"Those who steal the hook will be punished, and those who steal the country will be punished. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"To kill one man is a murderer, and to kill a million people is to conquer. ”

Gu Cheng used a set of thunderous rhetoric to continue to bombard Ding Sanshi's psychological defense.

Perhaps, the price that Ding Sanshi has to pay for cooperating with Gu Cheng today will indeed be much more expensive than any later customer.

But the temptation of safety brought by "the world's first company to do such a thing" made Ding Sanshi want to stop.

After all, the law can never punish those who invent new criminal patterns, only those who follow the trend of crime—and the law hasn't even defined it as a crime when it comes to saliva, has it?

Now, there is such an opportunity in front of Ding Sanshi.

Not only can the company's valuation rise by another two percent, but it is also very safe, and there is no fear of being picked up and criticized in the future.

"Are you sure that no one else can get direct evidence?"

"I'm sure. ”

The corners of Ding Sanshi's mouth twitched, as if he was thinking about his great power, and he didn't pay back the price.

He finally tried to bargain: "2600, I'll do this business." It's all busy, don't bargain like a girl. ”

Gu Cheng still refused, and Ding Sanshi was very unwilling.

Gu Cheng thought about it for a while, and decided to change the topic and bring out his final killer.

"Mr. Ding, can we stop talking about money for a while - you're about to go to the NASDAQ to ring the bell, and the Wall Street Journal won't ignore it. ”

"Of course - but don't threaten me with exposure, your little evidence is useless. As long as I don't give money, I can be said to be a 'friend businessman' framing me at that time!" Ding Sanshi is not a vegetarian, and he is very clear.

Gu Cheng smiled harmlessly: "How can I threaten you, I negotiated with you very kindly - since you are concerned, it is easy to say, you should have read the issue on February 16th......"

"How could I possibly read every issue. Ding Sanshixin said: Lao Tzu is very busy.

"It's okay if you haven't seen it, I have. You can check that it is not a forgery. ”

Gu Cheng said, taking out a copy of the Wall Street Journal from his pocket, the date of February 16.

This was prepared by him in Dongyi, and it was very hard to hide back to China, and he was not less worried when he got off the plane and passed through customs.

In 2000, Huaxia had very strict control over the entry of publications. At that time, the Internet was not yet developed, and the discordant remarks of the imperial court fearing the attention of capital flowed into the territory and enlightened the people's wisdom. It's really a few years later, find a proxy VPN to go over the wall casually, and the court is too lazy to care.

Gu Cheng "snapped" the newspaper to the seventh page and spread it out in front of Ding Sanshi.

With the English proficiency of the two, it is not difficult to read some financial commentary.

This is the article that praised an online payment company called PayPal, saying that the company is worth $500 million in market capitalization. As soon as the article came out, Wall Street investors were crazy about the company. PayPal founder Peter Thiel raised 100 million venture capital funds with 20% equity in just 3 weeks.

When I was in Dongyi, I even heard that there was an Internet venture capital fund in Dongyi, without any negotiation or signing a contract, directly wired $5 million in cash to PayPal, asking for 1% of the shares, and did not even fill in the address of the remitter, so that Peter Thiel did not know who to return the money to.

He did all of this, and it was March 8th. Then, on March 10, the Nasdaq reached an all-time high of 5,048 points, and the following Monday opened with a direct plunge of 1,000 points - you know this better than me. If it weren't for the 313 crash, you probably wouldn't have been listed on 630, and you would definitely want to hold the company in your hands and appreciate it. ”

After Gu Cheng finished speaking, he waited for Ding Sanshi to digest and digest it.

He knew that before he told this story, Ding Sanshi must have one last struggle in his heart.

That is to postpone the listing!

Since Gu Cheng told him that it was possible to raise the daily active IP to a higher level through covert technical means, Ding Sanshi would definitely feel that it was a big deal that Huang Yi would postpone his listing for a month, and he would have time to find a "cheap spare tire" to replace Gu Cheng.

However, the implication of this example given by Gu Cheng could not be clearer.

On the eve of a complete burst, it's far more important to escape fast than to peak high.

What if Peter Tiel hadn't been saved by that Wall Street Journal commentary? Will the laurel of "successfully forming the first Alipay of mankind" still be worn on his head? Will he still become the major shareholder of FACEBOOK and the PayPal-Mafia that is entangled in Silicon Valley? ）

The life and death of an Internet tycoon is often a fine line.

Sometimes 10% is hard work, 90% is luck. Behind the successful and glamorous bosses, there are at least dozens of times as good as them, but they are unlucky.

The reason why Gu Cheng knew this and collected the February 16 issue of the Wall Street Journal in advance was entirely because he had read Peter Thiel's memoir "From 0 to 1" in later generations.

