Chen Danying has an extra follower Saoirse by her side, no matter where Chen Danying goes, Saoirse will not leave an inch, and Saoirsa's appearance will occupy the world of the two that Lu Xi had planned earlier.

Although they have only known each other for a few days, Chen Danying cares about this smart and fragile foreign girl very much, and can't bear to leave her alone, Lu Xi has nothing to do about it, so he can only use his energy on work.

It will take nearly a month to transfer the house, and after completing the formalities, I was busy with Wanxing for a few days, and met with Zhou Yi and Shen Fei, and learned that Zhou Yi and Shen Fei would return to China after leaving Microsoft, Lu Xi made an appointment with the two of them, and they would see each other after returning to China, and then sign a work contract.

In the past few days, with the efforts of Lu Xi and Wan Xingnian, the work has been carried out very smoothly, and the overseas R&D center has not been listed, but Brian and others can't wait to start work, and the technical staff is still being supplemented.

There is nothing uneasy abroad, in September, it began to rain all day long in Seattle, Chen Danying is about to start school, Saoirse wants to make the light bulb to the end, Lu Xi is ready to fly to Singapore, and then return to China.

On September 6, saying goodbye to Wan Xingnian, Chen Danying and Saoirse, Lu Xi was standing in the long queue and was about to board the plane, when he received a call from Wu Xiaoou, a Chinese engineer and partner of Infoseek who planned to return to China to start a business and needed start-up capital, and Wu Xiaoou hoped that venture capital would invest with IDG.

The airport was a little noisy, and I didn't hear clearly what company Wu Xiaoou was talking about, so Lu Xi walked out of the long line and gave way to the people who boarded the plane. He asked, "There are more people returning from overseas to start their own businesses. Are you sure this is a good project? ”

Since Luzhu Venture Capital, IDG and Shu Jiankun personally invested in VNET. Wu Xiaoou introduced some projects he was optimistic about to Luzhu Venture Capital from time to time, and during the time when Lu Xi went abroad, Luo Shuyue would often call to ask if he would follow the investment, and he couldn't remember how many of them were at this time.

Wu Xiaoou smiled and said: "It was introduced by a foreign friend, I haven't met it yet, I heard that you are in the United States, if it is convenient, I will meet with them, and it is inconvenient for me to contact them again." ”

Lu Xi laughed in his heart. He was going to invest before he even saw him, and he really deserved to be the first fool in China, and said: "I'm about to fly to Singapore, I'll take off immediately, let's talk about it when I return to China." ”

The two chatted a few more words, Lu Xi put down the phone and boarded the plane, but he didn't take Wu Xiaoou's words to heart, IDG's investment in China, in his opinion, half of it is doomed to die and lose all its money, of course, the premise is that their own development trajectory does not change.

Entering September. The temperature in Seattle dropped and it was drenched in light rain for days. At this time, Singapore was still hot, and the high temperature of more than 30 degrees made Lu Xi, who had just gotten off the plane, extremely uncomfortable.

Sitting in the car with Hong Xuedong, who came to pick him up, Lu Xi unbuttoned a few shirts, wiped the sweat on his forehead with a tissue, and saw that Hong Xuedong was about to speak, so he hurriedly said first: "Don't tell me anything at this time, I have to adapt for two days first." ”

Hong Xuedong smiled and instructed the Chinese driver of the Singapore company to drive to the hotel, and said: "Everything is on the right track here, Wen Fang usually looks at hip-hop, works more seriously than anyone else, and can afford heavy responsibilities, Mr. Sun will go back at the end of August, I plan to go back tomorrow, you want to rest for two days, then we will go back to China, anyway, there is no shortage of money on the venture capital side now." ”

Lu Xi frowned, and said with a smile: "If you go back to China tomorrow, then let's say it today, and you will move when you go back tomorrow." ”

Hong Xuedong nodded, and opened the topic: "You have gained a lot this time, you have picked up Brian's talent, and there are two senior engineers of Microsoft IE, Zhou Yi and Shen Fei, and you can also buy your favorite mansion, and be neighbors with Gates and Allen, I heard Lao Wan say that there is a white girl like snow who turns behind you, you kid are not afraid that Chen Danying will turn his face with you?" ”

Lu Xi didn't mention work, and said with a wry smile: "That's Chen Danying's fart, it has nothing to do with me, I hope she doesn't exist." ”

Looking at Lu Xi's bitter appearance, Hong Xuedong laughed twice, and said: "Brian pulled a group of people out from Mozhi, AOL has already regarded green bamboo as a thorn in his side, you are now going to Microsoft to poach people, are you not afraid that they will shoot you to death?" ”

Lu Xi glanced at the different scenery outside the car and Seattle, and said: "Mozhi will definitely regard the green bamboo as a thorn in the side, Microsoft is poached every year, and it has long been used to it, even if we poach Zhou Yi and Shen Fei, Microsoft will not lack talents, and IE will improve." ”

IE5 has been out for half a year, after the integrated sales of windows98se, the market share is super high, IE5 compared with the previous IE4, a lot of advanced technology has been added, but many companies have found a lot of bugs in IE5. Lu Xi learned from Zhou Yi and Shen Fei that Microsoft is making further revisions, and will not launch an updated version until two or three months, and is also developing the next generation of browsers.

