What’s Wrong With Me Being a Rich Man?

Chapter 132:

Liu Jiankai only learned about the changes in Bai Xiaosheng's plan on the morning of the 18th.

Then, it was hard for him not to complain: "Kathy, just catch this project yourself. Anyway, he is looking for you directly, I'm just a choreographer."

Xu Xin only smiled: "Looking for a boss directly is very efficient. What do you think the valuation Yu Xing wants?"

"From the current user size, it must be high." Liu Jiankai has been with Bai Xiaosheng's project since the beginning of the year and is very familiar with its data. After knowing the latest figures yesterday, he also thought about it for a long time.

He sat opposite the boss, took a pen to calculate Bai Xiaosheng's situation, and then said, "I don't know how much water Yu Xing's 260,000 yuan is, but Bai Xiaosheng's daily life has always been very high, even if it ends this month, it does have The real 260,000 users will also need to complete the 240,000 indicator in the next three months."

"Bai Xiaosheng's daily increase in users last month was about 1,400, and in the first half of March, the Tang Jun incident violently increased. Now there are still many purple clay pot incidents that have maintained, and the daily increase in users is about 2,000. 42% higher than February.”

“The user growth in the next three months will need to remain around 2,700 per day, 35% higher than in March.”

"The user self-growth mentioned by Yu Xing does exist, but it will take a wait for the overall scale to further or even further expand. At this stage, it mainly depends on offline advertising promotion."

"That's what counts..."

Liu Jiankai combined the latest data and made some back-reflections and expressed his thoughts: "This goal in the middle of the year is difficult. Fenzhong's offline penetration will take time, and the increase of this line will also flatten. Baixiao Students must be tense and develop to have hope, or it will have another stimulating flow like Tang Jun.”

"Well, it's not that I can't do it, but it all requires conditions. If Bai Xiaosheng wants to reach the number of 500,000, its current money is not enough."

"But it wants to target 500,000 in the future to get money now, and then talk about the next 3 million users, which is not very balanced."

He handed the data to the boss.

Xu Xin took it but only took a look and let it go. She thought, "But I think Yu Xing is still very confident."

Liu Jiankai smiled and said, "If the founder has no confidence or does not express his confidence, how can he get the money?"

Xu Xin shook his head slightly: "He doesn't seem to be blindly confident. Since its establishment, Bai Xiaosheng's website has developed very rapidly and its strategies are reasonable. His confidence is based on these. Your data calculations It covers a certain amount of room for growth, but..."

She thought for a while before continuing, "However, it should be said that Yu Xing is believing that the website mechanism he established will still have incidents similar to Tang Jun, which is what you call stimulating traffic."

Xu Xin took a pen and listed the big and small events since Bai Xiaosheng went online, college students, Internet marriage, Ctrip, Tang Jun, purple clay pot... It happened to be one piece per month on average.

She pushed the notebook to the vice president and asked, "Do you think this is inevitable or accident?"

Liu Jiankai was silent. Unknown external events were uncontrollable, but this situation that happened every month was obviously not accidental.

After a moment, he could only answer: "Inevitability is in chance, and there is necessity behind it."

"Although this kind of thing is a variable, we should also increase its weight." Xu Xin pondered, "Yu Xing is very smart. After experiencing yesterday's incident, he did not get involved, but tried to promote the website to avoid risks."

Liu Jiankai smiled and said, "No matter how you avoid it, such a mechanism is placed here, that is, you have to step on other companies to gain the upper hand, but it is indeed safer to concentrate on the Internet industry."

Xu Xin nodded slightly, picked up her pen and typed a big "√" on her laptop, and said with expectations: "I already want to know who the next one is now."

No matter who the next one is, Bai Xiaosheng will continue to usher in development.

…

The matter of Meidi Zisha Pot has not ended here.

Everything has been done, the uncle has come to the door, and the media has reported it, so naturally it has to continue.

In addition, Yu Xing and his friends also thought about this situation seriously.

As the saying goes, three cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang. After the initial fear of passing, everyone generally feels that behind this accident is weakness.

If it is so strong, just let the locals press us directly. Are you still looking for people from a small place in a circle?

If Midi really wants to solve the problem in this way, the work may not be like this. This matter is the home appliance manufacturing company of its subsidiary. If it is pushed to the people who come to the door this time, it may be more upstream. supplier.

If you think about it like this, there is nothing to be afraid of as a returnee doctor.

However, Yu Xing doesn't need to take advantage of the issue, just let someone describe this matter objectively. Perhaps this nature has always existed, but there is still a simple view of right and wrong on the Internet today.

Many of Bai Xiaosheng's users came in because of watching the fun of watching melons, and naturally felt interesting about the incidents described by the website employees. However, in addition to them, there are also reporters from NetEase, Sohu, Penguin and other websites on the website.

NetEase learned about Bai Xiaosheng's website very early. Journalists like Penguin really paid attention to Bai Xiaosheng because of the recent work of the emperor, but no matter how sooner or later, they almost realized the seriousness behind the absurdity. I'm also considering how to report this incident.

