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Chapter 89 Weibo 20% is worth 5000 million dollars [ask for monthly votes]

July 2002, 11, Sunday.

In a large office with a sea view in an office building in Tsim Sha Tsui, Li Wenyu was celebrating with Pang Bing when he heard a knock on the door.

He let go of Pang Bing and asked her to tidy up her appearance, then he went to open the door.

This is the third day since the Hong Kong version of Time Weibo was launched.

When Zhang Yimou was filming the Ming Dynasty drama on Star You, he directed Ning Hao and his partner for free without any official credit, which made Ning Hao and his partner very excited.

Weibo was launched in the early morning of the 1st and exceeded 300 million registered users on the same day. Hong Kong Island alone is far from achieving such an exaggerated number.

This has attracted a large number of netizens among the nearly 3000 million people in Hong Kong and Macau, including more than million Chinese in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, and a small number of local ethnic groups in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.

There are also tens of millions of people in South Korea, including the island nation.

Registration of Chinese students and overseas Chinese in Europe and the United States.

It’s still the same old routine. Stars such as Li Jiaxin and Zhang Bozhi registered personal certified accounts, posted updates and interacted with netizens.

Including the appeal of male stars such as Zhang Guorong, Andy Lau, Li Ming, etc.

Yiluqingsong easily broke through 500 million registered users yesterday.

Prices and labor costs are high in Hong Kong Island, and the rent for this sea-view office on the edge of Central is not cheap either. However, it has a strong impact on Weibo, which has tens of millions of registered users.

Definitely worth the maintenance cost.

After the beautiful pictures of Quan Zhixian and Gao Yuanyuan wearing custom-made uniforms practicing Baguazhang and Xingyiquan were released.

Just relying on her good looks, figure and fancy moves, she has attracted many fans.

Jeon Ji-hyun wore a specific slim-fitting training suit that was similar to a dance suit, and Gao Yuanyuan wore a female slim-fitting suit with a thug-like image. In just two days, the overseas version of Jeon had more than 70 fans.

Gao Yuanyuan also attracted more than 20 fans, mainly through interaction with Jeon Ji-hyun.

Li Wenyu was in charge of Weibo and went through the initial "startup" environment.

He knew that once the news spread, many people would come to congratulate him, so he just held Pang Bing in his arms and looked at the sea view, unable to let go for a while.

After the door opened, Li Wenyu looked at the secretary, the young Ma brother a few steps away in the corridor, and a brown-haired white man. He said with a little surprise, "Why are you here, Mr. Ma? Welcome."

As he welcomed Mr. Ma and the brown-haired white man into the office and asked his secretary to make tea, Brother Ma also quickly introduced them.

The person who came was a senior executive from the South African newspaper industry, who wanted to raise funds to acquire shares in Weibo.

Smith, a white man, spoke in authentic South African English, "Li, congratulations on the success of your Weibo app."

"Mr. Ma's Penguin Network also has a version outside the Great Firewall, but so far, it has lost too many active users and its value has shrunk significantly."

"Aside from the beauty pageant, the previous Penguin website's gameplay and user engagement were far inferior to Weibo. Our group is very sincere. How about 1500% of the $10 million?"

The off-site version has just been launched, and compared to the original 1000% of 10 million, it has appreciated by 50%.

The secretary poured tea for the two men, and Lao Li smiled and said, "Thank you, Mr. Smith, for your appreciation. But you have to know that I'm different from Mr. Ma. I'm not in a rush for investment."

It’s November 2002.

This was the last quarter of 02, which was also the period when the world was emerging from the Internet bubble. Pig farms all made profits through games in this quarter.

This opened up the space for terrifying appreciation in 03.

The classic version of Westward Journey Online II on Pig Farm has been in public beta for 2 months since August 8th.

Smith took a sip of tea and looked at Xiao Ma Ge.

Xiao Ma Ge sipped his tea silently, nodding as he drank, looking as if he was fascinated.

Smith laughed and said, "Li, 2000% of 10 million US dollars. We, the South African Newspaper Group, can pay 4000 million US dollars, which is equivalent to 3.12 million Hong Kong dollars, to buy 20% of Time Weibo."

"If you agree, not only will you quickly cash in 3.12 million, but you'll also become a new tycoon worth one or two billion."

"This is more profitable than your film and television empire."

