Although Ren Pingsheng doesn't know anyone in the online media circle, he knows the founder of Happy Times very well.

Li Xuelin, the founder of Happy Times, is a typical example of the counterattack of literati in the Internet circle, graduated from the Department of Philosophy of the National People's University, and his first job was as a reporter at the "China Youth Daily".

During his time as a reporter, Li Xuelin has interviewed all the veterans of the IT industry in China, and has also accumulated a wealth of contacts in the circle. Because of its style of daring to speak and write, it is listed as one of the "Four Great IT Names in Beijing".

With his qualifications in the IT media circle, Li Xuelin has served as the editor-in-chief of Sohu IT, the editor-in-chief of Luoyi, and has been immersed in the portal for many years. In the past two years, Li Xuelin has separated the four channels of real estate, games, automobiles, and technology to set up a self-financing company, which has achieved good results.

But Wen and You are creative, and Li Xuelin soon embarked on the road of self-entrepreneurship.

In that era of Internet creation, dragons and snakes were mixed, each showing their magical powers, and eclectic heroes, many entrepreneurs were not from IT business classes, including Wang Xing, who founded each group, Tang Yan, who founded Momo, and Fan Sanwen, who founded Xueqiu, etc., Li Xuelin is their precursor.

After coming out of Luoyi, Li Xuelin got an investment of $1 million and founded Happy Times in Huacheng, and his current main product is Dole Games.

And the person who made the first investment in Li Xuelin was still Lei Jun.

Therefore, Ren Pingsheng called Lei Jun first, hoping that he would introduce Li Xuelin to Li Xuelin.

Although he and Lei Jun only have a one-sided relationship, after all, the two sides have made a deal, and there is affection.

Moreover, Ren Pingsheng believes that the night talk in Yanjing at the end of last year, his views and speeches on "the evergreen foundation" have left a deep impression on Lei Jun.

With these accumulations, he believed that Lei Jun would not refuse this request.

Lei Jun is really an interesting person, he not only agreed, but also asked Ren Pingsheng to fly to Huacheng City immediately for an interview.

As soon as he said go, Ren Pingsheng flew to Huacheng that night, and the next morning, he was already sitting in the roof garden of Lei Jun's private villa, drinking morning tea with the three of them.

Li Xuelin is 10 years older than Ren Pingsheng, but his face is relatively young, chubby, wearing a pair of black-framed glasses, and always having a smile on his face, which does seem to match the usual impression given by a media editor, but his eyes behind the black-framed glasses are very focused, flashing sparks of thought from time to time.

The other person looks 3 years older than Li Xuelin, with a thin body, slightly longer hair, plain facial features, and a strong Hokkien accent.

At first, Ren Pingsheng didn't understand why this person appeared in Lei Jun's villa, he thought it was just a private party with Lei and Li.

After Lei Jun introduced the name of the third person, Ren Pingsheng remembered.

Cai Wensheng, in his previous life, this name was not as loud as Lei Jun, and his business was not as successful as Li Xuelin, but he also earned a net worth of 10 billion yuan and became one of the profiteers of this wave of the Internet.

Unlike other Internet entrepreneurs, Cai Wensheng came into the public eye by investing in domain names.

At the end of the 20th century, when not many people understood the value of domain names, Cai Wensheng had a unique vision and preemptively registered tens of thousands of top-level domain names, especially pinyin-based domain names, such as the famous Aiqiyi video website in the future, which spent millions of yuan to buy domain names from Cai Wensheng.

These domain names have been sold one after another, allowing Cai Wensheng to easily obtain the first pot of gold.

After that, Cai Wensheng also imitated hao1234 to make a website site 253, and soon sold it to Google, and also held an Internet webmaster conference to explore business opportunities for personal sites.

During this period, he also invested in a series of start-ups such as Network Express, Storm Audio, and Youmaster, and all of them have received a lot of returns.

Judging from the rise of Cai Wensheng, he does not have too much advanced theoretical support, nor does he have a serious business model, but he has a very keen business sense and a very good understanding of China's grassroots class, so he can always buy low and sell high, and leave the market at a profit.

Ren Pingsheng in his previous life, when he saw Cai Wensheng's rise, he once wondered if this person was a reborn person who traveled through time and space.

Unexpectedly, after he really crossed over now, he actually saw this legendary character in Lei Jun's house.

However, it is understandable that although there is a big gap between Lei Jun and Cai Wensheng in terms of education and qualifications, these two are both very successful angel investors who meet the needs of the grassroots as the direction of the enterprise, and they are both very successful angel investors.

In fact, Lei Jun and Cai Wensheng are currently negotiating an investment, and because Lei Jun's schedule is very full, when Ren Pingsheng and Li Xuelin arrived, Cai Wensheng had not left.

After Lei Jun's introduction, the three exchanged business cards with each other and sat down to greet each other for a while.

Cai Wensheng is a relatively low-key person, very polite, speaks slowly and logically, and is very polite to everyone, at first glance, he is the kind of person who is good at doing business.

Li Xuelin is more arrogant, probably used to staying in the media, speaking quickly, very logically, very flexible in thinking, and grasping the main points of the topic very accurately.

Lei Jun, as the master, is still in his usual tepid state, the three of them chatted about the development trends and gossip in the Internet circle, and as soon as they made tea, Cai Wensheng got up and said goodbye.

After sending Cai Wensheng off, after Lei Jun sat down again, Ren Pingsheng immediately began to talk about the main purpose of his visit today.

