Whether it is film and television investment in the Chinese entertainment industry or venture capital in the Internet, it is normal for the entire negotiation process to last for several months, involving the rights and interests of both parties.

But compared with the "small fight" of film and television investment, this round of financing of Weibo Technology will be world-class, after all, many heavyweight venture capital institutions have been shocked and are engaged in tense wrestling.

But the tension is theirs, and Weibo Technology has continued to exert force at its own pace and entered a stage of rapid product iteration -

After the unexpected success of Penguin Space, Penguin Communication followed up with the launch of "Penguin Pet", completing the progression from dress-up mode to nurturing mode.

Digital pets are nothing new, and domestic game manufacturers have launched similar digital pets before, but none of them have achieved popular results.

However, the "fat penguin" of Weibo Technology is itself an anthropomorphic digital pet with a natural user advantage -

For many netizens who are accustomed to hanging up to this "fat penguin" on the Internet, it is more like their own children than the previous digital pets; When "Penguin Pet" can provide users with a variety of leisure and entertainment experiences such as feeding, studying, working, entertaining, and getting married, it easily instigates them to develop a pet complex.

Of course, these services cost virtual currency.

In the eyes of external observers, the connotation of this product can be described as extremely shallow, but Weibo Technology has very accurately hit the user, well, at least the emotional psychology of some users-

They don't know the number of users of "Penguin Pet" and the number of people online at the same time, but looking at more and more friends around them, especially female friends, in order to develop this "fat penguin" and recharge to become a penguin member, they know that this product has become!

At the same time, after the introduction of the game "Farm Growing", Penguin Space has revitalized this casual game that has been popular for a year -

In the past year, the game of "Growing Vegetables on the Farm" has been like the most powerful booster for putting satellites into established orbits, allowing hundreds of thousands of new users to pour in every day of Penguin Communications, which has contributed to the growth of this penguin.

Of course, no one can expect such a casual game to be popular for long, in fact, after entering the new year, the activity of this game has dropped significantly compared to its peak.

Just when the industry thought that it was about to complete its historical mission, the launch of Penguin Space and the membership system actually brought excitement to this game!

The latest version of the game not only added new crop varieties, but also fully connected the membership system with the purchase of virtual items such as "seeds", "fertilizers", and "pesticides".

Of course, in terms of popularity, it is certainly not as good as the period of "all people stealing vegetables", but it still makes a good start for Weibo Technology's game profit model, and also supports the newly launched casual competitive games as a traffic entrance——

Penguin Space's chess and card games and "Penguin Speed" have been launched one after another, these games are all from the industry acquisition, after the game development team optimization and upgrading, as soon as it is launched, it has carried out a dimensionality reduction blow to similar products in the market;

The augmentation benefits of Penguin Communications are evident in this process – users only need to know what game their friends are playing through the newly added display window, click on it, jump directly to the game room, and then join the ......

With Penguin Communication's rapid approach to 200 million users, randomly generated gamers can scare their peers to death!

In fact, only half a month after the launch of the new game, the number of people online at the same time is already on par with the best in its category; And as time goes on, almost everyone believes that the comparison of the number of users between the two will be even more violent!

This series of new products has been widely welcomed by users, and has a great impact on the active and commercial income of Penguin Space.

Weibo Technology did not release traffic data and revenue data, but it is said that Weibo Technology has added two to three thousand servers in this quarter alone; And it is a striking fact that it is not in a hurry to raise funds, and it has not waited for money to save its life.

This caused a shock in the entire Internet industry, and almost everyone was thinking about a terrible question -

After this round of financing, Weibo Technology is bound to expand aggressively; If one day, it enters my territory, will I be able to resist?

……

"This Wang Weizhen is a genius! Starting from locking a real appeal point and striving to achieve the ultimate in user experience; Then scrape the consumer base from the huge user base; After forming a certain number of basic users, advanced paid commercial services will be launched; And continue to optimize and try our best to extend the life cycle of products; Finally, continue to look for new appeals......"

