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There was a yoga mat on the floor, and Zhou Buqi sat on it to meditate.

Meditation, to be precise.

How could Zhou Buqi do this? The more important meaning is to punish himself. He did so ridiculously last night and didn't get home until after 1 a.m. It would be fine if he was with a few acquaintances like Yang Mi and Dilireya, but he actually went out to fool around with the two vixens he met for the first time.

Everyone was not happy, even Baoshan's eyes were red.

Zhou Buqi knew that he had made a mistake, so he stopped eating breakfast, and then came to the study to punish himself.

"Dong dong dong."

There was a knock on the door in the study.

Aunt Xue didn't hear a response, so she opened the door and found Zhou Buqi meditating on the yoga mat. She couldn't help laughing and said, "What are you doing? Chanting sutras? Do you want to become a monk? Are you quitting sex?"

Zhou Buqi remained motionless.

Aunt Xue said angrily: "Okay, stop making trouble and go have breakfast."

Zhou Buqi still didn't respond.

Aunt Xue sighed softly and said helplessly: "How are you doing outside? No one will restrain you, but you can't play too wildly... The first time we met, we went to check out a room... This is not the case. What the heck, two young stars who have just debuted, how big a risk is this? You have to pay attention to the impact, right? If someone has no intentions and wants to take advantage of you, won't your reputation be ruined? "

Zhou Buqi sat there silently, as if he had entered a stage of meditation.

Aunt Xue continued: "I know you like beautiful girls. This is normal and aunt understands it. But young girls in the entertainment industry should pay more attention to them. You have to pay attention to your identity, right?"

Zhou Buqi remained motionless.

Aunt Xue gently persuaded: "Okay, let's go have breakfast. You just made a mistake that every man would make. It's not a big deal. Don't feel too guilty. Just correct it in the future."

Zhou Buqi remained motionless.

"Are you going to have breakfast or not?" Aunt Xue felt that this guy was a little too salty and snorted, "Linlin and Baoshan have finished eating and left. If you don't eat, I will pack it up."

"Huh?" Zhou Buqi suddenly opened his eyes, "Are Linlin and Sister Bao gone?"

Aunt Xue was angry and funny, "Yeah, let's go!"

Zhou Buqi breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "How did they react?"

"What can I do?" Aunt Xue rolled her eyes at him, "It's the same as usual."

"Are you still angry?"

"There's nothing to be angry about. It's not a big deal."

"That's good."

Zhou Buqi exhaled, feeling relieved now.

Aunt Xue said: "Okay, okay, you should be more careful in the future. Don't touch anything dirty and smelly. If you don't dislike it, the people in our family still dislike it. If there is any illness, treat all the people in our family." What should I do if I’m infected?”

"I'm not a child anymore, I know it well." Zhou Buqi waved his hand and snorted, "Aunt Xue, you are all groundless accusations against me. You can think of things, but I can't think of them? "

Aunt Xue stared at her pretty eyes, "Are you still making excuses?"

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "Forget it, let's go eat! I have something to do for a while, and I have to receive a team from South Korea later."

"What Korean team?"

"Kakao, an Internet company I invested in South Korea, has just completed Series B financing. I want to come over to study and bring back some good products from Ziweixing."

"Ah?" Aunt Xue was a little surprised, "Isn't Ziweixing a high-tech company?"

"Yes, high technology."

"You just let them take away the high-tech products?"

Aunt Xue was a little confused.

Zhou Buqi explained: "It is not the most cutting-edge such as artificial intelligence and cloud computing, but some general products, such as the framework of Friends.com, Weibo templates, etc... It is to reduce the wasted R\u0026D funds on repetitive development. ."

Nowadays, open source on the Internet is becoming more and more popular. The famous open source website Github was also acquired by Ziweixing last year.

For projects like Weibo, within a few years, there will be complete open source code on the Internet that can be used by any company in the world.

There's nothing to hide and nothing technical about it.

In contrast, having the Weibo team teach the Korean team how to make Weibo in the Korean market is definitely more efficient and cost-effective than developing it themselves or using open source template modifications.

This is also an additional condition for Series B strategic financing.

Ziweixing is the absolute majority shareholder of Kakao. When Kakao saves money, Ziweixing saves money.

When I went to the restaurant to have breakfast, Aunt Xue was sitting next to her, but she hesitated to speak.

"Is something wrong?"

"Um."

"Just tell me."

"Beauty salons are a bit troublesome. If you follow the formal procedures, simple small projects such as double eyelid surgery and hyaluronic acid injections all require medical qualifications. The qualifications of a beauty salon must be replaced by the qualifications of a medical institution."

Aunt Xue was a little embarrassed.

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Well, it should be done. If you use a knife or acupuncture on a person's face, you have to be the most professional person."

Aunt Xue asked hesitantly: "Then do you think I can do it again?"

Zhou Buqi was a little surprised, "What's wrong? Just do whatever you want. When it's time to apply, when it's time to recruit, just follow the process."

Aunt Xue was worried about gains and losses, "This is a medical institution, it's scary."

"What's the point? The medical beauty industry is the big trend in the future. Just look at it. By then, there will be private plastic surgery institutions all over the country. By then...most of them won't have medical institutions, and they will all dare to give injections and face lifts. , if you complete the procedures and form a senior plastic surgery team, you are guaranteed to make a profit."

Zhou Buqi is very confident in this judgment.

