What's wrong with me being a rich man?

Chapter 233 231 Quick Talk
Liu Jiankai was surprised by Li Shanyou's "condescension". Similarly, Liu Wanying was also surprised when she learned that this person was really willing to come.

"Why can Mr. Li come?" Liu Wanying didn't understand. "He doesn't have to."

"Old people are always easily moved by the youthful vigor and vitality of young people." Yu Xing replied with a smile.

Liu Wanying said with a smile: "You...don't be so disrespectful to others."

"We were just chatting." Yu Xing took a sip of tea. "If I didn't respect him, he wouldn't have come. On the contrary, he would come only if he felt my attitude. It's a bit of truth. He was an old PC guy in the past. He should be quite curious when he suddenly saw that our mobile business is different. He was laid off anyway."

Liu Wanying chewed over these two words: "Layoff..."

She shook her head helplessly: "This word is not so nice."

"It could be wrapped more gorgeously, but this is the situation." Yu Xing said seriously, "There is another important factor. He was surprised by the technical team WeChat recruited in the past month. If it weren't for our actions in the past period of time, he probably wouldn't have joined."

Liu Wanying nodded slightly. Boss Yu’s determination + Bai Xiaosheng’s recruitment + the relatively high-quality users of the forum + the investment of Red Falcon Capital all together quickly promoted the formation of WeChat Company.

Any outsider who suddenly saw all this would probably be a little surprised. Moreover, people like Li Shanyou who have run their own company would probably understand that it is not easy to build a project in this way.

She looked thoughtfully at the PDCA on the whiteboard in the office and asked, "So, Mr. Li might really want to start a business?"

"Maybe. If we sell it to Alibaba successfully, he can actually enter Alibaba directly. WeChat will continue to compete with Alibaba's support and may be able to kill Penguin." Yu Xing laughed, "There is another small factor... I'm not sure, I'm just thinking about it."

Liu Wanying moved her eyes to Boss Yu's face, sensing some sarcasm in the air, and asked with interest, "Anything else?"

Yu Xing laughed: "Maybe it's because I'm a little punk."

Liu Wanying: “…”

"Look, he wrote a handwritten letter, and it was quite respectable. But putting that aside, the essence of this matter is that he had a falling out with Chen Tianqiao. Then, Chen Tianqiao also called me a little jerk. But he, who didn't want to continue working with Chen Tianqiao, chose a little jerk in the eyes of Boss Chen." Yu Xing said happily, "Isn't it a coincidence?"

Liu Wanying didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "You have a dirty heart."

"If this project fails, it won't be surprising. After all, Penguin is under a lot of pressure, and I'm just a small fry. If this project succeeds, hey, Mr. Li will at least have a contribution." Yu Xing waved his hand, "This is just a casual chat between the two of us. I'm just saying it."

Liu Wanying felt that she couldn't listen to conspiracy theories, as they could easily lead her astray...

She was silent for a while, then turned the topic to WeChat, saying with some relief: "It's actually easy to deal with these technical people. Once the direction is determined, they are all busy promoting development, and Ge Zhijie is quiet."

Yu Xing asked helplessly, "Who said he was quiet?"

Liu Wanying was surprised and said, "You haven't mentioned him recently."

She was also impressed by the fact that the technical director always resigned before.

"He just doesn't do it that often, but his personality is still... how should I put it, his personality is still the same, he can't handle pressure well, I just didn't tell you." Yu Xing shook his head, "He didn't have any specific work before, but now it's indeed the specific work that has taken up his attention."

Liu Wanying pursed her lips and said sincerely: "No matter what, just endure it for a few months."

Yu Xing agreed with this and stood up and wiped off today's summary on the whiteboard.

He previously suggested to Bi Sheng of LeTao that he should run the company according to the basic PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) theory, and this time the work progress of WeChat company was also built in this way.

Either make a personal summary at the end of the day, or ask the deputy technical director to make a similar summary every few days, which shows that they are still adhering to work principles.

The phone in the president's office suddenly rang.

Yu Xing saw that it was the number for the fourth floor, reached out and pressed the external speaker, and heard the voice of his secretary Lin Lingling, who then asked her to bring the documents up.

Liu Wanying just glanced at Boss Yu and said nothing.

A moment later, Lin Lingling came into the office excitedly and saw Liu Wanying who was in good spirits. She paused slightly, greeted the investor and the boss's girlfriend politely, and then put the documents on the table in an orderly manner.

Yu Xing flipped through two pages and saw that it was a summary of Deputy Technical Director Tan Ruize's work for the week.

He asked the secretary a few questions about the situation, then set a time for a detailed chat at 2 o'clock the next afternoon and let her go home first.

