rebirth from small pockets

Chapter 344 Red Pony Technology Co., Ltd.

The world is weird sometimes!

For example, when a person is less short of money, it is easier for him to borrow money.

But when this person really needs money, you will find that it is really difficult to borrow money!

Just like Chen Li now, although he is indeed "poor" and has no money to eat, his "poor" is not really poor.

In fact, Chen Li is not short of money at all, but he just wants to separate the public and private affairs.

So under this situation, it was quite simple for Chen Lili to find some money.

It was so simple that Chen Li just "smoothly" mentioned in front of Ma Xiaoyun that he had forgotten to go to the bank to withdraw money, and Ma Xiaoyun directly asked someone to withdraw 50,000 yuan for him.

There was no mention of borrowing it, no mention of when it would be repaid, or even an IOU. The money just ended up in Chen Li's hands.

Because both Ma Xiaoyun and Chen Li know very well that the 50,000 yuan is not worth Chen Li being a douchebag!

Especially Ma Xiaoyun, he didn't even care about the 50,000 yuan, because the 50,000 yuan was just a drop in the bucket compared to the wealth he earned after hooking up with Chen Li.

Not to mention 50,000, even if it is 500,000 or 5 million, as long as Chen Li opens his mouth, he, Ma Xiaoyun, won't even stutter.

To put it bluntly, for Ma Xiaoyun, he is not afraid of Chen Li opening his mouth, but he is afraid that Chen Li will not speak!

If Chen Li doesn't speak up, or even doesn't continue to get along with him, Ma Xiaoyun, that will be the biggest loss.

You know, the newly founded Red Pony Technology Co., Ltd. is still counting on Chen Li and the team behind him to help in the future!

The red pony is naturally chosen from Zhou Hongyi’s red color and Ma Xiaoyun’s horse.

In fact, this method of naming was not very popular in 1999. These days, more conventional names are popular.

The appearance of the red pony also means that in the short term, Ali Baba and Qishi 350 will no longer appear.

In fact, Chen Li had never thought before that maybe Ma Xiaoyun and Zhou Hongyi would part ways one day.

After all, these two people were not easy to deal with in the previous life, so maybe Ali Baba and Qishi 350 will reappear.

At that time, Chen Li also thought that if these two companies reappeared, would they still be as successful as in their previous lives?

But looking at the current situation, it is estimated that this situation will not happen in the short term.

Today's Red Pony, Zhou Hongyi is responsible for technology, and Ma Xiaoyun is responsible for the company's operation management and sales.

The two of them are respectively responsible for their respective areas of expertise, and with Chen Li mediating in the middle, this can be regarded as a strong alliance.

In terms of the division of shares, Ma Xiaoyun, who invested US$5 million, alone accounted for 55%, while Zhou Hongyi, who packaged Guofeng Software, got 25%, and the last 20% went to Chen Li!

On the surface, Chen Li received the smallest number of shares, which is actually very unscientific.

In particular, Chen Li is a reborn person and has a systematic existence. According to conventional novel scripts, Chen Li should occupy the majority.

And this is really what happened. According to Ma Xiaoyun and Zhou Hongyi’s original idea, Chen Li and the team behind him got 50%, and Ma Xiaoyun and Zhou Hongyi each got 25%.

This share distribution plan was unanimously approved by Ma Xiaoyun and Zhou Hongyi. After all, the reason why the two got acquainted was because of Chen Li.

And the reason why the two of them are able to achieve their current results actually has a lot to do with Chen Li.

In other words, if Chen Li were to lead this new Internet company, neither of them would actually have any objections.

But the two of them had a good idea, but Chen Li was not happy!

He is not stupid, so he naturally understands that the more he takes, the more responsibilities he needs to bear.

Yes~ He has a system, and there are many Internet-related products in the system space, but the things in the system space cannot be redeemed by Chen Lili, at least not for the time being.

However, Ma Xiaoyun and Zhou Hongyi decided that there was someone and a team behind Chen Li. If Chen Li got more, wouldn't it be embarrassing if the company encountered any problems or difficulties in the future, but Chen Li couldn't solve them in a while?

So what is the best way? Chen Li and the non-existent team behind him only exist as "technical support".

In other words, Chen Li and the team behind him usually do not belong to Red Pony Technology Co., Ltd., but if Chen Li and the team behind him come up with something good, it can be handed over to Red Pony Technology Co., Ltd. to handle it.

Relevant income will be divided again at that time.

As for Chen Li’s current 20% stake, it was actually converted from his previous investment in Zhou Hongyi’s Guofeng Software.

Of course, if we really want to calculate it in terms of value, Chen Li's shareholding must account for less than 20%. After all, Zhou Hongyi only holds 25%.

However, both Ma Xiaoyun and Zhou Hongyi are very aware of the capabilities of Chen Li and the team behind him, so in order to win over Chen Li and the people behind him, it is absolutely appropriate to give them more shares.

Even if Chen Li hadn't insisted, Ma Xiaoyun and Zhou Hongyi would have wanted to give Chen Li more, but Chen Li refused.

