Rebirth of the Age of Wealth

Chapter 624 Leader

Li Weidong's words shocked the people around him.

And the weird smile on Li Weidong's face made them feel that things seemed not that simple.

I'm afraid they never dreamed that Li Weidong would have such an expression. He simply wanted to take a look at various so-called dinner photos in advance, as well as various interpretations on the Internet describing the love and hatred of these Internet tycoons.

In fact, Li Weidong is still a little proud in his heart. No matter who of you sits in the C position, I can only be the last one!

Take the current seating arrangements for example. Although no one has arranged seats for them, looking at the seats of these people, it is obvious that they are allocated independently according to their status in the world.

For the young Internet industry, being able to go public is a huge threshold. After all, there are not many Internet companies listed in the country. Especially going public abroad is definitely a staged victory. Therefore, the general managers of these listed companies

, the status in the world is high.

The three most popular portals in China are currently the most popular, so they have a relatively high status in this group. Even if they are the first to start a business, Jinshan, who wakes up early and catches the late market, can only be defeated.

Zhang Chaoyang was once called the number one person on the Internet in China. In this group, at least during this period, his status was no less than that of Pony Ma more than ten years later.

Of course, Pony Ma can only work hard to develop new members in Shenzhen. It's not that he doesn't want to come, or it's far away, but the company is too small to come.

For him, with the large amount of money invested by Li Weidong in this life, he does not have to worry about not having enough money to rent a server like he did in his previous life.

So just focus on developing members, don’t worry about making money, and as long as there are users, making money will only happen sooner or later.

Without the worries of a broken capital chain, and without the rigid indicators of profitability required by investors, the company's executives focus all their energy on the company's development, and the development will naturally be faster.

Li Weidong saw in Tencent's interim report that as of the end of June this year, in just one and a half years, Tencent's registered users had exceeded 6 million, with average daily online users exceeding 1 million, and this number is still growing rapidly.

Although Li Weidong didn't know how Tencent was developing at this time in his previous life, he knew with his feet that it was definitely not on the scale it is now.

What made Li Weidong even more unexpected was that he didn't even ask for revenue, but the company actually still had part of the income.

Moreover, Monternet has been launched and wireless value-added services will be launched in the short term, which means that BAT is not far away.

But other than Li Weidong, no one else would even dare to think about it, including BAT themselves.

So at this time, Zhang Chaoyang is still the first among these people and the first to reply to Li Weidong.

Zhang Chaoyang thought for a moment and said: "What the chairman said is that the Internet has developed to a large scale today, and it is also urgent to establish an industry association to carry out industry self-discipline!"

"I think our companies can serve as initiators and apply to relevant departments to establish industry self-regulatory associations. This will definitely have a great promotion effect on the development of the emerging industry of the Internet!"

Several other people present also nodded in agreement after hearing this!

"This is good. Establish an industry association. With more people, we are more powerful. If there is any problem, there will be a way to solve it!"

"Yes, especially at this time, the establishment of the association will definitely bring great encouragement to the industry!"

"Although the Internet industry is a new thing and there are still some problems now, the chairman also said that the Internet will become a new way of life and affect everyone!"

"No one knows what will happen in the future and how it will affect everyone, especially for some universal issues. It is very necessary to establish industry associations for restraint and self-discipline!"

"Yes, in the future we will also hold a meeting like those forums to communicate with each other about news in the industry, and we can also promote each other!"

Everyone has different opinions, but without exception they all support the establishment of an industry association. After all, after its establishment, it will not only give them constraints, but also many obvious benefits.

For example, it can safeguard the common interests of the industry, serve as a bridge between the public and enterprises, and directly convey enterprise requirements to relevant departments.

It has a great say in formulating industry standards, industrial policies and related administrative regulations. After all, one person is small, but many people are powerful.

The most important thing is that some information can be shared within industry associations, and industry conferences and symposiums can be held to provide a platform for enterprises to collaborate vertically and horizontally.

