After rebirth, I became very good

Chapter 86 Entrepreneurship: Free anti-virus software?

Gu Yuze was really interested in computers and pestered Xu Mo to learn computers with him. His parents didn't want their children to be idle at home all day long, so they asked Xu Mo to take Gu Yuze to learn with him.

Xu Mo didn't care, since he didn't need to pay tuition anyway, so why not give himself a free labor force.

Before leaving, Gu Yuxin's mother had a few heart-to-heart conversations with Xu Mo. She said that she could tell that Xu Mo was a relatively mature boy.

"You three are going to study in other places. We parents can't watch here. From now on, Yuxin and Yuze will ask you to take more care of them, Xu Mo. Yuxin, this child, has been obedient and sensible since she was a child. We I didn’t ask any questions, I’ll leave it to you from now on.”

They were chatting casually around the dinner table after dinner. Gu Yuxin's two children were also here. Gu Yuxin felt funny after hearing this and said, "Mom, what you said is as if I am going to marry you tomorrow."

Roman gave Gu Yuxin an angry look and said to Xu Mo sincerely: "Xu Mo, although Yuxin is sensible, she is still a child. If she is willful in the future, please bear with it."

"Mom!" Gu Yuxin was unhappy after saying this. How could she say such a thing about her daughter? It seems that she has never made her angry since she was a child, right?

It's strange to say that I have only been in contact with Xu Mo twice, but for some reason, I always feel that Xu Mo is very mature. Roman even feels that his daughter likes Xu Mo more than Xu Mo likes her, so he is always afraid of Xu Mo. In the future, Mo will fall in love with someone else, and it will be Gu Yuxin who is hurt.

When Xu Mo left, Roman also said, Yuxin, this child, although she may be considered innocent, is actually very stubborn at heart. If something happens to you in the future, you don't have to tell her everything, so as not to worry her.

Xu Mo could understand Roman's meaning as a mother, but he had not thought about the meaning of this sentence. It was not until much later that Xu Mo realized that his old mother-in-law was really a prophet of the future.

From June to July, the weather starts to get hotter.

The scorching sun hangs high in the sky, and the scalding heat waves feel like they can squeeze the air out of shape. Summer cicadas are everywhere chirping tirelessly.

In just half a month, Xu Mo got his driver's license, but Gu Yuxin was still taking the second test and failed it twice. The first time was when she just got in the car and backed into the garage without wearing a seat belt.

The coach blinked her eyes hard, and she asked him if her eyes felt uncomfortable.

The coach had no choice but to sigh: "Get off the car."

Talk to Xu Mo about it later.

Xu Mo said, if you bring the eye drops with you next time, if the coach blinks at you again, just hand the eye drops to him, and maybe he will let you pass if he is happy.

Gu Yuxin's face turned red with anger, and she pouted and said, "I might as well not take the test. I won't drive anyway if I pass the test."

In fact, Gu Yuxin had never thought about taking the driver's license test at all. It was because she saw Xu Mo taking the test that she decided to take the test together for fun.

Gu Yuze learned computer science from Xu Mo, but he encountered a roadblock when he first started. Programming required English. Gu Yuze's English was pretty good, so he spent three days fishing and two days surfing the web.

I finally worked up the energy to learn programming, but my computer crashed.

The teacher repaired it for a long time but still couldn't fix it.

Gu Yuze immediately became impatient and muttered: "Teacher, your computer won't be infected with a virus, right? Otherwise, can you kill the virus?"

The teacher said: "Where can I have so much money to buy anti-virus software? Anti-virus software is extremely expensive."

In 06, when the computer was a little dizzy, everyone's first thought was whether the computer was infected with a virus and that they needed to kill it. Unfortunately, most anti-virus software now charges a monthly fee. Paying for anti-virus software costs a lot of money.

The teaching institution Xu Mo and Gu Yuze were looking for was just a small computer shop on the second floor of the Trade City. They just wanted to make some extra money and had no intention of spending money on anti-virus software.