"How long has he been planning for today? A year? Two years? Or even from the day Weibo Technology was founded? I have never seen a young man with such a strategic vision! ”

Dai Peng, the founder of Pengcheng Venture Capital Fund, once again gathered a group of partners together and was amazed by Wang Wei.

No one objected to his words.

After demonstrating the genius integration and use of traffic resources, as well as strong product development capabilities, Weibo Technology can be said to have completely grasped the initiative of financing.

- Such a skillful way of using virtual goods to make profits, if he didn't plan it a long time ago, it would be too insulting to the IQ of everyone here.

Such a long-term vision, and at the same time a thief can calm down, really makes all competitors palpitate.

Fortunately, they are not competitors, but want to invest in him.

"Well, the question now is, how can we impress such a brilliant genius?"

Dai Peng looked around and officially entered today's discussion topic.

You can't really be like the group of people in the entertainment industry rushing to make sycophants, right?

"First of all, money is not an issue." A bald partner said calmly, "Not to mention that our fund has just completed a round of fundraising, and there is enough ammunition, even if the final valuation of Weibo Technology far exceeds our expectations, we can still form an investment group to jointly inject capital." ”

The other broad-shouldered fat partner took a deep puff of cigarette and shook his head: "No, no, no, we will first consider injecting capital alone." ”

"Weibo's success at this stage shows that virtual goods are likely to represent a huge business opportunity. I think that small payments from virtual goods, not just small toys, can generate large revenues, which means that Weibo Technology may not need multiple rounds of financing to go public. ”

"Moreover, no one is a fool and will not give Weibo Technology unlimited valuation, so the key to competing for this round of financing is not money!"

Dai Peng let out a faint "um".

The bald partner touched his chin, his brow furrowed a little.

"Then you have to fight for management talents? Although we have a group of excellent experienced professional managers, our competitors are also not short of management talents, in case we are unlucky......"

It's no secret that Weibo Technology needs top professional managers to join, at least not for top venture capital institutions like them.

Through the relationship investigation of his entrepreneurial team, we know that all of them are technicians; And for a successful company, the management must be multi-dimensional.

Obviously, this is for venture capital.

But as the bald partner said, if it is a competition for talent with a small investment company, of course they will win; But among the top venture capital players participating in this round of financing, who can't pull out ten or eight executives in their hands?

This is the most impatient reason for homogeneous competition - no one has an advantage, resulting in a chaotic competitive situation and bringing great trouble to their decision-making.

Dai Peng looked pensive, and after a while, he said slowly: "So we need a big killing move, a big killing move that Wang Wei can't refuse-beauty trick!" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was really interested.

The so-called erotic temperament is also, since ancient times, the beauty trick has been tried and tested repeatedly - how many heroes can stand tall in the face of enemies, but when facing beautiful women, they are always heroic short-breathed; This move has even influenced the course of human society for thousands of years.

It stands to reason that for a hairy boy like Wang Wei, it is a clever plan to use those beauties with extremely smooth skin and long legs to make him fall into the gentle countryside and obediently obey;

But—

"Lao Dai, don't forget, what kind of circle Wang Wei is most familiar with, the entertainment industry! Where else can there be more beauties than in the entertainment industry? Besides, with such a beautiful girlfriend as Shen Zhenyi, Wang Wei still looks down on other beauties? ”

The fat partner shook his head and said.

“……”

"Hey, what do you mean by all looking at me with such weird eyes?"

The bald partner laughed, "Man, you're a man too." Do you think that the object of a man's stealing must be prettier than his girlfriend or wife? ”

"Freshness is the key!"

There was a small burst of approving laughter from the surrounding partners.

"It's not rough." Dai Peng coughed lightly, but changed the conversation and said: "But we can't destroy their relationship, because as far as I know, the relationship between Wang Wei and Shen Zhenyi is indeed very good, just like what they showed, at least now." So this beauty is not another beauty, don't be self-defeating. ”

"Then what are you talking about...... beauty?"

