After 20 days, the company recruited a lot of employees, and all departments adapted to the work of overseas branches.

Judging from the current situation, the two overseas branches are gradually on the right track, which makes every employee feel relieved and feel that their efforts have not been in vain.

It is worth mentioning that on March 8, Shen Du also took a beautiful rich woman to have a very meaningful holiday.

The two of them came to the vicinity of the magic capital and found a paradise-like place to vacation.

Liu Qingli was unwilling, not saying that she was still a girl, not a young woman, Shen Dui's reply was: In order to let you enjoy one more festival every year, even if I conjure up a hundred kinds of tricks, I will turn you into a young woman.

On March 16, after Shen Duan arrived at the company, he took Liang Shaoqi and rushed to the airport.

"Mr. Shen, I have said many times, I can just pick up the airport alone, how can I let you be the driver?"

Director Liang was embarrassed by the boss's enthusiasm, today is the day when Shang Jing returns to China, her inspection work abroad has ended, and she also told them on the phone that there is good news to bring back.

"Why are you polite to me, I'm not a driver for you, you're just a business consultant."

Shen Du stepped on the accelerator and left, and went straight to Punan International Airport: "The business consultant is very hard in this time abroad, and as the boss, can't I care about some of the generals under my command?" ”

Liang Shaoqi was speechless for an instant, and could only hold back one sentence: "Mr. Shen, thank you!" ”

Shen Du waved his hand: "Thank you, you can put more thought into it and treat the business consultant, such as making some nutritious meals in the morning and making some chicken soup in the evening!" ”

Liang Shaoqi was stunned: "Mr. Shen, you are a single man, do you still know this?" ”

He suddenly remembered that when Shang Jing first came to the magic capital for two days, he hated that he couldn't cook, and he couldn't even take care of himself, and he was worried that after the two lived together, he would become a nanny.

"Who told you I was a single man?"

Shen Du frowned and said, "If I'm not mistaken, when we went to Kyoto on a business trip together last year, I told you that I was a married man!" ”

Of course, Liang Shaoqi remembered this incident, when they were sheltering from the rain at the airport, they met a beautiful woman with two pear vortices on her face and a ponytail, and the boss introduced herself as his brother-in-law in order to deceive the other party.

It seems that he gave himself an ugly name, what is "Liu Shaoqi"?

"Mr. Shen, don't be so serious, it's just the two of us here, there are no outsiders, no need to act."

Liang Shaoqi didn't believe him at the beginning, and he will not be an exception at this moment, and persuaded: "Seriously, Mr. Shen, there are still a lot of good girls outside, don't set your sights too high, the so-called ......"

Shen Du interrupted: "It's useless to say more, I'm the man they can't get!" ”

Liang Shaoqi: "......"

Shen Du said again: "Also, you are the technical director of our Dusk Company, don't always think about rubbing the car, find a time to buy a car; It's okay not to buy it, just pick one of the company's cars to drive. ”

Liang Shaoqi: "......"

How can I have the idea of rubbing the car, even riding in your car for the first time?

Liang Shaoqi was depressed, but Shen Du was much more comfortable, and then the two didn't talk much, and the black Mercedes was like a running cheetah, arriving at Punan International Airport in less than an hour.

I don't know when, a light rain fell in the sky, but fortunately, Shang Jing's flight arrived on time.

"Business consultants have worked hard!"

This was the first thing Shen Du said when he saw Shang Jing.

"I'm sorry Mr. Shen, let you pick it up in person." Shang Jing only felt embarrassed.

"Give you two ten minutes to whisper, and you'll get in the car when you're almost done."

Shen Du pushed Liang Shaoqi forward, turned around and walked towards the parking lot.

However, he waited for more than 20 minutes before the little couple rushed over, Liang Shaoqi was carrying a lady's bag in his hand and dragging a big suitcase.

"Mr. Shen, this time ......"

As soon as she sat in the back row, Shang Jing wanted to report something.

"Don't be in a hurry to talk about work, let's go to dinner first, just take it as a breeze for you!"

"Thank you, Mr. Shen!"

The three of them hurried back to the city, the time had passed 12:00 o'clock, and every restaurant was overcrowded, but it was difficult for Shen Dui, who had the "money ability", to find a high-end restaurant with the two.

After a meal, it was two o'clock in the afternoon.

"The business consultant has a tired journey, so go back and rest today, and talk about work tomorrow."

When paying, Shen Du said to Shang Jing.

