$3 billion!

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Thanks to the advent of the Internet era, the successful roadshow in New York was transmitted back to China almost instantly, even if the media had been hyping up this matter for a long time, it still blew everyone's heads up.

Entrepreneurship!

When the church collapses, there is no need for people to scream, because the loud noise has already awakened people, and no one can only say that they are deaf. Within three years, a super-large enterprise with a market value of 26 billion yuan has been built, which is a great entrepreneurial myth that inspires all those who are on the side of computers and the Internet to invest in the entrepreneurial tide.

When the roadshow team returned to Zhongguancun from the United States, SOHU was jubilant, welcoming them as if they were heroes returning triumphantly.

"Okay, okay, let's go to work, stick to the last 30 days! After the successful listing, the second child promised to go to Wangfujing to charter the venue, please have the grandest party!"

Damn, this fox doesn't feel comfortable if he doesn't dig a small hole for himself?

Li Jiaming also said happily: "The futures stock plan has come out, and when it was held in the United States, it was approved by the board of directors, and it was in Lao Zhang's briefcase. After everyone knows their futures stocks, if you want to go out and explore the rivers and lakes, please be more patient. The company is about to go public, and frequent changes in management will affect the stock price. Don't worry, we're not so stingy, I wish you could start a successful business, and all of you will soar!"

, as soon as it goes public, it is a large number of tens of millions and millionaires, who will stay in the company and get a salary of thousands of dollars?

As soon as he saw the excitement of these people, Lao Zhang knew that what Li Jiaming was worried about would definitely happen, so he simply and generously threw the briefcase to the VP Lao Gu opposite, and said loudly: "If you want to go out and start a business, wait for the company to go public, go and talk to the second child, if he gives you a random guidance, it can greatly increase your chances of success." Lao Gu, I announced the plan earlier, so that these boys don't have peace of mind. ”

Then announce it, Lao Gu, who has become a multimillionaire and is happy, took out the USB flash drive of the storage plan from the bag, and hung SOHU's employee stock ownership incentive plan directly on the internal server, and the two-story office cheered. The same scene also happened in the branches of Shanghai and Shenzhen, and thousands of people in the company were so happy that they shouted wildly, making the eyes of people in other companies red.

What is 20% of $3 billion?

600 million!

5.08 billion RMB!

50. People!

Isn't everyone a millionaire?

"Hey, have you heard? The front desk lady of SOHU on the other side has 1,000 shares!"

"The front desk lady has it too?"

"yes, at least $80,000!"

The front desk lady has earned more than 600,000 yuan, and those executives must not become billionaires?

Only Gu Zhenyun and Zhao Shiqing were awarded 2% of the shares at the board of directors at the proposal of Li Jiaming because of their outstanding performance; Sun Weigang, one of the main founders, worked hard and received an additional 4% of the shares under the efforts of Li Jiaming and Zhang Zhaoyanghe, with a total shareholding of 5.2%, to ensure that he could enter the board of directors.

The remaining 12% of the futures stocks are very dispersed, and the co-founders have the most shares, except for the four team leaders, the rest only have an average of about 30,000 shares, of which Sun Yun, who joined last, only has 10,000 shares. Among the employees who are not founders and co-founders, only Chen Tong, the editor-in-chief of the website, and the editor-in-chief of several columns have a little more shares, but they are only between 0 shares, ensuring that they are all multimillionaires, but none of them can have assets of hundreds of millions. Then there are a large number of middle and low-level employees who hold 3,000-10,000 shares, and even the seven reporters who were fired because they had too strong a sense of justice were each given 2,500 shares and became millionaires in one fell swoop.

It is foreseeable that after the implementation of the stock incentive plan, in addition to the core management, the wealth distribution of SOHU's employees has become a spindle-shape, rather than a pyramid shape as everyone guesses.

This kind of rare interest is greatly tilted towards front-line reporters, editors, and ordinary technical personnel, which is beyond everyone's expectations, but it is in line with the success of the 'common prosperity' proposed by the central government, and it is Zhang Zhaoyang and Li Jiaming who have played a key role, and the role of others is far less great; and Li Jiaming and Zhang Zhaoyang usually talk about common prosperity, rather than one group of people getting rich and the other group of people being poor.

