Silicon Valley

v2 Chapter 115: 360 McAfee

  360 antivirus company's current task is to produce security defense programs for PayPal and Williams online banking. As for 360 Antivirus's own products, they can be developed in the future. In addition, Henry issued an application for a formal acquisition of McAfe.

  McAfe McAfee was established in 1987, and the company address is also located in California. In three years, outstanding performance. However, the current anti-virus software is generally manufactured as a CD-ROM for sale. Due to the limited channels and expensive prices, the CD-ROM of the anti-virus software is actually not sold much! If you can sell 100,000 CDs a year, the results are already very good!

   A CD-ROM is one hundred dollars, that is ten million dollars. Except for channel sharing and costs and expenses, McAfe's annual profit is less than four million US dollars!

   Henry valued his company and gave an estimate of $50 million! ! !

  In 2010, Intel, the world’s largest chip manufacturer, spent US$7.68 billion to acquire it. Henry felt that winning the McAfe company as early as possible was a profitable business! Not only that, but also consolidate one's own strength!

   McAfe McAfee agreed to Henry's acquisition application, and the two parties intend to enter the negotiation stage.

   There is no way, money is moving.

   McAfee makes less than 4 million U.S. dollars a year, and with the rise of the Internet, CDs are getting harder to sell. Everyone copied it, copied it, and even pirated it on the Internet. As a result, McAfee's performance began to decline. At this moment, someone is willing to pay a high price of 50 million US dollars to acquire it. As the major shareholders of the company, they are undoubtedly excited!

   Then, Henry sent someone to contact McAfee.

   In order to suppress and force McAfee to agree to the acquisition as soon as possible, under Henry's instruction, McAfee's pirated software on the Internet is increasing, making the sales of McAfee anti-virus software CDs plummet in reality!

   Within a week, the sales volume of McAfee anti-virus software CDs in the United States only sold a hundred copies! In the past, at least more than a thousand copies could be sold.

   The entire McAfee company was hit by this data. The company immediately launched an investigation and finally found that various pirated download sites on the Internet have McAfee anti-virus software. Isearch searches for antivirus, and then the next row is full of pirated websites that download McAfee software. Nima, the people from McAfee Inc. saw this, and their heart suddenly became cold!

   However, misfortunes never come singly. Newspapers, TV, and the Internet are all screaming bad at McAfee, thinking that anti-virus technology is not good, anti-virus and killing are not clean, and there is no use! ! !

   This time, it is like sprinkling salt on the wound!

   Henry, as a salt spreader, did not hesitate to spend money to buy a lot of salt. How can McAfee resist it?

   Under internal and external troubles, McAfee is forced to submit! ! !

   In fact, the people at McAfee naturally realized that someone was deliberately suppressing themselves. Just after Henry initiated the acquisition, so many things happened, how could it be such a coincidence? ? ? However, they are weak and unable to wrestle with the super tycoon. In addition, Henry's price is very fair. The major shareholders of McAfee Company held a meeting and finally decided to sell the company!

   Two weeks of negotiations, the blitzkrieg usually wins McAfee.

   Subsequently, Henry merged 360 Anti-Virus and McAfee. It is necessary to dilute the shares. As a capitalist, you must learn this skill! Even if you give you 40% of the shares, you will have to be diluted to 10% in the end! ! ! However, Eugene Kaspersky's shares are only 1%, Henry only diluted his shares to 0.5% generously, and the option award can only get 2.5%! In fact, McAfee's market value is 50 million U.S. dollars, and 360 Anti-Virus is only 10 million U.S. dollars. Eugene Kaspersky’s shares should be reduced to 0.167%, and the option rewards should be reduced by 6 times!

   But Henry was worried that he would have too few shares. It would be a bad idea to work hard!

   And this time, Henry merged the two companies, but did not dilute his shares to a corresponding degree. This undoubtedly shows that Henry attaches great importance to him, and Eugene Kaspersky almost burst into tears! He died for his confidant, Eugene Kaspersky was very grateful to Henry, even if someone paid a high price for digging people, he would never quit! ! !

   Henry also found that Eugene Kaspersky showed more respect for him. It seems that buying people's hearts is also a must-learn lesson!

   After the merger of the two companies, the name is 360 McAfee (named 360 antivirus company, I am afraid of being harmonized...), Eugene Kaspersky serves as the company's CEO and concurrently serves as the chief technology officer.

   After the acquisition of McAfee, the newly merged company will have extra manpower to develop its own anti-virus software. McAfee only sells CD-ROMs with anti-virus software, and this obviously fell through.

   Free is king!

   Internet anti-virus client is the key to the hegemony!

  What's the point of selling CDs?

   Henry’s first order to acquire McAfee was to cancel the sale of CD-ROMs and instead develop anti-virus clients!

  Henry called Eugene Kaspersky to the office, "Eugene Kaspersky, you now want to make an anti-virus client for users to download and use. And this client must be free!!!"

   When Eugene Kaspersky heard this, he couldn't help but stunned. He looked at Henry and hesitated: "Mr. Williams, you said it's free?!" If the software client is free, how can the company make money? Eugene Kaspersky was puzzled.

"Yes, it is completely free. Our anti-virus client does not charge users a penny!!! You know, in the Internet age, traffic is the most important. And free can bring huge traffic to our anti-virus client. After that, we You can open various value-added services to make money." Henry explained briefly.

   Eugene Kaspersky thought for a while, and it seemed to make sense.

   "Okay, then I will arrange for the development of the client side by hand!"

   Henry nodded and said, "Go ahead. By the way, the security testing procedures of online banking and PayPal have also been added to the client to protect users' online property!"

"no problem!"

   After Eugene Kaspersky left, Henry asked about the situation of Tiantian Music Company.

  Tiantian Music client has been officially launched on November 1. The client is linked to the ICQ chat software, and the user can click on it to open it. In addition, www. mp3. com website has a separate download option for daily music client to provide download! After the Tiantian Music client went online, it ushered in a frenzy of downloads. Especially ICQ has promoted it, and the huge traffic has made the Tiantian Music client more than 100,000 downloads in just one week!

   Tiantian Music will soon become popular and become the preferred player for playing music!

  Because Tiantian Music has the largest music library, users can listen to music online. At the time, this function was so awesome! ! ! Other music players are just players~lightnovelpub.net~ Everyday Music is already on the top, and you can play it online!

   However, there is one thing that Henry expected, and that is www. mp3. The number of song downloads from the com website and Tiantian Music client is not satisfactory.

  On the one hand, it is because of the inconvenience of recharging music coins. On the other hand, users mostly choose to listen to music instead of downloading music. Think about it too. If you have the Internet, you can listen to it online. Why do you want to download...

   Therefore, after users spent all music coins, the number of downloads of songs dropped to the bottom in vain!

  The major record companies in the United States did not see Tiantian Music Company creating benefits for themselves, but caused huge losses instead! I only try to listen to them one by one, but don’t download them. How can I play this?

   Since everyone is listening to music online, the physical records of record companies are not selling well, and there is no money on the Internet. As a result, major records have protested, asking Daily Music to ban the audition function. Henry considered it for a while and refused the record company's request. When online banking has not yet developed, users will not spend money to recharge music coins. If the audition is banned, it will destroy the city wall and lose a large number of users...

   In the end, the major record companies felt that they had been pitted, and they couldn't help canceling their contracts. The previously authorized songs were regarded as "tuition fees", and then they stopped licensing the latest record songs to Tiantian Music Company! ! !

   Henry's head went big when he heard the news.

   Fuck, you guys don’t talk about credit! ! !

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