Chapter 971: No money
Ten years ago, 10,000 households were still a legend, although 10,000 households have been common over the years, but millions of wealth is still an astronomical amount for ordinary people, not to mention the rest, the "Yang Million" who appeared in the newspaper news is not the object of worship by many people?
Zhang Hao, a student, spent so much money in such a short period of time, how could Zhang Jianguo, as a father, not worry?
This is not a question of money or not, with the current value of the Zhang family, 1.8 million is nothing at all, the key problem is that Zhang Jianguo is worried that Zhang Hao will be deceived, and even make friends who should not be made and go down the wrong path.
However, Song Chaoyuan felt that this matter may not be as serious as Zhang Jianguo thought, for Zhang Hao, Song Chaoyuan still knows a lot, although Zhang Hao was naughty when he was a child, but now that he has grown up, Zhang Hao is a very assertive and thoughtful young man.
Besides, Zhang Hao is not one of those nerds who only knows how to read, his brain is smart, where is it so simple to deceive Zhang Hao?
"Uncle, did Zhang Hao tell you what project the money was invested in?" Song Chaoyuan comforted Zhang Jianguo for a few words, and then asked.
"I said yes, but I don't understand what he said." Zhang Jianguo frowned.
"It's okay, tell me what he said?"
"Well, let me think about ......." Zhang Jianguo scratched his head and thought about it and said to Song Yuanchao: "He said that he and his friends set up a company, and what kind of milk is called, but he can't understand it." ”
"What's the milk?" Song Chaoyuan was speechless and asked, "What is this company doing?" What products to do? ”
"The ghost knows what the product is, what is the virtual and what is the network, you listen, it's all virtual, isn't there no fart in the virtual? What can be a good thing? If you can't get this money, you will be deceived by others, and the bamboo basket will be empty! Zhang Jianguo said that his heart was angry again, picked up the cigarette and smoked, at this time he found that the cigarette had been smoked, and it was burned to the cigarette butt, he threw the cigarette butt in his hand to the ground and stepped on it, this action was just done, Zhang Jianguo suddenly remembered something, quickly squatted down and picked up the cigarette butt, and subconsciously glanced back at the room behind him.
Song Chaoyuan was confused when he heard it, and he didn't understand what Zhang Jianguo said. He thought about it and comforted Zhang Jianguo, telling him that there was no need to rush this matter for the time being, and there was no need to make up his mind immediately. Shenghua has a branch in the United States, and he can entrust the United States to ask Zhang Hao about the situation, understand the situation, and then determine what Zhang Hao is doing.
By the way, isn't Zhang Hao moving now? Song Chaoyuan asked Zhang Jianguo to give him the new address and contact information of Zhang Hao's current residence, and it was not too late to tell Zhang Jianguo when he had news after he inquired.
After having dinner in Zhang Jianguo, Song Chaoyuan chatted about Qiongdao at the dinner table, and said something about the scenery and beauty of Lucheng, in this way to ease the cold war between Zhang Jianguo and Sun Xia. When Song Chaoyuan left, Zhang Jianguo and his wife looked much better, at least not as clear as they were at the beginning, after all, they all understood Song Yuanchao's intentions, no matter how it was, it depended on Song Chaoyuan's face, and Song Chaoyuan also privately told Sun Xia about Zhang Hao, telling Sun Xia that he would learn about the situation through the relationship on the American side, and now that the final situation is not clear, there is no need for the two of them to be unhappy about this matter.
When they got home, the children were almost resting, Song Chaoyuan took a bath, and Lin Yan settled down and asked the children about Song Chaoyuan's trip to Zhang Jianguo. Song Chaoyuan roughly told Lin Yan about the situation, Lin Yan frowned slightly after hearing this, she subconsciously felt that something was wrong with Zhang Hao suddenly using so much money, but Song Chaoyuan was right, the matter has not been clarified yet, it is difficult to draw conclusions, it is better to wait for the United States to understand the situation.
After looking at the time, Song Chaoyuan called the American company before going to bed.
After Ruth resigned from the company, the current general manager of the company is Zheng Guoyuan, Ruth left the company not long after she went to the United States with her husband, she has stayed in China for most of these years, and has not had much time to return to China, and now she is pregnant, plus the husband has not seen his family after the two are newly married, and this time they happened to go back together.
Although Ruth left the company, she is still a shareholder of the company, and with the adjustment of the company's equity, Ruth's shares in the company were replaced by Shenghua's shares, coupled with Ruth's contribution to the company, after soliciting Ruth's opinion, Song Chaoyuan suggested that Ruth concurrently serve as the COO of Shenghua America, and Ruth did not refuse Song Chaoyuan's kindness, and officially took up this position soon after returning to China.
On the phone, Song Chaoyuan told Ruth about Zhang Hao's situation in detail, and after listening to it, Ruth told Song Yuanchao that she would investigate Zhang Hao's situation as soon as possible, and tell Song Chaoyuan immediately when the results were available.
