Kanek happened to be fine, and after waiting for a while, he accompanied the little boss Ye Dongqing out and went to the vicinity of Fifth Avenue in Midtown.

That evening, they met Zeng Qing, now Tencent's chief operating officer, one of Tencent's five founders who joined the company in 1999 and is not incapable of doing so, given its current valuation.

Poni Ma recently had an unavoidable meeting that he needed to attend, so the task of meeting with Ye Dongqing to discuss financing was handed over to Zeng Qing.

To this day, Kanek still doesn't understand why his boss values that company.

After all, following the market value ranking of global Internet companies, there is currently no company in Huaxia that can squeeze into the top 50, and there is not a single Internet company with strong influence such as Microsoft, Oracle, and Yahoo.

In his opinion, Tencent is similar to AOL, ICQ and other instant chat tools, to say that the market actually has it, considering that Ye Dongqing has been busy running a startup called Facebook recently, it is reasonable to value this field, tonight is just to accompany the guest, after introducing himself and sitting there without saying a word.

There are also reasons why they can't understand it, and the two talk in Chinese, and it's strange that Kanek can understand it.

The name of the restaurant is "Gold Coast", mainly engaged in all kinds of seafood Western food, Ye Dongqing ordered an Australian lobster and an abalone after the politeness, and then handed the menu to Zeng Qing and asked him to order it casually.

They are not very old, Zeng Qing and Kanek are about the same age, and Ye Dongqing is several years younger than them.

Maybe it was because he met a Chinese in New York, so he felt cordial, Zeng Qingzheng said with a smile: "Xiaoma has told me your thoughts, this time I came to the United States mainly to investigate the market, in fact, I don't approve of the merger of Sohu, it will help Tencent to do business, but it will not play a big role, it will only make us fall into a loss situation again."

According to my opinion, we should still focus on building the current business, our company needs the funds in your hands, and if you abandon the acquisition, you may use the money to develop games and news websites. He has a special emotion for Sohu, you may not know, the reason why Bony he embarked on this road, one of the reasons is to listen to the speech of the founder of Sohu, can not say that Sohu is not good now, the main thing is that there is not much need, we are closer to the idea, since we can do it ourselves, why spend so much money to buy it. ”

"From the perspective of investors, I don't think it's necessary, explain in advance, I don't mean to interfere with the management of your company, just to make a suggestion. ”

Seeing that he finished ordering, Ye Dongqing casually handed the menu to Kanek and continued: "I think your company has not clearly realized the value of so many users, tens of millions of users are enough to do many things, such as developing products by yourself and then using the channels in your hands to promote, American Internet companies like to do this."

The reason why I have the idea of investing in you is mainly to value this part of the resources, different from traditional companies, you and Boni's thinking should be more divergent, think more about the use of this part of the resources, what areas can you still seize the market, the games you just said, the news is very good, online stores, search engine tools, etc., are also worth paying attention to. ”

Communicating and understanding, it is because it is more straightforward, Zeng Qing doesn't like those vain heads, turning left and right ways of talking, nodded and said: "I also tried to persuade Boni to continue to get the 50 million US dollars in financing from you, and he told me that it would take a few months for the funds to arrive?"

"That's right, I have a good project in my hand right now, and I've got a lot of money that I'm going to invest in about four months later.

Since I think financing is a good thing, I think I should be able to continue to talk about it, I told Boney last time, I only invest, not decision-making power, I will give some suggestions according to my ideas, how to implement it, adopt it or not, that's your business, invest such a large amount of money, I will definitely not harm myself, so don't take it all nonsense, at least you should understand it carefully. I've got to say these ugly things up front, you know what I mean, right?"

"This is as it should be, you are also engaged in Internet product development, and understand the market in the United States, although the national conditions are different, but the reason for doing business is similar all over the world, if you finally reach a cooperation, you can talk to me or Boni if you have any suggestions. ”

Zeng Qing replied seriously, how can he not pay attention to potential investors who can come up with 50 million US dollars at once, and there is only one MIH group that is currently staring at Tencent's "giant", and the source of funds is single, resulting in the MIH Group's shares holding higher and higher.

At present, it is so high that they have to be vigilant for the founders, and it is beneficial for them to join another financier, at least they don't have to worry about the decision-making power falling into the hands of others.

