all reborn, what’s wrong with being a little more almighty?

Chapter 238 Free is the way to go
Zhang Wei's impression is that the man in red was a programmer who studied computer science. He was also a senior executive at Peking University Founder, so he should be from Peking University and have nothing to do with the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University.

Shen Jiahai noticed Zhang Wei's gaze and asked, "Why? Do you know him?"

"Zhou Hongyi, President of Yahoo China, am I right?" Zhang Wei said.

"That's right, but he is no longer the president of Yahoo China. He has founded a new company called Qihoo Technology." Shen Jiahai began to introduce.

"Is he also from our Department of Electronic Engineering?" Zhang Wei asked curiously.

"No, he is our guest. However, he was not originally invited, but Red Mountain Capital. He came here on behalf of Sequoia Capital." Shen Jiahai continued to explain.

Zhang Wei nodded as if he suddenly understood. It was a well-known fact that the uncle in red had a good relationship with Sequoia Capital. It was said that Sequoia Capital would ask for the uncle in red's opinion on many of its investments in the Internet field.

“Remember 360 Security TV, it will be launched this summer.”

Thinking of this, Zhang Wei said, "President Shen, please introduce Zhou Hongyi to me later!"

"He's a businessman, why do you want to know him!" Shen Jiahai curled his lips. In his eyes, scientist is such a prestigious profession, why bother with businessmen? Those academicians are the ones who are really worth knowing.

"To be honest, I recently started a company with a friend, also in the Internet field, so I have to expand my network."

"Start a company?" Shen Jiahai frowned. "Why start a company if you don't focus on scientific research? Is this what you should do? Although you are still young, don't waste your time on this kind of thing!"

"Look at what you said. Doesn't the country also encourage the integration of industry, academia and research?" Zhang Wei said with a smile.

"If you really want to do industry-university-research, we have Tongfang and Unisplendour in Tsinghua. If you are short of investment, you can start a project in Tsinghua Entrepreneurship Park and let TusHoldings invest in you! These are our own resources of Tsinghua. You can use them whenever you want. Why bother starting your own company?"

"Isn't this just taking advantage of your youth to make a breakthrough for yourself?" Zhang Wei continued.

"Well, you young people, if you don't suffer a little loss, you won't know how dangerous this world is. Forget it, I won't advise you anymore. When you lose everything, you will know it's time to turn back." Shen Jiahai said helplessly.

"President Shen, can you please hope for me?" Zhang Wei said with a smile.

Next, Shen Jiahai introduced Zhou Hongyi to Zhang Wei.

360 Security Guard is obviously a project that is worth investing in. In that era when computer viruses were rampant, 360 Security Guard was absolutely a must-have software on every computer. You can have no IE browser or QQ on your computer, but you must have 360 ​​Security Guard.

This is not an exaggeration. In the famous "3Q War", many people would rather give up QQ and choose to install 360 Security Guard.

If it were today, it might be hard for young people to imagine that they would have to give up their most commonly used social platform for an antivirus software!

However, this is what really happened at that time, which is enough to show that 360 played an important role in the Internet field of that era.

The main reason was that computer viruses were so rampant in that era. Various Trojans emerged one after another, especially account-stealing Trojans, which would steal your game account and wash away your game equipment; they would also steal your QQ number and then defraud your friends of money. I don’t know how many people were deceived.

At least for gamers, using QQ is not such an urgent matter, but protecting the computer from Trojan attacks is the top priority. Therefore, the demand for 360 Security Guard is much greater than that for social software such as QQ.

At its peak, 360 Security Guard was an Internet company that could compete with Penguin without losing out, and it had a promising future. But investing in Qihoo 360 was not something that a small-time Karami like Zhang Wei could do.

Because Zhou Hongyi has a giant like Sequoia Capital behind him, it is impossible for ordinary investors to snatch food from Sequoia Capital.

From the early days of Qihoo 360 to its later listing, Sequoia Capital has always been its most favorable supporter. To this day, Sequoia Capital is still the largest shareholder of Qihoo 360 and has never reduced its holdings.

What Zhang Wei is actually interested in is 360's huge customer base. At its peak, 360 covered almost every computer in the country.

If this is used to promote games, it is much better than the keyword promotion of hao123 and Baidu! Apart from anything else, a small pop-up ad window will appear in the lower right corner from time to time, and you can't help but see the ad!
……

"Mr. Zhou, let me introduce someone to you." Shen Jiahai pulled Zhang Wei closer.

