Although Netscape doesn't have much money in its account, it doesn't mean that the company can't get money.

With the success of the browser, Netscape now has a large number of users, and Netscape's browser is powerful and fast-updated, and the users who currently use Netscape Browser account for the vast majority of the entire Internet market.

According to preliminary statistics, Netscape now accounts for the majority of the market, and the number of users using it is growing every day with thousands of higher settings.

This situation is very gratifying, but the substantial increase in users has also made Netscape's expenses begin to make ends meet, coupled with Zhang Hao and Mark's insistence on technology and product updates, coupled with extremely high requirements for servers, so that while the users have grown a lot, most of the profits have been invested in the company's operations, resulting in the company has been operating in debt.

But even so, capital keenly smelled the smell of wealth, due to the success of Bill Gates, the capital market began to shift from traditional industrial investment to IT investment, especially the birth of the Internet, which attracted strong interest from the capital side.

In view of the current situation of Netscape Browser, many capitals began to contact Netscape and took the initiative to express their intention to invest, but in the process of the first few contacts, the conditions offered by the capital did not satisfy Zhang Hao and them, so they did not agree to the capital proposal.

But now the situation has changed, before the company's scale is not large, the number of users has not reached the current number, Zhang Hao can still come up with money to barely support the operation of Netscape, but now the company's scale is getting bigger and bigger, and the users of the browser are also growing to a geometric extent, Zhang Hao's money has been all invested, and there is no more capital injection in the follow-up, if there is no new capital injection, the company will not talk about development, even if it continues to maintain it is very difficult.

Jimmy said that the other way is to negotiate investment with capital, in fact, the contact with the capital Netscape company has been continuing, mainly because the capital conditions they can not accept, plus although the browser has been successful before, but a few months ago Netscape Browser was just completed not long ago, and it has not been fully accepted by many people, but now it is not used, now the market share and the number of users of Netscape Browser are rising, and the price of capital is getting higher and higher. In addition, the money in their hands is almost exhausted, and they can only choose this path at the moment.

"But who do you choose to work with?" Mark asked, frowning.

"This doesn't matter, the key is the conditions offered by the other party." Zhang Hao is different from Mark, Mark is a pure technician, and although Zhang Hao's skills are not bad, he has been exposed to business since he was a child, and he has to understand a lot about business operations after hearing and witnessing.

"Mike is right, the key is who has good conditions, anyway, we have to cooperate with capital, that one gives more benefits and more favorable conditions, we will cooperate with that one." Jimmy agrees with Zhang Hao's point of view and immediately agrees.

"Mark, what is your opinion?" Zhang Hao asked.

Mark thought about it and nodded in agreement, since the opinions of the three of them reached an agreement, then the matter was decided, and then the three of them discussed the next capital contact, this discussion was a long time, and after all the discussions were completed, it was already dark.

A few days later, Netscape released the news of contact with capital, and on the day of hearing the news, several capitals took the initiative to contact Netscape, intending to cooperate with Netscape. What's even more surprising is that the well-known Microsoft also contacted Netscape.

However, when Zhang Hao read Microsoft's conditions, he immediately scoffed, Microsoft had no sincerity at all, and his attitude was extremely arrogant, as if cooperating with Netscape was a kind of charity, and the proposed cooperation conditions were simply outrageous, not cooperation at all but co-optation. Unless Zhang Hao's brain is in water, he will cooperate with Microsoft, he directly threw the fax file sent by Microsoft into the wastebasket, and he didn't even bother to reply.

When Netscape began to contact with capital, Song Yuanchao also got feedback from Ruth.

Due to the complexity of Netscape, it is difficult to explain it by just calling, so Ruth first faxed the collected information about Netscape to Song Chaoyuan, and after Song Yuanchao received the information, Ruth explained in detail about Netscape to Song Yuanchao on the phone.

"Boss, this cousin of yours is amazing, can you imagine? A company that has been established for less than a year has now been valued at $36 million by an investment company, and the lowest valuation is $29 million....... Ruth exclaimed on the phone, as the former general manager of Sitr and now one of the shareholders of Shenghua, Ruth is an out-and-out business elite.

Last year, that is, in 1993, the company's annual sales exceeded 4 billion yuan for the first time, which is a giant in the domestic fast-moving consumer goods industry.

In particular, the two major products of the company (drinking water) and instant noodles each accounted for 87% of the total sales, and the rest was divided by other products, such as snack foods and other products launched in the past two years.

