Chapter 2693： episode

Chapter 2693 Interlude

On September 20, five days after the official end of the Internet Summit, in the conference room of the headquarters of Pengcheng Penguin Company, under the witness of the Penguin founders such as Xiao Ma and Li Qing, Jiang Xiaobai, Yingke and IDG signed a contract. share transfer agreement.

Jiang Xiaobai purchased 20% of the Penguin shares held by Yingke and IDG at a price of 11 million US dollars, and spent a total of 22 million US dollars to get the Penguin 100. forty percent of the shares.

has become the largest individual shareholder of Penguin. Of course, the team of Xiao Ma and his entrepreneurial team holds 60% of the shares of Penguin, and has absolute controlling rights.

But that 60% of the shares belong to the team, and when it comes to individuals, Jiang Xiaobai is the largest individual shareholder.

Huaqing Holding Group officially invested in Penguin, but in addition to Yingke and IDG people, there were Jiang Xiaobai and others and senior personnel inside Penguin.

There are no reporters or media. Jiang Xiaobai did not deliberately keep this matter a secret, but Penguin itself is not a well-known company at this time, and to be honest, not many people pay attention.

In addition, the investment of more than 20 million US dollars in Huaqing Holdings Group is not a large amount of money, and there are not many people who pay attention.

For Huaqing Holding Group, it takes at least one billion investment, or even several billions of investment to attract attention. Otherwise, Huaqing Holding Group's investment of tens of millions or hundreds of millions is too much. If it were reported every day, the news of Huaqing Holding Group would always be in the newspapers.

"Congratulations to Jiang Dong."

"Congratulations to Jiang Dong." Yingke and IDG people smiled and congratulated.

"Haha, thank you two for making it happen, and a special thank you to Mr. Liu for connecting with IDG, thank you." Jiang Xiaobai also said with a smile.

After he negotiated with Yingke, he asked Yingke to help contact IDG. President Liu is also an intermediary. Of course, it was mainly IDG who wanted to sell the shares in a hurry.

However, there is a small episode in the middle. IDG was not willing to sell all the Penguin shares it held at one time, and planned to leave a 10% wait and see.

After all, Penguin's user growth is there. As long as it finds a profitable direction, the future is boundless, but how could Jiang Xiaobai allow such a thing to happen.

In the previous life, IDG played this game, and only gave up part of the shares in its hand to ensure its own investment profit, but not all of it. In the end, when the penguin became bigger and bigger, it left the shares in its hand. It's a lot of money.

But this life is different, Jiang Xiaobai directly stated his attitude, either he will let it all out, or he will not want it at all.

If IDG wants to keep the shares in its hands, let’s see if anyone dares to ask for it. Penguin is a company that wants to die.

Although these words are a bit threatening, what Jiang Xiaobai is telling the truth is the penguin's current size.

To be honest, it is not a big problem to organize a group of people to develop a software. As long as you have the money to push it and copy the development path of the penguin, it is not a big problem to cut off the penguin in advance.

There is nothing moral or immoral, because Penguin is also a plagiarism ICQ.

If you copy someone else's, I also copy someone else's, that's a matter of competition.

In terms of competition, Penguin has formed its own ecological chain after 20 years, closed its own product circle, and has huge traffic.

If you want to engage with others, they will be able to kill you in minutes.

You don't even need to say that you copied others, if they don't copy yours, it will give you face. If you come up with a new product, you take the initiative to ask others to buy shares. If people like you and give you a little money, it is considered a conscience. , don't mess with you.

But if it doesn't look good to you, it's useless if you take the initiative to send it to your door, I don't want it, I just copy one out, and then I have a huge amount of traffic, and I can kill you in minutes.

This is the traffic of others, and this is where they are good at. The huge traffic is to do whatever they want.

But now, Penguin is not a system at all. Now it only has a huge user group, and even the layout of the PC side is not well understood. Those huge traffic will wait until the user side is when the real power is displayed.

So if you want to overtake in a corner, as long as you have money and someone, now is the last corner, and it is still possible during the winter of the Internet.

Therefore, in IDG's view, Jiang Xiaobai's threat is not empty words, Jiang Xiaobai really has this strength.

Keep the shares in their hands, wait for a deadly fight with Jiang Xiaobai, or take a large sum of money and leave beautifully. After measuring with IDG, they finally feel that they are leaving. In the cold winter of the Internet, there is no need for them to be on top of a penguin. wasted.

They have invested in too many companies, so why bother with Penguin?

And they are not very optimistic about the future of Penguin. Portal websites and e-commerce are popular in China now.

The other things, such as communication software, to be honest, they have to be ranked further, even if it is a search engine, in their opinion, this value is a little bigger than that of a penguin.

There are also antivirus software and the like, which are better than any communication software.

So they were originally going to transfer the shares they held in Penguin, and Yingke also happily gave up the shares in their hands.

The last and most important reason is that Jiang Xiaobai is a local snake, and they invest overseas. Although it is not afraid of Jiang Xiaobai, there is no need to conflict with a local snake like Jiang Xiaobai, and it is because of a small communication software conflict.

After all, this communication software has a ceiling in their opinion, just like ICQ copied by Penguin, which was also acquired by Citi Online.

However, the performance after the acquisition was not very bright. Of course, that was because the entrepreneurial team quit directly. In addition, Citi Online fought with Microsoft all day long on the browser. In fact, it did not pay much attention to the reason.

Communication software is not taken seriously. In fact, not only penguins, but many are like this. For example, at this time, Wangyi also has its own chat room, and there is also an IM. People can also speak. The viscosity of users is more than that of penguins. Much stronger.

It’s just that with the development of the torrent of the times, no one knows what the future will be like. It’s like the current Ahri is not very optimistic, and no one really thinks that e-commerce has a future.

Even a lot of people see the Internet as a new thing and don’t take it too seriously.