"Hello, Mr. Zhang, I'm very happy to meet you!"

In the office of Zhonghe Group, Xiong Xiaoge walked in with a handsome, twenty-something guy.

The guy was very excited, and when he saw Zhang Yida instantly turn into a little fan brother, he was so enthusiastic that Zhang Yida almost thought that he was the guest.

When he saw Lu Qi standing behind Zhang Yida, he also smiled and shouted "Dr. Lu".

Lu Qi smiled and nodded, which was considered a return salute.

"Hello Mr. Guo, I've admired my name for a long time!"

Zhang Yida is also very interested in this guy with long "Korean Wave" hair, and he doesn't look like a technical man at all.

looked at Xiong Xiaoge again and said with a smile: "Mr. Xiong, I'm really sorry to trouble you to run away." ”

"It's okay," Xiong Xiaoge waved his hand, IDG invested in Pate Holding Group, and he also had some friendship with Zhang Yida.

It's just a matter of helping to make an appointment with the CEO of the invested company.

However, he didn't ask in detail on the phone, and Zhang Yida didn't elaborate.

When I arrived at the place, I also saw Lu Qi, and guessed that it might be related to Zhonghe Group.

He was not in a hurry to ask Zhang Yida what medicine was sold in the gourd, and the mystery would soon be revealed.

Several people exchanged a few words of greeting and sat down separately.

"I heard that Mr. Guo is looking for Series C financing recently?"

Guo Lie waved his hand at Zhang Yida, "Mr. Zhang, don't see outside, just call me Alie or Xiaolie." ”

"Okay, then you can call me Yida too. There is not much age difference between us, so we are more casual in terms of titles. ”

Zhang Yida doesn't have much of a fight, which makes Guo Lie very impressed.

He smiled, "Yes, I'm looking for Series C investors." The next step of Faceu is to develop in more fields such as AR short videos and social networking. ”

Zhang Yida bowed slightly, as a tool-based software, users have harvested a lot.

However, tool-based products all have the same pain point, and it is difficult to monetize.

Users spend a few minutes every day taking a photo, and if the user uses it for too short a time, the advertising effect will be greatly reduced.

"I heard that Aliel also worked at penguins for more than two years before?"

Guo Lie nodded, "After graduating from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 11, I joined Penguin, and after two years, I still want to come out and try to work my own." ”

Zhang Yida answered with a smile: "Then at the end of 13, I made the popular product of Face Meng and rushed to the first place in the APP rankings."

The two of us started a business for about the same time, and Ruixiang also set sail at that time. ”

Lu Qi and Xiong Xiaoge did not interfere with the conversation between the two young people, they just drank tea on the side and listened quietly.

Guo Lie suddenly fell silent, making everyone feel a little inexplicable.

He also noticed that his reaction was a little out of place, and smiled bitterly, "The face sprouts quickly, and it falls quickly." ”

It turned out that he accidentally touched Guo Lie's sadness, and Zhang Yida thought that he had said something wrong.

However, this Guo Lie is really like what the rumors say, "very pure", not like an old entrepreneur at all.

Guo Lie said with a look of shame: "At that time, I was too floating, I traveled everywhere to participate in activities, the products were very bad, and the team was also very loose.

Now that I think about it, when my face is the hottest, it should be my personal most failed time.

My self-confidence and vanity were constantly inflated, and I was very scared that it would fall out of the rankings.

Then, he literally fell off the leaderboard. ”

When he said the last sentence, Guo Lie was very relaxed and looked relieved.

Zhang Yida knows that in the face of such a big setback, a person who starts a business for the first time, and is still a young man of twenty-four or five years old, will definitely not be easy to come out.

From the clouds in the sky, he suddenly fell into the dust. From a capital darling to an outcast.

didn't survive this hurdle, and many people sank in.

If you survive, you may be able to break out of your cocoon and become a butterfly!

