Society owes me a brother

Although everyone is a man, Lu Chi, who met the entrepreneur for the first time under such circumstances, still felt extremely embarrassed.

After silently washing his hands, Lu Chi left the bathroom expressionlessly.The two young men who also sensed that something was wrong followed Lu Chi awkwardly.Until the rest area at the end of the corridor.

Lu Chi sat down on the sofa and asked the waiter for a glass of water to quench his thirst.Then he said with a smile to the two young men who followed behind him like two big quails: "Please sit down first."

The dance music of the banquet hall came faintly, which made the rest area more and more quiet.The two young men sat opposite Lu Chi with serious expressions.One of the young men with red hair, blue eyes and freckles on his cheeks said, "Mr. Lu, we are also students who graduated from Stanford. We admire your achievements in the Internet field and the success of the campus network very much. The existence of the campus network It has changed the living habits of young people, and what we are doing now will also change the entertainment habits of fans all over the world. I believe that as long as there is a chance, our music player will definitely change the world like the campus network. I hope you can give us a chance……"

Lu Chi waved his hand and said warmly, "Tell me about your music website."

The two young people looked at each other, licked their lips nervously, and it was the red-haired, blue-eyed freckled youth who said, "We all know that there have always been only a few ways for fans to listen to songs, either by buying tapes Either buy the original soundtrack, or listen to music stations. The method is single and the types of songs you can listen to are also limited. So we managed to get a music playback website. On this website, you can listen to songs for free, anywhere in the world Any song sung by a singer, as long as you want to listen to it, you can search it on the website. This method greatly reduces the cost of buying discs for fans, and can also... "

Lu Chi frowned and interrupted the young man's description: "So you made a music website where you can listen to songs? Any song sung by any singer in the world can be searched on the website?"

The two young people were slightly taken aback, and one of them said: "It's a bit exaggerated to say so. But as long as there is data on the website, there is no problem. At least now, our website has thousands of songs. Including the most popular songs Those hit songs and classic songs."

"Then here comes the question." Lu Chi played with the crystal cup in his hand and asked, "Does your website have the copyright of these songs?"

"What?" The two young men froze for a moment, and then realized immediately: "This is not important. The important thing is that our music playback website can change the future of the entire music industry."

"But in my opinion, copyright is also very important." Lu Chi only had time to say a word, and saw the door of the banquet hall suddenly opened, and the Locke brothers and sisters came out with smiles. After seeing Lu Chi sitting in the rest area, they walked over He smiled to himself and said, "I knew you were hiding here. Come here quickly, Dad and some uncles are waiting for you."

Lu Chi nodded, and said to the two young men when he got up: "I am very interested in your website. It's just that I am a bit busy. If you don't mind, I can introduce you to the venture capital department of Leap Deer Fund. Manager. You can talk to him in detail."

Just now when Lu Chi mentioned the issue of copyright, the two young people thought it was over.Hearing Lu Chi's words, he immediately expressed both surprise and joy: "Of course it's no problem. We'll go to California tomorrow."

"Let's go." Matthew Locke took Lu Chi's shoulders: "Everyone can't wait."

"By the way, who are those two people? You still have the time to chat with them... What kind of music website... doesn't even have copyright... Is it reliable..."

The two young men looked at the sound of Lu Chi and the son of the Locke family walking shoulder to shoulder and walking farther and farther away, listening to the scattered words floating in their ears, feeling a little embarrassed.

"Don't think so much!" The red-haired, blue-eyed freckled man patted his companion on the shoulder to encourage himself: "At least Lu Chi is still interested in our website."

"Yes." The other person nodded, and was about to sigh when he saw a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes, who was unusually well-dressed, and seemed to fit the temperament of a Wall Street elite. Okay, gentlemen. I'm very sorry, I just overheard the chat between you two and Mr. Lu. I'm also very interested in your website. May I ask, do you have time for a drink?"

The two young men looked at each other.I really didn't expect that not long ago, they were still worrying about the lack of funds to maintain the operation of the website.Unexpectedly, in just one night, not only did they get the favor of the founder of Campus Network and a Wall Street boss, but another venture capital firm even approached them on their own initiative.

The two young men looked at each other, clearly seeing the excitement and ambition in each other's eyes.

Lu Chi, who had already returned to the celebration party, didn't know that someone wanted to cut his beard halfway.Those bigwigs on Wall Street really didn't want to let him go that night. They mixed glasses of red wine, brandy and whiskey. Even though Lu Chi thought he could drink well, he was drunk like mud.In the end, he was helped to the hotel room by the Locke brothers and sisters.

The next afternoon, I was woken up by a phone call from the manager of the venture capital department of Leap Deer Fund.Lu Chi was in a drowsy sleep, half asleep, and half awake, when he heard the venture capital manager apologizing on the phone, saying that his ability was limited, and the investment cooperation between Leap Deer Fund and the music website had not been negotiated.Lu Chi didn't care too much.He was indeed a little interested in the music website that the two entrepreneurs were talking about, but that was all.There is no attachment to getting it.Especially when the manager of the venture capital department said with trepidation that it was not that the Leap Deer Fund was insincere, but that the other party was so open-mouthed that the negotiation could not proceed.

