You're forcing me to be reborn, right?

The wind has been very noisy recently.

Everyone in the capital market feels that they are about to witness the rise of a new Internet company!

The third round of financing for [Yuqu] has begun.

After several considerations, Cheng Zhu finally chose to let Penguin participate in this round.

However, he did not choose to let Penguin lead the investment.

He needs this backer now.

Well, only now.

The lead investor in this round of financing is Hongshan Capital, a [fence-sitter].

Hongshan invested in Kuaishou very early.

After Cheng Zhu launched Yuqu, it, as an important investor of Yucha, also invested in Yuqu.

How to say it, this is the norm for Hongshan: betting on both ends.

Moreover, the final result is basically making money on both ends.

As the top venture capital institution in China, Hongshan is indeed insightful.

However, in the round of financing before Kuaishou, Hongshan no longer added heavy bets like before, but only maintained the original shareholding ratio.

From the perspective of the investment amount, it seems a bit... ． Convergence?

The reason is very simple. There are too many top investors in Hongshan.

Their sense of perception is extremely sharp, and the data and information they can collect are also very complete.

Hongshan values ​​the potential of Youqu!

Many data cannot be seen by others.

As investors, they can.

Hongshan compares the data of Youqu with the data of Kuaishou, and naturally knows which platform has greater potential, higher user stickiness, and faster growth!

What's more, Penguin also joined this round of financing.

The reason why Cheng Zhu let Hongshan Capital lead the investment is actually to let Hongshan make a choice.

"I don't blame you for being a fence-sitter."

"After all, you have already invested in Kuaishou."

"Once, Hongshan attached great importance to the Kuaishou project."

"They love each other, and they follow the investment every time. Instead, I... I am considered to be interfering!"

"But, so what?"

Dog man: "The one who is not loved is the mistress!"

His attitude is very simple.

Sister Hongshan, you have to make a choice between Youqu and Kuaishou!

Will you live with me or with him in the future!

A similar situation also unfolded between Douyin and Kuaishou in the previous life.

At that time, Kuaishou had the support of Penguin, but Hongshan still chose Douyin.

After negotiation, Hongshan took the initiative to withdraw from Kuaishou's board of directors.

Now that Kuaishou has lost even the support of Penguin, the situation is naturally clearer!

The capital market's expected amount of financing for Youqu this time is about 1.5 billion US dollars.

But according to the final data released, it reached an extremely exaggerated 2 billion US dollars!

After this news came out, the entire capital market was completely boiling!

"2 billion? How did it jump to 2 billion all of a sudden!"

"With so much money lying in the account, it seems that there will be excitement in the next year!"

"When did the short video industry become so popular?"

"In fact, it is understandable, after all, they have done a good job in commercialization."

Many investors are clear in their hearts.

Although Kuaishou has done a good job in live streaming, but... ::. .Can't Youqu learn to do live streaming in the future?

Of course!

But if you want to learn from Youqu to do GG, can you compare with Youqu that relies on [algorithms]?

The GG automatic distribution model is awesome!

Others can copy your strengths.

You can't have other people's strengths.

This is fatal!

Will Cheng Zhu launch a live streaming model in the future?

Cheng Zhu: That's nonsense!

He made a fortune by live streaming in his previous life, and he will definitely do it in this life.

This will also be conducive to the launch of [Youqu Mall] in the later stage.

At that time, his direct competitor will not be Kuaishou, but Ali!

After the company had 2 billion US dollars in its account, Cheng Zhu narrowed his eyes slightly.

"It's time to start implementing the overseas strategy.

"Now, our competition with Kuaishou has entered a white-hot stage, and he will probably try to get some public opinion for me. ”

"The speed must be accelerated! "He thought.

The development of the situation is just as Cheng Zhu expected.

Youqu now poses a threat to the competitors in the entire short video industry, and there will inevitably be people who want to trick him. The rumors that Youqu copied the foreign [Musical.Iy] are rampant.

Many rumors began to emerge.

"From the perspective of interface and function, the UI designs of the two are very similar. '

"In fact, even the initial user positioning is the same."

"Take a look at these comparison pictures of mine. I can only say that those who understand will understand."

In fact, the Youqu created by Cheng Zhu is different from the original Douyin, and is more like a more mature Douyin.

The original Douyin is also different from the appearance and positioning that everyone sees later.

Douyin at that stage is indeed similar to Musical.Iy.

Even the groups targeted at the beginning were young girls in big cities.

Youqu and Musical.ly can only be said to be somewhat similar.

However, there is something very interesting about domestic public opinion.

Once someone says that a domestic platform copied a foreign platform, a lot of people will jump out, and they will spray it anyway without any distinction.

They are the best at praising foreign countries and criticizing domestic ones.

"It's so funny, it's copied from foreign countries again."