Guo Lie smiled: "After summarizing the mistakes made in Faceu, we launched our second product in January '16, Faceu Thrill.

The highlight is that facial recognition technology combines the two steps of "shooting" and "editing", allowing users to beautify their faces or add dynamic stickers in real time during the shooting process, and what you see is what you get.

At present, it is much more stable than the face of Meng.

In more than a year, the cumulative number of download users has exceeded 150 million, of which 75% are female users, and more than 70% of the users who log in through QQ accounts are post-00s;

The number of product MAUs exceeded 40 million, and more than 50 million videos and images were produced and saved locally by users on Faceu every day.

According to the report of Aurora Big Data, the market penetration rate of Jimeng ranks third in the market after the Meitu App and BeautyCam. ”

The data was introduced in detail, and Zhang Yida nodded secretly.

This software is indeed very popular with women and post-00s, with various stickers on it, as well as the beauty and face slimming function to meet their pursuit of beauty, and it is interesting and fun.

For Zhonghe Group, Jimeng has a very considerable traffic, and after the acquisition, it can form a product matrix of "Shake Vision, Sweet Potato Video, and Jimeng" for different customer groups.

In addition, Excie has certain advantages in the field of social sharing, which can help Zhonghe Group complete the construction of a closed loop from content to social ecology.

If you want to cut into the social market of elementary and junior high schools, you can also provide accurate diversion.

"If I'm not mistaken, Jimeng has already completed three rounds of financing, right?"

As soon as Zhang Yida's words came out, Guo Lie and Xiong Xiaoge's spirits were lifted!

Finally to the point, the various business introductions just now are just for this moment.

"Yes, in early 2014, Jimeng received an angel round of financing of 1 million US dollars from IDG Capital, and in July of the same year, it received a round A financing of 10 million yuan from Lightspeed China and IDG Capital;

In March last year, it received $10 million in Series B financing from Lightspeed China and Meitu.

Now, we want to find a Series C funding round of more than $50 million at a pre-investment valuation of $200 million. ”

After speaking, Guo Lie looked at Zhang Yida and waited for the latter's reply.

Xiong Xiaoge also put down the teacup and watched how Zhang Yida answered.

Lu Qi smiled incomprehensibly, but he knew that Zhang Yida didn't just want to invest.

Zhang Yida did not give a positive reply, but talked about the serab.

"There are 158 million daily active users in the world, and 2.5 billion Snaps are sent through the serab every day.

The features of the salad are: a camera with filters and various creative tools, a chat service Snapchat, a story platform or a community service Mystory, a collection service Memories, and an advertising platform.

Oh, and there's also the Spectacles, a pair of sunglasses capable of taking pictures and short videos. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Yida smiled, "I heard that the sales of this sunglasses are not very good, they went on sale last fall, and so far, tens of thousands of sets have been sold." ”

The first-generation Spectacles cost $129.95, which is equivalent to the price of a cheap Android smartphone.

Zhang Yida also entrusted a friend to help buy a pair back and use it for testing and studying.

The color is full of bells and whistles, it looks stylish, and it is very suitable for concave shapes.

There are small circles in the upper left and right corners of the glasses lenses, one is an LED light ring and one is a camera.

Despite the incorporation of some electronic components, these sunglasses are not heavy at all, and they feel similar to wearing regular sunglasses.

Open the page with the Snapchat villain with Spectacles glasses in your phone, and then press the button on the top left of the glasses, and the pairing of Spectacles and the mobile app is complete.

This button is also used for video recording, in fact, the entire glasses also control all operations with this one button.

One click can shoot a 10-second short video, another press is 20 seconds, and three times is a 30-second short video.

During the shooting, a small LED light will light up inside the glasses to remind the user that the video is being recorded.

The LED light ring is used to remind the subject that you are filming her. It is not very suitable for candid shooting, which may also be the company's fear that some users will take "random shots".

