rebirth from small pockets

Chapter 514 Thank you for your trust!

Chen Li has no experience in studying abroad, or even very little experience in studying abroad.

But this did not prevent him from "pretending" in front of a group of more inexperienced college students.

In particular, the experiences he recounted were not fabricated out of thin air. Although most of them came from the Internet in his previous life, they are still only 50% or 60% true.

After all, although there were many fabricated and false contents on the Internet at that time, there were also many real experiences of people who had studied abroad.

Language barriers, cultural environment, accommodation, food and living habits, and even possible discrimination issues, etc.

These are all problems that international students are destined to face.

Chen Li just elaborated on these issues. As for the final choice, preparatory international students like Li Xiaoying still need to make their own decisions.

Of course, most international students don’t actually need to make up their own minds, as their parents often take their decisions.

Just letting an inexperienced little girl like Li Xiaoying make her own decision, Chen Li really didn't know whether to say that the other party's parents were enlightened or bold.

However, although Chen Li treats Li Xiaoying as a sister, she is not his biological sister after all, so he can only state the pros and cons and cannot help the other party make a choice.

After chatting for almost an hour, Chen Li returned to the bedroom and changed his clothes to get ready to go to work.

"Wow? Brother-in-law, you look a bit handsome today!"

It seems that Li Xiaoying is praising Chen Li, but in fact

"Haha~ I wore the same outfit yesterday."

Chen Li was speechless. He knew that this was a little girl who came to praise him because he had introduced her to him so much before.

"Uh hey hey!"

Perhaps because of lack of sleep, Li Xiaoying smiled a little silly.

"Okay~ I'm going to work, you guys have a great time today."

"Don't go back to school today. I'll bring you something delicious when you come back in the evening."

Chen Li raised his hand and pressed Li Xiaoying's messy-looking hair before turning around and preparing to go out.

"Hmm~ Brother-in-law, what delicious food do you want to bring tonight?"

Chen Li did not answer, but went out directly. Li Xiaoying behind him wanted to ask more questions, but was dragged back by Liu Qingqing who was dumbfounded.

This girl can't hear the word "eat", but Chen Li is also delicious. Coupled with Li Xiaoying's character, Liu Qingqing can't even be jealous of their relationship.

"Sisters, get ready, we are about to set off!"

"I know~ I know, I have to work for your husband again!"

"I said Qingqing, we have to have a good meal today. You can't fool us with fried chicken anymore."

"That's right~ I used to think fried chicken was delicious, but now."

"I think the fried chicken is quite delicious! The chicken popcorn fried by my brother-in-law last time was also delicious."

"Okay~ You guys work hard today, and I will cook myself tonight."

"Farewell~ You'd better stop cooking and let Chen Li cook us a meal. Oops, the food you cooked!"

A group of girls instantly got into a fight, and the original travel plan had to be postponed for a while.

Today is New Year's Day~ For most college students, today is a day off to rest or go out for fun.

But Liu Qingqing’s roommates have become accustomed to helping out at Ideal Fried Chicken during holidays.

On a large-scale holiday like this, if you help out for a day, you can not only get a part-time salary of 30 yuan, but you can also get a working meal and a big meal.

To be honest~ In terms of economic benefits, it is not cost-effective to ask Liu Qingqing and other roommates to help.

Because labor costs are very low these days, Chen Li can even hire a group of college students to work part-time during holidays for only thirty yuan a day.

Not only do they only have to take care of a work meal, some college students even have higher work efficiency than Liu Qingqing's roommates.

But what should I say~ These are Liu Qingqing’s roommates after all, so they still need some special care.

Although his part-time job was in public accounts, Chen Li couldn't take special care of it, but a big meal was still acceptable.

But to be honest~ If the big meal that Chen Li invited every time was converted into actual prices, the price per person would be much higher than the thirty yuan part-time fee.

Fortunately~ with Chen Li's current economic conditions, he doesn't need to worry about this little money.

After going out, Chen Li went to the parking lot of the community, but when he arrived, he was stunned.

Today Liu Qingqing and the others had to work part-time in three branches, so Chen Li left Master Cheng with them.

Chen Li originally planned to drive by himself today, but when he got to the car, he found that there was already a person sitting in the driver's seat.

Mu Xiaoqing!

"Hmm? Have you completed the resignation procedures?"

Although Chen Li was stunned for a moment, he quickly reacted and asked directly after getting in the car.

"Well, small companies also have the advantages of small companies. Many procedures do not require so many procedures."