Li Wenyu smiled as he walked to the glass window and pointed to the street below. "Mr. Smith, look at that Youngor store down there. Isn't it bustling with people coming and going?"

Diagonally opposite this office building, there is a Yageo clothing store on the street in the busy Central district, which specializes in selling new fashion brands such as "You Are the Star" that are suitable for Asian body types.

From suits to women's long and short skirts, we have everything.

It has been more than 20 days since the launch of "My Star". Yageo wants to be a high-end brand and has opened several stores in Hong Kong Island to compete with some Korean, European and American fashion brands.

Youngor cannot monopolize fashion patents.

But they got the upper hand!

Humans vote with their feet to choose aesthetics.

Smith walked over, took a few looks, and nodded with emotion. "You're right. This brand has suddenly become popular in the past month."

Li Wenyu laughed and said, "Youngor relies on its new fashions to stay ahead of the trend, but without the promotional platform of Weibo, it wouldn't have become so well-known so quickly."

"You're saying Weibo is equivalent to the power of several newspapers, magazines, and TV stations?"

"This is the first time Weibo has officially spoken out, but we can do it a second and third time later."

Xiao Ma stopped drinking his tea and walked over to look out the window. He frowned and said, "I heard that several universities are inviting Mr. Li. After you graduate from your undergraduate program, can you go to another university to study for a master's degree in journalism and media?"

Having said that, he didn't ask any more questions and gave a thumbs up.

From the beginning, Smith and Li Wenyu spoke English. Pang Bing didn't understand and kept talking, but Mr. Ma definitely understood.

How many newspapers, magazines and TV stations can this sentence represent?

So hard!
Pony Ma felt deeply that he had lost money by selling his Penguin shares. The problem was that he had asked all his friends for financing, even Sohu.

No one invested, not South African newspaper companies estimated that Penguin would die because it had no money to pay for broadband and upgrade its servers.

This is life!

Li Wenyu was still talking and laughing when a text message came on his phone.

I walked over and took a look and found that it was a letter from Zhang Guorong, saying that he was visiting with Jackie Chan, Li Ming, Liu Jialing, Liang Chaowei and others.

Those who came to congratulate him carried many flower baskets and other things.

Li Wenyu asked Pang Bing to go and greet them. Gao Yuanyuan, Dong Li and Yang Xi were also waiting in the secretary's office to deal with the visitors from the entertainment industry.

Old Li smoked his cigar again and smiled, "Smith, I have enough cash to keep the platform going through the initial stages. If you're short on cash, contact Tsingtao Beer or other laptop and phone manufacturers and run advertising campaigns using both the internal and external versions."

"The amount we can collect won't be much different from what the central bank can collect in a single bidding event."

"If Pony is willing to cooperate with me, our commercial value will be further expanded, and we will become a powerful alliance."

Xiao Ma Ge was excited, "Boss Li, this is really possible."

Work together to create an advertising campaign that is more effective than competing for the central bank's bid?
The winning bidder can earn tens of millions at a time.

This will give a huge boost to the listing valuations of Internet companies.

Smith's face turned pale as he took a deep drag on his cigar. "Lee, 5000% of $20 million is all we can offer. I hope you'll seriously consider it."

"We are now absolutely sincere to you Chinese internet companies."

Now there is sincerity.

After all, the number of registered users on Weibo in mainland China has already exceeded 8000 million. It is not surprising that the number of registered users on Big Penguin exceeded million nearly eight months ago.

…………

A moment later, Pang Bing, Gao Yuanyuan and Dong Li led Zhang Guorong and others into the big office.

Li Wenyu was just about to send Smith and Xiao Ma Ge out.

The two sides met nearby, exchanged a few simple greetings, and then watched Xiao Ma Ge leave.

Everyone entered the large office, and Fat Bing opened the champagne. Zhang Guorong smiled and said, "Ayu, why did this Penguin CEO Ma come to see you?"

"Are you planning to buy your Weibo shares? Thanks to Young Master Li's fame, Mr. Ma is also quite famous in Hong Kong Island."

Jackie Chan and others were also very interested and curious.

When celebrities become rich, how do they manage their finances or start a business?
This is a common problem in the circle. The most traditional investment is buying a house.

Or open a restaurant or a clothing brand.

Li Wenyu's Internet entrepreneurship is quite novel.

The second son of Li Huanggua's family made a net profit of more than 20 million US dollars, close to 1000 million Hong Kong dollars, by buying and selling penguins at a rate of % in two years. This was touted as a business miracle around the millennium.