Hung up the phone, Song Chaoyuan also lost his mind, these days has not been in Shanghai, although Lin Yan has phone contact every day, but the husband and wife miss each other tightly, looking at the wife next to him, Song Chaoyuan's heart is a little nervous, whispered a word in Lin Yan's ear, Lin Yan's ear suddenly turned red, Song Yuanchao looked at her expression and smiled, turned off the light, and hugged ...... directly.
Netscape, California, USA.
Zhang Hao, Mark, Jimmy.
The three of them are the founders of Netscape, which was established in mid-July last year, and the first official version of Netscape's browser 1.0 was successfully completed in early September.
After completing this browser, Netscape promoted its products, and after the three of them discussed it, they decided to sell it as shareware, and at the same time promote it in major colleges and universities across the United States.
At the beginning, the sales of this browser are not very good, after all, there are not many people who have access to the Internet, but because they have continuously added and improved the functions of this browser, plus Zhang Hao proposed to adopt a trial version in the face of the promotion process of major colleges and universities in the United States, that is, a trial function has been added to the browser, and a free trial can be carried out within a certain period of time after installation, if the trial is appropriate, you can purchase an activation code through the network to activate, if the trial is not suitable, The basic functions can still be maintained at a minimum.
This promotion model opened a gap in Netscape's product sales, and due to the emergence of this model, the sales of the browser have improved, and by the end of the year, with the update of the browser version 1.30, the market began to gradually accept the product, and the situation became better.
In the first half of 1994, Netscape's browser was further enhanced, and the version was also developed from 1.30 to 1.40, which was much more powerful and functionally complete than the original version. The scale of Netscape is no longer the original three-person small workshop, and now the whole company has a technical team of about ten people in addition to the three of them, as the main opening and functional improvement, maintenance aspects, in addition to recruiting several administrative and financial personnel, from all aspects of the preliminary seems to be a relatively complete formal company.
"Two, the money on our books is no longer enough, if there is no more capital injection, it will be maintained until the end of next month at most." Jimmy handed the paper in his hand to Zhang Hao and Mark on the side, his expression a little solemn.
The results paper glanced at it, this is the company's financial report, although it is simple but very clear, it lists the company's income, expenses and account balance, according to the monthly expenditure, it is indeed as Jimmy said, the company's money is almost spent.
"No, I remember that I just injected 150,000 yuan in two months? Why is there so much left? Mark looked at it carefully, and immediately frowned and asked.
"Mark, have you forgotten the cost of renting a server? And this month, I spent a development fee, plus staff costs, and these expenses accounted for more than half! Jimmy motioned for Mark to look at the details of the payouts, and Mark looked at it again and said no more.
As the number of browser users continues to grow, so does the company's overhead. Not to mention the monthly expenses of the technical team, the company's technical team currently has a monthly personnel cost of nearly $60,000, plus administrative staff and other office expenses, this amount has exceeded $80,000.
In addition, browsers need servers, and the growing demand and requirements of users for servers are getting higher and higher, and the cost of renting servers and maintaining them is even higher than the cost of personnel.
This is because Netscape is currently only a small company, and most of the technicians it has are ordinary technicians and recent college graduates, and if it is a high-end technician, the money is far from enough.
Zhang Hao, Mark, including Jimmy, who are the core of technology, have only received the lowest salary from the company since the establishment of the company, because they are entrepreneurs, so the cost in this regard can be said to be negligible, which is also the reason why Netscape has been able to rely on these funds to persist until now.
Browser sales are growing, and the company is growing, and the revenue portion of the company is simply not enough to support the current expenses compared to the revenues. Even if it is Zhang Hao, Mark or Jimmy, they have continued to invest a lot of money in the company during this period, but by now, the part of the investment has been almost spent.
"Mike, can you continue to ...... here?" Jimmy looked up at Zhang Hao and couldn't help but ask.
But before he finished speaking, he saw Zhang Hao shake his head.
Zhang Hao's money has almost all been invested in the company, not only the money he has accumulated by working part-time on weekdays, but even the money in the account that Zhang Jianguo gave Zhang Hao has almost all taken out and invested in the company.
is more than 300,000 US dollars, which can be said to be all Zhang Hao's money, and now the use of the money in this account has been known to Zhang Jianguo, because this is a very unpleasant quarrel between him and Zhang Jianguo on the phone, and it is even more difficult to continue to reach out to the family to ask for money.
Having said that, if it weren't for Zhang Hao's capital investment, Netscape would not have been able to maintain it until now, and it would have found another way because of the rupture of funds.
Not to mention Mark and Jimmy, they don't have much money in the first place, and they have already invested all their wages these days, and it is simply impractical to try to pull money out of their pockets.
"Guys, if there's no follow-up input, we'll have to think of something else." Jimmy spread out his hands and shrugged his shoulders helplessly, and said to Zhang Hao and Mark.
Zhang Hao and Mark glanced at each other, both of them had some helplessness in their eyes, but at the same time agreed with Jimmy's opinion.