Chapter 82: Trivia and Homepage

Du Qiu stayed in his hometown for three days, returned to the capital on April 25, lived in the suite he had stayed in again, and began to get into work, and a lot of things happened in the past few days when he was away. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

First of all, of course, yen futures, Du Qiu before leaving New York on April 17, and sacrificed the "8" word method, setting when the yen appreciated against the US dollar exchange rate to 79.80:1 to close the position, April 19 when the exchange rate hit this number, the yen has risen by more than 200 basis points, so a big profit.

This is not the end, there will be a big fall after a big rise, so Du Qiu arranged for the investment bank to turn all the funds into short immediately after closing the position, because the yen will definitely depreciate to more than 100:1 against the US dollar, and it is true that it has continued to depreciate after April 19, so as of April 25, the funds have changed from 70,000 US dollars in early April to more than 1.6 million US dollars, an increase of more than 20 times, and staged a perfect myth of getting rich.

When Jiang Danfeng forwarded the transaction information sent by the investment bank to Du Qiu, he said regretfully: "Mr. Du, if you use the money you spent in New York and the money you used to buy those laptops to invest, maybe there will be $3 million now." ”

"Money is spent, if you don't spend it, it's just a bunch of numbers, why save money for a bunch of numbers?"

"If you dare to say that, others don't dare. Jiang Danfeng was already impressed by his earning ability, folded his hands, and begged: "Mr. Du, why don't you only send me 1,000 yuan of living expenses every month in the future, and the remaining 9,000 yuan will be invested in your account." ”

"I'm only responsible for payroll, not investment, if you want to invest, open an account yourself, and operate it yourself. ”

On the evening of returning to the capital from New York, Du Qiu signed a formal work contract with Jiang Danfeng, of course, there is no so-called "night shift" content, only a simple secretary - the secretary and his mistress are in a very close relationship, as an obsessive-compulsive person who pursues as simple interpersonal relationships as possible, he doesn't want to confuse the two, because that will cause a lot of trouble.

After the contract was signed, Jiang Danfeng's words and deeds were no longer as casual as before, she didn't ask more, but when Du Qiu turned around, she secretly made an unhappy grimace in the back, and then reported another thing, saying: "Morgan Stanley has negotiated a plan with Chen Dayou and those companies to expand shares and raise funds. ”

Corporate financing is the second major event that has happened in the past few days, Chen Dayou sent an e-mail to probe the wind, after Qin Mu's relay, on April 21 to Du Qiu's ears, he immediately arranged for Jiang Danfeng to contact Morgan Stanley, wanting to determine the equity structure of Snapdragon Software Company in a formal and formal way - at the same time, it also has the meaning of scaring foreign monks, because domestic companies basically have no experience in dealing with foreign investment banks in the 90s.

In fact, before the company was registered in March, Chen Dayou found several friends who worked in financial and legal institutions to help design a series of rules and regulations such as equity, options, salary, and benefits, but at that time, it was in the initial stage, everything was simple, not formal enough, and lacked a serious, rigorous, and strict attitude, giving people a feeling of being pretentious, so whether it was Du Qiu and Chen Dayou, or Qin Mu and Zhou Yuan, they were more like friends than colleagues when they got along.

Therefore, Du Qiu wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of financing and share expansion to engage in a formal and formal process, erect the company's management structure, reverse the free and loose atmosphere, and lay the foundation for the next work.

When investing in yen futures in New York before, Du Qiu opened an account at Morgan Stanley, his funds are nothing in the United States, but it is a bit dazzling in China, Morgan Stanley opened offices in Pujiang and Beijing in 1994, and is preparing to enter China on a large scale.

Du Qiu stayed in his hometown for three days, in addition to doing business, he also has the meaning of avoiding suspicion, he himself is not proficient in finance, and negotiations involving money are easy to hurt feelings, so it is the best choice to leave it to professionals to deal with, and it is the best choice to stay out of the matter.

"What does the plan say?"

"The company increased its capital from the original 10 million to 30 million, you pay 5 million, take 65% of the shares, Chen Dayou out 1.8 million, take 10% of the shares, the remaining 18% is divided by the 6 companies, and 7% is classified as the employee option reward pool, and the specific incentives are still being formulated. ”

At the time of the initial cooperation, Chen Dayou gave 1 million and took 10% of the shares, and Du Qiu took 90% of the shares at the cost of 500,000 yuan plus iView browser, which is equivalent to taking iview browser as 8.5 million, and according to the latest equity plan, Morgan Stanley changed the valuation of iview browser to 14 million, which is equivalent to an empty glove white wolf, which helped him increase his value by 5.5 million.

