At this time, a conversation was also going on in Shenzhen City, at the Penguin Company headquarters.

Zhang Xiaolong entered Boss Pony's office and said to him:

“Have you seen the WeChat message that came out recently?”

Boss Pony nodded, picked up his phone, and pointed to the green WeChat icon on the interface:

"I tried it after hearing about it. This software has been developing very well recently."

"I heard that it was done by a group of college students in Qindao. Recently, there was a selection event for female college students. The prizes were very high, so now many college students use this software. I have been paying attention to this software. It is very amazing and I have some ideas.

And what surprised me the most was its voice intercom function, which is very practical.”

Zhang Xiaolong said this.

Boss Xiao Ma has a serious face. With the advent of the mobile Internet era, he has also realized the changes in the landscape and has always been under great pressure.

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Especially after Zhalang launched Weibo, facing the rapid development of Weibo and the direction of social networking, he was always worried that Penguin would fall behind during this period. All of Penguin's businesses relied on social media to attract traffic.

If they fall behind in this field, it will be their fate to be destroyed. Therefore, he will always take seriously all companies that emerge in the social field.

"What do you think should be done?"

"We should immediately set up a project and organize a team to make similar products. We can't wait any longer. WeChat is developing too fast now, and it will be very dangerous to delay it."

Zhang Xiaolong seemed to have an idea and said immediately.

"Well, let's take a two-pronged approach. Send someone to contact that company to see if it can be acquired. At the same time, like you said, we will start developing our own products."

"The acquisition may not be that easy." Zhang Xiaolong said after hearing what he said.

"how?"

Zhang Xiaolong hesitated for a moment and said:

"Actually, the founder of WeChat came to Yangcheng to find me before."

Hearing his words, Boss Pony showed an expression of interest on his face, but he didn't say anything immediately, but listened to Zhang Xiaolong continue:

"I didn't think at first that the WeChat project was also founded by him. You should know that we sent people to contact this person and wanted to buy his company."

"Have we been in contact?"

As the chairman of Penguin Company, Boss Pony has to deal with a lot of things every day, so at this time, he did not expect to acquire Huanyu Technology.

"Yes, the company he started before is called Supernova Interactive Entertainment, which launched two mobile games that are very popular around the world - "Angry Birds" and "Fruit Swordsman". Didn't our company think about acquiring these games before?

Supernova Interactive Entertainment, but was it rejected by them?"

"Are you talking about the young man named He Luo?"

Boss Xiao Ma had some impressions about this matter, so when Zhang Xiaolong mentioned Supernova Interactive Entertainment and the two mobile games they produced, he immediately thought of He Luo:

"You mean WeChat belongs to him too?"

"Yes, I found out that the company that developed WeChat is called Huanyu Technology, and then I asked the Yanjing branch to inquire about this company, and found out that the boss of this company is He Luo. This young man came to China at the beginning of this year

I came to Yangcheng when I was young and met a few times. At that time, he wanted me to join their company, but I refused. I just didn’t expect that it didn’t take long for him to launch the WeChat product. At the beginning

I also think he wants me to help him make mobile games or their Nebula mobile assistant..."

Hearing Zhang Xiaolong say this, Boss Pony's expression became much more cautious. Although Zhang Xiaolong is not at a high level in Penguin Company, Boss Pony knows about his abilities.

This is also why some of Zhang Xiaolong's more outrageous behaviors, such as never being willing to attend meetings and arriving at work very late, are tolerated by these pony bosses. It can be said that he is like this alone in the entire Penguin Company.

He Luo took the initiative to contact Zhang Xiaolong at the beginning of the year. Although Boss Pony was not sure whether he had plans to start WeChat at that time, it still made him more wary of the other party to a certain extent.

"I also heard that the other party cooperated with Renren and advertised on it, spending 1 million, but this is not the most important thing. Isn't it said that Lei Jun is planning to start a business to make mobile phones recently? That WeChat founder He Luo

I invested in Lei Jun's company very early, the specific amount is not clear, but it should be no less than 5 million US dollars."

It’s not surprising that Zhang Xiaolong knew this news. After all, the Internet circle is so big. You can find friends and classmates in various big companies. Some of the more well-known practitioners in them also have good personal relationships with each other, so a lot of news cannot be discussed.

Confidentiality.

From these situations, Boss Pony can also see that WeChat is indeed coming with bad intentions. After all, this product is creative and if there are funds, it will be promoted quickly, so he has an even greater sense of urgency:

"Let's talk first. Give a high price and see if you can buy it. Even if you can't buy it, you can still know more about the other party's details. In addition, we must also hurry up on our own development, mobilize elite soldiers and generals, and go online in the shortest possible time.

our products."

To be honest, Supernova Internet was given a valuation of US$1.5 billion at that time, but it still failed to win the company. From this point of view, Boss Xiao Ma didn’t feel that he had much hope in acquiring WeChat, but he had to give it a try first.

He really appreciates the WeChat APP, so if he can acquire it, it would be the best result.

Just as He Luo had been worried about, when WeChat became more and more famous, it quickly came into the eyes of giants and was feared by them. Tencent also began to prepare to enter the market.

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By the time He Luo returned to Qindao, the villa in Yuhai Garden had been renovated. However, after inspecting the house, he was not in a hurry to move there. After all, it was still a long way from the school. Whether he went to the software

Neither the garden nor the Heytea side is close.

Therefore, in normal times, he mainly lives in Xinghai Garden or Tiancheng Garden. Occasionally, when he is alone, he will return to No. 10 Zijing East Road.

Before leaving Qindao, He Luo asked Luo Jianbin to help him investigate the young man he met at the Shannon Milk Tea Shop that day.

After returning to Qindao and meeting Luo Jianbin, He Luo knew that he was indeed the owner of Shannon Milk Tea.

The young man's name is Yu Junyan, and his background is not simple. His mother's family is from a business family, while his father's family is in the official career, especially his uncle, who has already gone to the province, although he is not ranked too high.

Although he has a high position in the past, his influence cannot be underestimated.

Yu Junyan? Thinking that he and Luo Xiran seemed to be familiar with each other, and what Ke Yi had said to He Luo before, He Luo had some guesses.

But no matter what, based on Luo Xiran's initiative to remind herself before and her attitude at the time, He Luo is not afraid of the other party if they only compete in business. As for whether the other party will use other means, then they can only observe.

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He Luo has also been keeping in touch with Sun Ying and knows that although the emergence of these milk tea shops that follow the trend has had some impact on Heytea, the most intuitive thing is that the average daily cup volume of the store has dropped slightly, but as Heytea

With the opening of more branches, overall sales have been growing.

If these funds are circulated like this, when Heytea stores are saturated in Qinhai, the living environment of other milk tea shops will naturally become worse.

Anyway, He Luo has enough funds and is not afraid of spending it like this until the end, so that others will not dare to enter. Those who enter will linger in the shadow of Heytea. That is the result he hopes for.
Chapter completed!