What's wrong with me being a rich man?

Chapter 190 New Invitation

Chairman Bai Xiaosheng played his role.

Song Yufeng didn't expect that travel expenses could have such a direct impact.

Moreover, he had not expected that the three red envelopes he prepared were delivered smoothly without any obstruction.

Ok……

Song Yufeng thought about the time when he was a reporter and interviewed Yu Xing, who was running Guiai.com at the time. He felt inexplicably ashamed when he thought about how he had also smoothly accepted Zhong Zhiling's advice at that time.

But then I thought, since the boss didn't squeeze out others and he could still speak on the stage for two or three minutes, there didn't seem to be any problem.

"Brother Xing, it's okay." Song Yufeng went back to the boss.

Yu Xing smiled and said, "When will you go on stage?"

Song Yufeng scratched his head: "They didn't say."

Yu Xing said calmly: "Then wait, it will be arranged."

As expected, just as the event was about to begin, the host hurried over and said, "Mr. Yu, you will be speaking on stage later. We have media on site. What are you going to talk about?"

"Economic recovery, the wave of mobility, and the development of workplace platforms." Yu Xing answered concisely.

The host was stunned for a moment and said, "Be more specific, be more specific! Also, this sounds too long! We don't have that much time!"

"Then let's combine economic recovery and workplace platform development. This part is to show the signal of economic recovery through the increase in advertising prices and our business development. The mobile wave is the development of smart phones and the emergence of domestic social platforms, such as Sina Weibo. Well, that's about it." Yu Xing emphasized the key point, "I want to express my confidence in the development of our economy!"

The host exhaled, "Okay, Mr. Yu, you will be the last one to go on stage. Speak for about four minutes, and there will be no more interactions."

Yu Xing smiled and said, "Just talk? Let's interact a little bit, it can be considered as a perfect form of the activity. Otherwise, I don't know what you think when others interact but I don't."

The host thought about the travel expenses and reluctantly said, "Okay, let's ask two questions at the end, and then we will take a group photo."

After he finished speaking, he hurried back to confirm the final arrangements.

Yu Xing said happily: "Our young people are quite good at interacting with each other."

Song Yufeng reminded: "Youth New Economy Salon."

Yu Xing shook his head: "It's just that the name is a bit difficult to pronounce."

Song Yufeng felt that the boss seemed to respect the event but also disrespect it. He turned his head and looked: "There's coffee over there. I'll get two cups."

Yu Xing said “hmm” and felt that this activity was more… at least the format was more novel.

In the salon, the guests formed a semicircle around the small stage in front.

Moreover, they all look younger.

Yu Xing sat down and thought about the specific content of his speech.

He didn't necessarily want to say anything earth-shattering at the scene, he just wanted to create an image of someone who could judge the trend through his own website, Sina Weibo and news releases.

It is always easier to find the process with the answer.

After a while, Yu Xing sipped his coffee and listened to the speeches of the guests on stage.

After listening to the two...

Yu Xing couldn't help but ask Song Yufeng in a low voice: "What do you think of what they said?"

"It's quite boring." Song Yufeng answered seriously, "I don't think it's as good as what you usually say, Brother Xing."

Yu Xing actually had the same feeling. He took out his cell phone and sent a text message to Xiaoying, talking about the quality issue of today's event.

Soon, Liu Wanying replied: What should we do? You can't invite Paulson to be on the same stage with you? Or the famous investor Xu Xin? Or Chen Nian who just sued you? Speaking of which, the people you meet openly and secretly are all of high standard.

Yu Xing thought it made sense, and replied: If that’s the case, then I am also quite good.

Liu Wanying replied with a smiley face and wrote: Your configuration is hard to defend against hidden attacks. Well, the funds are slowly surrounding you.

She was referring to the financial actions against Alibaba and Yahoo.

The moment Yu Xing saw the text message, he tensed up and expressed his thoughts: This time is not like before, their size and fame are too big, so we can't set a too high range.

Liu Wanying finally replied: I understand, Mr. Yu.

Different from the previous short selling and planned short selling, it is difficult to find a reference for transfers like Alipay, so the downward space of Alibaba and Yahoo’s stock prices must be properly grasped.

But even so, Yu Xing, sitting in the Shanghai New Economy Salon, still felt somewhat relaxed and fascinated as he thought about the little storm at the end of the year that would occur in just three months.

Information is indeed wealth, and information asymmetry can accelerate the accumulation of wealth.

Yu Xing's thoughts raced quickly while he was slacking off, and soon he thought of PricewaterhouseCoopers, whom he had considered before. Hmm...how could he dig out more information?

Some dangerous thoughts flashed through his mind, but he temporarily suppressed them. He listened and applauded mechanically until noon when he could cut in line.

The host held up a cue card and introduced the guest seriously: "Welcome Dr. Yu Xingyu, the founder of Bai Xiaosheng, to speak."

As soon as these words were spoken, Yu Xing, who had just stood up, was stunned, and the applause and laughter at the scene became half and half.

Although the host didn't know what went wrong, he knew something was wrong from everyone's reactions. He was very puzzled. How could there be any omissions in such a short introduction?
When Yu Xing walked towards the small stage in the center, he almost suspected that the host was making fun of him.

He took the microphone and saw the funny looks from many people in the audience. He said self-deprecatingly: "I am ashamed to say that my doctorate was bought by someone else as a gift, but I am really proud of it and posted it in my office to encourage myself to continue learning."

Even louder laughter broke out at the scene.

