The Ten Years of Rebirth

Chapter 173 The Nouveau Riche Who Scattered Coins
Seven o'clock in the morning.

Xu Xing put on his clothes and walked out of the bedroom, but he didn't see Yan Chijiu in the living room.

When I came to the bathroom, I saw Yan Chijiu, who had changed his clothes, was washing in it.

So Xu Xing also walked in, picked up his toothbrush and toothpaste, and prepared to brush his teeth.

As a result, when Yan Chijiu saw Xu Xing coming in, he hurriedly finished brushing his teeth and quickly rinsed his mouth, then wiped water on his face as if he had washed his face, and hurriedly slipped out of the bathroom with a blushing face, not daring to meet Xu Xing's eyes.

Xu Xing: "..."

Well, before I dared not to wear pajamas after taking a shower, but this time I saw him not wearing them, why did it happen?
How can a person be so double-standard?

Xu Xing brushed his teeth and washed his face helplessly. After walking out of the bathroom, Yan Chijiu was sitting on the sofa in a daze.

Noticing that when Xu Xing came out, his eyes uncontrollably followed Xu Xing's face and neck, all the way across his chest and stomach, and slid to a certain place, and then the whole person seemed to be electrocuted, and quickly lowered his head. Dare to see more.

At this time, the best way to resolve the embarrassment is to not mention what happened just now.

Xu Xing poured two glasses of water and passed one to her: "A glass of water every morning, to cleanse the stomach."

Yan Chi vinegar took the water glass obediently, and just took a mouthful of stuffiness into the glass.

After drinking, he finally relaxed a little, and when Xu Xing sat beside her, he finally didn't run away immediately.

"Show me the documents sorted out yesterday." Xu Xing leaned on the back of the sofa, heaved a sigh of relief, and rubbed his face, "By the way, order two breakfasts, let someone bring them up."

"Yeah." When it came time to work, Yan Chijiu immediately cheered up and became Xu Xing's little secretary, quickly getting into work.

Getting up to help Xu Xing get all the materials to the coffee table, Yan Chijiu then called the hotel customer service, ordered two breakfasts, and then sat back on the sofa again, sitting next to Xu Xing, waiting for orders at any time.

At this time, Li Zhibin knocked on the door and shouted: "I'm coming! Let's go down for breakfast together?"

"Call him in, order him one too." Xu Xing looked at the information in his hand and said without raising his head.

Yan Chijiu nodded quickly, trotted to the door and opened it, and said to Li Zhibin: "We ordered breakfast, can you come in too? I'll add another one for you."

Hearing this answer, Li Zhibin immediately heard Yao Yuanyuan's hint before, so he shook his head and waved his hands again and again: "Forget it, forget it, you guys eat, I'll come downstairs to find you guys after I finish eating."

After speaking, Li Zhibin slipped away without looking back.

Yan Chi vinegar: "?"

……

It was not until eight o'clock in the morning that Li Zhibin knocked on the door again, and was welcomed in by Yan Chijiu.

Both Xu Xing and Yan Chijiu had already had breakfast, and there were still leftovers on the trolley beside the coffee table.

Li Zhibin sat down on the single sofa next to him, stretched his waist and asked, "That Chen Wei said to arrive at nine o'clock in the morning, what should we prepare now?"

"Do you think everyone has nothing to do like you?" Xu Xing was sitting behind the desk at this time, facing the laptop, communicating with the employees in the Shanghai stock market, handling affairs, and explaining work, "If you have nothing to do, just do it." Go over the information of the person you want to meet today."

"I watched it at least three times last night, and I've memorized it by heart." Li Zhibin groaned while paralyzed on the sofa, "You can doubt my other abilities at work, but don't question the memory of a person who can be admitted to Beijing University and learning ability."

The two chatted casually.

After a while, Li Zhibin took out his mobile phone, played Fruit Assassin, and asked Yan Chijiu if he wanted to join the friend mode.

But Yan Chijiu shook his head and refused, saying that it is working time now, unless it is to play with the boss, otherwise he cannot entertain casually.

Li Zhibin: "...just pretend I didn't say hello."

"By the way, how's our new game going?" Li Zhibin played Fruit Assassin for a while, and then opened the secret realm to escape. "Last night, I saw that there was a lot of fun on Weibo. Many people were talking about this game."

"The number of downloads has already reached 150 million, what do you think." Xu Xing, who was sitting at the desk, replied casually, "It is estimated that it will increase by another one million today, which is not a problem."

"Why is it so fierce?" Li Zhibin was a little stunned when he heard the data, and couldn't help but think back to the "dismal" downloads of Fruit Assassin overseas during military training. .”

It took a few days for Fruit Assassin to reach [-] downloads, which made Li Zhibin very excited.

