Many times, Tang Shujie will share her affairs with her friend Zhou Yan, but this night, she chose to be alone and quiet.

After Wen Xiaoguang sent her back, the two separated.

It wasn't too late, Dr. Tang was sitting in his living room, hugging a pillow, and the TV he turned on was playing the Korean drama "Country Love".

Usually when she needs to think about things or doesn't know what to do, she will watch this kind of boring TV series, she doesn't have to worry about which episode, she doesn't have to look forward to what the plot will be, anyway, the parents listen to it casually, or don't listen to it.

Her mind was a little messy, because Wen Xiaoguang said that she could call him on the one hand, and on the other hand, she said that she was very busy, and why did she behave badly in the face of temptation?

What does this mean, isn't it just telling yourself that he will cheat?

It's ridiculous that I'm still trying to talk about feelings with others.

On this night, Wen Xiaoguang also sat at home, leaning on the recliner on the edge of the balcony after taking a bath, with a book on his lap, enjoying the night view of Beijin and tasting the thoughts of his predecessors in the book.

The phone that was set aside vibrated at some point.

"Hey, Yiqiu, what's the matter?"

Song Yiqiu, who was at that end, was somewhat deliberately making such a call, and he was 'favoritism'.

worked like a decent report, saying that CCTV "Let's Talk" program invited him.

The host of this inspirational TV show is Sa Beining, and the TV program will start broadcasting every Saturday night on August 27 this year at around 22:40.

She spoke for several minutes,

Wen Xiaoguang laughed and asked, "What do you want?"

“...... I didn't think about anything, I was practicing yoga in the gym when I suddenly received a phone call, and the producer specifically mentioned that Weituo's Wen always has a benchmarking role, which can make the show have a good start, and talked to me for a while. ”

It might be true, and she probably wouldn't have made something up.

But the purpose is absolutely impure.

"Don't you know that I haven't been on TV lately. Exercise well, don't think about it. ”

"Oh......" Song Yiqiu's mood was a little disturbed, "Then I will refuse." ”

"Hmm. ”

"Hey, by the way, Mr. Wen, the things you asked me to buy for you before, have they arrived today?

Wen Xiaoguang laughed, "Oh, I'm at home, alone." Why are you so careful? It's a big night, it's so hot outside, so don't bother others. ”

"Okay, good night to Mr. Wen. ”

Home alone, that's fine.

After reading the book for a while, Wen Xiaoguang moved the computer again, and at a fixed time every week, he would deal with things other than micro-extension.

Sarah, who is far away in the United States, sent him a work report, which mainly reports on the recent situation of various technology companies that are not invested by capital.

Based on this information, reformulate the investment strategy. Sarah will give her own advice, but let Wen Xiaoguang make the decision.

According to the report, Facebook will officially surpass one billion users this August, which is a milestone development that could potentially drive up Facebook's stock price.

In fact, Facebook's IPO in May this year did not fully meet expectations, and it is difficult to say that the market has confidence in a company, maybe you are a good company in the media, this is not difficult, and you can do it with some money.

But investors are smarter than, and they won't be misled at will, believing the valuation written by a columnist. Take Xiaomi, for example.

Facebook's stock price was about $35 when it went public, but it has not exceeded $40 until now, which is a big distance from the impression of $1780 a share.

Wen Xiaoguang doesn't care much about these, the stock market always rises and falls, and momentary gains and losses are not important, if he has relevant memories, he will say it, for example, he seems to have an impression:

Last year, when Steve Jobs died and the iPhone 5 was not as expected, Apple's stock price continued to fall for a while.

Of course, if you don't remember it, forget it.

It's like Facebook, it doesn't make them much, but it's not a big problem.

And Sarah emphasized that the number of users is more than one billion, hoping to give the boss some good news.

However, Wen Xiaoguang cares about the billion, not the stock price, and beyond the billion, Facebook's unique visits to the United States fell by 6% year-on-year in August.

An Internet company, traffic has started to decline, what does this mean?

It means that it is closer to whatsapp.

Mr. Wen forwarded the email to Mr. Chen, who was in China Shipping, with a postscript noting the possibility of Facebook acquiring WhatsApp.

Lao Chen is now a lot freer, a cup of coffee at home, a Macbook can start a day's work.