Since someone is taking the lead, they naturally have no reason to refuse. Besides, it is Li Weidong's proposal. How can they not support it? Being a major shareholder is just a show-off.

Most of these people have returned from abroad, or have some experience abroad, and have some understanding of foreign corporate management systems.

The understanding of company control rights is much better than that of some indigenous people in China. In modern enterprise system management, equity means control rights, and control is the foundation of an enterprise. Now Li Weidong can control their enterprise.

Listening to these people talking about it, these things are beyond Li Weidong's idea. He just wants to watch the excitement. As for whether the Internet Association will be established or not, this is not an issue he cares about.

Moreover, this association would have been established without his suggestion, and it wouldn't take long. We have a tradition of establishing chambers of commerce since ancient times.

There are local ones, such as Huizhou merchants, Zhejiang merchants, and Shanxi merchants, which have branches almost all over the country.

There are also industries. For the new Internet industry, there will naturally be no exception. It is just a matter of sooner or later.

If a chamber of commerce is established, there will definitely be no problem. After all, this is also a period when major chambers of commerce are popular!

Let’s not talk about the distance, just say that the nearby buildings and various clubs are a form of chamber of commerce, but the threshold for membership is relatively high.

However, if an industry association is established, especially a national one, relying only on a few private enterprises as the initiating units is simply fantastic!

Li Weidong shook his head and said: "You can't do it. If you want to establish a national industry association, you will definitely not be able to do it without a few important leaders!"

Li Weidong's words silenced everyone. These words were neither truth nor lies, but the truth. The truth is the most hurtful. This is also the current situation in the country.

If he is like Li Weidong, who spreads his business all over the world and becomes the world's richest man, all he earns is foreigners' money. If there is no way to deal with him in China, he will naturally become the leader.

However, all of them together do not have the influence of Li Weidong.

Several people looked at Li Weidong secretly, wondering whether the big boss had the idea of ​​being the leader, but felt that this idea was too outrageous.

But after all, these people are all the best among people. Not only do they have high academic qualifications, but they also have good IQ and EQ. They soon understand what Li Weidong means by being a powerful leader?

To be able to get to this point in this industry, in addition to Li Weidong's financial support, these people also have their own personal connections. After all, these people are not born as civilians.

"Chairman, we know what to do!!"

"That's good. Unite all the forces that can be united. These words are familiar to everyone. This is the truth. It played a big role decades ago and is still useful in society now!"

"But we must distinguish who are our friends and who are our enemies, and who can be transformed from enemies into friends. We must keep our eyes open!"

Li Weidong sighed, in the emerging industry of the Internet, there are still too many such bad things. In some traditional industries, who can tell who is the enemy and who is a friend, who is walking on the edge of the law, and who is

People can regard the law as nothing.

"What the chairman taught me is that I often read his articles recently. His language style is concise and comprehensive, which is very inspiring!" Zheng Sijing echoed next to him.

"You should take the time to read more. Don't think it's outdated. It's still very useful. Okay, let's not talk about this. You are here so early. You must have something to say!"

It was Zhang Chaoyang again. Everyone looked at him. Mr. Zhang said in a more relaxed tone: "Chairman, we mainly want to ask you about the future development of the Internet!"

"Why, even you are suspicious?" Li Weidong looked at Zhang Chaoyang with a half-smile.

"No, no, I insist on being optimistic about the future of the Internet. It is a good thing that the current bubble has burst. It is just a small twist in the road of development!" Zhang Chaoyang said firmly.

Li Weidong smiled and said: "Isn't that enough? It's just like stock trading. You know it's a low period now, so if you still cut the meat, wouldn't you be a fool?"

"But how long will this low period last?" Future Rebus asked with a somewhat depressed expression.

He is the general manager of Kingsoft Software and is fully responsible for the operation of the company. After almost bringing down the company last time, Rebus has always needed a success to prove himself.

As the general manager of a company, if you want to prove your success, you don’t have to make good products. In fact, the current WPS, Kingsoft PowerWord, Kingsoft Internet Security, etc. are all pretty good.