"No, Mr. Shen, I slept on the plane for almost nine hours, I have already rested, and I have important things to report to you!"

Shang Jing was very moved, the boss was even better than she imagined, he thought about her everywhere, and he was busy in a foreign country for half a month.

"That's fine!"

Seeing her say this, Shen Duan did not continue to insist, in fact, he was not at peace in his heart.

Shang Jing returned to China ten days earlier than expected, and must have brought back news about financing, which was a major event, and it was Shen Duan's biggest concern at the moment.

Half an hour later, the general manager's office of the company.

Kung Fu tea was brewed on the hospitality coffee table, but Shen Duan didn't have the heart to do it, so he just let the administrative staff come in and brew it, and he was only responsible for drinking.

Shang Jing held the teacup in her hand, feeling flattered.

The various treatments enjoyed today, which is still what an employee can have, the boss's style, is clearly the posture of receiving important customers.

Naturally, she would not understand the importance of the first round of financing of Dusk Su Network in Shen Dui's heart.

"Mr. Shen, when I went abroad this time, I not only learned about well-known foreign capital, but also had the honor to communicate with a capital company in a beautiful country."

Seeing that the boss didn't speak, Shang Jing took the initiative to speak.

"What kind of capital have you learned?"

Shen Duan asked quietly, he knew a little about the famous capital company in his previous life, but he didn't have the opportunity to contact it.

"There is a lot of capital in the beautiful country, and I know more than a dozen of them, and I want to focus on two here."

Shang Jing gradually entered the state: "First of all, Goldman Sachs Capital, which is an old capital group with strong strength and headquarters in New York.

In addition, as early as 1984, they set up their Asia-Pacific headquarters in Xiangjiang, and in 1994, they opened representative offices in Kyoto and Modu respectively.

"But what I didn't expect was that it was not Goldman Sachs Capital that first found me, but Sequoia, which was founded in Silicon Valley!"

Shen Du couldn't help but raise his head: "Oh? The capital group you mentioned earlier is Sequoia Capital? ”

As a person who has traveled back in time since 2021, how can he not know Sequoia!

Sequoia Capital is ranked first in the "2019 Hurun Global Unicorn Top 100 Active Investment Institutions", and has a great influence on the capital community in later generations.

As far back as Shen Wei's memory, Sequoia was the first investor to invest in many amazing projects, such as Apple, Google, Cisco, Oracl, Yahoo, LinkedIn and many other innovative companies.

If he remembers correctly, Sequoia Capital will launch a localization fund in China in September this year.

Since then, he has been investing heavily in the domestic market!

"Yes, it's Sequoia Capital."

Shang Jing bowed slightly: "Their sense of smell is too keen, and they took the initiative to come to the door less than half a month after the establishment of the New York branch of Dusk.

"The representative was blunt, saying that he was very optimistic about our business model and was interested in investing.

"I didn't give a clear reply, but I vaguely stated that the headquarters of Dusu was in China, and I needed to report back to China before I could move on to the next stage of negotiations.

"The other party immediately said that if the two sides can cooperate successfully, they will take this opportunity to come and set up a representative office!"

Shen Du was slightly surprised: "They are so optimistic about the prospects of the Dusk Su.com?" ”

He really didn't dare to think that the largest capital group in later generations was willing to enter the Asia-Pacific market in advance in order to invest in Dusk.com!

Of course, Shen Dui's reaction to Sequoia Capital was still very gratifying.

There are two main purposes for Dusu to go overseas: one is to expand profits and maintain rapid development; Second, it is to attract the attention of overseas capital.

Shang Jing had a smile on her face and threw out another piece of news: "Not only that, the representative of Sequoia also revealed one thing to me: due to the opening of the Tokyo branch, we have also entered the field of vision of Sakura Country SoftBank Capital. ”

Rao was in Shen Dui's state of mind, and he couldn't calm down when he heard the words: "Softbank Capital? ”

If he only knows a little about Sequoia Capital, he is much more impressed by SoftBank Capital.

Because, the well-known Ahri Group in China, including its Taobao.com, as well as Focus Media, GDS and other companies, have all received investment from SoftBank Capital!

Moreover, SoftBank's domestic company was established as early as 2000, and if Shang Jing's news is correct, it is estimated that it will not be long before the other party comes to the door.

"Yes, Mr. Shen!"

Shang Jing sighed with emotion: "To be honest, my major is financial investment, and I originally thought that I knew more about the domestic financial market.

