This is a normal three-bedroom apartment.

As soon as you enter the door, you can see the cramped living room, there is no sofa, no TV, only crowded desks, and computers.

When Chang Dong came over, they happened to be at lunchtime, sitting at their desks in groups of three or five, eating boxed lunches, or chatting about family routines or talking about work problems.

Seeing Chang Dong coming in, they subconsciously glanced up one by one to see this possible new colleague in the future.

"Brother Su, Brother Cheng, someone has come for an interview." The girl who opened the door shouted.

"Okay." Two young men who were discussing while eating, heard the words and hurriedly put down their chopsticks and walked over.

They are none other than Cheng Yixiao and Suhua, the core and founders of the chopsticks team.

Cheng Yixiao walked halfway and pushed a swivel chair over.

"Sit down!" Suhua beckoned, and the three of them sat down at a desk in the southeast corner of the living room.

Chang Dong nodded and sat down, he looked at the two young people opposite who were reading their resumes, his mood was quite complicated, he was excited, excited, and a little apprehensive.

After all, in essence, he is just an ordinary sling, and now he wants to meet the future industry bosses, and his mood is naturally quite mixed.

Fortunately, money is the guts of people!

158 million gave him infinite confidence.

The most important thing is that the other party also starts from the end of the slightest, so what's there to cowardly about this?

Cheng Yixiao glanced at the resume in his hand and said, "I took a look at your file, you are very good at JAVA and AAuto languages?" ”

Chang Dong knew that he had misunderstood, and said with a smile: "No, I'm here to apply for product positioning and planning operations." ”

The two were stunned, and Su Hua waved the resume in his hand: "This is ......"

Chang Dong stretched out his hands: "If I don't submit this resume, I'm afraid I won't even have a chance to meet." ”

Chang Dong's words not only stunned the two of Suhua, but also made a room of employees look weird,, this kid is a!

"I'm sorry, we don't have a shortage of this position for the time being." A hint of displeasure flashed in Cheng Yixiao's eyes, although Chang Dong's behavior reflected his little cleverness, but this was for Chang Dong.

For bosses, who likes to be tricked?

"It's not working time anyway, why don't you listen to me?" Chang Dong Road.

Suhua showed a hint of interest: "Interesting, do you know what we do?" ”

"Of course, I used to be a GIF maker and sharing tool, and now I'm transforming into a short video community, which is the main reason why I came."

That's right,Chopsticks was not originally positioned as community software.,It's just a tool application.,The general principle is to use pictures to make dynamic video effects.,Mainly rely on Weibo to survive.。

From the perspective of Chang Dong's previous life, the transformation time of chopsticks can be called a historical BUG.

It is almost just before the arrival of the mobile 4G network, and since then, Dapeng has risen with the wind one day and soared to 90,000 miles!

Suhua nodded unexpectedly and said, "Then what do you think or suggest about this?" ”

Chang Dongdao: "Your company's chopsticks are a tool application, all its content is spread by Weibo, not only the traffic is limited by Weibo, but as a tool application, it is difficult to have its own traffic, and monetization will be a major challenge, so it is a very wise decision for you to transform into a community." ”

"Of course, transforming into a community means giving up the huge traffic on Weibo and starting from scratch, which is undoubtedly a challenge and a very painful process."

"Even so, I think you've taken a perfect step because the earlier you transform, the easier it is to turn around user perceptions."

"Now I think there are three main difficulties in your company: first, content output, at present, chopsticks are all beautiful selfies, pets and other element videos, the content homogenization is very serious, at first glance it is very fresh, but it lacks continuous stickiness, if you want to solve this point, you can't just rely on user creation, but also need the platform as a guide."

"Second, user acquisition. This is not so much a difficulty as it is that it becomes relatively easy to acquire over time and the environment changes. However, this is only relative, and if you want to acquire users quickly, you must use extraordinary means. ”

"Third, there is insufficient funding. The general environment I said before, I think the two of you should know, yes, the 4G era has arrived, and now it is the darkness before the dawn. If you can't get through it, everything will be stopped. ”

With Chang Dong's eloquent conversation, everyone in the room looked at each other.

Some people feel very disdainful, thinking that Chang Dong is a big fool who runs the train with his mouth;

Some people think that what Chang Dong said seems to make sense, but he seems to think about the problem too simply.

