008 Follow the smart people
Zhong Tongxin walked out of the café a little dejected.
When Chang Dong and Zhang Fei talked about the so-called "unicorn" project, unsurprisingly, they euphemistically invited her and her husband Zhou Yang out.
That's right, if it involves trade secrets, whether it is successful or not, it will definitely have a bad impact on outsiders.
In fact, Zhong Tongxin is not curious about the so-called unicorn project, because she is self-aware - even if she knows what this project is, she can't make it.
The root cause of her despair was Chang Dong.
Now her mind is full of Chang Dong and Zhang Fei talking eloquently!
The bright and swaggering appearance of those eyes was something she couldn't see on Zhou Yang.
Although her husband's company claims to have a market value of hundreds of millions, in fact, no one is necessarily willing to accept the price of 30 million, otherwise how could her husband work hard to invest everywhere?
Of course, even so, in the eyes of her, a girl from a fifth-tier city, Zhou Yang is also a god-like existence.
It's just that when this god casually took out 30 million yuan to invest in an unknown Internet company, and then started the next round of investment non-stop, he immediately became a firefly next to Haoyue.
Humility, weakness, gloom, not worth mentioning.
"Xiaotong Xiaotong?"
Zhou Yang's shout made Zhong Tongxin come back to his senses.
She subconsciously turned her head to look, and her expression was suddenly stunned, because at this time, Zhou Yang's gaze at her was unexpectedly strange.
It is no longer a high-minded image that she needs to hollow out to please, and it is no longer a radiant and successful person.
It's like confronting ...... Investors seem to be flattering.
"That classmate of yours...... What is the background? ”
Zhong Tongxin listened to the slightly flattering inquiry, and suddenly realized in his heart.
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"Master key WIFI." After Zhong Tongxin left, Chang Dong spit out a key word.
Zhang Fei raised his eyebrows, and for a long time he didn't find a corresponding or similar project from this keyword.
The other two Suhua and Cheng Yixiao also looked at each other, their faces blank.
Seeing this, Chang Dong admired Chen Danian, the founder of Universal WIFI, more and more in his heart, and his expectations for investing in shares became more and more reduced.
Speaking of which, the reason why Chang Dong paid attention to the master key WIFI was that he was a loyal user of the software in his previous life.
The most important reason is that Chen Danian once gave each employee a Tesla, which caused a sensation on the Internet and attracted the limelight, causing netizens to eagerly ask "Is your company still short of people".
Therefore, it is very impressive.
"Chen Danian knows, right?" Chang Dong Road.
Zhang Fei nodded: "One of the founders of Dasheng Network, Chen Tianqiao's younger brother, became the richest man in Zhuxia with his brother in 2004, when he was only 26 years old!" ”
"He's working on this project right now."
"What project Chen Danian is working on?"
Zhang Fei's face was full of surprise, he was not surprised that this was Chen Danian's project, but that he was surprised that this kind of project was carried out by a technical expert, and he didn't know anything.
Is this Chen Danian's low-key?
Or is he unheard?
Zhang Fei didn't know that in Changdong's previous life, the universal WIFI was terrifyingly low-key.
By August 2016, it had 900 million users, 520 million daily active users, and even more daily downloads than QQ and Renren.
If it weren't for rewarding employees with million-dollar luxury cars, I am afraid that they would have been making a fortune in silence.
Chang Dong probably talked about the concept of universal WIFI, and Feng Huan said: "...... At present, the development of chopsticks short videos is restricted, in addition to content is king, the most important point is the high cost of mobile traffic. As the saying goes: those who get the sling wire win the world, we must take into account the use of ordinary people's traffic. ”
"For us, a few hundred dollars a month Internet fee is just a drop in the bucket, but for ordinary people, the tariff is more than 100 yuan, I'm afraid you have to think about it, now the 4G era has just begun, the tariff is bound to remain high, this kind of environment is not friendly, the promotion of chopsticks, how fast do you think the user growth rate can be?"
"But what if our users are in the free WIFI?"
Chang Dong's foresight made Zhang Fei and the others frown.
To be honest, as executors, although they have also considered these trivial things, they are helpless due to the general environment.