Zhou Hongyi looked at Zhang Wei with an apologetic smile, and found that he was so young, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes. He looked like a college student at this age, and he didn't know why Shen Jiahai wanted to introduce a college student to him.

"Could it be Dean Shen's nephew? Or maybe a family member of some leader?" Zhou Hongyi thought to himself.

"This is Zhang Wei. Don't be fooled by his young age. He is the most gifted genius scientist in the history of Tsinghua University!" Shen Jiahai introduced.

"Zhang Wei? This name sounds so familiar! Yes, my elementary school classmates, junior high school classmates, and high school classmates all have the name Zhang Wei. How can it not sound familiar!"

Zhou Hongyi complained in her heart, then said politely, "It turns out to be Teacher Zhang. I have heard of your name for a long time! I wonder what kind of research Teacher Zhang usually does?"

Zhang Wei did not answer. Instead, Shen Jiahai said, "What Zhang Wei is researching is world-class cutting-edge scientific research! He has a chance to win the Nobel Prize!"

When Zhou Hongyi heard about the Nobel Prize, she was shocked, and then she thought that Shen Jiahai was bragging.

"This Dean Shen looks like a serious scholar on the surface, but he is actually a very careless person. He even boasts about something as awesome as the Nobel Prize!"

However, Zhou Hongyi still nodded with a smile. After all, he was a businessman and was good at dealing with people. It was impossible for him to show his thoughts on his face.

Zhang Wei then asked, "Mr. Zhou, I heard that after you left Yahoo, you founded Qihoo Technology. What is the main business of Qihoo Technology?"

"Our main business now is Search 2.0," Zhou Hongyi replied.

"There is Baidu in China and Google abroad for search engines. What is Search 2.0?" Zhang Wei asked curiously.

"Simply put, it's community aggregate search." Zhou Hongyi paused and finally started to speak in human language: "We will find out what questions users ask most frequently in various forums and BBSs, find out the questions and answers, and turn them into a question-and-answer search, so that our customers can find answers faster. This is search 2.0."

"Okay, this is a hot search, and here's the answer!" Zhang Wei thought to himself.

To put it simply, the questions that are most frequently asked by users of various forums are hot search topics. Finding answers to hot search topics and then forming specialized content is what Qihoo is doing now.

It’s probably like this: now you’re browsing your phone, and you see a trending search ranking, and you see a question that interests you, and then you click on it, and the answer appears.

"This Zhou Hongyi is indeed an Internet tycoon, with advanced thinking. He can think of this thing now and even gave it the name Search 2.0, which is quite impressive." Zhang Wei couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Zhou Hongyi continued: "In addition to Search 2.0, we are also working on a search platform specifically for restaurants. In addition, information security services are also our current business scope."

"Restaurant search platform? Dianping?" Zhang Wei thought again.

In 2006, Qihoo did plan to create a website similar to Dianping.com, but after investigation, it found that this project would require a huge amount of investment and offline operations. Just negotiating service with each restaurant one by one was a hassle, so it eventually gave up the idea.

However, he still revealed this idea to Sequoia Capital. Later, Sequoia Capital found a similar website and invested one million directly in it. This is Dianping.com.

Zhang Wei then said, "Mr. Zhou, the information security service you mentioned is anti-virus software?"

"Almost. However, we are currently dealing with mainly corporate clients. Ordinary netizens are not yet within our service scope, but we will definitely develop in this direction in the future," Zhou Hongyi replied.

"I think if you make antivirus software, you will definitely succeed!" Zhang Wei said immediately.

"Thank you for your kind words." Zhou Hongyi felt that Zhang Wei was being polite, so he also said something polite.

However, Zhang Wei said sincerely: "Mr. Zhou, if you make anti-virus software, you must not charge for it."

"Haha, Teacher Zhang, don't worry, I will give you a set for free when the time comes." Zhou Hongyi said generously. He thought Zhang Wei was coming to ask him for anti-virus software.

"Mr. Zhou, that's not what I meant. I meant it's free for life!"

Zhou Hongyi was stunned. She thought to herself, how can people from Tsinghua University be of this quality? Aren't they satisfied with taking advantage? In this day and age, genuine antivirus software costs only a few dollars a year, so why do they want it to be free for life? What kind of people are these?
However, Zhou Hongyi still smiled and nodded: "No problem, Teacher Zhang is doing high-end scientific research, and the confidentiality level must be very high. It is our honor that you are willing to use our products. I will definitely give it to you for free for life!"

