$21,481,432.71.

That's the total amount of sales in the first month after eBay went live.

It is said that eBay is not a public company and has no obligation to publish its own financial data, but if eBay wants to publish it, no one can object.

As for why Steve Ballmer published this statement, the reason is, of course, simple: to promote eBay!

As the first online shopping site in the United States and the world, eBay can be said to have attracted attention from all over the world, and in this case, if Steve Ballmer does not know how to use this attention to expand the influence and popularity of eBay, he is not worthy of sitting in the CEO seat of eBay.

In this report, eBay not only announced the sales amount in the first month after the website was launched, but also listed the daily sales, growth trends, growth ratios, etc., in detail in the form of text or reports.

As soon as this number was announced, it immediately caused a huge debate in the United States, and everyone was frightened by the first-month sales data released by eBay - although there is still some debate in the media about whether eBay's first-day sales data is opportunistic, but even if the first-day sales data is removed, eBay still has almost $00,000 in the first month of its launch, which is a terrifying number for the world's first online shopping site!

Even if eBay doesn't add any new speed, as long as they can maintain this sales, eBay's annual sales amount is nearly $140 million, which is already a data that can only be found in a large shopping mall, and according to eBay's announcement, after the first week of decline, their daily sales have increased every day, and by the last two days of the month, eBay's daily sales have even exceeded $400,000.

This is very scary, from the early $300,000 after a week of launch to $400,000 in exports a month later, an increase of more than 35%, do you say scary or not?

Seeing this data, whether it was the media that originally planned to watch eBay jokes, or simply planned to watch Chen Geng's jokes, or those who originally wanted to enter this industry, they couldn't sit still.

The media tried their best to interview Chen Geng, but Chen Geng did not accept any of these interviews, saying that if you want an interview, you should interview Steve Ballmer, CEO of eBay.

Since Chen Geng refused to be interviewed, in desperation, everyone had to interview Steve Ballmer, and it was also at this time that Steve Ballmer's "Mr. Fernandez said, within ten years, eBay needs to consider how to provide better services to users, need to consider the treatment of employees, and there are many things that need to be done, but only the issue of profitability is not considered. The words quickly grabbed major pages in the media and became headlines.

It's just that Chen Geng can refuse media interviews, but he can't refuse invitations from investment institutions.

When Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Oaktree Capital sent invitations to Chen Geng, hoping to talk to Chen Geng "If it's convenient, let's chat together?", even if Chen Geng has the title of the richest man on his head, after careful consideration, Chen Geng still decided to accept their invitation - these capitals are nothing more than the word "profit", and Chen Geng also knows very well that without the cooperation and support of these capitals, he will not be able to realize the great wish of "eBay will not be allowed to make profits in 10 years" on his own.

Well, without the familiar Sequoia Capital, compared with Fidelity Investment, Morgan Stanley, Blackstone, Bain Capital, KKR, Goldman Sachs, Oaktree Capital and other old top investment institutions, the familiar Sequoia Capital, which was only established in 1972, is now just an inconspicuous little brother.

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As for how to receive Chen Geng, the person in charge of these investment capitals also wasted a lot of brains.

All American investment capital knows that Chen Geng is notoriously disliked to deal with investment capital, but this guy is still very rich in his hands, which makes the capital very uncomfortable, so when Chen Geng gave a "yes" response, these investment capitals actually have a kind of excitement to keep the clouds open and see the moon: God is pitiful, finally have a chance!

The person in charge of these investment capitals are all smart people, and they know that Chen Geng is different from his previous investment objects, and those investment objects in the past are begging to invest in them, and now, they are begging Chen Geng to give them a chance to invest in ebay, plus Chen Geng is not short of money at all, so it is not so much about investing in ebay, but rather asking Chen Geng to give the big guys a chance to "get on the bus", so how to satisfy Chen Geng has become a problem that the person in charge of these investment capitals must consider carefully.

When these investment institutions were racking their brains about how to entertain Chen Geng, Ding Ruoyan was also extremely curious about Chen Geng's acceptance of the invitation of these investment institutions: "Do you really want to accept the investment of these investment institutions on eBay? Don't you like to deal with those investment institutions the most?"

Chen Geng's dislike of dealing with investment institutions is well-known all over the world, and Ding Ruoyan naturally knows it.

"It's not okay not to accept investment from investment institutions," Chen Geng said with a smile: "No way, Internet companies are too money-burning, it's not that we can't afford to burn it, but since others are willing to help us burn money, why don't we burn others?"

“......”

Ding Ruoyan blinked, a little puzzled.

"Internet companies are different from all previous enterprises," seeing Ding Ruoyan's curiosity, Chen Geng explained to her: "Internet companies have high requirements for server resources and bandwidth resources, which can be said to be extremely dependent, such as servers, in traditional industries, a server may be used for several years or even more than ten years, but in the Internet industry, fast-growing enterprises need to update and add servers every year, every quarter or even every month to meet the needs of rapid development of enterprises;

The same is true for bandwidth resources, maybe last month, 100M bandwidth can meet the needs of user access, but this month, there is no 200M bandwidth at all.

And that's all money! a lot of money!

Therefore, for Internet companies, it is okay to have only one investor in the early stage of development, but when it is developed, more investors are needed to support its development. ”

Ding Ruoyan understood a little, she nodded: "Understood, that is, for Internet companies, before they can achieve profitability, there is a high demand for capital, right? In this case, how many shares do you plan to release? Well, what I'm talking about is how many shares you plan to hold in the end?"

"Me?" Chen Geng said with a smile: "My requirements are not high, not less than 50%." ”