Rebirth of the Wild Age

There is a saying like this, only admiring the thief eating meat, but not seeing the thief being beaten.

Many years later, people looked at the composition of shareholders of major Internet companies, and now this company is invested by Sun Zhengyi, and that company is also invested by Sun Zhengyi. This old guy has a real vision, so **** rich!

But at this moment, it was Sun Zhengyi's most confused time.

Before the global Internet bubble was burst, Sun Zhengyi held shares in more than 30 Internet companies and his personal assets exceeded US$700 million. But at the end of this year, Sun Zhengyi's book assets shrank by 95%, leaving only a pitiful 3.5 billion U.S. dollars, all steaming in the winter of the Internet!

Historically, Sun Zhengyi invested in Alibaba at this time. He is really not afraid of death. At that time, Ma Xiaoyun made some bold words and finished his passionate speech. Sun Zhengyi smiled and said: "I came to see my internet company CEO during this period. The content of the speech has all changed. Only you are the same rhetoric a few years ago."

To what extent has the Internet industry exploded?

Bill Gates, who sells operating systems, was greatly affected. Last year, his net worth was over 100 billion U.S. dollars, and this year it dropped directly to 6.3 billion U.S. dollars.

Song Weiyang received a call from Tencent just after finishing a conference call on Sohu.

Brother Xiao Ma said: "The company's funds are in a hurry. The venture capitalists I have contacted before are all reluctant to invest now. I am going to let QQ charge a fee. Maybe I can withdraw a little capital. What do you think of Lao Song?"

"QQ can't charge, at least at this stage, I will provide funds if I don't have money," Song Weiyang said, "We must attract as many users as possible."

Xiao Ma grumbled: "I am worried about too many QQ users now. There are hundreds of thousands of new registered users every day. Two servers will be added in one month, and the cost of the servers will soon drag the company down!"

Song Weiyang said: "Don't be afraid, I will come out the money."

Brother Xiao Ma said: "Old Song, no amount of money can withstand such a burn. Now the server fee of QQ is too high, and the income is pitiful. I let QQ register and charge, not only for making money, but more. I want to limit the number of QQ users, otherwise the company will be burned to death sooner or later if it continues to burn like this!"

This is really black humor. An Internet company has a headache because of too many new users.

Song Weiyang said: "Two methods. First, the QQ that has not been online for three months will be released to the outside world. Tencent will directly withdraw the account. This will avoid malicious registration and false account numbers, and save some server resources; second, China Mobile is about to launch Monternet. If you contact China Mobile, you may be able to find new profit points."

Xiao Ma asked: "How much can you invest this time? If it is less than $20,000, I still have to limit the growth of QQ users, because Tencent can't afford it."

Song Weiyang said: "I am willing to invest an additional 30 million US dollars. You can contact Yingke and Idg, and I am willing to buy the Tencent stock in their hands."

"Well, since you are not afraid, then I will give it up too!" Little Ma gritted his teeth.

Historically, Yingke Digital and Idg jointly invested more than US$30 million in Tencent in 1999. These shares were later sold to South African mIh. Li's son made a profit of 100 million U.S. dollars. It was cited as an investment story at the time, and it was later proved to have missed 400 million (RMB).

There is still no change. Song Weiyang sat on the investment of Idg and Yingke last year, and was not afraid that Tencent shares would be robbed.

Whether it is Yingke, Idg, or Xiao Ma, now they want to sell Tencent shares. And it’s a low sale, so you don’t want to make much money, as long as you don’t lose money. Because the environment is too embarrassing, no one is willing to continue to invest, and Tencent's revenue is not as good as Sohu's, and the server costs are far more than Sohu.

In history, Xiao Ma didn't sell Tencent because he couldn't find a buyer, and everyone thought QQ was a scam. The same is true for NetEase. During the cold winter of the Internet, Ding Sanshi couldn't sell it even if he wanted to sell it.

Without finding a profit point, Tencent will die!

If Huawei had not developed the domestic smart network technology and the mobile company had launched Monternet based on it, Tencent would probably die with nothing left, and NetEase would not have the money to open "Westward Journey".

After Xiao Ma Ge conveyed Song Weiyang's opinions, Idg and Yingke Digital responded immediately and were willing to sell all Tencent shares they held, only a 1o% increase from the initial investment. Song Weiyang bargained over the phone, pressing down 5%, and the remaining 5% should be paid to the two parties as interest.

Idg and Yingke Digital actually agreed, and Song Weiyang bought back more than 30% of Tencent's shares for less than US$40 million.

It's normal to think about it. The two originally wanted to invest in profit. Judging from the current market conditions, it is a blessing not to lose money. It is a miracle that they can still earn 5% interest. They also regard Song Weiyang as a takeover.

Song Weiyang didn't have enough cash at all. He immediately contacted Bank of China Investment, sold 1.8% of Taurus Capital's personal shares, and cashed out US$30 million.

Among them, US$750,000 was used to invest in Tencent. Together with the shares previously held, Song Weiyang now owns a total of 43.5% of Tencent.

Another 150,000 US dollars invested in Sogou, because Sogou is almost unable to handle it. After the increase in holdings, Song Weiyang owns 51% of Sogou Search.

