rebirth from small pockets

Chapter 490 Targeted by Capital

"I'm coming~ I'm coming!"

"No, I'm the one who asked for this meal."

"No, no, no, you're welcome, I'll be the one to take care of this meal."

"That's not okay~ I told you before that this meal was invited by me."

"No~ Mr. Ma told me to pay the bill. I must pay the bill."

".!"

After drinking and eating, Brother Ma argued with a woman about paying the bill.

This woman is Xu Xing. She came from the middle of the country. It is said that she just went to Ding Sanshi's network to solve some minor problems. Then when she called Ma Xiaoyun, she heard that Chen Li was also there, so she came directly to kill him.

As soon as Xu Xing came over, he took over the situation immediately. This eldest sister is indeed a venture capitalist, and her ability to speak well is completely different from Ma Xiaoteng next to her.

However, as soon as Xu Xing came over, he scolded Chen Li without saying a word. The reason was because Chen Li had been avoiding her during this period.

Chen Li also knew that he was wrong, and finally punished himself with two glasses of wine as an apology, and then watched Xu Xing pull Ma Xiaoyun and Ma Xiaoteng to talk about the future of the Internet.

Then Ma Xiaoyun got drunk, and Ma Xiaoteng was also a little dizzy.

From this point, we can see the advantages and disadvantages of this woman Xu Xing. Anyway, with Ma Xiaoteng's drinking capacity, Chen Li will definitely not be able to drink.

"Xiao Li~ How about I waive this meal?"

While Ma Xiaoteng and Xu Xing were fighting to pay the bill, Wang Xiaomei, who was waiting to collect the money, looked at Chen Li helplessly.

In fact, the cost of this meal is not much. After all, I brought my own wine. Wang Xiaomei doesn't care that much just for the money for the barbecue.

"Don't mention it~Sister Xiaomei, you are open to do business, you should collect the money when you should."

Chen Li waved his hand, indicating that Wang Xiaomei did not need to waive the bill, then looked at Xu Xing and Ma Xiaoteng who were still entangled over there and said:

"Sister Xu~Brother Xiao Ma, please stop fighting."

"Brother Ma brought this meal, so let him pay for it."

"Next time, Sister Xu, can you just treat me to another meal?"

"Sister Xu, please treat me to a meal next time. I've suddenly been craving for seafood recently."

Chen Li was not polite to Xu Xing. Firstly, Xu Xing treated him to dinner. That could be reimbursed. Secondly, the eldest sister was looking for him for something recently!

Chen Li had been avoiding her before, but it was obvious that he couldn't avoid her today.

"Hi~ Xiaoli, it's not easy for you to want to eat seafood. Why don't you just call me?"

"Well, tomorrow~ tomorrow I will arrange a table at Wanlongzhou, and you will invite Qingqing to come with you?"

"That's it~ Today's bill is going to cost you Xiao Ma. You can come with me tomorrow~ I happen to know a friend who does e-commerce, and I'll introduce him to you then!"

I have to say that people like Xu Xing are really sociable.

Several times, Chen Li wanted to recruit Xu Xing to his side, but unfortunately his plate was too small and could not accommodate the giant Buddha for the time being.

In the end, it was Ma Xiaoteng who paid for the barbecue, but he exchanged the barbecue for seafood. In addition, he knew a venture capital investor. No matter how you look at it, Ma Xiaoteng definitely made a lot of money.

After paying the bill, the place was still there, but there were only two people missing.

Xu Xing asked Ma Xiaoyun's driver to pick him up, and then arranged for his own driver to take Ma Xiaoteng to the hotel. Then...

"Xiao Li~ We haven't seen each other for a while, why don't we have a cup of coffee together?"

"Oh~ By the way, it seems that you don't like coffee, Xiaoli, then why don't we find a place to have a cup of tea?"

"Hmm~ Okay! But I won't go outside, Qingqing is still waiting for me at home!"

"My friend gave me some scented tea before, which was pretty good. Why don't you, Sister Xu, come and sit at my house?"

Chen Li nodded. Ever since he saw Xu Xing coming over just now, he actually knew that the other party was coming after him.

Xu Xing had approached him twice before, but he had excused himself both times.

"Hi~ That's great. I haven't been to your new home yet, Xiaoli. I'll make up for this moving gift another day."

