"Mr. Meg, you go slowly."

“po

Y, you are a smart person, and I hope you will seriously consider my proposal. ”

"Thank you, Mr. Meg, I need time to think about it."

“……”

At the door of the company, Ma Huaten sent off Mr. Meg from NPX, exhaled sullenly, and returned to the company.

The face was full of tangles.

Seeing his expression, a group of employees who were still excited suddenly understood that the situation was not optimistic, but they couldn't help but ask:

"Old Ma, how's it going?"

"How are you talking, I heard you say that you have to think about it, has the other party made conditions?"

"What's the condition?"

“……”

Although everyone actually knows that the situation is probably not good, I still can't help but ask.

No way.

The company is in terrible shape.

And one thing to say, those investors were too lazy to come before, and some didn't even bother to open the conditions when they came, but this time someone opened the conditions.

However, when Ma Huaten just shook his head:

"With a valuation of five million meters, they are willing to invest eight million, but they want to account for 80% of the shares......"

"What?"

"With so much money, you need so many shares?"

"You're crazy about money, aren't you?"

"It's crazy, even if we agree, the other two investors don't agree, right?"

“……”

Everyone scolded angrily, and even felt that the foreign friend before was here to mess with their mentality.

But scolding is scolding.

After scolding, those who should be worried have to worry:

"This is the first time that these capitals eat people without spitting out bones, and they fall out of the eyes of money one by one."

"No way, investment is not charity after all, how brilliant the previous rice online was, it wasn't that a lot of investors were killed, and now everyone is very cautious."

"Understanding is understanding, but what are we going to do now, every day it drags on, our situation is worse by one point, and the servers are almost at their limit."

"We're running out of time."

“……”

In the blink of an eye, the originally vigorous and thriving office was once again a little lifeless.

Even Ma Huateng, who has always led everyone, is also sad at this moment:

"It's really not good, I'll talk to IDG again, maybe they are willing to invest more."

"I'm afraid it's not very likely." Chen Yidan shook his head:

"I've actually reached out before, but they've made it clear that they're not going to invest in us unless we're profitable."

"Even, they also said that if someone wants to invest, you have to communicate with them first, and I think they may want to sell their shares."

"That'...... What about Li Gongzi of Xiangjiang? Ma Huaten asked again.

"I'm afraid it's even worse." Chen Yidan shook his head again, dispelling Ma Huateng's thoughts:

"If IDG is still on the sidelines, Xiangjiang Li Gongzi is more anxious, he didn't have much confidence in us, and this year this Li Gongzi is fully committed to Xiangjiang Telecom."

"I received news that he is currently planning to sell all non-core projects, and even borrowed 18 billion meters from the bank, and invested heavily in Xiangjiang Telecom."

"This means that it is absolutely impossible to find Li Gongzi to chase the investment, and even now, he is likely to be trying to find a way to sell our shares."

This......

Chen Yidan's words made the already gloomy atmosphere fall to the bottom in an instant.

Ma Huateng's heart also sank.

Investors on both sides obviously don't trust Penguin anymore, and it is absolutely impossible to chase the investment, let alone reinvest.

This is to add insult to injury!

"I think we should still discuss how to find a profitable direction." It was proposed.

But it was quickly refuted:

"Everybody knows that we have to find a way to make a profit, but the problem is, we've talked about it many times, but isn't the result the same?"

"The whole world is looking for a profitable direction for the Internet, but in fact, we don't have any profit models in the live chat category that we can refer to."

"Yes, search engines can make money by bidding on searches, and portals can also make money through redirective ads, but what do we do?"

"Maybe we can increase the advertising inside the penguins?" Someone asked.

"No way!"

Ma Huateng shook his head directly:

"Penguin is a chat software, and the reason why it is popular is because we are dedicated to providing users with good web chat services."

"What's more, our user side is different from the portal, there is no place to add ads at all, if you forcibly add ads, you can't make much money, and it is easy to receive disgust from netizens."

"If you can't make money through advertising, how can you make money?" The crowd was distressed.

Profitability is a big issue.

And this problem, at present, is still a little difficult for everyone to solve.

There was a kind of distress for everyone.

In the end, Xu Chenye, who was still in charge of operation planning, put forward his own ideas:

"I look overseas, but there are projects similar to opening subscription services, maybe ...... Can we learn this pattern? ”

"Open a subscription service?" Ma Huateng narrowed his eyes: "Tell me more?" ”

"Some time ago, there was an Internet company in Mi that is mainly engaged in online media, and launched a special subscription service."

"Users can become a member of the company through a paid subscription, enjoy special exclusive news feeds, and follow news feeds."

"I wondered, can we make something like this?"

Subscription service?

Everyone pondered for a while, but soon everyone shook their heads:

"We're chatbots, what's the use of subscription services?"

"We don't push information, users mainly chat with people, and this kind of subscription service doesn't seem to have anything to do with our instant messaging."

"You don't have to learn from them to push the news, is it possible that we can add some privileges?" Xu Chenye proposed.

But all the same, everyone shook their heads:

"Adding privileges and differentiating players is not looking for scolding?"

"Even if we are not afraid of scolding, but how to distinguish it, can we still restrict users from speaking, and only member users can send messages?"

"Or do we have a lower message latency rate for our member users?"

"Isn't that?"

"It doesn't work, I think we still have to learn the advertising model, which should be a good route."

“……”

Everyone has discussed it, and they are not too optimistic about the so-called subscription service.

Xu Chenye scratched his head, also a little helpless.

He just has an idea, and he has no idea how to operate it, or even whether he can operate it.

It was Ma Huateng, but his eyes narrowed at this time.

Subscribe to the service!

Open Membership!

These words attracted his attention and made a flash of inspiration flash in his mind.

However, before he could catch this aura, the mobile phone in his arms rang, interrupting his train of thought.

Ma Huateng glanced at it, a little strange.

The number is a landline from Yanjing, but it's an unfamiliar number.

After thinking about it, Ma Huateng still answered the phone.

And the first sentence of this phone call made Ma Huateng's cold heart heat up again:

"Hello, is this Mr. Ma Huateng of Penguin Network Technology?"

"This is Yuanxiu Investment, my name is Luo Xiang, may I ask if your company is interested in accepting our investment recently?"

“……”