"Recruit Shen Zhenyi to become a partner of our fund!"

A group of elites, hearing this, the smile on their faces froze, and their eyelids jumped.

"Will you hire her as a general partner, or a limited partner?" The bald partner asked the most crucial question.

A venture capital fund usually has many investors, but most of them are limited partners, that is, often referred to as investors, who only participate in the sharing of investment returns, but do not participate in the decision-making and management of the fund;

The general partner, in addition to taking out a certain amount of funds, also manages the fund and makes decisions for each investment.

There is no doubt that the latter is the case for all of you.

Dai Peng once again exerted his eclectic style of employing people: "In the end, I decided to synthesize everyone's opinions, but I was inclined to include her as the general partner. ”

There was another moment of silence.

Someone said with mixed feelings, "Is this really appropriate?" ”

This sentence can also be translated as, is she really worthy?

Because to become a general partner, especially the general partner of Pengcheng Venture Capital, one of the top venture capital in the industry, is either a technical elite, or has founded his own technology company, and the worst is also the senior management of the company, but it certainly does not include entertainment stars with no industry experience at all!

Dai Peng understands their feelings very well, but since he has brought it up, he has his own reason-

"The key to whether she is worthy or not is not how much experience she has, but whether she can help us win this round of financing!"

His gaze swept over the partners with all their hearts, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, I judge the same as you, Weibo Technology may only need one or two rounds of financing, and then it will be the IPO stage, if it goes public, then what kind of behemoth will it be?" ”

"Will the billion we put in now become 10 billion? Two tens of billions? Or more? Isn't that worth fighting for with every opportunity? Are you really willing to miss out on what could be the most legendary moment of your investment career? ”

No one answered.

Or rather, there is no need to answer.

The stock prices of Internet companies that can be listed now have at least doubled, and some magically doubled on the day of listing;

Weibo Technology is now valued at 10 billion yuan, if it goes public, as one of the benchmark companies representing the global new wave of technology, the market value will increase tenfold, or even higher, is it really impossible?

On this planet, the opportunity to double more than one billion dollars of money is something that many investors will never encounter even in their lifetime.

No one would give up, or they wouldn't have come together again and again to give away their money.

After being quiet for a while, someone asked, "Can Shen Zhenyi really influence Wang Wei's decision?" ”

It is no exaggeration to say that he has been able to walk to the point where he is today, and Wang Wei's own inner world is so powerful, how can ordinary people influence?

Dai Peng said without blinking: "This is the problem she needs to consider, if she doesn't grind Wang Wei down and prove her ability, why should we recruit her as the general partner?" ”

"Grinding! That's really an advantage for women! ”

There was an old driver who drove the car quite sophisticatedly.

Everyone laughed knowingly.

Laughing and laughing, everyone slowly fell silent again.

Someone muttered: "Tang Yu's Luo Dong is really wronged!" ”

No one answered, but everyone nodded silently.

On qualifications, on the resources mastered, on vision...... Tang Yu Media's Luo Dong absolutely crushed Shen Zhenyi.

But so what?

Shen Zhenyi has the opportunity to "grind" Wang Wei to bend his waist, and Luo Dong will only make Wang Wei proud, as long as they still want to take a ride on Weibo technology, they can only choose the former and abandon the latter.

Everyone here is well-informed, and naturally understands that this world is sometimes really unreasonable-spare you to do your best, it is better to meet people at once, and their fate will turn around and rise to the top.

It's just that when I think of a "little girl", I will be on an equal footing with them, and my heart still has complex and indescribable emotions.

Dai Peng was also silent for a moment, and then said calmly: "Then let's do it, everyone raise their hands to vote, and if you agree to absorb Shen Zhenyi as the general partner, please raise your hand." ”

One, two, three......

There were many arms in the conference room, and it was unanimously approved!

- No one believes in Wang Wei's "determination"!

……

Happy New Year to all! May everyone see hope in the new year!

(End of chapter)