My Age of Investment

After receiving Xia Jingxing's call, Li Xiaodong was overjoyed and gathered all the employees in the company to greet the God of Wealth at the company gate.

When they heard that Xia Jingxing was coming to the company to inspect the work, the employees were all in high spirits, with smiles on their faces. They were all ready to take this opportunity to see the richest man in Asia up close, and to get rich by the way.

It was said that the whole company was mobilized, but in fact there were not many people in Li Xiaodong's company, less than twenty people in total.

However, although the company is small, it is a rising star that has received investment from Asia's richest man. Everyone feels that the company and themselves have a bright future.

Li Xiaodong, CEO of the company, also paints a pie for employees in this way on weekdays. The story of Xia Jingxing's three-minute decision to invest in Garena was so impressive that even the richest man in Asia was optimistic about the company. How could the future be so bad?

However, two years have passed since Xia Jingxing's investment. The enthusiasm of the old employees has gradually cooled down, and they find that the boss's big pie is no longer good. Mr. Xia obviously does not care about the development of a small company.

No matter how successful or legendary Xia Jingxing is, it has nothing to do with their company.

Suddenly hearing the news that Xia Jingxing was coming today, many people's previously extinguished faith was rekindled.

It turned out that what the boss said was true. The company's backend was really tough, and Mr. Xia had not forgotten the small company he invested in.

…

When Xia Jingxing appeared, Li Xiaodong led a dozen employees to applaud in unison and gave out an overwhelming cheer.

Xia Jingxing waved in return while looking at these enthusiastic employees.

He could count how many people there were at a glance. Xia Jingxing felt that the development speed of Garena Company was still too slow, and the total number of employees was almost less than the number of people he brought with him.

"Dylan, long time no see."

Li Xiaodong stepped forward with a smile on his face and held out his hands to Xia Jingxing.

"Yeah, we haven't seen each other for two years, right? I happened to be in Singapore in the past few days, so I came here to see you."

Xia Jingxing smiled and shook hands with Li Xiaodong, speaking in a very kind tone.

Seeing that Xia Jingxing didn't ask about Chen Ou, Li Xiaodong secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Last year, he and Chen Ou completely broke up. Chen Ou sold all his shares to him in anger and quit the online game platform gggame he founded.

After becoming the actual controller of the company, Li Xiaodong first changed the company's name to garena in order to completely remove any traces of Chen Ou's existence. Later, worried that it might leave any hidden dangers, he simply liquidated the original company this year and re-registered it. Garena founded a company of the same name and gave up the game battle platform and began to transform into a game agent.

As a shareholder of the company, Vision Capital is fully aware of this series of changes.

Last year, the conflict between the two founders intensified. As a director of the company, Fu Jixun personally intervened to mediate the conflict between Li Xiaodong and Chen Ou. Unfortunately, the differences between the two parties were too great and the mediation effort ended in failure.

After all, there is no room for two tigers in one mountain, and one must choose between Li Xiaodong and Chen Ou.

Li Xiaodong believed that he was worthy of Chen Ou, so he scraped together hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy Chen Ou's shares without going to court or playing any tricks. Everyone could get together and part ways.

Internal strife among the founder team is a huge loss in the eyes of investors.

If Xia Jingxing and Vision Capital felt that Li Xiaodong was unreliable, it would be completely normal for them to give up on him and Garena Company.

But Vision Capital did not do this. After the shares were transferred to the new company Garena, it continued to support the development of Garena.

However, this can only represent the attitude of Vision Capital. Li Xiaodong was a little unsure of Xia Jingxing's true personal attitude.

After he and Chen Ou parted ways last year, Xia Jingxing, who had been in contact with him from time to time, suddenly lost contact.

He didn't know if Xia Jingxing was too busy at work or if he had any objections to him.

A bunch of questions were buried in Li Xiaodong's heart, but he did not dare to take the initiative to ask Xia Jingxing.

Because the status gap between the two parties had become even greater than two years ago, he usually only dealt with Fu Jixun.

Since the other party is still willing to come to Garena to inspect the work today, he shouldn't have a bad impression of me, right?

Li Xiaodong did not dare to ask any more questions and welcomed Xia Jingxing into the company in a nervous mood.

After briefly visiting various departments and chatting cordially with the employees, Xia Jingxing followed Li Xiaodong into his personal office.

As soon as he entered the room and sat down, Li Xiaodong began to plead guilty and at the same time test Xia Jingxing's true attitude.

"Dailun, I'm a little disappointed with you. The company has made little development achievements in the past two years. There are also some differences between Chen Ou and I. About this matter..."

Xia Jingxing suddenly waved his hand and interrupted: "Don't mention the past anymore, gggame has become garena, and you have also decided to start a new business in the game agency field, and everything before has been completely changed.

As an investor, what I want to see is a new atmosphere and an outstanding startup company that is unstoppable in the game agency industry. "

Hearing what Xia Jingxing said, Li Xiaodong completely felt his heart in his stomach.

As long as Xia Jingxing is willing to continue to support him, it will be fine. He is not only interested in the capital power of Vision Capital, but also in the huge gaming resources held by domestic games.

Today's domestic games have several popular games in the Chinese market. Simply introducing one or two of them to Southeast Asia is enough for garena to survive the most difficult initial stage of entrepreneurship.

