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Come and go in a hurry.

Both Wang Haoyang and Zhang Yiming were stunned.

Even though Zhou Buqi was mentally prepared, he was shocked by Sun Zhengyi's actions.

From showing up to leaving, only 15 minutes.

5 minutes to meet and greet, 5 minutes to talk about business, 5 minutes to apologize and leave.

And during those 5 minutes of business time, the real Ziweixing's business introduction and material audit took less than 3 minutes in total.

Masayoshi Son asked only two questions.

First, how to expand the scale by 10 times?

Answer: The business is mature.

Second, how to expand the scale by 100 times?

Answer: The demographic dividend has exploded.

Then, Sun Zhengyi took a brief look at Ziwei Star's financial data for the past two years. After looking through it quickly, he checked the shareholding structure and frowned slightly, but didn't say much.

Then, he simply pointed out two fingers, "I'll offer 2 billion dollars."

Wang Haoyang's heart trembled when he heard this, and he almost got under the table.

Zhang Yiming's face turned red, and he also felt that he was knocked down by money and was on the verge of collapse.

It's so exciting!

Zhou Buqi's face was as usual, very calm, and politely declined, "I'm sorry, I think...we only need 1 billion US dollars."

"I offer 2 billion."

"No, I only want 1 billion."

"I insist."

Sun Zhengyi looked at him deeply.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said calmly: "Ziweixing is a Chinese company. This time, we plan to raise 1.5 billion U.S. dollars in the A round. I need to set aside some shares for domestic investors to help more Many domestic venture capital institutions have grown."

Sun Zhengyi's expression calmed down immediately, and he said with a smile, "They can't eat such a large portion."

Zhou Buqi said: "I know, so I invited Ali."

"oh?"

"Ziweixing and Ali have launched a series of strategic cooperation. Ziweixing needs Ali's e-commerce platform, and Ali needs Ziweixing's traffic channels. The cooperation between the two parties is mutually beneficial."

"Jack agreed?"

"He's happy, he's willing to contribute $400 million."

Ali took a stake in Ziwei Star, which was brought up by Lao Ma when they had dinner together last night. Zhou Buqi thought about it all night and felt that this plan was acceptable.

However, Ziweixing will not provide Ali with a director seat, but will only provide Lao Ma with an independent director seat.

Ali is one of the most successful companies Sun Zhengyi has invested in. Hearing that Ali and Ziweixing will reach a long-term cooperation, they immediately slapped their thighs and it was decided!

As for the price, it is a small matter.

Sun Zhengyi approved Ziweixing's offer, invested 1 billion US dollars, and bought 100 million shares of stock.

After the transaction was completed, Ziweixing's share capital reached 1.2 billion, with a single share of 10 US dollars, and a total value of 12 billion US dollars!

...

"Is that the end?"

Sun Zhengyi had left for ten minutes, and Zhang Yiming hadn't recovered yet.

He came here this time to give a technical introduction.

However, Sun Zhengyi never consulted the technical and business details from the beginning to the end, but he bargained with Zhou Buqi for two minutes for the amount of financing.

Sun Zhengyi wants to give more money and take more shares.

Zhou Buqi expressed the need to support domestic institutions.

This is very stylish.

Sun Zhengyi felt that this kid had a structure and a heart, and he was not dazzled by the huge sum of money, so he was a material for great things. Being able to participate is a huge success.

Zhou Buqi stretched his waist, "It's over! Ziwei Star's first round of financing seems to be quite smooth."

Zhang Yiming asked, "1 billion dollars?"

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "Didn't you hear that just now?"

Zhang Yiming was dazed, "When will I give it?"

Wang Haoyang said old-fashionedly: "Everything is agreed, so it shouldn't be a big problem. I will sign the contract later, and it is estimated that... the funds will be in place in early June."

Zhou Buqi heaved a long sigh of relief, "This matter is finally settled. Lao Wang, I have already negotiated with Ali. They will contribute 400 million US dollars. There is still 100 million US dollars. Your domestic wind Choose a few investment institutions, Sequoia China and Hillhouse Capital are pretty good, and you can choose two more. Tell them that Ziwei welcomes venture capital institutions to grow with us and share the growth dividend of Ziwei. "

If Ziwei Star's corporate system is to be sound and perfect, Softbank can't help much.

Ali is also overwhelmed.

Those who can help the most are the top domestic venture capital institutions. They have a lot of resources and network resources in their hands, and they have rich experience in business operations. They can find many people and help a lot.

However, there are also risks here.

The helper hired by capital represents capital.

When considering issues, the interests of venture capital are often the main focus. Many companies are infiltrated by capital talents after the capital starts financing, and then the founding team is kicked out.

Therefore, when selecting domestic venture capital institutions, Ziweixing put forward a mandatory requirement: the voting rights should be handed over to the founder Zhou Buqi.