However, in terms of the overall scale of the company, the total assets of the company are currently about 1.4 billion, and the US dollar is about 240 million US dollars.

Moreover, the number of employees is also very large, only in Jinling, the main plant and the pulp mill including the headquarters of the total number of employees are nearly 5,000 people, if you add other branches and filling plants, the total number of employees has already exceeded 13,000 people.

This does not count the Nandu side, with the successful joint-stock restructuring of Site and Nandu, the current Nandu also belongs to the Shenghua system, although the operation is separated, but in fact, the two companies are no different from a company.

Such a huge scale is the Song Dynasty's efforts in the past ten years to gradually grow, and it is inseparable from the rapid development of the country after the reform and opening up, in which the capital investment and manpower can not be calculated, which has the current result.

But what about Netscape? This is just a one-year-old IT company, and from the founder to the current technical team members of the entire company, including administrative staff, all add up to less than 20 people.

It is unimaginable that such a newly established company, and such a small company, should have the capital to give such a high valuation.

"What do you say? Netscape? When Song Chaoyuan heard the name of Zhang Hao's company, his brain buzzed for a while, and before Ruth continued to talk about how hot this company is now on the phone, Song Chaoyuan couldn't help but interrupt her words and asked.

"That's right! It's Netscape, boss, you've never heard of this company, have you? The fax I sent you has specific information about the company, and it says so. ”

"No, no, no, I haven't heard of it, I just think the name of this company is a bit ......." Song Chaoyuan hurriedly rummaged through the faxes sent by Ruth, the faxes were too many and too long, and Ruth called Song Yuanchao after sending the fax, and Song Chaoyuan didn't have time to take a closer look.

Soon, Song Yuanchao found the introduction of Netscape and the information of the browser in the fax, and after he looked at it carefully, he was sure that this company was indeed the company he remembered.

Netscape was famous in its previous life, as the pioneer of the world's first web browser, even if Song Chaoyuan was not proficient in computers, he knew the existence of this company.

The Internet era in China is later than that from abroad, but not too late.

In his previous life, Song Chaoyuan only started to get into contact with the Internet around 1996, when he was already a small leader of a telecommunications company.

Due to the separation of telecommunications companies from the postal service, the Internet access business is mainly operated by domestic telecommunications, at that time it was still dial-up Internet access, because of work reasons, Song Chaoyuan was the first generation to contact the Internet, and at that time the browser used to access the Internet was Netscape Browser.

Thinking of this, Song Yuanchao's brain was a little dizzy for a while, he never thought that Zhang Hao would actually have contact with Netscape, and from the news that Ruth inquired, Zhang Hao is also one of the founders of Netscape, and he is currently the largest investor and shareholder of Netscape.

"Wait, when was this company founded? Last year? Why is the company's address so familiar? Song Chaoyuan looked at the information and asked with the phone clipped over his shoulder.

"Of course you are familiar with the address, the office they are currently using is our company's office, last year Zhang Hao contacted our company, put forward a request to rent an office...... By the way, boss, I asked George, and George said that I reported to you, and you agreed. ”

Patting his head, Song Chaoyuan suddenly remembered, Ruth was right, last year George reported to himself, saying that Zhang Hao found George and proposed to rent an idle office in the American company, and Song Chaoyuan was busy with other things and didn't ask in detail, and at that time Zhang Hao had been interning in the American company, and Song Chaoyuan also authorized George to give Zhang Hao some convenience as much as possible, so after George mentioned it, Song Chaoyuan thought that Zhang Hao just wanted to find an ordinary office as an internship and experimental needs. casually agreed, who would have thought that this was actually the beginning of the establishment of Netscape.

Looking back, I couldn't help but smile a little wryly, Song Chaoyuan didn't expect that Zhang Hao would set up a Netscape company with his friends in this way.

Song Chaoyuan worked in telecommunications in his previous life, so he naturally knew something about the Internet, and he had heard of Netscape, but he never expected that Zhang Hao would become the founder of Netscape, which was really surprising.

No wonder Zhang Hao spent so much money in such a short period of time, as an IT company, especially an Internet-related company, Song Chaoyuan knew that the cost of funds was extremely large. It is not easy for Zhang Hao to use 300,000 US dollars to make Netscape to the extent it is now in such a short period of time, and now Netscape is in contact with capital, if Song Chaoyuan guesses correctly, Zhang Hao's money in his hand may have burned out.