Weisger, wadi, Goldfinger.

Through a simple dialogue and self introduction, Zhuk confirmed the names of the three of them. They had just finished military service and retired from the army in Israel. They learned about the exchange activities in Silicon Valley and flew to the United States,

As early as a few months ago, they had the idea of creating ICQ.

They found that the e-mail box on the Internet is often filled with many unimportant information, so that some very important information is submerged, and there is no timely feedback and response. Therefore, they decided to invent a more rapid and direct information transmission software.

In this regard, the world's first chat software ICQ, was born!

Even dahuaxia's QQ was created by imitating qicq. However, qicq comes from pirated ICQ.

A coffee shop.

"Three, may I venture to ask you about the general development progress of ICQ software? Of course, if it's a trade secret, you don't have to answer it. " Zhuke said.

Weisig, wadi and Goldfinger looked at each other.

"Mr. Wald, it's not hard to say, because we have just finished our military service. At present, we have only finished the preliminary work of ICQ. When we return to Israel, we will start the formal R & D and programming work."

The three creators of ICQ are not ordinary people.

Especially weisger!

After his success in the ICQ project, weisig has invested in more than 80 Internet companies, and five companies have been listed successfully. In the future, weisig will be a multibillion dollar rich.

He's smart!

In other words, people who can succeed are smart people without coincidence! The reason why he is willing to say it is to see that Zhuke is interested and has investment intention.

"Three, if I can, I'd like to invest in three's ICQ project." He said without hesitation.

Smell speech, weisige three immediately overjoyed.

"Great, our project can start right away."

"Yes, Wisker. We'll make it soon. "

.......

Among the three, wadi and Goldfinger were very excited on the spot and thought about it one after another.

Weisger looked at Zhuke and said in a deep voice: "Mr. Wald, we appreciate your value and we are willing to accept your investment. But there is a premise that in angel investment, I, wadi and Goldfinger are the founding team, and we need the control of ICQ."

"No! No ~! "

Zhuke shook his head on the spot: "three of you, you are the founding team, there is no doubt about that, but I am the real dollar. In the first round of angel investment, I occupy the dominant power of ICQ, which is my due rights and interests."

"We can't accept that, Mr. Wald."

Weissger vetoed.

In the following time, Zucker and weisger discussed the dominance of ICQ. As for the other two creators of ICQ, they didn't have the shrewdness of weisig. They watched the whole process and became gourd eaters.

During the debate, it's not that Zhuke didn't want to set aside the three of them and form a team to develop ICQ.

But.

These three guys, or weissger, are too damned thieves. The reason why this guy spoke to Zhuke is that he is sure to let Zhuke compromise. As early as their first step into the United States, they contacted a lawyer to apply for the ICQ patent.

(this is sometimes the case in the United States. Not only the developed technology can be patented, but also the technical ideas can be patented.)

Weisige, with the patent in hand, completely blocked Zhuke's road to Shanzhai.

Of course, Zucker is not afraid of this.

Isn't it just a lawsuit? Now living in the United States, are you still afraid of this?

However, fear is a problem, and Zucker's lack of time or energy is another problem. The most important thing is that Zhuke can use QQ and ICQ, but he doesn't know how to develop it! Even if find a group of professional IT workers to program, however, when the development is completed, weisige three people may have already listed ICQ.

Compromise!

That's right. That's the bottom line for juke!

"Well, you convinced me." Zhuke said.

"Thank you, Mr. Wald. I'm sure we'll never let you down."

The next morning, in the presence of lawyers, Zhuke and weisige completed the signing of the investment contract.

Zhuke invested US $400000, accounting for 40% of the shares in the ICQ project, and in the subsequent round a, B and C investment, Zhuke also enjoys the priority of continuing additional investment.

"Weisig, the office of the company, I don't think it should be set up in Israel. Silicon Valley is the center of the Internet in today's world." Zucker suggested.

As far as the location of the company is concerned, the three readily accepted Zhuke's proposal.

After all, Zhuke is a man with a building on the outskirts of Silicon Valley. It's no problem to rent one floor to them.

Rent?

Yes, it's rent!

One thing belongs to the same thing, and it must not be confused. This is in line with the commercial law, and it is the principle of Zucker.

After the three left, Zhang Wei, Zhuke's personal lawyer, said, "boss, 400000 dollars is nothing to you, but do you really think you can succeed?"

"Ha ha." Zucker smiles mysteriously.

Is the ICQ project successful?

Success, not success!

As soon as the software was launched, it immediately responded to the global market. With unprecedented creativity, it soon had a large number of users all over the world in a short period of half a year. Even in Asia, where the Internet was not very developed at that time, the number of market users also accounted for 70%, and even in China, it accounted for 80%.

In 1998, AOL acquired ICQ at a high price of US $407 million at that time.

In this regard, ICQ is a success. At that time, Tencent's Pony had not founded penguin.

However, if ICQ is not a success, it is not.

Because it did not achieve the expected profit!

During its development, due to a number of decision-making failures, it did not walk on the right road, and did not effectively use its huge number of users to realize the egg of related industries, such as games, film and television. At the same time, it did not develop the non English version of ICQ.

This is particularly fatal!

So that many non English speaking countries, derived from a large number of native language version of chat software, such as the Great China on the birth of QQ.

(in fact, even if ICQ develops a Chinese version, it will not be able to occupy the market of China. From 2020, whether it's Amazon or Google, which one is not famous, is not it all the failure of the Great China

In 2010, AOL sold ICQ to DST, a Russian investment company, for $187.5 million.

"Successful investment in ICQ is just a blessing!"

Zhuke is in a good mood and wants to take part in more such activities in the future.

The "collection" broke 500 yesterday. The minister is here to thank you again for your support. I will continue to work hard.

In addition, for those who read books with starting point app, the minister needs everyone's support in the project of "more than 100 investors are recommended". Thank you ~!