CHAPTER 129 ACQUISITION OF FOXMAIL
After exercising, Fan Xingchen and Li Qi returned to the bedroom and went into the bathroom together to take a hot shower. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
AFTER CHANGING INTO CLEAN CLOTHES, FAN XINGCHEN SAT AT THE DESK, TURNED ON THE COMPUTER, DIALED UP TO CONNECT TO THE NETWORK, LOGGED IN TO THE FOXMAIL CLIENT ON THE DESKTOP, AND SAW A FEW UNREAD EMAILS, HE CHOSE TO CLICK ON THE ONE HE THOUGHT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT, AND AFTER READING THE EMAIL, HE WAS IMMEDIATELY HAPPY AND LAUGHED.
Li Qi, who was putting on makeup, turned his head to look at Fan Xingchen and smiled, "What's the fun?"
Fan Xingchen turned his head, smiled at Li Qi, and said, "Before I got married, I didn't have time to go to Yundian. ”
"What are you busy with?"
"Zhang Xiaolong is coming to Huhai. ”
"Zhang Xiaolong?" Li Qi looked puzzled, "Who is he." ”
"Skilled master!" Fan Xingchen smiled.
"He developed well-known software?"
"FOXMAIL, IS IT A WELL-KNOWN SOFTWARE?"
"Count. LI QI SMILED AND NODDED, SHE KNEW THAT THE FOXMAIL CLIENT SOFTWARE WAS USED BY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE.
He is the founder of this email client software. ”
Li Qi glanced at Fan Xingchen curiously and asked, "How did you get in touch with this Zhang Xiaolong?"
"In September, on a whim, I asked in the company group, who knew Zhang Xiaolong, but I didn't think that there was a technician on Happy Network who knew Zhang Xiaolong and had dealt with him before. ”
"I don't think you did it on a whim, but you had a premeditated plan to poach him to work in your company?" Li Qi said with a smile.
"Sort of!" Fan Xingchen smiled, "In the past two months, Zhang Xiaolong and I have spoken on the phone many times, and the phone bill has been dozens of yuan, and more than a dozen emails have been written. ”
"FOXMAIL IS A PRODUCT OF WHICH COMPANY, AND IS ZHANG XIAOLONG THE BOSS OF THIS COMPANY?"
"NO, FOUR YEARS AGO, ZHANG XIAOLONG SOLD THE FOXMAIL SOFTWARE TO BODA COMPANY FOR 12 MILLION. I PLAN TO BUY FOXMAIL FROM BODA AND POACH ZHANG XIAOLONG AND THE R&D TEAM OF THIS SOFTWARE. ”
"FOUR YEARS AGO, FOXMAIL WAS WORTH 12 MILLION, BUT NOW IT'S MORE EXPENSIVE, RIGHT?"
"The transaction price is expected to be around 40 million. ”
"40 million ......," Li Qi smiled, "How are you going to raise this acquisition fund?"
"That's what I thought, it's better to pay in installments, and if I can't pay in installments, then I'll sell a few treasures. Give me two months, and it's not hard to raise 40 million. ”
Li Qi was silent for a moment, and then asked, "Do you plan to acquire it in your personal name, or do you plan to acquire it by your company?"
"My company. Fan Xingchen said, "I plan to set up a group company, I have thought of the name of the company, Star Net Group, English translation is StarsNetGroup, Stars and Net form a word, and the N letter of Net should be capitalized. Merge my three companies, Vipshop, Alipay, and Kaixin.com, into this company. ”
"SINCE YOU'RE GOING TO SET UP A GROUP COMPANY, HAVEN'T YOU THOUGHT ABOUT SELLING SOME OF YOUR SHARES TO BUY FOXMAIL?"
"I thought about it, but it's not cost-effective, Boda Company is a company with a bad reputation, let this company take a stake in Xingwang Group, then the valuation of Xingwang Group will not be very high. If I am really short of funds, it is better to introduce venture capital funds, which can not only give Starnet Group a high valuation, but also provide some help for the development of the company. ”
"That-" Li Qi paused and smiled, "When are you going to bring in venture capital?"