It was only another day that Yu Xing received contact from NetEase reporters to test the interview.

He is not surprised by this kind of contact. Like Kong Huilin in her company, she is a young reporter who has not been in the industry for a long time. She is a bit immature and innocent, while the other side is an old reporter who has been in the industry for a long time... She has not been beaten to death and reports the facts It can be big or small.

"Bai Xiaosheng or me personally, we are not trying to intensify the conflict, but point out the problems we see or our users see. This is one of them."

"Secondly, we always believe that what is fake is fake."

"Third, we have contacted CCTV 315's column group, but due to time constraints, they helped us transfer to the "Weekly Quality Report" column group, and the latter also expressed interest."

“In the end, our website will not charge any PR fees.”

Yu Xing fully expressed his personal and website positions.

Of course, the interest from the "Weekly Quality Report" column group attracted the attention of NetEase reporters.

"Mr. Yu, Meidi Zi Clay pot, have you indeed verified its authenticity?" The reporter asked an essential question.

"The verification of purple clay pot is not difficult. There were people from the 'Purple Clay Town' yesterday, which is beyond doubt. At the same time, many products that promote natural purple clay on the market should have problems." Yu Xing said bluntly He said, "The country now lacks clearer standards in this regard."

There are iron-headed kids who are provoking trouble, the interests of official media columns, the seriousness of suspected places to visit other places, the authenticity that is very easy to verify, there is a common problem in the industry, and there are also calls for domestic standards...

It is not difficult for NetEase to make a comprehensive report.

In the final analysis, it is only an electrical appliance company that has clearly appeared.

Yu Xing made an additional request: "Can we write down our previous setbacks in the report? Let me mention that our chairman just finished the New Year and took care of his broken arm, and then he was frightened again. But he is still optimistic about the future and is willing to stick to the original intention of establishing the website."

What is Chairman of Iron and Steel?

This is called Chairman of Iron and Steel!

The small request from the parties was met.

NetEase sorted out the matter this time, and also raised the question that Bai Xiaosheng had not raised before - since it was not real purple clay, is this color-enhancing and dyeing diet utensil safe?

Because of similar problems that have emerged in recent years, this kind of question can easily attract the attention of more mainstream groups.

Based on his common sense and knowledge, Yu Xing believed that the chemical stability of crystals after high temperature firing is better, but this is only his own cognition, and NetEase's information source is not only Bai Xiaosheng.

In NetEase's report, in addition to the fake purple sand mud manufacturing process exposed by Bai Xiaosheng, two new methods commonly used in the industry have been added. First, use additives to adjust the color of ordinary stone powder, and second, use purple clay secondary ore to adjust the color.

As for Yu Xing himself alone, he didn't know whether these two methods in NetEase report were harmful.

NetEase's reports are more sharp and disseminated, and soon caused reprints from peers, gaining a much greater public opinion momentum than Bai Xiaosheng.

Bai Xiaosheng's exposure on March 15 did not receive an official response from Meidi. Apart from suspected offline real methods, Meidi remained silent and had no normal contact with Bai Xiaosheng.

However, when NetEase reported on March 18 and when more public opinion waves were set off on March 19, Meidi still couldn't sit still.

On the one hand, it announced that its purple clay pot is non-toxic and harmless. On the other hand, it has made a return promise, saying that it can return the goods as long as it holds an invoice.

However, the return promise at this time is no different from a default.

The products sent for inspection by NetEase have not yet obtained the formal inspection conclusion, and another lawyer has come forward, saying that the return is not enough, and one or three must be refunded. At the same time, a consumer contacted the reporter and said that he had taken the invoice. Returns are required to charge depreciation fees!

The promises of large companies are discounted, which is even more infuriating.

From media to lawyers to consumers, things gradually became chaotic.

What's even more chaotic is... A senior executive of Meidi accepted an interview with the media and said in a very aggrieved manner that Jiuyang did it too!

As well as a well-known domestic brand, Jiuyang also sells purple clay pots like this!

Jiuyang:? ? ?

Its reaction was quick and quickly came out to deny it, claiming that the one he sold was a purple clay pot.

No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!

However, U.S.-Local executives came out to refute, saying that the two had consistent suppliers.

The purple clay pots of two well-known brands were questioned. When the reporter threw such a question to the regulatory authorities, he got an answer: There is no national standard for purple clay pots now. How much purple clay contains, the rice cooker made of clay can be called purple clay pots. No one can tell it clearly.

In other words, there is no national standard for the purple clay product series in China, and there is not even relevant industry standards.

Such a series of reports will obviously continue, but Bai Xiaosheng, as the source of the problem initially, has received feedback from users, saying that the Foshan Quality Supervision Bureau attaches great importance to the fraud of purple clay pots and has reminded subordinate units to pay close attention to citizens' complaints. The situation also requires random inspections of products similar to "purple clay pot" across the city.