Data transmission, then via Bluetooth and WIFi, the transmission is a bit slow, it takes 1-2 minutes.

When it comes to capturing moments, Spectacles are the perfect device for many of today's films.

It allows you to take a picture of what your eyes see immediately, saving you the time it takes to hold up your camera or open a photo app.

The video shooting quality is average, barely okay to watch, Apple and high-end Android machines blow it up.

In addition to the sunglasses themselves, the Spectacles also come with a rechargeable case that can shoot up to 400 videos on a single charge.

Anyway, after Zhang Yida experienced it for a few days, he was not interested, it was purely a toy.

If you can make a major breakthrough in the photo experience and data transmission speed, you should still have a head.

Otherwise, it's not as convenient as a mobile phone, so buy it purely for a fresh picture.

According to foreign feedback, less than 50% of users are still using it after buying it for a month, and everyone else has put it in a drawer.

Zhang Yida also heard that the serad cloth had prepared accessories worth 40 million US dollars, and thought that this product would sell well, but it was all smashed in his hands.

Regarding the serab, Zhang Yida is secretly still very concerned.

The encroached market, except for Facebook, is mostly salab.

Users are all playing with short videos, and no one uses their salad cloths.

However, Serab has not made a bigger counterattack so far, and Zhang Yida decided to continue to fight back.

As soon as I heard Zhang Yida mention the salad cloth, he also knew the various functions and services of the salad cloth.

Guo Lie suddenly became energetic, Mr. Zhang is very knowledgeable, and knows what kind of big career Ji Meng is doing.

"Yes, we are highly benchmarked for salad cloth and aspire to become China's serab.

We have all the cameras, communities, and so on that Serab has.

Serab has just been listed on the New York Stock Exchange, with a market capitalization of nearly $30 billion.

They have less than 160 million daily active users. The Chinese market has done a good job and can definitely reach or even exceed this data. ”

Guo Lie danced and spoke, and the whole person was very excited.

He knew that Zhang Yida was testing himself, and he had also raised three rounds of funds, and he knew that investors liked to ask these questions the most.

The more Zhang Yida asked, the more things came to an end.

"As for the sunglasses, I think it's only the first generation of products, and it's normal to have defects.

There is no product that is very perfect as soon as it comes out, and it needs to be continuously polished.

In addition, the serab layout hardware this step, go very well, I think it can be learned and copied.

As we all know, tool-based software is difficult to monetize. Including Meitu, half of its profits come from Meitu mobile phones, and the hardware is still very interesting. ”

Looking at the gushing Guo Lie, Zhang Yida felt that things were a bit tricky!

It can be seen that this brother is very passionate about his current career.

And if you want to buy a company, you must first convince the other party: brother, you have no head in this company, just accept it when you see it!

If the other party thinks that it is not cost-effective to sell now, then the acquisition cannot be negotiated.

If you love until the company goes bankrupt and becomes the person subject to execution, you have to stick to it, and you are talking about the kind of Dai Wei, after all, it is a minority.

Moreover, Dai Vina is not all love, but more confident in his own ability.

Others rarely kill the company and don't sell it, either the price is really not enough, or the vision is too poor.

Zhang Yida looked at this brother who was very fanatical and wanted to do a great job.

I thought to myself, how to "wake him up"?

"Ale, do you have a girlfriend?"

Zhang Yida's question was a bit sudden, and Guo Lie was also stunned.

Could it be that the beautiful blueprint he drew conquered the big guy in front of him, and he wanted to use the "beauty trick" to win a little more shares?

Thinking that he saw all kinds of white thighs in the live broadcast of Zhonghe Group's annual meeting last year, he smiled and shook his head.

"Oh,"

Zhang Yida pinched his chin and said with a smile: "I heard that Spiegel soaked Victoria's Secret supermodel Miranda Kerr."

I don't think you're inferior to him at all, Xi Mengyao and He Sui should you think about it?"