Chapter 504 - Feel confident in your boss's self-confidence
Wen Xiaoguang was arriving in Hangzhou this week, and he himself wanted to visit Ahri's headquarters, and before him, Wang Xingxing and Cheng walked hand in hand with Mr. Ma.
Ahri led the $50 million investment in Meituan, which is also a platform type, and they are very optimistic about this company that serves local businesses.
When Wen Xiaoguang heard the news, he didn't know whether to feel sorry for Wang Xing, most of Ahri's investments had strong strategic considerations, and in 2011 they had the idea of deploying group buying, but both the current Lashou.com and Wowotuan have been financed and the valuation is quite high, Ahri can only turn his attention to Meituan......
At this time, Meituan's valuation grew rapidly, with $300 million in the original time and space, and now there are $100 million in the same amount, and investment institutions have to admit it.
But at this time, I took 50 million, and it was a huge pain to want to get rid of it in the future.
At the same time, in the face of the strong rise of WeChat, Goose Factory did not rest on its laurels, on the one hand, they quickly established a takeaway scene, and on the other hand, they joined forces with the American group buying website Groupon to set up a Chinese version of the group buying website.
In the past few months, they would have had the opportunity to build a competitive landscape with Weituo, but the Chinese version of the group buying website has successively engaged in a series of suffocating operations such as lottery fraud (the winner is an internal employee), water bottle fraud, watch fraud, etc.
The collusion of large companies is often a mess, so many people have not even heard of this group-buying website named 'Gao Peng'.
For a while, Ahri took the fast lane, and the high friends engaged in the goose factory were already unaffordable, and the group purchase discounted a bunch of fakes, and compensated the consumers when it was over, money is a trivial matter, and the trust of consumers is gone, Wen Xiaoguang rarely even pays attention to such a Sino-US joint venture.
And although it seems that the services offered are the same.
But the pattern is different.
Whether it is takeaway or group buying, Goose Factory chooses to establish its own company, and Weituo's choice is to open the platform to other companies.
Entrepreneurs are smart, and it is clear who is superior and who is inferior.
Therefore, when Weituo began to make close contact with Gaode Map, the fierce reaction of the goose factory did not make Wen Xiaoguang feel that the threat was huge.
It is logical that he will also react violently if he thinks differently.
It's just not very useful.
While Wen Xiaoguang was at Zhonghai's house, Cheng Congwu, the founder and CEO of AutoNavi, was already sitting opposite Li Yidan, the head of the investment department.
Founded in 2002, AutoNavi was listed on the NASDAQ on July 1, 2010, and sold to Ahri in 2014.
After stepping down, Cheng Congwu left a sentence: It's really tiring to be the CEO of a listed company.
Wall Street is an extremely short-sighted place, as long as a quarter's earnings report is not good, the stock price will immediately fall, so the CEO can only always pursue the rise of profits, and there is no end, and sometimes in order to make the earnings report good, often do some very 'short-sighted' things.
For example, Yahoo, as long as it thinks that this quarter's earnings report is not good, then sell some Ahri shares, as for how much room for these shares to rise in three years...... Let's get past the current level first.
Therefore, Cheng Congwu also has a natural mission of the CEO of a listed company, chasing the rise of performance, preferably continuously.
This kind of mission logic does not mean that the stock price will not be able to lose, but when the stock price falls, the shareholders and the board of directors will have something to say, to put it bluntly, if you do not do a good job, let the shareholders lose money, there is a risk of being replaced.
Based on this mission, he must consider the olive branch of WeChat.
"I've always had a question, and it's been recently made up by the buzzword O2O. ”
Li Yidan said bluntly, "Please speak." ”
Cheng Congwu said: "Based on location information services, AutoNavi is also very qualified as an O2O entrance, but Weituo has invested in Meituan and AutoNavi, isn't this a two-handed game?"
"Essentially, we're not an investment company. Li Yidan replied very sharply, "We are a company that gathers social traffic, and serving WeChat users is the purpose, as for whether the investment will increase in value, it is rarely mentioned in Mr. Wen's speech." ”
"In other words, the competitive behavior of the relevant enterprises is completely a voluntary choice, does Cheng always want us to have more influence?"
Cheng Congwu smiled, this woman had a clever mouth.
"WeChat hopes to be able to serve some enterprises and open up traffic to them, which together form a whole, but the traffic is not used well, that is, the eight immortals have crossed the sea to show their powers. ”
"This is Mr. Wen's ideal?"
Li Yidan shook his head, "This is our ideal, Mr. Wen did not ask us to realize his ideal, he put forward a common ideal, he is the leader, he leads us to realize this ideal together." ”
In fact, there is no need to fool around, who doesn't want to participate in the growth process of a large enterprise, what Wen Xiaoguang proposed is very tempting, and it has naturally become everyone's ideal.
Cheng Congwu said enviously: "It seems that in addition to Ahri's team in China, Wen Xiaoguang's Weituo team also cooperates very well with each other. ”
They all know that the last mobile Internet conference was not actually how awesome Wen Xiaoguang was, and the idea of the whole event was made by Lin Ruosheng.
And the temperamental beauty in front of him is not a mediocre person, she can speak well.
Wen Xiaoguang has indeed found a group of excellent people.
Li Yidan smiled slightly, and then asked directly: "What favorable conditions did the goose factory give you?"
"Talk fast. ”
"Cooperation, which party has better conditions to choose which one, it's not a matter of who is right or who is wrong or which party needs to be embarrassed, but I am confident that our platform should be a little more mature. ”
Cheng Congwu sighed, "Then I'll just say it bluntly, this is indeed a dilemma." Now this level of the company...... It's not a matter at all, and you won't listen to what I say. However, I do have a stronger intention for WeChat. ”
Li Yidan nodded, Mr. Wen had interviewed this person, his mouth was okay, he must have fooled something, on the other hand, Brother Xiao Ma probably couldn't use any exciting words.
But yes, that's Tenson...... He still needs time to think about it.
After that, Li Yidan reported to Wen Xiaoguang by phone.
The family arrived quickly.
Wen Xiaoxiao looked around but didn't see anyone, "Mengjie, where is Xiaoguang?"
"Answered the phone and called. ”
Wen Xiaoguang asked on the phone, "What is his last concern?"
"I'm afraid of getting on the wrong boat, and I'm reluctant to pay for it, so I should have promised to inject $300 million. ”
"In your investment career, what is the usual solution at this time?"
Li Yidan said: "I heard that when Steve Jobs persuaded the president of Coca-Cola, he asked him whether he wanted to sell sugar water for the rest of his life or change the world. Mr. Wen, although I think this way is a bit superstitious, I always think that successful entrepreneurs from scratch have a natural personality charm. ”
His mouth is worth $300 million.
He simply said, "When you return to Beijin, let him stay for a time to see me." ”
Li Yidan was very happy to hear it, "Okay!"
She felt confident in her boss's confidence.
Wen Xiaoguang gave up the phone and went to the door to greet the big family.
"Where have you been, looking for you for a long time. ”
"Answered the phone. ”
"Remember, the son of the uncle's family, Wen Chunliang, the daughter Wen Chunmei, the son of the second uncle's family, Wen Chunchen, and the daughter Wen Chunjing. ”
Wen Xiaoguang was speechless, "Fortunately, the connection is not close, it is good for them to have a beautiful scenery, but this is going to be continued on the family tree, I can't call Wen Chunguang?"
Spring is the spring light that appears in spring.
Sun Mengjie couldn't help but sneer.