Rebirth starts with small money

Chapter 665 Electronic Payments in 2001
It was not a pleasant meeting with the Google twins!

Strictly speaking, these two people are actually technical talents, but they also have certain communication skills~ but not too much!
Especially when the two of them refused Chen Li's request to become a shareholder~ the rejection was a little blunt.

Well~ In fact, it cannot be said that they refused bluntly, but that this is the virtue of Westerners' way of speaking.

And it was naturally difficult for Chen Li to be happy in this meeting with the theme of "rejection".

As for what to say that you really "appreciate" the other party's words, it's just for talking.

But today's Chen Li is not the little cabbage of the past. Now he doesn't dare to say that Mount Tai collapsed in front of him without changing his face, but the ability to open his eyes and tell nonsense has basically been practiced to the point of three points.

There is no way~ When facing some groups, Chen Li has to speak like this, and if he speaks a lot, he will naturally practice it.

However, in terms of the results, Chen Li was actually quite satisfied.

To put it simply~ He and the Google Twins have established a certain "friendship". Although this friendship is actually very fragile, it is enough for the Google Twins to agree to Chen Li's next behavior.

So ~ that night, after Chen Li sent away the Google twins, he immediately said to Xu Xing:
"Contact Andy ~ Buy as many shares as possible from him."

"I allow you to use Mu Xiaoqing's funds!"

The Andy Chen Li mentioned was the angel investor of Google's first round!

When Google was just founded, the twins of Google even maxed out their credit cards for funds. Fortunately, they met Andy in the end.

At that time, Andy gave the Google Twins a check for [-] U.S. dollars. As for how many shares the [-] U.S. dollars were exchanged for, outsiders did not know.

But a conservative estimate should be between 10% and 20%, because this is considered the basic market for angel investment.

The main reason why Chen Li wanted to invest in Google so hard was that he had too much cash in his hand.

Although the money is actually still in the stock market, there is a problem, that is, as the impact of the Internet bubble crisis gradually passes, it is really difficult for Chen Li to control the risk of the stock market.

Although Chen Li used to buy the bottom when many stocks were at the price of cabbage, but it was also because of the bottom-hunting ~ so Chen Li actually had a lot of unplanned funds left in his hands at the moment.

Moreover, the industries under Chen Li's name currently have sufficient capital chains, and Chen Li will not need to continue blood transfusions for a while.

So ~ in order to avoid trouble, and also to make these funds seek greater benefits for himself, finding a suitable place for these funds is what Chen Li needs to do most at this moment.

And Google~ is a great opportunity!

Because if there are no accidents ~ in three years, Google will be listed soon, and no matter whether Chen Li chooses to sell it or keep it in his hands, these shares will become a huge wealth!

Of course~ The money is definitely not invested in Chen Li's personal name, and Chen Li even set up another company to hold the shares of Red Horse Technology.

Otherwise, it is estimated that Chen Li will have to be exposed to the media this year.

At the very least, he might be on the so-called rich list this year.

After all, with the successful listing of Red Horse Technology, the information of Red Horse Technology's shareholders will also be made public.

Like Ma Xiaoyun and Zhou Hongyi, both of them should be on the rich list this year, but the rankings should not be very high!

Because on the first day of Red Horse Technology's listing, Red Horse Technology was officially listed at a price of 16.5 US dollars, and after the close of the day, the stock price of Red Horse Technology was fixed at 16.82 US dollars.

In fact, for a period of time, the stock price of Red Horse Technology even exceeded 18 US dollars, which also made the market value of Red Horse Technology exceed 5.5 million US dollars.

But then the stock price of Red Horse Technology fell all the way, and it continued to fall to $16.82.

Fortunately, there is still no break after all!

That's right~ It's already a victory in disguise if it doesn't break the market. There's no way~ Stocks that are related to the Internet industry are so unfavorable these days.

But this is only temporary, as long as we get through this year, starting from next year... the stocks of these Internet companies will bottom out.

By that time ~ maybe Ma Xiaoyun, who holds 15% of Red Horse Technology's shares, will also be able to occupy a place at the forefront of the rich list.

Of course~ it may be more difficult for the richest man!

After all, the scale of Red Horse Technology is actually the same, and the current industry competition is actually relatively fierce, so it is actually difficult for Red Horse Technology to make a big leap in a while.