AT THE BEGINNING, LI XUELIN STILL DIDN'T CARE MUCH, UNTIL REN PINGSHENG TALKED ABOUT WEB2.0, TALKING ABOUT UGC, HIS EYES WERE FOCUSED, WHEN REN PINGSHENG TALKED ABOUT THE PLAYER GANG SYSTEM AND PLAYER SELF-MEDIA, LI XUELIN HAD ONE HAND ON HIS CHEEKS, HIS EYEBROWS WERE FURROWED, AND HE SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN DEEPLY ATTRACTED BY REN PINGSHENG'S THOUGHTS.

And Lei Jun always smiled and looked at the two young people quietly.

After Ren Pingsheng finished speaking, Li Xuelin first set his eyes on Lei Jun, and said with suspicion: "Mr. Lei, are you testing me?"

Li Xuelin asked this for no reason, his identity before starting his business was the editor-in-chief of online media, and before that he was an IT reporter, he quickly grasped the latest information at home and abroad, such as WEB2.0, UGC, these new directions, new ways of playing, China has not yet been introduced, he mastered it first.

When he was in Luoyi, he had already tried UGC in the product "Luoyi Tribe", but due to the system of Luoyi, it was not successful.

After leaving Luoyi, the first two products he made, one is Dog, the other is Dole, both of which implement the concept of WEB2.0.

In particular, in terms of the much-needed interest of online game players, Dole is developing a guild system specifically for the needs of World of Warcraft players, which is basically mature and will be announced in the near future.

Li Xuelin never thought that these concepts that he had thought deeply about, and the products that he had been preparing for so long, would come out of the mouth of a young man who met for the first time.

This made him have to suspect that the whole thing was planned by Lei Jun in order to test him.

Otherwise, it is impossible, except for Lei Jun, who is also an angel investor and chairman, who else will know so much about Happy Times and Tole.

Facing Li Xuelin's question, Lei Jun just smiled, shook his head lightly and said:

"Xuelin, you misunderstood, it's the first time I've heard Mr. Ren's thoughts. ”

Li Xuelin turned his gaze back to Ren Pingsheng's face, the two looked at each other for the first time today, and they both saw different things in each other's eyes.

Li Xuelin groaned and said: "Mr. Ren, you know so much about WEB2.0, you can do it yourself, why do you want to look for me?"

Regarding Li Xuelin's question, Ren Pingsheng did not think about it, but he soon overturned this possibility.

Although Ren Pingsheng has a lot of golden ideas in his head, it is not easy to really implement them.

After experiencing it myself, I realized that it is not as easy as it is said in the online article, golden ideas are not golden seeds, you can blossom and bear fruit if you just sprinkle them into the ground.

A business is like a big tree, you have to start with a small sapling, cultivate it, water it, weed it, remove insects, and constantly apply fertilizer, and let it be exposed to full sunlight in order to gradually grow a big tree.

The greatest ability of the reborn is to have a large handful of fertilizer, know where the sun is the brightest, and can shorten the growth process as much as possible, but the processes of soil cultivation, watering, weeding, and insect control are indispensable.

It's the same with a business, you have to have capital to start a business, you have to have the tools and materials to produce products, and you need to hire the right people to make the business work, and all of these require a lot of effort.

And hard work is not enough, business managers themselves must also have management skills and abilities, so that efforts are not in vain.

Ren has had all these in his life, but he is not omnipotent, and it is impossible to do everything.

Some things can be done by yourself, and some things can be done by others.

At present, his top priority is to do a good job of Wanyou Network and "Ideal World" first, and cultivate them into stable cash cows, so that he can gradually carry out other businesses.

Building a game portal, opening a player gang system, and creating a business such as player self-media requires professional online media practitioners and experienced HTML developers, which cannot be achieved overnight in a short period of time.

Moreover, the internal beta of "Ideal World" is about to be launched, and it will be too late for Ren Pingsheng to do it himself.

Therefore, cooperating with Duole is the best choice for Ren Pingsheng at present.

After listening to Ren Pingsheng's explanation, Li Xuelin clasped his hands to his chest, and only spoke after half a ring: "Mr. Ren, your suggestion is very good, and I also want to cooperate with you." ”

"However, Dor Rause's largest customer base is the game World of Warcraft, and our guild system is designed for their needs, so if you want to create a section dedicated to your game, I am afraid it will be too late in a short time. ”

Ren Pingsheng saw it in his eyes and knew it in his chest.

The reasons Li Xuelin said were all excuses, and his real thoughts were worried about Ren Pingsheng.

The short conversation just now made Li Xuelin feel that the young man in front of him was unfathomable, and his understanding of Internet trends and business opportunities was not under him and Lei Jun.

Now, although he just wants to cooperate with Dole and carry out the promotion of his own online game, if he wants to get involved in the field of online media in the future, it will inevitably pose a great threat to Tole.

Isn't he nurturing future enemies by agreeing to join forces with him now?

Li Xuelin, who has been dealing with IT bigwigs for many years, has already mastered the power and government of the bigwigs, and it is safest to stay away from people or things that he doesn't know and can't grasp.

Seeing that Li Xuelin's attitude was uncertain, Ren Pingsheng decided to throw his second hydrangea.

"Mr. Li, I respect your achievements in the Internet media industry, and I am also optimistic about the development prospects of Duole in the WEB2.0 era. ”

After speaking, Ren Pingsheng said to Lei Jun very humbly:

"Of course, whether you accept my investment or not depends on what Mr. Lei means. ”

Lei Jun didn't make a sound from the beginning of their conversation, just sat on the sidelines, sipping his tea with a smile and watching the game between the two young juniors.

Seeing that the topic turned to himself, Lei Jun did not shirk, he put down the teacup in his hand and spoke slowly.

"I have a story to tell, so you might as well listen to it. ”