The time was pushed forward by more than two months, that is, shortly after Hengchuang had just acquired Tengxun.

As the company's executive vice president, Tang Jun and financial director Josie led a team of seven people to board the plane to the United States.

On the plane, Tang Jun and Josie talked about the topic of "wait a minute".

Wait a minute!

This is Gu Heng's reply after Goldman Sachs and other investment institutions put forward financing intentions and initially gave a valuation of 1.2 billion US dollars, which means that the matter of considering financing can wait a little longer.

"Josie, have you noticed that the boss is sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes aggressive, and sometimes a little too conservative. ”

The conservatism in Tang Jun's mouth naturally refers to Gu Heng's decision on financing intentions this time.

You must know that in order to complete the merger and acquisition of Tengxun, Hengchuang only borrowed one billion yuan from the bank some time ago. In the next development plan, it is inevitable that a large amount of money will be invested, because the development of the Internet field is generally a process of investment first, and then consideration of returns.

Take the research and development of video software that Gu Hengzeng has officially established, the research and development cost is only a small head, and the hardware investment is the big one. Like instant messaging software, it is more about the processing of text and picture information, and the requirements for servers and frames are not too high, but when it comes to the video field, the hardware demand will soar, and it will also represent a huge investment.

Not to mention that even if the video software is developed, it is also a continuous investment, on the one hand, because of the rampant piracy in China, it seems that the Chinese people already have a kind of inertial thinking, and it is normal to watch free. But on the other hand, as a company, the company cannot play piracy, and in order to fill the content library of video software, it must spend money to buy the rights of those TV series and movies from major film and television companies.

In fact, this process is already underway, and tens of millions of dollars have been invested to purchase a large number of audio-visual copyrights at a fairly cheap price, and they are still investing.

On the one hand, banks are spending money like water, and banks still have huge debts, and on the other hand, although they are growing steadily, it is bound to be difficult to maintain the profitability required for development investment.

Is it for fear that the equity will be dispersed and the control of the company will be weakened?

Of course, he wouldn't say this directly, after all, there were other employees of the company around him, so he just gave a more conservative discussion topic for the boss in a joking tone.

Although it was a discussion, the other people on the plane did not dare to talk.

They are not the kind of executives who hold shares in the company, nor are they regarded by their bosses as indispensable talents, nor did they grow up in the same environment as in the United States, and their rhetoric is better to be a little more conservative.

There is only one person, that is Wu Yuanfan, who has always regarded himself as Mr. Gu's confidant (see chapter 173 for details of this person's appearance), look at the note given to Tang Jun, good guy, he actually dares to talk about the rights and wrongs of the boss, I don't know if the job is given!

He then looked to the other side, and under the slightly tight black cropped pants was a pair of rounded thighs that were crossed and stretched together, and a small section of fair calves was exposed.

He is still a little worried about this "exterminator Tai", who is fashionably dressed, has a good figure, and has a good face, but always has a cold face, and has collided with Mr. Gu and won because of his wanton opening.

It's really embarrassing to think about it, if the few people who were fired back then hadn't been affected when the exterminator Taixinguan took office and burned the three fires, and now some of them should also be promoted to the middle and upper management of the company, and the salary or something, at least it has to rise a lot, and maybe there will be an option reward if you boil it up.

Eh, life is in the world, fate is impermanent!

When Mr. Gu was young and rashly asked the company's employees to fight (roommate Yuan Feng's usury incident), if he hadn't rushed to the front, he would not have been regarded as a trustworthy person by Mr. Gu when he was in the company in Jiucheng later, and was sent to spy on the intelligence of the other party's members, let alone in a company with increasingly fierce competition and increasingly strict requirements for management, and now he is serving as a management in the supervision department of the group head office, with the salary and benefits that his classmates who graduated in the same year envy and hate.

On the other side, Josie didn't seem to be very interested in Tang Jun's topic, and still calmly flipped through the fashion magazine in his hand, without taking his eyes off the album in front of him, and said without raising his head: "That's because you only saw a lake, and what Mr. Gu saw was an ocean." ”

There is a round of applause here!

Wu Yuanfan and several other employees applauded silently in their hearts, in their eyes, Mr. Gu, who single-handedly founded such a large enterprise as Hengchuang, was definitely a mountain to look up to, and the decision he made, we don't understand that it doesn't mean that it's wrong, or it may not be that we haven't seen far enough.

Obviously, in their eyes, even if they have a brilliant resume like Tang Jun, their vision is not as good as Mr. Gu's.

Tang Jun was stunned, turned his head to stare at Josie beside him and looked at it seriously, and said with a little surprise: "Are you enchanted?" ”

After years of friendship, Tang Jun, who is familiar with the other party's personality, is quite puzzled why Josie, who has always been more rational than emotional, would have such blind obedience to the boss.

Yes, it is undeniable that the young boss is very capable and strategic, and in just a few years, he has single-handedly developed the company to where it is today, and has become a leader in the industry.

But these can be reasons for the blind worship and trust of the rest of the company, but they should not be reasons for Josie, because she is Josie, and she has time to be rational enough to make people feel unapproachable.

Josie noticed Tang Jun's slightly raised tone and raised her head slightly: "En?"

She was waiting for an explanation.

Tang Jun: "I'm a little skeptical, is it the Boss who gave you some kind of medicine to make you obey so blindly? Do you know, it is Goldman Sachs, SoftBank and other world-famous investment institutions, not to mention that the valuation given is not low, even if it is low, what kind of impact will their joining have on the development of Hengchuang, don't you know?"

Although he said this in a joking tone, others were still sensitive to Tang Jun's incomprehension of the refusal to raise funds, and even a little dissatisfied.

Wu Yuanfan silently made a note in his heart again, listening to Josie's answer.

"Of course, I know that from the current point of view, the entry of investment institutions such as Goldman Sachs and Softbank can provide Hengchuang with more abundant funds, so that the company has a relatively healthy cash flow, and does not have to generate too much pressure on the billions of loans borrowed from banks during mergers and acquisitions, and at the same time, through the channels of investment banks such as Goldman Sachs, Hengchuang can quickly complete some small mergers and acquisitions, so that the company does not have to waste too much time to cover some non-core but necessary areas, such as the input method mentioned by Mr. Gu, browsers, etc. In the long run, allowing Goldman Sachs and other institutions to enter the market in advance will also greatly promote Hengchuang's future listing in the United States. ”

Josie spoke eloquently, then the corners of her mouth gradually turned up, and she concluded in an unusually positive tone: "But obviously, the boss's appetite is much bigger than you and I thought. ”