Business is never a gentle thing, but a cruel competition again and again.

When Tom Clacy lamented that others were going to destroy the free security software, he didn't seem to have thought that his free security software was destined to crawl over the body of the paid security software since its birth.

Neither side has a way out and must fight to the end.

"Work overtime!" Tom Clacy waved his hand, "We must make our free security software as soon as possible. Otherwise, more and more users will buy paid security software. Who will download us then?"

At his order, the rented office space began to become completely lit.

Symantec has not yet felt any sense. It has not discovered the secret plan it thought it was secret, and it has been leaked clearly.

However, they also tasted the sweetness in the process of promoting this free antivirus software.

“The download volume exceeds 100,000!”

“The download volume exceeds 150,000!”

“The download volume is over 200,000!”

...

“Downloads exceed…”

Although the quality of this security software can be described as inferior, it is not that it is shoddy and lacks ability, but that it is even more harsh and intentional shoddy.

However, even if this intentionally shoddy production provides the installer with a very poor user experience, there are still people who are working tirelessly to download it.

In just a few days, the download volume reached hundreds of thousands, and this download volume was basically the same as the paid software released by Symantec.

This is indeed a very large blue ocean market.

Symantec was even a little excited.

"Would we... want to go to the free mode? Our free downloads in the past few days have exceeded the paid downloads. And a large number of users are rumoring to our free software, and it is expected that the downloads will increase by an order of magnitude in the future." said the manager of the marketing department.

The other participants were also a little unsteady.

The free business model is no secret. As we all know, it depends on the huge installation volume and distribute advertisements to make profits.

However, the only problem is that no one is sure whether advertisers will pay for Internet advertising.

You should know that the decision makers of almost all companies except Internet companies have always left the Internet era.

Even the entire Silicon Valley is a liar in their opinion.

They prefer real factories, real machines, real machinery, real roar. Instead of typing the keyboard in front of the computer, they can earn inexhaustible wealth by typing it a few times.

They will think, why do you give the wealth we have earned with hard work to you liars?

"Everyone, our Symantec company's foundation is the paid security software, which is the foundation we rely on. The market prospects of free security software are indeed very good. But I want to ask everyone here, do we have money? Even if we have money, will our investors agree?

Now, for every copy of paid security software we sell, we will make more than fifty dollars in net profit.

And what about after we switch to free security software?

Where does our profit come from?

We know that the future prospects are good, but do our shareholders agree?

Now that this free security software is under the pressure of shareholders, it is already very difficult.

if……

If we completely switch to free security software and tell shareholders that it may take more than a quarter to make a profit again, do you think the shareholders will agree?

We... have no choice but to continue...

Get ready, blast!"

The general manager said tragically that he wanted to detonate the deteriorated version of Symantec's free security software, which had exceeded the paid version of the paid version, completely causing the illusion of computer users, and then let them buy a large amount of paid security software in panic. This is also his explanation to shareholders.

Symantec, like almost all companies in the United States, has a very complex equity segment.

There are no less than 30 shareholders who can be discussed at the shareholders' meeting. There are countless smaller shareholders left.

Why do these shareholders invest in Symantec? Is it because they also like security software?

No, no.

They just like money, they just think Symantec can make them money.

If the company can keep making money, everyone will naturally be happy.

However, there is a problem with this. What should I do if a company wants to transform its business and experiences a short-term pain and cannot make a profit in a short period of time?

Shareholders will explode like pufferfish and ask why the company has started to make money and has no profit recently?

If the management answers that it is a business transformation, the shareholders will say, "What are you going to do? Isn't you making money and transferring well now?"

I have nothing to do to transform, but my brain is broken? Come back and do my original business for me.

Otherwise, we will sue you in court, or initiate a general meeting of shareholders to make you all unemployed.

This kind of behavior is indeed a true portrayal of many small shareholders.

Perhaps the major shareholders can still understand that the company needs to transform, develop, and be able to endure the pain, but small shareholders will not do this.

Everyone gets together and invests in this company, not for anything else, but for making money.

Everyone has like-minded people on the road to making money.

But what if you can't make money?

Sorry, I can only say that they are separated.

Whether it was the marketing department or the technical department, the head of the executive president was silent when he heard the words of the executive president.

yes……

Those shareholders...

At the beginning, they still feel that investing in shareholders is a recognition of Symantec and their career, but as time goes by, when the company enters a large-scale profit stage, they will find out.

These people who invested in companies in the early stages of the company were not angels, but vampires. They did nothing and lie on the company every day to suck blood.

The work results that I and everyone worked hard were immediately distributed to other things that I did nothing.

This is angering, if it is the case alone, it would be fine.

The key is that they will come out to obstruct the major transformation period facing the company.

Can't they see the future development trends clearly?

Do they think it's too easy to suck blood while lying down and want to destroy the company?

well……
Chapter completed!