At this time, the sad rain listener sent a confession.
"Xiaoxue, I've found in the past few days that the two of us can quite get along. Even our online names match well. How about you be my girlfriend?"
Ma Huateng had a headache.
He discovered a pattern. Whenever he pretended to be a woman and chatted with a male netizen for two or three days, the other person would definitely confess to him and ask him to be his "girlfriend."
Are these male netizens so in need of love
However, judging from the data, this should indeed be the case.
At this stage, there are hundreds of thousands of registered users of OICQ. The background shows that 70% of the users are men, which is definitely the majority.
There are about 10,000 daily active users every day, 78% of which are men!
At its peak, there were about 3,000 people online at the same time, 75% of whom were men!
The only thing these male users do after going online is to chat with female netizens.
As a result, female netizens are stretched thin.
After all, the ratio of women to men is 1:3. In other words, a female netizen must chat with at least three male netizens so that the male netizens will not find anyone to chat with.
Some male users couldn't find female netizens, so they quickly gave up on the product and never logged in again. This made Ma Huateng very depressed.
In desperation, he could only mobilize everyone and use all available time to disguise himself as a female user to chat with him. He asked for nothing else but to prevent users from losing quickly.
This is the bitterness of entrepreneurship.
And this is just one of countless bitternesses.
The greater bitterness is the lack of money.
Because there is no money, the current OICQ is, technically speaking, like an overloaded shabby bus.
The car was too old, so it couldn't pull too many people or load too much cargo. It was often overloaded, almost to the limit, and would stop if it went any further.
Currently, the maximum load capacity of OICQ's server is 6,000 people online at the same time.
With more than 6,000 people, the server's carrying capacity will be low.
Moreover, since these 6,000 people are online at the same time, it is good that the chat is not so intensive. If the chat information is too dense, the server bandwidth will not be enough.
Once the server cannot bear the load or the bandwidth is full, all users will be affected.
For example, information is delayed, stuck, or even unable to send and receive information. In severe cases, many users will even be squeezed offline.
These situations greatly affect the user experience.
Logically speaking, this is the most taboo thing when making products, but Ma Huateng had no choice.
On the one hand, he hopes that OICQ's users will continue to grow, but on the other hand, he is worried that if the number of users increases by another thousand, he will have to purchase a new server.
But now, he can hardly afford a new server.
Because OICQ does not yet have any profit model, from the establishment of the company to the present, Tengxun's accounts have only been able to make money but not make money.
Employee salaries, office space rent, office computers and other equipment purchases, server purchases, bandwidth usage fees, every expense is constantly consuming what little savings he has.
Don't talk about the family environment of a well-off family. These days, a family with a savings of tens of thousands is already a well-off family. Those with more than 100,000 are wealthy households. But with the costs of Tengxun, it is not obvious to throw hundreds of thousands into it. come out.
Ma Huateng has been spending money continuously since he started his business. The foundation of his originally well-off family has basically been destroyed by himself.
Seeing that a company, a product, and hundreds of thousands of users have been destroyed, the sad thing is that you can't make a penny back.
It feels like opening a bus company.
As more and more passengers take the bus, more and more vehicles, drivers, conductors, and dispatchers are needed.
In addition, a large amount of fuel costs, maintenance and repair costs are invested every day. The larger the scale, the higher these costs will be.
But the most important thing is that passengers don’t have to pay to take the bus...
As a result, the entire company becomes a bottomless pit that continues to burn money.
No one knows when the fever will end.
However, Internet companies are not yet bus companies.
People have the habit of buying tickets by taking the bus, but they don’t have the habit of buying tickets while chatting online.
Even if Ma Huateng wants to sell tickets on OICQ, he can't find an entry point at all. If he sells tickets forcefully, all users will definitely run away.
At first, he also tried to sell some advertisements, but advertisers had no interest in OICQ at all.
This is mainly because the daily activity of OICQ is too small and too scattered. It seems useless for local advertisers to invest in it. There may not even be a hundred people playing OICQ every day in the local area, and large national companies do not look down on it at all. This amount.
Seeing that OICQ turned into a gold-eating beast, Ma Huateng's mentality had already become a little unstable.
He has been trying to raise funds, but no one is willing to invest in him despite all the talk and bad words.
Because everyone thinks, what’s the use of your crappy online chat thing
In their eyes, OICQ is just a piece of gossip on the Internet. They don't find it very interesting, nor do they think it has any future. The most important thing is that it has no business model.
Text messages sent by other operators charge at least 10 cents per message.
That's good for you. You don't ask users to collect money, and you have to pay all kinds of costs yourself. Who dares to invest in such a stupid business
Later, Ma Huateng thought to himself that he might as well sell this OICQ.
Is it okay to sell it to mature Internet platforms, such as Sohu, or to state-owned enterprises, such as Telecom, and let them use it as an online tool
But the result is that other big companies are not interested either.