"But this time, after going around the beautiful country in person, I completely woke up: I greatly underestimated the potential of domestic Internet companies before!"

Shen Du understands that the reason why she has this inherent concept is because in many people's minds, the beautiful country is the origin and originator of the Internet.

The Internet in China only began to flourish after 2003.

If someone opens the history of the development of the Internet in China, they can clearly see such a process:

Mid-90s: The Internet was created in the country;

2000: Internet access is mainly based on dial-up in cities in China;

2003: Broadband Internet access became widespread;

2007: Broadband Internet access became the mainstream, and civil optical fiber Internet access appeared;

2009: Mobile Internet began to be widely used.

In the historical context of i, if you can't go abroad, even an excellent investment consultant like Shang Jing will be difficult to accurately locate the true value of an Internet company.

"Business consultant, do you think it is more appropriate for us to open the first round of financing at Dusu.com?"

Shen Du pondered for a moment and asked solemnly.

In fact, he had thought of this step since the establishment of the company, and it was a step by step towards financing...... Perhaps it should be said that it is working in the direction of going public.

Therefore, Shen Du also has some opinions on the choice of cooperative capital.

But this does not prevent him from listening to Shang Jing's opinion, no matter what, the other party is an investment consultant hired by him, and there will inevitably be opinions at the professional level.

In response to this question, Shang Jing did not answer immediately.

She pondered for some time and sorted out her thoughts before she spoke: "Mr. Shen, before answering this question, please allow me to analyze the Dusk Company itself.

"I don't need to say more in terms of business, compared to you and Mr. Ji, I can only be regarded as a layman, and I will only talk about financing here.

"Today's era is the era of capital, as long as a little strength of the company, will find a way to improve the speed of enterprise development through capital operation, once the financing is successful, the benefits are many:

"First of all, it can effectively solve the financial problem of enterprises. This is also an important reason why most enterprises choose financing.

"Secondly, you can also get guidance on how to run the business. Because generally speaking, many angel investors are big names in the industry and have rich entrepreneurial experience and industry experience.

"Again, more resources are available. After reaching cooperation with investors, they also obtained the resources behind investors; Sometimes, the importance of those resources is even higher than pure funding.

"Finally, and most fundamentally, in order to go public!

"Combined with the situation of the company: the company has been making profits so far, and I think Mr. Shen should be interested in the resources brought by the financier.

"Through their resources, we can improve the international image of the company and occupy the global homestay market faster, so as to quickly achieve all the conditions for the company to go public!"

Shen Du listened convincingly, and praised without hesitation: "The business consultant has analyzed well!" ”

"Mr. Shen has won the award!"

Shang Jing smiled: "Since Mr. Shen's ultimate goal is for the global market, then I think the best choice for us is to cooperate with overseas capital." ”

Shen Du asked again: "There are so many overseas capitals, and there are many excellent ones, do business consultants particularly recommend which one?" ”

"Nope!"

Shang Jing shook her head: "To be honest, Sequoia Capital's strength and reputation are a very good choice, but in the end, whether they can cooperate depends on what kind of valuation they can give to Dusk Su.com?"

"Of course, if Mr. Shen has other conditions, it depends on who can accept more conditions when the valuation of many capitals is about the same!

"Judging from the current situation, my initial proposal is: open recruitment!"

Shen Du thought for a moment, and also thought that the method of open recruitment was feasible, anyway, now that there was an investment advisor, no matter how cumbersome the process was, he didn't need to worry about it.

He suddenly raised his head: "By the way, business consultant, from your professional point of view, how much can you value now?" ”

Under his scorching gaze, the first thing Shang Jing replied was: "Mr. Shen, this is really hard to say." ”

"Why?" Shen Du was puzzled.

"There are too many things involved in the valuation of an Internet-based company."

"Historically, the market has used a variety of valuation methods, including DEVA, contextual returns, price-to-earnings ratio comparisons, market capitalization-user comparisons, and marketing returns.

"But there are many examples that show us that a single approach is not enough.

"From the perspective of the three dimensions of qualitative methods, genes, patterns, and execution all need to be analyzed separately;

From the perspective of quantitative analysis, the formula "GXEPSXPEG" derived from PE/G should be used, and the key factors include industry growth, market space, company status, etc.

"Also, PEG has a condition that does not apply: the company's revenue or profit growth rate is less than 20%."

Shen Duan was confused, among so many professional terms, there were really few that he could understand.

He frowned: "Business Advisor, might as well estimate it based on your experience and feelings?" ”