Rebirth starts with small money

Chapter 491 Being Targeted by Capital
"I'm coming~ I'm coming!"

"Don't~ I told you that I invited you."

"No, no, no, you're welcome, I'm still here for this meal."

"That won't work~ You said before that I invited you for this meal."

"No~ Mr. Ma told me to settle the bill, and I must settle the bill."

".!"

After drinking and eating, Xiao Ma argued with a woman to pay the bill.

This woman is Xu Xing, she came from halfway, it is said that she just went to Ding Sanshi's Wangnan to settle some small matters, and then when she called Ma Xiaoyun and heard that Chen Li was there, she directly killed her.

As soon as Xu Xing came over, he took over the place in an instant. This eldest sister is a venture capitalist, and her ability to speak well~ is completely two extremes with Ma Xiaoteng next to her.

But ~ as soon as Xu Xing came over, he "rebuked" Chen Li without saying a word, and the reason was because Chen Li had been avoiding her during this time.

Chen Li also knew that he was wrong, so he fined himself two glasses of wine in the end as an apology, and then... he watched Xu Xing pull Ma Xiaoyun and Ma Xiaoteng to talk about the future of the Internet.

Then Ma Xiaoyun got drunk, and Ma Xiaoteng was also a little dizzy.

From this point~ one can see the pros and cons of this woman Xu Xing. Anyway, with Ma Xiaoteng's drinking capacity, Chen Li must not be able to drink.

"Xiao Li~ How about I skip this meal?"

When Ma Xiaoteng and Xu Xing were vying to pay the bill, Wang Xiaomei, who was waiting to collect the money, looked at Chen Li helplessly.

The cost of this meal is not much, after all, the wine is brought with you, and Wang Xiaomei doesn't care so much about the money for the barbecue.

"Don't tell me~ Sister Xiaomei, you open the door to do business, you should collect money when you need it."

Chen Li waved his hand, indicating that Wang Xiaomei didn't need to waive the bill, then looked at Xu Xing and Ma Xiaoteng who were still entangled over there and said:

"Sister Xu~Brother Ma, stop arguing."

"This meal was proposed by Brother Ma, let him pay for it."

"Next time, Miss Xu, why don't you treat me to another meal?"

"Next time, sister Xu, please have a good meal. I suddenly have a craving for seafood recently."

Chen Li was not polite to Xu Xing, and when Xu Xing came to treat him to dinner, he could pay for it.Second thing~ this eldest sister has been looking for him recently!
Chen Li had been avoiding her before, but it was obvious that he couldn't avoid her today.

"Hi~ Xiaoli, it's not easy for you to want to eat seafood. Why don't you just call my sister?"

"Then, tomorrow~ tomorrow I will arrange a table in Wanlongzhou, when you come to invite Qingqing to join me?"

"That's it~ Today's bill will cost you Xiao Ma, and you will come with me tomorrow~ I just know a friend who is in e-commerce, and I will introduce you to you then!"

I have to say~ People like Xu Xing are really sociable.

Several times~Chen Li wanted to get Xu Xing to his side, but his plate was too small to accommodate this giant Buddha for the time being.

In the end~ this barbecue meal was bought by Ma Xiaoteng, but a meal of barbecue is exchanged for a meal of seafood~ plus I know an investor who is engaged in venture capital, no matter how you look at it, this little brother Ma will definitely make a fortune.

After paying the bill~ but the venue did not end, but there were only two people missing.

Xu Xing asked Ma Xiaoyun's driver to pick him up, and arranged for his own driver to take Ma Xiaoteng to the hotel.Then.
"Xiao Li~ We haven't seen each other for a while, why don't we have a cup of coffee together?"

"Oh~ By the way, it seems that you don't like coffee, Xiaoli, so let's find a place to have a cup of tea?"

"Well~ okay! But I won't go outside, Qingqing is still waiting for me at home!"

"It's not bad that a friend sent some scented tea before, why don't sister Xu go to my house and have a sit?"

Chen Li nodded, since he saw Xu Xing coming just now, he actually knew that the other party was coming after him.

Xu Xing had approached him twice before, but they were all shirked by him looking for reasons.

"Hi~ I'm so kind, Xiaoli, I haven't been to your new home yet. I'll make up for this moving gift some other day."

Xu Xing's words~ were a pun. Apart from the superficial meaning, he also secretly expressed his dissatisfaction with Chen Li's move and not calling her.

