Ten Years Against the Current of Rebirth

Seven o'clock in the morning.

Xu Xing put on his clothes and walked out of the bedroom, but did not see Yan Chijuan in the living room.

When I came to the bathroom, I saw Yan Chijuan who had changed clothes and was washing up inside.

So Xu Xing also walked in, picked up his toothbrush and toothpaste and prepared to brush his teeth.

As a result, when Yan Chijuan saw Xu Xing come in, he quickly stopped brushing his teeth and rinsed his mouth quickly, then wiped water on his face to show that he had washed his face, and hurried out of the bathroom with a slightly red face, not daring to look at Xu Xing.

Xu Xing: "..."

Well, I dared not wear pajamas after taking a shower before, but this time I saw him not wearing any either. Why is it like this?

How can a person have such double standards?

Xu Xing brushed his teeth and washed his face with a helpless expression. After walking out of the bathroom, Yan Chijuan was sitting on the sofa in a daze.

When he noticed that Xu Xing came out, his eyes uncontrollably followed Xu Xing's face and neck, passed through his chest and stomach, and slid down to somewhere. Then his whole body felt as if he had been electrocuted, and he quickly lowered his head.

Dare to look more.

At this time, the best way to resolve the embarrassment is not to mention what just happened at all.

Xu Xing poured two glasses of water and handed her one glass: "A glass of water every morning will clear the stomach."

Yan Chijiu obediently took the glass of water and took a sip of it.

After drinking, she finally relaxed a little. When Xu Xing sat next to her, he finally didn't run away immediately.

"Show me the documents you sorted out yesterday." Xu Xing leaned on the back of the sofa, breathed a sigh of relief, and rubbed his face, "By the way, I'll order two breakfasts and have them delivered."

"Yeah." When it was time to work, Yan Chiju immediately cheered up, acted as Xu Xing's little secretary, and quickly got into work mode.

After getting up and helping Xu Xing bring all the information to the coffee table, Yan Chijuan then called the hotel customer service and ordered two breakfasts. Then he sat back on the sofa and sat next to Xu Xing, ready for orders at any time.

At this time, Li Zhibin knocked on the door and shouted: "I'm here! Would you like to go down and have breakfast together?"

"Call him in and order one for him." Xu Xing looked at the information in his hand and said without raising his head.

Yan Chijiu nodded quickly, trotted to the door, opened it, and said to Li Zhibin: "We have ordered breakfast, why don't you come in too? I'll give you an extra one too."

Hearing this answer, Li Zhibin immediately recalled Yao Yuanyuan's previous hint, so he shook his head and waved his hands: "Forget it, just eat. I'll come downstairs and come find you after I finish eating."

After saying that, Li Zhibin slipped away without looking back.

Yanchi vinegar: "?"

…

It wasn't until eight o'clock in the morning that Li Zhibin knocked on the door again and was welcomed in by Yan Chiju.

Xu Xing and Yan Chijuan had already eaten breakfast, and there were still leftover leftovers on the trolley next to the coffee table.

Li Zhibin sat down on the single sofa next to him, stretched out and asked: "Chen Wei said he would arrive at nine o'clock in the morning, what should we prepare now?"

"Why do you think everyone has nothing to do like you?" Xu Xing was sitting behind his desk at this time, facing his laptop, communicating with employees far away in Shanghai, handling affairs, and handing over work, "If you have nothing to do, just do it.

Go through the information about the person you want to meet today again."

"I watched it at least three times last night, and I know it by heart." Li Zhibin groaned as he slumped on the sofa, "You can doubt my other abilities at work, but don't question the memory of a person who can get into Beijing University.

and learning ability.”

The two were chatting casually.

After a while, Li Zhibin took out his mobile phone, played Fruit Assassin, and asked Yan Chijuan if he wanted to play friend mode.

But Yan Chiju shook his head and refused, saying that it was working time now and he couldn't have fun unless he was playing with the boss.

Li Zhibin: "...Just pretend I didn't ask."

"By the way, how's our new game going?" Li Zhibin played Fruit Assassin for a while, and then opened the secret escape, "I saw that there was a lot of fun on Weibo last night, and many people were talking about this game."

"The number of downloads is already 1.5 million, what do you think?" Xu Xing, who was sitting at the desk, replied casually, "I guess it won't be a problem if it can reach another million today."

"Why is it so powerful?" Li Zhibin was a little stunned when he heard this data. He couldn't help but recall the "miserable" downloads of Fruit Assassin overseas during the military training period. "Before, Fruit Assassin only had such a small number.

.”

It took several days for Fruit Assassin to quickly exceed 10,000 downloads thanks to its recommendation position on the App Store and Xu Xing's advertising and promotion videos, which made Li Zhibin very excited.

