My Age of Investment

  Chapter 137 Time is not waiting for me (first order)

  Darkness Chen Cang comes from the period of Chu and Han contending for hegemony.

  A group of foreigners don’t understand Chinese history. Under Xia Jingxing’s narration in English, they probably understood it.

  Daoyou.com is the arrogant country of Chu, and Facebook is the country of Han who secretly engages in things.

   confuse the enemy from the front, and make a surprise attack on the flanks.

  The understanding of Chinese employees is naturally deeper, and they feel that the boss has brought the wisdom of the ancients to the extreme.

  Does not respond positively to the dating site, but also to show the enemy's weakness and make the opponent paralyzed.

  Specifically, what kind of surprise attack was prepared, which only Facebook shareholders and management know best.

  Although the company advocates an atmosphere of equality, freedom, and transparency, it is more about interpersonal relationships.

  The company’s core secrets must not be rashly disclosed to ordinary employees.

  Many people have mixed mouths, and it is not good to leak the wind.

  Although Xia Jingxing has clicked so far, most of the employees still figured it out and expressed their understanding and support for the company's behavior.

   "After three months, I see if the people on Dating.com can be as arrogant as they are now."

   Walker said bitterly, he was holding a breath in his stomach.

  He is the most active part of the unlucky people who want to see Dating.com.

   "Well, everyone should put more thoughts on their work and not pay attention to those arrogant competitors."

  Xia Jingxing sat in the middle of the crowd, scanned the young faces, and continued to smile and said: “At present, we only occupy one-third of the campus market, and the market left to us is vast.

  Big guys are more energetic. Our next goal is to occupy the entire campus and let the number of users exceed 10 million and 15 million.

  Then start the A round of financing to provide equity incentives for all employees. "

   About the A round of financing, Xia Jingxing and shareholders have almost communicated with each other, and it’s okay to tell employees.

  The main dating network is ahead of the A round of financing, and he must also boost his morale.

   "The company is about to open a round of financing?"

   asked Debbie, a black intern employee and a carefree personality.

  Xia Jingxing nodded, “Of course, if we don’t open financing at the moment, we are just waiting to beat Diaoyou.com.

  Because by then, our financing scale will be more than 10 million or 20 million.

  The company's valuation will not be 100 million or 200 million, but 500 million or 1 billion.

  There is no shortage of money on the company's accounts, and there are three to four million dollars in revenue every month.

  Only those who have never seen money like Dating.com can get more than 10 million in financing, so they can’t wait to jump out and announce to the world: I have money~

  In my eyes, they are jumping clowns. Our income in one quarter can equal their financing amount..."

  Seeing Xia Jingxing sitting in the crowd and talking, everyone showed admiration.

  The menacing dating network is not in the eyes of the big boss.

  And this kind of confidence is not based on nothing.

  Thinking about it, they all feel ridiculous about their previous fear and anxiety about Dating.com. The company is far stronger than they thought.

  I blamed the media for misleading, almost thought that the company was out of order.

  Xia Jingxing said while paying attention to the expressions of each employee.

  Seeing everyone's eyebrows open and smiling, he gradually relieved.

  You must first settle in the outside world. This is a lesson of blood and tears, which must be learned.

  In addition to Walker and Debbie, the other employees also raised their hands enthusiastically to ask questions. Xia Jingxing answered one by one, quoting from the past and present, with witty remarks, and from time to time he gave everyone a playful joke, which made the employees laugh.

   "So, everyone can relax. The end of the world has not come, singing and dancing, everything is as usual."

  Xia Jing's jargon changed, pretending to be fierce, "Of course, if anyone develops a bug for me, or messes up my work, I will take him to the Golden Gate Bridge to experience winged flight."

   "Hahaha~"

  No one takes it seriously, they all know this is a joke.

  But wing suit flying is really scary. Carponesh, the founder of modern wing suit, was killed by a mistake in a flight in 1984.

  After finishing the party happily, the mental outlook of the employees at work the next day is really different.

  No longer pay attention to the disputes of public opinion on the Internet and in the newspapers, and started the work at hand in a down-to-earth manner.

  At the same time, everyone in the company is sighing, and we must make the dating network look good.

  Xia Jingxing naturally noticed this change, and sighed that the military spirit was available, but also felt that more parties should be held in the future, and the company culture should be well done.

