My Age of Investment

"Mr. Xia, please listen to me."

Zhou Hongyi's tone was sincere, and at the same time revealed a hint of firmness.

"Okay, tell me, I'm listening." Xia Jingxing suppressed the anger in his heart.

"3721 was sold to Yahoo, and there was no chance of a turnaround.

The search of the 360 ​​development community is unfavorable, and the future is slim.

You may not know that in the first half of this year, I was completely lost and fell into great disappointment and pain.

I've always wanted to make a name for myself, to get rid of the reputation of being the father of rogue software.

At that time, the overwhelming scolding was directed at me. I have publicly admitted and apologized for the mistakes I made before, disrespecting users, but all the accounts were recorded on my head. I felt that I was wronged, this is unfair!

I still remember that when it happened, I locked myself in the house, didn't dare to go out for a week, and even smashed a table and two doors at home..."

Speaking of the emotional part, Zhou Hongyi choked up a little.

Xia Jingxing couldn't tell whether it was true feelings or pretending. All good entrepreneurs are actors.

"Ugh!"

The other end of the phone let out a long sigh, "People in China always judge heroes based on success or failure. I have been thinking, if I defeated Robin at that time, would he be the father of rogue software? The Baidu Soba he was doing at the time, delete browsing. Compared with the 3721, the tool bar in the device is even better."

Xia Jingxing pinched his brows, both of you are hooligans, okay?

Speaking of the business competition in the early years, it was bloody, synonymous with chaos and disorder.

The naked interests are there, and everyone will be tempted, and everyone will want to be a hooligan.

What is rogue software? It is a kind of software that is forcefully installed on the computer without the user's consent, hijacks the traffic, pops advertisements, and even steals the user's files.

From 2005 to 2006, when rogue software was the most rampant, some medium-sized companies could earn five or six million yuan a month by selling advertisements through it. The initiator was Zhou Hongyi.

With such huge profits, there will naturally be Internet practitioners rushing in one after another, which has brought extremely bad influence to the entire Chinese Internet and greatly hurt the user's online experience.

"Some time ago, Xiao Fu from our company came up with a 360 security guard, an antivirus software, the incarnation of justice."

Zhou Hongyi paused, "Then I had a complete epiphany and felt that I should do something for the Chinese Internet.

3721 has made mistakes in the past, and I also understand that rogue software does harm the people. I want to explain to all users that the best way is to make a security software to completely expel them from users' computers.

Open the Pandora's box of rogue software, and I have to close it for him. This is a kind of spiritual redemption. Even if it touches the unspoken rules of the industry, I will not hesitate. "

The light of righteousness shines on the earth.

Xia Jingxing has a BGM loop in his mind, the key is your red cannon match? You do not deserve!

He simply didn't believe in the reputation, ideals, and justice that Zhou Hongyi said... These are all bullshit, and only one purpose is for money.

"Oh, you do antivirus software just to cleanse yourself of stigma?"

Probably knowing that Xia Jingxing is not good at fooling around, Zhou Hongyi quickly added, "This is only a part of the reason, or it is incidental, the more important reason is that I saw an avenue to the sky."

"Mr. Xia, have you read the report I sent you about the antivirus software market?

This is a golden mountain. Rising Star, Jiangmin and Kaspersky are either dying or not thinking about making progress. This is an excellent opportunity before us, Qihoo. If God does not take it, we will be to blame!

When I was at Yahoo, I started to focus on free internet security, and tried to convince Yahoo headquarters to cooperate with Kaspersky antivirus vendor, but the headquarters thought my business model of free and subsidized money was crazy.

Last year, I also tried to promote the cooperation between Kaspersky and Penguin,

But Ma Huateng had no vision at all and was not optimistic.

This year, my one-year non-compete agreement with Yahoo has expired, so I'm going to devote myself to it. "

Red-clothed Cannon had been an investor in Qihoo until this month, with Qi Xiangdong in the front, and he hid behind the scenes.

This is similar to Xia Jingxing. The non-compete agreement of the big factory is not signed to play, especially the executives like them, if they touch the red line, they are waiting to be sued.

Xia Jingxing took the phone and said lightly, "Then tell me about Yahoo Assistant!"

Zhou Hongyi knew that what should come will always come, no matter how he grinds his tongue, Xia Jingxing will not ignore everything he did to the Yahoo assistant (3721).

