What’s Wrong With Me Being a Rich Man?

Chapter 224 Gift (5K)

As the Spring Festival approaches, prepare New Year’s goods and arrange holidays.

Bai Xiaosheng's development in 2009 was very good. Coupled with Yu Xing's silent accumulation of personal wealth, the employees were naturally not stingy in the year-end bonus. However, he rejected the suggestion of holding a team building, feeling that everyone doesn't have to wear it. It would be better to have a smile mask relaxed.

On February 11, Yu Xing ended the communication at hand and his mind flew home.

However, he had just finished the phone with his mother at noon and just sat in front of the computer and saw that there was still new news on Alibaba.

It is said that SoftBank has always maintained a low-key and neutral institutional shareholder, which has proposed a solution to the Alipay incident, hoping to obtain a license with a domestic company first, and then pass the income and management of the domestic company to the three-party joint venture through an agreement.

However, this plan was rejected by Alibaba, so SoftBank BOSS Masayoshi Son spoke out, saying that "Ma Yi should have a way to wisely bypass the rules" rather than "only do this".

Obviously, SoftBank's secret communication on this matter was not pleasant, otherwise there would be no Son's name.

Yu Xing looked carefully at the news and couldn't help but sigh, "The Chinese New Year is coming soon, why are you still doing this?" Can't let people have a good New Year first?

Liu Wanying, who had just flew back from Beijing, heard Boss Yu’s emotions during dinner in the evening and pointed out a question: “Didn’t you ignite the fuse?”

"What do you mean? Why is it me? Isn't we together?" Yu Xing was confident.

Liu Wanying said patiently: "I participated, but I am not like you, and I don't have the tears of a crocodile."

Yu Xing sighed: "Even you misunderstood this way, attribute the fuse to our actions, not what they did themselves. If this is..."

"Don't worry, it's hidden well, no one will know about it in the rest of your life." Liu Wanying said funny, "Since you think you are misunderstood, then you still look like you are afraid of being discovered if you do something bad?"

Yu Xing said seriously: "Because this world is neither black nor white, because being misunderstood is the norm."

Liu Wanying was silent for a while and gave a thumbs up: "Your logic is closed-loop, which is very powerful."

Yu Xing smiled and said, "Yes, it's not enough to be strong. Even if you are not strong, you can't compete head-on with the Penguin."

He talked about the team preparations these days and felt that the progress was pretty good.

"Where are these people placed? Will you rent another location?" Liu Wanying asked.

"There is half a floor downstairs that is being sublease. I asked Xiao Zhang to rent it. Let them work downstairs when they go back." Yu Xing said, "This is convenient for work and it is also convenient for them to sell it back. This year's recruitment team must have If it is amplified, it can be used at the end of the year."

Liu Wanying smiled when she saw him so careful.

At this time, she talked about the last decision before the New Year, and the situation of flying to the capital this time.

After investing in Baixiaosheng Company, Kestrel completed its second investment since its establishment and took out US$1 million to acquire 10% of Letao shares.

This was a decision that Yu Xing discussed with Liu Wanying after his 72-hour action but may not be implemented. In the end, he invested it before the New Year. Compared with Bi Sheng's $9 million in real money, these 10 % of the shares are quite generous.

What's more, before Bi Sheng invested $9 million, he had already taken Lei Jun's investment.

Of course, in the general view of the industry, it is normal for Letao.com, which has experienced management chaos and strategic confusion, to reduce its valuation instead of increasing. However, after Liu Wanying arrived at the Beijing City Review Website, she had to develop silently for two months. Admit that being right will result twice as much with half the effort.

The focus of the pursuit order in December was Yu Xing, who led the team to capture the thief, enjoying positive praise, while the parties involved had more of a joke.

No one cares about the development of this joke, and even institutions like Today Capital are not willing to pay attention to the possibility of Letao.com. In this case, Bi Sheng put aside the glitz and pride from the entrepreneurs of large factories. , explore forward in a vertical direction of the pattern.

This change is not worthy of being outsiders, but it can be reflected in the data.

