"It took a lot of effort for Lao Lei to help me make the connection. How could I not come here?" It was obvious that Mr. Chen from Thousand Oaks came prepared. He deliberately imitated the accent of Northeastern dialect and showed his humility with a smile on his face. Passionate, you won’t feel any malice.
"Mr. Lei is just too polite. If I had known that Mr. Chen was Mr. Lei's classmate, I wouldn't have been there at your call." Such politeness was just an opening, and neither of them took it seriously.
Even though Chen Zhou and Rebus are classmates, in the business world, these things are at most a stepping stone to prevent each other from harming each other, but they will not use too many resources in the business world before there is a real basis for cooperation. For them, , it’s all money, every resource and every favor is just money in vain.
It's okay to have back and forth, just let me pay and you get. If you don't do things like this, Chen Zhou is not so stupid.
"Sorry, Mr. Chen, it's a small place in Songjiang. Please forgive me." Wei Tao fell in love with discussing things in the teahouse. He went there all the time and stored some valuable tea leaves. He also became a VIP customer of the other party. Basically As long as he has free time, Wei Tao will give him the best private room when he comes.
On the innermost side of the floor-to-ceiling windows facing the street on the third floor, closing the bamboo curtains can protect privacy. People like the two of them don't need to hide and tuck themselves together. If they don't draw the bamboo curtains that serve as curtains, they can always watch the river view through the floor-to-ceiling windows.
"Mr. Wei, Songjiang is a good place. I just took a look around in the car, and I already wanted to have a good trip."
"That's no problem. It's a good time for an outing. The four mountains of Songjiang, the blue dragon on the left, the white tiger on the right, the red bird on the back, and the black one on the back, are not unworthy of their fame. When the time comes, we can take a boat on Songjiang Lake. The fish here are... A must."
Now Wei Tao, after several years of experience, is already familiar with such situations, and no one will treat him as a newbie anymore.
I am now twenty-three years old, and the tenderness on my face is also fading. Shaving every morning has become a daily routine. I no longer feel the embarrassment of a down-and-out person in how I dress and behave. I have made up for the little experience I lacked before being reborn. Although he is still just a businessman in a small northeastern town, his rebirth advantage allows him to face these shopping mall bosses calmly as long as he does not talk about specific matters. Even in specific professional fields where he may show timidity, his occasional flash of Even Rebus praised the flash of inspiration.
There are relative advantages and disadvantages. In recent times, Wei Tao has felt a little rejection from Li Xueliang and other creative teams regarding whether the A-round financing of Duowan has been officially launched.
If you are not excellent, you may not reject it.
But now the focus is on the research and development of Waiwai Voice, which has attracted Liu Qin's strong interest. Under Rebus's strategizing, the entire Duowan has been developed from vertical portal game information to real-time calls with Waiwai Voice. World of Warcraft China, Lao Shi’s Journey, Lao Chen’s Legend, the Q-version martial arts game that just became popular...
We all sit down and chat directly, without the need for Rebus, Li Xueliang and others to visit. The future profit model, once bundled, is clearly visible and the prospects are bright. I do not snatch other people’s resources and have the best vertical traffic at present. With Rebus's methods, it would be very difficult to get a piece of the pie from him at this time.
Then only cooperation is left. Once cooperation is started, the value of 'Duowan' will soar. Now we are short of money to fully upgrade the equipment. The software will be available in the future, and the hardware will depend on money in the future. As long as our Waiwai Voice The platform can be attached to ordinary home computers and Internet cafe machines, and will not occupy too much memory capacity, ensuring that lags are reduced during real-time voice interaction...
Then we will become the penguins of the gaming industry.
Wei Tao got the report from Duowan more than a month after that conversation. He didn't mention Wai Wai, but in the end it was the English letters Wai Wai.
For Wei Tao like this, Rebus still has a more long-term vision. Li Xueliang and others are more or less resistant to him. Now that the project has good future prospects and is valuable, financing is a last resort and a must. Swing your fist with greater power, time waits for no one, and what you pay now will be recovered in the future. It's just that for people like them, especially Li Xueliang, if you don't understand, I'm very happy. If you understand too much, I'm disgusted. Moreover, he has always regarded Wei Tao as a tool man, and now he has suddenly transformed into a possessor. Strategic investor.
Isn't Liu Qin good? Isn’t that pure investment capital out there bad?
I don't like people who point fingers.
This is Li Xueliang's true inner thought. He admires Rebus as a mentor. He has never thought highly of others, including his creative team and those who started his business with him. You give me When you are a subordinate, you are not a strategic partner.
Deep down, he felt that others were not worthy of being on an equal footing with him, and Wei Tao was the foresight in this regard.
