Rebirth of the Age of Wealth

Chapter 430 Internet Big Shots

More than two dozen CEOs filed out of the conference room. At this time, Li Weidong and others also entered the elevator. The elevator still seemed empty.

With the load capacity and space of this elevator, it is obvious that many people can get in, but not many people have the courage to follow in, so the level is suppressed.

There are so many elevators, who would take the same one as the boss? How embarrassing in a confined space!

Li Weidong walked out of the elevator and walked towards the door of the lobby. The waiter and a guest in the lobby, whether they knew each other or not, saluted Li Weidong after seeing him.

It's not because of how high Li Weidong's net worth is, but because these people come out with different aura, they are imposing and wealthy.

Li Weidong inadvertently glanced at the hall with his eyebrows and happened to see a few people standing around a coffee table in the corner of the hall.

Several people were probably sitting around chatting together, and they stood up when they saw Li Weidong and his party appear.

Seeing these people, Li Weidong was a little stunned. It seemed a bit contrary to the fact that these people were gathered together, but when he thought about it carefully, he felt that it was natural.

These are all future Internet giants, but they are not yet prominent. Even if they are in public, they will not attract the attention of others.

Twenty years later, even ten years later, these people sitting together will cause a huge sensation. After all, these people together have a net worth of almost trillions.

After Li Weidong was stunned, he smiled all over his face, not for anything else but because these were pigs that could fly into the sky. The key was that he also fed them a handful of pig feed.

As the originator of the domestic venture capital industry, Li Weidong was able to earn huge profits during the American Internet bubble, so he would naturally not give up the opportunity to become rich in the domestic Internet industry.

The reputation and credibility built up by Jingwei Investment over the years have already made it an angel for start-up bosses who want to start a business but are short of money.

As long as you can play it well and make Zheng Sijing happy, funding is just a small matter!

Moreover, in recent years, the focus of Jingwei Investment has also shifted to Internet and new technology companies, and it has invested in many start-up companies.

Now the heads of the three major Internet portals are all present. Although they are three similar companies and there is a suspicion of duplication of investment, Li Weidong will not let go of what he picked up in the basket.

Moreover, Li Weidong's investment in these three companies also confused Zheng Sijing. They are obviously three companies that compete with each other.

Why not invest in one of them and merge the other two? This will save a lot of resources and time.

Li Weidong also had this idea, but gave up after thinking about it for a while.

Although these three companies are suspected of being homogeneous, they will all be able to live well in the future, and there must be a reason for them.

Besides, the development focuses of these three major portals are different. Even Sohu, which was the worst in success, had its glory days.

Even when they were at their lowest, their market value was a ceiling that ordinary people and ordinary companies could never reach.

In addition to these three people, there are others. BAT, the three most powerful Internet companies in the future, have two leaders today.

It's not that Li Weidong didn't invest in another company, but that this newly established company is still too small.

In fact, the funds for his establishment were provided by Li Weidong, but this investment company was not Jingwei Investment, but Pingying Capital obtained in the United States.

The two companies here today are just having a hard time. One is that they didn’t have enough money when they were first established, and the other is that they have so many customers that they can’t find a profit model.

In short, the three major Internet companies in the future are still struggling on the line of life and death. It is estimated that no one except Li Weidong would have imagined how tyrannical BAT will be in the future.

Because of this, these two fellow sufferers with the same surname basically stand on the sidelines in the crowd, and even the sofa is crowded.

Judging from the position, the one with the highest status and the most respect among these people is not the current three major sects, but another chubby middle-aged man.

This is the chairman of Jinshan. His surname is Qiu and his given name is Bojun. He is the man who is rumored to have locked himself in a hotel, suppressed his skills and wrote hundreds of thousands of lines of code to create a word processing software.

Li Weidong was very curious about this person and even more curious about this matter. During a meeting, he even asked him to verify this matter face to face.

How good is a programmer before he can start from scratch and write hundreds of thousands of lines of code without copying and pasting!

But Chairman Qiu said it implicitly, "It's not worth mentioning, it's just a marketing tool. If the public wants to see the myth, let's show it to them!"

If the general public likes God, on the one hand, it can satisfy their envy, and on the other hand, they will not be jealous, because he is God, so there is nothing to be jealous of.

It's a good excuse to give yourself a reason why you can't do it.