Lin Lingling politely said goodbye and left the president's office, ending her overtime work for the day.

Yu Xing read the summary again, thinking about the work of the data layer team that Tan Ruize was in charge of. Lin Lingling had already given a concise understanding and explanation of it, and she was hired mainly to do this job.

Liu Wanying waited until Boss Yu put down the documents and then leisurely quoted a sentence: "Old people are always easily shaken by the vigor and vitality of young people."

"Hey..." Yu Xing was stunned for a moment before he reacted and said with a smile, "What's the connection? How can I be jealous?"

Liu Wanying blinked: "What are you talking about? I'm just thinking about what you just said about Mr. Li. What are you thinking about, jealous?"

Yu Xing spread his hands, put them away, and spread them again: "You win."

"Oh, so perfunctory, are you agreeing? Is it because I think she is sweet and cute?" Liu Wanying's map was not long, and a dagger appeared.

Yu Xing did the opposite: "When I ask the company to recruit someone, I value her technical attainments, and everything else is incidental. But since this person is sweet and cute, it would seem unromantic if I don't take a closer look at her."

Liu Wanying stood up and said, "Let's go."

"I'm off work, off work, I'm going to have dinner with my girlfriend. No need to bring seasonings today, we brought our own vinegar bottles." Yu Xing chased after him with his phone and also quoted, "I'm kidding, that's not true. The company can't work for more than a few months, and finally has to pack up."

Liu Wanying smoothed her hair and said angrily, "You don't look like a good person either."

Yu Xing said innocently: "I just like cats, what's wrong with me?"

Liu Wanying stretched out her hand to twist it, but ended up grabbing his arm instead.

We didn’t go far for dinner, we just ate nearby. During the meal we didn’t talk about WeChat company anymore, but about the little moves of Red Falcon Capital.

Liu Wanying had been considering renting an office years ago, but after looking around, she couldn't find a suitable place. Since it didn't require many people to run it, she simply gave up looking and decided to hire two employees instead.

One of them is responsible for tracking emerging domestic projects, and the general direction is determined by Liu Wanying; the other is responsible for tracking the latest investment trends on Wall Street.

According to Liu Wanying's design, the three people met regularly, and if there were any projects to be done in the meantime, they would be notified on short notice.

"The way you run your company..." Yu Xing didn't understand but respected it. "It's quite flexible and innovative."

"It's not bad. There isn't much work to begin with. Red Falcon will see if there are any good projects in the general direction of mobile. Well, investment is complicated and simple at the same time. A lot of things depend on luck." Liu Wanying said with a smile, "Mr. Xu of Today's Capital has had bad luck recently. There are always problems with his projects. Mr. Lei Jun, for example, was an angel investor by himself before, and his investment results were pretty good." She continued, "I'll recruit more people depending on the situation, but the total number of people here will not exceed 10, and if you add the information screening required for Crossing the Mountain, that's enough. I'm not as drastic as you are. It's enough to just maintain these."

Yu Xing nodded and said, "Then we'll see how the subsequent operations go and make adjustments. Anyway, we have to be flexible."

The two continued chatting, and Liu Wanying couldn't help but mention the specific work content of the two new employees, one of which aroused Yu Xing's interest.

"Wait, wait." Yu Xing put down his chopsticks, "Say what you just said again."

Liu Wanying rewound the tape: "What was she talking about? Oh, it was about the rising star of Wall Street, Elizabeth Holmes, who does blood testing and is very popular with the Wall Street media. Several well-known newspapers, such as the San Francisco Business Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Wired, have given her long reports."

Yu Xing already remembered this person.

A perfect existence in the eyes of Wall Street media, a man who dropped out of a prestigious university, started from scratch, intended to subvert, was extremely self-disciplined, and always packaged himself and imitated Apple's Steve Jobs in public. He liked to wear Jobs-style high-necked black sweaters, always lowered his voice to a masculine low pitch, compared the blood-drawing needles in the hospital to medieval torture, and always mentioned the story of his uncle's death from cancer.

What she promotes is that only one or two drops of blood need to be collected from the finger, and the price is only one-tenth of the traditional testing method, and it can detect almost everything from cholesterol to cancer.

If successful, it would certainly be subversive, but ultimately it’s just a scam.

Unfortunately, this company does not seem to be listed.

Yu Xing himself studied medicine, so he was easily impressed by this kind of scam. When he heard the name and project again, he quickly figured out the situation.

After Liu Wanying gave a brief introduction, she asked what Boss Yu meant: "What's going on here?"