This plan is very good, although the shareholders are rich, although there are also some people who think very highly of themselves are dissatisfied, but everyone is not hungry, even the front desk lady can buy a house, buy a car, and live the decent life of dreams.

The tsunami-like commotion downstairs reached the Lifang company upstairs, which also made the programmers and technicians who worked hard after returning from vacation. The surging and envious are over, what should I do, it is better to retreat and close the net.

The news spread around the SOHU Building, quickly spread throughout Zhongguancun, and then spread rapidly outward with Zhongguancun as the center.

Awesome!

More than 1,000 millionaires, multimillionaires, and billionaires were born at one time, and with such awesome news, all kinds of media flocked to the SOHU building, and asked to interview the Internet hero Zhang Zhaoyang. But the regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are there, and Zhang Zhaoyang has the courage to do so, and he doesn't dare to be interviewed by the media?

But this year's reporters are wearing the hat of 'uncrowned king' on their heads, how can they listen to the company's explanation, even if sohu explains what is called 'silence period' in the form of an announcement on the website, it does not prevent some reporters, small websites, and local media with ulterior motives from smearing sohu.

'Bubbles!'

'This is a real bubble, and a company with an annual profit of only 313 million is worth 25 billion?'

'It's a two-hundred-and-five!'

Do you dare to say this? Do you dare to say such a thing that reverses black and white?

Really dare to say that for a while, many media and small websites were hyping the news of SOHU's high market value at the same time, but they didn't directly scold Goldman Sachs and Citigroup dumbfounded!

But SOHU, from the top to the bottom of the staff, to the SOHU website, did not dare to distinguish, and even the explanation could only explain what the 'silence period' meant. There's no way, the SEC is a man-eating monster, and you can't afford to mess with it.

Forget it, sohu up and down as if it was a dog barking, cover your ears and don't hear it, anyway, we'll see you in a month, and then go and slap their faces.

Li Jiaming, who doesn't like to suffer losses, returned to SOHU again, bypassing Lao Zhang and Lao Gu to give orders directly to Chen Tong and them, and pulled up a list of reporters, websites, and tabloid magazines that smeared SOHU, and prepared to settle accounts for those Wang Ba/Dan Queen. After crossing the rights, Li Jiaming, who can get at least three or four hundred million US dollars in a month, is also very confident to let Kyle place an order for 1 to the OEM factory, instead of the 200,000 units that were negotiated in advance.

That's right, he named this portable multi-functional digital multimedia player, named the music player used on 1, the manager was also named iTunes, and even the online music service website was named iTunes Store. Go your own way, let others have no way out, and if you want to fight with someone like Jobs, you have to be despicable and shameless + have no bottom line.

Unexpectedly, Kyle cleanly refused to carry out his orders.

"Boss, we can't reach 1 million units sold!"

The global market is so large, although the ipod1 has not achieved the expected effect, it has such an obvious advantage over 00, and it has not reached the sales of 1 million units?

"No, no, as far as I know, the sales of 00 in the first half of the year were less than 100,000 units. BOSS, the European and American markets have developed very maturely, and it is impossible to open the market by advertising alone, the key is the brand and user experience. Our products do not achieve the best effect, just a little more beautiful and stronger than the products of the Imperial League, but the brand effect is far inferior to the 00 of the Imperial Alliance, so it is difficult to sell well. ”

Li Jiaming doesn't like to hear this, the dollar of the Imperial League, and the cost of the ipod1 is only 70 US dollars, which can be priced at 169 US dollars, and then rely on a large number of advertising bombardment to attract consumers to buy the iPod1 with better quality and appearance.

"Kyle, you're too conservative!"

The stubborn Kyle still insisted: "No, this is not conservative but steady, even if the iPod 1 is selling well, with the production capacity of Hon Hai Electronics, there is no need to worry about running out of stock." Boss, we are doing industry, not a network company, we have to decide production according to sales, not according to the amount of money you have!

What's more, we can't price $169, we should price $199. Boss, we are a brand, if the price is lower than that of the Imperial League, it will not be conducive to our brand!"

