"Congratulations to Ma Dong, who was elected as the economic figure of the year for the second time. ”

In a hotel reception room, Tang An and Ma Yun sat side by side.

Tang An first complimented two sentences, although the annual economic figure of the CCTV office is not as good as the global leader of Fortune magazine, but it is known as the Oscar of the Chinese economic circle, which is very important in China.

Moreover, this is sponsored by CCTV, and the 100-member jury is also professional and authoritative enough, including the selected economic figure of the year, the CEO of the financial media, the head of a well-known domestic business school, and a well-known economist and entrepreneur in China.

It's not that you can nominate if you're rich and famous, and the company is big enough, and it's also important to nominate entrepreneurs.

To date, not a single entrepreneur has ever committed a crime.

In 06, the CEO of Gome became the richest man in the country, and in the same year, he was investigated for suspected illegal loans, although he didn't find out what to ask, but CCTV still excluded him from the list of candidates.

But what should come will still come, and in 08 Huang Shoufu went in.

Even in the next few years, there will only be one economic figure of the year who has had an accident, and he is still the CEO of Huaguo Gold Group who was elected last year, and he will be involved in the Jinxi officialdom earthquake in two years.

Those who have any business violations will not be nominated, and basically if you can be elected, it can prove that you are a person, this company, and it is relatively clean.

In the face of Tang An's compliment, Ma Yun didn't care, waved his hand and smiled.

"Tang Dong, you don't have to be modest, with the development speed of Hantang Media, you will be able to stand in the position of Mr. Lei next year. ”

Lei Jun is a cutting-edge entrepreneur of the year this year, and next year he will be able to stand in Ma Yun's position without an accident, and he will be one of the top ten economic figures of the year.

Tang An smiled, "I don't dare to think about this, Xiaomi has achieved a valuation of $4 billion in less than three years, and it is estimated that it will be $10 billion next year." ”

Ma Yun said, "Tang Dong has been in business for four years and has a net worth of more than 20 billion, which is no worse than Xiaomi." ”

This is not wrong, Xiaomi is 4 billion US dollars in three years, and Tang An is more than 20 billion in four years.

However, in terms of potential, Xiaomi still has a lot of potential to tap, and Hantang Media is already the largest film and television company in China, which cannot be compared.

After a while, the business exchanged blows, and Ma Yun went straight to the point.

"Tang Dong, you are a professional filmmaker, and now the box office of a single domestic film has reached one billion, and the annual box office is nearly 20 billion, which is a new level every year, do you think the film market will be big in the next three or five or eight years, by 2020?"

Hearing this, Tang Anxin smiled.

is worthy of being a master of painting cakes, first say how big the market is, and then say that you can't eat this cake, follow me and take you to eat the cake.

Tang An smiled and said, "Ten years later, the total domestic box office will exceed 100 billion." ”

Ma Yun's tone froze, and the number he wanted to say was said by Tang An first.

He didn't expect Tang An to have such great expectations for the film market, only 18 billion in 12 years, and 100 billion in 2020.

Seeing that Tang An's expression didn't look like a blind guess or a random high number, Ma Yun began to re-examine Tang An.

Although the total domestic box office was 1.5 billion 8 years ago, it has now increased 12 times, but it is not counted as such.

Ma Yun smiled noncommittally, "Tang Dong, are you so confident, you must know that after the film market matures, the development speed will only get slower and slower, the total box office in North America four years ago was 10.6 billion US dollars, and the box office for the whole of last year was only 10.8 billion US dollars, with almost no increase." ”

Tang Andao, "The domestic population is 4 times that of North America, the average movie ticket in North America is 8 US dollars, 52 yuan, but the number of moviegoers is 1.35 billion, and each person watches 3.7 movies per year."

In China, it is about a little more than 30 yuan, and the number of moviegoers is 600 million throughout the year, with an average of 0.46 movies per person per year.

Not to mention watching 3.7 movies per person per year, as long as each person watches 2.5 movies per year, the total domestic amount can exceed 100 billion. ”

Tang An opened his mouth and came with a lot of numbers, and looked at Ma Yun with a smile after speaking.

How can this little thing be difficult to stop Ma Yun, which of the eighteen Arhats in the team back then was not him who followed him for more than ten years.

If he didn't put some effort into it, the team would have gone elsewhere to make a fortune, and no one would follow him, and Ma Yun wouldn't be able to do it alone.

Ma Yun answered, "Tang Dong's idea is good, there are many people in our country, and no one buys an extra ticket every year, which is also a remarkable number." ”

He first affirmed Tang An's statement, chatting and talking about cooperation, you can't just scare people when you open your mouth.

Then he said, "However, the North American film market has developed for a hundred years, and the commercialization of domestic films has only been more than ten years now, and it will take time for them to be legalized. ”

Tang An said, "If the ticket price can be reduced, the current blockbuster is generally forty or fifty yuan a ticket, if it is only sold for ten or twenty yuan, some audiences who do not have a high income but love movies are likely to choose to go into the cinema to watch." ”

Ma Yun shook his head, "The ticket price is stipulated by the state, and the movie theater can be adjusted randomly, and it is impossible to reduce the price significantly." ”

Tang An said with a smile, "Ma Dong, in the Internet era, we should believe in miracles, nothing is impossible, last year, the year before last, the group buying industry's "Thousand Group War" allowed many people to spend more than a dozen yuan to eat a steak in a good Western restaurant, and the popular taxi software that began two months ago allowed users to spend less money than taxis to take a taxi.

