rebirth from small pockets

Chapter 646 Year-end Summary of 2000

Author: The sea under the clouds

Chapter 646 Year-end Summary of 2000

After returning to Yanjing, Chen Li quickly made a summary of his company's work this year.

In fact, the so-called summary ~ is to divide the cake at the end of the year.

After all, everyone has worked hard for a year and earned Chen Li a year's money. Naturally, Chen Li, the boss, cannot be stingy.

It’s not even just being stingy. In fact, Chen Li has done a lot of work in this year-end dividend.

Not to mention the bonuses he gave out, the shares he gave out alone are a huge wealth.

Yes~ just this year, Chen Li, the brave man, was finally willing to give up some of his shares.

Chen Li sold 5%~5%~20% of the shares of Ideal Agricultural Products, Ideal Food and Ideal Beer respectively.

The transferees were Ren Xiaobo, Su Mei and Deng Weimin. The reason why Deng Weimin got 20% of the shares was because Chen Li had agreed to the other party's agreement when he poached the other party.

And to be honest, Chen Li has the least support for Ideal Beer. Now that Ideal Beer has established a firm foothold in the industry, it can be basically said that it is almost entirely due to Deng Weimin.

So he gets the most shares, while others get less.

Ren Xiaobo actually got the least, because he only had the 5% given by Chen Li, and Su Mei had previously owned 2.5% of the shares.

In fact, Su Mei still had 4% earlier. Later, Chen Li continued to invest in Ideal Foods, resulting in her and Zhou Xiaoli's shares having been reduced to 2.5%.

With the addition of this time's 5% shareholding, Sumei's shareholding has exceeded 7%.

However, don't underestimate these shares. Even Ren Xiaobo, who has the smallest share, has a 5% stake that is worth a lot of money.

The most valuable thing is not Deng Weimin’s 20% stake in Ideal Beer, but Sumei’s over 7% stake in Ideal Food.

You must know that today's Ideal Food is a serious enterprise worth hundreds of millions. The conservative valuation of Ideal Food by the outside world is more than 50 million U.S. dollars.

It's a pity that Ideal Food's capital chain is so good that it doesn't need external capital injection at all, so the valuation of Ideal Food is actually meaningless.

Of course, valuation is meaningless, but profits are real.

Throughout 2000, the scale of Ideal Foods has grown at an alarming rate compared to last year.

The first is the traditional fried chicken restaurant of Ideal Food. Currently, the number of Ideal Fried Chicken branches under Ideal Food has expanded to 642.

It is worth mentioning that these 642 branches are all self-operated direct stores of Ideal Food and are not franchise stores.

In addition, there are 28 Xinhua-style fast food restaurants under Ideal Food.

You must know that this kind of fast food restaurant is different from a fried chicken restaurant. The investment amount and operating model alone are not comparable to that of a fried chicken restaurant.

Of course~ In addition, Ideal Food also owns several food processing plants, and the Ideal Pickled Pepper Chicken Feet and various semi-finished cooked food products produced have also been extremely well received by the market.

Throughout 2000, Ideal Food’s net profit was as high as 147 million!

Note~ The net profit is as high as 147 million, of course. In fact, there is not much money left, because most of it has been invested in the continued development of Ideal Foods.

Of course, even so, Chen Li did not forget the interests of shareholders after paying a bonus to his employees.

There are actually only three shareholders of Ideal Food, Chen Li, Su Mei and Zhou Xiaoli.

So this time, Chen Li waved his hand and announced another shareholder dividend!

Okay~ Actually, the so-called shareholder dividends are mainly to take care of Zhou Xiaoli, whose current economic conditions are not that good.

Zhou Xiaoli is now in Germany, and she has taken her mother there again.

Actually speaking, Zhou Xiaoli's financial conditions are not bad. After all, Zhou Xiaoli still has several stores under her name in Yanjing!

These stores are currently being managed by Chen Li, and they have actually made a lot of money in one year.

At the beginning, Zhou Xiaoli planned to sell the store directly to Chen Li, mainly because her mother was not in good health and needed high treatment costs every month.

After the Zhou family went bankrupt, when Zhou Xiaoli and her mother went to Germany, in order to raise funds, not only the storefront but also the shares of Ideal Fried Chicken were almost sold.

Later, Chen Li persuaded the other party, and then directly offered a dividend and loaned Zhou Xiaoli a sum of money in his own name.