Yes, Kyle repeatedly mentioned the brand, and Li Jiaming suddenly came back to his senses. If you want to be a brand, how can you be willing to fall and take the initiative to fight a price war?

After being taught, the success of the roadshow, although I can still restrain my inner expansion, I am only restrained and not completely calm and rational. Fortunately, there is a professional manager like Kyle by his side, and if he is replaced by an old chapter like himself, he will have to fall on his heels.

"Ok, it's up to you to decide if you're the CEO, I'm just offering a suggestion. ”

Kyle, who argued with reason, was also relieved that the iPod 1 was a defective product, and it was difficult to achieve very large sales when iTunes Store only had a reserve of more than 100,000 songs. The big record companies are too conservative and don't want to license if they don't see the benefits of selling online.

Li Jiaming also shook his head, this time Kyle was too conservative, red mouth and white teeth ran to talk, can he talk about a bird? If you want people to scatter eagles, you have to let people see rabbits first, and they are fat rabbits!

"Kyle, you go and talk to the major record companies, each of them will pay $10 million in royalties in advance, and the small record companies will pay 1 million in advance, and I won't believe they don't agree! ”

“no!”

Kyle immediately objected, how could there be such a business? Prepaid royalties were already outrageous enough, and no commissions were charged for half a year? The record industry was very profitable, but the sales link had to share nearly 40% of the profits, how could his own company take the initiative to give up such a big profit?

"No, can you talk?"

"Give me a little more time, and I'll be able to convince them. ”

"No, what we lack the most is time!kyle, don't forget, after several years of dissemination, netizens have downloaded a lot of music. We promised the record company that we would sell them for free for half a year, but it might not bring them much benefit!"

It makes sense, compared with the very dismal business of the website now, Kyle admits that what Li Jiaming said makes sense, those old music is estimated that no one will spend money to download it for a few years, and only newly published music will be paid to download.

"Okay, after the prepaid royalties are paid, we have to share the profits. ”

Of course, building a music sales website is not a charity, so how can it not make money? How can you grab 30% of the 40 percent of the sales cost? What is even more exciting is that as long as the five major record companies authorize it, they can rely on legal music downloads to exclude companies such as the Imperial League; in turn, the iPod has become a mainstream music player, and it can bargain with record companies by virtue of its market share. If done correctly, you can use ESSTORE to tie record labels to your own chariot and monopolize the music sales market and the player market.

"Boss, you're great!"

This is a compliment, Li Jiaming didn't believe that this old boy would not expect it, but he still laughed at this sycophant, and agreed to allow some powerful friends to invest in the website without losing his controlling stake. How can it be so easy to convince others? The world is as black as a crow, but smart people do dirty things and bypass the law.

Let the big five record companies license the matter is easy to do, no one will put cash and don't want it, even if the CEOs have a vision, the board of directors will press them to agree, but Kyle pretended to be distressed and said: "What about the money? boss, this will require at least 80 million dollars or more!"

Damn, isn't this guy busy, after going public, Lao Tzu will have hundreds of millions of dollars in cash, he won't stare at it?

This is a good thing, not afraid of god-like opponents, just afraid of pig-like friends, the more shrewd and capable the partner, the better it is. Even if the company will be listed in the future, no one can compete with them for control, and they all have to dance under their own baton!

"Ok, I'll borrow another $50 million, and I'll pay it back after the listing is successful. ”

50 million is a lot, and it can completely tempt those damn record companies, and Kyle immediately complimented: "Boss, you are such a wise person." ”

It's time to pat yourself on the back, this old boy only paid $3 million, but took 5% of the undilutable shares, while Li Jiaming took out $28 million in cash, and had to continue to borrow an additional $50 million.

No, in addition to these 50 million, you will have to pay for building channels and advertising in the future!

Li Jiaming just wanted to laugh at himself, but Kyle said very seriously: "Ming, although you hold 95% of the company's shares, I hope that these loans will be calculated at 150% of the bank interest rate." As you said at the beginning, the company belongs to all of us, and we want it to be, ok?"

When the fight is due, it should be calculated clearly and clearly, this is the practice of being a partner for a long time, Li Jiaming gave a thumbs up to Kyle with appreciation: "OK".