"Objectively speaking, it is very difficult to subvert this kind of blood test. Moreover, the more glamorous the company and individuals package themselves, the more likely it is that there will be problems inside. I am extremely skeptical about the project you mentioned." Yu Xing said seriously.

Liu Wanying thought for two seconds and said, "Her company has been established for several years. It has been reported by the media and has received institutional investment. This year, the company's valuation has exceeded 10 billion US dollars."

In other words, the direction of this company has been endorsed by multiple rounds.

Yu Xing asked with a smile: "The three times that Guo Shanfeng took action, are the nature of these three problems very complicated? Are their names small? Don't they have various endorsements? One billion US dollars, is it a lot?"

As an entrepreneur, this seems very arrogant.

However, as the mastermind behind the driving of the mountain, this is very common.

Every time Guo Shanfeng made a move, the market value of the target company evaporated by no less than $10 billion, although he himself did not lose much either...

Liu Wanying's thinking mode changed from Hong Kusuo to Guo Shanfeng, and she frowned and said, "We need to be wary of this kind of bright and beautiful packaging."

She talked about this person before because she was considering whether similar disruptive projects could be carried out in China, but from a short-seller's perspective, the image is perfect, the product is perfect, the model is perfect, the market is perfect, the investment is perfect, the reporting is perfect...

Being too perfect is not real enough.

Not to mention the research and attack on the mountain peak, Liu Wanying has witnessed Yu Xing's projects in the past two years. In the process of development, there are always practical problems of all sizes. Guiai.com may involve public order and morality, Baixiaosheng is under various pressures, Bijia.com has now been blocked by e-commerce, and WeChat, which is also talking about subversion, has been unpopular since its inception...

On the other hand, Elizabeth Holmes does seem to be somewhat distorted in perfection.

Similar situations that have been observed recently...

Liu Wanying suddenly thought of Tang Jun, whose true identity was exposed by Bai Xiaosheng. His image in public opinion was also perfect before.

"We need to follow up on this matter, but this company will not be able to go public in the short term." Liu Wanying made a decision to transfer the work from Hongshun to Guoshanfeng, "It is not good to gain benefits from this matter."

"Just treat it as a practice, and it's just a matter of time." Yu Xing said with a smile, "It just so happens that they were all Chinese concept stocks before. If there is a problem with this one, it also shows that we are pragmatic."

At present, it is generally believed in China that Guoshanfeng is not a foreign institution. There are also some voices criticizing it for attacking Chinese stocks out of profit, and believing that it has caused some impact. However, for the male and female thieves, the main reason is that they have few resources and cannot be picky, so they can only do projects that are within their reach.

Liu Wanying pondered for a while and nodded, "Well, if there are any questions, you can treat them as an appendix to the research report and as highlights of your work."

Yu Xing nodded and said, hey, it’s a piece of cake.

However, Wall Street is far away, and it will take time to understand the situation of a star project.

Yu Xing's work focus is still on WeChat.

Two days later, after dealing with family affairs, Li Shanyou arrived in Shanghai again. The first thing he did was to go to Bai Xiaosheng's president's office to discuss the questions he had received about the company's options.

Yu Xing has previously allocated 5% of his options to incentivize employees, and recently he is planning to allocate more options centered on "R&D work."

Li Shanyou thought this was not very reasonable. The market had not been developed yet, but it seemed too hasty to allocate the options to the R&D team.

Yu Xing was puzzled and asked, "I am a shareholder and you don't have any shares. What does this have to do with you?"

Li Shanyou: "You..."

Yu Xing changed his perspective: "The investors have no objections, why should you have any?"

Li Shanyou: "I..."

Yu Xing thought for a moment and asked, "Is it because you don't do research and development, but you still want options?"

Li Shanyou: "This..."

Seeing that he couldn't answer, Yu Xing continued, "The company is facing great competitive pressure. The strategy is to beat the slow with the fast one. Only in this way can we get some opportunities."

Li Shanyou gathered his thoughts and asked, "How fast do you want it?"

Yu Xing said firmly: "As fast as possible!"

He returned to the topic: "But this kind of speed can only be achieved on the premise of solid technological advancement. The company should take whatever it can produce now. Don't be stingy at this time."

Li Shanyou said, "Yeah, if the company can't do it, the options are just waste paper."

After a moment, he still wanted to fight for it: "The company only gives it to the R&D team, what about other people? For example, if I don't have it, I will always complain in my heart. A little bit is fine."

Yu Xing was puzzled: "You are not optimistic about the company, you came to see how it died. The options are all worthless. What are you still complaining about?"

Li Shanyou suddenly felt a strong and uncomfortable style. He didn't know if he was getting old, but he felt that young people were really quick to speak.

(End of this chapter)