Chapter 45: It's hard for you and it's hard for me
Although the heat of midsummer is unbearable, and the sun is shining, Li Jiaming feels extremely aggrieved.
For the advertising cost of more than 200,000 yuan, not only do you have to give people a smile and thank others for their kindness, but you also have to be ridiculed by others? This is also a helpless thing, people treat you as a brother, can you ask the mentor to call with a shy face, and make more than 200,000 yuan to support your career, and I can't say a few words to you?
"Don't think you're very capable, if you have the ability, don't rely on Lenovo? If you don't want to raise money yet, the ghost will believe you, what people invest in is not money, but all aspects of social resources! Do you know how many computers were produced last year? 840,000 units, this year will definitely exceed 1.5 million units, as long as you are on this big tree, you will soar in China! Do you think I don't know what your idea is? It's nothing more than dragging, wanting to wait for the funds from the United States and use the momentum of foreigners to suppress them.
You are too underestimating people, how can you calculate that others can create such a large foundation? ”
When Huang Zhigang, who hated iron and steel, finished his ridicule, Li Jiaming saluted 'Great China' and patiently explained: "Brother, I really don't play tricks, but I do have my own plans." ”
Huang Zhigang, who said that he was tired, leaned against the wall, stretched out his hand to close the flame of the sterling silver Dupeng firer, took a hard puff of smoke and said, "Let's hear it." ”
"Now is not the time to raise funds, our funds can still be supported, as long as the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications is separated, the newly established telecommunications bureau will definitely lay a national network. When the time comes, the number of computers connected to the Internet will increase exponentially, and the value of our website will skyrocket, and it would be too much of a loss to accept their financing now!
Brother, I understand the principle of accepting when you see a good thing, but you have to dare to bet when you should gamble. ”
In such weather, the place with the sun is also hot, Huang Zhigang, who was sweating on his head, squinted at the dazzling sun, and was silent for a while and whispered: "I haven't received the wind, where did you hear the news?" ”
Now that he has decided to hold on to the end, Li Jiaming will bet, even if it is very likely to lose.
"Xiao Guizi, his brother-in-law was transferred to the deputy director of the Beiping Post and Telecommunications Bureau, and the Min Bureau used to be the director of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, so can he not receive the wind?"
The matter of splitting the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications into a post and telecommunications bureau has been rumored for more than a year, but how can it be so easy? Ministers and vice ministers are all members and alternate members of the Central Committee, and even those who are as powerful as vice premiers have to be careful.
"That matter has not been finalized, Vice Premier Zhu has personally coordinated with the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications for a few days for this matter! The interests involved here are too great, and even the one in the sea can't give a direct order. ”
This is the benefit of the Son of Heaven, all kinds of news can be heard at the first time, and it is indeed not easy, but Li Jiaming believes in the courage of the iron-fisted prime minister.
"Brother, such a difficult thing as the tax sharing system has been handled by that big guy, and he can't clean up a few thorns? In '93, our economy achieved a soft landing, and no one dared to blow up with his old man in the economic field. The little trouble now is nothing more than a bargain between the various factions.
You see, the current prime minister is a personal stamp, what new policy is not being formulated and promoted by Vice Premier Zhu? What he wants to do, the people below don't dare to stand up. ”
With vision, this kid is really only 20 years old? Thirty-one-year-old Huang Zhigang, who was at the senior level, squinted his eyes and looked at Li Jiaming a few times, and suddenly said, "Are you really confident?" ”
"Seven points depend on hard work, three points are destined, I want to bet on this!"
Yes, this kid is already a multimillionaire, and if he hits this one, he can suddenly become a billionaire. If he were him, even if there was only a 10% chance of success, he would bet on this. Looking at Li Jiaming with a jealous eye for a while, Huang Zhigang suddenly smiled dumbly, patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "I wish you a long way, I'll go first." ”
Seeing Huang Zhigang driving a black broken Pusang car away in the sun, Zhong Chaocheng, who was also leaning against the wall and smoking, suddenly whispered: "Jiaming, you really don't want Lenovo's funds?" Now the growth of computers on the Internet is too fast, BM's quotation is 3.16 million / unit, Lenovo is 2.2 million / unit, Lao Zhang they tend to IBM with better performance, and they are about to ask you for money. ”
"It's okay, I'll transfer the account to you in the afternoon, and according to what I negotiated with Lao Zhang last time, I will buy another 20% of the shares for $2.1 million. Don't worry about the server beforehand, if I can talk about it here, I can save a lot of money."
"Jiaming, IBM's quality is really strong, there are too many associations, Lao Zhang and Lao Gu have such a good relationship, and they only drop 100,000 yuan, and they can't even say it."
This is a peacemaker, Li Jiaming smiled dumbly and said: "I know, didn't Gangzi say that the cost of Wanquan II5\/133 is up to 800,000?" If you can talk about it, four can't fight one? ”
Zhong Chaocheng, who is quite a city government, wanted to speak and stopped, but in the end he didn't persuade him, and walked back to the company after smoking the cigarette. He and Sun Weigang discussed privately that they got on this boat because they had nothing, and they were just gambling on the future with a few years of youth, but this kid and Lao Zhang are both ruthless and fierce enough.
