The Chairman, our two other trump cards are coming into play?" Huang He's words made Chen Shoufu sweat profusely, but he also found that the path ahead, which had been completely dark, now seemed to have a few glimmers of starlight.
Therefore, Chen Shoufu became even more curious about the next two trump cards.
"Isn't the second trump card walking over right now?" Huang He said with a smile. Chen Shoufu was stunned for a moment, and then he saw Leng Zhimeng walking over.
Chen Shoufu had complex feelings towards Leng Zhimeng.
First, he was grateful to Leng Zhimeng, because without her, he, Chen Shoufu, would not be earning twenty thousand a month now. But deep down, he felt more dissatisfaction and jealousy.
He had already learned about Leng Zhimeng's situation. A girl who had just graduated from high school was sitting in the CEO position, firmly suppressing Chen Shoufu. How could Chen Shoufu feel comfortable about this?
If Leng Zhimeng had the ability, it would be one thing, but Leng Zhimeng only scored 251 in the college entrance examination, while Chen Shoufu had been a top student who scored 609 back then. How could he be convinced to be suppressed by someone who scored 251?
Then there was the fact that the company had been operating for almost a month now, but all the research and development work was solely responsible by Chen Shoufu. Leng Zhimeng seemed to be a complete absentee landlord, not managing anything at all, with all the work piled on Chen Shoufu alone. Chen Shoufu's sleep time in the past month was less than a week's worth of sleep in the past.
But Leng Zhimeng either sat in the office, enjoying the air conditioning, or reported work to the Chairman, or simply disappeared. She was not in the company at all. Whether she was there or not did not affect anything.
In such a situation, unless Chen Shoufu had ulterior motives, it would be miraculous for him to be truly convinced by Leng Zhimeng.
However, Chen Shoufu later learned that Leng Zhimeng was Huang He's sister-in-law, and instantly he was convinced. There was nothing he could do about it, as his own sister was not Huang Boss's wife.
Chen Shoufu did not know this: a sister-in-law was naturally doted upon, a brother-in-law's other half, but a brother-in-law, every brother-in-law wished he could kick his brother-in-law far away.
Chen Shoufu had accepted the fact that Leng Zhimeng was his superior. After all, the company's control was now in Chen Shoufu's hands, making him the de facto CEO. He could simply pretend not to see Leng Zhimeng.
But now Huang He said that the second trump card was Leng Zhimeng, which made Chen Shoufu feel it was a bit exaggerated. What kind of trump card was this Leng Zhimeng? What use was she?
Marry her off to Little Ma, and then Little Huang and Little Ma would become brothers-in-law, sharing the instant messaging software market from then on?
"Zhimeng, you should also tell your general manager. What problems have you solved this past month!" Huang He said with a smile.
"Okay!" Leng Zhimeng nodded, then said, "Brother-in-law, General Manager Chen, I've tried my best these past few days and contacted people. I've finally found the twelve major disc manufacturers in China and reached an agreement with them. We'll buy the bundling rights for their discs for the next year at an average price of 100,000 yuan per company, totaling 1.2 million yuan. From now on, all computer discs they release, whether they are system discs or software discs, will be bundled and engraved with our oo client."
"These twelve disc manufacturers basically cover 90% of the pirated CD market in China. In this way, every customer who buys pirated discs, whether they are installing systems, software, or games, will automatically install our 00!" Leng Zhimeng said.
"Very good," Huang He nodded with satisfaction, then looked at Chen Shoufu and said, "How about it, is Zhimeng's work satisfactory?"
"...N B..." Chen Shoufu's mind went blank for a while before he finally exclaimed in admiration, truly convinced.
"It seems that unless Leng Zhimeng leaves, I will be suppressed by her for the rest of my life!" Chen Shoufu sighed inwardly. The reason he thought this was because he understood that all his previous month's achievements were probably not as significant as Leng Zhimeng's.
Leng Zhimeng's move was truly a stroke of genius.
One must know that for oo at this time, how to steal customers from QQ was the only way for oo to survive. The previous Coral oo was a last resort for survival.
But if users could be persuaded to willingly install the normal oo on their computers, who would want to do such sneaky things?
However, for oo, the most difficult thing was to get users to install their software. After all, everyone around them recommended using QQ, and everyone was using QQ for chat. It would be a ghost if they were willing to download oo, such a new platform, voluntarily.
To put it bluntly, how a new software could obtain sufficient installation volume in the early stage was a fatal problem.
And Leng Zhimeng's work perfectly solved this problem.
One must know that at that time, 90% of systems, programs, software, and games in China were directly installed via discs, and 99% of them were pirated discs.
Some people might say that those who use QQ have internet access, so isn't it better to download directly from the internet?
Of course not. One must know what kind of internet it was in 2001. A download speed of 10kb/second was considered high-speed internet. Downloading a 100MB program directly from the internet would take several hours.
Moreover, there were no BT downloads, nor software like Xunlei, Dianluo, or Bt Wizard back then. All downloads were done using the browser's built-in download function, which was not only slow but also if there was a network disconnection, the previous hours of download would be all in vain, and you would have to start downloading from scratch.
So, users in 2001, unless they were downloading things under 50MB, would have to be crazy to choose internet downloads. Directly using pirated discs for five yuan each, games of several hundred MB could be installed in ten minutes. Only a fool would choose to download.
At that time, QQ also went to great lengths to solve this problem. They finally chose to compress their installation package size. The initial QQ was only 2MB in size. Although the size increased with version upgrades, it was only 12MB by 2001. Furthermore, Tengda spent a lot of money to set up several download servers to ensure the download speed during the process, guaranteeing that the download could be completed in about ten minutes. This was how QQ stood out and quickly spread to all users' computers.
It is said that the expenses incurred by Tengda for compressing installation packages and improving download speeds in 2001 had reached the level of tens of millions of yuan.
But they never dreamed that this problem was solved by Leng Zhimeng for 1.2 million yuan.
With 1.2 million yuan, they dealt with all the pirated disc manufacturers nationwide, which meant they dealt with 90% of new installed computers and programs nationwide. In the future, for every ten people who installed new programs, new games, or new systems on their computers, nine of them would automatically install the oo program. Users wouldn't even need to know what oo was, and they would already be oo users.
Conservatively estimated, within a month, oo's installation volume would reach at least 2 million. If Little Ma knew about this speed of takeoff, he would probably be amazed.
Oh, by the way, because there was also demand in the market for QQ installation discs, but according to the special agreement between Leng Zhimeng and these pirated disc vendors, an interesting phenomenon later occurred.
Many users who bought pirated QQ discs took them home and installed them, only to find that instead of QQ appearing on their desktop, it was oo.
These newcomers naturally didn't understand the difference between QQ and oo. Plus, QQ and oo looked virtually indistinguishable, so they cheerfully thought they were using QQ. Many years later, they would still tell others that they were loyal QQ users!