He is busier than Chu Qiuchen, so he is completing most of the preparations for the marriage.

After seeing the email, he made a phone call to make an appointment with Wen Xiaoguang, he was looking for a financial person with a good resume, but this had to be interviewed by the boss.

"Come out with me and buy something. Chu Qiuchen knocked on the door and leaned over from outside the door to ask.

"Okay," Chen Bei closed the computer, "I'll drive you." ”

~~

Inside the car.

Chu Qiuchen sighed, "Yiqiu called me just now, saying that another woman was provoking Wen Xiaoguang, and asked me what to do, where do I know what to do." ”

She spoke, but Chen Bei did not answer her.

"Hey, what do you want?"

"Didn't think about anything. The main thing you said is very normal, there are women pestering Xiaoguang, isn't this something that happens all the time? ”

"You think I didn't scream? ”

Chen Bei smiled, "Also, that guy is a little charming, I don't know why he is very good at making money." ”

"Just emailed me, Facebook traffic was down, and he deduced that WhatsApp might be acquired. ”

In fact, it is not difficult to deduce that

No matter how big an Internet company is, it will always be hungry for traffic and will never be satisfied, just like Alibaba wants to buy WeChat.

Although it takes place in different countries, the subject of the operation event will also change, but the business logic under the market economy is the same.

"He's because Alibaba wants to buy him, so he has some associations, right?" Chu Qiuchen knew when he thought about it.

"That's right. Chen Bei touched his chin and said, "The difference is that WhatsApp will really agree, they have less than 50 people, the company has less than $5 million on its books, and the founder is not like Zuckerberg to develop a social empire, except for this software, there is almost no other business, I think as long as the Facebook price is in place, this matter will have a high probability of becoming a reality." ”

Chu Qiuchen expected in her heart that the number would be very large, but she still wanted to ask, "How big will it be?"

Chen Bei smiled: "It's hard to say, but WhatsApp has more than 400 million global users, which is definitely not cheap, at least tens of billions of dollars." It's not that the share of capital is not small, we have to make some preparations. ”

"Tens of billions! Wen Xiaoguang really went to the richest man. But what do you have to prepare?"

"I don't know. Anyway, there are things to do, such as how to reasonably avoid taxes, and the investment profits in the United States need to pay a federal capital gains tax of 15%. Chen Bei didn't hide anything, "I believe that Xiaoguang won't have the heart to make a fuss about this, but I'm a big living person and it's not a big deal, of course, I have to study reasonable tax avoidance methods." 15% is at least hundreds of millions of dollars, why simply hand it over to the government?"

"Remember your face now! You and Wen Xiaoguang are not making money now, but robbing money!"

"Hey, different positions have different needs, either capital or pure financial investment, look at the money, of course, you have to pay for it. ”

From another point of view, both legal and financial personnel get paid, and they always have to do some work.

"Then do you still want to go to the United States? I should have suggested to Xiaoguang, the country has also developed rapidly in recent years, isn't it good to turn back and invest in China? He holds the money, and he is a guest in any city. ”

"That's great, but we all think that there will be a bull market for several years. ”

Chen Bei did discuss it with Wen Xiaoguang, and the reason was very clear.

After the '08 financial crisis, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke released a lot of liquidity, and the cost of using funds was extremely low.

Just as China's liquidity will flow to the housing market, the liquidity in the United States will not support the prosperity of the real economy, and they will basically flow into the stock market.

However, there is a special case that most of the first-generation founders of major American companies have left the company, and almost all of them are professional managers.

For example, Apple, Cook is not actually a major shareholder, he is not a boss, he is a senior worker, and his income depends on salary, bonuses, and stock dividends.

Therefore, in order to get more dividends, American corporate executives will borrow money to buy back the company's shares and push up the stock market price.

Through this method, the CEOs of major companies can get Wall Street, the board of directors, the shareholders, and their own pockets, and at the same time, they can stay in office next year and make money for another year.

Anyone looks at it, this method is easier and faster than honestly relying on promoting business and increasing revenue.

Therefore, in the next few years, the stocks of large U.S. companies will perform very well, and U.S. stocks will usher in a continuous bull market.

These logics are very clear, and Chu Qiuchen doesn't find it difficult to listen to them.

