Silicon Valley

"Look, you just came out of the venture capital company, are you running a company yourself?" Henry looked at Zhou Hongyi with a smile on his face, and asked in a slow tone.

Zhou Hongyi was stunned for a moment and looked at Henry involuntarily. Henry is 185cm tall, with an American face, fair skin, fortitude, sunny, handsome, and there seems to be a monarch-like majesty between his eyebrows. The smile on the corner of his mouth raised, revealing a strong confidence, full of charm.

Zhou Hongyi stared at Henry for a while, thinking to himself, this is a face that can captivate thousands of women!

"Yes, I started a new company with my relatives and colleagues. The full name is 3721 Technology Company!" Zhou Hongyi replied.

"3721? Haha, as expected!" Henry heard the words and couldn't help but smile.

As soon as Zhou Hongyi mentioned his company, the chat box opened immediately. He chatted in front of Henry and Lu Zhishan and began to introduce his company, "3721 Technology Company provides Chinese Internet access services, users do not need to memorize complicated domain names, directly in the browser Enter the Chinese name in the address bar, you can go directly to the company's website or find company and product information..."

"Sounds interesting," Henry said. "Hehe, if you don't mind, let's find a cafe and have a good chat! Maybe... I'll be willing to invest in your company!"

"You are……?"

"Me? My name is William," Henry didn't want to reveal his identity for the time being, because 3721 was doing searches, and Isearch was also doing searches, so he deliberately said a fake identity. Immediately, Henry pointed to Lu Zhishan and introduced: "This is Uncle Lu Zhishan, the chairman of Mingyue Supermarket, and also my father-in-law!"

When Zhou Hongyi heard this, he couldn't help being surprised. Although he didn't know Lu Zhishan, Mingyue Supermarket was famous, with a market value of tens of billions of RMB, and supermarkets were opened all over China. In a word, it is very rich!

"Hello, Mr. Lu, it's a pleasure to meet you here. My name is Zhou Hongyi!" Zhou Hongyi's attitude was very respectful.

"I'm also very happy to meet you, young man," Lu Zhishan smiled lightly, "Look at your appearance, you're only in your twenties... Well, you can start your own business at a young age! Not bad, young and promising. what!"

"It's nothing to be busy. Our company still lacks development funds. So, I have to seek the help of venture capital!" Zhou Hongyi looked at Lu Zhishan and Henry with bright eyes. After learning of Lu Zhishan's identity, Zhou Hongyi knew that he had met a gold owner, and as long as he seized the opportunity, he might be able to get investment. Although Lu Zhishan is not very interested in his company, his son-in-law seems to be very interested!

Henry smiled and said, "In that case, there is a cafe in front of us, and we can chat while drinking coffee."

"Okay!" Zhou Hongyi nodded quickly in response.

After a few minutes, the three walked into the cafe and asked the waiter for three cups of fine coffee.

"Mr. Zhou, how many employees does 3721 have now?" Henry asked, "How is the development going?"

"Counting me, there are only 25 employees in total, including 8 programmers! The main business of 3721 is to provide 'Internet real-name' registration for the time being. Each registration costs 100 yuan per year, and there are currently more than 800 users. Real-name registration is just the beginning, and the ultimate goal of 3721's development is to use real-name online to turn to Chinese search."

"Huh, the ambition is not small!" Henry said, "But as far as I know, Isearch search has occupied an absolute monopoly position in the Chinese search market in China. How does 3721 break this deadlock?"

Lu Zhishan just picked up the coffee cup and was about to drink coffee, but when he heard their conversation, he couldn't help but be stunned. He looked at Zhou Hongyi with a strange expression. The big boss of Isearch company sat opposite Zhou Hongyi. And he didn't know Henry's details, and he was still talking in front of his competitors, didn't this send his head up and chop it off?

Zhou Hongyi said to himself at this time: "Although I don't say that it exceeds Isearch, at least it can steal a lot of market share from it! 3721 In addition to the method of online real name, there is another trick! However, this requires investment from you, so I can say! "

Henry pouted, thinking, what means do you have, I don't know yet? Isn't that just being a hooligan? Forced installation, can not uninstall! For example, when a user opens a certain webpage or installs a certain software, the 3721 plug-in will be forcibly installed into the user's computer through various means such as bundled installation, and even professionals cannot completely uninstall it. At the same time, 3721 cooperated with many personal websites to pop up 3721's window advertisements, and some windows could not be closed at all.

Once 3721 becomes bigger and stronger, it will force other companies to buy its online real name. The real name of 3721 is similar to Baidu's bidding ranking, that is, if you don't spend money to buy it, you will not be able to search for content.

Speaking of which, 3721 has become popular in China's Internet by playing hooligans, and it should be regarded as the most powerful Internet company in the early stage. While other Internet companies are still struggling, 3721 has made a fortune.

Is Baidu jealous after seeing it? Of course jealous! It competed with 3721, launched the Baidu Soba plug-in, and adopted the same method of brushing hooligans as 3721, but it couldn't do 3721. If Baidu can't do it, it will go home to find "mother" and take 3721 to court on the grounds of abnormal competition, as if Baidu itself has never used hooligan competition methods...

However, although Baidu won, it was of no use. 3721 lost tens of thousands of money and sent Baidu away.

3721 occupies an absolute market, and at the same time is almost "indignation of gods and men". At this time, Yahoo threw an olive branch, Zhou Hongyi could not resist the temptation, and sold it for 120 million US dollars. 3721 was subsequently renamed as Yahoo Assistant, but unfortunately, 3721 was tossed to death by Yahoo.

Tencent, Baidu... Which company hasn't played hooligans? Although Zhou Hongyi named the company 3721, he did not do it himself.

Regardless of his "three seven twenty one", persistence is victory!

The late 1990s to the beginning of the 21st century was the best era of the Internet in China, and it was also the most chaotic era. Seize the opportunity to achieve greatness.

At present, although Isearch search occupies the Chinese market, even Google was jointly suppressed by Baidu and the Chinese government, and finally had to withdraw from the Chinese market. Henry also doesn't have much hope for Isearch. Search is very important for a country. You can only see what the country wants you to see. If you don't want you to see it, you must definitely block it! Simply put, it is the control of people's minds!

Therefore, unless foreign Internet search companies are willing to become tools of the Chinese government, the state will definitely try their best to drive your company away. If you make corrections, you will close the website, do it a few more times, and you will not be killed!

Therefore, whether Isearch should compromise and submit to the Chinese government is a question that makes Henry very entangled.

(To be continued ~^~)