Letao.com was about 800 orders per day at the end of last year, and in the late January, it was able to achieve 1,500 orders per day, with a very good increase. The former is equivalent to 300,000 orders per year, while the latter can maintain 550,000 orders. .

As for whether you can keep it...

Judging from the current situation, it is likely that it is not just a stage where money is growing rapidly after spending money.

When Yu Xing was in Lin'an, he talked about Letao.com and gave an optimistic expectation that it is expected to achieve a 1 million order level in 2010. However, judging from the overall performance last month, as long as it can raise funds normally, 1 million will be available. The single shouldn't be able to fight.

As long as you raise funds normally, you don’t need to have an excess premium.

"Based on Letao.com's performance, I actually want to invest 2 million US dollars, but guess what, Bi Sheng only needs 1 million US dollars." Liu Wanying said at the end, mentioned a small episode in the amount of financing.

Yu Xing nodded, Bi Sheng himself obviously recovered some confidence. In his opinion, the one million US dollars from Kestrel may be enough to leverage more financing. If 2 million US dollars are raised at this time, the shares sold would be too much. Not worth it.

Liu Wanying said with a smile: "I am grateful to you for seeing Bi Sheng for Hong Falcon's investment this time. Although it cannot be cashed out immediately, this kind of shares are close to real money."

Yu Xing looked at Liu Wanying with a little smug face and said, "Letao.com is willing to let Kestrel take advantage. I thought you would pay attention to some character."

"No, no, Boss Yu, money is not very sensible." Liu Wanying explained his thoughts, "This can only be considered as your love. After all, today's Capital and IDG are not willing to invest, we are willing to do so. Investing itself means giving him respect. Well, shorting should be like shorting, and investment should be like investing."

Yu Xing felt that this was a bit reasonable. It seemed that the investor was indeed like this. Mr. Xu also reunited for the sake of profit. This is probably right.

He pondered for a while and said, "Letao.com is Bi Sheng's hard work and family. Even if it's clear, you won't have to mention helping him in the future."

Liu Wanying pretended to be awe-inspiring and praised, "Boss Yu, you have a strong character!"

However, Yu Xing felt that the thanks from Bi Sheng was enough, but the other party obviously didn't feel that way.

Bi Sheng came to Shencheng the day before the legal holiday started. In name, he inspected the East China branch of Letao.com. In fact, he only took a walk around and went straight to Baixiao's birth.

He brought a gift to Yu Xing.

"Mr. Yu, I heard that you like cats, this is 'right'." Bi Sheng pointed to the New Year gift happily and saw the surprise on Yu Xing's face, "How about it, do you like it?"

Yu Xing said weakly: "Mr. Bi, we don't need to do this. How did you know..."

"In the news report, what, do you don't like it?" Bi Sheng felt something was wrong.

"I like it, I like cats." Yu Xing admitted helplessly and thanked him, "Take a kitten with a thousand miles away, the gift is light and affection is heavy. Mr. Bi, you... have to worry."

Mr. Bi is really worried. Not only did he give away the cat, but he even gave it a name. There was a "wrong" one, which was quite hedging.

Bi Sheng felt that there seemed to be something wrong, but he didn't know if it was there, but since the kitten had been sent, he laughed: "'Yes, yes' put it here. When you see it, I will vote for us more next time. money."

Yu Xing said "um" and did not mention Kestrel's shareholding ratio of US$100, which is acceptable.

He only cared about the progress of Letao.com over the past month. He is now an independent director of the company, and the indirect interests of Kestrel Capital, and... a kitten representing their friendship, who can help check the gaps. To make up for leaks, try to help.

Bi Sheng talked about the promotion of the company's business in a well-organized manner.

However, putting aside the company's business situation, Yu Xing felt that Bi Sheng had a completely different mental outlook from before. Well, the most obvious thing is probably a more practical feeling.

Yu Xing invited Bi Sheng to have his last drink before the New Year. He didn't talk about it casually, and basically talked about vertical e-commerce seriously.

