Ma Chenshu said that after graduating from Shenzhen University, Ma 1993 joined Runxun Company and started 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 strengthened Ma's determination to start his own business.
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 smiled and interjected: "In fact, 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.