"After the first round of funding for Facebook. ”
Previously, Fan Xingchen's investment in Facebook was more appropriate to call it angel investment, and the team led by Zuckerberg at that time was a grassroots team.
"Why wait until after Facebook's fundraising?" Li Qi wondered.
"Think again. ”
Li Qi thought for a moment and smiled: "Are you going to let the venture institutions that invest in Facebook take a stake in your Starnet company?"
"With this in mind, I also wanted to use Facebook's shares as collateral to borrow some money from this venture capital institution. ”
"Borrowing money again?" Li Qi quipped, "You are stepping on a tightrope, are you not afraid of accidentally falling?"
"I'm wearing a seatbelt, and even if I fall, I'm not going to fall to my death. ”
"Even if you don't die, you'll get hurt. ”
"Thank you for your concern. Fan Xingchen smiled, "Let's not talk about this topic for the time being, anyway, I don't plan to ask overseas venture capital institutions to borrow money now." Hehe, I won't talk to you anymore, I'm going to reply to Zhang Xiaolong's email. ”
More than two months ago, Fan Xingchen learned that an employee of Kaixin.com knew Zhang Xiaolong and had Zhang Xiaolong's contact number, so he immediately asked the other party to contact Zhang Xiaolong and introduced himself to Zhang Xiaolong.
At that time, Fan Xingchen and Zhang Xiaolong talked on the phone for two or three minutes, and after chatting a few words, Zhang Xiaolong said that he was busy with something and could not continue to talk on the phone.
Before hanging up the phone, Fan Xingchen asked Zhang Xiaolong for an email account, Zhang Xiaolong did not refuse, and told Fan Xingchen his usual email account.
On the same day, Fan Xingchen wrote an email address of more than 2,000 words to Zhang Xiaolong, he wrote down which companies he owned, as well as some of his views on the future development of the Internet, in addition, he also wrote his admiration for Zhang Xiaolong, and finally, invited the other party to join his company, he hoped that Zhang Xiaolong could become the chief technology officer of Vipshop, Alipay and Kaixin.com.
Before talking to Fan Xingchen on the phone, Zhang Xiaolong had already known about Vipshop, Alipay and Kaixin.com, after all, he was the chief technology officer of Boda Company, and he was considered an industry insider, and he was still very concerned about some newly established Internet companies.
Zhang Xiaolong not only knows these three companies, but also registered an account, he bought a domestic electric shaver on the Vipshop website, bought it in the morning, shipped it in the afternoon, and after two days, he received the goods, after opening the trial, he was very satisfied, he gave a five-star praise, and the online shopping was quite pleasant.
As the conversation deepened, Zhang Xiaolong became interested in Fan Xingchen.
KNOWING THAT FAN XINGCHEN INTENDED TO BUY FOXMAIL, ZHANG XIAOLONG DID NOT REJECT IT.
However, Fan Xingchen hopes that Zhang Xiaolong and FOXMAIL's R&D team can leave Yangcheng and go to Shanghai to work, Zhang Xiaolong, who is used to life in Yangcheng, is reluctant to leave the city, and Fan Xingchen feels that the scale of Vipshop, Alipay and Kaixinwang is still small, and opening a branch in Yangcheng will do far more harm than good.
Zhang Xiaolong, who thought about it for a while, decided to go to Huhai first, meet and chat with Fan Xingchen, and go to Fan Xingchen's three Internet companies to have a look, if there is no big problem, he decided to leave Yangcheng and go to Huhai to work.
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There was a suspicious thing about a rat stealing a sock just now.
The alarm clock didn't go off, and I was woken up by the noise outside the window, after waking up, I got up with clothes and socks, but after putting on a sock, I couldn't find another sock, thinking that the bedroom door was not closed last night, I guessed that it was stolen by a mouse, and after a while, I felt that there was something strange inside the autumn pants, and I reached out and touched it, and it turned out that the suspected stolen socks were stuck to the autumn pants and were worn directly on the body. Brother Mouse, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have doubted you.