However, Lin Weidong was not carried away by money, and quickly calmed down and said to Sun Zhengyi: "Mr. Sun, can you let me think about it? I will give you an answer tomorrow." ”

Son said cheerfully: "Yes, we will talk about it tomorrow." ”

After returning to the hotel, Lin Weidong tossed and turned, and the more he thought about it, the more wrong he became, so he called Ma Xiaoyun and learned from him.

In Lin Weidong's view, even if Century Chinese Network gets an investment of 100 million US dollars now, it is not of much use.

Because most of the current readers watch pirated copies, it is difficult for publishing and film and television adaptations to be successful, and some literary websites have even more authors than paying readers.

Therefore, Lin Weidong does not want to sell so many shares yet, he wants to wait for the price to sell, and when the time is ripe, he will accept a new round of financing.

After Ma Xiaoyun understood the situation, he said categorically: "Weidong, if you want to go further, you must cooperate with Sun Zhengyi, this matter must be done, it must be done, and it must be done!"

Although Lin Weidong didn't understand why Ma Xiaoyun used such a tiger and wolf word as "hard to do", Lin Weidong still humbly asked him for some experience.

Because Alibaba also cooperates with online banking, Ma Xiaoyun can also give him experience and guidance in all aspects.

The next day, in the morning.

After some negotiations, Son finally proposed that they finalize the investment at a price of $16 million, accounting for 37% of the shares.

Two days later, the two sides officially signed a contract, and SoftBank invested $16 million to help Century Chinese expand its business.

After this round of financing, Lin Weidong's stake in Century Chinese was reduced to 50%, and Cheng Tianqiao and Wu Wenhui's stake was also diluted to 7%.

The shares of Liu Liling and Wang Taoxin were also diluted to 4% and 2% respectively.

However, even if one day in the future, Lin Weidong's shares are diluted to less than 50%, Lin Weidong can still have absolute right to speak on Century Chinese Network.

Of course, all thanks to the "founder system" advocated by Ma Xiaoyun, by allowing the founder to control the actual control of the company, even if the shares are held by others in large quantities, outsiders cannot control the company.

Just like Alibaba, through the founder system, Lin Weidong firmly holds the decision-making power of Century Chinese Network in his own hands.

In other words, after Lin Weidong imitated Ma Xiaoyun's "founder" system, he was able to control the actual power of the company with less equity.

Of course, even if Son and SoftBank do not have real power in Century Chinese, they can still enjoy share dividends, and they may not have much opinion.

Generally speaking, the voting rights of the shares held by the founders are usually 1 share equivalent to 10 shares, such as Facebook's Zuckerberg, but Lin Weidong's request is even more excessive, he asked for 1 share equivalent to 20 shares.

This rare equity design has a double meaning: first, it reflects Lin Weidong's extreme importance to control; second, it reflects Lin Weidong's estimation that Century Chinese will need multiple huge financings.

The first point is easy to understand, so I won't explain it in detail.

The second point is that Lin Weidong has long known that Century Chinese Network is destined to be a money-burning job, and it is absolutely impossible to play without multiple huge financing, but the larger the financing amount, the more serious his equity will be diluted.

Of course, as long as Century Chinese can one day go public, Lin Weidong has already prepared for the worst, and his stake may even be diluted to single digits.

In this case, Lin Weidong designed his voting rights to be equal to 20 shares with 1 share, so in the extreme case, as long as his stake is not diluted to less than 4.8%, he can control more than 50% of the total voting rights, ensuring that the control of Century Chinese Network will not be left behind.

After negotiating a partnership with Masayoshi Son and online banking, Lin Weidong and Wang Taoxin only stayed in Tokyo for two days before embarking on a flight to China.

Sitting on the plane, Wang Taoxin asked incredulously: "Weidong, how did you persuade Son Zhengyi? Why would he be willing to spend $16 million to buy a 37% stake in Century Chinese.com?"

Lin Weidong thought for a while and said bluntly: "If you don't have a very real good thing, or a good product, are investors so easy to fool?"

Although we only talked for ten minutes when we first met, and Masayoshi Son was determined to invest in our Century Chinese Network, behind these ten minutes was our original development direction and our team's hard work day and night for more than three years. ”

"To some extent, Son Zhengyi's investment in Century Chinese Network is not that I want to persuade him, but that he wants to persuade me, because he sees that our Century Chinese Network is a really good product. ”

Therefore, after Sun Zhengyi returned to Dongying, he still remembered the promotion of the Century Chinese Network project, so Lin Weidong and Wang Taoxin went to Dongying to talk in detail.

After returning to Huaguo, Lin Weidong did not rush to deploy the next plan, but took time to go to Hangzhou and Alibaba head office, wanting to thank Ma Xiaoyun for his help in person.

Although Lin Weidong is not Ma Xiaoyun's student, Ma Xiaoyun admires Lin Weidong very much and thinks he is an outstanding talent.

In Ma Xiaoyun's view, although Lin Weidong's current wealth and achievements are far inferior to those of Ding Lei, Cheng Tianqiao, and Zhang Chaoyang, he is very optimistic about Lin Weidong and treats him as his student.

When Lin Weidong came to Alibaba, when he went to Ma Xiaoyun's office, he met a female employee with "Ake" written on the badge.

Black straight hair, tall and thin, and good looks are the first impression left by "Ake" to Lin Weidong.

It is worth mentioning that Ake's temperament is very similar to Peng Lei, Zhang Ying, etc., simple and intellectual, almost without makeup, probably this is the so-called "people are divided into groups".

After a few words of greeting with Ma Xiaoyun in the company, Lin Weidong thought of A Ke he had just met, and asked with great interest: "Mr. Ma, is there a female employee named A Ke in your company?"

Ma Xiaoyun said calmly: "Yes, Ake is an employee of our company. ”

Lin Weidong then asked, "What is her position in your company?"

"Ake's position is telesales," After speaking, Ma Xiaoyun suddenly thought of something, glanced at Lin Weidong, and asked with a smile: "Why do you ask so clearly?

Lin Weidong denied with a smile: "Teacher Ma, where do I dare to rob people with you, I just ask casually." ”

Ma Xiaoyun said: "Weidong, I want to remind you, you'd better not poach people in my company, I am the first to disagree, although Ake is only a salesman in our company, but she is our Alibaba's lucky general." ”

After listening to Ma Xiaoyun's words, Lin Weidong nodded: "Teacher Ma, don't worry, I will definitely not poach people in Alibaba, by the way, Mr. Ma, why do you say that she is an Alibaba lucky general? Is there any relationship?"

Ma Xiaoyun was not ambiguous, and said calmly: "I don't know, right? The name Taobao was taken by Ake." ”

Moreover, the first product sold after Taobao was launched was a Longquan sword that Ake brought from home. ”

Obviously, just like Shao Yibo in the early days of eBay, the first batch of products on Taobao Mall came from the Taobao team.

At that time, "Ake" brought a few items from home and put them on Taobao, but Shi Yufeng (Xuzhu) took a fancy to them, and finally made the first transaction.

In the following months, Taobao gradually became a supergiant of Huaguo's online shopping platform, with a profit of more than 10 million per month.

After chatting with Ma Xiaoyun for a while, Lin Weidong also became interested in this female employee named Ake.

Lin Weidong knows very well that as long as he is willing to spend a lot of money, he has the opportunity to poach Ake from Alibaba.

However, since he has promised Ma Xiaoyun not to compete with Alibaba for talents, Nala can only think about it in his heart.

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