So~those stores and shares are still under Zhou Xiaoli’s name.

But what can I say? Zhou Xiaoli is still a college student now. Although I heard that this girl is working part-time there, her mother's health needs a lot of money.

In addition, due to her long-term living habits and her mother’s physical condition, it is basically difficult for Zhou Xiaoli’s expenses to be reduced quickly.

So all this time, Zhou Xiaoli's nerves were tense.

Although the dividend from Ideal Fried Chicken last year was not small, Zhou Xiaoli always felt that the so-called dividend was almost equivalent to Chen Li giving her money, so Zhou Xiaoli has not been that understanding of the development of Ideal Fried Chicken.

But this year is different. As a shareholder, Zhou Xiaoli receives relevant data from the company's wealth every quarter, so she has a deep understanding of ideal fried chicken, which is today's ideal food.

Uh~ Okay! In fact, the main reason is that Miss Zhou didn’t pay much attention to this information in the past. After all, for her at that time, ideal fried chicken meant just making some pocket money.

But she never imagined that what was just an idea to save face and earn some pocket money would now become her life-saving straw.

Last year's dividend was indeed promoted for Zhou Xiaoli, because according to the original idea, Ideal Fried Chicken did not plan to pay dividends in the first three years.

But as a result, not only did last year’s dividends come out, but this year’s dividends also came as promised.

Although the money was not much, it was enough to cover Zhou Xiaoli and her mother's expenses in Germany.

As for Zhou Xiaoli's father, he earned a commission when he helped Chen Li buy an office building. Now it is said that he has founded an Internet company, but Chen Li does not know the specific situation very well!

Hmm~ Well, in fact, Chen Li was not optimistic about the so-called literary website run by Zhou Bowen at all. He didn't even agree with Zhou Bowen's idea of ​​​​developing the Internet.

In fact, he understood Zhou Bowen's thoughts very well. The Internet is now a popular industry, and the investment is much less than that of the real estate industry.

So to put it bluntly, Zhou Bowen wants to use his small skills to make a big difference, and plans to make a comeback with the help of the Internet.

And the website he chose is quite interesting. Literary websites are actually not uncommon in the early domestic Internet industry.

The most famous literary website in China at the moment is the famous Under the Banyan Tree.

But even this well-known domestic literary website ended up being acquired and sold off due to huge financial problems.

Even under the banyan tree, in fact, many literary websites have appeared in China at this stage, but basically no literary website is operating in good condition.

Of course ~ Chen Li knows very well that the biggest reason why Zhou Bowen chose to invest in literary websites is that the investment is small and the money is burned!

After all, although the Internet industry is a popular industry, it is also famous for burning a lot of money.

The real estate side can at least use banks to make a big difference, but the Internet side is selling real money.

But literary websites are different. The investment is small and the money is not burned very quickly. Once you have gained a good reputation in the industry, you may be able to stick to it by raising funds or something.

Speaking of which, Zhou Bowen wanted to invest in a literary website, and he had something to do with Chen Li.

Because when chatting with Chen Li before, Chen Li definitely told him that literary websites have unlimited future prospects.

It was just a casual chat at the time, but Zhou Bowen really listened to it. However, what Zhou Bowen didn't know was that the future prospects of literary websites were indeed very attractive, but there was still a matter of time!

In the past life, to put it bluntly, before the capital of Shengda Network entered the market, the development of domestic literary websites was not very smooth.

It is precisely because of the large amount of funds from Shengda Network that it has directly driven the rapid development of the entire online literature circle.

To put it bluntly~ Shengda Network at that time was like a shark entering a school of small fish. If you didn't want to be eaten by the shark Shengda, you could only swim forward desperately.

Of course, you can't save yourself simply by swimming, so those small fish have no choice but to ask for help from other large fish.

As a result, things like whale sharks, killer whales, and even the big blue whale that finally appeared ended up one after another.

Of course~ Now the big blue whale has been killed by Chen Li. As for who will be the blue whale in the future, it’s hard to say!

Anyway, that's the thing. Zhou Bowen didn't choose the wrong industry, but chose the wrong time.

Especially when he entered the market in the second half of 2000, the impact of the Internet bubble crisis was still exerting great power.

Zhou Bowen thought that by this time, the so-called bubble crisis was almost over, so he entered the market directly with the commission earned from Chen Li, but what he didn't expect was that he got himself trapped in it.