However, they didn't expect that what they had nothing to do, Chang Dong would have the means to solve it.
It can be said that his understanding of the mobile network is simply clearer than they imagined!
"Do you want to invest in universal WIFI? Or work with him? Zhang Fei asked.
"It's almost, but Chen Danian is different from ordinary entrepreneurs, for him, to have technology, to have a team, to have funds, we want to invest, people are not necessarily happy!"
"As for cooperation? To be honest, it's hard to do him any good. On the contrary, they can give us extraordinary help, so it is not easy to ride without spending money on his ride. ”
Zhang Fei's eyes flashed: "Do you want to start a new business?" ”
Whether to start anew, Chang Dong is also quite entangled.
Chang Dong is very self-aware, he is an ordinary person with excellent luck.
Although he has a strategic vision that goes far beyond the current people, it is only a blessing from the River of Time, and it only has a six-year shelf life left.
As far as he is concerned, he still can't hide the fact that the sling!
This is determined by the original family and education level, and if you want to change, you can, but it will not work for a while.
Since you don't have the ability, it's better to admit it generously and follow the smart people.
This is the fundamental reason why Chang Dong decided to invest in Chopsticks, instead of looking for a team by himself and working alone.
At least, the current choice, as long as there are no accidents, he can sit back and enjoy the success, why take the risk and bow down to everything?
But what if smart people don't want to lead a group?
Chang Dong took a slight breath and said: "Chen Danian is a big man, I don't have confidence in fighting with him." So my idea is, let's get in touch first, test the tone, and people are willing to take us to play the best, if they don't want to......"
Chang Dong smiled, his posture was very free: "Such a piece of oily and fat meat, looking at being taken away, I am really unwilling, if he is not willing to take us to play, there is no way, then he can only do it alone, my requirements are not high, he eats meat, let's drink soup, right?" ”
What if smart people don't want to lead a group?
Follow behind secretly!
Anyway, he's an investor, not an entrepreneur.
What will happen to the future of the company, it has nothing to do with him, he just needs to find a suitable opportunity, sell equity, and make a fortune.
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As an investor, Chang Dong can not care about the outcome of the company, but Zhou Yang has to care.
Because the company is the stage for him to sing.
With a platform, he has the capital to fool investors.
Without a stage, he is nothing, status, prestige, compliments, women...... All of them have to disappear.
Now his stage is collapsing.
No one knows that the gentleman in Zhong Tongxin's mouth, Zhou Yang, a capable person in the eyes of employees, and a successful person in the eyes of outsiders, is actually on the verge of bankruptcy.
He only has less than 30,000 yuan left on his company's books, and he doesn't even know how to pay his employees' salaries next month?
What to do?
What else could he do?
He can only expand desperately!
Cover up the embarrassment of insufficient liquidity with expansion;
using expansion to disguise the dilemma of capital fracture;
Scaling up a new round of funding.
But his investors are not stupid, they have seen that his company is struggling, so is it the sunk cost of a strong man breaking his wrist? Or do you want to go for it? Investors are hesitant.
Investors can hesitate and weigh repeatedly, but he Zhou Yang can't hesitate, let alone wait.
Because investors thought that his company's funds could support him for a period of time, but as everyone knows, after the A round of financing, he floated and became public, and he began to raise Xiaomi and use the company's money to raise Xiaomi.
In order to enjoy Zhong Tongxin's adoring gaze, he spent a lot of money, causing the company's finances to deteriorate rapidly.
He remorseed!
But there is no regret medicine in this world.
So he had to look for new investors.
He looked for a lot of people.
But let his tongue bloom lotus, no one wants to vote.
Zhang Fei can be said to be almost his last hope.
But judging from today's chat, Zhang Fei is obviously not interested in his company.
Seriously, Zhou Yang was almost desperate at this time.
However!
There is no endless road.
He didn't expect that Zhong Tongxin, who was big-chested and brainless, would have an investor classmate with an unfathomable background.
Look at that age, it's definitely a proper rich second generation!
If you can take the lady's route, flicker, oh don't catch the line, let him invest one or two, let alone 30 million, it will be 3 million financing, which will be enough to solve his urgent need and make the company desperate.