Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 165 Negotiation
The next day, after the car was repaired, all the things were brought back, even the glass was taken back by Qin's mother.

He went directly to Tiedan's house to unload the goods, and then he started to help the two of them.

He just helps out and lets them do most of the work, unless there is something that cannot be done and he is needed to step in.

"Don't keep the acetylene cutting tool on for too long. It will break with just one kick. Acetylene is very expensive."

He felt a little annoyed watching the two people's operation. They had to burn the fire out before they were willing to turn off the fire. No one could afford such waste.

"Is that so?" The two nodded angrily.

As newbies, they don’t know how to do these cool tricks and can only learn them bit by bit.

After the drawings were drawn, there wasn't much work for him to do. He just had to make sure the entire frame fell safely on the car.

He would personally handle some important structures and key points, letting the two watch him.

At ten o'clock, Erhu's mother came over with a happy face.

"Erhu, Amei is pregnant."

In a word, everyone in the yard was so happy that Erhu jumped three feet high.

"Haha, I'm finally pregnant." He has been busy day and night these days.

The main reason was that Qin Dahe acted too quickly. Yanyan started to move just two months after their marriage, so he was naturally anxious.

This made Huairu finally breathe a sigh of relief, and she took out Sheng Tang and started smoking.

"Mom, you should quickly catch some old hens to raise at home. What we have is not enough to eat." Erhu said excitedly.

"Let's catch them right away. Lan'er is so smart. She caught so many chicks before the New Year." After Erhu's mother reported the news, she left with a happy face.

"Haha, I'm going to be a father."

"Me too, let's see who will give birth to a son first." Brother Qin said with a smile.

"Okay, let's bet on a pack of Double Happiness."

After hearing the news, Erhu worked much harder to earn more money to support his baby.

The yard was filled with joy. For the rest of the day, Qin Dahe stayed there and watched the two of them work.

After dinner in the evening, the two of them were still holding the headlights and continuing to do some small chores. At this time, Qin Dahe went back.

There's no need for him to keep an eye on it from behind. Just go over when it's on the shelf.

It was great to earn these 500 yuan. I just had to draw a picture myself, and the other two families were happy.

It is a blessing for an apprentice to meet a master chef who does not take on any work. He lets the apprentice do everything himself, so he naturally learns much faster.

At the same time, late at night in a hotel room in Shenzhen, four middle-aged men were arguing in a nonsensical manner.

These people are naturally the major shareholders of Wushang Investment Company. Uncle Qin Dahe and the other four major shareholders are discussing an important matter.

Regarding investment, the money in the account must be spent next year, and finding punctuation is naturally the top priority.

Mr. Wang invested four million in them, and the four of them raised another four million on their own. Among them, my uncle alone held 20% of the shares. As the initiator, he naturally also served as the chairman.

He invested 160 million yuan, which emptied his family's savings and even mortgaged his house. There are many such speculators in Shenzhen nowadays.

But business is good this year, and just working is enough to support my family.

The other three invested 240 million and held 800 points of shares, with a total capital of million.

In the venture capital industry, this amount of money is so small that it cannot be any smaller, and other people's investments are all in US dollars.

Mr. Wang's 400 million should be dry shares, which does not account for so many shares. However, because he is optimistic about his uncle, he promised to provide some help within his ability when investing.

In this way, four elites and a company boss were integrated and a makeshift team was established.

The biggest problem at the moment is spending money. The eight million cannot be kept in the account. They have been looking for new Internet investment projects since the Chinese New Year.

Today's Internet is at a time when many competitors are emerging. Alibaba has been established in Hangzhou, and Dr. Li of Baidu is already leading a team to research search.

Countless other talented people are pouring into the industry hoping to get a piece of the pie.

Some people are truly geniuses, so talented that it is breathtaking. It will continue to happen in the next few years that people in their twenties will be worth hundreds of millions or even billions.

At this time, the investment company was deciding between two letters of intent to invest.

Both are local investment cases in Shenzhen. One is an online trading platform that sells books. Both the PPT and the leaders are extremely convincing.

Another one is that a boss logged into QQ and chatted with a female account during the start-up phase.