But these products were already destined to succeed when Li Weidong invested a lot of money in Kingsoft.

If he wants to prove that he, the general manager, is doing a good job, going public seems to be a good choice, and it is also the only way for many IT companies to go.

As a company that has been established for more than ten years, if it has not been listed yet, it seems to indicate failure to a certain extent.

In fact, Kingsoft started planning to go public not too early. The main reason is that although they have a certain status in the software industry, their scale is still too small.

With their scale at this time, they can only barely meet the minimum demand for the GEM established on Hong Kong Island. And due to the impact of the Southeast Asian financial crisis in the past few years, listing on Hong Kong Island does not seem to be a good plan.

Therefore, their plan to go public was delayed again and again. At the beginning of this year, Kingsoft turned to domestic plans to launch a GEM listing, and even did a lot of necessary and non-essential work for this purpose.

But bad luck, the Internet bubble burst with the Nasdaq stock market crash, and now there is great skepticism in China about whether the GEM can be launched as planned.

And a considerable number of people, even some within the system, have begun to say on many occasions that the domestic financing market should follow the lead of the US technology stock bubble.

The meaning behind the words is obvious. Some conservatives are beginning to exert their strength. We can still learn from the experience of others’ failures!

So now it seems that it is unlikely that Kingsoft will go public in a short time. In other words, their IPO road still has a long way to go.

Li Weidong looked at Rebus, who was a little anxious. He didn't have the calmness and confidence shown in later Xiaomi press conferences. It seemed that anyone's success needs to be tempered.

Li Weidong smiled slightly and said: "The future is bright, but the road is tortuous. No need to be anxious, what should come will come naturally!"

"But..." Before Rebus could finish his words, he was grabbed by Jinshan Chairman Qiu Dong who was sitting next to him.

"What the chairman said is that since we know that the future is bright, we should concentrate on doing our own things and wait for the dawn!" said Director Qiu.

As the company's second shareholder and also its chairman, he is even more anxious than Rebus about the company's delay in going public.

At that time, when the company was in crisis, Jingwei Investment injected capital into Jinshan and acquired part of the company's shares, becoming the company's largest shareholder and also the controlling shareholder.

Although it gave Jinshan a reprieve and allowed Director Qiu to no longer sleep awake at night worrying about cash flow, from that time on, he had been freed from the hardships of running a business. With the advice of Jingwei Investment, Mr. Lei followed the trend.

Served as CEO.

With the support of the largest shareholder who has absolute control, although Rebus has always respected him as chairman in his subsequent work, he also knows that what he said in the company no longer counts.

Therefore, he also wants the company to be listed as soon as possible, so that the stocks in his hands can become something valuable. If one day he is unhappy, he can cash out and leave in a stylish way.

"Lao Qiu's words make sense. You just have to immerse yourself in work and make the company's products good, refined, and competitive, no matter whether it's winter or spring!" Zheng Sijing echoed from the side.

Although he is not the general manager of the Internet Business Department and some companies are not under his control, there are still some companies that are in the early stages of entrepreneurship and are still managed by the investment department and are still within his jurisdiction.

And these people did disclose it to him before they came, otherwise he wouldn't have rushed here as soon as he got off the plane.

In his opinion, these people's worries are somewhat unnecessary. First, the company is not short of money and has sufficient cash flow; second, as an investor in the company, Li Weidong neither requires them to go public nor to make a profit.

There is no time to quit, just follow the established path.

There is no requirement from the capital side, so what are you so worried about as coolies?

Li Weidong nodded. Zheng Sijing still understood him relatively well and saved him a lot of things.

"Speaking of products, I made that WPS for you, and I have a few suggestions. Please listen and see if you can implement it!" Li Weidong said.

"Say it!" Mr. Lei and Dong Qiu took out their notebooks and started recording.

"I see that the mailboxes they launched have free spaces with different capacities. Can your WPS also create such a free space, allowing users to put files in without having to carry a storage device with them? They can store them on any computer.

Open?"

(End of chapter)