What Xu Xing said was a double entendre. In addition to the superficial meaning, it also secretly expressed dissatisfaction with Chen Li for not calling her when he moved.

Of course, this kind of expression of dissatisfaction is just that. It is more of a subtle expression that the relationship between Chen Li and her could actually be closer.

Okay~ This can be regarded as a means of communication. If Chen Li was just a slightly smart young man, he might still feel embarrassed.

But~ Chen Li had already seen this kind of communication method in his previous life, so he didn't take it seriously at all.

The reason is also very simple~ Talking about friendship with someone like Xu Xing~ is actually a very nonsense thing.

Regardless of whether the other party might have a real friendship with Chen Li, based on Xu Xing's identity alone, it was impossible for Chen Li to believe in the other party's friendship.

Yes~ Even if Xu Xing treats people sincerely and sincerely makes friends with Chen Li~ then Chen Li cannot believe it.

It’s not that I don’t believe it, it’s that I can’t believe it!

After all, Xu Xing is the spokesperson of capital, so even if Xu Xing himself is good or bad, it actually doesn't mean much.

Wang Xiaomei's barbecue restaurant is very close to the community where Chen Li lives. The two took a walk back to the community.

"Daughter-in-law~ Sister Xu is here, make two cups of tea."

As soon as he entered the door, Chen Li shouted.

"Sister Xu is here~sit down quickly!"

Liu Qingqing walked out of the bedroom, rolled her eyes at Chen Li, then said hello to Xu Xing and went to make tea.

"You guys chat~ I still have some homework to do."

Liu Qingqing and Xu Xing had met before. Xu Xing even asked Liu Qingqing to go shopping several times before, and even gave Liu Qingqing many gifts.

However, Liu Qingqing did not stay with Xu Xing at this moment. She knew that Chen Li and Xu Xing must be talking about business, so she went back to the bedroom after making tea.

"Oh~ your house is well decorated!"

"But~ with your current wealth, isn't this house a bit small to live in?"

"And this is an old community, right? Have you never thought about buying a villa or something?"

Xu Xing walked around the living room and then sat down on the sofa.

"Hey~ Qingqing and I live here, what kind of villa should we buy?"

"I'm too lazy to clean up this house, let alone the villa."

Chen Li also sat down, shook his head and replied.

It's not that he hasn't thought about buying a villa. After all, in the eyes of Chinese people, living in a villa and driving a luxury car is considered a standard feature of the wealthy group.

But as he said, he and Liu Qingqing live here, and this three-bedroom house is a bit big, let alone a large villa.

In particular, the two of them want to have their own two-person world, and they don't want to find a nanny. If the house is too big, just cleaning it up will be a hassle.

"Yeah~ that's what you said."

"You are still young anyway, so there is no need to pursue these things too much."

Xu Xing nodded, picked up the tea cup and took a sip.

But this is just a show. After all, the tea has just been brewed, and the water is too hot to drink.

She was organizing her words, thinking about how to speak to Chen Li!

However, before she could think of how to start, Chen Li over there started talking directly.

"Sister Xu~ You are looking for me today."

"It's still for hao123, right?"

Xu Xing thought she could persuade Chen Li, so she needed to think about her words, but Chen Li didn't.

He knew very well that the other party was looking for him, which was for the website navigation hao123 in his hand.

The success of hao123 in the previous life is somewhat of a small miracle in the Internet industry.

Because at that time, hao123 was only run by an amateur player who was born as a network administrator from the beginning to the end.

Therefore, in the previous life, hao123 clearly had the top traffic ranking among domestic websites, but in the end, it only sold tens of millions.

If you look at it from the perspective of the future traffic era, the founder of hao123 really has no vision.

After all, considering the traffic of hao123 at that time, the tens of millions sold were really an insult to hao123, which was among the top three most visited in the country at that time.

But in fact many people have ignored one issue.

That is, before the rise of e-commerce, although traffic was important, it was definitely not as valuable as imagined.

In other words, in the early days, most domestic Internet companies were not accustomed to monetizing traffic.

To be precise, most Internet companies at that time had not found a way to monetize their traffic.

Everyone only knows that the greater the traffic, the more benefits you can get.

But how to turn traffic into real benefits is something that everyone has figured out step by step during the development of the Internet.

If we use the standards of twenty years later, in 2004, based on the traffic of hao123, then if the value of this small website does not reach several hundred million, you can't even think about it.

