Compared with Ali and Baidu, many people despise Tencent's technical strength and think that it is just a company engaged in online games.

In fact, this is just a wrong impression of many people. Tencent's technical strength is still quite strong.

Ma, the founder of Tencent, is also a master programmer. When he was young, he was once famous.

So, what is the unknown story? Don't worry, listen to me slowly.

Ma Yu 1984 moved to Shenzhen with his parents, when he was in the second grade. After moving to Shenzhen, he was immediately arranged by his parents to study in a local middle school.

At that time, as the youngest city in China, Shenzhen was carrying out rapid construction with the slogan "Time is money, efficiency is life".

Because of this, the computer industry, as a new industry, quickly entered the world of horses.

Therefore, when applying for a university, Ma listened to the opinions of his family. Instead of applying for the astronomy department according to the established route, he chose a more practical computer department and became a freshman majoring in computer science in Shenzhen University.

Shenzhen University is a young university, but influenced by the overall development momentum of Shenzhen, its academic atmosphere is mainly pragmatic and innovative, and it is developing rapidly.

Affected by this, Ma was influenced by pragmatism and innovative ideas before graduation.

During his school years, his grades were among the best, and he became interested in his major, namely, coding and network, which will also become a necessary accumulation for his future success.

During this period, Ma became more and more interested in the Internet. His goal at that time was to become a programming master of UNIX or C language.

In order to surf the Internet, Ma often stays in the school computer room on the grounds of helping clean up network viruses, but such opportunities are limited after all.

In order to get enough online time, Ma quickly thought of a good way, that is, he deliberately "implanted" some viruses into the computer.

Teachers in the school have no choice but to find that after the horses entered the school computer room, those viruses not only did not decrease, but there was an increasing trend, and every time there were horses, these viruses would be caught.

When the teachers found out that Ma was cheating, they severely criticized him, but at the same time recognized his professional knowledge and persistent learning spirit, so he got a rare opportunity to surf the Internet.

During college, the introverted horse was not the core of everyone, and his reserve and silence made him difficult to be welcomed by everyone. His professional skills are not the strongest among his classmates, and his learning method is only to accumulate experience by copying codes.

However, a horse has a very valuable ability, that is, he can correctly recognize his strengths and weaknesses. So he can always find some people with complementary advantages and form partners with them.

In cooperation, horses always keep the habit of being cautious and respecting each other's opinions, which often makes their cooperation achieve unexpected results.

Zhang Zhidong, Xu, Chen Yidan and other collaborators after Ma also established deep friendship with him during this period.

In this way, the horse's ability has been greatly developed at the speed of Shenzhen. From high school to college, Ma has never left Shenzhen.

With the rapid development of China's economy, the situation of China's stock market also rose sharply, and the stock price began to soar.

1992 On May 2 1 day, the daily limit of Shanghai Stock Exchange 15 was lifted. Because there is no daily limit, they rose by 105% one day, and then they soared for two days. By 25th, the stock market peaked at 1429.

More and more people are beginning to realize that investing in peanut stocks in China stock market is tantamount to picking up money and getting rich overnight.

Someone once described China's share price at that time:

This shows how crazy the China stock market was at that time. As the forerunner of the reform and opening up, Shenzhen's stock market is naturally doing its part, and public stock trading has become a fashion, and all men, women and children in the city are talking about stocks.

Ma, who was still a college student at that time, followed the situation closely and combined with his major, designed a software called "Stock Analysis System" and handed it in as a graduation work.

After four years of study and accumulation, Ma has mastered solid professional knowledge. At school, he has become the bane of all kinds of viruses, and can also put forward practical solutions for school network maintenance.

While most college students in our country are still amazed by computers, Ma has become an excellent computer professional.

Ma's sensitive insight into the market is almost innate, so his "stock analysis system" aroused strong repercussions as soon as it was launched, and Ma also graduated smoothly and obtained a bachelor's degree and a bachelor's degree from Shenzhen University.

Soon, an Internet company took a fancy to Ma's graduation works and wanted to invest in his "stock analysis system". When talking about the selling price, Ma was inexperienced, so he wisely chose to let the other side quote.

When the other party quoted a sky-high purchase amount of 50,000 yuan, Ma's IT empire dream also kicked off.

Ma really came into contact with the Internet at 1995, which is the third year that Ma worked in Runxun (the first company Ma joined after graduation).

At that time, he groped on the famous BBS forum "Huiduo". Com "for half a year, finally have a general understanding of the network.

Subsequently, Ma decided to set up a substation in Shenzhen. In this way, in the later period of 1995, Ma established Huiduo Net Shenzhen Sub-station with four telephone lines and eight computers, and he became the stationmaster of the Sub-station.

Ma's experience during this period has also played a great role in his future development in the Internet industry.

During this period, many entrepreneurs served as the stationmaster of Huiduo. Com has become a well-known figure in the Internet industry in China.

At this time, Ma entered the ranks of the webmaster of Huiduo network substation, which made him have the same qualifications and resources as these characters. Of course, all this is inseparable from his own ability.

The Shenzhen Huiduo network substation established by Ma at this time is called Ponysoft(Pony is the English name of Ma, and the name of the whole station is translated into Ma's software).

