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A few days after Chinese New Year's Eve, people returned to their respective jobs again, working hard for their families and careers.

After discussing the investment with Xue Xiaolu, he contacted Li Caihua again, but from her words, I learned that the financing situation this time was not particularly good, first of all, Penguin was not willing to use a large price to carry out Series A financing, so it decided to withdraw from Douyin's financing this time.

Although Penguin decided to leave and set up a software similar to Douyin on its own, there are still many people who are willing to join in and conduct Series A financing, such as angel investment, and foreign Sequoia Capital.

These problems of negotiating prices were too annoying for Wang Zainian, so he threw them all to Li Caihua to deal with, after all, spending money to invite people to work was to deal with these problems.

According to the current number of downloads and registrations of Douyin, it is about to exceed 4000W, which is already in the top ranks of today's major mobile phone software. But for Penguin, which has always been the big brother of the Internet, he can definitely build a software comparable to Douyin in a short period of time with Penguin Chat, so there is no need to spend money on financing and seize market share.

Later, it made an APP called Microvision, and invited a lot of stars to join when it was launched, but in the end, it was still dead, and Penguin learned a lot of creative and promising software. But most of them have failed, just say that a few years ago, Taobao was born out of nowhere and made a paipai.com, which was also very popular at the beginning, but within a few years, it went out of business again.

After seeing that the IP of Dianniang was very popular, he followed it and made a creation Chinese network, but it has been tepid, only accounting for 12% of the market share, which is several times worse than 50% of Dianniang.

So this time, Penguin did not bet on Douyin's A round of financing, and it is destined to spend a lot of money on B or C round of financing in the future.

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Café.

Wang Zainian sat on one side, quietly waiting for the agent who was going to come over, which was recommended by the online headhunting company before, and I have to say that the speed of this headhunting company is really fast.

Wang Zainian's information about that agent Wang has seen that Li Wanru, a woman about forty years old, has been an agent since she was in the nineties, has brought a lot of artists and stars, and has also stayed in some large entertainment companies, but finally left and created a small brokerage company by herself, serving only one or two artists.

There are many small brokerage companies that only sign one or two contracts in China, and they will look for some young, handsome or talented newcomers, and then carry out packaging training, and then go to play supporting roles in some TV series and the like. If the artist becomes popular, this kind of small agency will transfer the contract to those large agency companies and earn high fees from it.

Of course, there are successes and failures, this Li Wanru may be in a large company, or some of the artists she has brought are relatively top-notch, so so far, several newcomers she has brought have failed to make their debuts.

It's not that Li Wanru and her company are not capable, the main reason is that her concept is not the same as that of modern young people. Therefore, after the newcomer signs the contract, she will use a lot of money for packaging training, and if there is a condition, she will also pay out of her own pocket to be responsible for the newcomer to go to some film academies or music academies to audit.

This small brokerage company did produce one or two artists who were more popular at the time, but because of Li Wanru's harshness on artists, it led to other companies.

Li Wanru's harshness is not in terms of money and treatment, but in terms of her own quality or self-literacy, it is simply difficult for these young people to spend a few years polishing their acting skills and cultivating musical literacy.

Young artists only hope to become popular overnight, and then they go around to catch up with announcements to make money, and when they are not famous, they go to TV shows to show their faces, or go to some TV dramas and movies to make soy sauce, and find some water armies to hype. What kind of good-looking, acting, talented, and hype such as making this movie is so popular that it explodes.

Why did Wang Zainian choose Li Wanru, the main point is that he appreciates Li Wanru's harsh artist standards very much, in this impetuous society, there are few people who are willing to lose money to cultivate an artist.

You must know that packaging costs a lot of money, not only from the signing fee or clothing fee, makeup fee, etc., but also to invite some film school teachers to teach in person, or spend a lot of money to go to some well-known colleges and universities to audit.

Although Li Wanru made some money in the early years, and then transferred a few artists who were unwilling to continue to stay, and also obtained a lot of funds, most of them were invested in this small brokerage company.

"Hello, you are Mr. Wang Zainian. ”

At this time, when Wang Zainian was thinking wildly, he heard someone whispering a soft voice from Jiangnan in his ear.

"Ah, I am, are you Ms. Li Wanru?"

Wang Zainian hurriedly stood up and glanced at the lady in front of him, wearing a black women's coat and carrying a black shoulder bag, I have to say that she looks very elegant and beautiful in terms of appearance and clothing. If you didn't know in advance that the lady in front of you was in her 40s, it would be difficult to see that this woman with good skin maintenance, delicate facial features and light makeup, is a woman who is about to be 50 years old.

"Yes, I am. Li Wanru's voice is very sweet, a bit like Yang Yuying, but the spoken language is very similar to the unique mumbling soft language of Jiangnan women, which makes people feel very comfortable and like it.

"Please sit down, what do you want to drink?" Wang Zainian was also a little moved in the face of Li Wanru's elegant posture, everyone was more or less attached to their mother, not to mention an orphan like Wang Zainian.

In Wang Zainian's impression, his mother is a vague feeling, perhaps like the swaggering mother played by Jiang Wenli in "Golden Wedding", or like Liu Xuehua's weakness and tenacity in "Mother's Heart After Spring".

But at this moment, Li Wanru's appearance also made Wang Zainian feel that his mother, who had never seen her in her life, might be just like her, a woman who was very gentle, spoke very softly with a soft speech, and behaved and spoke very elegantly, which made people feel good, and did not look pretentious.

"I'm sorry, I don't drink coffee, just give me a glass of boiled water. ”

Li Wanru refused Wang Zainian's coffee, and after softly refusing, she asked the waiter for a cup of boiled water.

"Mr. Wang, is there anything on my face?" Li Wanru saw that Wang had been staring at herself, and was being watched by a young man in her twenties all the time, Li Wanru also felt embarrassed, but she didn't think about it in other ways, after all, her age was here.

"It's okay, I just think you're a lot like my mother. ”

"Oh, yes? If I have a chance to meet next time, it may be my long-lost sister. Li Wanru covered her mouth and chuckled, no one really said that she looked like her mother as soon as she met her.

"No, I mean your temperament and appearance are very much in line with my impression of the concept of mother. ”

"Oh?" Li Wanru was puzzled.

"I'm an orphan. ”

After Li Wanru heard the orphan, she felt that she had said the wrong thing, and immediately apologized, "I'm sorry, I don't know much about you, so I ......."

Wang Zainian didn't wait for Li Wanru to finish speaking, then interrupted, "It's okay, I'm used to it." ”

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