Finally, he gave a suggestion that he had talked about before but was not valued: "Only the vertical segmentation track is vertical. I think this year and next year may be a period of severe elimination. This vertical segmentation is different from the big ones. The performance of the market, taking our experience as a workplace platform, you can see, like the workplace network that tried to compete with us before, it can't catch up with us after the number of users increased. This is very obvious. effect."

"Since you are dealing with the final product, the more users you can accumulate on websites like you, the easier it will be to get the favor of the brand. As for the backlog, I will definitely want to get the payment quickly."

"At this time, Letao.com needs to build a group of buyers traveling around the country to strengthen contact with brand owners, so that they can get the final product as soon as possible."

Letao.com is currently trying to sign supply cooperation or exclusive supply cooperation with brand manufacturers, but this strategy has obstacles in actual implementation, and second- and third-tier brands still have a certain attitude.

However, the vertical pattern is destined to strengthen contact with suppliers, so a "mobile force" is likely to have a better effect.

When Bi Sheng heard Yu Xing say this, he also remembered the aspect he talked about last year. After thinking for a while, he said, "Well, we should build a global buyer team in the medium and long term, with a stock backlog of this. The matter is actually quite extensive, and many users still recognize foreign brands.”

Yu Xing nodded in agreement. It should be like this after he can achieve the scale. Well, not necessarily.

He thought again, maybe this kind of work can be carried out without waiting for the scale, at least it is tentative.

This is the specific adjustments in the specific work.

Bi Sheng and Yu Xing didn't drink much, but this exchange was the most enjoyable time since they met.

Even Yu Xing couldn't help but send a text message to Liu Jiankai of Today Capital after sending Bi Sheng away: "If you don't invest in LeTao.com, I think you will regret it."

"Mr. Yu, it's going to be the New Year, are you still thinking about helping you with a LeTao? Did Bi Sheng give you a gift? Happy Spring Festival, family reunion, Mr. Yu, I wish you a New Year, I wish you a gift this year Let Bai Xiaosheng dominate the market." Liu Jiankai replied.

Yu Xing calmed down because of this, so he stopped talking, and instead sent a slightly detailed lobbying and greeting message to Zhang Suyang of IDG.

Zhang Suyang's last meeting in Shanghai was actually a bit unpleasant, but after receiving Mr. Yu's text message, he looked carefully and temporarily handed the assistant a task to learn about Letao.com.

The assistant knew Letao.com and expressed confusion: "Mr. Zhang, this Letao.com is the company that Yu Xing was chasing the world. It is quite chaotic inside."

"Lessons can be transformed into experience." Zhang Suyang said this and said one of his main reasons, "Yu Xing is not like a nonsense person."

The assistant no longer had any objections and urgently contacted Bi Sheng, who had just returned to the capital, and collected a temporary small team to conduct research on Letao.com.

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

Yu Xing didn't know that IDG's Zhang Suyang had a good review of himself.

After receiving the reception, he no longer considered work matters. He just wanted to go home and lie down for a few days without considering short selling, Bai Xiaosheng, WeChat, and anything...

I only ate and slept, ate and ate, opened my eyes and called my mother, smoked and dad, ate reunion dinner around the table, and ate leftovers around the table...

On February 12, at 3:00 p.m. on 29:00 p.m., Yu Xing returned home.

Unlike the imagined scene, the old couple was happy about their son's return, but they showed a stronger complaint of "Why didn't you bring Liu Wanying too?"

Yu Xing was helpless: "There is no requirement that your girlfriend must come to your house at this time, right? Just ask him a good question."

Chu Qiying asked, "Then have you asked her? Did you ask her if she wants to come?"

Yu Xing shook his head: "I didn't ask."

But he added: "When the New Year is over, the holiday is about to end, and I will just leave here and I wish you two a happy New Year. Isn't that enough?"

"Then ask, what if she wants to celebrate the New Year together? I think you are the boss of Chengda and have confirmed your relationship, so I am too lazy to think about other people's thoughts." Chu Qiying gave a small criticism.

Yu Xing felt wronged, but wisely knew that the more he defended, the more unfair he might be, so he had to signal to surrender and obey the old couple's opinions.

The old couple has a lot of opinions...