"How many companies are willing?"

Jiang Danfeng did not speak, but took a copy of the "People's Daily" and showed the news headline on the front page: A Snapdragon has flown in China's software industry.

The report is very small, it is a tofu block with only a few hundred words, but no matter how small it is, it is also the front page, and the social influence should not be underestimated, Du Qiu was a little surprised, took it and looked at it, and said: "How did Zhou Yuan get it?"

He said it was just the right time, just in time. Jiang Danfeng was already familiar with several employees and explained: "It is said that the country is about to introduce a series of documents and policies to rejuvenate the country through science and education, and the People's Daily, as a mouthpiece, of course has to be briefed in advance, so it takes Snapdragon Software Company as a typical example." ”

Rejuvenating the country through science and education?

Oh yes! In May 1995, China put forward the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education with great fanfare, and listed it as a basic national policy......

"Those six companies are either state-owned enterprises or private enterprises with close ties to the government, and when they saw Snapdragon in the People's Daily, they were of course willing to invest. Jiang Danfeng automatically acted as his eyes and ears, and said: "According to the calculation of funds, Chen Dayou can only take about 9% of the shares, but those companies gave him some, and then it became 10%." ”

"Brother Chen is also considered to have worked hard, he is helping to recruit employees, and he is pulling people to invest everywhere, and now he is still running around in the United States to advertise customers, and he is living the life of a salesman with the title of CEO. Du Qiu smiled and said, "If I go to negotiate in person, maybe I will give him a little more shares, if it weren't for him sacrificing his hue and climbing into Wei Zhiqin's bed, he is probably still sleeping in the garage now." ”

Jiang Danfeng remembered his days in the United States, pursed his lips and smiled, and said: "Mr. Du, the negotiator of Morgan Stanley said that if you go to Silicon Valley for financing, the company's valuation will be at least 8 million US dollars, which is much greater than the domestic financing income." ”

"The investment companies in Silicon Valley are all hungry wolves, and once the money is raised, they will form a board of directors, and then they will stuff a bunch of professional managers in, and when the time comes, I can't do anything at all. Du Qiu put the "People's Daily" on the coffee table and said: "Although there is little money in China, everything is under my control, I can do whatever I want, comfortable and comfortable, and I am not short of money, so why bother to ask for hardship." ”

Jiang Danfeng thought about it, so he turned a page of notepad and reported the next thing: "Zhou Yuan said that there are many media who want to interview you, do you want to arrange it?"

"Let's talk about it later, there's no rush now. ”

"Mr. Chen wants to embed the intcard on the homepage when the version is released on May 1. ”

When he was in San Jose, Du Qiu said to Chen Dayou that Yahoo was very valuable, and then bundled the browser homepage, and the idea of URL navigation automatically appeared after starting, this guy was immediately tempted, so he called back to Cloud City, and asked Chen Dawei to help find a few students in school, take them to the dormitory of the Institute of Quantum Physics to surf the Internet, and find some popular URLs from Yahoo's database in a manual selection way, and made a homepage, naming it intcard.

"Yes, let him do it. ”

In 1995, the search engine was not mature, and ordinary users were worried about how to find resources, rather than how to block ads, so bundling URL navigation on the homepage would not only not have a bad reputation, but would bring convenience to ordinary users, and after more browser users, they could collect advertising fees door-to-door, bringing a lot of profits to the company.

In fact, this is the only place where early browser companies can make profits, even if Chen Dayou doesn't do this, it won't be long before Netscape does the same, at the beginning of 1995 they also did free promotion for Yahoo, but at the end of 1995, the lion opened his mouth, and a search engine button charged 5 million US dollars in advertising fees, which almost scared Yang Zhiyuan to death.

Sister Chunhua said that Chen Dayou's father invited her to a meal a few days ago and entrusted her to customize a batch of notepads for Sanjiang University, saying that it was going to be distributed to students who will graduate this year. ”

"The Chen family is really a family scholar, and all of them are experts who are generous to others. ”

Chen Zhiyang casually used the school's money to sell favors, and when Chen Dayou made an intcard, he took it to the Institute of Quantum Physics to use the Internet for free as a pretext, and did not pay a dime to those students......

Both father and son were born black-hearted profiteers......