America's Road to Fame

Chapter 178 The old horse also likes HOLA

The two sides didn't chat for too long. After the other party left, William Chen looked at Boss Ma with a half-smile and said:
"Old horse, don't you explain it."

"what?"

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Chen Weilian said angrily: "You think I'm stupid, old horse, you took me here to see your Taobao city as soon as you came to Hangzhou, and you told me so many policies, and you happened to meet the deputy here. Mayor, you still invited me to participate in tomorrow's investment promotion meeting, is there so many coincidences?"

"Haha, this kind of thing is unavoidable. Please entrust the leader to me. I can't let you get to know each other and refuse to agree. Anyway, this matter is also a good thing for you. At worst, if you feel inappropriate, then just don't invest."

Chen Weilian just expressed his attitude so that Boss Ma would not make any claims next time, but this time, he really can participate.

In the evening, Boss Ma found a place in Hangcheng to entertain William Chen. At this time, Yang Mi also arrived in Hangcheng, and William Chen took her directly to attend.

Recently, she was filming in Hengdian. After joining Huayi, Wang Zhonglei also attached great importance to her, and specially arranged for her to be the protagonist of a costume drama.Knowing that Chen Weilian came to Hangzhou, she asked for leave from the crew, and drove over directly by car.

Anyway, Hengdian is also close to Hangzhou, about 150 kilometers away, and it takes less than two hours by car.

Seeing William Chen bringing Yang Mi to the banquet, Boss Ma not only didn't mind, but was in a good mood.He has come into contact with many rich people, especially at William Chen's age and wealth. It is normal to be romantic, and bringing his lover to this kind of private banquet also shows that William Chen regards him as his own. People, this is what he likes to see.

Moreover, Boss Ma has a fairly close relationship with the entertainment industry. Many stars and directors in the industry have a good relationship with him. Later, he even went to play tickets, held concerts, and made movies in person, which was also fun.

Therefore, at the banquet, he also chatted with Yang Mi about some topics in the entertainment industry, which also made Yang Mi feel flattered. After all, Boss Ma is very well-known in China at this time. know him.

And now she can eat and chat with such a big boss at a dinner party, which Yang Mi didn't dare to think about before. Now, she just graduated, and it can't be compared with what she saw and learned later.

Of course, as smart as she is, she naturally understands why a big boss like Boss Ma is so approachable to her, it's all for Chen William's face, so in her heart, she is more determined to stay by Chen William's side , following him, I can stand higher and see the world I looked up to before.

"I heard that you bought Chen Tianqiao's house?"

Boss Ma said: "When I went to Shanghai before, he took me to see that house. It was still being renovated at that time, and it was indeed very good."

After chatting, I found out that Boss Ma and Chen Tianqiao had a good relationship. Boss Ma organized a Jiangnan meeting, and Chen Tianqiao was also a member.In particular, due to health reasons, Chen Tianqiao gradually quit the company and began to focus on investment, which made Boss Ma very embarrassed.

Hearing that the two specifically mentioned the house William Chen bought, Yang Mi was curious. She knew about Chen Tianqiao. He used to be the richest man in Huaguo, and Shanda played games. Yang Mi was usually a game girl when she was free. She has played many Shanda games before.

Since she bought the house from Chen Tianqiao, it would definitely not be too simple, but it was not convenient to ask directly now, she kept this matter in her heart and was going to ask William Chen privately.

"William, are you here this time, are you planning to bring your business to China?"

"I have this idea. In fact, I am very optimistic about the development of Huaguo. Before that, I had a venture capital fund to invest in some potential start-up companies in Huaguo. This time, I cooperated with the Trump Group, mainly to develop Huaguo's real estate. industry."

"Oh? Which companies have you invested in?"

Hearing William Chen talking about his venture capital fund, Boss Ma asked with interest.

"My Huaxia Future Capital specializes in investing in Huaguo's start-up companies. Now I don't invest much, only Mr. Lei Jun's project, and I just invested in Dianping."

"Dianping.com, I know, so we are competitors."

Boss Ma is also right. At this time, Dianping doesn’t have many competitors in Huaguo. The only one that can be called a rival is Koubei, which was founded a little later. This website was later invested by Ali, and now it has competed with Yahoo! Huaguo cooperated and became Yahoo Koubei.com.

"It doesn't count, I'm just purely financial investment, and the market is so big, it's impossible for this type of website to monopolize the market, there will always be multiple coexistence."

Chen Weilian knows that in the group buying industry, there will soon be a battle of thousands of groups. Thousands of group buying websites will fight each other.

"So you don't plan to develop other companies in China?"

oh?I felt that Boss Ma meant something. Hearing his question, William Chen subconsciously thought of the cooperation that Sun Zhengyi had just talked about with him in Japan. Boss Ma is also interested in HOLA?

This is not impossible, otherwise he would not have pushed his social software "Lianglian" in a few years.But this is also normal. The three giants of BAT all have their own core areas. Baidu is search, Penguin is social, and Ali is e-commerce.

But later, Penguin started e-commerce and search; Baidu also started e-commerce; seeing that they all wanted to compete with him for food, Boss Ma would not be reconciled. He also launched the chat software Wangwang before. , but except that users will use it when shopping, there is no splash at all at other times, so now seeing the popularity of HOLA overseas, it is normal for him to be tempted.

Therefore, Chen William said: "For the Internet industry, you should be a little more cautious. You know, the matter of Twitter before, although I just bought this company at the time, and I haven't had time to change their business style, but this matter will be a little bit different. Influence."

Boss Ma waved his hand and said, "This is different. I also know about Twitter. Like Google, it has media properties. It must be strictly regulated. Just like your HOLA, it is a chat software. This is not the case. There will be too many restrictions. Didn’t Microsoft MSN encounter any troubles before? It’s just that it didn’t compete with Penguin. I think HOLA is still very hopeful to break Penguin’s social monopoly.”

Hearing what he said, it seems that he really cares about HOLA.

Sure enough, Boss Ma continued to ask: "I heard that you have reached an agreement with Mr. Sun Zhengyi, and will cooperate with Softbank to promote HOLA in Japan?"

"Yes, an agreement has been reached in principle, and now we are talking about specific cooperation methods, which should be finalized soon."

Boss Ma's eyes lit up: "Then can we also use this method? Ali cooperates with HOLA to promote in China? We will do our best to help HOLA compete with Penguin."

"Haha, old horse, you are watching Penguin doing e-commerce, and you are angry and want to fight back."

"No, it's not like I'm talking big. Penguin's e-commerce can't be done, and we will soon be defeated. But now Huaguo Social Penguin is the only one, which is not a good thing. Only competition can develop."

"I don't know if you have used HOLA before. You should know that our HOLA is not like domestic chat software. All chat content is encrypted and uploaded to the server, which means that the company's background cannot see the user's chat. content, so if it is applied in your e-commerce, there is no way to verify through the official which party breached the contract.”

In the past, when Ali’s Taobao had disputes between users and merchants, it would only use the Wangwang chat records of both parties as evidence. Those chat records will not be used as evidence.

On the one hand, this is to promote our own Want Want, and another very realistic point is that on Want Want, the official chat history of both parties can be queried, and it cannot be faked. However, in other chat software, if you want to verify the authenticity, you have to ask When those companies ask for chat records, the other party may not cooperate, and there are so many disputes, it will take a lot of energy to do this all the time.

But HOLA is different, the chat content is encrypted, only the two parties in the chat can see it, not even the official background, so it cannot serve the communication between e-commerce users and sellers.

(End of this chapter)