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Chapter 371 The Dawn of the Internet
"Leizi, you have robbed me of a lot of users recently!" As soon as we met, Xiao Ma began to blame Ding Lei. After that, Ding Lei built a new BBS called Fire Bird this year. Firebird is looking for someone to chat with.

"Can you blame me? Who made it impossible for your horse to stand on it? Besides, Junzi and the others have also built a station, so you can't catch me and scold me alone!" Ding Lei responded with a smile. Now that the station is scarce, even if They each built a new station, and it is still difficult to get on the horse station every day, and now they engage in BBS out of interest, not thinking of making money from it, so this is not a big contradiction.

After a few people arrived at the reserved restaurant and entered the box to order the dishes, Ding Lei couldn't wait to ask, "Mr. Li, I heard that you just came from Zhuhai? How is Shi Yuzhu doing now?"

Shi Yuzhu was the idol of many young people in the past two years. According to a survey, the most admired student of the surveyed college students is Bill Damen, followed by Shi Yuzhu. They admire Shi Yuzhu very much for making money with his own knowledge, so Shi Yuzhu fell After the fall, many college students couldn't accept it. They said that you were our idol, how could you fall?Are you worthy of our expectations?

Ding Lei cares about Shi Yuzhu so much, and he also thinks the same way, because Shi Yuzhu has shown these knowledgeable and educated young people a road of entrepreneurship that is different from traditional industries. They also want to use their knowledge to realize their dreams like Shi Yuzhu, so in Shi Yuzhu A lot of emotions were entrusted to them, but Shi Yuzhu disappointed them. Now Shi Yuzhu is no longer that knowledge entrepreneur, but a health care product businessman.

Li Lei shook his head, "He called me to borrow money, but I didn't agree." Li Lei told them about the phone conversation with Shi Yuzhu.

Ding Lei listened with regret on his face, "Hey, I remember that when he was interviewed by the media, he ambitiously said that he would turn the giant into China's IBM, but now he is going to build buildings and sell health care products. Yes! China now has no shortage of people who do these things, but there is a shortage of people who are serious about IT. Without the giants, now only Lenovo and Junzi are left with their golden mountains!"

"Strictly speaking, one of Lenovo and Kingsoft is engaged in equipment and the other is engaged in software, but in fact the IT industry is far more than that, and there is the Internet! There are still some people in China who are engaged in the Internet!" Ding Lei has too much leisure time, he spends every day on the Internet, and knows more about the frontiers of the Internet than Ding Lei.

"Ying Haiwei, have you heard of it? This website is quite well done. It has realized full menu prompts and full mouse operation. Anyone with a junior high school education or above can start surfing the Internet after only 10 minutes of learning! Brother Xiao Ma enthusiastically talked about the hottest Internet company at the moment, "If this company does well, it might become China's Yahoo. Mr. Li, you can vote for them!"

Hey, how many times have I said it, don't be so polite with me, why do you take every bite of Li Dong's?Just call uncle!Brother Xiaoma respects himself, and Li Lei is very happy, but Li Lei doesn't like his title; and what Brother Xiaoma said just now is that Yahoo has just been listed in the United States not long ago, and Yang Zhiyuan quickly became a billionaire because of this. , He has begun to replace Bill Damen, Shi Yuzhu and others, and has become the new idol of college students.

As for Ying Haiwei, it is the transliteration of English "Information Highway". This company was founded by Zhang Shuxin and his wife last year. Zhang Shuxin graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China in the 80s. I met many technology business owners, and made their first pot of gold by doing paging stations during the 92nd wave. After they had money, they traveled to the United States, where they saw the charm of the Internet. After returning to China, they became the first Apply to the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications to be an Internet businessman.

