Wall Street Legend

  Chapter 232 Cobra Building

The unspoken rules of Internet financing in the United States did not develop overnight, and experienced many problems in the early stage. For example, Jobs, who is very familiar to people, weakened his control over the company due to financing and listing issues, and was kicked out by the board of directors. , that was in the 1980s.

After suffering countless losses, people will not know until the entire industrial system is perfected that if you want to raise funds for an excellent company, AB equity is a relatively common practice, allowing the founders to continue to have the right to speak in the company. Of course, if you want to If investors are willing to give up management rights, the returns they can bring must be very attractive.

  China today is like the United States in the 1980s. Financing problems plague almost every Internet entrepreneur. They are more willing to think about how to survive than the question of how many shares they hold.

Bonnie Ma has also experienced this kind of thing several times. Of course, Xiangjiang’s Little Superman and the American IDG Group took away 40% of Tencent’s shares for only more than 4 million US dollars. With this amount of money, there is no current Tencent. Therefore, no regrets in terms of equity is something that needs to be considered after success. In the early stage of starting a business, only the question of whether it can succeed is needed. Venture capitalists bear the risk of investment failure. It is a matter of course to enjoy the rewards later. It can only be said that they have a better vision.

The Alibaba Group that Ye Dongqing is concerned about also received a large amount of shares from Softbank’s Masayoshi Son because of financing. Similar phenomena are quite common in the angel investment industry, which is one of the reasons why he was able to obtain a large amount of shares from Tencent. .

Now China's Internet industry has just started, and even the founders don't have much confidence. After all, unlike Silicon Valley, with Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and other truly successful oligarchs, they know that it is probably feasible, but where can it go? It's still hard to say, so as long as someone is willing to raise funds, they are willing to accept concessions.

   No way, who made the first group of people who got rich not pay attention to the Internet industry, which gave Ye Dongqing an opportunity.

Mobile phones can do it, not to mention success or failure, at least the possibility of failure is relatively small. In this country with huge consumption potential, pigs can take off when the wind blows. It should not be difficult to make a quick sum of money in a short period of time. As for whether it can be maintained in the later stage If you want to live in the market, it depends on how determined Ye Dongqing is to make it happen.

In addition to this proposal, after Mr. Zhang spoke first, some people talked about online news, some people wanted to open a website to sell cars, and others proposed to set up a website to help sell various agricultural products, etc. There are all kinds of messy ideas. , such as Huicong.com, they also want to do online shopping mall business.

Ye Dongqing's appetite is very large. Since the funds in his hand and the situation in front of him are enough to support his huge appetite, of course he must try to maximize his interests. There are competitors everywhere in the United States, but in China He has enough space to deploy, and considering that Mr. Bernard Madoff will provide more financial support, he can use this money to complete a larger layout.

The only thing that needs to be considered is whether it will be very tiring. He has already planned to acquire shares in some companies, and then help to subdivide the main areas of attack in the future. Pay more attention in the later stage, and there should be no major troubles. He is going to follow his own ideas here. A majestic business empire plan can be completed on a piece of land, and the cost, more than ten or two billion US dollars, is enough, and it will not affect the business of the United States.

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  I thought I could go back in four or five days, and even the return ticket was already booked.

However, there were more things than expected. In the next few days, Ye Dongqing was busy meeting with the bosses of various Internet start-up companies, talking about specific financing plans, and by the way, instilling some ideas in their minds to help Plan a feasible path to rise, NetEase's games, Sina's social platforms, etc., are more in line with their current operating direction.

One by one financing plans were finalized quickly, and we need to continue to communicate in the later stage. It will not be too late to contact after returning to the United States. Ye Dongqing is going to form a team to help deal with these problems. In 2004, China's Internet industry was short of money everywhere. The negotiation process is often quite smooth, and the establishment of the Huaxia office has also been put on the agenda. The headquarters will probably be arranged in Pengcheng, or the Shanghai stock market.

  Two days ago, I called Miss Maxi to come to Xiangjiang to play. I didn't expect that she agreed. She has already checked into the Xiangjiang Peninsula Hotel and is waiting for Ye Dongqing to come to her.

Putting aside some unimportant things for the time being, Ye Dongqing escaped from Pengcheng and drank alcohol for several days in a row, which made her stomach feel uncomfortable. Her favorite food is wonton noodles. It is said that there are several restaurants in Xiangjiang that taste the most authentic. He was going to stop by and have a taste.

  It’s only a little far from the Xiangjiang River. This time I took the ferry and went directly there. After nightfall, there are many lights on both sides of Victoria Harbor. I have seen it the last time I came here, and it feels pretty good.

  I contacted him by phone in advance, and Maxi went directly to the pier to pick him up. The hotel provided a Rolls-Royce as a special car, and first drove to the snack street to eat something casually.

  There was a bowl of fish ball powder on the small table. While eating, Ye Dongqing asked the pretty girl sitting opposite her: "What have you been doing recently? Why haven't you returned to Paris? How was the last blind date?"

"It's okay, it's almost settled, my father decided to respect my idea, let's not talk about it for the time being, and talk about it after I graduate." Ma Xi looked a little depressed, she always thought that her father respected herself very much. Now it seems that this is not the case. Postponing the marriage is already the biggest concession he is willing to make.

  The two tacitly refrained from talking about the spring evening they spent in New York last time. It was already a month ago. It is more or less awkward to meet at this moment, because they both know what will happen next.

  An Indian was setting up a stall not far away. When he was playing a musical instrument, a cobra crawled out of the bamboo basket and made an attacking gesture. The people around him were quite far away, for fear that the thing would suddenly come and bite him.

Ye Dongqing suddenly thought of something interesting when she saw it, and asked Ma Xi, "Have you brought pencils and drawing paper? I just had a great idea. What do you think of designing a building with the image of a cobra?" "

   "Cobra? I hate all kinds of snakes. If you do that, you may lose many female employees. I will definitely not try to get close to it anyway."

Marci's attitude explained many problems, but he didn't care. He said, "But that would be cool, wouldn't it? At that time, it will be the most concerned building in New York. It's best to use black and red, see It looks metallic, but it's sinister..."

  (end of this chapter)