The mentality of big companies is that you dare to ask for millions just by breaking the program? Do you really think I am stupid and have too much money
Don't tell me that you don't see anything awesome about this thing. Even if it does, I'll just ask my programmers to develop one based on what I've learned. Why should I buy yours? The point is that I don't even bother to copy you.
Now, OICQ is in the hands of Ma Huateng. It cannot be sold, and it cannot get investment. It is almost at the end of its rope.
In order to keep the company going, he and his team have begun to borrow money everywhere, but the money they can borrow is limited after all, and it is a drop in the bucket for the entire company.
Under such circumstances, you have to find time to pretend to be a female netizen to chat with a male netizen every day. You can imagine how irritated you feel.
Seeing that he didn't reply to her, the "sad rain listener" sent another sentence: "Xiaoxue, don't put too much pressure on me. I just want you to be my online girlfriend. If there is a chance in the future, we can meet in person." , if you feel that I am not suitable for you, we can separate at any time, what do you think?"
Ma Huateng felt as sick as if he had eaten a fly.
But I can only follow the example of my own chat script and reply directly to the other party: "I'm sorry Tingyuren, although I have a good impression of you, but I am not ready for a relationship yet. Give me some time to think about it, okay? ?”
Although it feels disgusting, I can't refuse, because once I refuse, I may lose one daily active user.
"Okay, I'll wait for you to think about it!"
As expected, the other party did not lose heart immediately. After all, it seemed that the female netizen had a good impression of him and was willing to consider that he still had a chance!
At this time, several more greeting messages were sent, and the continuous dripping sounds in his ears made Ma Huateng a little unable to resist.
He rubbed his temples and thought, why don't we just stop here tonight, because we really can't talk anymore.
If we continue talking like this, I'm afraid I'm going to have a schizophrenia.
At this time, he heard a coughing sound coming from the earphones.
He couldn't help but feel a little dizzy.
Another male netizen has added me, which is really annoying!
Generally, when new netizens add themselves, they have to pass everything as soon as possible and chat with others first, because those who come to add people are likely to be new users.
If a new user comes forward and finds that the person they want to add cannot be approved, and the other party cannot speak after being approved, 80% of them will lose interest in this software.
So, he immediately clicked on the flashing small speaker, expecting to see verification applications such as "Hello, beauty!" and "Let's chat, beauty!" But when he took a closer look, he suddenly became excited.
"Hello, I am an angel investor and I am interested in OICQ."
“Angel investor?!”
When Ma Huateng saw these five words, he was so excited that he couldn't add anything to it.
During this period of time, I found many so-called angel investors, but they were not angels at all. Let alone investing, they didn’t even have a good face, and some even ridiculed me.
Now, angel investors are actually coming to the door. Is this going to turn around
After calming down, he suddenly hesitated. Could it be a prank
He looked at the other party's information, Jeremy Xu, and left his email address. It seemed like that was the case.
Then, he thought to himself, whether it was true or not, there was nothing to lose by talking.
So he clicked through.
At this time, Xu Yiyang was in front of the computer, clasping his hands in anticipation.
He hopes that this pony can pass his friend application as soon as possible, and everyone can quickly chat about investment.
If you can, take the time to rush over and sign the contract, pay the money, and make the industrial and commercial changes. The rest is just waiting for the Tengxun rocket to ignite.
After waiting for a few minutes, the computer suddenly popped up a prompt: Pony has approved your friend application!
Xu Yiyang was so excited that his heart almost jumped into his throat.
He immediately opened the dialog box and sent: "Hello, are you the person in charge of OICQ?"
Ma Huateng received the message and replied: "Yes, I am. May I ask who you are?"
"My surname is Xu. I am currently engaged in the education industry and am interested in investing in some Internet companies."
Ma Huateng replied hurriedly and excitedly: "Hello, Mr. Xu! My surname is Ma and my name is Ma Huateng. You can call me Xiaoma."
Xu Yiyang: "Hello, Mr. Ma, I am very optimistic about you and your OICQ. I have the idea of investing in it, so I would like to know, has your OICQ received investment now?"
"Not yet." Ma Huateng said truthfully: "We are currently looking for the first round of financing."
Xu Yiyang asked: "Do you have a financing plan? If it's convenient, please send a copy to my email. I'd like to take a look first."
"Yes, no problem. Give me your email address and I will send it to you now."
Although the business plan can be regarded as confidential information of the company, because it is made for investors to see, Ma Huateng knows that he cannot hide it from investors.
However, he was also a little worried.
I couldn’t find an investor anywhere, so why did one suddenly appear from the Internet
From the very beginning, he said he wanted to invest in himself and asked for a business plan. What if this person was a liar? What if it’s a competitor
(End of chapter)