Chapter 411: Hand in Hand
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Guo Lie smiled happily, "Yida, you're really joking." Watermark Advertising TestWatermark Advertising TestPeople are Victoria's Secret supermodels, and they can look up to our ** silk. ”
Seeing Guo Lie immersed in thinking, Zhang Yida took advantage of the railroad again: "The overseas version of Doushi is currently advancing smoothly overseas.
You can only carefully make products and gain a firm foothold in the subdivision field first.
He had also thought about these problems and knew how difficult they were, but he didn't have a good solution.
The big ones have penguins, and the small ones have Weibo, Shake Vision, Kuaishou, and Meitu.
If you want to go further and turn from a tool to a platform, it is inevitable that many companies will have to move.
Zhang Yida's series of questions directly stunned Guo Lie, these are all shackles that restrict the growth of the sprout.
How do you break through? Can you break through? Do you have a clear route?"
Even in the field of picture socialization, Exciting is not the first place, and there is a Meitu department on it.
Keep in mind that users have a limited amount of time to use it. One company gets a little more of the pie, and the other gets a lot less.
In addition, under the attack of WeChat, Weibo, and even the short videos that have become popular, can Jimeng become a new heavyweight social platform?
"European and American users like to socialize pictures, Chinese are much more subtle, and few people like to burn the kind of shameful pictures after posting."
As for profitability, Jimeng is also exploring advertising monetization, and has achieved certain results. ”
Guo Lie also said solemnly: "What Serab can do, we will definitely be able to do, and it will not be worse than them."
Zhang Yida looked at Guo Lie with a serious face and fierce eyes.
"Do you think Jimeng can be made into a Chinese salad cloth and even profitable?"
Just when Guo Lie was fantasizing beautifully, Zhang Yida's next sentence shocked him a lot.
What does Zhang Yida want to do when he says so much? Could it be that the C round of financing allows me to have a little share?
This kind of news spreads all over the venture capital world, and I basically don't want to start a business with financing in this life.
If you dare to send gifts to the young lady and buy bags, the CFO dispatched by the investor will be able to stab the matter to the investor in the next second.
Is the company's equity financing money casually allowed him to squander?
He is not as glamorous as the outside world imagines, and the investors are better than the other.
Zhang Yida's words aroused deep resonance among Guo Lie.
In fact, team members can enjoy the immediate benefits and have a lot of motivation to fight for the future. ”
In the process of starting a business, many team members choose positions with higher vested interests and leave the entrepreneurial team due to family pressure.
In addition, it is also conducive to the stability and unity of the core team.
The 1% equity will not affect the founder's status as a major shareholder of the company in the slightest, and will not reduce the motivation to start a business.
In fact, for Series B-C companies, if you sell 1% of the shares, you can buy a school district house for your child in the capital.
In order to prevent the founder from being the shopkeeper, it is wrong for investors to beat him to death with a stick and not to do anything.
Proper development helps to improve the founder's life and happiness, and does not affect the founder's entrepreneurial motivation.
Most of the founders also lived in poverty, renting a house, crowding the subway for lunches, dressing modestly, and being excessively frugal.
In other words, isn't one of the purposes of entrepreneurship to make your own life, especially your own people, better?
Improving the family's economic conditions is an explanation for the wife's parents.
Most founders go out at 7 a.m. and come home at 12 p.m., and when they go home, they go to sleep, and it is difficult to take care of their families, and they actually have a deep sense of guilt about their families.
But in fact, once you start a business, it is difficult to take care of your family.
As an entrepreneur, Zhang Rui's entrepreneurial spirit of "betting everything on the company" is worthy of respect.
The only wealth he has is in Dr. Yu's equity, which is paper wealth that cannot be realized in the short term!
Zhang Rui not only hasn't bought a car or a house yet, but he doesn't even have insurance and financial management!
However, after Zhang Rui's tragic death this year, from the eulogy written by his wife, we know that Zhang Rui's financial situation is by no means what everyone imagined.
If you let outsiders judge, everyone will definitely think that Zhang Rui, as the founder of the company, should have already achieved the freedom of personal wealth when the company has developed to the stage of Pre-IPO.
But the founder, known as the "1 billion family", was unfortunate and died of a sudden myocardial infarction last year.
Taking Dr. Yu founder Zhang Rui as an example, the 44-year-old entrepreneur has completed a pre-IPO financing of 1.2 billion yuan last year, with an annual revenue of more than 100 million yuan and a net profit of tens of millions of yuan after years of hard work.
It's 996 or 007 every year, and I'm tired!
Entrepreneurs face tremendous mental pressure. The company's various affairs, deep guilt for the family, external competition pressure, and rapid development pressure brought by investors made the founders under great mental pressure.
Due to the start-up capital invested when starting the business, all the money saved from the early part-time job was also invested in the company.
In Beijing, Shanghai Pengyang, where a house can easily cost millions of yuan, the vast majority of founders live a rented life.
According to the Aurora Big Data survey, more than 85% of the founders belong to the group without a house or a car and with less savings.
Only companies that have reached the maturity stage of the B or C round can the founders have a better time, and they will not be criticized for offering themselves a monthly salary of 350,000 yuan, or even an annual salary of 1 million.