Looking back now, it's only been a little over a month, but it seems like a lot has changed.

Even when Secret Escape exceeded 1.5 million downloads just over a day after it was released, Li Zhibin only expressed a little emotion and no longer had the original excitement.

"How can buyout compare with free downloads?" Xu Xing laughed and said, "Besides, when Fruit Assassin was released for free in China, it only took three days to break through one million."

"This time, we are not only using Tencent's three new games to stir up public opinion again, but we have also reached better agreements with major distributors and obtained a lot of recommendation resources from them."

"Coupled with the introduction of Fruit Assassin's opening screen advertising position, the daily active traffic is more than 3 million, and now this result is really normal."

"How about WeChat?" Li Zhibin was even more curious about this, "I see a lot of people are talking about this, it seems very popular."

"It's not bad, the current number of registered users is about 70,000." Xu Xing looked at the data submitted by Liao Qinyu in the morning, and then said.

"Ah?" When Li Zhibin heard this number, the gap was a bit big, "Is it so few? Isn't there 1.5 million for Uncharted Escape? And isn't there an event to get free skins?"

"Most free players don't really care about whether there are skins, especially for casual mobile games with a single gameplay." Xu Xing explained with a smile, "And many people are actually not willing to bother downloading a new APP.

At present, this data is quite normal.”

"Since WeChat Assistant is positioned as a game center in the early stage, as the number of games on it gradually increases, the number of users will definitely increase faster in the future."

Having said this, Xu Xing paused and said no more.

In fact, he still has some killer features that he has not yet released.

First, the WeChat Assistant was produced in a hurry. In order to launch it in time for the National Day, a period when traffic increases, functions such as "people nearby", "shake" and "drift bottle" were not added in the early stage.

Secondly, Xu Xing doesn’t want to reveal the true purpose of WeChat Assistant too early. He wants to wait a few days as long as possible and wait until the initial number of users reaches hundreds of thousands before adding functions that can quickly produce a fission effect.

, the actual effect will be better.

At present, the more than 70,000 initial registered users of WeChat Assistant will only accumulate a few hundred thousand at most by the time the National Day is over.

With this size, let alone the giant QQ, even if you put it in front of a certain hi, you can only call it a younger brother.

What's more, Xu Xing's external promotions are mainly based on game platforms, and the concepts of instant messaging and social software are basically not mentioned. There are still many differences from the positioning of chat software such as QQ.

"Let's not talk about this anymore." Xu Xing looked at the time and saw that there were only ten minutes left before nine o'clock, so he asked, "Has Chen Wei arrived?"

"Not yet." Li Zhibin glanced at the message he just received on his phone, "It says it's on the way."

…

For Chen Wei, the past two months can be said to be his most unlucky days.

Chen Wei was originally the youngest regional manager of Alibaba’s internal sales department, and was promoted to deputy general manager of the payment division last year.

But because he was not satisfied with working for Alibaba, he privately began to examine projects suitable for starting a business. After finally confirming the taxi-hailing business, he resolutely submitted his resignation.

Unexpectedly, he almost collapsed in the middle of his business career.

Over the years of working at Alibaba, he also saved a lot of money. Part of it was used to buy real estate in his hometown, part of it was reserved for emergency needs, and the rest was divided into 300,000 yuan as the starting capital for his own entrepreneurial project.

However, he was born in sales and did not understand technology. He could not make the taxi-hailing software himself, so he could only find outsourcers online.

After finding a programmer doing outsourcing business, Chen Wei explained his software requirements and paid a commission of 80,000 yuan.

As a result, after more than a month, the other party finally made a taxi-hailing software, but it could only barely run.

And the most outrageous thing is that the taxi hailing success rate of this software is only 50%!

This means that after a user calls for a taxi service on the software, there is a probability of being contacted by the driver once twice.

Chen Wei was so angry that he found this outsourcing programmer through connections.

As it turns out, the other person turned out to be a computer teacher in a higher vocational college, and this taxi-hailing software was assigned to his students as homework.

For more than a month, this group of students pieced together the code, self-study and looking for codes they could copy online, and they managed to come up with such a thing for Chen Wei, which can be considered a gift.

But as a result, Chen Wei became even more impatient. He didn't have time to talk to the other party, and reluctantly got back more than 40,000 yuan in commission. He looked for a technical team that could cooperate and investment at the same time.

I can't help but blame him for being impatient.

Because at this time, there were already more than one taxi-hailing software on the market.

For example, Yidao Yongche, which appeared last year, specializes in ride-hailing services for commercial vehicles.

Another example is Shake-hailing, which appeared at the beginning of this year. It recently received its first investment and is developing rapidly.

