rebirth from small pockets

Chapter 602: Treating people to dinner without paying the bill

Author: The sea under the clouds

Chapter 602: Treating people to dinner without paying the bill

Using an admission ticket to recruit Wu Minyi, Chen Li felt it was quite worth it.

After all, it was just an admission ticket, and the shares were not given to the other party for free, which gave Chen Li a lot of psychological comfort.

There was no way~ After all, these shares were given away. Chen Li was really distressed.

Although it is impossible for outsiders to understand, Chen Li is very clear. If Chen Li is not sure what the future of Ideal Agricultural Products and Ideal Food will be like, then Ideal Technology is undoubtedly the industry that Chen Li is most confident about.

Not to mention the millions of dollars that Wu Minyi took out, even if it was doubled ten times, Chen Li still felt at a loss.

After all, he knew very well that the future value of QQ alone would be at least in the billions, let alone Dianping.com.

It's fine if Chen Li didn't know. By exchanging shares for a certain amount of funds and Wu Minyi, Chen Li actually made a huge profit.

But the problem is that Chen Li is very clear about the value of these industries, so no matter how he thinks about it, he feels that financing in the early stage is absolutely stupid.

Chen Li once even imagined that with the support of sufficient funds, there would be no need for financing in the future.

However, this idea was later abandoned by Chen Li. The reason is very simple~it is best for everyone to make money together.

If you are too independent and unwilling to share the cake with others, then you will become others' enemy.

Chen Li is not worried about ordinary enemies, but some people just pick one up and it is probably enough for Chen Li to drink a pot.

Of course, Chen Li can also choose to be tough. After all, he has a system in hand. Although he dare not say that I have it in the world, I guess there will be no problem in dealing with some troubles.

But this kind of thing of injuring the enemy by a thousand and damaging yourself by hundreds does not actually make much sense.

If you properly give out some benefits while firmly controlling the company's management authority, you can actually maximize the benefits.

Of course, if you can find a like-minded partner, that is the most ideal way to cooperate.

As for Wu Minyi, of course she and Chen Li are not like-minded. The reason why she chose Chen Li was actually because she recognized Chen Li's potential and planned to make a fortune from Chen Li.

In the same way, Chen Li also took a fancy to the other party's ability and the background of the Hong Kong businessman.

Yes, apart from his ability, Wu Minyi's identity as a Hong Kong businessman was still very useful in 2000.

Although it feels helpless to say this, it is the fact that if Ren Xiaobo is asked to do the same thing, he may encounter some trouble and resistance.

But if it were replaced by Wu Minyi, a Hong Kong businessman, then the trouble and resistance would become very small. Not only would there be no trouble, but someone would also take the initiative to provide assistance.

This situation will not be so obvious twenty years later, but it does work well now.

Just like when Ren Xiaobo promoted Ideal White Feather Chicken, even though his words were smoky, people would still be suspicious of White Feather Chicken and even Ideal Agricultural Products Company.

But if Wu Minyi goes to that station, and cooperates with her extremely non-standard Hong Kong speaking. Although I dare not say that others will believe her, the trust level will definitely increase immediately.

In fact, what is the best situation? If Chen Li can find one or two Western faces, preferably Americans or British, Chen Li can communicate with them in English from time to time about cooperation matters. That guy's trust level is incredible

Fly to the sky.

Because in the perception of most people these days, they think that gringo products are high-tech and absolutely good things.

Some people may think that this is admiring foreign things, but in fact, in 2000, the domestic technological development level was indeed far behind the West, which is why most people have this idea.

Twenty years later, although the domestic production level and technological level cannot be said to surpass those of the West, due to the improvement of the country's scientific and technological development level, the gap between everyone will not be so big. The common people will begin to have new ideas.

Cognition.

Everyone no longer thinks that foreign things are high-tech, and the production level of many domestic things is not even worse than that of foreign countries.

But it still takes time to develop!

In addition to Wu Minyi's ability and Hong Kong business background, Chen Li also values ​​​​the other person's intelligence!

Yes~ Dealing with stupid partners and dealing with smart partners are basically two different concepts.

Just like when Wu Minyi "questioned" Chen Li that she might not be able to come up with so much money, Wu Minyi immediately understood the meaning of Chen Li's words.