Even a valuation of several hundred million is a bit low. After all, at that time, most domestic netizens were accustomed to using website navigation to surf the Internet.

If the traffic of hao123 in 2004 is obtained twenty years later, it is estimated that just collecting advertising fees will be a big deal.

However, this is not the case.

As a latecomer, Chen Li knows very well that in the future, netizens' Internet habits will change from website navigation to Chinese character search.

People no longer need to use a static web page to navigate other websites, they can just search for the website they want to find on the search website.

After all, since the first batch of netizens, most of the subsequent netizens started to come into contact with computers and the Internet at a very early time.

With the popularization of computers and the Internet, more and more netizens do not need website navigation at all.

Therefore, hao123 is at best a stepping stone for the development of the domestic Internet.

From this point of view, in fact, the founder of hao123 chose to exit at the appropriate time. It was also a very wise choice.

Many people use the traffic standards of twenty years later to view hao123 twenty years ago. This is a very unfair thing.

So at that time, the founder of hao123 sold hao123 for 50 million in cash + stocks, was it really not a loss?

It's hard for Chen Li to say whether he lost money or not, because he didn't know how many thousands of shares the founder received.

If the other party received relatively few shares, then Chen Li felt that it was still a bit of a loss.

But if the other party obtains more shares, then Chen Li thinks this transaction should be considered a more cost-effective one.

Of course, this is actually how Chen Li views this matter based on his experience twenty years later.

But in fact, at that time, hao123 had actually reached a bottleneck period, and it was still a bottleneck period that was very stuck.

At that time, hao123 didn’t really have many choices.

One is to choose to maintain the status quo, but in that case hao123 may soon be caught up or even surpassed by competitors.

The second is to choose to break through bottlenecks, such as introducing capital or seeking cooperation, etc.

But the founder's background was just an ordinary network administrator, which limited his vision and experience to a certain extent.

If you choose to break through the bottleneck, with the founder's ability, you simply can't make it work.

The last remaining path, which is the path chosen by the founder, is to sell hao123 at a good price.

So if we were standing at the "fork in the road" in 2004, Chen Li believed that most people would make the same choice as the founder.

That is to sell hao123!

Even though the annual income of hao123 at that time was close to 10 million, its upper limit was there, and it was difficult for the founder to let hao123 continue to rise.

Under the pressure of various competitors, Chen Li felt that selling hao123 was definitely a wise choice.

It is said that the founder later got involved in gaming websites, and I heard that he also made a lot of money.

So to be honest, this guy is definitely a smart guy.

However, the hao123 in the previous life and the hao123 in Chen Li’s hands are completely different.

In terms of vision, experience, and even understanding of the Internet, Chen Li far surpassed the founder at the time.

Not to mention the existence of Chen Li's system, coupled with the memory advantage brought by his rebirth, so hao123 naturally embarked on another development path in Chen Li's hands.

In fact, the road is still the same, except that the hao123 in the previous life was riding a bicycle, while the hao123 in Chen Li's hand drove directly into the sports car and took the highway.

And this~ led to a situation.

When hao123 began to have imitators and competitors, Chen Li's hao123 had already occupied an absolute market share quietly.

If someone conducts a survey on current domestic computer users, they will find that hao123's market share is definitely more than 70%.

What kind of concept is this? Let’s put it this way~ Even at the peak of hao123 in its previous life, it never achieved such a market share.

There is no way~ When hao123 in the previous life was founded, it was just the network administrator who wanted to provide convenience to customers who were surfing the Internet.

But hao123 founded by Chen Li has been aiming for market share from the beginning.

The purposes of the two are different, and the paths of development they naturally follow are also different.

The reason why hao123 in the previous life was successful was to slowly accumulate word of mouth, and it did not adopt other marketing strategies.

But what about Chen Li’s hao123? Not only will it promote itself in the process of development, but it will even attack its competitors.

When it comes to playing the Internet, Chen Li, who was born in 1999, dare not be ranked first, but there are definitely not many people who can compete with him.

Chen Li didn't even need to use dirty or even underhanded methods. He could "annihilate" those competitors through normal competition.

Therefore, even though it is only the end of October 1999, hao123 has already become a star website on the domestic Internet.

But this is actually not all a good thing.

Just like now, Chen Li's hao123 has already been noticed by some capital before it has reached its bottleneck period.

And Xu Xing~ is one of them.

(End of chapter)