Of course~ this kind of expressed dissatisfaction is just that, and more of it is an implicit expression that the relationship between Chen Li and her can actually be closer.

Alright~ this is a means of communication, if Chen Li is just a slightly smart young man, maybe he will feel embarrassed.

But, come on~ Chen Li in his previous life had already seen this kind of communication method, so he didn't take it seriously at all.

The reason is also very simple~ Talking about friendship with people like Xu Xing~ is actually a very nonsense thing.

Regardless of whether the other party may have a real friendship with Chen Li, from Xu Xing's identity alone, it is impossible for Chen Li to believe in the other party's friendship.

That's right~ even if Xu Xing treats people sincerely and makes friends with Chen Li~ then Chen Li can't believe it.

It's not that I don't believe it~ I can't believe it!

After all, Xu Xing is the spokesperson of capital, so even if Xu Xing himself is good or bad, it doesn't really mean much.

Wang Xiaomei's barbecue restaurant~ is very close to the community where Chen Li lives, and the two walked back to the community.

"Daughter-in-law~ Sister Xu is here, make two cups of tea."

As soon as he entered the door~ Chen Li shouted.

"Sister Xu is here~ sit down!"

Liu Qingqing came out of the bedroom, first gave Chen Li a blank look, then greeted Xu Xing and went to make tea.

"You talk~ I still have some homework to do."

Liu Qingqing and Xu Xing had met before. Xu Xing even asked Liu Qingqing to go shopping a few times before, and even gave Liu Qingqing a lot of gifts.

But Liu Qingqing didn't stay with Xu Xing this time, she knew that Chen Li and Xu Xing must have a serious chat, so she went back to the bedroom after making tea.

"Ouch~ Your house is well decorated!"

"However~ With your current wealth, isn't it a bit small to live in this house?"

"And this is an old community, right? You never thought about buying a villa or something?"

Xu Xing walked around in the living room, and then sat down on the sofa.

"Hey~ Qingqing and I live here alone, what villa should we buy?"

"As far as this house is concerned, I don't even bother to clean it up, let alone the villa."

Chen Li also sat down, shook his head and replied.

It's not that he has never thought about buying a villa. After all, in the eyes of Chinese people, living in a villa and driving a luxury car can be regarded as a standard for wealthy groups.

But as he said, he and Liu Qingqing live here, and the three houses are a bit big, let alone a big villa.

Especially the two thought about their own two-person world, and didn't want to find any nanny. If the house is too big~ just cleaning it up would be a hassle.

"Yeah, you're right."

"Anyway, you are still young, so there is no need to pursue these things too much."

Xu Xing nodded, picked up his teacup and took a sip.

But this is just a show, after all, the tea is freshly brewed, and the hot water can't be drunk at all.

She was organizing her words, thinking about how she should speak to Chen Li!

But~ she hadn't decided how to start, but Chen Li over there started talking directly.

"Sister Xu~ You are looking for me today."

"It's still for hao123, right?"

Xu Xing thought she could persuade Chen Li, so she needed to think about her language, but Chen Li didn't use it.

He knew very well that the purpose of the other party looking for him was for the website navigation hao123 in his hand.

The success of hao123 in the previous life~ is somewhat a small miracle in the Internet industry.

Because at that time, hao123 was operated by only one amateur player who was born as a network administrator from the beginning to the end.

So~ In the previous life, hao123 clearly had the top traffic of domestic websites, but in the end it only sold tens of millions.

If you look at it from the perspective of the future traffic era, the founder of hao123 really has no vision.

After all, based on the traffic of hao123 at that time, the tens of millions of sales were really an insult to hao123, which was the top three most visited in China at that time.

But in fact, many people ignore a problem.

That is, before the rise of e-commerce, although traffic was important, it was definitely not as valuable as imagined.

In other words, in the early days, most Internet companies in China were not used to monetizing their traffic.

To be precise, most Internet companies at that time did not find a way to monetize their traffic.

Everyone only knows that the greater the traffic, the more benefits you can get.

But how to turn traffic into real benefits is something that everyone has explored step by step during the development of the Internet.

If you use the standard of 20 years later, in 04, based on the traffic of hao123, then if the value of this small website does not reach several hundred million, you don't even think about it.

