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Chapter 97 The swarming parties

The 20th, Friday, the 27th of the twelfth lunar month.

According to the statutory holiday arrangement, today is still a working day for two days, and the day after tomorrow is the official holiday on New Year's Eve.

However, Bolang made arrangements for the Spring Festival holiday as early as the 10th, with paid holidays starting from the 18th, and double wages on the job starting from the 16th.

After ten o'clock, Wen Liang walked into the company, and after scanning left and right, there were only a handful of people still on the job.

Just the front desk, Duan Yi, and Po Wan.

It's also normal. A small company that was formalized last month is about to celebrate the Chinese New Year and has encountered so many troubles. Some people can't wait to carry their buckets and run away.

Of course, Wang Wanyu, Chen Jiaxin, and Li Ze are still there, as are Wan An and Li Xia.

As for Sun Baoyin and Tang Pu, most of them have already boarded the plane or the high-speed rail, and have gone home for the New Year.

Unlike usual, Wen Liang directly brought Li Rang into the general manager's office.

Wan An made tea for Wen Liang as usual, but changed her usual staid style and took the initiative to strike up a conversation with Li Rang.

Li Rang naturally knew this big sister who didn't like to talk in her eyes.

She is also a polite child, so naturally she will not stop talking.

As a result, one big and one small chatted with each other.

Wen Liang who was sitting behind the desk was slightly surprised.

'The rain is over, the sky is clear, and you think it's alright? '

Wen Liang could only think so.

It cannot be said that he can fully understand Wan An's mind, but he can definitely see a little bit.

It wasn't the first day that Li Rang came to the company. Before that, Wan An was as rigid as usual, as if he didn't dare to take the initiative to contact Li Rang.

It looked like she was invited to participate in the New Year's Eve dinner last night. Without Lixia, Wan An felt that she could do it again...

Seeing that the Chinese New Year was coming, Wen Liang still came to the company, obviously he had some business to pay attention to.

For example, the latest action on Weibo.

Wen Liang flipped through the relevant reports of the public opinion system, and quickly browsed the hot spots of related events according to the map.

Weibo issued a statement.

Same as before, in short:
"My Weibo is White Lotus. Everything has nothing to do with my Weibo. Everything is based on the official news on my Weibo. Other news are rumors."

"The Starlight Project is progressing smoothly."

"There has been some misunderstanding and we will resolve it as soon as possible."

"..."

People with a discerning eye can still see something from this white lotus-like statement.

Wen Liang flipped through the most-watched discussions among netizens.

Mainly focus on a few key points.

first point.

A certain netizen commented: "The spring and autumn statement on Weibo is still very serious, saying that the Starlight project is progressing smoothly, but they never mention the next batch of cooperation partners. On the other hand, Xiaochengshu, user cooperation has been going on, such as 'Xixi Some well-known users such as "Xuejie" posted new cooperative advertising content last night."

This is Wen Liang's logic in dealing with the 'Senior Xixi' incident. Many things will be branded as 'Senior Xixi'.

Huang Xixi will not complain.

This is not the same as dealing with the Deng Pei incident. Deng Pei urged Huang Xixi to propose to Wen Liang to let her join Bolang, and as soon as she entered the company, she made it clear that the horses and horses wanted benefits, and demonstrated to all the friends what it meant to be joined by some relatives wrong sample.

Therefore, the final solution is to let Deng Pei set up a marketing and promotion company by himself, and let Bolang take care of the business, so that he can get involved and won't make too many moths inside Bolang.

As for "obedient" and "tool man", if you want to make money, you must pay something, and there is no pie in the sky.

Of course, this is also because Chen Jiaxin needed to properly deal with certain disputes with Deng Pei, so Wen Liang chose a relatively extreme way to push the boat along.

In this matter, Wen Liang told his friends that the logic is:
The sophistication of the world is unavoidable, and it’s okay for one person to become a chicken and a dog, but don’t mess around inside the company.

There are too many moths, sooner or later there will be loopholes everywhere...

Wen Liang restrained his thoughts and turned to the second point.

It is still a comment from a certain netizen: "The so-called misunderstanding is that Weibo is using its platform influence to deliberately divert everyone's attention. Big problem, the much-hyped daily advertising revenue of 3886 million is a big problem. I said this before, don’t say 3886 million, just say 388 million. There is a revenue of 14 billion a year. Weibo has to be that big How could it be estimated that the company’s revenue could exceed US$20 billion?”

third point.

"Mr. Jia is still the same old way. The meaning of the statement is that this is the end of the matter. You can discuss it if you want. Please go to other platforms. I don’t welcome it on Weibo. If you insist on coming, then delete comments and block your Weibo updates. In fact, this is to tell everyone that the Starlight Project has existed in name only."

"..."

Discussions on the Internet are still relatively heated, but Sina Weibo, a large public community platform, does not allow discussions, so everyone can only go to forums, post bars, and Xiaochengshu.

Little Orange Book doesn't have a hot list function, so as long as it's not making trouble, it doesn't matter how you discuss it.

In fact, compared to the popularity of related topics on Weibo, netizens are also happy to discuss the future of Xiaochengshu, which has soared tens of millions of users.

It also contributed to the steady increase in the traffic of Xiaochengshu.

Now Xiaochengshu has 3000 to [-] million daily activities, which is more than the total number of registered users.

Outrageous thief!
Flipping through the news on the Internet, Wen Liang also sorted out the matter in his mind.

"Now it seems that Mr. Jia really wants to take advantage of the big festival of the Spring Festival to gradually downplay the impact of the incident, and finally let it go on the surface."

"Just two or three days like this, with Weibo now in a state of chaos, Mr. Jia wants to make big moves, but he is powerless."

"..."

...............

