Although Uber is very promising, it is nothing in the eyes of Middle Eastern tycoons, and the current Saudi King Abdullah is not in good health, and he is still undergoing surgery at the age of 89, and Crown Prince Salman will not come to this place at such a critical time.

The scale of the Saudi royal family is very huge, and the relationship is also very complicated, but unfortunately we Chinese are tired of watching the palace fight drama between the heirs, and it is all the same.

Wen Xiaoguang is also not interested in this, he can't even figure out the names of these people, anyway, they are all called Muhammad, they are all wearing headscarves, seeing this kind of person is like flipping through a coin, you don't know if he took out a banknote or a bomb from his arms.

On the same day, a reporter visited, because Uber's D round of financing of more than $1 billion is also a big financial drama, when asked what he said to the Saudi royal family-

Yes, although it is not a king or a crown prince, it is really a royal family to pick a random person wearing a headscarf to come out.

Wen Xiaoguang replied that they were just exchanging gifts.

Because Saudi sovereign wealth funds had not paid attention to Chinese companies before, in fact it was not until 2015 that they began to inject money into Chinese companies through the SoftBank Vision Fund.

And the catalyst for this change was also the political turmoil that Salman caused after he succeeded to the king, such as the arrest of the prince, which was 11 at a time, so European and American companies began to feel that the money from Saudi Arabia was a little hot.

We no longer pay attention to ideology and seek truth from facts, and now they are the ones who play this game.

Wen Xiaoguang's behavior is not only to find investors for himself, but also to open a window for Chinese technology companies, and he also focuses on recommending those companies in the micro-extension ecological chain.

Most of these businesses are short of money.

For example, Ele.me, since Meituan announced its entry into the food delivery field, Zhang Xuhao woke up like a dream, and suddenly activated the sense of struggle in his body, he must raise funds, must expand, and must fight!

So the first thought was to find Wen Xiaoguang, but he was told that Mr. Wen was already in the United States, and then the assistant showed him a photo of Wen Xiaoguang and a Saudi.

Accident, accident.

"Isn't that an exaggeration? What did he do when he went to Silicon Valley to meet the Saudis?"

"Online reports said that it was just encountered, because the funds controlled by these two people participated in Uber's Series D financing, not capital or major shareholders. ”

"Crazy, crazy. ”

It's all going international.

Jack Ma once mocked in an interview: Pony (flower vine) doesn't have any international experience, right?

Yes, many domestic companies are awesome, that is because our market is big enough, and most companies have failed to give people the impression of internationalization.

There are two different ones, one is Ali and the other is Weituo. Papa Ma is bragging nonsense abroad all day long, Southeast Asian e-commerce Lazada is also about to be planned, and Indian payment software PayTM is holding high the banner of Ma's every day.

The same is true for MicroTuo, who themselves have overseas operations.

People who are trapped in China will not know what the scale of Weituo is, because they have not lived abroad and experienced it, even if it is Wang Xing, it is just a series of various data given to him by his subordinates.

Seeing Wen Xiaoguang talking to this and shaking hands with that one abroad, his brows were also wrinkled, foreigners don't know what you Wen Xiaoguang has achieved in China, and there is only one reason for showing friendliness - profitable.

"On the surface, according to my friends in the United States, Wen Xiaoguang is in a dilemma now, sandwiched, and uncomfortable. If Uber and Didi were both invested by Weituo, the bad would be one for himself and the other for the company. It's not easy to deal with. ”

Wang Xing gets along with Wen Xiaoguang a lot, and his character is not very blindly optimistic, and this kind of schadenfreude is meaningless, "He is very smart, and he doesn't care so much about money, let's do our job well, don't expect him to do anything stupid." ”

The man was embarrassed, "I'm sorry Mr. Wang."

"Go ahead. ”

Speaking of which, what Wen Xiaoguang encountered was indeed not beautiful, but even Wang Xing didn't seem to be so difficult to choose, it was nothing more than making less money. He didn't understand what this man was happy about,

Happy that the other party didn't make $4 billion and only made 3 billion?

, that's not money.

This is obviously a huge increase in strength, and after Uber's financing, the new valuation has skyrocketed, and the resources at the disposal of that person have also skyrocketed.

Of course, the same special attention is of course Didi's Cheng Wei.

It was very good to be able to get the investment of Weituo, and it seemed that I was going to succeed in starting my own business, and changing my life was already a real thing.

But Wen Xiaoguang went to the United States in person, and the connotation of this made him have to think about it more.

Uber's entry into China may be next week, and who knows what kind of gift Kalanick will give to Wen Xiaoguang, and they will be the ones who will sacrifice at that time.

So he also personally went to visit Li Wenbo,

This trip is also simple, just a question, what do you mean?

There will always be these reactions when the photo is exposed, and the hot discussion on the Internet is naturally the same, don't ask what you said, ask is a husband screaming.

"You're really worried, I received the news that Mr. Wen will basically not consider supporting their business in China. He went to the United States this time, not for uber, but because of the C round of JD.com listing and Weituo, meeting the Saudi royal family and Kalanick were all unplanned. ”

Become a little relieved, but also will be skeptical, this kind of thing depends on how to do it in the end, not how to say it now,

Li Wenbo couldn't help but remind, "But no matter what, no one can stop Uber from entering China to do business, and I don't think Mr. Wen will provide you with much help in this regard, he is caught in the middle, otherwise Kalanick will not shout." And of course......"

“...... Even if there is no micro-extension, Uber can also cooperate with Alipay and Baidu, and those two companies are competitors of micro-extension in a sense, and the two brothers will definitely take the project we launched. ”

So in fact, what Weituo doesn't do, what he does, and the pressure he faces are all objective.

It's just that Wen Xiaoguang is relatively generous this time.

In fact, it's not that he is kind, but that doing so is tantamount to putting personal interests above the interests of the company, which is a bit greedy and short-sighted.

Cheng Wei pushed his glasses, "As long as Weituo and Mr. Wen are always on the same front with us, I will definitely go all out, I am not afraid of these foreign companies." ”

"The opportunities outweigh the challenges. ”

"Of course. ”

This is also a catastrophe, and the road will be wider.

Wen Xiaoguang went to the United States to form a heated discussion, and the heat returned to China and burned abroad, it didn't matter if he went to the United States, this made Bai Qinqin angry, and he didn't tell her when he came quietly.

(End of chapter)