“...... Domestically, for us, running a good company and continuing to create new jobs is actually the greatest contribution of entrepreneurs. ”

Chen Bei suddenly thought of something, "Hey, if you want to make some social contributions, I think I also have to learn how to do public welfare, I will definitely do this in the future, and he can't let me be idle." ”

"That's right. Chu Qiuchen laughed, "But it's good to do this, it's meaningful and healthy, it's better than staying up late in an office." I don't think long before a public welfare foundation falls on your shoulders. ”

It's a little too early to talk about public welfare foundations, Weituo itself has not yet achieved positive cash flow, and it is financing money, of course it is good to do good deeds, but investors will be very dissatisfied.

But Chen Bei was right.

There's always something to do.

This summer in Beijing is busy and fulfilling, time seems to have accelerated, and in the following September, Wen Xiaoguang still continued the previous rhythm of life.

Alibaba successfully raised $4.3 billion, and CIC and CITIC both took shares.

Jack Ma took back control of the company from Yahoo, and the board seat became 2:1:1, and this 2 is the founder team, and the two 1s are SoftBank and Yahoo.

As a result, there is only one left in front of them, that is, Alipay, which involves finance, and the Chinese government's regulations are that there can be no foreign investment.

Alipay belongs to Alibaba, which is obviously non-compliant.

Therefore, the only way is to strip Alipay.

But this is a 'breach of contract', Ali has a shareholder, and there is no reason to just draw out Alipay, which also belongs to a shareholder.

But Jack Ma did it anyway,

From the way he does business, Wen Xiaoguang has four words: unsentimental.

In the company, it depends on ability, what is familiar or unfamiliar, friends are not friends, and if you are not capable, you will immediately come down from that position.

This thing is simple, but it is not easy to do, and Fu Youxuan has experienced very complex psychological activities when he took it from the position of CFO.

Fortunately, everything is in the past, and now everything is getting better.

On September 16, 2012, Toutiao announced that the total number of users exceeded 20 million, and it was launched in June, from 0 to 20 million, and it took only 100 days for colleagues in the X business department to go online.

It's twice as fast as today's headlines in the original plane.

This is also understandable, after all, the intensity of promotion is different.

Now there is the diversion of the voice of China and WeChat, which is based on big data and algorithms for personalized recommendations, with 'machine distribution' as the core competitiveness of the app, which suddenly burst out with huge energy.

It's hard to get addicted to watching the news, but Toutiao can do it.

Now the upward momentum is still very strong, but the current ecology of the hesitant WeChat public account is not bad, and the promotion of the headline account has encountered some resistance.

For example, Zhang Yiyi tried to build Toutiao into a public information release platform and invite party and government organs at all levels to settle in, which is a good thing, but why do you do this kind of thing when you already have an official account?

If this matter didn't work out, he wanted Wen Xiaoguang to use his relationship with various media to reach cooperation and let the media set up headlines.

In short, he was very energetic, but he was annoyed by Wen Xiaoguang.

Within Weituo, the influence of the X division is also increasing, and they have incubated a successful app, which has become the company's third product with tens of millions of users after WeChat and WeChat Pay, so that the voice of Lin Changsheng, the president of WeChat, who is not very respectful, is much smaller.

As for the investors and peers who stand outside Weituo and look at the development of the situation, they can no longer say that they are happy for him, or they are a little jealous......

Today's headlines look like they're going to be popular again, and it's a bit too much to make one by one.

Lu Qin had a meeting in Europe a while ago, and after returning to Beijing, he heard the news that Toutiao had more than 20 million users.

People in the venture capital community will attribute this to WeChat.

Lu Qin played golf with people, and when they chatted, it was also for this reason.

"In Series B, the valuation of more than $20 billion is really high, but there is a group of people who insist that it is not high. A small part of the reason for this is that we all know that there will be such a day. ”

"yes. "Lu Qin is also in good spirits on happy occasions," Teng Xun held QQ in the first ten years, and Wen Xiaoguang should be him holding WeChat in the back, today's headlines are the first, but it is definitely not the last. Unfortunately, the Chinese are not stupid, there is Tengxun's success in front, when everyone valuates Weituo, don't say anything about the first inflated 30%, his financing, too good to do. ”

This can also be counted as part of the market's confidence, on the grounds that it is a cliché, because Tengxun's domineering people are helpless, and the market is somewhat superstitious about the power of social entrances. Now with the rapid success of Toutiao, this superstition should be even more entrenched.