Although the relationship between MIH Group and Tencent is currently in a delicate and harmonious relationship, no one can be sure that this will be the case in the future, and they have not signed an agreement to completely relinquish decision-making power, but only a verbal agreement, and it is difficult to guarantee that the future will not change.

"That's great, if you're interested, you can visit New York in the next two days, or I can accompany you to Seattle and Silicon Valley to see a few other companies I've invested in, including an online shopping mall called Amazon, which has a very good operating model. Ye Dongqing looked at the other party's attitude and felt that most of this business could be negotiated, and he couldn't help but feel good.

Zeng Qing told him: "I know Amazon, we also have a similar company in Huaxia, called Alibaba, but the specific business is different, and there is a direct connection between Alibaba, private merchants and customers through this platform." ”

"I know, you should pay more attention to that company, and if you invest in it with the money you are going to buy Sohu, I will definitely raise my hands in favor of it......"

Deliberately revealed some information.

With the negotiations between the two sides going smoothly, Ye Dongqing is quietly trying to instill some of his own ideas into the mind of Tencent's chief operating officer, which will not make Tencent take off all of a sudden, and if it is really adopted, it will be able to achieve more benefits in the future.

This is necessary, 50 million dollars is not a small number, he must ensure that his investment will not be wasted, even if the money is less, it also means failure.

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I took care of the good food and drink, and we met for three days in a row.

Zeng Qing has been communicating with Poni Ma, and after thinking that there was no problem, he quickly finalized the financing matter, and the MIH Group temporarily hid it from them, not letting them know that the plan to acquire Sohu had been shaken, and tried to raise funds first, and then talk.

The MIH Group, including Ye Dongqing, are considered outsiders, and the relationship between their founding team is better, and the starting point of making decisions is to consider their own interests, and after everything is done on January 20, the two sides signed a provisional agreement, and the formal documents will be signed after the lawyer has drawn up a secure contract, but it has been finalized.

The investment layout is slowly improving, according to the development of Ye Dongqing's hope to see, coupled with the warrants that have been bought, he is in the Internet, an area that is about to achieve high growth in the future, and has participated in several companies with high potential, which can almost be relieved, as long as there are no accidents, including Facebook, the capital in his hands is enough for him to eat and drink for the rest of his life.

The crude oil futures market has been quite evil recently, and it has begun to rise again after falling back, with ups and downs, so that Kanek has not been able to sleep well recently, and Little Edward also called to communicate with Ye Dongqing once.

Holding a large amount of oil in his hand is enough to make the name "Leo Ye" enter the sight of some people.

He is used to being low-key, in the style of making a fortune in a muffled voice, he never shows off anything unless it is necessary, but things are not as people want, Ye Dongqing does not look for trouble, and the trouble actually takes the initiative to find him......

The origin of the whole thing begins yesterday.

A well-known reporter of the Wall Street Journal found Mr. Andy Kessler, a well-known venture capitalist in the United States, to do a special interview, which was supposed to talk about medical reform, an open topic, but was unwittingly brought to the crude oil futures market.

As one of the recent bearish forces, this well-known venture capitalist seemed to be telling a joke, during which he said: "The price of oil will definitely fall, and several of my friends and I are bearish, and who are the bulls? I heard that there is a Chinese American who is still in high school, who seems to be only 17. At the age of eighteen, he actually raised a lot of money, almost forty or five million dollars to be bullish on crude oil futures, if it weren't for my friend's honesty, I would have thought he was joking with me, and now the threshold has become lower, anyone can enter the market to play futures, and I hope he won't lose all his parents' money in the end, because oil prices will definitely fall. ”

Being in a very irritable working environment for a long time has led to few bosses in the financial industry being good-tempered, and there are many who scold employees if they disagree.

Mr. Kessler casually said that the Wall Street Journal found a bright spot and published an article on this topic, titled "Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Oil Futures for High School Students?", Ye Dongqing's name is in the article, and the name of Tamsui Fund Company is also there.

Lying down like this, it quickly led to most of the financial circle knowing that Ye Dongqing was such a little guy who didn't know what to do.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the teacher didn't know that this little guy had money at home, and he had been very withdrawn, didn't like to participate in group activities, and was more talented in mathematics.

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