The 246th value is not worth it depends on the goal

Bai Guo felt that Qi Lirui's idea of the festival had a beginning and an end, and the performance was orderly, and he praised him a little: "You have considered it very comprehensively." ”

Qi Lirui smiled lightly: "It's all money, you can't be cautious." ”

Qi Lirui said easily.

Behind this conclusion, there are actually all kinds of unbearable past. lent money to my cousin, but the meat bun beat the dog and never returned; I heard that Wei Dongsheng valued Alibaba at $200 billion and "bottomed" Alibaba (B2B) shares at an average price of HK$30, but Alibaba survived the financial crisis, and the stock price is still only HK$18; At the beginning of the year, I bought a new house for my parents and listened to the credit guarantee of my relatives, but it turned out to be a bad debt because of the lack of real estate certificates. It's not that Qi Lirui does everything she can to think comprehensively, but this filthy society forces people to be thoughtful.

If she hadn't eaten a trench and grown wise, Qi Lirui's wealth from stock speculation would have been wiped out by those with ill intentions.

Feelings belong to feelings, and business belongs to business.

The older Qi Lirui gets, the more rational she becomes.

Qi Lirui was unwilling to put her relationship with Bai Guo's best friend on the shelf and waste it in vain, nor was she willing to lose the friendship between her and Bai Guo because of a little petty profit. When Qi Lirui contacted Bai Guo to invest in Qiao Yihui's web game project, she took the initiative to confess the pros and cons of this investment, gains and losses, and if it failed, it was also incapable.

If she succeeds, Qi Lirui can prove her worth and indirectly tell Bai Guo: I, Qi Lirui, are also capable and valuable.

Bai Guo recognized Qi Lirui's ability, and Qi Lirui could really be tied to Bai Guo.

Bai Guo may or may not know Qi Lirui's thoughts. After thinking about it for a while, Bai Guo didn't give an answer immediately after all: "I'll think about it first." ”

Qi Lirui didn't rush recklessly: "Okay." ”

Before hanging up the phone, Qi Lirui painted this business exchange with friendship as usual: "Do you have any travel plans for the Spring Festival, remember to open my eyes when the time comes." ”

Bai Guo smiled casually and promised: "Okay." ”

Bai Guo said that considering it is not an excuse, but that she is really thinking about it.

The summer vacation of the third year of college is the dividing line, and Bai Guo walks out of the campus and gradually adapts to the mixed society. Bai Guo was first stuffed into the assistant group by Wei Dongsheng, starting from small things such as being responsible for file management, answering phone calls, and answering consultations, and gradually became familiar with the operation routines of the Spring and Autumn Group. Similar to Qi Lirui, from the summer of 2008 to the autumn of 2009, the ginkgo fruit also experienced all kinds of bad things, and it matured quickly.

Wei Dongsheng did not ask Bai Guo what he had to do.

Wei Dongsheng wants Bai Guo to do what she wants to do.

But what is what he wants to do, Bai Guo has never had an answer in his heart.

To this day, there are two paths for Ginkgo to go.

The first way is to continue to be familiar with the Spring and Autumn Group, improve the comprehensive business capabilities, and finally take over the Spring and Autumn Group. This road is not easy to follow, because Wei Dongsheng divides things and feelings very clearly, he would rather give Bai Guo 100 million US dollars to lose, than allow Bai Guo's corpse to sit in a management position in the Spring and Autumn Group.

Wei Dongsheng also has this attitude towards his miscellaneous relatives, if any of his relatives come to cry poor, Wei Dongsheng would rather give him a sum of money to send away, and will not give his unreliable relatives a job in the Spring and Autumn Period.

The relatives were definitely dissatisfied with Wei Dongsheng's ruthlessness, but they had nothing to say, because Wei Dongsheng's close relative, Wei Ma, was also treated like this. In other words, Zhuwei Group was originally created for Wei Ma. However, when Wei Dongsheng needed Zhuwei Group to lay out Panyang City, he no longer regarded Zhuwei Group as Wei's mother's toy. From the canteen to the operator, from the workshop director to the production manager, from the quality inspector to the quality inspection manager, after Wei Ma put down her body and personally became familiar with and controlled the operation of a factory, Wei Dongsheng then promoted Wei Ma's authority step by step.

Compared with ordinary employees, Wei Ma is lucky, as long as the ability is up to standard, Wei Ma will be promoted immediately, and she will go to wherever she wants; Compared with other wealthy mothers, Wei's mother is hardworking, her son is already the richest man in China, and she is still running between the assembly lines. If Bai Guo wants to climb in the Spring and Autumn Group system, he must accumulate his professionalism step by step like Wei Ma.

The second way is to jump out of the existing chessboard of the Spring and Autumn Period, capital operation, angel investment and other ways to open up a new kingdom exclusive to her Baiguo. To put it simply, it is to take a sum of money from Wei Dongsheng, or invest in other entrepreneurs' projects like Qi Lirui invested in Qiao Yihui, or simply recruit a group of people to start a business themselves.

Ginkgo tends to take the second path.

Wei Dongsheng also agreed that Bai Guo jumped out of the Spring and Autumn Department to do what she wanted to do, after all, the Spring and Autumn Department was Wei Dongsheng's ideal, and Bai Guo had the right to have her own ideals.

It was also a coincidence that when Bai Guo was thinking about starting his own business or venture capital, Qi Lirui called in time.