Medical beauty is the general trend of future economic development. All economically developed countries have a large market size in this field. After meeting the basic needs of life, people begin to pursue a higher-grade life, and plastic surgery is the first step.

Aunt Xue didn't have much confidence. "I did some research and found that people often fail. They make beautiful girls look like they have facial paralysis. It's so disrespectful."

Zhou Buqi didn't take it seriously, "Isn't this normal? Medical and aesthetic surgery is also surgery. Any surgery has risks. You have to sign a pre-operative agreement... Well, it's okay not to do it. Our family is not short of money. There’s no need to take on that kind of moral pressure just to make money.”

Aunt Xue's personality is not suitable for business, and she is a bit timid. In fact, she has discussed with Zhou Buqi several times that she wants to enter the medical beauty business.

I want to do it, but I don’t dare; I want to give up, but I’m not willing to do it.

Repeatedly.

That is to say, Zhou Buqi has enough patience in his own family. If it had been anyone else, he would have been kicked away long ago, a waste of time!

"Aunt Xue, if you ask me, you can just sell those two beauty salons, or give them away. It's too worrying."

"That's not okay, this is my career."

"What kind of career do you want? Just stay at home and raise your children. I will support you."

"Looks like you!"

Aunt Xue's eyes widened, and she immediately shook him off and went to change clothes to go to the beauty salon.

Zhou Buqi had nothing to do with her, and he didn't know if she wanted medical beauty treatment.

After breakfast, I went to the company with Sun Wanran and Ning Lu to prepare to meet the Korean team.

The so-called Korean team is the entrepreneurial team of Kakao, a Korean Internet company led by Jin Beomxiu. They have just completed financing and brought the team to Ziweixing for research and study.

The purpose is to bring back more of Ziweixing’s experience, products, middleware models and management methods to promote Kakao’s faster development in South Korea.

This is Kakao’s Series B financing, with the financing scale reaching US$30 million, diluting 20% ​​of the shares. After the financing was completed, the company's valuation reached US$150 million.

Among the US$30 million, Ziweixing invested US$15 million, Hyundai Group invested US$7.5 million, and the family fund on behalf of Zhou Buqi contributed US$7.5 million.

The new equity structure is Ziweixing International 58%, Hyundai Group 5%, Zhou Buqi 5%, Jin Fanxiu 20%, and other entrepreneurial teams hold the remaining 12%.

Looking at the Korean market, as long as Kakao doesn't mess around and don't spend a lot of money in overseas markets, the US$30 million raised in this round will basically be enough to meet all of Kakao's development needs.

When the US$30 million is spent, Kakao's own hematopoietic ability will be activated, or it may have met the requirements for an IPO.

At around 10 o'clock in the morning, Jin Fanxiu and his party finally arrived at Ziweixing's headquarters.

Now, the large framework of Ziweixing's headquarters park has been basically completed, and there are still about 8-10 auxiliary office buildings left in the construction plan, so don't worry. In the future, as the company expands, it will be expanded slowly. .

After the Koreans came, they were like country people coming to the city, shouting and yelling all the way.

Zhou Buqi took Jin Fanxiu's team for a walk around the Ziweixing headquarters campus, and had a meal in the No. 4 canteen at noon. In the afternoon, they responded to the request of Cheng Binghao, the dean of the Academy of Engineering, and went to JD.com together.

The e-commerce market is divided into C2C market and B2C market.

There is nothing to say about the domestic C2C market. Taobao is the only one with no competitors to contend with.

In contrast, the B2C market is still very chaotic. There are local platforms such as JD.com, Dangdang, Yixun, and Suning, as well as foreign platforms such as Newegg and Amazon. Recently, another large and aggressive company has emerged - Lekutian.

The CEO of Lekutian is called Koichi Nakamura, and he is very aggressive. He claims to spend 2 billion within three years to build the largest online shopping mall in China!

The emergence of this e-commerce platform has undoubtedly made the domestic B2C market, which was already chaotic and competitive, more intense.

This Lekutian also has a great background.

Surprisingly, it is the domestic branch of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten.

With the help of Ziweixing, JD.com has become the largest B2C e-commerce platform in China, with a market share of more than 27%. Liu Qiangdong's character is inherently confident and strong, and he doesn't care about the menacing Le Kutian.

However, JD.com is also experiencing some troubles.

It's a technical issue.

In the past few years, JD.com has mainly been doing two things, first, e-commerce supply chain, and second, JD logistics. Especially logistics, almost all the money raised by JD.com was burned, so that JD.com can be said to have made no achievements in the field of technology.

How exaggerated?

JD.com has been developing for so many years and it doesn’t even have a CTO.

In fact, it was not until 2012 that JD.com finally hired its first CTO in its previous life and began to truly help JD.com solve problems from a technical perspective.

This life is different. With the help of Ziweixing and Xiaonei.com, Jingdong's development is obviously faster.

Especially on-campus group buying.

On-campus group buying has a new director, Qin He, and together with Astermini, a collaboration between the campus network and Asda, it has become a phenomenon-level Internet hotspot. During last month's "91 Shopping Festival", on-campus group buying came up with new tricks, and the traffic exploded.

With Ziweiyun's help behind the school network, it was able to withstand the surge in traffic.

But JD.com, as a partner of on-campus group buying, couldn't stand it any longer and the website crashed.

This made Liu Qiangdong lose face.

During the 91 Shopping Festival, Xiaonei.com was the main force and its front was as stable as a mountain; JD.com was just a flank cover, but it failed and the website crashed.

What a shame!

It must be changed!