Chen Li's reasons are very good. He feels that it is best for a company not to engage in large-scale allocation of shares.

If everyone’s shares are about the same, then who will listen to whom in the future?

So the best way is to let one person have enough voice.

This person could be Zhou Hongyi or Ma Xiaoyun, but it definitely should not be Chen Li.

In the end, this person was chosen to be Ma Xiaoyun, not only because this guy was the only investing shareholder, and the amount of investment even reached five million US dollars. But also because Ma Xiaoyun was originally one of the major shareholders of Guofeng Software, and he had two

Added together, the shares will naturally be the largest.

And compared to standing in front of the stage, Chen Li would rather stay behind the scenes!

To be honest, Chen Li just wanted to find a trustworthy Internet company so that he could deal with the computer Internet-related products he redeemed from the system in the future.

This enterprise can be Ma Xiaoyun's Xiaoma Technology, or Zhou Hongyi's Guofeng Software, or even the product of a combination of the two. Red Pony Technology Co., Ltd.

For Chen Li, it doesn't matter who the company is, what's important is that the other party must trust him.

Ma Xiaoyun and Zhou Hongyi are naturally trustworthy. To be precise, they trust the team behind Chen Li.

After all, he is a master who can even solve the Y2K problem!

It's a pity that such a master has not been directly recruited by the red pony, so recently Ma Xiaoyun and Zhou Hongyi have been recruiting intensively.

The recruitment this time is completely different from the recruitment when the two first started their business.

Because the red pony is so rich.

Both are start-up companies, Red Pony is completely different from Zhou Hongyi’s Guofeng Software and Ma Xiaoyun’s Ali Baba.

Zhou Hongyi started Guofeng Software, and even Chen Li’s 100,000 yuan was accepted by this guy as an angel investment. This shows that this guy was really short of money when he founded Guofeng Software.

Ma Xiaoyun's situation is better because there are many others.

More than a dozen Arhats, each with a little contribution, directly raised 500,000 yuan to start Ali Baba.

But for computer Internet companies, whether it is Zhou Hongyi’s Guofeng Software or Ma Xiaoyun’s Ali Baba, the little funds they have raised will definitely not be able to survive.

Therefore, these two companies were really struggling in their early stages of entrepreneurship.

The outside world doesn’t know much about the specific circumstances of Zhou Hongyi’s early entrepreneurship. They only know that Comrade Zhou suffered a lot.

But only Lao Zhou himself knows how much he suffered.

But Ma Xiaoyun is different. When he first founded Ali Baba, he still left some video materials.

Judging from the impact data, Ali Baba, which will become a famous name in the industry in the future, was actually an ordinary small company in its early days.

In order to use limited funds to do more things, both Guofeng Software and Ali Baba have adopted the same approach.

Increase revenue and reduce expenditure!

Open source is a must, after all, companies need to make money to survive.

However, most of the early domestic Internet companies faced a problem, that is, how to open source?

When there is no specific way to open source, the only thing we can do is to reduce expenditures.

So there was a nice talk about Cai Jinxin giving up his annual salary of one million yuan and going to Lin'an to get a monthly salary of 500 yuan.

500 yuan~What is this concept?

Nowadays, the waiters at the Ideal Fried Chicken restaurant under Chen Li’s name can earn 500 yuan a month. This shows that the salary package offered by Ali Baba at that time was really unattractive.

You know, Ali Baba is an Internet company after all, and anyone who works there should know some computer knowledge.

And in 1999, even if you only knew Word or Excel, and dare not say more, it was not difficult to find a job with a monthly salary of over 1,000!

It is no exaggeration to say that with just a little bit of computer knowledge, you can score a lot of points in civil service exams or whatever.

The same is true for Zhou Hongyi’s Chinese style software!

The fundamental reason for this situation is that these two companies did not have much money in their accounts when they started their businesses in the early days.

But Red Pony is different. This company, which was formed by the merger of Pony Technology and Guofeng Software, has a working capital of US$6 million.

Among them, Ma Xiaoyun invested US$5 million, plus the US$1 million he previously invested in Guofeng Software, this is US$6 million.

This also means that the valuation of this Red Pony Technology Co., Ltd. has reached 10 million US dollars since its establishment!

And if the timeline is pushed back, this number will rise geometrically.

The reason is simple. Because the 3721 Chinese character search developed by Guofeng Software will be launched soon.

3721 in the previous life eventually became a rogue software, but that was because Guofeng Software at that time had no money and resources, and had no way to promote the software, so it had no choice but to resort to this strategy.

But it’s hard to say about 3721 now.

Even though 3721 may follow the same path as in its previous life, isn't Chen Li still here?

Chen Li can definitely come forward at the right time to prevent certain things from happening.

Moreover, 3721 Chinese character search is just the beginning. It is also a Chinese character search. Qiandu, which has not yet been founded, can be so big. Chen Li believes that Guofengruan.Red Pony can do the same.

If possible, Chen would ideally build an Internet giant with a purely state-owned background, rather than like in his previous life, where the major shareholders behind the top domestic Internet companies were almost all foreign capital.