Li Weidong suddenly had a different view on programmers. This is the real marketing master.

Standing next to Director Qiu was General Manager Lei, who had a silly smile on his face. Li Weidong later learned that the co-author, the marketing guru, learned from this.

An engineer with 20 years of service, how far can he improve marketing before he can confidently say that our products rely on marketing.

But a CEO with a marketing background claims every day that our products have core technologies!

This person really wants to cry out for whatever he lacks. The more he doesn’t have, the more he cares!

Li Weidong looked at a few people, hesitated for a moment, and then walked towards them!

Apart from Director Qiu and Mr. Lei, Li Weidong has never met these people in his life.

It's not that Li Weidong doesn't have this opportunity, but that they and others haven't had the opportunity yet. Not every leader of a small company has the opportunity to interview Li Weidong.

Although Li Weidong knows that they will be powerful in the future, they are not good enough now, and they themselves don’t know what it will be like tomorrow.

And it turns out that most tomorrows will not be better. A better tomorrow is just a psychological hint and has no practical meaning.

Seeing Li Weidong coming, several people felt a little excited. Although they had not seen Li Weidong in person, they had also seen Li Weidong's photos.

Although there are some differences between the real person and the photo, mainly because the photo looks better than the person, it does not prevent them from recognizing that this is Li Weidong.

What's more, there is Zheng Sijing next to him. Chinese people are very particular about order. Just by looking at the position, you can tell that this is the big boss of the big boss Zheng Sijing.

Zheng Sijing, who was following Li Weidong, was a little startled when he saw these people, but he didn't pay too much attention. He knew that he was here and there were many people coming to see him.

According to the requirements to participate in the meeting, Director Qiu and Mr. Lei are qualified because Li Weidong's shares in Jinshan have exceeded half.

From the initial financial investment, after several rounds of capital increase and share expansion, and later restructuring and reforms, horizontal acquisitions, it has now turned into equity investment.

Kingsoft Software has become a holding subsidiary of Jingwei Investment, and the controlling shareholder of Jingwei Investment is Ruibos Holdings.

Ribos Holdings is Li Weidong’s private company!

The first requirement to attend the annual meeting is that it must be a subsidiary controlled by Li Weidong, that is, a company that Li Weidong must have the final say to come.

A financial investment company, no matter how large it is, does not have this qualification. In other people's understanding, this meeting is Li Weidong's personal company meeting.

So Jinshan can come to participate in this meeting. Among the three major portals, Li Weidong's shares have not yet reached absolute power, so he is naturally not an invited person.

Of course, Li Weidong does not have absolute controlling rights in these companies. After several rounds of financing for an Internet company, it is obvious that the shares are dispersed.

Moreover, sometimes these companies do not necessarily need money to raise funds. This kind of financing is only the most basic need for the development of the company.

A lot of financing, especially the last few rounds of financing, often requires strategic investors who can provide the company with non-financial resources.

So even if you have a lot of money, if you don't have the resources needed for company development, this financing is meaningless, and you won't accept this financing.

For example, if you want to enter the market of a certain country, the best way is to introduce strategic investors from this country and use their channels to enter the market.

To put it simply, I need what you have, I need what you have, and we can all make a fortune together!

Therefore, even if Li Weidong has money, it will be good if he can keep his own shares in the subsequent rounds of financing. He must do something beneficial for the development of the company.

Zheng Sijing watched Li Weidong continue to walk that way, and thought to himself, the bosses of these companies came here to trick him into investing money again, right?

Especially the human who looks like an alien creature.

I had been looking for him in Shanghai a few days ago to trick him into investing more. Zheng Sijing looked at this weird-looking human and shook his head. Where did he get the courage?

The newly established company ran out of money and started looking for money and financing!

However, the chairman has said that anyone who is not very good-looking, can deceive, and is shameless has a very high possibility of success. We should give such people a chance!

And the boss also named him. If you want to invest in this company, then go ahead, invest millions of dollars, a small amount of money, whatever.

I just didn't expect that only three or four months later, I would come to him again, talk nonsense for a long time, and finally said that I would invest tens of millions of dollars.

When Zheng Sijing heard this, he refused without thinking. Unexpectedly, he was here now. If he really wanted to raise funds, maybe Li Weidong would really agree.

After all, in Li Weidong's eyes, there seems to be no difference between tens of millions and millions!