Now the browser is the world of IE5, but Lu Xi knows that compared with the sixth generation browser, IE5 still has a lot of immaturity, the work of the green bamboo R&D center has begun, if you can come up with a perfect product before Microsoft launches the sixth generation browser, in the time difference, you should be able to fight a good battle.

But even if there are Brian, Zhou Yi and Shen Fei, what kind of products can be developed in the end, Lu Xi doesn't know at this time, he only knows that Luzhu can only launch the product before IE6, and it is possible to compete with the immature IE5 for the market, and there are less than two years left for them.

The two chatted all the way around Microsoft and Mozhi, and when the car arrived at the Shangri-La Hotel, Lu Xi got out of the car and looked up at the luxurious hotel, and joked: "Your life level has also come up." ”

Hong Xuedong smiled and said: "You spend more than one million dollars to buy a luxury house, Mr. Sun said that you are extravagant, I think about it carefully and understand, money is earned and spent, but staying in Shangri-La is still a big gap compared to you buying a luxury house." ”

Lu Xi handed the suitcase to the waiter and said with a smile: "Why don't you go over and be neighbors with me?" ”

Hong Xuedong smiled bitterly twice, and glared again: "Lao Tzu will never go to the United States in his life." ”

Lu Xi laughed, stopped Hong Xuedong at the door after going upstairs, and said: "Lao Shu brother and sister have already injected capital into venture capital, you have injected capital, let's talk about it at night, after more than 30 hours of flight, the iron man can't stand it, I'll sleep first." ”

Hong Xuedong stood at the door and grinned, "As long as it's not tomorrow, it's done." ”

After resting for half an afternoon, Lu Xi recovered his spirits, went downstairs and had dinner with Hong Xuedong and Yang Wenfang, who rushed over, and the three of them walked around the nearby botanical garden, chatted about the situation in Singapore and Malaysia for a while, and sent Yang Wenfang back, and Lu Xi went back to the hotel with Hong Xuedong to discuss the matter of capital injection and venture capital.

Shu Jiankun and Shu Wei, two siblings, injected capital into Green Bamboo Venture Capital, did not participate in decision-making, only waited for dividends, although Ant Moving has plans for Western Europe in the future, but it will not need to invest too much, at this time North American users are close to six million, advertising revenue can almost cope with future development.

However, Hong Xuedong still plans to leave part of it for the future development of the company, and then invest 30 million US dollars in the name of the development company, just like the two brothers and sisters of the Shu family, to be an investor who only waits for dividends.

Lu Xi has no opinion on this, after Hong Xuedong's capital injection, the venture capital will reach more than 100 million US dollars, and there will be sufficient funds for Du Nanling, Ctrip, and VNET follow-up investment in the future, and investment in promising projects.

"When I return to China tomorrow, I will go to Luo Shuyue." Hong Xuedong walked up to Lu Xi, who was sitting on the windowsill and watching the night view, and asked, "How much do you plan to invest in the R&D center?" ”

Lu Xi turned his head and stared for a while, and said: "From research and development to coming up with products, and then counting the later operations, it is conservatively estimated that it will be enough for 20 million US dollars." ”

Hong Xuedong asked: "The development cycle is at least one year, do you think they can come up with a better product than IE5?" When will IE's next generation come out? ”

"When IE6 will come out, even Gates doesn't know." Lu Xi smiled, "Of course I hope that Brian and they can develop a better browser than IE5." ”

Hong Xuedong was silent for a while, and said: "The browser is the entrance to the platform, and it is very helpful for Luzhu to do a good job, which is why I support you to do it, but at the moment, IE occupies more than eighty percent of the market, and you have to throw 20 million into it in a year or two, which is also a big gamble, I'm really afraid that you will lose the bet." ”

Brian can't get investment, because investors are not optimistic that he can break Microsoft's monopoly, although at the moment Brian, Zhou Yi, Shen Fei and others have rich experience, Lu Xi's idea has also been adopted by Brian, but it is still unknown how the developed product will be accepted by the market.

When he decided to go on the browser project, Lu Xi knew that this was a big gamble, and losing it was just a wasted investment, but if he could seize a certain market share in the competition of Microsoft IE5, it would be a brighter prospect for Luzhu.

Now that the R&D center has started working, it will take one to two years to see whether it will be successful or not.

In addition to the browser project, the projects invested by Green Bamboo Venture Capital, in addition to the two that are made for people to see, Qianqian Jingting, Ctrip, Century Internet and the investment that will be given to Cai Zhiheng after returning to China have very broad prospects, and the development of the first three in the previous life is also excellent, but to what extent this life can go, Lu Xi can't be confirmed, after all, there are green bamboo factors here.

For Lu Xi, the gambling game has started since the establishment of venture capital, and if you want to know how it ends, you must continue to play.

Unlike Hong Xuedong, knowing that it is a gamble, Lu Xi has great expectations for the projects and browsers invested by venture capital, and he is also very optimistic, and said with a smile: "No matter what, the gambling game has begun, you can wish me good luck." ”

Hong Xuedong was slightly silent and said, "I hope Brian and Zhou Yi will not disappoint." (To be continued......)

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