Even a valuation of hundreds of millions is a bit low. After all, most of the domestic netizens at that time were accustomed to surfing the Internet with website navigation.

After 04 years of hao123's traffic in 20, it is estimated that just collecting advertising fees will be softened.

However. The fact is not the case.

As a latecomer~ Chen Li knows very well that in the future, Internet users' surfing habits will change from website navigation to Chinese character search.

People no longer need to use a static webpage to navigate other websites, and they can search for any website they want to find directly on the search website.

After all, after the first batch of Internet users, most of the subsequent Internet users started to get in touch with computers and the Internet in a very early period of time.

With the popularity of computers and the Internet, more and more netizens do not need any website navigation at all.

Therefore, .hao123 is at best a stepping stone for the development of the domestic Internet.

From this point of view~ In fact, the founder of hao123 chose to quit at the right time. It is also a very wise choice.

Many people look at hao20 20 years ago with the traffic standards of 123 years later, which is a very unfair thing.

So at that time, the founder of hao123 sold hao5000 with 123 million cash + stocks, is it really not a loss?
It's really hard to say whether Chen Li is losing money or not, because he doesn't know how many thousands of shares the founder got.

If the other party gets less stocks, then Chen Li feels that it is still a bit of a loss.

But if the other party gets more stocks, then Chen Li thinks this deal should be considered a bargain.

Of course~ This is actually Chen Li looking at this matter with his experience 20 years later.

But in fact, at that time, hao123 had actually reached a bottleneck period, and it was still a bottleneck period where it was stuck.

At that time, hao123 didn’t have many choices.

One is to choose to maintain the status quo, but in that case hao123 may soon be caught up or even surpassed by competitors.

The second is to choose to break through the bottleneck, such as introducing capital or seeking cooperation and so on.

But the founder's background was just an ordinary network administrator, which limited his vision and experience to a certain extent.

If you choose to break through the bottleneck~ with the founder's ability, you can't play at all.

And the last remaining path, which is the path chosen by the founder, is to sell hao123 at a good price.

So if standing at the "fork in the road" in 04, Chen Li believes that most people will make the same choice as the founder
That is to sell hao123!

Even though the annual income of hao123 was close to 123 million at that time, its upper limit was there, and it was difficult for the founder to let hao[-] continue to rise.

And under the pressure of various competitors~ Chen Li felt that it was definitely a very wise choice for the other party to sell hao123.

It is said that the founder later set foot in the game website, and I heard that he also made a lot of money.

So to be honest, this guy is definitely a smart guy.

But~ the hao123 in the previous life and the hao123 in Chen Li's hands are not the same at all.

Whether it is vision, experience, or even understanding of the Internet, Chen Li far exceeds the founder at that time.

Not to mention the existence of Chen Li's system, coupled with the memory advantage brought by his rebirth, so hao123 is in Chen Li's hands. Naturally embarked on another development path.

In fact, the road is still the same, except that hao123 in the previous life was running on a bicycle, while the hao123 in Chen Li's hand drove directly into a sports car, and he still took the highway.

And this leads to a situation.

When hao123 began to have imitators and competitors, Chen Li's hao123 had already quietly occupied an absolute market share.

If someone conducts a survey on current domestic computer users, they will find that hao123's market share is definitely over [-]%.

What kind of concept is this?Let's just put it this way~ Even if hao123 was at its peak in the previous life, it didn't reach such a market share.

No way~ In the beginning of the establishment of hao123 in the previous life, it was just that the network administrator provided convenience for customers who surfed the Internet.

However, hao123, founded by Chen Li, has been aiming for market share from the very beginning.

The purposes of the two are different, and the development paths they naturally follow are also different.

The reason why hao123 in the previous life was able to do it~ was to slowly accumulate word of mouth, and it did not adopt other marketing strategies.

But what about Chen Li's hao123?Not only will it promote itself in the process of development, but it will even attack competitors.

On playing the Internet~ Chen Li in [-] didn't dare to say he was number one, but there are definitely not many people who can wrestle with him.

Chen Li didn't even need to play with those black, dirty or even shady methods, he could "eliminate" those competitors with just normal competition.

So. Even though the current time is only the end of October of 123, hao[-] has already become a star website on the domestic Internet.

But this is actually not all good.

Just like now, Chen Li's hao123 has not yet reached its bottleneck period, and some capital has already seen it.

And Xu Xing~ is one of them.

(End of this chapter)