Before his rebirth, in the years when Waiwai was most popular, he worked outside. Most of the time, he passed the boring nights in the rental house by watching Waiwai live broadcasts. He was powerless to become the most dazzling and powerful brush customer. He also thought about it like some people. Could so-and-so be an official person?
Watching the live broadcast, with the income of each live broadcast room, it is inevitable to have the idea of how much money Wai Wai makes. This must be crazy.
With this mentality, I searched the information of Waiwai and Li Xueliang very deeply and carefully. I was very impressed. After rebirth, I was even more impressed than Zhang Yiming, Wang Xing and other superpowers in the Internet 2.0 era. These People may know more about the project and their status as wealthy people, but he was very impressed by Li Xueliang and Waiwai, at least in the scope of public information.
According to the original trajectory, it should be in the second half of 2007 that the conflict between Li Xueliang and his creative team became very serious. After the Chinese New Year, a group of people left to work alone and set up corresponding companies to compete.
Now that Waiwai has come out ahead of schedule, what about this contradiction?
Wei Tao didn't know it before, but now he knows it. It should be inevitable. He is wary of resisting a nearly perfect investor like himself. Those subordinates may still hold that you are my little brother Ma Zai. Thoughts, will this conflict intensify in advance?
Because of this, Wei Tao has always felt that he is short of money and wants to gather more cash flow, just in case Li Xueliang wants to lead the rapid launch of a round of financing, and he cannot cope with it. As for development, with Rebus here, there will be no problem. Li Xueliang only has character flaws, but there is no problem with his ability. Now that he has the conditions, money and position to get more shares, he must fight for it. Yes, as long as they don't threaten these two, that's fine.
What happened made Wei Tao become more and more conservative about his identity as a prophet, and he had to be a little more careful when facing Chen Zhou. He didn't want to see cracks on Wang Xing's side as well. Who knows what that person’s thoughts are like and what his character is like.
That person is from the second generation of rich people. If he accidentally offends him, he may live forever without contact. Wei Tao doesn't want to give up such a good cash cow. He doesn't want to "invest in the enemy" until the last moment. Regarding behavior, you must know that the future Wang Xing is a latecomer, and the opponent is also very powerful. In 2009, we are also preparing to make arrangements for Jiaotong University in advance. Then we will contact Zhang Xuhao and others in advance. Entrepreneurs with dreams and ideals have a very strong desire for funds in the early stage. By that time, it is quite interesting to think about investing for a person like me who is "foolish and has too much money". At that time, I will be hungry and beautiful at the same time. When the two families are fighting each other, what do I do?
Anyway, I won’t tell you now, but I’m just saying hello to you in my heart. Don’t offend me. My sugar is not sweet, but vinegar may be sour at a critical moment.
Therefore, Chen Zhou was a little cautious, not because he was afraid that Wang Xing would be dissatisfied with their private contact, but simply because he didn't want the sheep that he regarded as capable of producing tons of wool to be kept from him. It would be a very unpleasant experience. thing.
After drinking a few cups of tea, we chatted politely for more than 20 minutes. Those who work on the Internet will not underestimate young people, and those who do investment will want to take advantage of young people through aggressive methods. However, in Chen Zhou’s eyes, in front of him This young man was very slippery, and when he thought about it, in the information he was watching on the plane, this guy had climbed his way up from practicing as a stall on the street.
In the area with strong folk customs in the Northeast, several businesses are stained with all kinds of messy traces, and he can handle them with ease. He just spent 40 million some time ago to continue developing real estate. How should I talk to such a person? Woolen cloth?
Talk about money?
This is not the era when the Internet was just born. After a few young people started their own business, they were happy to spend millions on a good project. The person in front of me wants to knock the opponent unconscious with a level of ten million? Stop making trouble, can the other party hit you in turn?
Chen Zhou was in the company, on the road, and until he opened his mouth at this moment, he was always choosing his words. What is the most appropriate way to speak?
He thought of a way. After meeting him, he lost a lot of confidence. Who said that young people must be dreamers, but this person was not like it, but no matter what, he decided to try to talk about it first.
"What does Mr. Wei think of the Internet?"
"Second Life." With this level of contact, Wei Tao doesn't mind revealing his true thoughts. If I don't pay attention, how can I go all the way to invest in various Internet frontiers?
Chen Zhou sighed secretly. He thought about the other party's emphasis on the Internet. He didn't expect it to be so deep. Then such a person must have feelings. The project he is interested in must be full of confidence. Feelings are equated with money. Then he How can we talk about the 'school network'?
"It can be seen that Mr. Wei is a sentimental person." He could only smile awkwardly and say something flattering, thinking about what to say next. However, he did not expect that Wei Tao came directly and said something completely unexpected. external discourse.
