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Li Yifan's words couldn't help but make Wang Teng's expression solemn, it seems that the company's development was too smooth before, and it really made him a little fluttery.
In the past two years, the NASDAQ has been on fire, and it is true that all kinds of network concept stocks have made a lot of money in the stock market, but now the momentum of the NASDAQ seems to be a little too hot.
If you rush into it at this time, if you catch up with the NASDAQ crash, then even if your company is running well, it will inevitably be affected by the financial market.
And compared with industry giants such as Amazon and Yahoo, their own forty pirate websites are too fragile, and if the stock is really beaten to the end because of market fluctuations, then if someone else gives you a hostile takeover with malicious intentions, then I am afraid that the money earned from the stock market will not be enough to fill the hole by yourself, and it is very likely that this company that has poured countless efforts into it.
Thinking of this, even though the sun was shining outside and the temperature was not low, Wang Teng still broke out in a cold sweat.
"Well, Brother Xiao Li, brother, I really have to thank you, if you hadn't been a slap in the face this time, my brother and I might really be planted in it now, our company's current development momentum is good, but if you want to test the water in the financial market, it's really a bit early!"
Wang Teng, who was originally a little hesitant to let the company go public, suddenly gave up the idea of letting the company go public after listening to Li Yifeng's flickering, and planned to take a look at what he was saying first.
However, if the company is not listed, there is one more thing that will lead Wang Teng to have a headache.
"Brother, I'll tell you about it."
The expression on Wang Teng's face was a little embarrassed. Li Yifan knows this old brother. There must have been something that wasn't easy to solve again.
"Brother Wang. What is the relationship between the two of us, what are the difficulties, you just say it. ”
"That's right, our forty thieves website is developing well, and the company has turned profitable, but because the company is facing rapid expansion, we have not paid dividends in the company's profits in the past year. Instead, we continue to devote ourselves to the sustainable development of the website, so that you, Brother Wang, and I are a little tight. But now our other company, the battle between the network and eBay is in full swing, and now the competition is very fierce, the situation in the market, I guess you also know, the Americans are rich and powerful, and if we don't fight with them, the development of this leaky network. I'm afraid the future will change......"
Speaking of this, the expression on Wang Teng's face was a little confused. Although he didn't say all the words later, the meaning was already obvious, he just wanted to ask Li Yifan to see if he had any spare money in his hand.
And after Li Yifan listened to it, there was no excessive reaction, in fact, for more than a year, the battle between eBay and the leaky network has been seen in the newspapers more than once.
Today he is engaged in product promotion, tomorrow he will have a discount or something, the battle between the two websites is indeed a bit of a hot taste.
Now that he has relied on the 30 million funds he invested at the beginning, he has indeed done a very good job of fighting with the wealthy Yankees.
However, if we continue to fight hard like this, it is inevitable that both sides will lose, and the two sides can only continue to be entangled in the market until one side falls down completely, and the other party monopolizes the market.
Compared with the forty thieves, Li Yifan is more interested in this leaky net, more than ten years later, this leaky net is an existence that has changed the consumption pattern of Chinese people.
The consumption of consumers across the country can reach trillions of dollars throughout the year, and it has maintained an annual growth rate of more than 10 percent or even more, and after more than 10 years, this network consumption pattern will occupy 178 percent of the domestic consumption quota, which shows the bright prospects of this leaky network.
So at this time, when Wang Teng mentioned that it might be a little difficult to pick up the funds that slipped through the net, Li Yifan immediately did not hesitate, if there is no money, let's just invest it again.
Think about it, E-BAY invested hundreds of millions of dollars to activate this website for several years after acquiring eBay.com, and two years after eBay was acquired by E-BAY, Wang Teng entered the C2C market with the success of 40 thieves, and in the year of entering this market and establishing the leak network, Wang Teng smashed 100 million funds and announced that the leak network was all free.
The two sides have been entangled in this way for several years, until the financial crisis broke out in the United States, and eBay completely collapsed, and before that, the two sides have always been inseparable.
Now E-BAY sees the consumption potential of the Chinese market, and after joining the C2C competition army, they have also increased their investment, and the scale of eBay in the advertising terminal is much larger than in the previous life.