But no matter how inflated it is,

As long as there is an opportunity, these people will definitely follow the investment at any cost.

A 100-billion-dollar company is not something to be touched.

At the beginning of this autumn, everything seems to be beautiful.

......

Dr. Tang didn't think 2012 was going to have a good autumn.

She hadn't seen Wen Xiaoguang for two weeks, but she hadn't cut off contact, and occasionally sent a text message or something, such as editing a congratulatory text message when she saw a report on today's headlines.

Zhou Yan has also been busy recently, and when the two are together in their spare time, she will suddenly ask, but there is no movement.

"Hey, it's been weeks, why haven't I heard you talk about your handsome president?"

Tang Shujie just shook his head, "It's no fun, he's not a person who can be maintained through feelings." ”

Zhou Yan was eating a snack, and after listening to her movements, she roughly understood, "Oh, I understand." Denied. ”

"Not really. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

In fact, Dr. Tang himself is also entangled.

"If I'm willing to be kept by him, we can continue. ”

"What?" Zhou Yan was shocked, "He said he wanted to support you?"

He didn't say it. But that's what it means. ”

"What did he say? ”

Anyway, after a long time, Dr. Tang also figured it out, and he could say, "He said that he was not doing well in the face of temptation." Doesn't that mean you can't hold it?"

Zhou Yan took a closer look, "It's not, isn't it?

"This is the art of the big boss's speech, ambiguous, you have to understand it yourself, but in fact, it is what I translated. So, this option is also clear to me, either it is a love affair, or I have to be prepared to have another woman who will appear one day. ”

I see.

"So you've been struggling with this these days...... So you just did your own mental activities, added a Korean drama to yourself, and then just let go and let such a man run away?" Zhou Yan asked rhetorically.

I asked Dr. Tang.

"So you're going to find a peerless good man who behaves well in the face of temptation and can absolutely hold on to beautiful women?"

I asked Dr. Tang again.

"Looking for Tang Seng?"

Tang Shujie didn't know what to say, "Don't disturb my train of thought, and can you persuade me to do something good, persuade me to go and support others?"

"I don't mean that, I mean at least you don't have to rehearse everything yourself. Not to mention anything else, if you do that kind of shameless thing, from other people's point of view, of course you are running for money, I think his reaction is normal. Do you still want such a person to fall in love with you at first sight when he sees you, and love to die and live? The thing is actually very simple, if he wants you to talk about money, then talk about money, can it be better than a 50-year-old beer belly?

Tang Shu glanced at him, threw away the pillow in his hand and got up to leave, "I won't tell you." ”

Zhou Yan shook in the living room and followed to the bedroom, looking at the person lying on the bed in a large shape, "You don't want to just talk to him about money, don't you?" ”

"I don't know. Tang Shujie covered her face, "Maybe it's my unwillingness, Yanyan...... I really think he's the kind of ideal boyfriend, so he talked to me that day, which made me feel a big psychological gap. ”

Zhou Yan leaned against the door and said, "I understand, handsome guys are suitable for pure love fantasy." But if you can't fall in love at first sight, you can also fall in love over time, if you are not reconciled, try it, how much do people have a kitten and a puppy, do it a few more times, maybe it will be different?"

And Wen Xiaoguang didn't grow up in a wealthy family since he was a child, he has been an ordinary person for more than ten years, he can feel emotions, and besides, he lost his parents when he was an adolescent, and he seems to be strong but maybe he is also lacking in love. And you're not going to give anything, just that face?"

Tang Shujie sat up suddenly, "Why do you suddenly think that what you said is right? I feel like I have been smothered by a stick." ”

"Think for yourself. Zhou Yan is a bystander, she also said: "Anyway, I think so, if you don't figure it out, you tell me, the old lady will go and talk to him about the package, sleep with a handsome guy for a few years and don't have to go to work for a lifetime, Mom, where can I pick up this kind of good thing? I also want to be handsome on the left and sports cars on the right. ”

"Go ahead!" she didn't need to say anything more, Dr. Tang had already called.