Chapter 168

Today is the national famous 315 consumer rights and interests day and the national famous "holiday". On this day every year, a large number of companies are worried for fear that they will be on the list of CCTV 315 party and become the object and target of public opinion and national criticism.

Although the Internet industry is an emerging industry in the new era, it is no exception, including Baidu and Alibaba's Taobao, which have all been on the 315 blacklist. In particular, Alibaba Taobao, which focuses on e-commerce business, is basically appointed by the emperor. Whenever it involves fake and shoddy news and consumer rights protection, Alibaba's Taobao will always be carried out and said.

Fortunately, Huizhong's current business does not involve these industries that are easy to dispute with consumers. Therefore, Fang zhe leisurely talked with Liu Jiande, chairman of Netdragon, about the acquisition of 91 assistants and related products.

For most ordinary people in China, Netdragon is a strange company. The company was established in 1999. Its main business involves several industries such as online games, mobile Internet and online education. The game consulting website 17173 and the online game magic land, which are well-known by players, are the products of this company. In 2003, 17173 was purchased by Sohu for $20 million.

Just like most people know that Mount Qomolangma doesn't know that mount qiaogori and Gancheng zhangjiafeng, as an Internet company in the second and even the third echelon of the Internet industry, this company is not well known to most people. However, Baidu's acquisition of 91 assistants did make the company famous and attracted a lot of publicity.

91 assistant can be worth so much money. It is really because at that time, it has occupied the top position in the domestic third-party application distribution market. From this point, it can also be seen that its parent company, Netdragon, is indeed a successful company. It can layout the mobile Internet in front of bat, the three giants in the Internet industry. The vision of the company's leaders is indeed extraordinary.

Now, the domestic application distribution market has just sprung up, and most people have not paid attention to or even know that there is such an industry. Therefore, the 91 assistant who was bought at a low price of 100000 yuan has now occupied the top position in this field in China.

According to the data investigated by Fang Zhe's men, the current smartphone users in China are only in their early 40 million, most of which are users using Nokia Symbian system. Yes, Symbian is actually a smartphone operating system, but later, because Nokia died and didn't think about it, the good situation was occupied by iPhone and Android.

Other parallel iPhones have more than 3 million users. The Android system was only released in October last year, but because several major domestic manufacturers of China cool link have begun to cooperate with operators, and Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG and others entering abroad have basically started to carry the Android system, so at present, there are more than 5 million users using the Android system in China.

In this context, 91 assistant has registered nearly one million users, firmly holding the top position of domestic assistant applications. However, although the number of users is not small, this product does not make money. So far, Netdragon and Xiong Jun, the product manager of 91 assistant, have not found a suitable way to realize.

The best way to realize such products in the future is to control the application distribution channel and realize the realization by importing traffic into an application or game. However, when there are just over one million users today, this effect is not very obvious, and Netdragon and Xiong Jun do not have such ideas and ideas.

Although no profit model has been found, since the number of users of this product is growing, there is no reason for Netdragon to cut it. At the beginning of this year, Netdragon also set up a wireless business department to be responsible for mobile Internet related businesses, including Android and other products under development.

"Mr. Liu, what do you think of my proposal?" Fang zhe asked Liu Jiande, chairman of Netdragon, who leaned against a chair to smoke.

Now Huizhong is already a big company. Therefore, whether it is talking about cooperation or investing in acquisitions, it will be handled according to the hidden rules of the industry. Before coming, Huizhong's investment department has contacted Netdragon and confirmed its intention. The reply received by the investment department is that the price is appropriate and can be considered.

Therefore, Fang zhe came by plane with his subordinates and specially met with Liu Jiande, chairman of Netdragon. As long as they reached an agreement, the more specific acquisition details would be handled by the following people.

Huizhong's price for Netdragon is 5 million yuan. It packs 91 assistants and associates all products and their whole project team. In Fang Zhe's opinion, such a price is not low.

First of all, this product was originally bought by Netdragon for 100000 yuan. Although it has been operating in the company for more than a year and has saved nearly one million users, this product does not make money. In addition, this product is more an investment of Liu Jiande's play nature. Because he has never made money, he doesn't pay much attention to it. He just thinks that since this product can attract so many users, It must be valuable.

This is also the product thinking of the Internet industry. No matter what this product is, even if a product is useless, as long as it can accumulate a sufficient number of users, it is valuable.

Liu Jiande was an American turtle after 70. His major in college, like Fang Zhe's "brother-in-law" Zuo Ruichao, is biology and one of the most difficult majors to find a job. When he was in the United States, he founded a software sales company with his cousin Liu Yuan. With the sales of software, the brothers made the first pot of gold. After returning home in 1999, he founded Netdragon.

Now, his brother Liu Yuan is the CEO of Netdragon, responsible for the specific business and daily operation of Netdragon, while Liu Jiande is responsible for the strategic planning of the whole company and grasp the overall development direction of the company.

The 91 assistant Huizhong wants to acquire this time is a small project invested and acquired by Liu Jiande by chance.

In 2007, Apple released the iPhone. As a turtle studying abroad, Liu Jiande naturally paid close attention to it. Although the iPhone has not yet entered China, it has saved many users and fans in China. However, it is also because the iPhone has not officially entered China. All parallel iPhone users have trouble managing and downloading software in the process of using the iPhone, Upgrade jailbreak system trouble and other problems.

Therefore, when Liu Jiande heard that an assistant software appeared on the Internet to help users manage mobile phone software and upgrade the prison break system, he became interested and spent 100000 yuan, together with Xiong Jun, the producer of the software, to buy the company.

A few days ago, his subordinates told him that a company called Yanjing Huizhong was interested in acquiring 91 assistant and its producer team. With the mentality of businessmen making money, Liu Jiande agreed to meet and talk with each other.