I heard that a taxi-hailing software has recently appeared in Hangzhou, and there are more or less new players entering the market from other places.

And he has been rejected by more than a dozen investment institutions.

Chen Wei was worried that if he continued to delay like this, he would completely lose the opportunity to enter the market.

So in the past two days, I heard about Qunxing Investment Company in the circle, and also heard that this company directly invested tens of millions in angel and A-round financing on the National Day, which was quite generous.

Chen Wei immediately asked for Li Zhibin’s contact information and prepared to visit him to seek investment.

This morning, Chen Wei got everything ready and drove towards the Kaiyue Hotel according to the address given by Li Zhibin.

At nine o'clock, he came to the door of the hotel on time and called Li Zhibin: "Hello, Mr. Li, I'm downstairs, may I ask?"

"Okay, okay, please, I'm right here at the front desk."

After a while, Li Zhibin went downstairs to pick up Chen Wei and went upstairs to the door of the luxury suite. Xu Xing finally saw the man who was the helmsman of Didi in his previous life.

…

In Xu Xing's impression, Chen Wei, an internet tycoon in his previous life, could only look at photos online to see what they looked like.

Now that the perspective has changed, seeing the respectful look of the elder in his previous life after entering the door really makes Xu Xing feel a little refreshed.

However, Xu Xing quickly adjusted. After Li Zhibin introduced each other, he briefly shook hands with Chen Wei, and they sat down at the desk.

Chen Wei took out his laptop and started introducing his entrepreneurial project through PPT.

Li Zhibin listened very seriously, while Xu Xing nodded occasionally, but his thoughts drifted to various consultations in his previous life.

Didi Taxi, the ultimate winner in the taxi-hailing field in its previous life, was supposed to make great progress and become a national-level taxi-hailing software in the following ten years.

However, due to the various tricks of its listing in the United States, Didi, a behemoth, was completely brought to the ground.

But at this time, Chen Wei probably hasn't thought about so many far-off things, and the eldest lady of the Liu family has not yet joined in.

Xu Xing listened to Chen Wei's hard work introducing the project, thinking about these things in his mind. After Chen Wei finished speaking, he just asked: "So you haven't made the finished product yet, right?"

"Uh..." When he mentioned this, Chen Wei felt very embarrassed and said helplessly, "I am not a technical person. I wasted a lot of time because I misbelieved in online outsourcing, but I promise to find a technology that I can cooperate with as soon as possible.

The team is just short of funds now."

"Then what advantage do you have here? You are not the only one making taxi-hailing software on the market." Xu Xing leaned back in his chair and said slowly, "If the taxi-hailing software hasn't been finished yet, then I will make it myself.

Isn’t one better than investing in you?”

"Mr. Xu's words are biased." Chen Wei shook his head and was very clear about his own advantages. "In fact, taxi-hailing software are all similar in function. The real difficulty lies in its promotion."

"I come from a sales background. I have been a regional manager and deputy general manager of the payment division in Alibaba. I have sufficient experience in this area."

"Internet software looks very high-tech, but in my opinion, initial development and growth essentially relies on local promotion teams and crowd tactics to expand and occupy the market."

“In this regard, I dare say that among the taxi-hailing software teams on the market, no one knows promotion and marketing better than me.”

Chen Wei was right in saying this.

He was born in a rural area. After graduating from college, he worked in circles and entered Alibaba's sales department. The fact that he could work step by step and reach the position of regional manager in his thirties is enough to illustrate his ability.

So Xu Xing said: "15% of the shares, 5 million. If the follow-up products can occupy a certain market share, I can also follow up on the A round."

Chen Wei was overjoyed when he heard the conditions given by Xu Xing, because this was the best condition he had received so far.

Although other investment companies are also willing to invest, and only need about 10% of the shares, they are only willing to give an angel round investment of about 2 million at most.

In comparison, although Xu Xing's request for 15% of the shares was a bit high, the angel investment of 5 million was enough for Chen Wei to capture a large market near Kyoto in the early stage.

However, just when Chen Wei was still hesitating whether to be more reserved and see if he could get more funds, Xu Xing added with a smile: "In addition, I can also help you make a taxi-hailing software. Follow-up

We can also provide you with technical support, you only need to be responsible for product promotion."

"Really?" When Chen Wei heard this condition, he was immediately excited.

…

Eleven o'clock in the morning.

In the restaurant on the second floor of Kaiyue Hotel, Xu Xing, Yan Chiju, and Li Zhibin had lunch here.

After signing a financing letter of intent with Chen Wei in the morning, Li Zhibin was chewing his food and asked a little puzzled: "Brother Xu, you also said that we can build a taxi-hailing software ourselves, so why invest in others?