The salary of the founders of Chinese enterprises is also very low, and they do not get a salary before the angel round, but they can get a monthly salary of 10,000 or 20,000 yuan after the angel or the round;
It costs money to fall in love and get married, it costs money to have children to support your parents, you have to buy a house and a car, and all kinds of expenses.
More than 80% of founders are between the ages of 25-35. People in this age tend to have a shorter working life and do not accumulate enough wealth, but they are the group that spends the most.
Entrepreneurs in our country are very hard, and their survival is not optimistic.
But everything is scored on two sides.
Zhang Yida shook his head and chuckled, "It's normal to have restrictions on equity transfer. If the founders are present, who will start the business?
Guo Lie didn't expect that there would be such a small episode, no one told him about it!
But the two of them refused on the grounds that they couldn't let the founding team be too content with pleasure. ”
I also suggested to them at the time that the founding team of Xu would raise 10% of the current amount, which is $1 million.
Xiong Xiaoge made a surrender with both hands and smiled bitterly, "I really can't blame IDG, we didn't participate in the B round of financing, it was invested by Meitu and Lightspeed China."
Zhang Yida coughed dryly twice and looked at Xiong Xiaoge, "Mr. Xiong, you whole ......"
Zhang Yida's question confused Guo Lie, and asked rhetorically: "Doesn't the company need to be listed to be present?"
"When the B round of financing was exciting, all the new shares were issued, and there was no part of the old shares that were issued?"
Guo Lie thought so, this is what it looks like to do a big job. How can a manly man be swayed by his children?
The old lady often chatted with me and asked me if I could help introduce a girl. ”
Zhang Yida said with a smile, "He said that Sogou is not listed, and he is not looking for a girlfriend." Worried about his old mother!
"Senior Brother Xiaochuan is even more ruthless, he has already run for four, and he doesn't have a girlfriend yet. ”
Zhang Yida explained again, "Senior Brother Xiaochuan is an alumnus of my high school, and both graduated from Rongcheng No. 7 Middle School. ”
As for Senior Brother Ogawa......"
"I have two senior brothers who have made this kind of grand wish. Senior Brother Li Bing said that Weilan does not go on the market and does not buy houses, so he and Yizhi's sister-in-law have been renting a high-end apartment;
Zhang Yida glanced at Xiong Xiaoge, was it taught by you, a venture capital veteran who has been in the industry for more than 20 years?
"Haha, are you making a big wish?"
Sometimes entrepreneurs will use any trick in order to get financing and give investors confidence.
He is expressing his determination, the company will not go public and will not buy a house.
This is very beautiful, although Guo Lie doesn't have too many eyes, but the double business is still very high.
Maybe when the company goes public, I can consider buying a house. ”
Now the house price is rising too fast, and it will cost five or six million to buy an ordinary three-bedroom apartment in Nanshan.
Later, I left my job to start a business, and I used the money to start a company.
In fact, in 2011 and 2012, when I was working at Penguin, I saved a little money, and with the help of my parents, I could make a down payment.
Every penny of financing, I think it should be spent.
As soon as this precedent was set, the wage structure was destroyed.
"I can't afford it for the time being," Guo Lie said calmly, "After all, we are still a start-up company now, and we can't arbitrarily pay executives salaries."
After complaining in his heart, Zhang Yida continued to maintain a smile on his face, "Alie, haven't you bought a house or a car until now?"
Why are you still singing?
Can you buy her a bag, can you take her to romantic Turkey, as well as Tokyo and Paris. ”
Girls don't care what angel round of financing you have, round of financing, just pay attention to whether you have money in your personal pocket?
continued to explain to Zhang Yida: "Yida, you are now in the mix, and you can't understand the hardships of us low-level entrepreneurs.
Noticing Zhang Yida's slightly perfunctory smile, Guo Lie thought that the other party didn't believe it.
I'm afraid that Guo Lie's vision is too high, and ordinary girls can't look down on him; excellent girls only think that he is a good potential stock, but he is not a big man.
Zhang Yida doesn't quite believe this statement, a startup CEO who has received three rounds of financing and a total financing amount of nearly 100 million yuan is not sought after in the blind date market?
Speaking of this, Guo Lie sighed, "So, let's put aside personal problems for the time being, and focus on entrepreneurship first." ”
Then the girl heard that I was starting a business, and asked me about the direction of my business, did I get financing, how many people are in the company, and what is the magnitude of revenue?"
I said that I would devote myself to entrepreneurship and that I would consider it when the company was on the right track.
In the past, a friend introduced me to a partner, and they came up and asked if you had bought a house or a car, and whether you had a loan?
Guo Lie smiled bitterly, "Today's girls are very realistic, and they can't look down on us like this."
patted Guo Lie on the shoulder, "Start a business well, and the day the bell rings will be when you become famous." ”
Without waiting for Zhang Yida to speak, Xiong Xiaoge preemptively said: "What's wrong with Victoria's Secret supermodel? Guo Lie, don't be presumptuous, you are one of the best post-90s entrepreneurs in China." Not worthy of them?"
In the future, we will also consider launching a photo social platform to enrich our product matrix.
Ale, you're a very good product manager. Why don't we join hands and build a career together.
A global social giant, a giant in the true sense of the word, spanning seven continents and four oceans, covering billions of users. ”