Therefore, Yu Xing also has an effective way to change the topic: "Dad, mom, do you want to retire early? I have made a lot of money recently, which is completely enough."

Yu Guosheng asked in surprise: "Have you transferred the company's assets? That's illegal!"

Yu Xing was amused and crying: "No!"

Yu Guosheng thought for a while and asked again: "Did you use Bai Xiaosheng to extort public relations fees from other companies? Is this easy to violate the law, right?"

Yu Xing solemnly swore: "Absolutely not!"

Yu Guosheng stared at his son and said suspiciously: "You won't be evading taxes, right?"

Yu Xing sighed, "No..."

Yu Guosheng nodded: "Well, I guess your company has not reached the profit stage, and it's still losing money now."

Yu Xing was silent for a few seconds and forced himself to explain: "It is not necessary to pay taxes if you lose money. You can also evade taxes due to losses, but we are very formal."

"So, Mr. Yu, you have not transferred assets, blackmailed, and evaded taxes, and the company is even losing money." Yu Guosheng spread his hands, "Then, how did you make money that your parents would not have to worry about in the rest of their lives. ? ”

Yu Xing was silent for a longer time this time, and then said sincerely: "Dad, mom, if you want to go to work, please continue to work. I will strive to make this money this year..."

Yu Guosheng nodded happily, liked to go to work and loved to go to work.

Chu Qiying pinched his son's shoulder from the side and rubbed his face again: "You can do your company well and get along with Liu Wanying seriously. We don't need to consider it now, so don't work too hard. , you can’t make money, your body is the first priority, you have to eat on time every day. I heard from Xiaoguang that you often work overtime to have meetings at night, so you must pay attention to your health.”

Yu Xing listened to his old mother's nagging and felt that it was mixed with the Spring Festival that warmed the New Year atmosphere.

Eat, sleep, lie down, greet New Year's greetings, send red envelopes, listen to the Spring Festival Gala...

Yu Xing's plan continued until he went to work.

However, on the second day of the Lunar New Year alone, his lazy state was ruthlessly interrupted.

"Mr. Yu, I have decided that I am willing to join Bai Xiaosheng." Baidu's Ge Zhijie unexpectedly made his decision to change jobs on this day.

Yu Xing was very happy, but had to correct it: "Teacher Ge, not Bai Xiaosheng, but WeChat company."

Ge Zhijie said "Uh": "Yes, it's WeChat company, I've decided."

Yu Xing did not ask the other party for the reason he thought, but just said sincerely: "Okay, Teacher Ge, this is the best news I have heard this year. Welcome to join WeChat. We are only 999 steps away from defeating the Penguin. .”

"You..." Ge Zhijie laughed helplessly, "Mr. Yu, you don't have to rush to mention the penguin. It's easy for me to regret it."

"Competition cannot be ignored in commercial projects. Teacher Ge is willing to come. I don't want to hide this." Yu Xing said calmly, "We won't fight the Penguin as soon as possible, but we will inevitably compete with it."

Ge Zhijie asked, "Then... do you have confidence?"

Yu Xing felt that he would probably have to answer such similar inquiries this year. He thought about it carefully and replied, "I don't know if this is confident, but I believe we can make the penguins feel the pressure too. ”

Ge Zhijie felt that this was confidence.

Anyway, if you have money and experience, as long as Mr. Yu has confidence.

Yu Xing and Ge Zhijie chatted on the phone for a long time.

When he put down his cell phone, he couldn't help but walk to the balcony and smoked two cigarettes in a row, and his mood gradually became excited.

"Xingxing, what's wrong? What's wrong?" Yu Guosheng came over and rubbed a cigarette, and cared about his son.

Yu Xing gave out a breath and smiled, "I couldn't help but feel a little excited when I thought I might be beaten to death by my competitor."

Yu Guosheng: "?"

He can understand every word, but he can't understand it when connected.

Yu Xing blinked and told the old father the essence of this action: "I'm going to be on the news this year."

Yu Guosheng took a deep breath of cigarette. After all, he still had to go on the road of illegal crimes?

It seems that my son is really not far from success.

(End of this chapter)