The 048th thunderbolt

The day after the self-black hype stopped, Lu Bin rushed to find Wei Dongsheng: "IDG wants to invest in us." ”

IDG is the International Data Group (International_Data_Group). Contact Lu Binqi's IDG Capital, to be precise, it should now be called IDGVC (IDG Technology Venture Capital Fund), which is a well-known venture capital company. In the Huaguo venture capital ranking list, IDG was the first in 2001 and the third in 2002, and the companies it invested in were more familiar to netizens. Investments with the atmosphere of the times, such as Soufang, Tianji.com, Kingdee, 3721, 8848, etc.; The successful ones who lived until 2018 include Ctrip, Dangdang, Sohu, Baidu, Tencent, etc.

Receiving IDG investment does not mean success, brands such as Kingdee, 3721, and 8848 have long been forgotten by netizens in 2017 to Java Island.

However, obtaining IDG investment is the recognition of the times, and the future successes Ctrip, Dangdang, Sohu, Baidu, Tencent, or the stepping stones of the timesKingdee, 3721, 8848, are all the people of the established era. Spring and Autumn Network has been recognized by IDG and also by the Internet industry, which proves that Spring and Autumn Network has quickly integrated into the soaring information age.

On December 13, 2002, Wei Dongsheng registered two companies, Spring Network and Spring Software.

On January 14, 2003, Lu Binqi told Wei Dongsheng that IDG wanted to invest in Spring and Autumn Network.

In just one month, Spring and Autumn Network has made a name for itself in Yanjing.

In Wei Dongsheng's reservation plan, after the success of Spring and Autumn Network's operation of "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms", it should also follow the pace of the times and go to the NASDAQ (NASDAQ) to list to make money. If you want to go public on the NASDAQ, it is indispensable to cooperate with venture capital. Regardless of whether or not it accepts IDG's investment, it is necessary for Spring and Autumn Network to maintain a certain connection with it and pave the way for the future in advance.

IDGs are large companies, and each investment often has its own counterpart. Wei Dongsheng decided to maintain a liaison relationship with IDG, and took the opportunity to ask Lu Binqi for details: "Who took the lead?" ”

Lu Binqi replied, "Yang Fei." ”

Lu Bin Qixuan added Yang Fei's basic information: "Yang Fei was formerly the director of the Listing and Issuance Department of the Guangdong Provincial Securities Regulatory Commission and joined IDG in 1997. Yang Fei has invested in the Internet, and there are three well-known cases. In the first case, he participated in the investment of Tencent's project; In the second case, he led the investment in HC, which is now planning to go public in Xiangjiang; In the third case, he led the investment in Baidu, which and 3721 are well-known Chinese search engines in China, and the prospects are very good. ”

Led the investment in Baidu and assisted in the investment in Tencent.

Wei Dongsheng didn't know who HC was, and with only the two projects of Baidu and Tencent, he had simply sketched the image of Yang Fei in his heart.

Wei Dongsheng asked Lu Binqi: "What did Yang Fei say?" ”

Lu Binqi: "He asked about Mr. Wei's general situation, and then invited you to have a meal together." ”

Wei Dongsheng nodded in agreement: "Spring and Autumn Network will have to deal with venture capital sooner or later, let's have a meal together." Well, did you make an appointment? ”

Lu Binqi: "I'm not sure about your attitude, so I'll excuse myself and ask you about your schedule before making an appointment." ”

Wei Dongsheng: "Call him back, I have time these days." ”

Lu Binqi immediately called back Yang Fei's phone, greeted politely for a while, and decided that it would be better to choose a day than to hit the day, and make an appointment tomorrow night.

Lu Binqi is a distant relative of Jing Minqiang, and respects Jing Minqiang better than Wei Dongsheng, and immediately reported the important news of IDG's investment in Spring and Autumn Network to Jing Minqiang. Jing Minqiang called Wei Dongsheng that night and confirmed to Wei Dongsheng: "IDG wants to invest in Spring and Autumn Network? ”

Wei Dongsheng: "That's what Lu Binqi said, but I haven't met with anyone from IDG yet. ”

Jing Minqiang: "Whether it is internationally or domestically, IDG's heritage is very strong. Do you want to receive investment from IDG? ”

Wei Dongsheng quoted an ancient saying to answer Jing Minqiang: "In today's world, not only the king chooses the minister, but the minister also chooses the king." ”

Jing Minqiang understood the meaning of this sentence, and said with a smile: "This sentence was said to Lu Su by Zhou Yu during the Three Kingdoms. ”

Wei Dongsheng added with a smile: "It was also Ma Yuan who said it to Liu Xiu." ”

This old saying is a well-known allusion. In the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms, Sun Quan especially admired Lu Su because of Zhou Yu's recommendation, and ordered Zhou Yu to invite. At that time, Lu Su was planning to take refuge in another family, and Zhou Yu hurriedly quoted the good story between Ma Yuan, the general of Fubo, and Liu Xiu, the emperor of Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, and admonished Lu Su: "In today's world, not only the king chooses the minister, but also the minister chooses the king. ”

In today's situation, DG is certainly profound, just like the heroes of the late Western Han Dynasty and the late Eastern Han Dynasty, they can condescendingly select talents that they think are excellent. Wei Dongsheng and the Spring and Autumn Network are new recruits, like the fledgling Lu Su in front of Haoqiang, although they are humble, they don't have to take refuge in IDG to die for it. Wei Dongsheng looked at the olive branch sent by IDG with the attitude of "the minister also chooses the king", if the two sides can talk together, everything will naturally be fine; If you can't talk about it, it's best not to force it.