"Chinese people just can't come up with good stuff!"

"I used to think Youqu was interesting and innovative, but I didn't expect it was also copied, haha."

"It's a shame to copy something so weird!"

"Who understands Musical.Iy? I think Musical.ly is much better!"

"Chinese people are just like that!"

"Which successful company in China didn't copy something from abroad?"

Many experts started to criticize and even started to create opposition.

Some people who were interested in backtesting would also come out at this time.

Many comments made Cheng Zhu laugh.

"No, you foreigners are just bragging, Musical.ly was made by Chinese people, right? It was developed by China, right?"

"You really made me laugh." Cheng Zhu looked at him with contempt, as if he was looking at a group of clowns.

"These people, even if you shoot them ten times, you may not be able to hit their brains."

"How the hell are they shrinking?"

In the end, Youqu copied Musical.ly and was sent to the Weibo hot search list, ranking sixth on Weibo hot search.

The public opinion war has been completely launched!

But in fact, this will only ruin Youqu's reputation.

It will not affect the use of users.

After all, Youqu is the only one in the entire network and there is no substitute.

Even so, a group of friendly companies feel secretly happy.

"Even if it can't cause substantial damage, it's comfortable to disgust him!"

As a result, only a few days later, a major news was exposed!

Youqu spent a full 800 million US dollars to acquire Musical.ly!

Musical.ly will be revised, and will be closer to the domestic Youqu, and then become the overseas version of Youqu!

As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused a sensation.

In fact, if everyone has used both apps, you can find that the difference is still very large.

"Youqu is actually better than Musical.ly, with more complete functions."

"What are you copying? Wait until Musical.ly is updated, then you can go and see how big the difference is."

"You idiots are really making me laugh. You are still saying that Chinese people copy foreigners. They are all made by Chinese people, right?"

"Bang, some people, when you see what they say, you feel that the composition is complicated."

On the same day, Cheng Zhu accepted an interview.

Faced with the reporter's plagiarism question, Cheng Zhu gave a reply.

"Youqu and Musical.ly, I can only say that everyone's ideas are the same, so we can merge so smoothly."

"But if you say plagiarism, I don't agree at all.

"There are similarities between the two, but that is only a small part of Youqu."

"If everyone insists that we are plagiarizing Musical.ly, ly's words...

Cheng Zhu paused for a moment, and then began to say something shocking:

"Everyone might as well see if Musical.ly can achieve better results overseas after the revision is completed and it is completely [Yuqu-ized]. "

His subtext is very simple, what I do is better than it, and after it is revised, it will definitely take off overseas!

Facts speak louder than words.

Let's wait and see!

Yuqu is still very busy, but Yucha on the other side is not as busy as last year.

According to Cheng Zhu's instructions, Yucha will stop expanding this year.

Nowadays, the number of Yucha stores nationwide has exceeded 1,000, and each store is not small.

High-end milk tea is different from the franchise chain milk tea.

That kind of small milk tea shop may only have one or two rooms, and the store is very small.

High-end Internet celebrity milk tea is different, the store is much larger, and the decoration is more exquisite and upscale.

Cheng Zhu knows very well that this year, Yucha must stop burning money and start making a lot of money.

The spring of expensive fresh fruit tea is about to pass.

If we continue to spend money in the next two years, it will be really uneconomical.

This made Shen Qingning, the second in command of Youcha, feel a little uncomfortable after the Chinese New Year.

Last year, Ningning was very busy when she met a boss like a dog man.

This year, there is no more crazy expansion, but there are fewer things to do.

She is still a little uncomfortable with suddenly being a little idle.

The most interesting thing is that the people around her are busier than each other.

[Special] A new round of financing was also carried out at the beginning of this year, and the blind box business began to grow bigger and bigger.

The trend of blind boxes has swept across the country.

More and more young people are beginning to like to draw blind boxes.

Some popular products have even been sold at sky-high prices in the secondary market!

This has made Jiang Wanzhou and Lin Lu very busy recently.

As for Shen Minglang, he was still sent out by Cheng Zhu.

Although Youcha has stopped expanding, Cheng Zhu is preparing to start the "Bawang Tea Princess Mode" in order to meet the future consumption downgrade. Therefore, he is also looking for suitable suppliers and some manufacturers of automated machines.

This made Ningning more and more bored recently, until she saw the news of Jay Chou's tour this year.

"Buy a ticket and go to a concert." Shen Qingning thought.

She had figured it out before.

Going to a concert alone is a way to end the previous unclear relationship.

(ps: I will take a day off tomorrow to sort out the ideas of this plot.

Due to some special reasons that are inconvenient to talk about, I have been "dancing with a lock on" recently. I have to think about how to dance beautifully with the lock on my body...

If this book can be successfully published, it will be a blessing for me...::.Hehe...:..)