042 - Negotiations between Facebook and Twitter
A few days later, a company called "Blacklight Biotechnology" quietly settled in the commercial capital.
The company's office space is located on the 45th floor of an ordinary office building in Shangdu Central, and its appearance has not attracted anyone's attention.
After all, every day, several such small businesses are created, and at the same time, several small businesses disappear, and their disappearance and appearance cannot even cause a ripple.
Just like all living beings in this world, how many people can leave an understatement in the long river of history?
As soon as the company sat down, it immediately entered the recruitment process, which made Xia Yin, who was in danger, busy, but fortunately she brought in a few employees of Huiyao Entertainment, which put the company on the right track.
And after the company recruited the first batch of teams, Xia Yin let those employees go back, after all, it is still necessary to avoid suspicion.
The first batch of the company's team has only established five departments of customer service, technology, planning, publicity and personnel, adding up to less than 20 people.
In terms of the publicity and distribution of "Little X Translation Assistant", Chen Chen also handed it over to the company to take care of, what kind of publicity, water army advertorials, web pop-ups, etc., Xia Yin directly used the page game, so she asked Uncle Da to shoot a few local advertisements.
For the time being, the technical department is only responsible for the operation of the website, and the technical department is not involved at all in the development and update of the software, so that there will be no risk of source code leakage.
At this time, Chen Chen was wearing a suit and sitting lazily in the chairman's office.
Because of the company's start-up, under Xia Yin's strong request, Chen Chen still came to the company to show his face, which was also the first time Chen Chen appeared since the company's establishment.
"At present, our products are still in the stage of free promotion, and this state may continue for a period of time.
Opposite Chen Chen was Xia Yin, who was wearing a black OL suit at this time, and her temperament was obviously much more capable than a month ago.
"No, we don't need any advertising."
Chen Chen shook his head and gently turned the gel pen in his hand, "Every company has its own corporate image, if you can choose, I hope that our company and our products can leave a 'clean and clean' impression, which is much more important than those small profits." ”
"After all, word of mouth will ferment."
"So when should we get into the toll link?"
Xia Yin asked, "Last month, we spent tens of millions of dollars on advertising, and if this continues, the company will have no money." ”
"In fact, for the people of Zhongzhou, the demand for our products is not large."
Chen Chen thought for a moment and said, "After all, you must know that the population density of Zhongzhou is comparable to that of several other continents, and the communication with the outside world is far less urgent than that of other continents, so the focus of our market should be in other more complex continents besides Zhongzhou, such as the multilingual European region, as well as our neighbor Yinzhou District." ”
"Especially those continents that play Facebook and Twitter." Chen Chen added.
"Chairman, Manager Xia."
At this moment, a middle-aged woman's voice suddenly came from outside the door.
"Please come in!" Chen Chen beckoned.
"This is my assistant Sister Ye." Xia Yin introduced to Chen Chen, "With Sister Ye's help, I can make up for my lack of experience in managing the company." ”
"Manager Xia has won the award."
The middle-aged woman known as Sister Ye smiled faintly, "Chairman, representatives of Facebook and Twitter have already gone downstairs. ”
Chen Chen suddenly raised his head, "They came together?" ”
"It seems...... Yes. Sister Ye couldn't keep up with Chen Chen's thinking, and stammered, "Is there any problem?" ”
Chen Chen chuckled, "After waiting for a month to come, it seems that they still can't crack the core of my program." ”
When Sister Ye heard this, she immediately smiled awkwardly, "Chairman, are you going to greet them at the door now?" ”
"Welcome what?" Chen Chen showed a puzzled look, "Don't they have long legs?" ”
"Uh......" Sister Ye choked, "Then, I'll let them go directly to the conference room?" ”
"Yes, let them wait in the conference room first, and I'll be here later."
Watching Sister Ye turn around and leave, Chen Chen turned his pen and looked at the other party's back, revealing a thoughtful look.
After waiting for a while, after seeing several blonde and blue-eyed foreigners rushing in outside the glass window, Chen Chen got up and walked towards the conference room.
Xia Yin hurriedly followed.
When Chen Chen walked into the conference room, five foreigners were already sitting in front of the guest seats, these five people were three men and two women, all wearing work suits, and Sister Ye was busy serving tea and pouring water for a few people.
And Chen Chen's side, in addition to him and Sister Xia Yinye, there is also a fresh graduate studying law.
When Chen Chen sat down, the man led by the foreigner spoke, "Hello Mr. Chen and Ms. Xia, I'm Tony, the executive officer of Facebook's legal department, this lady Emily here is my companion, Mr. Alvin next to me is the representative of Twitter, and the other two are our assistants this time." ”
What everyone didn't expect was that the other party actually used authentic Chinese.
Chen Chen glanced at the five of them and nodded, "I'm Chen Chen, the chairman of Blacklight Technology, I don't know what the purpose of coming here is?" ”
"That's right, Mr. Chen."
Tony smiled, "We, Facebook and Twitter, hope to make a Series A investment in your company, although your company is not profitable for the time being, but it has already brewed a certain reputation in the industry, our valuation of your company is 1.5 billion US dollars, if Mr. Chen agrees, our two companies can buy 70% of your company's shares at a price of one billion US dollars." ”
"Sorry, I don't have any idea of financing yet." Chen Chen replied without hesitation.
"Uh, doesn't Mr. Chen need to think about it again?"
Tony was a little surprised, "As far as I know, your company's angel round only raised eight million dollars, and this money is not enough to develop a good product like "Little X Translation Assistant", right?" ”
"That's not something for a few of you to think about."
Chen Chen picked up the tea and took a sip gently, "If it's just for this matter, you don't have to continue to talk about it." ”
"Okay......"
Seeing that Chen Chen's oil and salt did not enter, the other party had to change his way, "Since this is the case, then Mr. Chen, please take a look at this letter of intent." ”
As she spoke, Emily on the side took out a few white thin-cover books from her satchel and handed them to Chen Chen, Xia Yinye and others.
"As stated in the letter of intent, we at Facebook can purchase the perpetual rights to use Little X on our Facebook platform for $100 million without interfering with your company's software operations."
"It's the same with our Twitter."
Alvin, who had not spoken on the side, said, "We are also willing to pay $100 million for your company's "Little X Translation Assistant" to enter the Twitter platform. ”
Sister Ye on the side suddenly reminded in a whisper with words that only Xia Yin and Chen Chen could hear, "Manager Xia, this article from the other party is equivalent to advertising for both of them in the form of money, which is definitely a good opportunity for our company's publicity!" ”