  It’s not just a mere formality. On weekends, outdoor development takes up employees’ rest time.

  But in daily work, we must inject this cultural gene, and change everyone silently.

  ……

  ……

  Foreign SNS entrepreneurship is in full swing, and major news is coming from China.

Rao Lei, who returned to his country to start a business, called Xia Jingxing from overseas.

  "Jingxing, did you hear that? Yiyou.com and Diaoyou.com received US$1 million in venture capital in Silicon Valley on the same day."

  "Yiyou.com? Which website?"

  Xia Jingxing thought it was a social networking site born in Silicon Valley. The name is very domineering, Yiyou, does it imply that users will reach hundreds of millions?

Rao Lei explained over the phone, "Yiyou.com has two founders, one is Jack Ma and the other is Liu Yong."

Xia Jingxing interrupted, "Ma Yun?"

   Rao Lei laughed, "You made a mistake, not the one from Taobao.

  This Jack Ma graduated from Tsinghua University. He founded the portal site "Yide Ark" for college students just after graduating from university in 1999, and then served as the deputy general manager of the wireless business department at NetEase...

  Liu Yong graduated from the Department of Physics of Peking University, and later obtained a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Illinois, and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University. He also served as the head of a wireless network application development project at Motorola..."

  Xia Jingxing nodded and smiled, "They are all elites, so where is their entrepreneurial market? America or China?"

   "Domestic!"

   Rao Lei sighed, "We are still developing products, this opponent suddenly put a big move and hit us by surprise."

  Xia Jingxing asked: "Has their website launched?"

   Rao Lei replied: "That's not true, just like us, still staying on the concept.

  Yiyou’s business model won the grand prize in the CarrotChallenge, the nation’s largest business competition supported by Forbes.

  Relying on the six-degree segmentation theory and the business plan with traditional Chinese culture as the core, it convinced the venture capitalists to get the angel round of investment first. "

  "It's only one million dollars. Don't worry too much. The key is to see who goes online first and whose product is more popular with users."

  Xia Jingxing smiled and said, “I also said that in the future, Facebook will be made in China. As a result, there will be more opponents than we thought.

  Don’t care too much, Diaoyou.com has raised $13 million in financing, and we still don’t care about it. "

  "This is to share with you the trends of the domestic entrepreneurial market."

  Rao Lei paused, and then asked: “Speaking of Dating.com, I heard that your two are now incompatible with water and fire, and they are arguing in the media and online.”

  "It’s not that exaggerated either, mainly because their CEO Jonathan said three months to end the battle. Coupled with the media’s instigation, we were forced to respond to the battle.

  We had done a good job of socializing on campus, we were not on the same track with them, and there was no competition, so we had to get involved. "

  Rao Lei smiled, “Who told you to be the first social networking site? It was established early and has a big reputation. If you get rid of your upper ranks, is it easier to tell stories and raise financing in the capital market?”

  Xia Jingxing listened to joy, "Co-authoring has become a stepping stone for others."

  "Do you really still insist on only doing the campus market? Don't let go of crowd restrictions?"

  Rao Lei couldn't help but ask about it again.

  He asked Xia Jingxing many times before, but the latter's answer was ambiguous.

  He had judged before that the business model of Diaoyou.com might have a higher commercial value.

  No, the predictions are slowly beginning to become reality.

  Even when he returned to China to start a business, he preferred to copy the dating network instead of Facebook.

  The campus market is too small to make a lot of money.

   "It's too late to let go now, let's get through this for a while and talk about it!"

  Xia Jingxing knew that the other party wanted to persuade him to target a larger market.

  This friendship can be accepted, but the strategy is not necessarily correct.

   "Okay, I won't say much. Both of us are brothers and sisters now. One is in China and the other is in the United States. There is also an eye-catching opponent in front of us.

  Let’s work hard, don’t let others get on the ground. "

  Xia Jingxing smiled and said, "Definitely not, it will only be the opposite."

   "Okay, let's talk about it, we have time to go to the capital, let's enjoy the wine!"

"must!"

  ...

   hung up the phone, Xia Jing walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows and looked at the dense buildings in the distance.

  The fire of social entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley has burned to China, and the market is getting hotter day by day.

  This makes him feel more urgency and feel that time is not waiting for me!

  (End of this chapter)