"BOSS, where are we going now?"

Mu Xiaoqing nodded, and then started the Cherokee. The shape of this car is actually not very friendly to women, but fortunately Mu Xiaoqing is tall and has long legs, and she has been in the United States for many years, so she is not familiar with this type of car.

Not unfamiliar.

"The boss's arrangement this morning is to go to hao123 first, and then go to Red Pony Technology, both in Zhongguancun!"

Zhang Ruolan, who is sitting in the passenger seat, is now the person who knows Chen Li's itinerary best. Every night, Zhang Ruolan will communicate with Chen Li in advance about the next day's itinerary, and make other arrangements if there are emergencies.

At first, Chen Li was not used to the feeling of being arranged by others, but after getting used to it, he felt that this method was quite efficient.

At the very least, Chen Li will not ignore some original arrangements because he is too concerned about something or is too attracted to it.

"hao123?"

"I know this website, BOSS, are you interested in this website?"

Mu Xiaoqing started chatting casually while controlling the car skillfully.

It can be seen that this professional woman seems to be much more cheerful and talkative than before after finding the opportunity to return to the financial industry.

“hao123 actually”

Zhang Ruolan on the side seemed ready to explain to Mu Xiaoqing, but stopped after Chen Li patted the back of her passenger seat.

"Forget it Miss Mu, let's call you Manager Mu!"

"Since you know hao123, what do you think of this website?"

Chen Li was very satisfied with the fact that Assistant Zhang understood his intentions instantly. He could see that Zhou Bowen had kept him by his side as his secretary for more than ten years, so he had no problem with his ability to observe what was happening.

"hao123?"

"This is a very good website. The founding page on my computer is also hao123, which is more convenient to use."

"But if BOSS you are asking about the investment value of this website, I personally am not very optimistic about it."

“Although the website hao123 is very useful, it is too uncompetitive.”

Zhang Ruolan on the side hesitated to speak, but in the end she gave up the idea of ​​reminding her friend.

She knew that hao123 was her boss's property, and Mu Xiaoqing's comments might arouse her boss's dissatisfaction.

However, she could help Mu Xiaoqing once, but she could not help him all the time. Whether Mu Xiaoqing could seize this opportunity ultimately depended on her personal ability, so she finally chose to shut up.

However, after all, Zhang Ruolan has not been Chen Li's assistant for a long time, so she doesn't know Chen Li well either.

In Chen Li's view, Mu Xiaoqing is indeed a top student in the business school, and her years of experience in working in the capital market allowed her to accurately identify the biggest shortcomings of hao123.

Yes, the problem Mu Xiaoqing mentioned is exactly the biggest drawback of hao123 website.

Not very competitive!

In terms of traffic alone, hao123 is currently among the best among many domestic Internet companies.

Even in terms of profitability, hao123 is currently one of the few Internet companies in China that has achieved "positive" profits.

You know, these days, the vast majority of domestic Internet companies are basically still in the process of burning money.

But even so, the shortcomings of hao123 are still very obvious.

No competitiveness means no future!

But perhaps it is precisely because of this that those smart businessmen shift their attention away from the category of website navigation.

Otherwise, if hao123 has a few slightly stronger competitors, it would be impossible for the founder who came from a website to succeed in his previous life.

As for now~ although due to the emergence of Chen Li, hao123 has achieved more outstanding results than in its previous life, this has also led to the emergence of some competitors and imitators for hao123 in advance.

However, overall, hao123 is still the well-deserved No. 1 in website navigation in China.

But the problem always has to go back to the starting point. Navigation websites like hao123 have no future from an investment perspective.

"If you were the CEO of this website and you were in this position, how would you make this website more competitive?"

Chen Li continued to ask, but this time he didn't get the answer he wanted.

"BOSS~ I'm very sorry, my understanding of the operation of the Internet is relatively limited."

"But~ if you look at it from an investor's perspective."

"Simple hao123 actually does not meet the conditions for long-term investment."

"My view on this website is that it can cooperate with some large Internet companies, or even simply sell this company at a suitable price."

"In fact, the best way is to use this website as capital and then invest in some more promising Internet companies."

"Perhaps this can maximize the benefits."

Not to mention, Mu Xiaoqing's experience in investment banking in the past few years was really not in vain. She seemed to have said it casually, but she actually told the fate of hao123 in her previous life.

In the previous life, hao123 had to accept the fate of being acquired after encountering a bottleneck period.

