Ceng Liqing immediately contacted SoftBank after Ma Huateng agreed.
Unsurprisingly, SoftBank had invested in China's internet industry for many years and was very optimistic about it.
Although they knew that Penguin had a stronger competitor, Penguin still controlled more than 2 million concurrent users. The number of active users was even higher, reaching more than 10 million. This was a large base. Although there was still some risk in this investment, but since it was a risky investment, why would they want them?
50 million USD.
This was the investment amount offered by SoftBank.
30% of the shares.
This was not a lot of shares, but Penguin gave up 30% after three rounds of mergers. Ma Huateng's team only had less than 20% of the shares, and Ma Huateng only had 9% of the shares. Even so, Ma Huateng's team still managed to get a condition during the negotiation.
If Penguin went public in the future, Penguin had the right to buy back SoftBank's shares first.
SoftBank acknowledged this right.
SoftBank was just a venture capital company. They did not want to be shareholders for life.
They only wanted to make money.
Generally speaking, venture capital companies would sell their shares after a company went public.
Because most of the time when a company went public, venture capital companies would have already made a lot of profits and would sell their shares.
They would only continue to hold the shares in their hands if the company still had the potential for long-term growth.
Just like how SoftBank held Ali's shares in Feng Yu's previous life. Although Ali went public, SoftBank still held a considerable amount of Ali's shares.
"50 million USD, 400 million RMB."
Looking at the 400 million RMB, Ma Huateng planned in his mind.
"This is not a lot of money, but it should be enough to deal with the current crisis."
Ma Huateng called for another venture capital meeting and said to everyone, "How should we spend this money?"
Ceng Liqing wanted to say something but stopped.
He wanted to say that they should take a gamble in the gaming industry again.
Online games were still the most profitable industry on the internet, and their "Triumph" had already tasted some benefits. If not for Huanyu Technologies, they would have been doing very well. But Ceng Liqing did not dare to say anything. He was the one who proposed to enter the gaming industry, but he was also the one who screwed it up.
Although Ceng Liqing could not be completely blamed for this, the fact that he was defeated by Huanyu Technology in such a short time was enough to explain the problem.
"Let's focus our funds on our old businesses," Wang Yao said.
Zhang Zhidong said.
He knew what Ceng Liqing wanted to say, but he also knew why Victorious Return had failed.
On the surface, it was the competition from Huanyu's Penguin, but the underlying reason was their lack of experience in online games.
They only had some advantages in the area of instant messaging.
This was also the reason why Huanyu Technologies had been constantly competing with them, but their QQ hadn't fallen yet.
In addition to the original users of QQ, they also had a certain understanding of instant messaging.
"I agree with Zhi Dong."
Chen Yizhou agreed.
"I agree."
Xu Chenye also expressed her stance.
"I agree with Zhi Dong's suggestion."
Since the four of them had already expressed their stance, it was even more impossible for Ceng Liqing to say anything.
"Why are you all looking at me? Do you think I'll harm the company? I also agree with Zhi Dong."
Ceng Liqing finally said.
"Liqing, we don't have any other intentions. We all want to play games, but we really don't have much experience."
Ma Huateng was afraid that Ceng Liqing would be angry, so he explained.
"We're all good brothers. How could I not know? Let's find another opportunity to enter in the future."
Although the five of them had conflicts in the operation of the company, they all had a good relationship.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for them to start a business together.
Speaking like this, the five of them looked at each other and smiled.
"In this case, let's go all out."
Ma Huateng high-fived everyone.
"Go all out."
Everyone said in unison.
In any case, the current Penguin was much better than when the company was established.
Even if they failed, so what?
What's more, they hadn't completely failed.
…
After the launch of One Stand to the End YY game, the YY game platform became popular again.
Countless netizens experienced the fun of this game.
It was not only a game, but also could increase knowledge.
Not only netizens liked it, but also some parents and students liked it very much.
Some teachers even recommended to parents that if they wanted their children to increase their knowledge, they should let them play One Stand to the End.
With such a game, Huanyu Technologies contacted several TV stations, and all of them expressed their interest.
In the end, Huanyu Technologies signed a contract with Jiangzhe Satellite TV and prepared to launch a new variety show, One Stand to the End.
Of course, the reason why they were interested in Huanyu Technologies' show was not only because the show was very popular, but also because of Huanyu Technologies' influence in the entertainment industry.
Others didn't know, but these TV stations knew very well … Not long ago, a celebrity face-to-face show on Shencheng TV station was canceled because of one sentence from the boss of Huanyu Technologies.
Of course, Shencheng TV station wanted to continue broadcasting, but they couldn't find a singer.
What kind of show was a fan club without a singer?
At that time, Shencheng TV station was a bit confused, not knowing how they offended someone.