Qi Lirui is a newcomer in the angel investment industry, while Bai Guo's venture capital ideas are still in his mind, and he doesn't know anything about the details of the investment world, which is newer than Qi Lirui. Bai Guo has worked in the assistant group for more than a year, and has witnessed the deception of many Spring and Autumn groups and other groups, and knows that every industry has its own dangers. Baiguo hopes to make a small investment by trial and error, and then slowly increase the amount of investment after being familiar with the routines of the investment community. In this way, the scale investment of 200,000 yuan proposed by Qi Lirui was very suitable for the situation.

It's just 200,000 yuan, and if you lose it, you will pay it.

It is very rewarding to be fortunate enough to learn valuable lessons.

Bai Guo replied to Qi Lirui that considering it stemmed from her awe of the unfamiliar field. Bai Guo wanted to also communicate with Wei Dongsheng, ask Wei Dongsheng's opinion, ask Wei Dongsheng's opinion on web games, ask Wei Dongsheng's opinion on her investment in web games, and ask about the matters that need to be paid attention to in the investment industry. Ginkgo doesn't have a lot of flowers, and does whatever comes to mind. A few days later, he happened to meet Wei Dongsheng who was free, and Bai Guo took the opportunity to talk about it: "Dongsheng, I want to test the waters of angel investment. ”

Wei Dongsheng immediately agreed: "Okay." ”

Bai Guo briefly introduced Qiao Yihui's web game project and asked Wei Dongsheng's opinion: "Is web game worth investing in?" ”

Wei Dongsheng didn't give Bai Guo the answer he wanted.

Wei Dongsheng thought about it, and said his thoughts with careful words: "Everything you do must have a purpose, set a goal in your heart first, and then do things." Different goals looking at the same thing will inevitably lead to different conclusions. The value of a web game is not an investment, not in itself, but in what your goals are. ”

Bai Guo said his thoughts truthfully: "You know, I don't like to play games, except for casual mobile games, I haven't touched any browser games and client games. I'm not interested in browser games, I just want to practice my skills, and I think this project requires less money, and even if I lose money, I can accept it. ”

Wei Dongsheng: "There are many kinds of investment, including financial investment, industrial investment, and so on. What do you want to get out of investing in a web game project? ”

Bai Guo was a little confused, and muttered for nearly a minute: "Make a profit, I hope this investment can be profitable." ”

Wei Dongsheng: "There are many kinds of profits, but I think your so-called profits should be financial investment profits. Since you want to practice investing, and since you want to make a profit from financial investment, you shouldn't expect to get an answer from me. ”

Bai Guo was confused: "Huh? ”

Wei Dongsheng explained: "Financial investment is all about vision. The first is to look at the people's eyes, see through whether the other team leader is reliable or not, whether the team system construction is stable, etc., and find out whether they have the necessary execution to do this; The second is a strategic vision, to see the future development trend of the industry. If your goal is to make a pure profit, I can suggest ways to explore the prospects of the web game industry with you; But if your goal is to hone your investment skills, you have to analyze the prospects of the web game industry and the startups you invest in to hone your vision. Otherwise, the investment becomes mine, not yours. ”

Bai Guo was a little disappointed: "I'll come by myself?" ”

Wei Dongsheng shrugged: "Or you give up developing investment skills." ”

Bai Guo was depressed: "It's better for me to come by myself." ”

Wei Dongsheng softened his tone and said, "I'll give you some information later." But it's up to you to figure out what answers you can read from the sources. ”

Bai Guo knew Wei Dongsheng's character: "Okay. ”

Wei Dongsheng couldn't be so strict that he didn't understand people's feelings, in addition to the relevant information required, Wei Dongsheng sent another veteran who was familiar with the investment industry to follow Bai Guo to follow Qiao Yihui's web game project in the name of an assistant. Of course, as Wei Dongsheng insisted, this assistant also focuses on coaching, aiming to develop and train Baiguo's investment skills, rather than simply and rudely telling her the results.

As for whether Qiao Yihui's web game project can succeed in the future, Wei Dongsheng does not care.

Of course, web games make money, but the cash cow source power of the Spring and Autumn Department has long given way to the smartphone business. Compared with the profits of the smartphone business, the Spring and Autumn Network is no longer enough, not to mention the web game industry with a smaller plate? In addition, browser games have a greater notoriety than freemium online games. Looking back on the past 2008, the annual turnover of the Spring and Autumn Network was 13.31 billion yuan, and the Spring and Autumn Search came from behind to refresh the turnover record to 17.79 billion yuan, which has surpassed the Spring and Autumn Network in all aspects. There are many ways to make money, and the giant Spring and Autumn Group no longer has to break into web games for hundreds of millions of profits.

Of course, capital is profit-seeking after all.

Watching web games lose profits is definitely not something a company should do.

As early as 2007, Quantum Rose's social networking site Four-Dimensional Space replaced the Spring and Autumn Network layout of web games and mobile games. Different from the Spring and Autumn Network and the Spring and Autumn Network, the 4D Space takes the platform route, does not produce web games or only a small number of high-quality products, and mainly sells traffic to web game and mobile game operators as a channel provider to make a profit. The exclusive operation is divided into six or four shares, and the joint operation is divided into five or five, that is, a game is sold for 100 yuan on the channel platform of the 4D space, and the 4D space takes 40 yuan or 50 yuan of it. Under such a sharing ratio, it is far preferable to strive to be a more neutral four-dimensional space channel provider than to make Spring and Autumn Network and Spring and Autumn Touch Network get involved in the web game industry.