Even Ali, which is a strategic investor, has no directors or voting rights, and other follow-up investment institutions have no such rights. As for some other incidental rights, don't even think about it.

Many capital hooligans will play with start-up companies through small tricks.

For example, in order to prevent the founder team from spending without restraint after getting the money, it is required that every expenditure of the company must be signed by the financial officer hired by the venture capital before it can take effect.

It seems reasonable, but there are actually big pitfalls.

Because the salary is paid, it must be signed by the financial officer.

Financial power is the most important power, which is equivalent to controlling all employees. Once the capital and the founder team disagree on strategy, every financial expenditure will be rejected, and the founder team will have to kneel and beg for mercy before long.

The financial team under Ziweixing is relatively strong, including Wang Haoyang from Sina, Liu Qing from Goldman Sachs, and Nie Caijun from PwC.

There is absolutely no capital threat.

...

That night, Boss Ma was the host and set up another big table. Several senior executives from Ali also attended. There were seventeen or eight people at the table, and they drank a lot.

It's a pity that classmate Yiming doesn't drink at all, and he's not good at speaking.

The old horse wanted to drink with him, but he refused again and again, but refused to drink.

Fortunately, everyone is in the Internet circle, and they all understand the shortcomings of IT engineering men, so they don't care too much. It would be unimaginable if this was the dinner of a traditional enterprise.

The next day, return to Beijing.

Along the way, everyone is very happy.

It can be said that three blessings are coming to the door, and the spring breeze is proud!

Because there was also good news from He Yang, the negotiation between him and Penguin was finally reached. Penguin will spend 300 million yuan to purchase the source code of Youyou.com's open platform, and then install it on its own Qzone.

Many functions of the current Qzone are highly similar to Friends.com.

For example, information flow, such as social games, and even recently launched the "Taobao Best" channel on Friends Online, and Qzone also followed up in time and launched "Pai Pai Best".

At first glance, I thought it was Papa Best, selling adult products.

This May, it can be said that the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming, and the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant.

Ziweixing has solved three very difficult problems at present.

First, layoffs.

Second, an open platform.

Third, financing.

These three things are equivalent to the three major battles of Ziwei Star this year, and they are very important. After being operated by Zhou Buqi, they were kneaded together, connecting the battlefields into one, and then achieved very impressive results, almost achieving the success of the three battlefields at the same time.

Next... It's time to let go of your hands and feet and do something drastic!

On the flight back, Zhang Yiming has been brainwashing Zhou Buqi and popularizing the importance of distributed systems to him. In order to explain clearly, I took the trouble to tell him the flow principle of the website from beginning to end.

If it is said to be a small website, it is very easy. A college student can make it in a few days.

But then, when the traffic comes, the troubles of happiness come.

Gotta make a backup, right?

A college student who can make web pages and JAVA language is not enough. We need to find someone who understands database and server system to help.

But the traffic continues to increase, and the server can't handle it anymore, what should I do?

The way in the past was to buy, buy, buy, buy more servers to carry more traffic.

In the words of the industry, it means that the technology is not enough, and the equipment is used.

But the traffic is getting higher and higher, and I can't afford more servers. What should I do?

The answer is distributed.

The logic is that when a user visits a website, they read the database information in the server. The traditional structure is single-line. After one user visits, another user goes to visit. Everyone has to queue up from front to back.

What if a server has a capacity of 10,000 and 100 million people visit it? With so many people queuing collectively, the website will be paralyzed.

One of the solutions to the problem is to add more servers, build a server cluster consisting of 10,000 servers, and distribute the traffic evenly.

Just spending too much money.

The second option is distributed.

Users can be allowed to visit in parallel, for example, let 100 users visit together, instead of only one user at a time as in the past. In this way, 100 million visits can be completed with only 100 servers.

Of course Zhou Buqi knows that distribution is very important, but the technical principle behind it is still confused. Hearing him say this, it is easy to understand, and asked: "Are we also buying, buying, and buying now?"

Zhang Yiming said helplessly, "Yes, that's it. For example, Friends.com will increase its budget by 60 million this year to purchase servers. On the one hand, it will be used for capacity expansion, and on the other hand, it will be used to replace old and damaged products."

"Where are your colleagues?"

"Of course, the domestic counterparts are also like this. But the giants in Silicon Valley are all distributed. Zhou Buqi, we can't look at the domestic counterparts, we have to follow the Silicon Valley, and we can't lag behind!"

"Um."

Zhou Buqi nodded, a little funny.

He understood what Zhang Yiming meant.

Asking for money again!

Some time ago, he just approved 100 million to do three distributed projects, which are technical explorations on improving the loading time of web pages. It seems that it is not enough!

It is time to find technical projects on the underlying database and server.

Zhang Yiming's thinking is also simple.

Now the three major battles have basically ended.

Time to spend more on R\u0026D!

Boss Zhou, please approve some money?