Later, many people said that hao123 suffered a loss at that time, but in fact, hao123 was already facing a very embarrassing situation at that time.

Especially after the rise of 3721 and Qiandu, people have become less and less dependent on website navigation.

In the past, people could find the website they wanted to browse as quickly as possible through website navigation, but after the rise of Qiandu and 3721, people only need to search with a few Chinese characters to find the type of website they want to browse.

There may even be more or even better choices!

Therefore, the founder of hao123 is actually very smart. He clearly knows that it is difficult for hao123 to rise to any higher level.

At least the hao123 in his hands is like this.

Instead of waiting until you are at the end of your rope to sell, you might as well choose to sell it at a good price during its peak period.

The founder in the previous life made this choice, and now Mu Xiaoqing actually directly gave such advice. It has to be said that perhaps this choice is also the right route.

It can be seen from this that Mu Xiaoqing still has a good eye for investment.

It's a pity that as she said, she is still very capable in the capital market, but she does not understand the specific operation of the Internet.

At present, Chen Li has left the operation of hao123 to Song Xiaolan. Although Song Xiaolan does a pretty good job and Chen Li trusts her, her work ability and work experience are indeed still lacking.

That is to say, the current hao123 does not carry out too much business, so Song Xiaolan can still barely use it.

As for the future, let’s talk about it later!

"Um!"

"What you said does make some sense!"

"By the way~ Now that your work procedures have been completed."

"Then you start making preliminary preparations!"

"It just so happens that you have previous work experience in investment banks and securities companies. I think you should also have connections in this area."

"I need you to conduct an investigation on American technology concept stocks."

"The results of your investigation will affect our next direction of entering the capital market."

"I hope you understand the importance of this!"

Chen Li gave up the topic of hao123 with Mu Xiaoqing. Although Mu Xiaoqing was not very optimistic about hao123, it did not mean that there was anything wrong with the other party's vision.

In fact, countless smart people on hao123 have made mistakes.

In other words, it's not that they made a mistake, it's just that almost all smart people thought of it together.

It is true that hao123 has no competitiveness, but what if there is no competition?

Precisely because everyone believes that website navigation has no future, hao123 in the previous life was able to dominate the world without any competitors!

Although hao123 failed to escape the fate of being sold in the end, hao123 at that time was actually considered a success.

Now that hao123 is in the hands of Chen Li, he actually has a better understanding of the prospects of this website.

So from the beginning, Chen Li knew that hao123 would be sold sooner or later, but he needed to get hao123 to sell it at a better price.

"Okay~BOSS!"

"By the way~BOSS, can I ask how much funds we have prepared to enter the capital market this time?"

At the traffic light, Mu Xiaoqing smoothed her hair and asked a question seemingly casually, but in fact, she was very concerned about this issue in her heart.

"Oh~ you weren't on duty before, so I didn't tell you about this."

"This time when I entered the capital market, I raised about 15 million in funds."

"Although it's a little short, it won't make any waves in the capital market, but take your time!"

"This amount of money can be considered as a way to test the waters. In the future, when the economic situation improves, we can gradually add more funds."

Chen Li answered a little casually, mainly because his attention was attracted by the snowflakes falling continuously outside the car window.

When he went out for a run in the morning, although the sky was a little dark, it looked like it would be a good day.

But in the blink of an eye, the sky not only turned dark, it even started to snow again.

"Fifteen million?"

"This amount of money is indeed not much in the capital market, and if we want to enter the U.S. capital market, we have to convert this money into U.S. dollars, which may take some time."

After listening to Chen Li's answer, Mu Xiaoqing felt somewhat disappointed.

Fifteen million converted into U.S. dollars is even less than two million.

This amount of money is indeed not a small amount for ordinary people, but for her, who has many years of working experience in investment banks and securities companies, this amount is too small.

"Oh, maybe I didn't make it clear. The fifteen million dollars are all in US dollars, and the money should be transferred to the HSBC account soon."

"I'll go~ This snow looks quite big!"

"I remember yesterday's weather forecast said it would be light rain today. This Yanjing weather forecast is also inaccurate!"

Chen Li answered casually and remembered the weather forecast he read last night. He couldn't help but sigh that the weather forecast of any era seemed to be really inaccurate.

However, no one in the carriage answered Chen Li's words at this moment.

After a while, Mu Xiaoqing's voice sounded in the car!

"Okay~BOSS!"

"Thank you for your trust, I will definitely come up with an accurate investigation report!"

(End of chapter)