"XP One Piece" Prawn PK Baidu Google
From the "Rainforest Wood Wind" studio to the planned investment of 200 million for the 1 15 network USB flash drive project, it is planned to go public in three years.
Source: Southern Metropolis Daily
Absrtact: Outside the window is the beautiful scenery of Songshan Lake with trees and grass, but Lai has no intention of enjoying it.
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Character: Lai
Age: 27 years old
Introduction: People from xingning city, Guangdong Province, set up a rainforest woodwork, which is one of the "Three XP Piracy Groups" with the same reputation as Hong Lei in Tomato Garden. Because Microsoft cracked down on piracy, it began to transform at the end of 2008 and spent hundreds of millions on Internet projects in Dongguan.
"In this urgent era, we can't lose it slowly."
-Lai's Ah Q signature
"Standing on the shoulders of giants, of course, you can see farther than giants. We improve on them and show the best results to netizens. If netizens have demand, we will have a market. "
"Yes, you see XP, but Ta is not XP."
-This is a systematic promotion word. The interface of the system almost completely imitates W indow s XP to adapt to the habits of netizens. What is even more intriguing is that the website of the system is a domain name bought by Lai for 680,000 yuan.
Outside the window is the beautiful scenery of Songshan Lake with trees and grass, but Lai has no mind to enjoy it.
Lai, who was once as famous as "Tomato Garden" Hong Lei in the eyes of IT enthusiasts because of pirated W indow s XP operating system, has a bright blueprint: it will take three years to build the company into an open market. By then, Hong Lei will also walk out of the prison wall.
After the "Tomato Garden" case, Lai dissolved the original grassroots studio that cracked XP system, walked from behind the scenes to the front desk, and spent tens of millions of yuan to buy an office building in Dongguan Songshan Lake Science and Technology Industrial Park, hoping to take a road of success paved with sunshine and dreams.
"Sports, fighting, wild, unrestrained"
Lai LAM Raymond is thin and tall. He stayed up late for a long time, leaving traces in his eyes, but he was full of energy and spoke quickly. At the age of 27, he is the head of Guangdong Rainforest Mufeng Computer Technology Co., Ltd.
Seven or eight years ago, he never thought that he could sit in a 50-square-meter office today and spend hundreds of millions of yuan on an Internet project.
"Sports, fighting, wild." Lai summed up high school with these eight words. Lai LAM Raymond went back to school for a year and was admitted to the university in the summer of 2002, but he changed his mind. "Look at those people."
For love, he went to Shaoguan to "accompany his girlfriend to college". His girlfriend majored in computer science, and he began to contact the Internet. At this time, Lai didn't know that he could make a living by IT technology in the future, and he set up the "Rainforest Wood Wind" studio, one of the "three major X P piracy groups", which was the dismantling of his name "Lin Feng".
Used to be one of the "pirated XP" groups.
"girlfriends learn by themselves the fastest." When his girlfriend went to class, he stayed in a one-room rental house and played with the computer, and soon caught up with his girlfriend.
Lai's first income came from selling Q Q numbers. In 2002, Q Q cornet with 8 digits or less could not be applied for free in Chinese mainland, so he applied for Q Q cornet through W Bay server on T-channel and sold it, earning hundreds of living expenses a month.
Lai still soaks in front of the computer every day to earn some living expenses through the internet. At this time, my girlfriend has nearly graduated, and I am 23 years old. In mid-2005, he and his friends started a company in his hometown of Xingning. Called the company, only a few people actually rented a facade to assemble computers. When no one buys a computer, everyone is immersed in their own online forums, such as teaching experience and teaching others computer maintenance.
It was at this time that they began to modify the Windows SXP operating system. "We help others assemble computers. People say that the system is not easy to use, so we began to learn to make a system. " At the end of 2005, they shared this system with their own "rainforest wood wind" forum. I didn't expect many people to download it.
In 2007, Lai LAM Raymond focused on systems and websites. As the forum becomes more and more popular, it can earn thousands of dollars in advertising revenue every month. Their revised "rainforest wood wind" version of the X P system has been downloaded and used by more and more netizens, and has been rated as one of the three "XP piracy" groups with the same reputation as Tomato Garden and Depth by netizens.
LAM Raymond doesn't think this is a kind of "piracy". "Because we optimized the operating system better and sent it to the forum to share, netizens felt it was very easy to use. Some pirates thought it was profitable and sold it. Others thought it was us. "
Lai said that in fact, doing systems does not make money. Hong Lei, the author of Tomato Garden, once said that by bundling all kinds of rogue software, you can earn more than 65438+ million from software vendors in a month. LAM Raymond admitted that pirates helped them indirectly. Just as Lai was immersed in the sense of accomplishment brought by the increase of users, Microsoft started a piracy crackdown in China.
