Chapter 127: Cooperation?
Song Ru didn't know where his boss's honey confidence came from, but now he finally faced it squarely, and he didn't continue to slowly learn how to live in the United States and find the most suitable rhythm.
"What you said is true?" Song Ru rested for a long time before she asked Jiang Yizhou, bragging must also have traces to follow, such a huge plan on social networks, if it weren't for the plan to testify, she really thought it was made up.
"Of course it's true, there can be fakes, I have planned it, but I need to wait until the existing two products, QIM and Foxmail occupy a certain market share before they can continue to develop, there is no scale effect, and many products are not easy to come up with!"
Jiang Yizhou is also worried, although QAIM is far ahead, but it has not yet reached the point of monopolizing most of the market share, there will never be a shortage of talented people in the world, and the first to eat crabs is not necessarily the last to laugh.
If he rashly launches a series of other products attached to QIM and Foxmail, and does not occupy the market in time, the risk is not ordinarily large, and he still likes to be steady.
Song Ru looked at the plan carefully, this is the latest, Jiang Yizhou has only shared it with Zhang Xiaolong, as for whether the venture capital will take the plan alone, it is unfounded, this is a matter of damaging reputation.
"I think you'd better prepare early, these products in your plan require a certain amount of talent reserves and development time, it's best to start recruiting now, it's good to make a prototype, increase the bargaining chips for negotiations, of course, the progress of financing also needs to be accelerated, if the stall is rolled out, it may not even last for a month." ”
Song Ru, out of her professionalism, clearly realized that Jiang Yizhou's plan could easily touch the G-spot of venture capital, and the prospect was more than a little bigger than Qim, which was thin and could not see a profitable future.
"There are still a few talks in the next few sessions, you have to ...... too" Song Ru helped Jiang Yizhou to conduct some simple training in speaking skills and focus, hoping to impress more venture capitalists and give higher offers.
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The weekend passed quickly, although everyone was in high spirits, but Jiang Yizhou was still looking forward to and worried, refreshing the upper limit of his previous life's ability every moment, making him feel more and more that he needed to be enriched, but with a series of plans, such as space, blogs, etc., Jiang Yizhou fell into busyness again.
Fortunately, Zhang Xiaolong does not lose his reputation in later generations, although he is still a little immature, but it is enough to help Jiang Yizhou share the pressure.
"You said McGovern wanted to see me?" Jiang Yizhou received a call from Xiong Xiaoge in his busy schedule, and he was a little surprised to hear that the founder of IDG wanted to see him.
Because IDG China has already accounted for 40% of the shares at the beginning, if they bring in their capital, Jiang Yizhou is quite worried about his position, from the beginning Xiong Xiaoge knocked on the side to ask about the next round of venture capital, he clearly declined IDG's investment, even if the conditions are quite generous.
There is still no reason for not using the AB share system, if there is, the founder does not have to worry so much about the control of the company he created, of course, Elome was created by himself, and there is no substitute for the time being.
"Brother Jiang, I think you can still meet me, I know you're worried about the issue of control, but this time we are sincere!" Xiong Xiaoge didn't understand Jiang Yizhou's pain points, because it was foreign capital in China, and often because of the problem of shareholding, he often did not cooperate with entrepreneurs.
"Okay, you say a time and place, I'll pass!" Jiang Yizhou thought about it seriously and decided to meet again, at least in his previous life, when he learned about the past deeds of the Internet, he had a lot of good feelings about IDG, and even knew Xiong Xiaoge, Zhou Quan and McGovern, if IDG only accounted for 20% of the shares at the beginning, he would be happy to accept it now.
According to the limited information he knew in his previous life, McGovern was at least a good person, and as Xiong Xiaoge's Bole, he was impressed, but that's all.
"boss, do you want to continue to talk with IDG?" Song Ru heard the news, his expression was slightly surprised, if it was proposed by the other party, it is estimated that the concession would be relatively large, such as proposing to give up part of the voting rights, which made Jiang Yizhou, as the founder, feel at ease.
"Well, I feel good about IDG, and other venture capitalists are too unfamiliar, so it's naturally better to find someone who is familiar and knows the roots. Jiang Yizhou's expression was slightly solemn, he is not like at the beginning, he is equivalent to fighting alone, many things can only be trusted by IDG's thoughtfulness, they give him enough help, and now it seems that he is still trustworthy.
Now at least there is a choice to be independent, and at the same time there is a little concern about the fact that you will soon lose absolute control after one or two rounds of funding.
He, as well as several of his subordinates, had tacitly put IDG in a very low priority before, and if McGovern hadn't taken the initiative to find him, he probably wouldn't have talked to them.
As for the result, we have to talk about it to know.
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McGovern didn't pay much attention to qim and Elomes in the first place, but became interested in him when he learned that it was a Chinese company in which IDG had invested in China.
He found Xiong Xiaoge, who was still in the United States, and asked about the details, from Jiang Yizhou's founding of Zhengyi to his development in the United States, after learning that Xiong Xiaoge had wanted to continue to invest in Elomes but was rejected by Jiang Yizhou, he felt that he still had to talk to that little guy.
McGovern and Jiang Yizhou agreed to a café, and Jiang Yizhou took a lot of time to find this place, and the name on the sign was a little obscure, and he read it to the taxi driver, but he was misheard, and there were many detours.
When he arrived at the café, as soon as he entered the door, he saw McGovern, a typical white man, and the Chinese man next to him, Xiong Xiaoge, who smiled and waved at him.
Jiang Yizhou quickly walked to the position and apologized again and again, "I'm sorry, there was a little accident on the way, I'm not very familiar with the local area!"
Opened the menu and ordered a cup of coffee at random, for him, the type of coffee did not make much difference.
"Tony, it's a pleasure to meet you, I thought you'd just reject me?" McGovern said enthusiastically.
"How could it be? I have a very pleasant cooperation with IDG, but for some reasons, I can't continue to cooperate, and I regret it!" Jiang Yizhou arrived in the United States, and the spoken language that he had originally fallen behind has now been exercised, and there is no embarrassment in it.
In these days of talks, he understood a truth, don't easily make promises, many times when he thought that the other party had really reached the upper limit, he was reminded by Song Ru under the table, and handed over the conversation to her, but found that he was still too young, and negotiation was not something he was good at.