It's not that Song Weiyang wants to eat alone and keep the shareholding ratios of the two companies so high, but now only he is willing to stand up and take the offer. Just think about Sun Zhengyi's experience. Within a year, his personal net worth has shrunk from 700 million U.S. dollars to 3.5 billion U.S. dollars, because this guy invests in Internet companies everywhere.

In this difficult period, Ma Xiaoyun started his first "West Lake Sword" with the intention of convening a meeting with industry leaders as the host. But Ma Xiaoyun was afraid that he would not have enough influence, so he invited Jin Yong to sit there. Wang Jundong, Wang Zhidong, Ding Sanshi, and Zhang Chaoyang were all Jin Yong fans, so they ran over.

What was particularly surprising was that Song Weiyang was also invited, and was a special guest like Jin Yong.

The recording of the 2 sets of CCTV's "Dialogue" column was postponed again because of the cold winter of the Internet, and part of the content needs to be rewritten.

When Song Weiyang came to the West Lake, Ma Xiaoyun said, "Lao Song, I'm afraid I was wrong, a terrible mistake. I don't tell the truth about other shareholders, so I want to talk to you."

"Shrink your business." Song Weiyang said.

"You can only accept it, but it won't work if you don't." Ma Xiaoyun shook his head and sighed.

Most people in business will take many detours, just to see if they can learn from their failures.

Ma Xiaoyun can be considered to have experienced ups and downs, but he has not controlled a large multinational company. In only one year, Alibaba was about to collapse by him.

Because of successively receiving huge capital injections, the wealthy Ma Xiaoyun lost his mind and wanted to become a multinational group in one fell swoop.

At the beginning of 2ooo, Ma Xiaoyun moved Alibaba's headquarters to the United States, with the domestic headquarters in Shenghai, implementing a dual-headquarters structure, leaving only one branch in the Linzhou base camp. At the same time, he also set up branches, joint ventures and offices in Asian and European countries, invited the world's top 5oo vice presidents to join, and invited a lot of high-end talents. Even the Linzhou branch has foreign employees, and the monthly salary is six figures in US dollars.

Paved into a big stall in an attempt to dominate the global B2B market, and appeared on the cover of Time magazine.

It can't hold it now, and the bad environment has detonated Alibaba's internal dangers early.

Song Weiyang didn't care, he smiled and said, "This is a good thing. The hidden dangers are discovered early, and you can take the opportunity to clean up, otherwise the ship will be in a disaster."

"You have invested so much money, so don't you worry at all?" Ma Xiaoyun said, "Foreign shareholders are going crazy and they have been pressing on me. Alibaba may go bankrupt now."

"I believe in your ability." Song Weiyang said sincerely.

Ma Xiaoyun was very moved when he heard it, and patted Song Weiyang on the shoulder and said, "Thank you for your trust! Now I don't know what to do, you help me come up with an idea."

Song Weiyang said: "Moving the headquarters back from the United States, cutting off all overseas branches, leaving only a few key offices."

Ma Xiaoyun said: "If you do this, the employee severance pay will be nearly 10 million U.S. dollars, plus other losses, at least 20 million U.S. dollars!"

"The strong man broke his wrist." Song Weiyang said.

Ma Xiaoyun still can't make up his mind. Historically, he didn't make up his mind until the beginning of next year~www.readwn.com~ to send a senior official who had just taken office to do layoffs.

I have to say that Alibaba's corporate culture is doing very well. Many years later, the person who presided over the layoffs recalled that the most repeated word was "cry." Obviously given three months of salary severance pay, foreign employees working in China cried when they left, employees working in Hong Kong also cried when they were resigned, and even employees in South Korea cried and said that they would stay with their salary cut. Overcome the difficulties together.

They were all very dedicated and passionate employees. They resigned without making any mistakes, and it was a collective layoff of dozens of people and hundreds of people. It is even more cruel for Chinese employees, because during the Spring Festival, when they go home for the New Year, they will be laid off with just one phone call.

This mess was caused by Ma Xiaoyun, who had swelled a lot a while ago.

Ma Xiaoyun said: "Once the global layoffs, the company's funds will bottom out. Judging from the current market situation, I am afraid it is not easy to attract investment. Lao Song, do you have any ways to help introduce a few Wall Street investment institutions?"

Song Weiyang laughed and said: "I just sold some shares of Taurus Capital and raised tens of millions of dollars. Tencent and Sogou are about to be unable to support it. I have invested some, and there is still some left that can be injected into Alibaba."

Ma Xiaoyun waved his hand and said, "No, no. This time the basket I stabs is too big, and the environment is not good, I am not sure that Alibaba will be brought back to life. If you invest now, it is very likely that you will be destroyed. I can't do this. friend."

"Anyway, I have invested so much, do you care about the rest?" Song Weiyang said with a smile.

Ma Xiaoyun took a sharp sip of the cigarette, and suddenly threw the cigarette **** on the ground and slammed on the ground: "I'm going to fight it out. If I don't succeed, I will become a benevolent. If the company is dead, I will just jump off the building!"

Song Weiyang is still joking: "Then I will prepare a coffin for you in advance, I hope this coffin is not available."