"Yahoo Assistant, strictly speaking, must be rogue software."

Xia Jingxing sneered, "You developed this."

"I developed it, so I say it's rogue software."

Xia Jingxing was completely convinced by Zhou Hongyi's ideological awareness.

"Didn't Ma Yun reconcile with you? Are you still targeting him?"

"I am a typical right thing and wrong person! The predecessor of Yahoo Assistant, 3721, was a child raised by me, and it would be a lie to say that I have no feelings for it at all.

But now it's doing evil, I can't turn a blind eye, I can only kill my relatives righteously! "

Xia Jingxing said, you are used to standing on the moral high ground, right?

"Yahoo China was acquired by Ah Li for $500 million. If you do this, all $500 million was wasted. Ahri may hate you to the core."

Xia Jingxing shook his head as he spoke. In his previous life, Ahri bought Yahoo China for US$700 million, and then he was ruined by the red-clothed cannon within a year.

How big is the hatred? It is equivalent to destroying one-sixth of Ali's valuation at the time.

However, Ali was not listed, and Yahoo China was actually an empty shell, and two-thirds of the people were poached by Zhou Hongyi.

Jack Ma's business is very wrong, but because of the temptation of Yahoo's billion-dollar cash financing in front of him, he can only take over Yahoo China at a high price.

To say that Yahoo China is worth $700 million is definitely not worth it.

This life can be valued at 500 million US dollars, which is also a concession made by Xia Jingxing when he watched Yahoo and SoftBank release Vision Capital into Ali.

He also indirectly recovered a certain amount of losses for Ma Yun, so this is part of the reason why Ma Yun put Vision Capital into shares.

"It's not worth $500 million at all, Yahoo China has long since been abolished, and even if it is not destroyed by 360, it will slowly decline by itself in a year or two.

And Mr. Xia, you have your position, and I have mine.

As soon as the 360 ​​security guards appeared, they stepped on the corpses of Yahoo's assistants. There is no better publicity than this.

You are a shareholder of Qihoo and also a shareholder of Ali.

If this embarrassed you, I can only say sorry to you. "

Xia Jingxing knew that with the sensitive and fragile self-esteem of the red-clothed cannon, it was the ultimate to be able to say this and say sorry to himself.

If you push him again, it is estimated that the table will be overturned.

Besides, he has already shown his knife to Yahoo's assistant, and if he takes it back, Qihoo will be embarrassed, and it will be difficult to develop in the future. Zhou Hongyi will not listen to his advice even if he is beaten to death.

For Ahri, losing a Yahoo assistant is not a big loss, it's just a loss of face.

Xia Jingxing also heard in his previous life that when Red-clothed Cannon was working at Yahoo, he arranged for someone to open a back door on Yahoo's assistant.

This back door has not been activated until the 360 ​​security guards came on stage, and it finally came in handy and became a tool for sacrificing the flag.

This is absolutely not to be asked, even if asked, the red-clothed cannon will definitely not admit it.

"Okay, the palms of my hands and the backs of my hands are full of meat. I don't want to take sides. I just want to remind you to be mentally prepared for Ali's storm."

"Well, Mr. Xia, thank you. I have made all the preparations. I know that Mr. Xia is a magnanimous, fair and just person."

Xia Jingxing still had nothing to ask, but he didn't plan to ask any more.

Zhou Hongyi made such a big move without notifying him the major shareholder in advance. What was his motive?

In fact, even if he didn't ask, he knew in his heart that Cannon in Red was worried that he would tip off Ali.

The reason is very simple. Ahri's valuation is high, not to mention that he has spent 700 million US dollars.

Although the palms of the hands and the backs of the hands are all meat, there are also important and secondary points.

Knowing that the matter was irreversible, Xia Jingxing could only weigh the pros and cons.

To scold the red-clothed cannon for a while is to relieve the anger, and it will inevitably leave a crack in the cooperation.

Besides, Ahri's side doesn't necessarily accept his love.

The red-clothed cannon is also famous for being aggressive. Li Guanfu said that he is the most aggressive entrepreneur in China. BAT was offended by him in order, and the three giants could not wait to put him to death.

Although Qihoo's status will fall behind in the future, the red-clothed cannon is still alive and kicking, and naturally has his wisdom and ability.

Next, I have to fight with the penguin, and I need the red-clothed cannon to shoot him in front of him.