What's more, this is not a virus, it's just because the summer is too hot, the computer is aging, and the blue screen is just a little debugging.

Gu Yuze crossed his arms and said sarcastically: "Oh, it's rare that I want to learn, but I didn't expect that I won't be given a chance. When I learn it in the future, I will make a free anti-virus software specifically for anti-virus for others."

After hearing this, the teacher curled his lips and said, "This is what you think now, but you won't think like this in the future. You think, others charge thirty yuan a month, but you charge ten yuan, one million yuan?" Users can earn 10 million yuan a month.”

"So many?" Gu Yuze was surprised.

Xu Mo couldn't help but wonder: "Isn't there any free anti-virus software now?"

"Who is so stupid to use free anti-virus software?" The teacher debugged the computer and asked Gu Yuze to try again.

Xu Mo sat in his seat and learned programming. However, Xu Mo was a little absent-minded this time. During this time, Xu Mo had been thinking about where to start making money, but after thinking for a long time, he couldn't find the right one. The anti-virus software reminded Xu Mo.

So Xu Mo tentatively searched 360 Guards on the Internet.

As a result, the pop-up window has nothing to do with 360. There is no entry for 360 on the Internet at all.

When searching for Zhou Hongyi, a lot of information popped up, such as the founder of the 3721 website, the vice president of Yahu East Asia, and the founder of Qihoo Technology, etc.

According to the information currently available online, Xu Mo knew that Yahu had just been acquired by Alibaba. Zhou Hongyi, then vice president, led a group of Yahu's old employees to defect and established a new company called Qihoo Technology. Speaking of Zhou Hongyi, you can say that he is an old gangster, but you can never say that he cannot make money. Starting from starting a business at the age of 28, Zhou Hongyi created a website called 3721.

It was still in the late 3721s, and computers were a new gadget. Even logging into a website required entering a complex URL. The core of was to just enter the Chinese name of the URL and you could jump directly to the website. It means that no matter what, what I give you is the simplest.

Around 2000, the Internet ushered in a spurt of development in China, and the number of 3721 users grew slowly. At this time, when everyone was crossing the river by feeling for the stones, Zhou Hongyi thought of a simple and quick way.

That is bundled installation. We have reached an agreement with multiple Internet companies. As long as 3721 is installed by default when installing the software, the number of downloads of 3721 has grown rapidly. In 2002, the single-year revenue has reached million. , net profit is million.

Later, many companies learned Zhou Hongyi's trick of bundling installation. Zhou Hongyi also realized that although bundling installation was profitable, it was hated by users. This kind of mandatory transaction would be abandoned sooner or later, so he took advantage of the opportunity now. The data was still pretty good, so Zhou Hongyi quickly sold 3721 at a high price. In 2004, 3721 was acquired by Yahu and renamed Yahoo Assistant. Zhou Hongyi was also incorporated by Yahu at this time.

Yahu's acquisition of 3721 cannot be regarded as a loss-making transaction, because even after being acquired, 3721's money-making project is still the fastest among Yahu projects. It was not until 05, when Yahu was acquired by Alibaba, that Zhou Hongyi led his own team Set up his own business and founded Qihoo Technology.

Qihoo Technology was founded in 2005. At the beginning, Zhou Hongyi didn’t know what to do. With more than 2005 million US dollars in his hand, Zhou Hongyi just thought of doing whatever he wanted. From 2006 to , Zhou Hongyi It has invested in two companies, namely Xunlei and Sogou.

At this time, Zhou Hongyi also wanted to use bundling and installation methods to make his companies look beautiful and then sell them.

It turns out, damn, the Internet is full of bondage photos?

Doesn’t this treat customers as fools?

This is not possible, I have to think about my customers, I have to design an anti-bundling plug-in.

What’s more interesting here is that when Zhou Hongyi first started his business, he mainly focused on rogue installation. Later, he sold it to Yahu, which is equivalent to selling it to Alibaba.