Several deputy station directors spent a lot of effort to dig out some information from major record companies.
However, Shencheng TV station was a bit puzzled. When did Huanyu Technologies reach into the entertainment industry?
Weren't they an internet company? Why were the major record companies trying to curry favor with Huanyu Technologies?
Regarding this, the major TV stations didn't understand. In fact, the major record companies were also a bit confused.
They didn't know why, but the entire music industry seemed to have changed.
With Huanyu Technology's involvement, a brand new way of playing the game began.
However, although this progress was smooth, Wang Chang's side was in trouble.
She successfully bought Maopu.
However, her personal website, hao123, was in trouble.
It wasn't that Li Xingping didn't want to sell hao123.
At first, Li Xingping didn't want to sell it. He only wanted to use hao123 for his retirement.
This website didn't require any technology, and it was easy to maintain. However, the awesome thing was that the annual advertising fees were one or two million yuan.
For a website owner, what could be more comfortable than such a website?
However, after Wang Chang explained the pros and cons of hao123, Li Xingping finally agreed to sell it.
After all, although hao123 had a lot of traffic, it didn't have any technology.
Li Xingping was only a website owner. His technology was limited, his vision was limited, and his strength was even more limited.
In the future, if other companies also wanted to create websites like URL navigation, hao123 would definitely be no match for them.
If hao123 didn't sell, Huanyu Technologies would definitely create a URL navigation that was exactly the same as hao123. Not only would Huanyu Technologies do it, but so would Baidu. Even … other companies would follow suit.
However, when Li Xingping agreed, Baidu seemed to have sensed danger.
They actually contacted Li Xingping at the same time.
With a high price of 50 million yuan and some shares of Baidu, they beat Huanyu Technologies to the acquisition of hao123.
"Boss Chen, it's my fault. I didn't complete the mission."
Wang Chang blamed herself for not acquiring hao123.
"It's not all your fault."
Chen Yu didn't expect Baidu to appear halfway.
It seemed that Baidu had found out that he was preparing to enter the search business.
This was normal.
If even Xu Yong could guess, how could Li Yanhong, who was smarter than Xu Yong, not know?
It seemed that this search engine battle wasn't going to be easy.
Chen Yu sighed to himself.
"We also underestimated Li Xingping."
Although Li Xingping couldn't compete with Huanyu Technologies or Baidu, he knew the importance of his own URL navigation. As a matter of fact, once he pulled Baidu, his competitor, over, their offer rose from Huanyu Technologies' original 30 million yuan to 50 million yuan. They even included some shares of Baidu.
Needless to say, Baidu had paid a hefty price to acquire hao123.
If Chen Yu were to go up against them, he would have to think twice.
Chen Yu could afford 50 million yuan, but Chen Yu wouldn't pay a single cent of Huanyu Technologies' shares.
"Boss Chen, what do we do now? Do we create a URL navigation?"
Zhang Jianming suggested.
"That's what we should do, but we need to spend some effort on marketing it."
URL navigation wasn't that complicated. Any web programmer could do it.
However, the key to URL navigation wasn't the technology, but the traffic.
Everyone was used to using hao123. Even if you created one now, people might not use your URL navigation. Of course, it wasn't impossible to market it slowly. In his previous life, other than hao123, there were other successful URL navigation, such as 360 URL navigation. However, it took too much time.
"Eh …"
Speaking of 360, Chen Yu had a flash of inspiration. He thought of a great idea.
"Brother Jian, contact the Boss Zhou of 3721."
The Boss Zhou of 3721 was none other than the famous Zhou Hongyi. He was also the boss of 360 in his previous life.
He was also the father of hooligan software.
At this time, his 3721 used a series of hooligan operations to control more than 90% of the domestic market.
Of course, on the surface, 3721 wasn't a hooligan software. Its business was to provide Chinese Internet services.
For example, if you wanted to go to Sina, if you didn't use 3721, you could only enter Sina's URL.
Although it looked very simple, all he had to do was type in a few letters.
However, Chinese people preferred to type.
Wouldn't it be better to enter the words "Sina Web" or "Sina Web"?
Relying on this business, 3721 gained the favor of a certain number of users.
If that was all 3721 could do, it wouldn't be a hooligan software.
The key was that 3721 could hijack your Internet Explorer browser.
For example, it could prevent ads from popping up. It could also change the browser's homepage. At the same time, it could also block ads from popping up.
Of course, at this stage, it wasn't a big deal.
If you felt that this software was no longer useful, you could just uninstall it.
However, the hooligan part was that you couldn't uninstall it even if you wanted to.
Even if you uninstalled it, sorry, 3721 would trigger another program to repair itself.
Don't even talk about computer noobs. Even professional players would go crazy when faced with such a hooligan software.
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