They started screening a large number of projects at the beginning of the year, and finally only these two were left. My uncle and his friends had noticed QQ a long time ago, but the price there was a bit high, so everyone was hesitating which one to bet on.

"MSN is already a global hit. If it enters China, QQ will definitely be unable to resist. Our investment may not be the last straw."

"Plus, there are already a large number of social networking sites in China, such as BBS and Tianya Forum, which have much greater traffic."

A plump-faced man showed everyone the information in his hand. After QICQ changed its name to QQ, the data was actually not very good.

It is said that there are 2000 million registrations, and no one knows how much of it is inflated. However, the current profitability of these registered accounts is very poor, which can be seen from the fact that QQ has been in arrears with server fees.

"But for social software like QQ, once social stickiness is formed, nothing can stop it." My uncle said seriously.

Another person who had been silent looked up at the three of them and said, "Actually, I think investment really depends on the people. Mr. He from this bookstore is really amazing. He's a real boaster, even better than that guy named Ma."

In Shenzhen at that time, being able to brag was a skill. Many people who had not even graduated from junior high school were doing the job of general manager. To the boss, this was considered capable.

"You see, the data he sent us often contained exaggerated terms like 'highest' and 'most', and he also repeatedly stated that large investors like Sequoia were contacting him, which shows he's in a hurry."

"Anxious?"

"Mr. He is getting anxious. Normally, he's such a boaster, but the investment hasn't come through. This suggests there are some critical issues that are holding Sequoia back."

Large capitals are not there to sit around and do nothing. Although not all the projects they invest in make money, at least they will only invest in those that have the potential to continue in the first two rounds of investment.

In other words, even if the project has little potential or no potential at all, as long as the boss can brag about it, they will dare to invest and cash out in the second or third round.

But the current situation is that e-commerce websites selling books have been confirmed to be a new track. There are already mature cases on the Lighthouse side, and the boss is also very capable and good at bragging.

Under such circumstances, it is incredible that only small capitals like them are involved.

The other three were stunned and their expressions changed immediately. There was definitely something wrong here.

Everyone was smart, and once they were enlightened, they knew where the problem lay. "Isn't that a shell company?"

"It's very likely." The man who had just spoken smiled wryly. "I just figured it out, too."

What Shenzhen lacks the least now is shell companies. There are all kinds of them, even "idea companies" that specialize in helping people come up with ideas. It's simply outrageous.

"That's over then. Let's talk about this QQ."

Everyone nodded and analyzed in detail all the data they could get from QQ.

They are here to make money, not to act on impulse. The disagreement just now was just an illusion. What the other people want is the right to speak.

The previous hao123 was discovered by my uncle, and now he has the final say on QQ. In the end, it became a one-man company, and even Mr. Wang would hand over the management rights of the company to him.

The current situation is that President Wang has sent a secretary to coordinate their work, which is a disguised form of participation in the company's management, but such a big boss certainly won't keep an eye on him every day.

All I can say is that we will support whoever has the stronger ability to take charge of the overall situation. At present, my uncle's courage and ability to do things in spending all his fortune have already left them far behind.

QQ's data here is also relatively transparent, and even the server fee list is in their hands.

As local tyrants who have been around for more than ten years, they can get information faster than those big capitals, and they can directly retrieve it from the inside.

"My nephew also recommended this company. He's young and should have a better sense of this social software."

"Your nephew?"

"Well, my nephew is a college student, but I talked to him during the Chinese New Year. He is very capable, but unfortunately, he is unwilling to come to Shenzhen to help me." The uncle said with a smile.

"It's good to stay in our hometown. We can ask him for help when there is something going on at home." No one paid attention to this nephew.

"Forget it, let's not talk about him." Everyone had never chatted with Dahe and had never felt that kind of penetrating tone. A young man with such temperament could not be a simple person.

"Then let's decide on QQ. Their company is going to add more servers tomorrow, and they still have to settle the server fees. Ah Qing, ask him to go to the teahouse to talk. I'll wait for him at noon." The uncle began to give orders without any hesitation.

Now that his project has been recognized, he naturally has to play the role of chairman.