At the same time, some shopping malls have begun to remove purple clay pot products from companies such as Meidi and Jiuyang, but it is not clear which party is requested by.

From March 15th to 24th, Bai Xiaosheng did not participate too much in this wave of public opinion on Zisha Pot. He only handled related content normally. However, the effect of user growth is not bad.

The influence of the working emperor is gradually vanishing, and the purple clay pot rushed in to withstand the curve of user growth.

That is, on the evening of the 24th, Yu Xing sat in the office while preparing for the day-to-day financing meeting, while listening to his cousin Chu Zhiguang's thoughts.

"Brother, I think I will go directly to find a supplier of ribs. Just like NetEase, I will send the ribs directly to the inspection. Isn't that obvious?" Chu Zhiguang received his first official task since his tenure.

"Don't call me brother when you are in the company." Yu Xing gave a little correction, "Call me Mr. Yu."

"Okay, brother...uh, Mr. Yu." Chu Zhiguang said, "I don't think this matter is difficult. Alas, strange, why are there problems with so many companies?"

Yu Xing smiled but didn't say anything, not wanting to talk about this issue.

Chu Zhiguang was still saying, "I don't know what's going on. The company is about to lose nutrition, so the person next to him stabbed him with a slash. He would rather let us live well by bleeding himself. I feel that right now!"

Yu Xing laughed loudly, shaking his head while laughing: "Don't sigh so much, don't think about the things that are not available, just do things solidly. This small investigation team needs to do some more things, and the company has many things to verify. Something."

Chu Zhiguang was excited and felt that someone was stabbing his body with a knife from all directions.

But then hesitated and said, "Mr. Yu, can I do it well, right?"

"I think you can." Yu Xing said seriously, "It is difficult to be seamless in fraud. On the contrary, judging from the company's situation during this period, not to mention seamless in the world, there are all loopholes. Xiaoguang, you can do it well. I will go to Guangxi for a business trip next time. I will do it a few more times this year, so I can buy a car at the end of the year.”

Chu Zhiguang nodded, saying that he had come to be a driver before. How can he be a driver without a car? I will buy a car for myself!

Yu Xing chatted with his cousin again, and he didn't think it was difficult to check the supply of ribs. This time, we can't repeat the threat of offline home visits, but relatively important is to reach cooperation with investors.

Obviously, they have good resources outside of funds.

…

On Friday, March 26, at 9:00 a.m., another familiar Capital Today Office.

Unlike before, Bai Xiaosheng's senior management has a lot more confidence to come here this time.

In five months, the company that took the Angel Round and A Round has 276,000 users, which can be considered to have stirred up some turmoil in the industry and gained the interest of many institutions. This sense of accomplishment makes people feel confident in the future. .

However, as Xu Xin said before, IDG, who came to contact with him, gave a judgment in conjunction with Qiming - the valuation was a bit high.

Raising $10 million with 20% of the shares is $50 million.

Normally, some data verification should have been made for entrepreneurial projects entering the B round, but the Baixiaosheng mechanism has indeed been well polished, but its revenue has not been developed at all.

"Mr. Yu, Bai Xiaosheng is now like a semi-finished product." IDG came this time with Zhang Suyang, one of the seven elders. He pulled the whiteboard casually, slapped a × behind the valuation figure, and said, "And, you The last round was not long, and the valuation of that round did not have much reference significance.”

Zhang Suyang casually drew half a circle and pointed to his lacking partner and said, "Or, let's do a Pre-B, with less valuation and less money. First verify the company's business model, and don't rush to quickly The scale of expansion."

He looked at Hu Xubo of Xu Xin and Qiming, and saw that they did not speak out, he raised a small objection: "Also, this Kestrel who has cast your A round wants to withdraw and get rewards in this round. It's a little too early to Bar."

Yu Xing looked at the whiteboard next to Zhang Suyang, where he wrote several opinions and drew several more ×.

He turned his gaze and pondered at what attitude he used to express his thoughts.

At this moment, the door of the conference room was knocked, and the assistant leaned forward and notified: "Mr. Xiong is here."

Xu Xin and Hu Xubo were both stunned, but they didn't expect IDG's boss Xiong Xiaoge to come.

Zhang Suyang was also surprised that Xiong had no intention of asking about this matter, so why did he change his itinerary?

Ten seconds later, a middle-aged man wearing glasses walked into the conference room with big strides, nodded at the people who were greeting him, and saw Zhang Suyang's familiar handwriting on the whiteboard.

Zhang Suyang smiled and said, "We and Mr. Yu have some objections."

Yu Xing took a breath and just as he was about to introduce Bai Xiaosheng's situation and prospects, he saw Xiong Xiaoge wave his hand, and his heart couldn't help but feel slightly sank.

However, Xiong Xiaoge spit out two words: "I voted."

He had just recruited a very good employee at Bai Xiaosheng. He saw the surprise on the face of the young entrepreneur opposite and smiled at him with a friendly smile.

Waving your hand is not to refuse, but you don’t need to say much, brother.

(End of this chapter)