TV, newspapers, the Internet, various news media, as well as subway stations, buses and other places, can see their ubiquitous advertising campaigns, so now many of the earliest people who tried the waters of online shopping know the existence of eBay.
After the birth of the leak network, the momentum is also very strong, especially Wang Teng has adopted the same strategy as in his previous life, that is, the leak network implements a free and open policy for small and medium-sized businesses, so that although they do not invest as much in advertising as eBay, the effect is very good.
After all, merchants are profit-seeking, and those who sit in such an online shopping business are generally not particularly rich owners, and they can't help but be careful about the cost, so now there are more merchants on the Internet than on eBay, which is the advantage of the Internet.
But compared with eBay, the current Wang Teng is not as wealthy as later generations, the forty thieves are still expanding rapidly, and he has just given up the idea of listing the company, so if he wants to continue to fight with eBay, this capital has become a problem.
Although eBay has a large investment in advertising, but in the business model, they still adopt this charging system, although the Americans have sent them a lot of shells, but they also have a certain hematopoietic function.
But the leaky network is not so optimistic, first of all, they don't charge for merchants, and secondly, the website has only been established for a year, and it is still working hard to expand, to the point of expanding the army, its own hematopoietic function is not strong, if you continue to fight with eBay like this, they will definitely not be able to fight.
So he had to try to raise money from outside, and when it came to financing, Wang Teng was much more cautious this time, compared with those greedy foreign financial institutions, he was obviously more willing to believe that Li Yifan, his old friend.
And the reason why he came to Bincheng this time was also for the purpose of inspecting the Li family, that is, to see if their family's capital was so strong.
After two days of sightseeing, he saw the tip of the iceberg of the Li family's strength, as for how much potential this family has, he really couldn't figure it out.
Of course, Li Yifan spared no effort to help pick up the leaky net to tide over the difficulties, and the future of the leaky net can only be described as infinite, so now it is to smash the pot and sell iron, and he will also help the leaky net to carry it over.
As long as it waits until 05 years later, after the popularization of private computers in China, the success of this leak is simply just around the corner.
"Haha, what should I do? How much money is the difference between Brother Wang, you can just say it, right? ”
For such a thing, Li Yifan doesn't care at all, now he has nearly 300 million living money in hand, and by the end of this month, it will not be a problem to break through 300 million.
Although going to the capital to find the relationship between the imperial court and Taiwan paves the way, zuihou may spend tens of millions of dollars to place advertisements, and the eldest sister's store expansion may also have to invest another one or two million, but he still has a lot of remaining living money.
Although he has other jihua, he may also use the money back, but for taking the money out to fund the net, it is definitely an unshirkable obligation for him.
What's more, from last year to now, the nearly 100 million US dollars he has saved in the Swiss bank, but he has not touched it at all, and now this money has been converted into RMB, which is also more than 800 million.
Seeing Li Yifan's promise so happily, Wang Teng was overjoyed, but when he thought of the amount he wanted, he was a little apprehensive.
"Yifan, there is one thing I have to let you know, the battle between us and eBay is not a result in a day or two, and looking at the current jiashi of the Yankees, they are ruthless. This year, I heard that their investment in advertising will continue to increase, and it is likely to reach 50 million, and on our side, the 30 million you gave last year has been almost spent, and this year we want to fight against the Americans, at least it cannot be lower than this number, you know that we started later than eBay, which is our disadvantage......"
50 million is really not a small amount in this idea, and in the era when money was not over-issued, this amount can at least be equivalent to 500 million in later generations.
"Fifty million? No problem? Brother Wang, how much can you come up with? How far are we? ”
It turned out to be only 50 million, Li Yifan breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, just looking at Wang Teng's expression, he thought that he would at least have 350 million yuan for one mouth.
And Wang Teng saw Li Yifan's indifferent demeanor, and his heart was also relieved, this kid really has a lot of material!
But immediately, his expression became a little embarrassed, the forty thieves did make him a lot of money, but the money was invested in the forty thieves company in a blink of an eye, so he really didn't have much money on hand, and some time ago, he borrowed from friends everywhere, and he only made up less than 10 million, which is still quite far from the goal of 20 million in his heart...... (To be continued.) )