Chapter 569: Drawing vine ambition

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"Mr. Zhang, it seems that you have been in a good mood recently?" A young man stood opposite Zhang Yang and stretched his hand to help his glasses.
"Fortunately, a competitor's product is on the street, shouldn't I laugh so obviously?" Zhang Yang asked deliberately.
"Yes, you shouldn't laugh so obviously. But you can open a body and celebrate."
"Ha ha ha ha, Ma is very humorous, then I will open a body at night, you also come. By the way, is it okay to come here? Penguin company needs additional investment?" Zhang Yang opened the cigar box on the table and handed it over One draws vines for horses.
"Investment is not necessary for the time being. The company currently has three rounds of financing, and the cash is still enough. And there are already some revenue projects. Although some are eaten by Maoliang, it does not affect the company's future development."
Now Penguin has launched Penguin Coins. The company sells Penguin Coins in exchange for some cash. At the same time, it allows users to consume Penguin Coins and purchase some of the company's virtual products.
To put it bluntly, the cost of those virtual products is extremely low, and they are very profitable. Relying on penguin coins, the company withdrew a large amount of funds.
Coupled with advertising revenue, Penguin already has a lot of profit points, and now the number of users of the company has already exceeded 100 million, and is still increasing rapidly.
Zhang Yang spit out a smoke ring: "Since there is no shortage of money, is that good news?"
"I don't know if it's good news, but I recently had an idea and wanted to discuss it with Mr. Zhang. Mr. Zhang's control of the business context is extremely accurate, and I can be considered for help."
"There are currently several instant messaging software in North America, including Microsoft and IQ, and other developments in general. If we join them, is it possible to take a slice?"
Zhang Yang suddenly looked at Ma Huateng: "What are you talking about? Are you going to enter the North American market now? Do you think the time is ripe?"
Ma Huateng shook his head: "I am not sure about the idea, but according to our analysis, if Penguin does not enter the North American market at this time, it will be more difficult in the future."
"There are two ways to enter the North American market. The first one is the direct promotion of Penguin, which consumes huge advertising costs and develops slowly. The other is the acquisition of an instant messaging company. We directly obtain the assets of the other party and launch it at the same time. Our products will replace each other’s products or optimize each other’s products."
"If Mr. Zhang thinks that it is not possible, then we will give up entering the North American market and specialize in other Asian markets, especially the Southeast Asian market. We can't focus on the mainland market. This market, although large, has obvious limitations."
Zhang Yang bowed his head in contemplation, and it was indeed too difficult to enter the North American market. Not to mention the exclusiveness of the concept, but the size of the funds alone, Penguin is far from comparable to Microsoft.
Microsoft is now in its midst, and although market value is falling, revenue is growing. InXP has just been listed, and currently does not see market potential.
But Zhang Yang is very clear that this is another operating system that Microsoft is sweeping the market. In the next ten years, it will be the most mainstream operating system with the largest number of users.
Compared with burning money, Zhiduoxing can't burn Microsoft, let alone Penguin.
"If you want to enter the North American market, how much capital are you going to use? If you are cooperating with other companies, are you planning to let Penguin hold the shares or participate in the shares?"
"At least three billion US dollars in the beginning, and more than one billion US dollars in the future. Penguin does not have so much capital, so it intends to cooperate with other companies."
"Our goal must be controlled. If it is a shareholding, then some of our ideas, assets, etc., will be eroded by the other party."
"We thought about it. If we try the market in the early stage, we can sell that part of the asset without losing money. So we don't need to continue to make additional investments for the time being. If necessary, we will contact Mr. Zhang."
Zhang Yang tapped his finger on the table: "You say that, in fact, you already have a goal? Three hundred million dollars. It seems that I look down on Penguin. You have developed better than I thought."
Ma Huateng didn't object to Zhang Yang's intention, and was a little happy. In fact, he did not intend to make additional investment for follow-up funds, which would dilute his shares and dilute his voting rights.
His idea is to make the company public next year and raise a sum of money for subsequent development.
It's just that the global financial market is not very good now, and he is not sure whether he can raise enough funds. If the market does not pick up next year, he will either delay the time to market or find someone to raise funds. He does not want Zhang Yang and others to continue to make additional investments.
It is impossible for a company created by yourself to let others control.
"Now that you have decided, I also support it. If it fails, it doesn't matter, you don't need to delay the domestic expansion. Now there are basically no rivals in the country, and you have to consider the entry of other foreign companies."
In the past, Microsoft's sn entered the Chinese market with a strong reputation, and was known for its file transfer efficiency and high security. However, after Penguin improved these two functions, the number of sn users gradually decreased.
The most fundamental reason, sn positioning is office, the page is too old, less functional, and it seems very rigid.
The Penguin is much more interesting, the number of users is also large, suitable for all ages. The most important point is that the Penguin has grabbed the young people. As the young people gradually grow up, their parents are driven to use it, and slowly replace sn.
sn was able to contact the mailbox and so on, but soon the penguin company also launched a mailbox service, which is completely free, so that people do not have to remember their email account too much, just know the penguin number. If you want to promote it in North America, you must also grasp this feature, which is interesting enough. Just like other social software in the future, they are more interesting in their functions, and they only hold foot and grow into the world's top companies.
"Mr. Zhang is assured that we have already found partners in foreign markets, but we are still hesitant to use the penguin logo or to use a new one. The previous company used only one letter, which has no characteristics."
"Letters also have the advantage of letters and are easy to remember. But it's not fun enough. Have you ever thought about using emoticons, eh~~ use a cartoon character?"
Zhang Yang almost said to use emoticons, but there is no such statement yet.
"What cartoon image, will there be overlap with other companies? Many cartoon images have been adapted into games."
Ma Huateng has another sentence. Many cartoon images are very expensive, and some are more homogenized. It is better to use their little penguins.
"Don't you forget, the capsule villain I painted for you before? What do you think of this?"