In the blink of an eye, it was the end of March.
Chen Ke and his team worked tirelessly to create the first version of the TV Space in just two weeks.
During this time, the number of registered users of TT had skyrocketed by 45 million, and the number of online users had also reached about 150,000.
For a time, many Internet companies, including the three major portals, began to look at them.
There were even local venture capitalists who came looking for him.
The local Capital Youth Daily reported that
"TL is known as a national treasure and is a new upstart in online instant messaging!”
At that time, the largest consumer weekly newspaper in the Imperial Capital, the Fine Shopping Guide, even reported:
" Internet upstart pointing his sword at Penguin!"
Of course, this report was just a kind of hope.
Compared to the current users of Penguin, the number of QQ users was not even a fraction of others.
However, from this, it could be seen that many people had been suffering for a long time.
By the way, during this period of time, Lin Xuan acquired some businesses and recruited some important talents.
For example, Yuanhang Technology bought Foxmail from Pengcheng Boda for 240 million Chinese dollars.
This was twice as cheap as Penguin's 450 million a year later.
Therefore, after four years of silence, the future father of WeChat, Zhang Xiaolong, was taken over by Yuanhang Technology.
The other was that Lin Xuan had directly recruited the future founder of 51.COM through the headhunting company of Mckinsey.
Pang Shengdong.
Speaking of these two people, one of them, Zhang Xiaolong, graduated from the Department of Communication of the Central China University of Science and Technology in 1994.
After graduating from graduate school, he independently wrote the Foxmail email system around 1996. This was an email software that was even earlier than Outlook.
Ding Lei from Netease was also developing the email system at the same time.
However, one of them was a client, while the other was a web-based one.
After the birth of Foxmail, the Chinese version had more than four million users within a year, and the English version had users in more than 20 countries.
It was ranked among the top ten domestically produced software.
Therefore, Zhang Xiaolong was regarded as the second best software engineer in the industry.
Zhang Xiaolong was introverted and didn't like to mix in circles. At the same time, he was also an amateur tennis master.
However, he wasn't very interested in business.
He didn't even think about starting a company. Instead, he joined Lingtong Company, a subsidiary of Huacheng Science Academy.
In 1998, Zhang Xiaolong sold Foxmail to Pengcheng Boda for 12 million yuan, and then the Internet bubble burst.
Boda had never found a way to make Foxmail profitable.
Zhang Xiaolong had no choice but to bring more than 10 engineers to make a corporate email.
However, this was a very small market, and it could be said to be struggling at death's door.
However, at the end of March 2004, Lin Xuan brought Chen Ke to Peng City again.
He directly offered 200 million to acquire Foxmail.
In the end, after some negotiations, the deal was sold for 240 million.
Chen Ke and Zhang Xiaolong talked. Both of them had technical backgrounds. As the saying went," they had the same bad taste." They quickly became friends.
Zhang Xiaolong was especially impressed by Chen Ke's battle with the hackers of Beauty Nation as a Red Guest.
Without much difficulty, Zhang Xiaolong agreed to join Yuanhang Technology with his team.
As for the other Pang Shengdong, he was also an amazing figure.
In 1998, he joined Jack Ma's Yellow Page Company as a part-time salesman, as the lowest level of employees.
Later, he was transferred to the Planning and Economics Committee of the Ningbo City. He was responsible for finding financial information on the Internet and participated in the construction of the Ning Bo Information Network.
Later, he made a few individual stations.
Including biying. com, zhanzhang.net, 86.net, 1tong. com.
Some fail, but most succeed
However, the most impressive thing was the social platform he founded, 51.com.
This was a product that almost drove Penguin into a corner.
In the end, Penguin and 51 were forced to fight for users in every internet cafe in the country.
If it weren't for the intervention of investors and the internal strife of the founders, 51.com might have grown to the point where it could compete with Penguin.
At its peak, 51.com had 51Xiu, 51Mall, 51Groups, 51Ask, and so on.
Pang Shengdong also created an online payment system similar to Q Coin.
It could be said that as long as Penguin had it, 51 would have it too.
Although the value of letting Zhang Xiaolong and Pang Shengdong join Yuanhang Technology was not cheap, in Lin Xuan's opinion, it was very worth it.
As soon as Pang Shengdong entered the company, he was appointed CEO.
Zhang Xiaolong and Chen Ke became the CTO of the company.
At the same time, the company had poached many people from Penguin, the three portals, and Messenger with high salaries.
In a short period of time, the number of people in Yuanhang Technology had expanded to two to three hundred.
It was for the sake of management and regularisation.
Yuanhang Technology began to adjust the framework.
The S and M lines were established.
The S line was the R D department.
For example, the S1 department was developing a TV show.
The S2 department was the MT Mall.
S3 was the gaming department.
Each department had about 12 R D personnel, but they could be flexibly deployed according to the priorities of the project.
For example, almost all the R D personnel in the current TT space were testing and improving it.
The M-line was the promotion department.
It can be divided into M1 advertising planning department, M2 local promotion department, M3 is the liaison department with various related enterprises, etc.
Other than that, there were also finance, public relations, customer service, and other functional departments.
To this end, Lin Xuan also introduced the Six Sigmas management model proposed by motorola in the 1980s.
A special management committee was formed.
Confirm the specific improvement projects and improvement sequence, allocate resources
Regularly assess the progress of each project and provide guidance.
In short, in an extremely short period of time, Lin Xuan established an extremely excellent team in the Imperial Capital.
At this time, Penguin, which was preparing to go public, did not notice that a giant beast was lying in wait in the distant Imperial City, waiting for the opportunity to soar.
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