It turns out that Zhou Bowen had a good idea. He relied on the commission earned from Chen Li to support a literary website to become the top one in the industry.

Then raise funds~Finally, cash out and leave!

This is Zhou Bowen’s idea, a very simple and straightforward idea!

But there were problems with this idea from the beginning, because after he spent the 1.5 million he earned from Chen Li, he discovered that not only did the literary website not become the top in the industry, it even

Some forums can't do it.

Hmm~Okay, I’m talking about the Dianping.com website owned by Chen Li.

Yes~Dianping.com has also launched its own literature channel, and because of its large user base, the literature channel under Dianping.com is even extremely lively.

And because Dianping.com has so much traffic, its literature channel is developing much better than Zhou Bowen’s literature website.

Therefore, Zhou Bowen seems a bit decadent today!

Making a comeback is definitely what a person looks forward to most after falling into a trough.

But the problem is that if a comeback is really that easy, then this thing is actually not that exciting.

The difficulty of making a comeback is actually no easier than starting from scratch, especially when Zhou Bowen himself is still carrying a lot of debt.

Zhou Bowen actually came to see Chen Li. After all, in his opinion, although Chen Li was young, he was much more skillful on the Internet than this old guy.

However, Chen Li directly rejected Zhou Bowen's proposal because the time was really not right.

To put it bluntly, literary websites at this stage can basically barely survive.

It’s not that there is no future for literary websites, but there is no market!

Many people think that literature is pure and should not be contaminated by anything that smells like copper. But in fact, literature may be pure, but the spread of literature can never be pure.

From early newspaper literature~magazine literature~publishing literature~to later Internet literature and so on.

Putting aside the economic interests involved, it is almost inescapable to say that these models are related to the so-called copper-smelling things.

If I want to print a newspaper, do I need money?

If a magazine wants to publish it, does it need money?

Do I need money to publish my novel article?

You expect people to work for you for free and even pay you? How can there be such a good thing in the world?

The same is true for today's online literature. Although authors can generate electricity for love, they cannot insist on generating electricity for love forever.

And it is even more impossible for the website operator to do anything to generate electricity for love!

So~interest is the most fundamental!

Of course, this interest does not necessarily refer to financial interests, but may also include fame, popularity, status, wealth, etc.

As a website operator, the benefits that literary websites can bring to it are currently very limited.

Maybe one day Chen Li will break into this industry, but definitely not at this time.

Hmm~ Well, in fact, Chen Li has now entered this industry indirectly.

After all, he is the largest individual shareholder of Shengtong Network!

Even though Chen Qiao holds 51% of the shares, his shares belong to more than just him, and the 49% owned by Chen Li are all his own.

Therefore, once the "Legend of Blood" agented by Shengtong Network is officially charged, Chen Li can make a lot of money again.

Yes~ "Legend of Hot Blood" will start the paid mode after the Spring Festival.

Speaking of which, Chen Qiao is pretty cool. After all, as a Chinese, he naturally knows when Chinese people, especially young people, have the most money in their pockets.

So ~ this guy directly designated a plan to launch the biggest killer move of this game in the early Spring Festival.

"Shabak Siege"!

The previous monster siege activities held in the game directly brought the popularity of this game to a peak, and this time the Sabak siege is expected to raise the popularity of this game to another level.

Then "Legend of Hot Blood" will officially start charging.

It happened to be just after the Spring Festival. Which player didn't have some lucky money, red envelopes or the like?

When the time comes, you won’t have to worry about not being able to sell anything if you order the card!

Of course~ Although Chen Qiao is optimistic about the prospects of "Legend of Hot Blood", he is not as courageous as he imagined.

This is completely different from the even a little arrogant Chen Qiao in his previous life.

But this is normal. Chen Qiao's arrogance in his previous life was based on the great success of "Legend of Hot Blood", and Shengda Network at that time had become the leading overlord in the domestic online game circle.

But in the current Shengtong Network, not to mention that there is a Chen Li who is suppressing him. Even if there is no Chen Li, "Legend of Hot Blood" has not really experienced the market test at this moment, so naturally he cannot get crazy.

But all this can't wait long.

As for Chen Li, he is a bit busy this Spring Festival, so busy that he cannot pay attention to the official operation of "Legend of Hot Blood".

Because~he plans to go to Nasdaq!

(End of chapter)