Then after Yahu came out, Zhou Hongyi developed a software anti-rogue installation.

In fact, it is tantamount to turning against others.

So if you look closely at Zhou Hongyi, you will find that he has really offended people from the beginning and has never been liked by others, but making money is really making money. When Qihoo Technology first started to uninstall plug-ins, it actually didn’t even think about it. When it comes to anti-virus, even the source code comes from Eastern Europe and is covered with Chinese skin. It has no anti-virus effect at all. However, 360 has two obvious big words, that is "Free"!

Before 07, all anti-virus software was charged on a monthly basis. The more famous ones were Kaspersky and Rising. The lowest one cost yuan a month.

At that time, the number of households with computers in China had begun to become more common, but computer viruses made everyone feel at risk.

I remember that when I was taking computer class, I had to wear a plastic bag when entering the computer room. I asked the teacher why, and the teacher said it was to prevent viruses in the computer.

Therefore, Zhou Hongyi's move won the hearts of the people. In just one month, the number of downloads exceeded one million.

This also scared Zhou Hongyi, because he didn't want to make anti-virus software at all. The first generation 360 had no anti-virus function at all. It could only clean plug-ins, contact bundles, build acceleration, etc.

However, this data explosion made Zhou Hongyi see business opportunities, so he quickly formed a team to specialize in virus detection.

In the next three years, Zhou Hongyi changed the name of Qihoo Technology to Qihoo 360, relying on the word "free" to madly seize the market. In just three years, he completely eliminated all paid security software. When it comes to professionalism, 360 definitely cannot compare with those paid software, but when it comes to free software, no one can compare with 360.

It wasn't until 2010 that Emperor Penguin saw the 360 ​​software. Mr. Ma was shocked. Damn it, this kind of software actually occupied % of the domestic anti-virus market. The money was so profitable.

No, I’ll get a piece of the pie too.

Then the famous ‘3Q’ battle in history broke out.

Lao Zhou is really very business-minded, and his start can be compared to the two horses. Even if he does not go the wrong way in the later period, the future Internet pattern should be 'TABLE' (Teng, A, Bai, Lei, Zhou). .)

It’s a pity that in the next few years, when everyone was busy developing the mobile Internet, Lao Zhou had to go the other way and stuck to the browser, which led to Lao Zhou’s current situation getting worse and worse. By 2020, the mobile Internet will develop rapidly. 360 has also gradually disappeared.

It's a pity that Lao Zhou didn't make good use of such a destiny start.

But now Xu Mo has been searching the Internet for a long time but can't find any news about 360. The current time is July 2006, which means that 7 is currently in preparation.

It may be too late for Xu Mo to make anti-virus software now.

But if he misses this opportunity to enter, Xu Mo is afraid that he will never find another chance.

So browsing the information on the Internet one after another, Xu Mo was hesitant whether to give it a try. The market for free anti-virus software on the Internet is now completely blank. If he enters the game himself, he can definitely get the first crab. Even if he says that he If you don't have the level of anti-virus, then you only need to build a software first, claiming that it can detect and kill Trojans, and then essentially optimize and accelerate, clean up garbage, repair the system, and other simple functions, and you can still get a head start.

Now Xu Mo has five million in his hand. He will use two million to buy source code abroad, and then find someone to translate it and make a Chinese language package. He will use three million for publicity. He really can no longer use his status as the top scorer in the college entrance examination for publicity. , I believe it will definitely cause a boom in the market.

By then, I will have accumulated millions of users in a short period of time.

Even if 360 starts to develop, it will definitely come over to acquire itself. With millions of traffic and a complete anti-virus cleaning system, it can sell for at least million!

The more Xu Mo thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong.

At this time, Gu Yuze, who was bored and playing minesweeper beside him, said stupidly: "Hey, brother-in-law, this minesweeper is really fun, do you want to play?"

(End of this chapter)