Some people think that Chang Dong is a big bastard, and it is estimated that he is here to mix wages.

However, Su Hua and Cheng Yixiao were shocked when they heard this, and they looked at each other, and they both saw the shock in each other's eyes.

Some words are simple, but who can see clearly when they are in the game?

The young man in front of him can see at a glance the problem of their small company, which is almost not very famous, and he has obviously put a lot of effort into research!

"Well said! You've been accepted! Suhua said subconsciously excitedly.

"Ahh

"I'll say in advance, we don't have a high salary, of course, we have option awards......"

Su Hua was talking, not wanting to "knock knock...... when there was a sudden knock at the door, interrupting him.

The little sister who opened the door before walked over, opened the door, and saw a young man standing outside the door, with a curious face: "Hello, my name is Ding Hui, I came for an interview, we had a phone call before." ”

"Poof......" There was a sudden sound of spraying rice in the room, and an employee looked at Chang Dong with a confused expression.

At this time, the little sister who opened the door also looked confused, she looked at the young man in front of the door, and then looked at Chang Dong: "You, you...... You are Ding Hui, so who are you? ”

"You're not Ding Hui?" Cheng Yixiao exclaimed.

At this moment, everyone in the room came over in unison.

Holy, what's going on?

Real or fake Monkey King?

Running in the wrong place?

Impersonating someone else?

Facing everyone's stunned eyes, Chang Dong smiled slightly, stood up, stretched out his right hand, and said solemnly: "Let me introduce myself again, my name is Chang Dong, an independent investor, I am very optimistic about the prospects of your company, so I brought 30 million funds here, I don't know if I can cooperate with your company?" ”

Investor?

Million!

In an instant, there was a dead silence in the room!

Falling pins can be heard!

Everyone looked at Chang Dong in shock, but they didn't expect that this young man in simple clothes turned out to be a big money owner!

What is even more incredible to them is that when they begged their grandfather to tell their grandmother and couldn't find an investor, there were still investors who took the initiative to find them.

It's just crazy!

At this moment, Rao is Cheng Yixiao and Suhua have seen more investors, and they can't help but swaying at this time, and they lose their minds for a long time.

After a while, Suhua calmed down the excitement in his heart, stood up, reached out to hold Chang Dong's right hand, and said concisely and competently: "Suhua!" ”

Cheng Yixiao also stood up: "Cheng Yixiao!" ”

Chang Dong stretched out his hands in a slightly strange posture and shook hands with Suhua and Cheng Yixiao.

"Well, the development of the company, talent first, don't let people wait for a long time, you interview the main owner first, and we will talk about this matter slowly." Chang Dong pointed to Ding Hui, a job seeker standing at the door with a confused face.

"I'll do the interview, you can entertain the distinguished guests." Cheng Yixiao said to Suhua, and then to Chang Dong: "I'm sorry, then I'll miss it first." ”

Chang Dong nodded with a smile.

……

When Cheng Yixiao received job seekers, Chang Dong and Suhua chatted for a while, and finally had a clear understanding of the equity composition of chopsticks.

Founded in 2011 by Cheng Yixiao, Mr. Zhang Fei, a partner of Chenhua Capital, was the first to give an angel investment, investing 2 million, accounting for 20% of the shares.

Later, Cheng Yixiao realized the limitations of tool application and decisively transformed the short video community.

However, the company does not say that it can be transferred, in order to transform, two million were quickly burned, but the daily activity of users did not increase.

At this time, the company was short of people and money, and was on the verge of bankruptcy, and the future was bleak.

Although 4G is far away, no one is sure what the future will look like, so naturally no one is willing to invest money.

In the end, Suhua joined, so that Chenhua Capital chased the investment funds and slowly let the chopsticks tide over the difficulties.

However, Suhua is a very ambitious person, he has his own team and projects, so in order to persuade Suhua to join, the original shareholders of Chopsticks diluted half of their shares and distributed them to Suhua and the team.

So far, Suhua and the team have 50% of the shares, Cheng Yixiao and the team have 40% of the shares, and Chenhua Capital has 10% of the shares.

Chang Dong's goal is to win 40% of the equity with 30 million, and the minimum is 30%.

Of course, 30 million alone is certainly not enough. However, he also has a plan to kill two birds with one stone, and if it happens, he may be able to take down another unicorn in addition to Chopsticks.