Chapter 100 Series B Financing

Time flies by inadvertently, and it's been a week since I met Superman.

The work of Xiaomi Technology is being carried out in an orderly manner, and the 4399 business unit has been officially launched. However, due to some scruples, Zhao Shanhe did not use hao123 to drain at the beginning of the 4399 launch, but let 4399 develop independently.

The new project, that is, the protection software, Zhang Xiaoba is taking the three people recruited and Li Xinping to work overtime in research and development.

Xiaodao simply lived in the rented house of Zhang Xiaoba, and kept testing the software developed by the new project every day, raising various questions, so that Zhang Xiaoba kept improving.

The initial research and development of protection software Zhang Xiaoba completed it independently, and the protection software he made a few years ago was the initial version of the new project.

This shortened the development of the initial version by a long time.

Originally, according to Zhang Xiaoba's meaning, there was no need to recruit any more people.

He and the knife are two people, one to attack, one to fill the leaks, and soon to make the software.

However, Xiaodao did not agree, and the reason for persuading Zhang Xiaoba was very simple.

Zhang Xiaoba is no longer the mountain that dominated the world's hacker circle a few years ago, and now his level can only be regarded as first-class at best.

If you put all your mind into the protection software, it will take a long time to restore the previous level and go further.

Recruit some experienced employees, as long as they can fill in the loopholes found by the knife every day. Zhang Xiaoba is like a sponge, constantly absorbing the new technologies he has missed in so many years, and trying to catch up.

hao123's Series B financing is also in progress.

It is reasonable to say that Zhao Shanhe now has money on hand, and he can completely shelve the plan of Series B financing.

However, Zhao Shanhe did not, but started the B round of financing according to the original plan.

Zhao Shanhe's idea is also very simple, as much as possible to pull to a sufficiently high-grade institution to get on the car, in that case, hao123 will appear a strong competitor is less likely.

At present, there are seven or eight quotations, including Goldman Sachs, Sequoia, SoftBank and other world-renowned institutions.

The reason why it has not been negotiated yet is because Zhao Shanhe still wants to wait.

Zhao Shanhe was ready to leave only 34 percent of the shares, and the rest of the shares in his hand naturally wanted to sell as much as possible, and it was sold to many companies, not just one.

Otherwise, the day after the news was released, Zhao Shanhe could directly sell his shares to Goldman Sachs.

Goldman Sachs was the first venture capital to contact Zhao Shanhe after the news of Hao123's B round of financing was announced, and the price was quite sincere.

If he didn't have any other ideas, Zhao Shanhe would definitely agree directly after Goldman Sachs' offer.

Wahaha's advertising cost has also been negotiated, 1.9 million.

Qi Qi finally bit another piece of meat from Wahaha, raising the price of advertising fees to 1.9 million.

In this case, Hao123's best advertising position is Wahaha's.

Today, Qi Qi went to Hangzhou to sign a contract with Wahaha, and Zhao Shanhe also asked the people below to prepare a celebration banquet and wait for Qi Qi to come back to celebrate.

Although hao123 has been completely independent of Xiaomi technology, the office has not been moved.

The office area of more than 400 square meters is still empty and useless.

Now the most people are in the 4399 business department, front-end and back-end technicians, and the corresponding field service, which adds up to almost 20 people.

hao123 followed, about fifteen people.

The least is the new project represented by Zhang Xiaoba, with five or six people.

Interestingly, the new project Zhao Shanhe did not stay at Xiaomi Technology either, but re-registered a company.

It's just that this time Zhao Shanhe did not directly use his own private shareholders as a shareholder of the company, but took Xiaomi Technology as an investor to obtain shares.

In other words, there are actually three companies in Xiaomi Technology's office today.

As for TX, Zhao Shanhe went on a trip two days ago.

Of course, as a major shareholder.

Under the auspices of Ma Huateng, Zhao Shanhe got to know several founders of TX in turn, that is, shareholders.

TX's current equity composition is still relatively simple, with the founder team, institutional IDG, private Zhao Shanhe and Xiao Superman, not overly complicated.

After a simple meal and chat with the founder team, Zhao Shanhe returned to Zhonghai.

Penguin membership will also be available next week.

This is a fig leaf deliberately left by Zhao Shanhe and Ma Huateng, although Wang Gongquan and Xiao Superman almost guessed that the two of them joined forces to acquire the shares in their hands, but on the surface, they still have to do enough.

After all, one is the father of the gold owner, and the other has an extremely deep background behind it.

If you look good on your face, this matter will pass.

Otherwise, if you offend someone and get a grudge, it will be uncomfortable at that time.

Now that TX is not profitable, the key is that it has not yet become a giant in the instant messaging software market as it will be in the future.

There is ICQ on it, there is MSN on it, and there are other instant messaging apps large and small competing for the market.

