? Father Ma reveals the beginning of Tencent's venture.

Ma's father is a cadre from the south. Ma Chenshu was born in 1940. He has a secondary school education and is an economist. He used to be the chief and deputy director of accounting, statistics and planning department of eight port authorities in Hainan, Ministry of Communications, the manager and general manager of financial planning department of Shenzhen Shipping Corporation, the deputy commander of Shenzhen Yantian Port Construction Command, the deputy general manager of Shenzhen Yantian Port Group Co., Ltd., and 197 was elected as a listed company of Yantian Port. Ma Chenshu is a native of Chaoshan, a township party in Li Ka-shing, whose Yantian Port is one of Li Ka-shing's favorite commercial forms. In addition, PCCW appeared as a venture capitalist of Tencent for the first time, so many people wondered whether there were many connections between Ma's father and Li Ka-shing, which helped Ma a lot. However, these are just guesses. Ma Chenshu's most direct help to his son is mainly to open a Mercedes-Benz to do accounts for his son in the early days of Tencent, and the indirect help may be the experience inheritance of corporate governance and capital market operation. Another help from Ma's family is that Ma's mother has served as the legal representative of Tencent for a long time. According to the relevant public documents of Tencent's listing, the legal representative of Tencent founder Shenzhen Tencent Computer System Co., Ltd. is Ma's mother Huang. As for why my mother served as the legal representative of the company for a long time, Ma explained that the legal representative who founded the company was either unemployed or retired, so I had to let my retired mother serve as the legal representative. Although Ma Jia is rich, his venture capital is more from his own accumulation. It is rumored that Ma's start-up capital comes from stock trading. It is said that he used to fry 65438+ 10 thousand yuan into 700 thousand yuan's handwriting. In this regard, Ma himself did not respond positively, but Ma admitted that he had made a small fortune by developing stock monopoly cards, which enabled him to enter the capital market and gain primitive accumulation of capital. As we all know, Ma's father is an executive of a listed company, so there are still people who can consult Ma in the capital market. One thing is certain, whether it is Ma or Zhang Zhidong, it is difficult to accumulate their earliest venture capital just by being an engineer. At that time, the income level of Zhang Zhidong of Runxun Ma and Liming Network was roughly 1000-2000 yuan per month, and even with the dividend at the end of the year, there was not much accumulation. Chen Yidan, who works in Shenzhen Telecom, Xu and Entry-Exit Quarantine Bureau, has even less income because she is a public institution. According to the company law at that time, to set up a company, there must be at least 500,000 yuan of registered capital. Therefore, the first problem Ma and his business partners face is how to raise the registered capital of 500,000 yuan. Most of the initial 500,000 yuan was paid by Ma, who made some gains in the secondary capital market. However, Ma did not hold the overwhelming majority of the shares. He wisely defined his own shares as 47.5%, and the shares of the other four people added up to 52.5%. The advantage of this is that he will not give other entrepreneurial partners a sense of dominance. In extreme cases, the other four founders can persuade him to change his decision together, and any resolution he wants to pass must be approved by at least two founding shareholders before it can be implemented. In this way, Tencent made clear the strategy of collective leadership from the beginning, and Ma himself did not lose control of the whole company. Mr. and Mrs. Ma Chenshu said that when Ma Hua Teng was studying in the computer department of Shenzhen University, his grades were always in the top five, and he gradually realized the fun of writing software and learning computer networks. He loves to play and has become the bane of all kinds of viruses. At the same time, he often plays some practical jokes to lock the hard disk, which makes the administrator of the school computer room laugh and cry. (Sun, an inspirational entrepreneur) told reporters that the first bucket of gold came from the graduation design of Ma University. 1993 On the eve of graduation, he designed a "stock analysis system". Soon, a company took a fancy to this software and asked him how much it cost. But at that time, the horse and his family didn't know how much the software was worth, so they asked each other to bid. Later, the other party gave the horse 50 thousand yuan, which made the horse very happy. Ma Chenshu also found a friend to help him take the money home. Ma, who tasted the sweetness, was out of control, and then he cooperated with his classmates to develop the "purchase system". He is in charge of designing software, and the other is in charge of hardware. With this device, users can view the stock market in real time on TV, and the market is very good. At the highest time, a set sold for more than 2,000 yuan, which made the horse earn tens of thousands of yuan. It was not until his classmates who worked with Ma went abroad that they stopped making and selling "stock receivers". Speaking of this, Ma Chenshu and his wife are very proud. "Now we have a handbag accessory at home!" Ma Chenshu added happily. 