Mr. Yu was completely unconvinced. “Mr. Ma, I have no vision or big picture. I’m only focused on the QQ product. I just want QQ to successfully go through the R&D phase, the market launch phase, and to successfully expand the market in China.”
"What's wrong with that? I just want peace."
"I don't think that competition between peers has to be tense and that you have to treat each other as imaginary enemies."
The people below, hearing the executives arguing, didn't dare to say a word.
"Furthermore, regarding treating Longteng as a hypothetical enemy, Mr. Ma, and everyone here, Zhong Xinxin, Liang Huihong, Luo Qun, think about it yourselves, are we worthy?"
These words thoroughly enraged Mr. Ma, who slammed his fist on the table in front of everyone, "Mr. Yu, it seems that your current mindset is no longer suitable for upgrading and developing QQ products."
Da Yu's expression turned cold. "I'm not suitable?"
"Who developed QQ during the company's most difficult time? It was me!"
"When QQ couldn't even recruit a single technician, who persisted? The one who didn't give up on QQ's technological development was me!"
Mr. Yu stood up excitedly and stared intently at Mr. Ma:
“I always thought of you as the backbone of the company, but now that you’ve taken on the investment, you’ve changed.”
"You have become less humble, and you can only see the naked interests right in front of you."
"Have you forgotten what our original intention was in developing QQ? It was to make friends online, so that China's social network could have a peaceful and stable undeveloped area."
At this point, Mr. Ma's face turned even uglier. It was because he insisted on his principles that the company almost went bankrupt.
Now that the company has finally recovered, he must secure this $1 billion investment. Boss Jiqing is right; only by receiving real money can he feel truly at ease.
Although the meeting ended badly with the company's boss, Mr. Ma, Mr. Ma quickly appointed a new software engineer as the supervisor for the QQ upgrade and transformation.
Da Yu was completely marginalized and relegated to the fringes of Tencent.
Liang Huihong had worked with General Manager Da Yu for several years. He couldn't stand what General Manager Da Yu was going through, so he said a few words to Boss Ma, "Boss Ma, General Manager Da Yu is doing this for the good of our company."
"Our company's development strategy has indeed been somewhat aggressive recently."
Mr. Ma looked at Liang Huihong in disbelief, "Even you don't agree with my idea?"
“We need to be reasonable. Everyone is happy to receive investment, but development must be based on stability. The current aggressive strategy will lead the company into a false prosperity.”
"Boss, you are our backbone. We can't rush into any decision."
Mr. Ma, his face dark but with a smile on his lips, said, "Liang Huihong, have you forgotten who the real boss of Tencent Technology is?"
Upon hearing this, Yang Huihong fell silent.
It seems that Jack Ma is determined to declare war on ICQ, so even if his employees insist on not doing it, he is determined to put ICQ on the opposite side of Tencent.
Two months later, QQ officially announced the completion of its product upgrade.
In addition to the original functions, group functions, screenshots, emoticons, QQ sharing space, special friend attention, and a complete set of level upgrade rules have been added.
This development and optimization was carried out almost exactly in accordance with the development direction Chen Dong had described.
Soon, with the support of Dailusi Media, Penguin Technology Center invested heavily in promotion in China, officially entering the product pre-launch phase.
The Penguin Technology website has launched this product.
Because Tencent invested a lot of money in pre-launch promotion, the product was downloaded like crazy as soon as it was launched.
QQ's two core positioning points are "social tool" and "online interaction," with the concept of encouraging strangers to participate in social interactions.
The current QQ online communication software has a complete product structure, a powerful functional system, a huge publicity network, and a strong financial background. With these conditions as support, QQ quickly became a new favorite on the internet.
Their presence in the China market not only caused a stir, but also triggered a network upheaval.
Chen Dong waited and waited at Longteng, but instead of receiving a reply from Tencent, he received news that Tencent's product had been launched ahead of schedule.
“I think they’re doing this on purpose. If they don’t want to cooperate, they can just say so and we won’t make things difficult for them,” Annie glanced at Chen Dong and continued, “But they’re bringing forward their plans, isn’t that just to guard against us?”
Chen Dong smiled, as if he had already expected this.
"Tencent Technology is not a subsidiary of our Longteng Group. It is an independent company. If we propose cooperation, they have the right to refuse."
"We should start thinking about whether QQ, which has already been launched in China, will compete with us for the European and American markets in the future?"
Lin Zhiyuan suddenly panicked and asked, "Really? QQ was born in China. Even if it wanted to compete with us in the European and American markets, it wouldn't be suitable."
"Besides, we've been laying out our ICQ strategy in the European and American markets for quite some time now. QQ is already too late to enter the market now."
Chen Dong shook his head. He wasn't thinking about Penguin Technology Center, its competitor. He was thinking about whether the investment Penguin received from Dailus Media Company had anything to do with the Freemasons.
The background of Dailusi Media Company is too complicated. The funds behind it are all provided by industrial enterprises, and the source is difficult to trace.
If Delus Media really has ties to the Freemasons, or is even a shell company run by the Freemasons in Europe, then their investment in Tencent is simply to support several technology companies as competitors to ICQ.
ICQ is now the top choice for social networks in Europe and North America. QQ achieved such great progress so early in its development; this would have been impossible without substantial funding and promotional resources.
His concern was that if the Freemasons really used several technology companies as pawns to deal with Tencent's ICQ, then Tencent's next move would definitely be to treat ICQ as a hypothetical enemy.
The Freemasons will show no mercy to DragonQ; they will surpass ICQ in every aspect and even completely destroy it.
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Tencent Technology itself isn't scary, but the unknown capital behind it makes Chen Dong feel uneasy and unsettled.
"Annie has notified the engineering and technical departments to convene an emergency meeting."
Anne nodded: "Yes, I understand."
Soon, almost all members of Longteng's engineering and technical departments gathered in the company's main conference room.
The engineering department had several key ICQ product developers present, including Engineer Chen, Chris, the software product architect, the software engineer, the art director from the technical department, the special effects and animation effects artist, and the visual art consultant.
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