Looking back now, it has only been more than a month, but it seems that the sea has changed.

Even when Escape from the Secret Realm broke through 150 million downloads just over a day after its launch, Li Zhibin was just feeling a little bit emotional, and he was no longer as excited as before.

"How does a buyout compare to free downloads?" Xu Xing laughed and said, "Besides, when Fruit Assassin was released for free in China, it only took three days to break through one million."

"This time, we not only used Tencent's three new games to stir up public opinion again, but we also reached a better agreement with major channel operators, and got a lot of recommendation resources from them."

"Coupled with the drainage of Fruit Assassin's open-screen advertising position, the DAU has more than [-] million traffic imports. Now this result is really normal."

"How about WeChat?" Li Zhibin was even more curious about this, "I see that many people are talking about it, and it seems to be very popular."

"It's okay, the current number of registered users is about [-]." Xu Xing glanced at the data submitted by Liao Qinyu in the morning, and then said.

"Ah?" When Li Zhibin heard this number, the gap was a bit big, "Is it so small? Isn't there 150 million for Escape from the Secret Realm? And isn't there an event to get free skins?"

"Most free players don't really care about whether there are skins, especially casual mobile games with a single gameplay." Xu Xing explained with a smile, "and many people are actually not willing to go to the trouble of downloading a new app. It’s pretty normal right now.”

"Since the initial positioning of Weixin Assistant is a game center, as the number of games on it gradually increases, the number of users will definitely increase faster in the future."

Having said that, Xu Xing paused and didn't say any more.

In fact, he still has some killer features in his hands that have not been released.

One is that the production of WeChat Assistant was hasty. In order to catch up with the National Day, which is a time when the traffic is rising, functions such as "nearby people", "shake", and "drifting bottle" were not added in the early stage.

The second is that Xu Xing does not want to expose the real purpose of Weixin Assistant prematurely, try to wait for a few more days, and wait for the initial user volume to reach the order of hundreds of thousands, and then add those functions that can quickly produce fission effects , the actual effect will be better.

At present, the more than [-] initial registered users of Weixin Assistant will accumulate a small amount of hundreds of thousands at most by the end of the National Day.

This size, let alone the giant QQ, even if it is put in front of a certain degree of hi, it can only be said to be a younger brother.

What's more, Xu Xing's external publicity is mainly based on the game platform, basically not mentioning the concept of instant messaging and social software, and the positioning of chat software such as QQ is still quite different.

"Let's not talk about this." Xu Xing glanced at the time, and there were only ten minutes left before nine o'clock, so he asked, "Is Chen Wei here yet?"

"Not yet." Li Zhibin glanced at the message he received on his phone just now, "It says he's on his way."

……

For Chen Wei, the past two months can be said to be his most unlucky days.

Chen Wei was originally the youngest regional manager in Ali's internal sales department, and was promoted to the deputy general manager of the payment communication department last year.

But at that time, because he was not satisfied with working for Ali, he began to investigate projects suitable for entrepreneurship in private. After finally confirming the taxi-hailing business, he resolutely submitted his resignation.

Unexpectedly, he was just halfway through starting a business, and he almost collapsed.

Working in Ali these years, he has also saved a lot of money, some of which he used to buy real estate in his hometown, some for emergency use, and the rest of [-] yuan as the start-up capital for his own entrepreneurial projects.

However, he was born in sales and didn't understand technology, so he couldn't make taxi-hailing software by himself, so he could only find outsourcing on the Internet.

After finding a programmer for outsourcing business, Chen Wei explained his software needs and paid a commission of [-] yuan.

As a result, after more than a month, the other party stumbled and made a taxi app, but it could barely work.

And the most outrageous thing is that the success rate of this software is only 50%!

This means that after the user calls a taxi service on the software, there is a probability of being able to contact the driver once after calling twice.

This made Chen Wei angry, and asked the relationship to find out this outsourced programmer.

It turned out, good guy, the other party turned out to be a computer teacher in a higher vocational education, and this taxi-hailing software was an assignment he assigned to his students.

For more than a month, this group of students pieced together, while learning by themselves, they searched for codes that could be copied on the Internet. They managed to come up with such a thing for Chen Wei, which is considered a talent.

But in this way, Chen Wei became even more impatient, and he didn't have time to argue with the other party. He barely got back a commission of more than [-] yuan. He was looking for a technical team to cooperate with, and at the same time looking for investment.

You can't blame him for being impatient.

Because at this time, more than one taxi-hailing software has already appeared on the market.

For example, Yidao Yongche, which appeared last year, specializes in car-hailing services for commercial vehicles.

Another example is the ride-hailing service that appeared at the beginning of this year. It has just received its first investment recently and has developed rapidly.

I heard that a taxi-hailing app has also appeared in Hangzhou recently, and more or less new players have entered the market in other places.

