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Extraordinary Genius
Chapter 1267 – The invading Tencent
Pony Ma looks troubled as he did not think a virtual farm is interesting. But all of Feng Yu’s suggestions in the past had been a great help to Tencent. Maybe this is also a good idea, and it’s just him who doesn’t understand it.
“Manager Feng, I will look into this after I got back.”
Feng Yu knows Pony Ma doesn’t believe him from his expression. In his previous life, QQ farm is also copying from Happy Farm. With a bigger user base, they quickly overshadowed Happy Farm, and the people from Kaixin001 must be angry.
Virtual ranches and restaurants evolved from the farm and are also popular with the users. This will retain the users and also entice them to become premium members.
“Yes. I believe you all can come up with many ideas to help the company become more profitable.”
In Feng Yu’s previous life, Tencent had acquired many smaller internet companies. Tencent only focused on these companies’ creativity and didn’t care about their marketing abilities. After all, who else can promote a new game or service better than Tencent.
“Manager Feng, you had asked us not to compete with Sina, NetEase, and other companies for the market share. But with some overseas internet companies entering China and I think we should all enter the competition. Maybe this will speed up the overall industry’s development.”
Healthy competition is good for the industry.
“So?”
“So, I plan to introduce QQ email, QQ forum, QQ music, and other services. All these services will revolve around QQ, and we will create an internet technology empire!”
Pony Ma did not hide his ambition. Someone had said before, ‘All successful people are more ambitious than others.’
Ambition is a motivating factor, and people will work hard to achieve what they want.
Feng Yu suddenly remembered Pony Ma said the company might run out of funds and get listed before 2005. With so many plans in mind, they require lots of funds.
No product can make profits immediately once it is launched into the market. Massive funds are required to develop a new product, and this is why internet companies burn lots of money. An internet company’s initial phase requires massive funds and got to wait for years before they become profitable. But they can generate massive returns if they are successful!
“Manager Ma, I believe your dreams will come true. But the core of the company is QQ, and we must maintain our advantage. All the features of QQ must be the most advanced, and whenever people think of messaging software, they will think of QQ!”
“Of course. NetEase’s Bubbles, and the other chatting software from other companies, are not as good as our QQ. My target is not only becoming the best in China. I will bring QQ out of China and become the world’s best instant messaging software!”
Feng Yu’s raised his brows. This is a great ambition, but QQ is still far away from MSN. There are 400 million registered users on QQ, but active users only amount to 30 million, and it is limited to China.
MSN’s active users are over 100 million, and after them, there is another giant, ICQ. ICQ is modeled after QQ.
The biggest advantage of these two software is the languages. It is based on English, and they introduced multi-languages. QQ is only available in Mandarin.
ICQ had been replaced by QQ in China, but MSN has not entered the Chinese market. Because MSN is bundled with Microsoft’s other software, its users grew rapidly.
MSN has lots of users, and it’s very hard to overtake them. But in Feng Yu’s previous life, MSN was replaced by another Microsoft software, SKYPE. Microsoft had bought SKYPE when SKYPE users are about to overtake MSN. This is what Microsoft does all the time.
If you show signs of becoming better than me, I will acquire you and make you mine.
When MSN had taken over other markets, why did they give up on the vast Chinese market? In Feng Yu’s previous life, he had used MSN. The interface is clean and more secure, which is preferred by many businessmen and white-collars.
After all, there are many instances where QQ accounts are hacked. In terms of cybersecurity, QQ is not as good as MSN.
But after that, MSN becomes worse, and QQ slowly overtake them as the latter got better. But MSN continued to compete with QQ. After MSN was shut down overseas, it continued its services for another year in China.
At its peak, MSN owns more than 60% of the global market share. Although many other countries have their own instant messaging software like QQ, they were all suppressed by MSN.
Pony Ma is very confident as MSN still has not entered China. However, he will know he had belittled his opponents after MSN enters the Chinese market.
After all, MSN has Microsoft users as its base. Microsoft is the world’s no. 1 operating system with the most users.
“Manager Ma, I know you have big dreams. But you must take your competitors into consideration. Although ICQ was beaten, the world’s top instant messaging software is MSN. I heard this software has plans to enter the Chinese market soon.” Feng Yu warned.
“I know. But their base is in English, and Tencent is better in Mandarin and knows Chinese users’ habits better. I also have intentions to create a new pinyin input system. Currently, other than the five-strokes input system, there are no other better Mandarin input systems. Also, this five-strokes input systems need users to know the characters’ strokes, and the Pinyin system is better.”
Feng Yu is speechless. Pony Ma had considered more than him, and in his previous life, there is a QQ Pinyin input system which is the same as Sohu. Baidu’s Pinyin is the same as Microsoft’s and is very popular with users. But Sohu’s input systems have the most users.
“Then you will need a lot more software engineers.” Feng Yu is reminding Pony Ma not to be too greedy.
“Don’t worry. I had thought about this. Currently, we have hired the best engineers in the IT industry and had also hired many overseas graduates and foreign engineers. Of course, their salaries make up a large part of our cost.
Feng Yu nodded. “You must not treat them badly as Baidu, NetEase, and the other companies are also hiring software engineers. Many of them are also hired by smaller companies. To be the best in the IT industry, your technology must be the most advanced.”
Both chatted for a while more, and Pony Ma left. He said he has to attend a school gathering and doesn’t want to be late.
Speaking of school gatherings, Feng Yu remembered he has not met his University classmates for a while.
Kaixin001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaixin001
Windows Live Messenger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Messenger
ICQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