First, Chen Li has relented and is willing to give her this opportunity. Otherwise, there is no need for Chen Li to mention the money.

Second, Chen Li would not give Wu Minyi enough shares, because then Wu Minyi would definitely not be able to pay so much money.

Therefore, Wu Minyi readily accepted the reminder from Chen Li's words, accepted 5% of the shares, and proactively stated that she would not interfere in the company's operations and management.

At the same time, she also offered to work at Ideal Agricultural Products to help Ren Xiaobo promote the products of Ideal Agricultural Products.

Even the next day, after Wu Minyi signed the share transfer agreement, she immediately flew to Xijiang.

She will meet Ren Xiaobo there, and the two will work together to develop and expand Ideal Agricultural Products.

This is actually a bit interesting, because as a shareholder of Ideal Technology, Wu Minyi works at Ideal Agricultural Products!

However, this does reassure Chen Li a lot. After all, if a capable person like Wu Minyi is really lost in Ideal Technology, although his status as a minority shareholder cannot cause too much trouble, if he really wants to do something

.It is estimated that it will also cause a lot of trouble to Chen Li.

This is the benefit of dealing with smart people! Wu Minyi invested in Chen Li for money, so Chen Li gave her the opportunity to make money.

In order to repay Chen Li for giving her the opportunity to make money, Wu Minyi needs to help Chen Li develop ideal agricultural products.

This kind of cooperation is undoubtedly very comfortable.

Chen Li believes that with the addition of Wu Minyi, the development speed of ideal agricultural products will definitely increase by several levels.

After seeing off Wu Minyi who was heading to Western Xinjiang, Chen Li had no free time to rest because he was facing two delicious cakes.

Don't get me wrong~ This cake is not the one who eats it, nor is it a mess of people, but two companies.

The day before Chen Li and Wu Minyi reached a cooperation, Chen Li suddenly received a phone call while drinking local chicken soup made by his mother at home.

At that time, Chen Li was stunned by the call because the caller was Ding Sanshi from Wangnan.

However, although he was surprised that Ding Sanshi would call him, Chen Li vaguely guessed the purpose of Ding Sanshi calling him.

Because now Chen Li holds a total of almost 10% of the shares of Wangnan.

Of course ~ these shares are not in Chen Li's name, nor are they in the hands of Chen Li's capital spokesperson Mu Xiaoqing, but these shares do belong to Chen Li.

NetNan was successfully listed on Nasdaq in June this year, but this period of time is not a good thing for NetNan.

The Internet bubble crisis that broke out in March clearly affected Internet companies that were listed later. Whether it was Jiulang~ in April, Wangnan in June, or even Sohu, which was listed in July, they all suffered invariably.

The impact of the Internet bubble crisis.

If they were just affected by the bubble crisis, that was it. But at this moment, a little shark lurking in the Nasdaq was eyeing them.

Under Chen Li's instruction, Mu Xiaoqing quietly shorted these three stocks, and quietly repurchased them when the stocks of the three companies fell to 1 to 2 US dollars.

At this stage, once the stocks of Internet companies fall, it is not easy to rise again.

In fact, the stock prices of these three stocks basically rebounded gradually after 2002.

The worst situation during this period was that NetNan was even suspended from trading by Nasdaq and almost sold the company.

Therefore, even if Chen Li doesn't take action, the stocks of these three companies will still fall, so why should they take advantage of others?

Anyway, the general environment is like this now, and even these three companies themselves have a certain understanding of the sharp drop in stock prices.

There is no way ~ Who made them encounter the Internet bubble crisis?

Therefore, in the past six months, Mu Xiaoqing brought Chen Li a large amount of wealth from these companies. In the end, he even let Chen Li control 5% to 10% of the shares of these three companies.

Chen Li does not plan to move these shares for the time being. He plans to keep them in his hands until the stocks of these three companies rebound in the future.

However, according to Mu Xiaoqing's suggestion, Chen Li actually does not need to hold the stocks of these three companies at this time.

Because according to the predictions given by Chen Li and Mu Xiaoqing, the impact of the Internet bubble crisis will last at least half a year to a year.

Chen Li can wait until the stocks of these companies fall to 1 US dollar or even below 1 US dollar. At that time, the cost of holding these stocks will undoubtedly be reduced a lot.