1994, Ma put 65,438+ten thousand yuan earned from developing software into the stock market, and bought it when its share was only more than that of 6 yuan. With the stock price soaring, Ma's 654.38+ million became 700,000, which made him have millions of funds soon, laying the foundation for independent entrepreneurship. The couple who used four telephone lines as "webmasters" told reporters that they didn't have any special hobbies until they graduated from Ma University and worked as software engineers in Runxun Company. Although they don't even have a stereo at home, they have five telephones and eight computers. At that time, the real Internet had not been fully popularized, but my son was addicted to the Internet. When he first went to Huiduo. Com, he let him experience the fun of the Internet. Half a year later, Ma invested 50,000 yuan to set up four telephone lines and eight computers at home, and served as the stationmaster of Huiduo Net Shenzhen Station. Every day after work, he is as busy as a bee. Over time, Shenzhen "Horse Station" became famous in Huiduo.com, but few people knew that Master Ma was actually just a young man in his early twenties. Ma Chenshu said half jokingly that it cost more than 4,000 yuan to install a telephone at that time. Fortunately, his daughter and several relatives were working in a telephone company at that time, and they could apply for installation at half price. Later, he asked his daughter and relatives to apply for four half-price telephones for them to use online. At this time, pointing to Huang Huiqing, he said, "Actually, Ma Station is famous because of her contribution. At that time, when Ma was on a business trip in other places, he asked his mother to help him manage the website, and he had to write a note to his mother every time before going out, telling her that once a netizen called and said that the network was blocked, she would follow the steps on the note to ensure the smooth network. " With the support of his family, Ma also attended the first and second national BBS webmaster conferences. "I am the first chairman of Tencent." Ma Chenshu said that Ma 1993 joined Runxun Company after graduating from Shenzhen University, and began to work as a software engineer, focusing on the development of paging software, and has been the head of the development department. Ma, who has a soft spot for the Internet, proposed to use the Internet to do wireless paging service and developed a system. Unfortunately, it did not get the support of the company, which further strengthened Ma's independent entrepreneurial spirit. 1998165438+1October1kloc-0/Shenzhen Tencent computer system co., ltd., a company that later changed the way people communicate in China, was established. Having said that, Huang Huiqing interjected with a smile: "Actually, I am the first chairman of Tencent, and Hua Teng is taking my class!" "She's right, the company was registered by me before and after I ran, but the company registered at that time required a retirement certificate or unemployment certificate, and his mother just retired. After discussion, we registered Tencent under the names of his mother and my brother-in-law. His mother nominally owns 60% of the shares and naturally becomes the chairman. It was not until 1999 that it was all transferred to Ma Hua Teng. " Ma Chenshu told this little-known entrepreneurial story to reporters with a smile. Ma Chenshu also told reporters that he also coined the name "Tencent", which means "Ma Benteng's information age". At that time, four names were created, all of which had the word "Teng". But Ma didn't agree to use the name "Tencent" at that time, thinking it was too personalized, but the other three names were already indicated by others when they were registered. As a result, Ma Chenshu finally registered Tencent with 500,000 yuan. Ma named the company Tencent, which means a lot. On the one hand, there is a word "Teng" in Ma Hua Teng's name, and the company is closely related to himself; On the other hand, "Teng" also means takeoff and development. The suffix is "training", more because of the influence of the old club's training on horses. As for the English name Tencent, it is more based on the famous communication company lucent. Later, tencent was listed in Hong Kong, and its English name was called "Tencent" by Hong Kong people. At that time, Tencent was at most an SP (short message content provider) company, and users charged a dime for the short messages sent by Tencent, which was very appropriate and image.