There are some things that he can't talk to Ding Sanshi, but others can.

"If I told you that Peter Thiel gave the Wall Street Journal editor a $2 million commercial bribe for this opinion piece, would you still think the price I asked you today was expensive?

His logic is actually quite simple. He didn't care how much it cost the Wall Street Journal to publish an article, he just said bluntly: If you publish an article, I will raise money. How much you raise, you will be given two percentage points. ”

When the capital winter is coming, in order to raise money to survive the winter, it is normal to give rebates to venture capitalists.

Sometimes, the money is just for the risk assessors hired by the VC fund. The entrepreneur will say to the appraiser: forget about the data falsification you found in the financial statements and market statements, as long as you tell your boss that our company is not risky, let him invest money in me, I will not say a word about you to divide yourself two percentage points.

If you look for someone from the Wall Street Journal, or even a "technical fraudster" like Gu Cheng, it is reasonable to double it again.

Gu Cheng calculated Ding Sanshi's psychological limit, and with the current crisis, he was even willing to pay an additional 5% of the amount of financing to save the situation.

In other words, if Gu Cheng does something, he can make Huang Yi's valuation rise by 100 million US dollars and raise 20 million more new shares issued at the time of IPO. Then Ding Sanshi must be willing to take 5% of the 20 million miles, that is, 1 million US dollars, as a benefit fee for Gu Cheng.

The more Gu Cheng helped him inflate the valuation, the more benefits he would get.

Tong Su is not bullied.

Peter Thiel went from the infinite scenery to suicide by jumping off a building, and there was only a few days behind him.

This example deeply shocked Ding Sanshi.

"Okay, I accept your offer. ”

Gu Cheng listened and breathed a sigh of relief. Hurry up and put forward some details of the transaction:

"Okay, then I'll continue to operate at this pace. You have to pay me the first amount of money after 10 days - I can give you a credit limit of 1 million, but after you run it up, you have to pay 2 million in a lump sum, leaving 1 million to me as a deposit. And then alternate transactions like this"

Gu Cheng had to mention this additional condition.

Because his capital is too small, he only has more than 500,000 available funds, so he can't afford to advance funds at all.

A hint of cunning flashed in Ding Sanshi's eyes.

"It seems that Mr. Gu's capital is not too big. ”

When he heard this, Gu Cheng's palms were full of cold sweat. But there was still no abnormality on his face: "Mr. Ding, this kind of business is not visible." I'm not safe to put too much money on ......"

"Okay, don't explain, the examples of PayPal have been cited, and to be honest, it touched me a lot. Whatever you say, so be it. ”

Ding Sanshi is quite frank and does not stalk.

He has no prejudice against Gu Cheng, and the price reduction at the beginning is just to save money, and he is in business.

Ding Sanshi disdains to do the battle of will that harms others and is not beneficial to himself.

Gu Cheng finally survived the initial crisis.

"Then it's settled, farewell. ”

……

By the time Huang Yi left, it was already completely dark.

Gu Cheng's whole spirit was about to collapse.

It's not that his psychological quality is too poor to suppress Ding Sanshi, it's that his capital is too small to lose.

He also had to live in the capital for a while, arrange the deal, and advance money to the "supplier" on the Dongyi side.

If he didn't get Huang Yi's first payment, he didn't dare to leave.

The price of the hotel near Zhongguancun is very expensive, and it is quite distressing to stay for more than ten days.

So he checked the map, took Line 4 out of the North Fifth Ring Road, crossed the Anhe Bridge, and found a cheap hotel to live in.

It doesn't matter if the facilities are almost, as long as there is an internet cable in the room.

As soon as he arrived at the hotel, Gu Cheng took a hot bath to relax his nerves, but he fell asleep after soaking.

When he woke up, after drying his body and looking at his phone, he found that he was still holding a Samsung CDMA machine used in Dongyi, and he couldn't use it when he returned to China.

Gu Cheng didn't have a watch, and he didn't even know the time.

He was so hungry that he dressed and went downstairs to forage for food, only to find that it was already late, and even the Lanzhou ramen was closed. In the end, I only found a cool skin stall with worrying health conditions, and I made do with it.

I especially forgot to tell the boss not to put chili oil, and made him, a Jiangnan literati, so spicy that he could only ask two more bottles of cold beer to rinse his mouth.

Drinking cold beer, Gu Cheng's homesickness and loneliness became heavier and heavier.

After all, he is different from other traversers, others have traveled to their own homes anyway, and the relatives of the physical deity are still there. And he was in a foreign country as soon as he was possessed, without relatives, for more than a month.

"Tomorrow I'm going to buy a new phone, get a domestic number, and call my cousin so that they know I'm back home." ”

(Third !!)