But~ this is actually not the key point. The key point is that Chen Li intends to gradually break away from Red Horse Technology, and Red Horse Technology actually has ideas to gradually get rid of Chen Li's influence.

In this way~ Red Horse Technology has to return to the normal development route. Although the combination of Ma Xiaoyun and Zhou Hongyi is indeed awesome, to be honest, Chen Li does not think that the achievements of the two can surpass their previous lives.

No~ To be precise, maybe Red Horse Technology can surpass the 350 Technology of the previous life, but it will definitely not surpass the Ali Group founded by Ma Xiaoyun.

The same~ Just like Ma Xiaoteng, who is now vigorously developing the e-commerce industry, this person's achievements... It is estimated that it will be difficult to surpass Fujixun, which he founded in his previous life.

So ~ in fact, the person who truly realized the value transcendence is actually Zhou Hongyi!

After this guy was released from the management position, coupled with some time-spanning technology products released by Chen Li in advance, this guy's professional skills have improved by leaps and bounds.

To put it mildly, with Zhou Hongyi's current professional skills, it is estimated that he can rank among the top three in related domestic technical fields.

If you are not humble, it is probably okay to say that this guy is currently the number one programmer in China.

As for Ma Xiaoyun and Ma Xiaoteng, after changing the track respectively, although the two of them also showed a relatively good performance.

But...compared to the amazing development performance of the previous life, the current performance of the two is still a bit worse after all.

Especially the current performance of these two people~ To a large extent, they are actually helped by Chen Li, otherwise, it is hard to say whether the current development of the two people will be smooth.

Needless to say, Red Horse Technology, even though Red Horse Technology has been tossing to go public, but to be honest, Chen Li's contribution accounted for at least more than 50% of Red Horse Technology's development to this state!

Of the remaining 50%, Zhou Hongyi and the technical team accounted for more than 30%, so compared to Ma Xiaoyun in the previous life, the current Ma Xiaoyun actually looks very ordinary!
Especially after this guy became the CEO of Red Horse Technology, he is gradually changing his way of expression.

In the eyes of others, this seems to be Ma Xiaoyun's improvement, but in Chen Li's eyes, he always feels that this guy is restrained.

This is also the case, because Red Horse Technology is different from Ali Baba developed by Ma Xiaoyun in his previous life. Because of the security software made by the main industry, no matter how big Ma Xiaoyun's mouth is, he cannot boast to the sky.

Just like a product, the current Ma Xiaoyun can only boast that there is absolutely no better product than Red Horse Technology in China, but he will never boast that his product is the number one in the world like in his previous life.

Uh~ That's right, Ma Xiaoyun in his previous life always said that he wanted to be the world's number one e-commerce website in the early days of his business.

No way~ The nature is different!
As an e-commerce business, some people really believe his bragging. At most, some people regard him as a big fool.

But he still brags about security software, do you believe that some customers can call the police and arrest him?
Okay~ It's a bit exaggerated to grab, but the meaning is basically the same.

The difference in nature caused at least half of Ma Xiaoyun's "power" to be lost.

But this also allowed Ma Xiaoyun to gradually return to the ranks of the "regular army" in the domestic Internet industry!
Yes~ the current Ma Xiaoyun can be regarded as a regular army, and the Ma Xiaoyun in the previous life definitely belonged to the "deviant ways".

It's just that Ma Xiaoyun's "wrong ways" in his previous life succeeded in the end, so at that time, he turned from a big liar to a successful person.

But it is different now, almost everyone thinks that Ma Xiaoyun will succeed, but the same ~ Ma Xiaoyun's "success" will also be seen by others.

To put it bluntly, Ma Xiaoyun's "success" will not exceed the expectations of others!

Unlike the previous life, when almost everyone in the outside world thought this guy was a liar, in the end when Ma Xiaoyun succeeded... a group of people almost "smashed" their glasses.

To put it simply~ Ma Xiaoyun in the previous life belonged to the "non-mainstream", but today's Ma Xiaoyun belongs to the "mainstream".

Therefore, although the future of Red Horse Technology is destined to shine brightly, it is doomed to be difficult to reach the height of the previous life.

The same goes for Ma Xiaoteng, this buddy has always followed the "mainstream" route no matter in his previous life or in this life.