Lao Zhang threw away the high salary of the chief representative of ISI in China and maxed out all his credit cards; This kid is even more ruthless, throwing 20 or 30 million yuan, but generously handing over the control of the company, and now the company's capital chain is tight, and he would rather pay out of his own pocket than give outsiders a bargain. If this guy can really force Lenovo to give in, then the money saved in the future will be saved.
Seeing Zhong Chaocheng also leave, Li Jiaming showed his tired state at this time, leaning against the clean glass curtain wall and closing his eyes to recuperate. I have been grinding in Lenovo for nearly a week, and it seems that I am leisurely and have the heart to do questions and read books, but in fact, I am also holding on.
As soon as the click-through rate of the website is high, the previously purchased server cannot afford to carry the number of visits, and the current large-scale server is often millions of units, and the performance is still as good as the goods of thousands of dollars in the previous life. Lao Zhang and they have calculated that even if the current website content is completed, if the construction of the national network is completed, it will take at least more than 100 servers to afford it.
With the advancement of network technology, it is impossible for web content to be text-based, supplemented by pictures, and video to be missing, so how many servers do you need? According to Lao Zhang's classmates in the United States, there are now more than 1,000 servers in OLO, and they are slowly increasing.
What's worse is that this era is developing too fast, and I don't give myself the opportunity to raise money calmly!
If telecommunications and posts and telecommunications are separated, the national network will certainly be connected between several major central cities in a very short period of time, and then extended to all angles of the country. When the time comes, what will the company take to set up a branch and purchase new equipment? The group of people who follow themselves and Lao Zhang, with ideals and the incentive of futures stocks, can take a salary of 500 yuan as a cow and a horse, and when the company's business expands and needs to recruit people, there is no high salary to recruit those high-quality talents?
It's difficult, he seems to have a fortune of tens of millions, but in fact he is a poor man, there is no problem with eating, drinking and having fun, and it is no problem to sleep with Zhao Wei, a future star, if you want to do something big, there is a problem. After smoking a cigarette and renewing it, Li Jiaming, who had regained his spirits, threw the two cigarette butts into the trash can, and went back to his hometown to continue drinking free coffee and eating free lunch.
Isn't it just to survive, surviving others is a lot of rewards, and if you can't survive others, you will be considered unlucky.
The waiting time is an ordeal for Li Jiaming, and it is not an easy task for his opponent.
Last year, the Internet, which was called the 'information superhighway', is a new thing, and it is certainly a big deal, but the timing of entry is extremely difficult to grasp, and those who rush to the front may not succeed, and it is very likely that they will become cannon fodder. There is no precedent for Internet companies in China to go public, but there is a precedent for Internet companies in the United States to go public, but there are statistics every year on how many companies have successfully listed and how many small and micro enterprises have gone bankrupt.
The United States has built an Internet all over the country, with nearly 80 million networked computers.
1%!
AOL and Yahoo are countless bankrupt small enterprises, and even companies like AOL and Yahoo that have successfully listed have not been able to make profits so far, and are still relying on round after round of financing support.
On the contrary, Lenovo's PCs are doing well, with production and sales reaching 840,000 units last year and a target of 1.5 million units this year. Is it worth it to spare the already tight manpower and material resources to do this business?
Zhang Zhaoyang: The cost they estimated, Lenovo's engineers can also estimate it, invest tens of millions, hundreds of millions of funds to build a website, if it succeeds, it's good to say, what if it fails?
Lenovo is certainly the No.1 in the domestic PC industry, but there are still Fangzheng and Wave behind, and foreigners are killing in aggressively, Dell has set up a new factory in Jinmen, and HP is also building a new factory in Shanghai.
If this money is invested in production, the rate of return is stable and predictable, and it can also stabilize Lenovo's position in the domestic PC market! Lenovo Group is a listed company, and its finance, operations, and decision-making are all supervised by the board of directors, and it is responsible for the interests of shareholders. Even Mr. Liu, the founder of Lenovo, has a very high prestige in the group and can make a statement, but in the face of the emerging industry of the Internet, it is difficult to decide to participate immediately, or want to wait and see.
Then, the safest way is to pick an excellent small business and let it charge for Lenovo. If it is successful, it can be acquired as a subsidiary of the group; If you fail, you can also accumulate experience and lay the foundation for the group to enter this industry in the future.
Up to this time, from the top-level Mr. Liu to the middle-level Manager Chen, they didn't believe that a small company would develop as unconventionally as Yahoo and AOL. After all, the national situation is there, even if it develops at a high speed, it is impossible to give birth to tens of millions of netizens within a few years, and Americans are not stupid, will they be as fanatical as chasing yahoo and aol?
If you can't raise capital, the company will die, and the group will spend a million dollars to buy experience, and there is no problem with this decision. Even if Sohu dies, there will be an experienced team left, and the group can recruit them to wait for the spring of this industry to enter another emerging field.
It costs three million dollars, and that's a problem. The small company has fixed assets of only 10 million and a valuation of 40 million, and has already estimated the value of their team, if the high price they proposed is rejected and they have to accept an offer of 15 million US dollars, it is not an investment, but a blackmail!