The right hand was scrolling the mouse, and there was a knock on the office door.

Li Ze and Wang Wanyu walked in together.

At this moment, the little girl Li Rang was already sitting upright, well-behaved and sensible.

There was no extra movement because Wang Wanyu walked in.

Facing Wen Liang's gaze, Li Ze first handed over a folder, and then reported: "Weibo's statement last night was considered by many people as a sign that Weibo wanted to downplay the incident and let it go, so this morning our little one Orange Book is more lively."

As he said that, a smile appeared on Li Ze's face: "As of 1000:60 in the morning, the Xiaochengshu platform has received [-] new applications for brand partners. After preliminary verification, about [-]% of them fully meet the standards."

"Among them, 300 applications were big Vs with 30 followers on the original Weibo platform."

"In a word, 999% of the non-celebrity big Vs on the Weibo platform who did not participate in the 7 cooperative advertising programs are on the list of 300 people."

Wen Liang smiled: "This is what it means to vote for a certificate."

Li Ze basically agrees with Wen Liang's opinion, saying: "Almost, after going through a series of things, and we have not given up on helping platform users and brand partners to protect their rights, the existing 1079 brand partners are more supportive of the platform than before. a lot of."

Speaking of this, Li Ze's tone became teasing: "The attitude of the advertiser group has also changed from before. This wave of Weibo's forced launch of 999 cases of cooperative advertisements for the New Year's celebration is not comprehensive enough and has hurt a large number of advertisers. passion."

"Two days ago, I got involved in Weibo's self-built advertising trading platform, and now I heard that many advertisers want to switch to demand-side platforms."

"I think it is an opportunity for us, an opportunity to form a positive cycle from SSP (supply side), DSP (demand side) to ADX (advertising exchange)."

After listening, Wen Liang thought for a while and decided: "At the end of the year, everyone may not be as anxious as they actually showed. During the Spring Festival, everyone mainly wants to celebrate the New Year. Everything is shut down. It is an opportunity, but don't worry, sort it out slowly."

Li Ze agreed: "I think so too. The Chinese New Year is the best opportunity for us to sort out internally. Only when Xiaochengshu's product power and vitality are strong enough can the outside world have sufficient confidence."

Wang Wanyu, who had been silent all this time, took up the conversation and said with a smile: "Now the outside world's confidence in our company should be at its peak. I just received olive branches from some investment institutions."

Wang Wanyu is not an ordinary accountant, her scope of work also includes financing planning.

That Qian Dejian on Weibo is not taking the conventional route, he just wants to break through from Wen Liang, the core figure on the bright side.

The way these VCs are now, at least for Bolang, is the norm.

Hearing this, Li Ze raised his thick eyebrows: "Oh? Are they really flocking here?"

"Yes." Wang Wanyu nodded lightly, "They are all well-known investment institutions, full of sincerity."

Wen Liang raised his eyebrows when he heard this, made a gesture, and said with a smile: "How can you be so sincere?"

Wang Wanyu handed the folder she brought over to Wen Liang, and introduced clearly: "5 venture capital firms, 1 private equity firm, none of the top ones in China."

"Currently the highest asking price is the private equity firm, which gave a pre-money valuation of US$3 million or RMB 19 billion."

"It's a full US$1 million higher than the others!"

Wen Liang was noncommittal, but simply said: "High valuation means high requirements."

"Yes." Wang Wanyu did not deny, "This private equity requires 35% of the shares, requires at least one shareholder seat, etc., anyway, it is the lion's mouth."

"I checked through my channels, and this private equity has nothing to do with the domestic Internet giants, and is relatively independent. In fashionable terms, behind this private equity is old money (old money/ancestors have been rich until now), before I am more focused on traditional industries, and now I want to test the waters of the Internet.”

Li Ze on the side suddenly smiled and asked: "Then we will count as new money in the future?"

Wen Liang, who flipped through the documents, looked up at Li Ze, and said with a smile, "You all count, but I may not."

Wen is finally a second generation.

Although Boss Wen didn't get much credit from the old Wen's family for his entrepreneurship, but according to the development of his previous life, Wen Liang's parents will be the deputy director after a few years, so it's really okay.

Li Ze wasn't very surprised, they all knew that the old Wen's family still had a bit of a foundation.

Wen Liang closed the folder and said calmly: "Even if we accept this financing, there should still be a gap between new money and new money."

Afterwards, Wen Liang looked at Li Ze and Wang Wanyu who were facing him: "How should I put it, these venture capitalists and private equity investors are more sincere than expected, and I think some of them have already sent representatives to Yangcheng for the first time."

"There are also those who say they have done due diligence, such as this private placement."

"However, no matter which one, the appetite is not small, and at least 20% of the shares are required."

"What I told Qian Dejian was not a lie. No matter in the past, present or future, I will never have such a hasty financing plan, at least it is impossible to use Bolang to raise funds!"

"This is only one aspect. On the other hand, their sincerity is still not enough, and their understanding of Bolang is very shallow."

Having said that, Wen Liang paused for a moment before emphasizing: "We have already reached an agreement on investment and financing matters, so we've decided on it, and we won't discuss it much."

"Now that an investment manager from an institution has arrived in Yangcheng, it's hard to justify not to deal with it. In this way, Mr. Wang and Mr. Chen will invite him to have a cup of tea in the afternoon, and simply deal with it."

Wang Wanyu responded, "Okay."

Li Ze has no objection to Wen Liang's decision.

Now Bolang is not short of money to develop, even the mobile game business has not yet entered the deployment stage, and Xiaochengshu is an asset-light with low cost and high revenue, so there is no need to rush to raise funds.

Moreover, these capitals really have a big appetite. They don't move 20% of the shares, and people need to come to participate in the company's operations. It will be great to deal with it.
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