Of course, achieving this goal is not as easy as imagined, and Chen Li is also prepared to use the system at critical moments.

In short, if you don’t try to do something, how can you know whether it will succeed?

Just like the service that Chen Li asked the system to customize, Chen Li is not sure whether the system can do it until now.

But even so, Chen Li was still willing to give it a try, even if he lost a large amount of cash that could be said to be beyond the imagination of most people.

Because some things cannot be measured simply with money.

After experiencing the redemption of "Y2K Exploit Ultimate Edition" and using it to make profits, Chen Li's current mentality has changed a lot.

Because he suddenly discovered that money~ was really nothing to him.

A "Y2K Bug Ultimate Edition" allowed Chen Li to earn wealth that ordinary people could not earn in several lifetimes, but something like "Y2K Bug Ultimate Edition" had an entire system space for Chen Li.

There are things that Chen Li is familiar with, and there are even future technologies that he is not familiar with.

So, money really means nothing to Chen Li now.

In other words, today's Chen Li can say those words openly and honestly.

"I don't care about money!"

"I'm not interested in money!"

Yes~! Compared with money itself, Chen Li now values ​​the value that money can embody.

Most of the time, a dollar is just a dollar.

But when this one dollar buys something worth two dollars, then the value of this dollar increases.

If you use money to buy something that cannot be measured by money, it will definitely be the most valuable transaction in the world.

Just like this time, Chen Li paid 50 million US dollars, but if he could really get a few lives back, then Chen Li felt that the 50 million dollars would be a huge profit.

As a reborn person, and on the premise of having a system, Chen Li felt that he had every reason to make up for some regrettable things in his previous life.

Even if he has to pay a lot of "money" for it!

However, if money can solve the problem, it is not a problem for Chen Li now!

As long as Chen Li can get it, even if it is a debt, it will be fine. Anyway, based on Chen Li's plan for himself, it is estimated that in a few years, Chen Li will be able to become a rich man, whether it is real currency or the system's mall currency.

So~get cool~Chen Li!

"Ring~!"

Just when Chen Lichang was thinking about the future, the alarm he set for himself rang.

"Well~ it's the appointed time."

Chen Li went to the toilet and pushed Huang Biao away who was playing games in the living room.

"Hey~ this interface is really ugly!"

Opening the login interface skillfully, Chen Li logged in his OICQ number.

Regarding the earliest version of OICQ, Chen Li was really speechless.

It's just ugly, but the key is still unstable. It often gets disconnected and then cannot be reconnected.

Sometimes, I can't even log in.

If software with such frequent problems were left for more than ten years, no, even a few years later, it would probably have been scolded to death by users.

But in 1999, people really didn’t have so many demands.

To put it bluntly, some people don’t even understand what disconnection is.

Chen Li skillfully opened the user interface and selected one of the avatars, which was a girl's ID.

Long Aotian: Hello~ I’m here, what are I doing?

Leng Yurou: I'm still dealing with work matters! Where are you? Did you just get off work?

Long Aotian: Well~ I just finished handling matters worth several hundred million, and I have some free time now, so I came to chat with you.

Leng Yurou:!

Leng Yurou: By the way~ Can I ask you a few questions?

Long Aotian: Please speak!

Leng Yurou: What do you think of this OICQ?

Long Aotian: What's the point? Just like that! The interface is rubbish, the functions are rubbish, and I can't imitate others well enough. What else can I do? There is no chat software on the market now, otherwise I wouldn't be too lazy to use it.

Leng Yurou:!

In the rental house, Chen Li almost stopped laughing, but then he suddenly remembered something and started typing again.

Long Aotian: However, OICQ is not without its merits.

Leng Yurou: Oh~ Really? What are the merits of OICQ?

Long Aotian: OICQ is here.

Chen Li's typing hand suddenly stopped. He wanted to praise OICQ a few words, but he was mainly worried that he had been trashing OICQ before. If he angered the other party, they would block his account and that would be the end of it.

You must know that the OICQ numbers Chen Li is using now were carefully selected by him. In addition, these OICQ numbers can easily be sold for five to six figures in the future.

But the problem came. Chen Li almost racked his brains, but he couldn't figure out what was good about OICQ at this moment.

After all, Chen Li has long been accustomed to the operation interface of later generations of QQ. Regarding the current OICQ, Chen Li cannot find any advantages at all.

Finally, Chen Li's fingers continued to fall on the keyboard.

Long Aotian: Because OICQ allowed me to meet you!

"Hi~ Holy shit, I actually got goosebumps!"

After sending the message, Chen Li directly crossed his hands and started rubbing them.

The reason is very simple, because Chen Li knows that the person on the other end of the computer is not actually a girl.

If he guessed correctly, the Leng Yurou opposite should be a young man wearing glasses.

I just don’t know which one of the five tigers the Leng Yurou opposite is!

In an inconspicuous office in Shencheng, the distant reform capital, Pony Ma looked at the computer screen in front of him and was doing the same thing as Chen Li.

And while he was rubbing the goosebumps on his hands, he cursed:

"Fuck~ This work is not done by humans!"

(End of chapter)