Even if he is now on the e-commerce route of Ma Xiaoyun in his previous life, this buddy is still following the regular route.

Do research and development honestly~ Do publicity in a down-to-earth manner. If you have no money, you can run away.

Ma Xiaoteng is destined to not be like Ma Xiaoyun, who will make people limping when he comes up, so the development of Penguin's e-commerce can only be said to be quite satisfactory.

But it's different from the financial difficulties in the previous life~ Today Ma Xiaoteng has a very rich friend, that is Chen Li!
So ~ now Chen Li has become the largest shareholder of Penguin E-commerce, accounting for 49% of the shares.

When Ma Xiaoteng founded Penguin E-commerce, in order to control the proportion of shares, he deliberately lowered the investment quota of everyone.

Otherwise, Chen Li at that time would have just thrown a sum of money at it, and the others would basically not have to play.

But that little money is destined to make it impossible for the enterprise's e-commerce to develop stably, so when the enterprise's e-commerce has no money, this buddy directly sorts out a copy of the current Penguin e-commerce information data and finds Chen Li.

This guy didn't even want to write a proposal, but he asked Li Chen for 200 million dollars.

Chen Li didn't bother to argue with this guy, because the current little brother was a bit rambunctious in his attributes.

If Chen Li doesn't give him money, this guy can stay at Chen Li's house for several days, eating, drinking, and living.

So in the end ~ Chen Li's shares became 49%, but the voting rights were only 20%. This is the investment method among "friends".

But even if Chen Li's voting power is only 20%, it is impossible for anyone to ignore Chen Li's usual suggestions.

Because from the current position, Chen Li would not easily raise any opinions on Penguin E-commerce, but every time Chen Li mentioned it, he basically mentioned an idea.

For example, Penguin E-commerce is currently developing an electronic payment system.

In the previous life, many people thought that the electronic payment system was a payment software developed by Ma Xiaoyun's Ahri, but in fact, long before Ahri~ Shengda Network, a giant in the game industry, took the lead in developing an Internet electronic payment system.

It’s just that people were generally resistant to this kind of electronic payment system at that time, so players at that time still preferred to buy physical point cards directly in places such as Internet cafes and newsstands.

As a matter of fact, in the previous life, Ari’s payment software was not recognized by the majority of users for a long time after he developed the payment software.

At that time, even more people~ In fact, they still used the online banking of major banks, that is, online banking for transaction transfers.

However, with the development of the Internet industry and the country's clear affirmation of major payment software, various payment software began to gradually become formal.

So. On the surface, it seems a bit early for enterprise e-commerce companies to start engaging in electronic payment in 2001.

But this is not the case, because it is Xiao Ma who is engaged in electronic payment now, not Ma Xiaoyun.

To put it bluntly, Ma Xiaoyun's energy is far beyond what Ma Xiaoyun can match.

Not only Ma Xiaoyun can't compare, even Chen Qiao from Shengda Network in the previous life can't compare!

Chen Li believes that although this matter is very difficult, if it is Brother Ma, the electronic payment system will be recognized at least a period of time earlier than in the previous life!
Therefore, it is definitely not a problem for enterprise e-commerce to develop an electronic payment system at this time.

And the most important thing is that Chen Li has already found a partner for them before Penguin E-commerce has actually successfully developed it.

That is. Shengtong Network!
You must know that point cards are sold these days~ but they have to be operated through agents.

But this also means that if Shengtong Network does not sell a point card, it needs to distribute a part of the profit to the point card agent.

But once the electronic payment system is in place, such problems can be solved, the price that Shengtong Network needs to pay will be greatly reduced, and the benefits gained will also increase accordingly!

Shengda in the previous life started it after he became rich, but the current Shengtong Network has just started, so he hasn't thought of this yet.

No~ It's not that I didn't expect it, but that I didn't have the energy and funds to do research and development.

So. Even if it is cheap Ma Xiaoteng's Penguin e-commerce!

But it is precisely because of this that Penguin E-Commerce has also boarded the fast-moving express train of Shengtong Network!

However, R&D is very costly, so.
After Chen Li returned to the hotel room that night, he actually received a call from Brother Ma.

The eldest brother first congratulated Chen Li. After all, with the successful listing of Hongma Technology, Chen Li's wealth will take another leap.

But then, the buddy said what he came for.
want money!

(End of this chapter)