They have built a relatively mature website. Many Internet giants in the future can find prototypes on this website. They have the most basic social network. In the life service area, you can rent a house, order food, make appointments with hotels, book air tickets, and find beauty salons. It is almost a large collection of life applications such as "Meituan", "Eleme", "Ctrip", "Guahao.com" and various real estate applications today; "There are not only supply and demand information for various commodities, but also the stock market of the day and the "flea market" that specializes in selling second-hand items. You can vaguely see the prototypes of e-commerce such as "Taobao", "Xianyu", and "Stock Market"; In addition, models such as search engines, books, and online education can also find prototypes here.

Of course, their most famous billboard is the billboard. They erected a huge billboard at the intersection of Baishiqiao Road, HD District, that is, the south gate of Zhongguancun. How far is it? 1500 meters to the north." Many drivers turned directly when they saw it, and then cursed, where is the fucking highway?

Recalling the information he had received, Li Lei shook his head, "Compared to other current sites, Yinghaiwei has indeed done a good job, but they have a fatal shortcoming. What they want to do is not to be an Internet website, but to provide Internet users with Internet service, so although some people contacted me before, wanting me to invest in them, this business model has fatal flaws, and I rejected it after thinking about it; The company has invested some money, and the rate of return is still very good!"

"It's not only good, Yahoo's stock is not good right now." Ding Lei's eyes almost glowed with envy, but then he thought that he was the richest man in the country, and the money he made investing in Yahoo must be astronomical for him, but for him Words are nothing.

"Why is Ying Haiwei's business model flawed?" Xiao Ma didn't quite understand, and Ding Lei was also very curious after hearing their questions.

"Because the Internet will become more and more popular and important in the future, the Internet interface will and must be in the hands of the state. To give an inappropriate example, this is like the relationship between the post office and the telephone company. Personal Companies can use the phone system to make money, such as providing business consulting, paid escort services, etc., but that company can pull the phone line and build its own phone network? This is definitely not possible, this is something that the country can do!" In short In short, what Zhang Shuxin and Ying Haiwei are doing now is somewhat similar to the telecom, mobile, and Netcom of later generations. How can this business be entrusted to a private company?

"Portal websites, online social networking, online shopping, search engines, hotel and restaurant reservations... These are all very promising projects. If Ying Haiwei doesn't have such a big appetite, if he can choose one or two of these fields and devote himself to them, then this company will It’s very promising, and I’m sure I’m willing to invest money, but they’re going to do something that can only be done by the country, so I definitely won’t invest money!” Li Lei couldn’t help but reveal some news about the future to them.

"Technically speaking, it's still a bit immature to do these things now? For example, if I buy something online, how do I pay? How does the item get to me? Will the post office be too slow to deliver the package? And What should I do if something breaks during transportation?” Xiao Ma is not very optimistic about the prospect of Internet shopping.

No wonder Penguin can’t do online shopping in the future. It turns out that the root lies with you. Li Lei smiled secretly in his heart, but he didn’t explain too much. Then Ding Lei talked about a new company, “There is a company called Aitexin. I met the boss of their company on the Internet. His name is Zhang Chaoyang. He studied at Tsinghua University for his undergraduate degree. What Dong said was different, but he was also not optimistic about Ying Haiwei's development."

"He said that what Ying Haiwei does is not the Internet, they built a lot of servers in the room, and let people access these servers through dial-up. Isolated islands, the openness of this Internet is contrary!"

"All Ph.D. students from MIT are willing to come back to start a business?" Xiao Ma felt very novel. He could stay in the United States easily if he could get a Ph.D.
"A lot of people have asked, and he said that he thinks there are two major trends in the current era - one is the arrival of the era of the information superhighway, and the other is the rise of China as a global power. Returning to China to start a business just fits these two trends. It will be much easier to succeed!" Ding Lei explained to Xiao Ma.

"This is interesting. Pigs can fly as long as they encounter the wind. This person has a keen eye. Leizi, do you have his contact information? Ask him if he needs investment? If so, I can go to Talk to him!" Li Lei wanted to invest, of course not because of those two words, but because of the name Zhang Chaoyang.

