Reinventing the Millennium.

Chapter 781

Fang Zhuo ended his friendly visit to Dangdang as soon as he arrived in the capital.

Since arriving in the capital, I saved a table at night.

Wang Yan from Sina, Lao Xiong from IDG, Wang Xing from the school, and Qingzi from Dangdang all sent text messages.

It's a pity that Qingzi didn't want to come.

Xiong Xiaoge only found out about Mr. Fang's goal in Beijing after chatting for a while about shorting Lehman, and when he heard that he still had the nerve to send text messages to Li Guoqing, he felt ashamed and said, "You are really good, Mr. Li. You must be angry about the shares, you can really send the text message..."

"Public is public, private is private, I don't hold grudges, it's just a meal." Fang Zhuo said indifferently, "If he is willing to come, it's just to settle the day's affairs. Oh, Qingzi may not want to come out, but His face was scratched by his wife, so he must know that there are many people here."

Xiong Xiaoge: "..."

Wang Yan: "..."

Wang Xing: "..."

Originally, Mr. Fang was just a two-sentence description in a straightforward manner. There was such a share repurchase to honor the bet, but the short words "his face was scratched by his wife" gave off a sense of gratitude and hatred.

Xiong Xiaoge has always understood Mr. Fang's style of doing things, but he was only obsessed with the Lehman scandal. He would react to this, and he sighed without even asking: "The co-authorship is not a serious talk, it is a door-to-door dunning? The husband and wife together It's not easy to run a business, so don't mix up other couples..."

Just as Fang Zhuo wanted to speak, he suddenly fell silent. The direction of the relationship between the husband and wife can't be blamed on himself.

He took a sip of his wine, shook his head and said, "I'm not good at door-to-door business. I've always been door-to-door. If Dangdang hadn't picked the right time to snatch the land that Tesco was about to negotiate, it would really make me a little angry. I'm too lazy to look for Qingzi, this time I came to the capital mainly to see the situation in Sina and the school."

Xiong Xiaoge didn't mind being taken by Mr. Fang, and raised his glass with a smile: "Come on, let Mr. Fang's dragon slayer become a dragon, oh, no, let's drink to Mr. Fang to become a more ferocious dragon. "

Jokingly drank a glass of wine.

Wang Xing poured wine for everyone and refilled it. After sitting down, he was thinking about his own school affairs.

Wang Yan asked at this time: "Can the couple buy it back at a premium? This premium is quite a lot."

To be fair, considering Dangdang's current situation and the development prospects of e-commerce, it should be reliable to sell 18% of the shares from the initial $1100 million to the current $3000 million+.

With a slightly higher premium, it may be possible to rush for 4000 million US dollars.

But to say $6600 million, the premium is a bit serious.

Fang Zhuo took a bite of the food, looked at Xiong Xiaoge, and asked, "Old Xiong, what do you think?"

Xiong Xiaoge said without hesitation: "I will definitely buy it."

He explained the reason with the questioning eyes of the other two: "Although Dangdang is a husband-and-wife shop, although Mr. Li is constrained by Mr. Yu from time to time, it may not be appropriate to say this, but this is the meaning first, but in general, Among the two, Mr. Li still decides Dangdang's development strategy."

"Mr. Li, or the two of them, do great things and cherish their lives. At the beginning, Mr. Fang wanted to push them to move forward quickly, but they were suspicious and unwilling."

"Seeing that e-buy can really develop rapidly in B2C, it hastened to speed up the pace. Not to mention here in Tongzhou, but I heard that Wuxi will also spend huge sums of money to build a logistics base. It's a bit hard to put it into words."

IDG is also a shareholder of Dangdang, earlier than Yike Investment, but it does not hold many shares.

Wang Xing asked: "Then Mr. Xiong, aren't IDG's shares sold?"

"Even though there are many problems, I think Dangdang can go public. I just regret that Dangdang could have gone to two levels." Xiong Xiaoge said regretfully, "Dangdang first wanted to compete with Amazon. Later, I It turned out that he was only targeting Amazon Huaxia."