Li Weidong walked towards these people. Not only was Zheng Sijing a little surprised, but the vice presidents next to him were also surprised.

However, they are not engaged in the Internet, and they are not very familiar with these people. They just feel that they look familiar. Naturally, they will not expect that these people will be regulars on the rich list in the future.

"Hello, Chairman!" Director Qiu confirmed that Li Weidong was coming this way, and hurriedly greeted him, saying slightly cautiously.

Rebus also followed behind, with a somewhat honest smile, but he didn't speak as he was not in a position to speak here.

At least Li Weidong doesn't ask, he can't speak, just keep a smile on his face is enough, the level is too low, he can't speak!

Think about a situation. You work in a company with tens of thousands of people, and suddenly meet the chairman and a group of vice presidents. Will you say hello to the chairman?

If you go to say hello, there must be something wrong with your brain!

Li Weidong stretched out his hand to shake Dong Qiu's hand, and asked with a smile: "When did you arrive?"

A chairman will come over to say hello to you just to ask you when you came, which is a bit impossible to think about.

Their company is not a big company, and it has not reached the level where Li Weidong needs to ask for help or rush to say hello.

Not only is Kingsoft not big, the company was almost bankrupted in the past few years. If Li Weidong hadn't invested in it, it might have disappeared a few years ago.

Although things have slowed down in the past two years, and the game segment is doing well and making money, the word processing software they were proud of ten years ago has not yet come back to life.

Li Weidong increased capital and invested in shares, and later acquired part of the equity. After taking control of the company, the first task he announced was to tear down WPS and start over.

There are not many requirements, just to be more compatible with Microsoft systems. Microsoft systems will definitely be the mainstream in the future. Any general software that wants to develop cannot do without it.

This is the structure of Microsoft, and this is the fundamental reason for its continued prosperity. With this ecosystem, you have to rely on me if you want to survive.

Although Li Weidong has a lot of money, he certainly cannot change the status quo now and in the future, so he can only let himself adapt.

Moreover, the starting point for the rebirth of Kingsoft Software in my previous life was to overthrow its original routine and rewrite word processing software that was more compatible with Microsoft.

Now Li Weidong appeared four or five years earlier than they themselves realized this problem.

Now WPS has no income, and it costs money to redevelop it. Tens of millions of dollars are invested every year, but there is no profit.

If the financial statements can look good, that would be a ghost. Games make money, but only a few people actually spend money to play games, so this is the darkest period of Kingsoft Software.

However, their product has begun internal testing, and soon a free WPS that is in line with Chinese people's habits and compatible with Microsoft will be launched on the market.

Director Qiu has already used it and feels that the effect is very good. This is not because he is his own child, but he is boasting, but it basically meets Li Weidong's requirements for them.

Now Chairman Qiu understands that Li Weidong's suggestions are far more valuable than he imagined.

At this time, Director Qiu wanted to report the progress of this work to Li Weidong, but the occasion was not right.

"I arrived this afternoon to chat with some friends!" Qiu Dong said with a smile and explained.

He didn't know what Li Weidong meant, but to be honest, it was right. These were indeed his friends. They were in the same circle and it was reasonable for them to know each other.

"Your friend?" Li Weidong pointed at several people and asked with a smile.

Director Qiu still didn't understand what Li Weidong meant, but Zheng Sijing, who was behind Li Weidong, understood and walked a few steps quickly to reach Li Weidong.

"Chairman, these are the founders of the companies that Jingwei Investment has recently invested in!" Zheng Sijing pointed to a few and introduced them to Li Weidong.

Li Weidong is pretending to be confused because he understands!

Zheng Sijing pretended to be confused and understood that in Zheng Sijing's mind, these people Li Weidong must be familiar with them, or at least they have seen photos.

But Li Weidong is the chairman and cannot take the initiative to get to know these people. He is the middleman who connects them in reality.

But what confused Zheng Sijing was when did Li Weidong have the idea of ​​getting to know them? If it wasn't just a word, he would have to arrange for these people to come to Qizhou.

"How are you, Chairman?" Every time Zheng Sijing introduced someone, the person would greet Li Weidong respectfully.

Of course, Li Weidong would also extend his hand to shake hands with these people to save face, just like a leader inspecting.

Although Zheng Sijing did not introduce Li Weidong, it did not prevent them from knowing that this was the supreme ruler of the company.

(End of chapter)