Chen Li had indeed considered this suggestion, but he found it too troublesome.

After all, the stock prices of these companies have fallen miserably. The difference between holding each other's stocks at this time and holding them in the future after the stock price falls below $1 is actually not that big.

Yes~ Although from a ratio perspective, the gap between the two is almost double, the gap is actually not that big in terms of total price.

The most important thing is that Chen Li is worried that something unexpected may happen to the Internet bubble due to the emergence of himself as a troublemaker, so since it has almost fallen, he might as well stay.

Yes~ This time the Internet bubble crisis did have a lot of surprises, and the biggest surprise was Microsoft, which Chen Li had said conclusively before.

In Chen Li's memory, ever since the American judge announced that he had discovered key evidence in Microsoft's antitrust case, Microsoft's stock price had plummeted.

It is said that during this bubble crisis, Microsoft's market value fell by as much as 60%.

Even after the Internet bubble crisis passed, Microsoft's stock price did not perform very well for a long time.

This is also the reason why Bill Gates later gave up his throne as the world's richest man!

But now in 2000, although Microsoft's stock price did fall a lot due to the impact of antitrust cases and the Internet bubble crisis, after August, Microsoft's stock price rose instead of falling, and it slowly caught up again.

Come up.

This incident also made Chen Li a little confused, because he remembered very clearly that Microsoft was greatly affected by the Internet bubble crisis, so when Mu Xiaoqing asked him which company he was going to short, Chen Li was the first

The first person to bring it up was Microsoft.

Mainly because it was very close to the time when Microsoft's antitrust case was progressing, Chen Li dared to be so sure.

But after thinking about it carefully, Chen Li suddenly discovered a small blind spot.

That is, Microsoft in its previous life may indeed have been affected by the Internet bubble crisis, with its stock price plummeting 60%, but the problem is that the entire Internet crisis lasted for almost two full years.

In other words, Microsoft's stock price will lose 60% of its market value within two years. As long as Chen Li continues to short Microsoft, he can still make a lot of money later.

But the problem is that the Internet bubble crisis has completely erupted at this time, and the entire US stock market has been greatly affected. Hanging on the Microsoft tree at this time is not the right choice.

And the most exaggerated thing is that when Chen Li knew the reason for the sharp rise in Microsoft's stock price, he was a little dumbfounded.

Microsoft announced that their newly developed computer language has achieved a major breakthrough. This technological development will make a huge contribution to the development of the entire computer industry.

If this is just a piece of news, then Microsoft has announced that it will disclose the newly developed computing language in October in the hope of promoting technological development in the computer field.

When Chen Li heard the news, his first reaction was to go to the system to find Xiaomeng.

But according to the information he learned from Xiaomeng, Microsoft actually put out a smoke bomb this time.

The actual situation is that Microsoft has not developed any results at all, or the results achieved are not great.

But even if it only develops a few, it can be considered an improvement for Microsoft today.

After all, it was a product of the future. Although the method of writing that patch would be extremely common in the future, its meaning in 2000 was completely different.

The reason why Microsoft is willing to make it public is probably because it wants other people to help with research. If others have results, they only need to pay a certain price to buy them back.

After learning the details, Chen Li hesitated, but in the end he agreed with Mu Xiaoqing and gave up Microsoft. After all, with the outbreak of the Internet bubble crisis, a large number of Internet companies had problems due to the impact of the bubble crisis. Even though

Is it not to choose Microsoft? Mu Xiaoqing also has many goals.

As for Microsoft’s stock price rising sharply, let it rise! I’ll just leave you alone!

Based on this, Chen Li became cautious about the follow-up to the Internet bubble crisis.

Therefore, he chose to keep the stocks of the three major domestic Internet companies in his hands.

At this time, Ding Sanshi called him. If nothing unexpected happened, he probably got the news.

And that was exactly what happened. After Chen Li answered the phone, Ding Sanshi directly explained his purpose of coming and invited Chen Li to dinner.

To be fair, it's really not easy to get Ding Sanshi, a tough guy, to take the initiative to invite people to dinner.

You must know that Chen Li and Ding Sanshi have known each other for more than two years, and they have had dinner together several times.

But the problem is, whether it is Ding Sanshi who is treating guests or someone else who is treating him, Ding Sanshi is

Never paid the bill!

(End of chapter)