I don't need to elaborate on what Amazon Huaxia is like, it is completely incomparable with Amazon.

Xiong Xiaoge touched Wang Xing with a cup, and said with a smile: "6600 million US dollars, more or less, just 5 million Huaxia coins, whether it is looking for other investment institutions or taking their own equity to the bank Pledge, money can be obtained, but it may be a little nervous."

"With the prospect of going public, Mr. Li and Mr. Yu may have been very annoyed by the other party's shareholding for a long time. In addition, there is such a substantial failure of the bet. This premium is worth eating or not. Gotta eat."

Fang Zhuo listened to Lao Xiong's eloquence, and exclaimed: "Look, just a few words, he is indeed the best investor in China. No one can match his acumen. In the end, it’s about investing in people, and how do you invest if you don’t understand people.”

Xiong Xiaoge said modestly: "It's all tempered, it's not easy to make a little money."

The two clinked wine glasses, and excellent investors and outstanding entrepreneurs are sharpening each other.

Wang Yan put down the phone that just returned a text message, and said with a smile: "This matter will be spread today, and I don't know how it will be gossiped in the future."

"I closed the office door when I went to the door, and Mr. Lei from Jinshan is also there, so he probably won't spread the word." Fang Zhuo shook his head slightly, and then looked at the few people at this table, "I think Mr. Wang is bored. He didn't speak, Wang Ge was thinking about Sina's affairs."

When he saw Old Xiong, he was suddenly startled: "Old Xiong, huh? Old Xiong, what is your look?"

Xiong Xiaoge closed his eyes, if you want to talk about alertness, who the hell can be alerter than Mr. Fang?I just thought about it and wondered if there could be any questions about Dangdang gambling in Quora.

"Don't be a big talker. The relationship between Qingzi and I is just a matter of business. There is no personal enmity." Fang Zhuo emphasized.

Xiong Xiaoge nodded. If there are related questions on Zhihu, then who is not on official business?

It's not about gossip, it's just about the shareholding among competitors.

Several people drank for two more rounds, chatted with Lehman and Tesco.

After all, the final topic turned to Xiaonei.

Wang Yan took Sina executives and Mr. Fang for a tour of Silicon Valley before. After looking at the user ecology of social networks in the United States and then looking back at the domestic situation, he realized something, and he vaguely unified his cognition.

The real-name system is very important to the social ecology of acquaintances such as Xiaonei.com, and it is the basis for the latter to maintain its vitality and development.

However, the real-name system may not be suitable for the current domestic Internet development. It can become a clear stream, but it is difficult to become a torrent sweeping the Internet.

This kind of judgment was discussed several times after Sina executives returned to China, and it became increasingly felt that social networks should develop along with the trend.

If the social potential of acquaintances is 40 points, then the social potential of strangers is 80 points. Of course, the former can also tinker with products based on the Internet, but the latter can break out even more.

Especially, when there is a traffic giant watching over him.

However, this kind of consideration of Sina's top management has not been shared with Wang Xing for the time being. Judgment is judgment, reality is reality, we can still see how the battle is going, and learn more from it.

When Wang Xing talked about the competition between Xiaoneiwang and QQ alumni, he no longer kept silent, but became talkative.

He talked about the changes from Penguin that everyone is concerned about. That is, when Lehman made a short sale of Yike a few days ago, QQ alumni began to import Penguin traffic.

"QQ alumni import traffic, weakening the real-name verification barrier, which actually has an impact on the atmosphere of the website."

"Whether it is QQ alumni or Xiaonei, the future development must be a bigger pool, not just limited to the campus."

"Since QQ alumni chose to import the huge traffic of Penguin, they are still in the small pool of the campus. I think they may also be observing, not only to observe the adaptation of QQ alumni, but also to see how we go next."

Fang Zhuo was drinking, heard what Wang Xing meant, and said with a smile: "Penguin is not sure, so even if there is a big traffic killer, I would rather hang around in the campus ecology, and then see how the competitors move forward, and finally follow MicroPort new?"

Wang Xing pondered and said: "Maybe it's because my villain's heart has saved the gentleman's belly."