"You still misunderstood me!" Zhang Wei smiled helplessly, and then said: "What I mean is, if you really make anti-virus software, you should promise all users that the software will be free for life!"

"What?" The smile on Zhou Hongyi's face froze in an instant.

What do you mean? It's fine if you take advantage of me, but you also want to take advantage of me with the whole nation?

If I make an anti-virus software and provide it to all users for free for life, what am I earning? Do you think I am doing charity?

Noticing that Zhou Hongyi's smile was gone, Shen Jiahai quickly stepped out to smooth things over: "Zhang Wei, what are you saying? Mr. Zhou is an entrepreneur. Running a business is to make a profit. If it's free, how can you make a profit!"

Zhang Wei smiled and said, "There are many types of antivirus software nowadays, and the market competition is very fierce. If it is not free, why would you let users use your product?"

"We can do it by improving the quality of our products! If our products are of good quality and competitive, there will naturally be no shortage of users," Shen Jiahai said.

"You're talking about sharing a market. I'm talking about seizing the entire market!" Zhang Wei said, looking at Zhou Hongyi, and then asked: "Mr. Zhou, what do you think?"

At this moment, Zhou Hongyi's heart was already filled with a storm of emotions!
The words "seize the entire market" kept circling in his mind like an uncontrollable tornado.

Shen Jiahai was completely unmoved by Zhang Wei's words, but Zhou Hongyi was different. After all, he was an Internet tycoon, and his understanding of the market and his sensitivity were beyond Shen Jiahai's reach.

At this moment, Zhou Hongyi felt that he seemed to have grasped an important business opportunity, but all his thoughts were confused.

"Teacher Zhang, could you please explain in more detail what you just said about seizing the entire market?" Zhou Hongyi asked seriously.

"Okay!" Zhang Wei said, but he looked around: "But today, time is limited, I'm afraid I can't explain it clearly!"

Shen Jiahai also said from the side: "Mr. Zhou, I'm sorry, Academician Chen and others are waiting for us over there."

Zhou Hongyi immediately showed a regretful expression, and Zhang Wei took out a business card from his pocket and handed it to Zhou Hongyi.

"Mr. Zhou, how about this? Let's make an appointment after today's event is over! Here is my business card."

"Weiguang Technology? Vice President? Mr. Zhang, what are you talking about?" Zhou Hongyi looked confused. Wasn't Zhang Wei a scientist? How did he become a vice president?
"I started a company with my friends. Our main business now is free games. After all, free is king!"

Zhang Wei deliberately emphasized the word "free".

……

After greeting several academicians, Zhang Wei left the VIP lounge.

When Ye Haotian saw Zhang Wei, he immediately came over.

"I asked around for you. Senior Brother Li Jian sent a flower basket and a message of congratulations. He said he was recording a show in the south and couldn't come today." Ye Haotian said.

“Then we won’t get an autograph, what a pity.” Zhang Wei sighed.

"It doesn't matter. There's a long way to go. After all, he's our senior. He will definitely come back to Tsinghua University. We'll meet him then." Ye Haotian consoled her and then asked, "Who did Dean Shen take you to see?"

"I met several academicians and several well-known entrepreneurs." Zhang Wei said, looking at the seats in the audience and found that more than half of the seats were already occupied, and most of them were not students, but people from the society.

"There are quite a few people here! Are these the seniors who graduated before? Can they just sit wherever they want?"

"You can't just sit anywhere in the first three rows. Those are the seats with names on them. I just checked, your name is there, second row on the left. After the third row, you can sit anywhere you want."

"Then where do you sit?" Zhang Wei asked again.

"If there are still seats left, then it will be our turn as current students to sit. If there are no seats, we will have to stand. But I should have a seat to sit. After all, I am a junior now. The freshmen and sophomores should give me their seats."

"Look at what you are capable of!" Zhang Wei complained, but his eyes were in the audience and he saw another familiar face.

"Oh my god, this big guy is here too! He's actually sitting in the ordinary audience seats and wasn't invited to the VIP lounge!"

The man Zhang Wei saw was also wearing the same pair of frameless glasses as Zhou Hongyi. He looked less than 30 years old, but his hair was less than that of Zhou Hongyi, who was almost 40 years old. He had a short haircut, which made his forehead look particularly large, and it was somewhat reflective under the light. This large, reflective forehead made him particularly conspicuous in the crowd.

This person is the boss who provided tens of millions of jobs in later generations, but was almost universally hated and scolded the most, Wang Xing!
(End of this chapter)