Ma is very attentive to his Ponysoft Huiduo substation and tries his best to expand the popularity of the site. For a time, almost all kinds of media left the sound of horses.

Thanks to Ma's continuous efforts, Ponysoft Shenzhen Huiduo Network Sub-station has finally achieved impressive results and once became a representative platform for Shenzhen to face the market.

For a long time, Ma's Huiduo Net Shenzhen Sub-station has a high reputation in the circle, and everyone affectionately calls Ma's Shenzhen Sub-station "Ma Station".

Ma works hard for his Huiduo Net Shenzhen Sub-station. During that time, in addition to finishing Runxun every day, he spent all his spare time on the construction of Huiduo network substation.

At that time, the top Internet talents in China were gathered, and it was through this circle that Ma came into contact with the world's Internet frontier information, or because of this circle that Ma first came into contact with ICQ software that changed his life.

The horse said:

There is nothing wrong with the horse's expectations. At the same time, the Internet industry in China has indeed undergone historic changes. 1At the end of 995, Wang Zhidong, the first Internet tycoon in China, took to Wall Street, which opened the curtain for China's Internet to connect with the world.

Ma has not set his eyes on the international stage yet, but he has not been idle. On the contrary, he actively develops his own scientific and technological products in his spare time.

With the software support of the previous "stock analysis system", Ma is confident and familiar with sales.

After getting to know some professional hardware talents, Ma made full use of resources and cooperated with these friends to develop an electronic device that can watch the stock trend in real time, named "Gu Ba".

For the investors at that time, the stock bully was a very advanced technology product, which was probably equivalent to the Ipad popular among urban white-collar workers today. Once the product was launched, the market opened quickly, which made Ma's capital accumulation reach a new height.

1996, Ma officially invested his accumulated 65,438+10,000 yuan in stocks, because the stock trend was really good at that time, and Ma also made great efforts in stock investment, and his investment of 65,438+10,000 yuan soon gained rich returns.

By the end of 1998, Ma had accumulated considerable income from stock trading, which undoubtedly laid the foundation for his independent venture. Somehow, it seems that everything is doomed for Ma to start his own business, but Ma knows that the time for starting his own business is not yet mature.

1998 Ma resigned from his old club Runxun, and Tencent was established in the same year 165438+ 10.

At the beginning of Tencent's establishment, it can be said that it was difficult and difficult, as Ma later recalled:

When Ma and his partners are struggling for the survival of Tencent, the use of ICQ has formed a prairie fire on a global scale.

Using ICQ has become a global fashion. AOL's acquisition and promotion of ICQ has made countless Internet practitioners see the huge business opportunities in the Internet social communication industry.

Seeing the vast international situation, Ma and his team unanimously decided to develop a local Internet social communication software and put it into market operation.

For a technical team like Tencent, developing this software is a simple and pleasant thing; However, it is not an easy task to successfully market it.

First of all, independent operation requires a lot of capital investment. At that time, although Tencent established some profitable projects, it would soon get into trouble if it invested too much.

Secondly, the Internet is a brand-new industry, and there is no successful profit model for Internet social communication industry in China. Fighting alone is like crossing the river by feeling the stones, and the depth is hard to detect. In the event of a mistake, Tencent is bound to fall into a state of perdition.

However, despite the difficulties, the China trend of Internet social communication industry made Ma determined to try his hand. For the development direction of the product, Ma finally locked in ICQ.

It can be said that no one can predict which road will lead to success except practice.

What Ma Hua Teng can do is to try to avoid possible risks. But the risk itself is uncertain and cannot be completely avoided. He can only minimize the risk.

For a newly established company, the risk that may occur at any time is very terrible, which is not only manifested in the moment when the risk occurs, but also makes people feel scared even when the risk does not occur.

Therefore, choosing to imitate ICQ has become the only feasible way for horses. Although it is imitation, Ma still incorporates many innovative factors into ICQ.

Ma believes that although ICQ itself has unique charm, it had certain limitations in China at that time.

First of all, its English interface is hard to be accepted by the public in China.

Secondly, the operation of ICQ also needs certain professional knowledge. At that time, the users were all professional network practitioners, so they could not be popularized in China, and the potential user base in China was so huge.

Furthermore, ICQ itself has some defects, that is, the user information is stored in the user terminal, that is, if the user changes to a computer to surf the Internet, a large amount of information stored in it will be unusable.

In China at that time, the main Internet users were concentrated in Internet cafes, so the defects of ICQ were fatal.

So, in view of this situation, Ma and his partners officially launched an IM Internet social communication tool-OICQ, which later became popular all over the country.

Later, Tencent QQ was used by more and more people, but because there was no mature profit model, funds were often tight and it was difficult to make ends meet.

Among them, the cost of renting a network server by QQ alone is a headache for Ma.

In order to make QQ software survive, Ma and his Tencent Company undertake almost all network services such as web design, system integration, software development, training and teaching. They will all come as long as they can make money.

Therefore, Ma's strong technical strength has played an extremely important role in this respect.

Although various technologies are changing with each passing day, the technical strength of horses is not top-notch. But at that time, Ma was definitely a master at the right moment.

It is precisely because of this that at the beginning of Tencent's establishment, Ma relied on his excellent technical strength to make Tencent through the most difficult period, and now it has become a famous Internet giant in China.

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