And he has been rejected by more than a dozen investment institutions.

Chen Wei was worried that if he continued to delay like this, he would completely lose the chance to enter the arena.

So in the past two days, I heard about Qunxing Investment Company in the circle, and heard that this company directly invested tens of millions in the angel round and A round of financing on the day of the National Day, and it was quite generous.

Chen Wei immediately asked for Li Zhibin's contact information, ready to come to seek investment.

This morning, Chen Wei got everything ready, and drove in the direction of Kaiyue Hotel according to the address given by Li Zhibin.

At nine o'clock, he came to the door of the hotel on time and called Li Zhibin: "Hello, Hello, Mr. Li, I'm downstairs, may I ask?"

"Okay, I'm sorry to trouble you, I'm right here at the front desk."

After a while, Li Zhibin went downstairs to pick up Chen Wei, and when he came to the door of the luxury suite, Xu Xing finally met the helm of Didi in his previous life.

……

In Xu Xing's impression, Chen Wei, an internet tycoon in his previous life, probably can only look at what the photos look like on the Internet.

Now that the angle of view has changed, looking at the respectful appearance of the big boss in the previous life after entering the door, Xu Xing really refreshed a bit.

However, Xu Xing adjusted quickly, and after Li Zhibin introduced each other, he briefly shook hands with Chen Wei, and they both sat down at the desk.

Chen Wei took out his laptop and began to introduce his entrepreneurial project through PPT.

Li Zhibin listened very seriously, while Xu Xing occasionally nodded, but his thoughts drifted to the various consultations in his previous life.

Didi Dache, the ultimate winner in the taxi-hailing field in the previous life, was supposed to make great strides all the way and become a national-level taxi-hailing software for the next decade or so.

However, due to the various coquettish operations of going public in the United States, Didi, a behemoth, was completely pushed to the ground.

But at this time, Chen Wei probably hasn't thought about so many distant things, and the eldest lady from the loyal Liu family hasn't joined in yet.

Listening to Chen Wei's efforts to introduce the project, Xu Xing thought about these things in his heart. After Chen Wei finished speaking, he only asked, "So you haven't made the finished product yet?"

"Uh..." Speaking of this, Chen Wei was very embarrassed and said helplessly, "I am not from a technical background. I wasted a lot of time because I mistrusted online outsourcing, but I promise to find a technical partner who can cooperate with me as soon as possible." The team, it's just a lack of funds right now."

"Then what advantage do you have here? You are not the only one making taxi-hailing software in the market." Xu Xing leaned back in his chair and said slowly, "If even the taxi-hailing software has not been finished yet, then I will make it myself Isn't one better than investing in you?"

"Mr. Xu's words are biased." Chen Wei shook his head, but he was very clear about his own advantages. "Taxi-hailing software is actually similar in function, and the real difficulty lies in its promotion."

"I come from a sales background. I have been a regional manager and the deputy general manager of the payment department in Ali before. I have sufficient experience in this area."

"Internet software looks very high-tech, but in my opinion, the initial development and growth essentially relied on local promotion teams and human sea tactics to expand and occupy the market."

"In this regard, I dare say that among the taxi-hailing software teams on the market, there is no one who understands promotion and marketing better than me."

Chen Wei was right in saying this sentence.

He himself was born in a rural area. After graduating from university, he wandered around and entered the sales department of Ali. He was able to take the position of regional manager step by step in his thirties, which is enough to demonstrate his ability.

So Xu Xing said: "15% of the shares, 500 million, if the follow-up products can occupy a certain market share, I can follow up in the A round."

Chen Wei was overjoyed when he heard Xu Xing's offer, because it was the best offer he had received so far.

Although other investment companies are willing to invest, and they only need about 10% of the shares, they are only willing to invest in angel rounds of about 200 million at most.

In contrast, although Xu Xing's 15% stake is a bit much, the angel investment of 500 million is enough for Chen Wei to win a large market near Kyoto in the early stage.

However, just when Chen Wei was still hesitating whether to hold back a little more to see if he could get more funds, Xu Xing added with a smile: "In addition, I can also help you build a taxi-hailing software. You can also provide technical support, you only need to be responsible for product promotion.”

"Really?" When Chen Wei heard this condition, he was immediately moved.

……

Eleven in the morning.

In the restaurant on the second floor of Kaiyue Hotel, Xu Xing, Yan Chijiu, and Li Zhibin had lunch here.

After signing the financing letter of intent with Chen Wei in the morning, Li Zhibin was chewing his food and asked a little puzzled: "Brother Xu, you also said that we can make a taxi-hailing software by ourselves, so why invest in others? "

"Even if Chen Wei's promotion and marketing ability is strong, can't we find someone who knows how to promote better than him?"