"Tsk, this guy is so lucky! Wait a minute, I'll contact you right now!" Ding Lei took out the phone book from his bag and said while flipping through it, "Before he thought I was good at technology, so he wanted me to go to BJ together. Starting a business, although I didn’t agree, I still wrote down the number. Oh, that’s it, I’ll call right away!”

Ding Lei found the number and went out, took Li Lei's mobile phone and called Zhang Chaoyang. Zhang Chaoyang was overjoyed when he found out that someone was willing to invest, "How can I let him come over? Is it in Guangzhou? I'm going to buy a plane ticket now, hurry up." Then we can go to Guangzhou in the evening, and then we will have supper together."

There are many direct flights from Beijing to Guangzhou. Zhang Chaoyang landed at Baiyun Airport after ten o’clock in the evening. When he came out, he found someone holding a sign to pick him up. After introducing himself, the other party took him out to the car and drove all the way. When we arrived in the urban area, we stopped at the entrance of a food stall, where Li Lei, Xiao Ma and Ding Lei were drinking beer and eating seafood. After meeting, they were not in a hurry to talk about business, but let Zhang Chaoyang fill his stomach first.

"I'm not afraid of your jokes. I took a taxi to the airport as soon as I received the call. I really didn't have time to eat!" Seeing Li Lei, Zhang Chaoyang was overjoyed. Ding Lei didn't say who was going to invest on the phone. He thought it was just a small investment. Boss, unexpectedly, he is the richest man in the country. As long as the richest man in the country is made happy, do you still need to worry about the problem of venture capital?
After eating a plate of fried rice noodles, Zhang Chaoyang finally recovered, quickly picked up a pineapple beer and toasted Li Lei, and then began to think about how to persuade him.

"Before I heard Leizi tell you about your comments on Ying Haiwei and the reason for returning to China. I think you are very discerning, so I want to chat with you and see if I can help you!" In fact, as long as he is willing Li Lei will definitely invest money in receiving it, but there is still a process that must be followed.

"Now there are almost no Internet companies in China, only Ruide Online, Dongfang Netscape and Yinghaiwei. Since you have heard my evaluation of Yinghaiwei, you must know that Yinghaiwei is not an Internet company, and the other two are not. It’s very mature! As for me, I’m mainly considering two paths now, one is to be an Internet technology provider, and the other is to be an information provider.” Zhang Chaoyang rationalized his thinking and said.

"Technology providers mainly do firewall software, or make web pages for other companies; information provision is to make a commercial website, and I personally prefer the latter, because the former already has some companies in China, such as Kingsoft I'm just working on a firewall, and I don't have much advantage in competing with them. The business website is still blank, and the competition is weaker! But I haven't figured out what information this website should provide!" As soon as Zhang Chaoyang said the last sentence, I regret it.

He also met some angel investors in the United States, but because he couldn't give them a clear business prospect, he repeatedly hit the wall and failed to get investment from them. Thinking of the old problem again.

"As long as there is no problem with the strategy, tactical matters can be explored slowly in practice. It is indeed a good choice to build a website now. You can build the website first and then talk about it! For specific content, you can refer to Internet companies in the United States. Your first investment How much money do you want?" Hearing the word website, Li Lei knew it was right, after all, it is one of the three major portal websites in the future, and you can't lose money if you vote for it.

"Huh???" I didn't say anything?People are willing to invest money?Happiness came so fast, Zhang Chaoyang didn't realize it for a while!
"Investment is mainly about investing in people. Since you can say those two paragraphs, you have proved your vision, so I believe you can find the right way! I will give you the first 30 US dollars, and you use it first. Let's talk about it when it's used up!" Li Lei said.

Hearing this, Ding Lei and Xiao Ma pricked up their ears at the same time, did they get the investment so easily?Shall I try it too?
(End of this chapter)