Three years ago, in Room 807 of the Silver Valley Building, not far from the headquarters of Jinshan, Li Wanqiang's father brought a pot of millet porridge, Lei Jun, Huang Jiangji, Lin Bing, and Zhou Guangping each made a bowl of millet porridge, and millet was established in this way, who would have thought that the valuation could reach 4 billion in just three years.

And Ma Dong, many people said that you were a liar back then, but now looking back, isn't this all a miracle created by the Internet. ”

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Tang An's tirade made Ma Yun stunned, this is one of the few times he has become the "educated" party in a face-to-face conversation.

However, from Tang An's words, Ritter also understands that group buying and taxi-hailing software are platform subsidies.

Since the ticket price cannot be decided, then the ticketing platform can subsidize it.

And Tang An acquired Nuomi.com.

Tang An is not afraid to reveal it in advance, anyway, it is less than a month before the Spring Festival.

A month is enough time to catch everyone off guard

Ma Yun no longer dwelled on this, and changed the topic, "Tang Dong has invested very extensively, and the Internet industry is full of flowers, and investors like you are needed now." ”

Tang An shook his head, "Investment is not easy to do, and it would be good if one of the 100 emerging Internet companies could survive the A round."

Last year, I voted for Didi, the founder of the angel round, Cheng Wei, the founder of last year, talked to me, and said that one day a group of taxi drivers rushed up, threw a smartphone on the ground, and scolded: Liar, your Didi software is more than ten trillion a day, but there is not a single order.

Cheng Wei was a little confused, and it took him a long time to understand that the driver was talking about traffic.

How high is the cost of mobile phone traffic now, and is it not better than the previous 2G network, many drivers open the software all day long, and the mobile phone is in arrears and shut down. ”

"You have to subsidize the driver's phone bill, not just the passengers. As an investor, Ma Yun immediately pointed out the problem.

"Ma Dong really hit the nail on the head. Tang An praised.

Cheng Wei originally wanted to charge each driver three yuan for installation, but now he has to subsidize the traffic fee.

But there are no customers, sooner or later, the driver will not have business and will not use Didi anymore.

So I suggested to him that sending people to use Didi software to take a taxi around the third ring road every day would cost thousands of yuan almost every day.

After two months, the angel wheel ran out of money, and the driver stayed, but there were still no customers.

We have no choice, and I am not afraid of burning money, but I can't burn money meaninglessly, Cheng Wei also found all the mainstream investment institutions, including Ahli, but none of them are willing to invest money. ”

"And what did you do then?" Ma Yun said curiously.

Today's Didi is an ordinary emerging Internet company, and there are many such companies in the country, but they can't get into Ma Yun's eyes, and they don't know much about it.

"God helped him. Tang An sighed.

"In November last year, there was a heavy snowfall in the capital, and many office workers couldn't get a taxi at all, so they started to try Didi taxi, which they had never used.

On that day, there were 1,000 orders in the capital, and this began to get on the right track, and in December, Zhu Xiaohu of GSR Ventures approached Cheng Wei and wanted to invest $2 million. ”

Ma Yun nodded, "Luck is also a necessary factor for success, Tang Dong has found a good project again." ”

"I hope I can survive the A round, but I invested another $2 million. Tang An said.

A snow resurrected Didi, who was unattended and on the verge of bankruptcy, from less than 10 million yuan in the angel round to 20 million US dollars in the A round.

Of course, Tang An followed suit, and continued to invest $2 million, letting Zhu Xiaohu go aside, and the total shares reached 38.18%.

The A round can be monopolized by one person, but after the B round, other capital must be introduced, otherwise Didi will wait to be killed quickly.

Tang An and Ma Yun chatted here for more than half an hour, from the Internet to real estate, and from domestic to foreign.

Even Ma Yun said after listening to Tang An talk about the scenery of Vatnajökull in Iceland, he said that he would definitely go back to the cinema to watch "Interstellar" next summer, and if it was really gorgeous, he would consider going to play.

The two men chatted blindly for nearly an hour, and it was not interesting, Tang An glanced down at the time, it was almost 10 o'clock.

Ma Yun said with a smile, "It's not too early, I'm really sorry to delay Tang Dong for so long." ”

"Being able to have a long talk with Ma Dong is not an opportunity for ordinary people to have, and I have benefited a lot. ”

After a polite look, Tang An left.

After that, Ma Yun's secretary Lin Qian walked in.

"Chairman, do you want to go back now?" Lin Qian asked.

"Let's go. ”

Ma Yun shook his head and sat up from the sofa.

Seeing him like this, Lin Qian thought about it and asked, "Didn't you have a good conversation with Tang Dong?"

Ma Yun said with a smile, "At the beginning, we talked about the film industry for three minutes, and then I said something serious. ”

Lin Qian was stunned in her heart, she didn't expect that Tang Dong, who was young, would be able to not follow Ma Yun's rhythm in the conversation.

She still remembers how she agreed to be Ma Yun's secretary at the beginning, and clearly remembers those two sentences:

I hope you can stay, see more, feel more. Give me a chance, and give yourself a chance, to learn more, and then I will support you in whatever decision you make.

Just two ordinary sentences, not even much blood, no promises of anything else, but at that time, there seemed to be a kind of magic in Ma Yun's words, which made people believe him without thinking.