People may have their own strategic deployment, how could they not have the courage to take a step forward?

"Gentleman or not, you can find out by taking a step forward on Xiaonei." Fang Zhuo smiled slightly, "It's also time to spread the social network to the office."

This is the originally planned step. Walking out of the campus, entering the office, and further socializing with the whole people, the last step is the most difficult, because there is an adaptation to the real-name system. Relatively speaking, the narrow space of campus + office is conducive to the use of the real-name system.

Wang Xing nodded silently. He didn't know if it was his own illusion. He felt that President Fang's visit to the capital this time seemed to mean supervising the war.

He doesn't mind Xiaonei.com fighting a giant proxy battle. Without Yike and Sina, Xiaonei.com might have been sold to Thousand Oaks Group long ago, instead of sitting here thinking about Penguin's strategic direction.

Wang Yan said at this time: "Just in time, our Sina has developed a small game that can be applied to social networks. You can try to use it after gathering campus + office on Xiaonei."

Wang Xing asked: "What little game?"

Wang Yan poured the wine: "Stolen vegetables."

Wang Xing: "Huh?"

Wang Yan shrugged: "Experimental products, you can also blog first, it doesn't matter."

He revealed a piece of news: "We have started a new project internally at Sina, considering whether there is another route for the development of social networks. Mini games are just accessories."

Hearing such words, Wang Xing felt a sense of urgency in his heart, but he still smiled as usual: "Then give us the Xiaonei website first, oh yes, the Xiaonei network expands the user group, and still emphasizes that the name of the school is the most important thing." It's not suitable, Mr. Fang, Mr. Wang, Mr. Xiong, please give me a good name."

Xiong Xiaoge ate a mouthful of food and suppressed the wine. Seeing that Mr. Fang and Mr. Wang didn't intend to speak first, he pondered for a while: "Social network, social network, isn't it just to make friends? Why don't you call Friends.com?" .”

Fang Zhuo smiled: "Old Xiong has a good level of naming, easy to remember and closely related to the theme."

Wang Yan also nodded.

Wang Xing pondered a few times in his heart, nodded and said: "Alright then, I will discuss with them when I arrive at the company tomorrow, Friends Network, Friends Network, it's really good."

The four drank a glass of wine and continued to chat about the ecology and development of social networks.

After the banquet was over, Wang Xing was the first to leave, and Wang Yan also made sure that Mr. Fang would leave by car after he visited Sina tomorrow.

Xiong Xiaoge asked two more questions in private.

Although he shorted Lehman, he was concerned about the U.S. real estate market: "Mr. Fang, is the U.S. subprime debt you mentioned so big a problem? If there is a problem with Lehman, don't other companies also have problems?"

"Other companies haven't done much research. Anyway, I don't think Lehman is very good at it." Fang Zhuo said with a smile, "Isn't all the data there, and you still ask me."

Xiong Xiaoge drank a lot tonight, feeling a little drunk: "It is only after studying some data that I feel that there are many risks, but according to the adjustment of the US market, can these risks be digested or not?"

Fang Zhuo spread his hands: "You think I'm an economist?"

Xiong Xiaoge nodded, and after a while suddenly asked: "Do you think Dangdang will be listed next year or in 08?"

"I don't care if he gets listed or not, just give me the money that should be paid to me." Fang Zhuo said indifferently, "From now on, it will be a pure competition relationship."

Xiong Xiaoge didn't continue to think about it according to his own thinking and Mr. Fang's style, but just sighed: "It's fine for Yike Investment to withdraw from Dangdang. gone."

"I don't like to hear that, I'm going back to the hotel." Fang Zhuo opened the car door and yawned, "Penguin is not like Dangdang, it's a bit difficult to deal with, just now I'm staying in the capital for a while, drinking and calling me."

Xiong Xiaoge nodded, just as he watched the car start slowly, he suddenly remembered what he had received two days ago, and shouted, "Boss Fang, thank you for your shopping card."

Fang Zhuo stretched out his hand from the car window and waved it: "It should be, it should be."

Between friends, it is necessary to relieve difficulties and solve difficulties.

(End of this chapter)