Xia Jingxing really didn't want to worry about the matter between Li Xiaodong and Chen Ou anymore. It was right for the two of them to talk to each other publicly, and it was right for their mother-in-law to talk to each other. It was difficult to deal with investors being caught in the middle. The best way to deal with it was to just do whatever they liked. What's going on.

Moreover, after separation, the two of them will become famous in the future. Maybe they are the opposite of Mo Jin Xiaowei, and they belong to the "together will lead to death, and apart will lead to life".

The two of them are developing their own careers, and there are no differences or disputes between them. Everyone is the talker of his or her own piece of land, so that the company can work together, avoid internal friction, and continuously move towards a higher level.

After chatting for a while, Xia Jingxing asked: "Garena has now transformed into a game agent. How do you plan to develop next?"

Li Xiaodong gritted his teeth and asked bravely: "Darren, we want to introduce online games under Domestic Games to operate in Southeast Asia.

It’s just that we are short of funds and can’t afford the agency fee. Can we act as an agent first and then split the accounts? "

Xia Jingxing laughed and said, "This is somewhat against the rules!"

Hearing this, Li Xiaodong's eyes suddenly dimmed a lot.

"but……"

Xia Jingxing changed the subject and said, "It's not like we can't set this precedent!"

Li Xiaodong looked at Xia Jingxing expectantly. It was no exaggeration to say that one word from the other party could determine the life or death of a company.

“Every online game under the umbrella of Domestic Games is a high-quality product, and it is killing all over the country. Now the overseas expansion of online games has been officially put on the agenda by Domestic Games.

There are two ways to go overseas, publish it yourself or find a partner to distribute it on your behalf.

Domestic game executives are currently arguing between two factions over these two plans. If Garena wants to successfully obtain the game agency rights, it needs to come up with something convincing. "

Li Xiaodong said excitedly: "Darren, although Garena is a new company, it has inherited the user resources and reputation of gggame.

If domestic games give us the agency rights for their online games in Southeast Asia, you can rest assured that we will never disgrace these games. "

Xia Jingxing thought for a few seconds, nodded and said: "Okay, since you are so confident, let me give you a game to try.

However, you still need to go back to your country and show your agency plan to domestic games. "

Li Xiaodong smiled brightly and said: "Darren, thank you for your support and trust!"

Xia Jingxing smiled and said, "Besides the agency game, do you have any other ideas?"

“Not yet, biting off more than we can chew, the team and I now want to focus on the game business wholeheartedly.

Until the game business has a firm foothold, it will not consider entering other fields.

We don’t have much money now, the only thing we have is concentration and devotion to the game. "

Xia Jingxing nodded. Sea Donghai Group, the future Internet hegemon in Southeast Asia, is as fragile as a newborn at this time. Shopee and mobile payment are all things that will happen after the game business is fully developed.

In the previous life, this company was able to rise in Southeast Asia and become a complex of Penguin + Ali + Alipay in Southeast Asia, which was completely inseparable from Penguin's strong support.

Just being the exclusive agent for all the popular games owned by Penguin can completely devour other game companies in Southeast Asia.

After the game business made money, Donghai Group had the capital to test e-commerce and digital financial businesses.

For this reason, the Donghai Group in the previous life was Penguin's number one bastard in Southeast Asia, and they learned from Penguin in everything. Penguin’s shareholding ratio in this company is as high as 40%, which is higher than founder Li Xiaodong’s shareholding.

However, although Donghai Group has copied countless successful Internet business models in China, it lacks a key link: instant messaging.

This has a lot to do with Garena's rise too late. Even if you want to copy all Penguins, you can't.

When Garena firmly established its dominance in the game and turned its attention to other Internet sub-sectors, it discovered that the instant messaging market in Southeast Asia had been divided up by Facebook and an Internet company from the United States.

Thinking of this, Xia Jingxing hesitated for a moment. Should WeChat go overseas as soon as possible?

Even if we can't compete in the European and American markets, we can at least capture the Southeast Asian and Japanese markets.

Xia Jingxing glanced at Li Xiaodong. If WeChat wants to enter the Southeast Asian market, a leading party is essential.

How about letting Overseas Holdings deploy a group of key employees to open up a base in Southeast Asia in the name of supporting Garena?

Smartphone coverage in this region is not yet sufficient, but we can learn from the Chinese market and promote momo voice first, which will perfectly match the online games promoted by garena.

Whichever country the games represented by garena are promoted to, momo voice will follow that country.

The more Xia Jingxing thought about it, the more he realized that it was feasible, and he deeply implemented the spirit of "enter the village quietly, and don't shoot anyone".

Moreover, the customs and humanities of Southeast Asian countries are different, and some things involve religion.

In short, going to sea is quite troublesome, so it will definitely not go wrong if you make more preparations in advance.

A small Internet company from Bangzi Country can compete in Southeast Asia, so there is no reason why Chinese companies can’t.

What Xiaoma can't do doesn't mean that I can't do it, and it's better to go to sea sooner rather than later. Going to sea early will give you more time to make mistakes and learn to correct.

Thinking of this, Xia Jingxing made up his mind and sent his troops to Nanyang.

"Forrest, I just thought about it and felt that your development pace is still a little slow. I now have an acceleration plan. Do you want to hear it?"

"Of course we have to listen, Darren, please give us some advice."

…

－－－－－－Digression－－－－－

I'm too sleepy, so I'll just update it once today and make up for it during the day.

7017k