If you offend too many people, even if you can make a profit, it is a question of whether you can survive.

Alone, TX, or Zhao Shanhe, no one is afraid.

If so many families join forces, Zhao Shanhe really doesn't know if he can do it.

Zhao Shanhe no longer dares to plan everything according to the development of his previous life, because of his rebirth, history has been changed beyond recognition.

What will happen next, Zhao Shanhe does not dare to guarantee at all.

Not to mention anything else, just the current valuation of hao123 is already several times the price at which Li Xinping sold it in his previous life.

If Zhao Shanhe remembers correctly, when chatting with that classmate at that time, hao123 was probably sold for about 50 million Huaxia coins, plus a few BD dry shares.

But now hao123 is now valued at 20 million US dollars, which is more than 160 million when converted into RMB.

That's three times what it sold a few years later, and as long as there are no surprises, valuations are getting higher and higher.

At that time, whether BD will be willing to buy hao123, Zhao Shanhe thinks it is a problem.

BD is only a company established this year, and now even Hao123 can't be compared, who knows if BD will disappear in the vast sea of people because of the impact of his rebirth, and has not become one of the three most awesome domestic Internet companies in the PC era like in his previous life.

The founder, Li Xinping, sold hao123 but took 50,000 yuan.

Not to mention the comparison with the future valuation, even if the current valuation, Li Xinping is already a miserable loss.

Not to mention that Li Xinping sold hao123 to BD at the beginning, and he still got BD's dry shares. And that cash, I also acquired a part of TX shares.

The value of these shares cannot be calculated.

Regarding the butterfly effect, Zhao Shanhe is now both expecting and fearing.

The expectation is that it will not develop like in his previous life, otherwise he can lie at home and wait to count the money now.

More than 10 million US dollars in cash, plus 31% of TX's shares, eat interest and dividends every year, enough to worry about food and clothing for a lifetime.

Zhao Shanhe is a person who likes challenges, and now that he has been reborn, he naturally doesn't want to live as casually as in his previous life.

In his previous life, he was alone, and he had to get by, and Zhao Shanhe went out to travel when he was fine, which can be said to be self-liberating.

Now that he has been reborn, Zhao Shanhe naturally doesn't want to be the same as in his previous life. After all, I have to be with Cao Yiqing in the future, and if you want to ensure a good life, struggle is a must.

As for fear, it is the fear of the unknown.

Although he is looking forward to the challenge, Zhao Shanhe is also afraid of change.

In terms of career, Zhao Shanhe is not very worried, no matter how he changes, the general direction will not change.

The PC era, the mobile era, these are the waves of the times, and it is impossible to transfer them by human will.

What Zhao Shanhe is most worried about is that it is still the Cao family.

If something happened to Cao Yun because of his rebirth, and in the end, something like the one in his previous life still happened, Zhao Shanhe really couldn't accept it.

Judging from the current situation, Zhao Shanhe thinks there will be no problems.

But many things, if you just look at the surface, then there won't be so many troubles in this world.

What Zhao Shanhe is most afraid of now is that the money he estimated is not enough to repay the Cao family's debts.

This is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that Zhao Shanhe is afraid that something like the Cao family will happen in his previous life, not only because of money, but also for other reasons.

This is also the reason why Zhao Shanhe is willing to cooperate with Little Superman in order to get closer to Little Superman.

Otherwise, under the premise of no special circumstances, Zhao Shanhe was given 100 million US dollars, and Zhao Shanhe would not be willing to give up 10% of TX's shares.

Thinking about this, Zhao Shanhe's mobile phone rang.

"Mr. Zhao, have you figured out what to do about the B round of financing?" After the phone was connected, Wang Gongquan's voice came out of the microphone of the mobile phone.

From Wang Gongquan's tone, Zhao Shanhe could feel that Wang Gongquan's mood was excellent.

During this time, the quotations of major institutions for hao123 made Wang Gongquan feel extremely happy.

Although the money is not much, the rate of return is very high.

You must know that IDG didn't pay much price to get the shares of hao123, and the cash was not much at all, and it was basically exchanged for the shares of hao123 by TX.

Now the circle recognizes the valuation of hao123 at 20 million US dollars, and IDG's 49% stake is only 200,000 short of 10 million US dollars.

During this time, there were many people who wanted to buy hao123 shares from IDG, but there was no movement on Zhao Shanhe's side, so he endured it without moving.

After all, IDG and Zhao Shanhe are still in the honeymoon period, and Wang Gongquan doesn't want to contradict Zhao Shanhe because of this kind of thing.

Zhao Shanhe's side spoke first, and he would have made a move, otherwise, he would rather wait.

Anyway, the valuation of Hao123, if nothing else, will definitely be higher in the future.

I made this call today to explore Zhao Shanhe's tone.

"Do you have any suggestions?"