"This is not the few high-tech companies that signed yesterday, or the kind of team that has already produced products and accumulated users. I feel that 500 million is not worth it."

Xu Xing glanced at Li Zhibin, just smiled: "Who said I won't do it myself, don't put all your eggs in one basket."

In the next two or three years, the money-burning competition in various fields will become extremely fierce. If you look carefully, you will find that Tencent and Ali are basically wrestling behind it, plus a certain degree joins a group next to it. And basically never won.

These giants in the industry are basically not good at investing in angel round projects, and they will only look for relatively mature products in the A round. Otherwise, they usually wait for the B round of financing before entering the game to sweep the battlefield.

Most non-Tencent and Ali players will basically be squeezed out of market share at this stage. The smaller ones will disappear immediately, and the more powerful players will barely survive, eat some leftovers, or face the risk of being acquired. destiny.

Xu Xing didn't plan to confront Tencent and Ali in areas like taxi-hailing during this period.

Now relying on the advantage of foresight to get the Angel round and A round of these previous unicorn companies, it can be regarded as taking a seat first.

Even if you can't follow up in the follow-up, you can make a lot of money by selling the shares.

Today's 500 million angel round investment accounts for 15% of the shares. Even if there is no follow-up financing, the proportion can be maintained at about 10% or slightly lower when it comes to the B round.

At that time, the valuation of Didi Dache probably reached hundreds of millions of dollars.

At that time, there will definitely be many investment institutions willing to take over the offer, and Xu Xing is not worried about losing money at all.

The only thing to worry about is whether after Xu Xing entered the game, whether because of his joining, the butterfly effect will change the subsequent situation, making Didi Taxi aborted, and failing to compete with other taxi-hailing apps in the early stage.

Otherwise, no matter how you say it, Xu Xing will not lose money.

What's more, in this regard, he has other plans.

……

In the afternoon, Xu Xing and Li Zhibin met with founders of entrepreneurial projects including Kushou, Zhihu, Honey Baby, Lvjia.com, Future Life, etc., and gained a lot.

This big move by Qunxing Investment Management Company has also sparked a huge discussion in the investment circle.

You know, even though these companies in the previous life could achieve a valuation of more than one billion, but in the current period, investment institutions do not have the advantage of Xu Xing's foresight.

There are so many similar entrepreneurial projects on the market, it is actually very unsafe to determine the target in the angel round.

Therefore, most professional investment institutions will basically only invest from the A round. At least they will have to see the specific product effect and market share before they start betting.

For example, Qunxing Investment Management Company invested tens of millions in just two days, and it turned out that more than 80% of the projects were angel round investments, which is really rare in the industry.

So many people in the circle scoffed at this operation.

Especially after finding out that Qunxing Investment is behind Qunxing Investment, a new game company that has just emerged in the Shanghai stock market in recent months, they look down on Qunxing Investment's operation.

I just think Qunxing Investment is the mentality of an upstart, who has money but no place to spend it, and was fooled by a few founding teams before throwing money away.

If the financing intention was torn up later, it would be fine. If the team that had negotiated in the past two days signed the financing agreement, then it can only be said that Qunxing Investment is really taking advantage of it.

However, these rumors have nothing to do with Xu Xing.

……

By the morning of October 10rd, Xu Xing had already put on casual clothes.

Yan Chijiu came out of the bedroom, and she had already put on a light green floral dress, her arms as white as lotus root and round shoulders were exposed, her chest propped up the beautiful curve of the skirt, and the hem of the skirt was just right Over the knee, revealing a snow-white slender calf.

Xu Xing sat on the sofa, admiring Yan Chijiu's simple attire, immediately stood up, looked at the time and said, "Yao Yuanyuan can only fly to Kyoto in the evening, let's go out and have fun today."

"Yeah." Yan Chijiu held a sun hat in his hand, put it on his head with both hands, lowered the brim of the hat in front, barely covered his overly happy and excited expression, and obediently walked to Xu Xing's side, " Boss, where are we going to play?"

"Abin recommended a few places to me, let's go and have a look?"

"Does Li Zhibin want to go together?"

"Why is he going? I've been in the capital for more than a month, and I'm probably tired of playing in these places." Xu Xing grabbed Yan Chijiu's wrist, and walked out of the room, "We can go by ourselves."

"Oh." Yan Chijiu responded in a low voice, trying not to look too complacent, and followed Xu Xing's pace with brisk steps, "Then I want to go to Tiananmen Square to have a look, can the boss?"

"Listen to you."

　[Pujie Diary]: The core of the business still revolves around games and WeChat. In fact, other investment projects are only to provide empowerment for WeChat later on. The follow-up will not be specially expanded and written. The investment-related plots are compressed into three chapters. It will return to the main line and emotional line later.

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