Invest hundreds of millions to compete with Baidu and Google.
On August 15, 2008, Hong Lei, the author of Tomato Garden, was taken away by the police on the grounds that he was widely known for cracking W indow s X P operating system on suspicion of infringing Microsoft copyright Tomato Garden. The incident caused waves of ripples in the network, and Microsoft's move played an "example" role. The well-known pirated X P development team "Deep" immediately announced that it would not release a revised version.
Lai's "rainforest wood wind" X P development team was officially dissolved in 2008. "In fact, we didn't do the system before, but after the accident in the tomato garden, someone wanted to take the opportunity to bring us down and put me in prison or something. They changed our things, but they wrote the name of the rainforest wood wind. We were forced to make a statement. " LAM Raymond said.
The rainforest wood wind began the road of transformation. At the end of 2008, the rainforest wood wind settled in Songshan Lake and spent tens of millions to buy more than 4,000 square meters of single-family office buildings. After several months of brewing, Lai launched the115 aggregate search project on June 65438+ 10/5, 2009. 1 15 aggregate search is a search engine based on the optimization and integration of search records of Baidu and Google. 1 15 is the core project of the company, which has invested a huge amount of money. The domain name 1 15.com alone cost more than1000000 yuan.
At present, Baidu and Google have almost monopolized the online search market, and all major portals also have their own search engines. Under such an encirclement, Lai's 1 15 is weak.
Lai LAM Raymond is very confident. "Standing on the shoulders of giants, of course, you can see farther than giants. We improve on them and show the best results to netizens. If netizens have demand, we will have a market. "
LAM Raymond certainly wouldn't put his money in one basket. In May 2009, the company launched 1 15 network USB flash drive to provide online free storage service for individual users. This is a very expensive project, and Lai intends to invest 200 million yuan to run it.
LAM Raymond is constantly developing new projects. Just last Christmas, the company released an open source operating system called "Ylm f OS" (open source operating system refers to an open source operating system, and anyone can recompile it without infringement. W indows XP is a non-open source system).
Interestingly, the interface of the system almost completely imitates W indow s X P to adapt to the usage habits of the majority of netizens. What is even more intriguing is that the website of the system is a domain name bought by Lai for 680,000 yuan. "yes, you see X P, but Ta is not x p" is a systematic promotion word. On the day of the release, one year after the studio was dissolved, Lai LAM Raymond returned to his familiar operating system field.
"You can't do what you want."
More than a year has passed, and employees are used to calling this boss who almost never wears a suit and tie "Brother Feng".
At present, the company has more than 50 people, most of whom are technicians. Lai knows that with the increase of employees, many company systems need to be improved. At present, he has arranged personnel to formulate the company's articles of association. He no longer does technical work, but mainly does inspections, such as the company's technicians doing programs, and he experiences and evaluates products as users.
"The company is bigger, not to do what you want to do, not to make money, but to consider what you can't do. We must do something new under the premise of steady and steady, legal compliance. " This is his profound experience after he became a boss.
Lai LAM Raymond said, "I am busier now, and I am very tired." Just over an hour's interview, because the company affairs were interrupted four times. In his tenure, "the general is incompetent and exhausts the three armed forces; The calligraphy and painting of "the wise are not confused, and the walkers are boundless" is very eye-catching. He goes to bed at one or two in the morning almost every day, and he has to get up at seven in the morning.
At present, it is often tens of millions of costs, which makes Lai LAM Raymond very "big". There are venture capitalists looking for lai. But he feels that the company is not suitable for venture capital at present.
The office building of this company will be renovated this month. After the Spring Festival, we plan to recruit more than 65,438,000 people in the future. His plan for the company is three years of listing and financing, and five years is the bottom line. One year later, in the authoritative traffic statistics of a LEXA website, his 1 15 website increased from 30,000 daily IP visits in May last year to 320,000 at present.
"In this urgent era, we can't lose it slowly." This is Lai's Q Q signature.
Entrepreneurial process
In mid-2005, Lai and her friends started a computer assembly company in xingning city. At the end of the year, Lai LAM Raymond began to crack the Windows XP operating system.
In 2007, Lai devoted himself to revising the W indow s system and website construction. This year, the website navigation network "1 14 La" was created, and the current traffic is second only to Baidu and Google.
On June 5438+1October 65438+May, 2009, Rainforest Woodwind launched the 1 15 project, including search, email and online storage.
On June 24th, 2009, 65438+February 24th, 2009, the company released an open source operating system called "Y lm f O S", and Lai LAM Raymond returned to his familiar operating system field, but this time it was no longer a "piracy" route.
Written by: trainee reporter Li Xingxing
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