"

"No matter how strong the promotion and marketing ability of Chen Wei is, can't we find someone who knows promotion better than him?"

"This is not the high-tech companies signed yesterday, or the kind of teams that have already made products and accumulated users. I feel that 5 million is not worth it."

Xu Xing glanced at Li Zhibin and just smiled: "Who said I won't do it myself? Don't put all your eggs in one basket."

In the next two or three years, the money-burning competition in various fields will become extremely fierce. If you look closely, you will find that behind the scenes are basically Tencent and Alibaba, with some degree joining a group or something.

Then I basically never won once.

These giants in the industry rarely invest in angel round projects, and they will only look for relatively mature products in the A round. Otherwise, they usually wait for the B round of financing before entering the market to clean up the battlefield.

Most non-Tengxin and Alibaba players will basically have their market share squeezed at this stage. The smaller ones will disappear immediately, while the more powerful ones will barely survive, eat scraps, or face the risk of being acquired.

destiny.

Xu Xing has no plans to compete head-on with Tencent Alibaba in areas such as taxi-hailing during this period.

Now, relying on the advantage of foresight to obtain the angel rounds and A rounds of these past unicorn companies, it can be regarded as a first seat.

Even if you can't follow up later, you can still make a lot of money by selling the shares.

Today’s angel round investment of 5 million accounts for 15% of the shares. Even if there is no subsequent follow-up financing, the ratio can still be maintained at about 10% by the time of Series B, or slightly lower.

At that time, Didi Taxi's valuation was probably worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

By then, there will definitely be many investment institutions willing to take over the business, and Xu Xing is not worried about losing money at all.

The only thing we should worry about is whether after Xu Xing enters the game, his joining will cause a butterfly effect that changes the subsequent situation, causing Didi Taxi to be aborted and unable to compete with other taxi software in the early stage.

Otherwise, Xu Xing will not lose money no matter what.

What's more, he has other plans in this regard.

…

In the afternoon, Xu Xing and Li Zhibin met with the founders of entrepreneurial projects including Kushou, Zhihu, Honey Baby, Lvjia.com, and Future Life, and gained a lot.

This big move by Qunxing Investment Management Company has also triggered a huge amount of discussion in the investment circle.

You know, even though these companies could reach valuations of over one billion in previous lives, in the current period, investment institutions do not have Xu Xing's foresight advantage.

There are so many similar entrepreneurial projects on the market. It is actually very unsafe to decide on the target in the angel round.

Therefore, most professional investment institutions will basically only start investing in the A round. At least they must see specific product effects and market share before they start betting.

For example, Qunxing Investment Management Company threw out tens of millions in just two days. As a result, more than 80% of the projects were angel investment, which is really rare in the industry.

As a result, many people in the circle sneered at this operation.

Especially when I found out that behind Qunxing Investment was a new game company that had just emerged in the Shanghai stock market in recent months, I looked down upon Qunxing Investment's operation even more.

I just feel that Qunxing Investment has the mentality of a nouveau riche. They have money but no place to spend it. They were deceived by a few founding teams and spent their money.

It would be okay if the financing intention was torn up later. If the teams that had been negotiated in the past two days all signed the financing agreement, then it can only be said that Qunxing Investment was really taken advantage of.

However, these rumors have nothing to do with Xu Xing.

…

By the morning of October 3, Xu Xing had already put on casual clothes.

Yan Chijuan walked out of the bedroom. She had already put on a light green floral skirt. Her pink lotus-white arms and round shoulders were exposed. Her chest held up the graceful arc of the skirt, and the skirt was just right.

Beyond the knees, a section of snow-white slender calves was exposed.

Xu Xing sat on the sofa, admiring Yan Chijuan's simple outfit. He immediately stood up, looked at the time and said, "Yao Yuanyuan won't be able to fly to Kyoto until evening. Let's go out and have some fun today."

"Well." Yan Chijuan held a sunhat in his hand, put it on his head with both hands, lowered the brim of the hat in front, barely covering his overly happy and excited expression, and walked obediently to Xu Xing, "

Boss, where are we going to play?"

"Abin recommended a few places to me, why don't you go check them out?"

"Li Zhibin, do you want to go together?"

"Why is he going there? I have been in Kyoto for more than a month and I am probably tired of playing in these places." Xu Xing grabbed Yan Chijuan's wrist and walked out of the room, "We can go alone."

"Oh." Yan Chijiu responded in a low voice, trying not to appear too complacent, and kept up with Xu Xing's pace with brisk steps, "Then I want to go to Tiananmen to have a look, boss, is that okay?"

"Listen to you."