The host's face turned black. He had just searched for this person online and saw someone introduced that his academic qualification was a doctorate. How could he have bought it?

"I am the founder of Baixiaosheng, a career platform born during the financial crisis. We were very hesitant at the time. It seemed that it was not a good time to start a business because we were in crisis."

“But in the end, I decided to choose the workplace as the angle to create the project. It turns out that the project born in the crisis and trying to solve some problems in the crisis has enabled it to develop itself.”

"The first thing we did after building the website was to help interns and college graduates find job opportunities. It was still difficult at the time, but the good news is that this year's graduation season, judging from the data feedback from our website, the situation has eased a lot, proving that our economic trend is gradually improving."

"This is also supported by our recruitment business. The growth rate in the past two months shows that everyone's demand is recovering."

"Oh, yes. When we negotiated advertising in the first quarter, it was the cheapest time. We could even get very favorable treatment from large companies like Fenzhong Media. But the prices started to rise in the second quarter. This month, which is the third quarter, many advertising companies told us that the prices are basically the same as last year."

Yu Xing said this and counted on three fingers: "So, from the perspective of my personal experience with graduates, recruitment, and advertising, the economy is recovering relatively quickly."

He smiled and concluded: "Small and micro enterprises like us are the first to know when the water warms up in spring. Well, here and now, I feel that since everyone has survived the crisis, things will get better and better in the future."

Yu Xing paused for two seconds and organized the discussion on the language of the mobile wave.

But when he paused, the entrepreneurs in the audience gave him warm applause. This observation from Bai Xiaosheng's own perspective is quite realistic.

Yu Xing smiled politely at everyone. He caught a glimpse of the host's gesture from the corner of his eye and had to speed up his speech to talk about the streamlining of content presentation on Sina Weibo, the development of Android and Apple systems, and the arrival of a new era.

Unfortunately, it is difficult to fully express it in just a few sentences, and compared with the previous confidence-boosting speech, people don’t seem to be very interested in this aspect.

"Mr. Yu." The host wanted to address him as Doctor, but suddenly changed his tone and said, "Thank you for sharing your thoughts on entrepreneurship. Is there anyone in the audience who would like to discuss these topics with Mr. Yu?"

Yu Xing concentrated and prepared to respond to exchanges on the wave of mobility.

"Hello, Mr. Yu. I'm Niu Liben." The guest in the middle raised his hand and asked, "What do you think of Mr. Chen from Vancl calling your website a rogue website?"

Yu Xing was a little surprised. He glanced at the host and saw that he didn't object, so he replied, "It is normal for some friction to occur in commercial competition, but just like the start of Bai Xiaosheng was based on meeting the needs of graduates, our price comparison website will only develop because it meets the requirements of users. It has nothing to do with Vancl."

Niu Liben said loudly again: "Boss Yu, if that's the case, why didn't you grab our information when you were a gangster?"

Yu Xing was even more surprised and said hesitantly: "Boss Niu, you are..."

"We are Jushang.com, which was just established in July. We are also a vertical e-commerce company, similar to Vipshop." Niu Liben briefly introduced himself and made a small request, "I met Mr. Yu today, and I hope you can also include our data in the comparison."

Yu Xing had heard of the name of this website, and had talked about it with Bi Sheng before, but he didn't expect to meet it here today, and he didn't expect that the other party wanted to be "hooliganed."

He agreed with a smile, not minding having an additional source of information.

At present, the price comparison websites can be compared with these vertical e-commerce companies. However, there is still not enough direct competition between Dangdang, JD.com, and Taobao. On the contrary, some products of vertical e-commerce companies are not as targeted as those of other companies.

But this situation will inevitably change with the development of the market.

Seeing that some people in the audience still wanted to interact, thinking about "Doctor" and "Rogue", the host gave Yu Xing a round of applause in time, which was considered as completing this small interruption.

This forced speech was not a particularly well-known event, but Bai Xiaosheng still asked NetEase and Sohu to issue a press release and asked his boss's Weibo account to forward the report URL.

This is just a small step to build a public image.

However, what neither Yu Xing nor Bai Xiaosheng expected was that Alibaba in Lin'an called them a few days later, inviting Yu Xing to attend the e-commerce summit in December and also asking him to talk about his ideas on the mobile wave.

Yu Xing was quite confused by this. He was neither an e-commerce nor a mobile operator, so how did this company notice him?

Liu Wanying thought about this: "Mr. Xu said before that Ma Dian had also commented on you."

"How is that possible? The fugitive incident was quite bizarre, so it broke the circle. He is so busy, how can he always comment on me?" Yu Xing didn't think this was the reason.

As it happens, it was indeed Ma Dian who added the new comments.

On September 9, Ma Dian watched his colleagues introduce the emerging Sina Weibo platform to him. He saw the name "Yu Xing" appearing in the promotion of the platform and immediately remembered that this was the business sheepdog with a keen sense of smell.

Then, he gestured to click in and saw the scribbled speech.

"The economic recovery is interesting, but the wave of mobileization is too crude." Ma Dian still remembers meeting Yu Xing in real life and seeing him on the news a few times. This time, he saw his thoughts on the speech and gave his evaluation, "Yu Xing is a talented young man, but he always does some messy things. Let him come to Lin'an to give a speech at the end of the year."

Therefore, Yu Xing was invited to be a guest speaker at an event hosted by Alibaba without paying any travel expenses.

He naturally accepted the invitation, and thinking that his money had already arrived at Alibaba earlier, he felt that there was some kind of fate between them.

(End of this chapter)