"They actually want Yuelu Fund to invest 3000 million for them, and only give us 40.00% of the shares..." On the other end of the phone, the manager of the venture capital department of Yuelu Fund said angrily: "This is absolutely impossible. Their The website does not even have music copyright. If we want to invest in this website, the first thing we need to solve is the music copyright issue. Besides this, their website does not have any valuable technology. I think the boss, if you really want to do it Music website, you can find a way to get the source code of the music player. There is no need for us to spend 3000 million M gold to buy a second-rate technology that is not qualified..."

"...I think they are either crazy about wanting to cash out, or they met some unreliable investors and promised them some conditions, so they dare to have such courage to propose conditions to us!" Probably Afraid of Lu Chi's blame, the venture capital manager of Yuelu Fund vividly described the unreliability of the two entrepreneurs when they came to Yuelu Fund to discuss cooperation, and finally said: "The conversation with this music website I recorded the process with a video recorder. If you have time, come back and watch it some other day. To be honest, I have been in the venture capital industry for so long, and I have never seen such unreliable ones. This is the first time I am looking for an investment , dare to ask for 3000 million. Does he think he is running a campus network?"

Even if it is the campus network, it didn't dare to ask for 3000 million M gold when it first raised investment!

The more absurd the venture capital manager of Leap Deer Fund thought about it, the more he told Lu Chi about it as a joke.In fact, it is precisely because of Lu Chi's strong performance in finance and code that everyone, whether they are employees of the Leap Deer Fund or the employees of the campus network, has an inexplicable sense of superiority to some extent.This sense of superiority is probably reflected in the fact that everyone does not think highly of their peers outside—no matter whether the other party is engaged in investment or technology, everyone usually has a kind of pride and pride that "no one is as good as my boss".

In this case, let alone let the people of Yuelu Fund spend 3000 million M to invest in an unknown music website, and they can only get 40.00% of the shares, even if they spend 3000 million M to buy Gu Gu Net source code, they will feel worthless.

"That's how it is." Lu Chi sat up from the bed with his eyes closed, reached out and pressed his head with a splitting headache, resisting the feeling of nausea and vomiting, and said with a pale face: "No achievement, no success. I was just last night I heard them talk about it at the celebration reception, and I think this website is a bit interesting. Don’t worry about it. The big deal is like you said, if we are really interested, we can do it ourselves.”

Probably because he has experienced too much in recent years, his status and influence have risen too fast, and there are too many people who want to find various reasons to approach him. In order not to waste time, Lu Chi's attitude when facing the outside world has become more serious. Be concise and to the point.Sometimes I don't even bother to pay attention to the pleasantries and flattery from the outside world.However, when facing his own people, Lu Chi is still very patient.Knowing what the venture capital manager is worried about, Lu Chi said warmly: "There is no need to worry about such things in the future. You are the manager of the venture capital department of Leap Deer Fund. I trust your vision before handing over this department to you. Let's put it this way , From now on, you can leave matters of this level to yourself. There is no need to report to me at all.”

The standard of "this kind of thing" in Lu Chi's mouth refers to venture capital investment below 5000 million M.Because judging from Lu Chi's energy and time, it is obvious that he has no way and no need to take charge of every investment and transaction of Yuelu Fund in detail.In fact, he did the same thing when he was in Eric Assets before - he was only responsible for large transactions of more than 5000 million.

And the manager of the venture capital department... Ahem, before that, he was the manager of the venture capital department of Eric Assets. In 2003, he worked for Lu Chi as a trader in the international crude oil market. Later, Lu Chi withdrew his shares from Eric Assets and set up a new business. At least one-third of the traders followed suit and handed in their resignation letters.

Regardless of the concern for the friendship between the two or the long-term cooperation in the future, Eric Weiss did not prevent the employees from resigning.It's just that before signing the contract, Lu Chi was "knocked" a lot of money, and Lu Chi was forced to make promises such as "In the future, when training the traders of the Leap Deer Fund every year, I will also train the excellent traders of Eric Assets", "Eric Assets and Yuelu Assets have reached a long-term strategic cooperation" and other cooperation terms.

Because of this, Leap Deer Fund has had its first batch of very reliable and excellent employees since the day it was established.And because everyone has had perfect cooperation more than once before, Lu Chi also has great trust in these employees and managers.

Hearing Lu Chi's warm voice of relief, the venture capital manager on the other end of the phone smiled and said, "Then I'm relieved."

Having said that, this venture capital manager, who is so strong in business that he is also a bit arrogant, couldn't swallow this breath.Because of the recommendation of his own boss, he thought he was very sincere when receiving these two entrepreneurs, and the conditions he gave were also very generous, but he didn't expect that his good intentions would be wasted, and the other party would dare to dislike Leap Deer Fund No vision, no courage, petty.

"I want to see what kind of investors you have found!" The venture capital manager who put down the phone groaned, and put the information of a certain music website into the drawer.When I was ready to have nothing to do, I started a long-term secret observation of the music websites of these two entrepreneurs.