"Okay, I talked to him once yesterday and I think he's a pretty good person." He nodded.

A Qing is one of the agents of a server supplier in Shenzhen. He has a large amount of Internet information, especially local information. This natural advantage is also one of the reasons for him to participate in the establishment of the company.

My uncle is also in the information industry, and the downstream of their company are major telecommunications companies and network service providers.

A certain company is very powerful now. It has not only established scientific research bases in the three major cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, but also built two R&D centers in Dallas and Silicon Valley.

Including India's Tata Group, many of their equipment are provided by a certain company, and their business has spread all over the world.

Being able to serve as middle or senior management in such a company and having a sales team under him, the resources at my uncle's disposal far exceed the imagination of many people, including Qin Dahe.

This group of people is of great help to Internet start-ups, both in the early and middle stages of development, except that their funding pool is relatively small.

In the later stages, there will definitely not be as comprehensive as those professional capitals, but if the company survives to the later stages, capital will naturally enter, so there is no need to worry about this.

At noon the next day, Mr. Ma, who was worried about the server costs, was not very happy when he heard that someone had made an appointment to meet him.

QQ’s current performance is actually very good, but it cannot be monetized, and many investors who want to come in for short-term investment have been rejected by him.

Only after he actually met my uncle and the others did his attitude become better. This man had a diagonal scar on his face and looked very tough.

"Mr. Ma, please take a seat first." The uncle smiled and asked him to sit down first. "Let me make it clear that the four of us shareholders are currently employed, so we will basically not interfere in your company's affairs. You can rest assured about this."

Mr. Ma on the opposite side immediately breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. First of all, this attitude was very good, which made him feel more comfortable than the disgusting faces of those capitalists.

Moreover, the quality of this kind of patchwork capital company is too low, and it will not be too passive in negotiations.

"Your name?"

"No need to call me Ye, just call me Ye Rong Xiang. Let's have some tea first." My uncle smiled and introduced the three shareholders next to him.

"Aren't you four supposed to be working properly?" As someone who started his own business after only two years of working, he actually doesn't have much of an impression of these workers.

"Going to work is so boring. Those jobs are easy, so I invited Mr. Wang from the battery company to co-found this investment company."

After truly understanding their shareholder structure, Mr. Ma became tempted again.

The companies that the four people work for are all quite interesting, including communications, servers, software and hardware agents, etc., which are very helpful to his company's current situation.

"My nephew really recommends the communication software you're working on. I'm also quite interested, so I came here to talk." The uncle smiled faintly and said, "You should know that with our channels, it's not difficult to get similar investment projects."

Mr. Ma nodded in agreement after hearing this. Although these people are not Internet practitioners, they are closely related to the Internet in all aspects, so it is very easy to contact them.

“But how much money can you provide? How much invisible help can you provide?”

"The funding depends on your needs. I believe you won't sell many shares." The uncle said with a smile: "As for help?"

"You mention it."

The phrase “you proposed it” sounded like bragging, but Mr. Ma immediately became happy.

This means giving the right to speak to yourself. The three of them can help, but they will not actively ask for help.

"Haha, what do you think the company's valuation is now?"

"I heard that IDG and Telecom have both reached an agreement, and the valuation is 4400 million?" My uncle raised his eyebrows and looked at the calm man opposite him.

"Well, but these two companies can't help me much now. The user growth rate of QQ is terrifying now." He said exaggeratedly.

"But there's no monetization channel, no social stickiness, and server costs are also rising, right?"

Mr. Ma had a gloomy face. This was indeed the truth. Both IDG and Telecom were beginning to think about short-term investment.

That is to market QQ and thereby divest part of the equity.

"These are all internal company matters, and shareholders generally have no right to interfere."

"Indeed." My uncle nodded.

"This is the right of the company's controller. A startup company must ensure its right to speak in order to develop." These words touched Mr. Ma's heart.

"You can take a look at this." My uncle calmly took out a handwritten draft of "QQ Membership System" and "QQ Cute Pets" from his handbag.

I asked my nephew for this this morning. He knew I had an appointment with Mr. Ma today, so he spent dozens of dollars on phone bills to tell him about it.

(End of this chapter)