Jing Minqiang was noncommittal about Wei Dongsheng's choice, leaving only a guarantee: "If there is a need, call me in time." ”

Jing Minqiang saw Wei Dongsheng for the first time and regarded him as a love debt for his old love Bai Huxian; Seeing the prototype of "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms", Jing Minqiang regarded Wei Dongsheng as a talented young man. After seeing that Wei Dongsheng skillfully registered the two companies of Spring and Autumn Network and Spring Software, and used the agreement and treaty to separate the copyright of "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms", which is difficult to accurately define the value for the time being, Jing Minqiang once again increased the degree of attention and treated Wei Dongsheng and other entrepreneurs as equals.

Equally.

Wei Dongsheng is just a qualified entrepreneur in Jing Minqiang's eyes.

However, Jing Minqiang never expected that Wei Dongsheng would attract the attention of venture capitalists, and he was a big boss in the investment industry. Venture capitalists are a group of vultures who can't afford to make a profit, and Wei Dongsheng's career can be favored by IDG, and there must be hope to bring 10 times or even 100 times the huge profits to IDG.

Jing Minqiang must admit that he has lost his eyes, and Wei Dongsheng is more powerful than he imagined.

Jing Minqiang is running around in the south these days, and he has no time to pay attention to the two companies of Spring and Autumn Network and Spring and Autumn Software. Jing Minqiang calmed down and summarized the Spring and Autumn Network and Spring and Autumn Software data, and was shocked to find that the torrent download artifact incident that was making trouble during this period turned out to be Wei Dongsheng's masterpiece.

In other words, the torrent download artifact is an advanced version of P2P technology, and behind the ultra-high download speed is the rapid increase in the burden pressure on China's backbone network. It has been less than a month since the torrent download artifact was put on the market, but two topic events have quickly increased its market share. When the market share of torrenting artifacts reaches a certain level, the traffic of the file exchange system of the backbone network suddenly increases significantly.

Huaguo Netcom and Huaguo Telecom, which are basic operators, have been keenly aware of the burden of P2P technology on the network infrastructure, and internal debates have gradually spread: "Ban this technology to maintain the efficiency of existing networks; Or optimize the underlying network in advance to prepare for the upcoming P2P torrent? ”

Because the time is still short, the controversy has remained at the grassroots level and has not yet been put on the table of the leaders.

However, Jing Minqiang has heard something about it by chance.

The traffic of the file exchange system of the torrenting artifact has surged, and the pressure is fed back to Huaguo Netcom and Huaguo Telecom; IDG even targeted Wei Dongsheng and chased after him to send money. These two events strongly proved Wei Dongsheng's ability, so that Jing Minqiang had to seriously think about his cooperation with Wei Dongsheng.

Jing Minqiang's mentality has changed, let's talk about it for the time being.

On January 15, 2003, led by Lu Binqi, Wei Dongsheng met Yang Fei as scheduled in a club. Next to Yang Fei, there were two other young people, one was thirty years old, and the other was twenty-six or seventeen years old. Yang Fei and the other three have obviously obtained Wei Dongsheng's simple information, "Mr. Wei is really too young to be believed" After a few shocking admiration, Yang Fei introduced the two people around him to Wei Dongsheng and Lu Binqi: "This is Zou Shenglong, who has just returned from the United States, and this is Cheng Hao, senior technical manager of Baidu." ”

Say hello to each other, be polite for a while, and the topic begins to deepen.

Yang Fei dominated the atmosphere and took the initiative to talk to Zou Shenglong and Wei Dongsheng: "Before Mr. Zou Shenglong returned to China to start a business, he carefully analyzed the Internet ecology and was keenly aware that there were no killer products in the download tool market, so he wanted to make a career in this area. Coincidentally, before Spring and Autumn Software released the torrent download artifact, Mr. Zou Shenglong was also trying to develop a download software based on P2P technology. The two heroes see things in common, and there should be some common topics. ”

Zou Shenglong.

Download the software.

The two keywords were superimposed, and Wei Dongsheng suddenly had memories that had been forgotten for many years: this Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao should be the founders of the download software Xunlei.

The reason why Xunlei has become the market leader of the download tool market is that it relies on the promotion of P2P technology and P2SP technology. Wei Dongsheng previously investigated the market share of various download tools, and found no traces of the existence of Thunderbolt, which should be because Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao have not officially launched Thunderbolt. Speaking of which, Wei Dongsheng's launch of the torrent download artifact didn't rob Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao of their entrepreneurial fast lane?

That's exactly what happened.

At the end of 2002, Zou Shenglong had just persuaded Cheng Hao, an alumnus of Duke University in the United States, to start a business together. Cheng Hao works at Baidu, and often sees Robin Li's ordinary attitude, and gradually has ambitions: "Robin Li has no family background, and he can still start a career, why can't I try it?" ”

Cheng Hao has even written a resignation letter, studying the direction of entrepreneurship with Zou Shenglong day and night, discussing whether to enter the popular mailbox market, or to be conservative and seek stability in the field of download tools. As a result, Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao are still hesitating to start a business, and Wei Dongsheng has launched a torrent download artifact with lightning speed, and used two topics to hype, and in a very short period of time, it has gained 29.2% market share.

Wei Dongsheng's success stimulated Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao.