Chapter 285 Kingsoft Antivirus is available for free!
Dragon Kingdom Capital, Kingsoft Software Company.
After several months of research and development, Lei Jun, Qiu Bojunshun and others successfully developed Kingsoft Antivirus and Kingsoft Browser. After two rounds of internal testing and patching the obvious bugs, they planned to bring the products to market as soon as possible and use the profits to make up for the loss of previous research and development funds.
They were conducting a remote video conference with Zhang Junfeng who was far away in Goryeo and reporting in person, but the big boss Zhang Junfeng made an unexpected proposal.
Lei Jun asked again in disbelief, "Boss, if, as you said, Kingsoft Antivirus is open to all users for free, then how will we make a profit?"
"Both the R&D funds advanced in the early stage and the subsequent operation and maintenance require a lot of money. If we can't make a profit, I'm afraid it will be difficult to maintain it!"
What Lei Jun said is quite reasonable. After all, no company would be willing to lose money to gain publicity, spending a lot of money and manpower and material resources, and finally come up with something that does not make money!
Zhang Junfeng smiled and comforted Lei Jun and Qiu Bojun in the opposite camera, "Please be patient, both of you. Why don't you wait until I finish telling you the whole plan, and then you can consider whether to do this or not?"
"In my expectation, Kingsoft Antivirus can be the flagship product and foundation of Kingsoft Software Company in the future. Other products can be deeply bundled with it so that they can be downloaded and installed for free!"
“Maybe antivirus software doesn’t make money, but the free antivirus software and security services it provides will definitely attract a large number of users to register and use it. After all, no one can refuse free, high-performance antivirus software!”
"On this basis, the number of people who install and use the bundled Kingsoft browser and software toolbox will also rise sharply in a short period of time."
"Once we have a certain number of users, Kingsoft Software Company can rely on its huge user base to collect and analyze user data, conduct precise advertising, and achieve a substantial increase in advertising revenue. This alone will enable the company to turn losses into profits!"
"In the future, we will further improve the functions of the software toolbox and embed the links and installation channels of some of the free games and paid games we have developed into it, which will definitely become a new profit growth point for the company!"
Zhang Junfeng described in detail the operations and profit model of 360 in its previous life. As the man in red who founded 360 in 2005 and officially entered the Internet as the head of the company, he relied on the "free and safe" model to beat a group of Internet predecessors to death on the beach.
The team of just over a dozen people gained tens of millions of registered users in just one year, setting a new record for the popularity of the software's registered users!
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After listening to Zhang Junfeng's explanation of his strategy, Lei Jun and Qiu Bojun on the opposite side fell into deep thought. If they really followed Zhang Junfeng's proposal, it seemed to be quite feasible, but they were somewhat reluctant to open the software they had worked so hard to develop to all netizens for free.
"...Boss, how about giving us two more days to think about it? I'll give you a reply later?" Qiu Bojun saw that his partner Lei Jun was unable to make a decision at the moment, so he came up with a compromise and planned to think about it again in the next two days.
Zhang Junfeng didn't care about it. He waved his hand and said to Wu Xiuying, "Notify the company's finance department later and ask them to remit 3 million US dollars (about 21 million RMB) to Longguo!"
"After deducting the losses from your previous research and development of the antivirus software, you can distribute the remaining money to the entire R&D team as a reward. As leaders, don't forget to take your share!"
"You two will need to keep up the hard work. The growth and development of Kingsoft Software Company cannot be separated from your efforts!" Zhang Junfeng sincerely gave a very generous sum of money as a reward, which stunned Lei Jun and Qiu Bojun!
After a long while, Qiu Bojun, who was the first to react, pushed Lei Jun who was still distracted, and quickly thanked him, saying that he would follow the wishes of the big boss Zhang Junfeng and make the Kingsoft Antivirus software available for free as soon as possible! Zhang Junfeng nodded with satisfaction, and at the same time did not forget to encourage them. He would contact Penguin Company in Pengcheng and ask Ma Huazhuo to help them advertise more in the Little Penguin Software. At that time, they would definitely be able to open up the situation in the shortest time!
Upon hearing that Zhang Junfeng not only gave them a generous bonus, but was also willing to ask Penguin Company to help with promotion, Qiu Bojun and Lei Jun were overjoyed and hurried to express their gratitude.
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After the remote video conference ended, Lei Jun looked at Qiu Bojun with a somewhat resentful look in his eyes, and couldn't help but complain, "Old Qiu, you change your face too quickly, don't you? Didn't you disagree with the opinion of this major shareholder before?"
"Ahem, that depends on the person! I can't find any reason to refuse a big boss like Zhang Junfeng who is so generous!"
"Moreover, with the 3 million US dollars alone, we can make up for the loss of the anti-virus software development, and the rest can be divided equally among us. All of us can get at least 200,000 RMB, which is almost two years' salary. Aren't you tempted?!" Qiu Bojun asked righteously.
Hearing his good brother say this, Lei Jun also smiled awkwardly and did not continue to dwell on this topic. Just as Qiu Bojun said, the reason why they insisted was that free service might affect the interests of the company, but Zhang Junfeng, the major shareholder, had already provided the funds and issued bonuses, so what else could they say? Just do it and it's done! As for whether the Kingsoft Antivirus software can really become the "magic weapon" of their Kingsoft Software Company as Zhang Junfeng said, and attract a large number of users for them, they just let it go and just accompany Zhang Junfeng to "go crazy"!
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There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Inside the video conference room of Korea Comet Capital.
"Boss, are you sure that after this antivirus software becomes free, it will be able to bring a large number of users to Kingsoft Software Company and use this as an opportunity to boost the popularity of the company's other software products?" Wu Xiuying was also skeptical about Zhang Junfeng's proposal.
After all, no one had ever done this before. Even the anti-virus software produced by overseas software companies is charged, with the annual fee for the cheaper ones being tens of dollars, and the more expensive ones even costing hundreds of dollars.
(End of this chapter)