Li Wenyu took the champagne from Pang Bing and raised his glass. "The development is pretty good. They valued me at 2.5 million US dollars, 19.5 billion Hong Kong dollars."

"The price is sincere and bold, but with the global internet boom, it's not worth selling at this time. South African newspapers don't have the capital strength to be a major player in East Asia."

"They have money but no influence, so they are not the best partners."

Simply speaking of financing, the value offered by South African Newspapers is really high.

Compared with American and Japanese capital, South African newspaper industry is much cleaner and will not deceive him or influence what he does.

Zhang Guorong, “…”

Jackie Chan, who had just received the champagne from Dong Li, loosened his grip and almost dropped the glass, but he reacted quickly and easily caught it with his other hand.

He then downed the champagne in one gulp and smacked his lips. "19.5 billion Hong Kong dollars? I thought I'd worked hard for half my life, and earned 2- million Hong Kong dollars from Rush Hour . That was pretty impressive..."

"Compared to Ah Yu, you pale in comparison. That's too low. Mainland Weibo launched on Father's Day in June?"

"It's been less than half a year!"

There was a sound of air conditioning pumping in the office.

After a few seconds of pause, Li Ming came over and clinked glasses. "From today on, we'll all call you Mr. Li. No wonder Ah Xin insisted on transferring the agency contract to your team."

"Compared to you, Mr. Li, I've only been doing small things over the years."

Li Jiaxin has been good friends with King Li for more than ten years.

If you didn't have a good relationship with Li Ming, a normal boss wouldn't agree to transfer the contract within the specified period just because you said so.

This is not an era where weight loss movies make billions!
The valuation of HK$19.5 billion is definitely big news.

Let’s talk about a simple reality. China Star, which the Xiang family has been struggling with for so long, is now listed on the Hong Kong stock market with a total market value of 8 million Hong Kong dollars.

That was the foundation for the Xiang family's development over the past 10 to 20 years.

Lao Yang’s Emperor Entertainment Group now has a market value of more than 2 million Hong Kong dollars.

Billionaires are all tycoons!

Li Wenyu spoke so frankly, not to show off intentionally, but to say it to prevent Media Asia's Lao Lin from making a fool of himself.

After the first valuation of South African Newspapers was quoted at 500 million dollars and 10%, the market value was 3.9 million Hong Kong dollars.

Media Asia's Lao Lin valued the company at HK$2000 million and asked for 10%, but was rejected.

Lao Lin also invited Zhang Guorong and said he could pay extra money.

But it's 50% lower than the asking price of South African Newspapers, so there's nothing to talk about.

Saying it out loud is to make people like Lao Lin shut up.

Besides, the reason why we didn’t tell more people about this before was not because we wanted to keep it secret, but because we were all friends or partners in the past.

How can he tell the outside world that he is making a fortune and rising in the Internet field?

I can't just stupidly pick up the phone and call Brother Rong, Brother Hua and the others and tell them I've made a fortune? Come congratulate me, right?

Now, taking advantage of the fact that someone asked, I casually said it to block stingy capital like Lao Lin.

Not to mention hiding it any longer, Li Huanggua will also come to invest in a while!

The second son of the Li family became a joke after the big penguin took off.

Li Huanggua also attaches importance to the Internet and has invested in Facebook in North America, including the voice recognition system Siri.

Li Wenyu clinked his glasses with a smile, "You can't say that. I just took advantage of a good era. If I had started working hard twenty years earlier, the social organization issues would have become a big problem."

Isn’t it true? If it had happened a dozen years earlier...

Fat Bing also became excited and continued the topic, "Yes, yes, Sister Jialing, is your problem completely resolved? It almost caused a big mess."

The Hong Kong celebrity group present were basically No. 26. After Li Wenyu informed Zhang Guorong, they helped Liu Jialing to settle the matter together.

Liu Jialing took the initiative to walk over and bowed 90 degrees to Li Wenyu to express her gratitude. "Don't worry, Mr. Li, I'll be there if you need me in the future. I'll go wherever you say."

"I will remember this great favor."

Li Wenyu hurriedly asked Pang Bing to help her up. As he said, this sister Liu has such a determined heart, she deserves help.

He just helped by passing the message to Zhang Guorong.

Li Wenyu said a few polite words and invited the crowd to go out for dinner when his cell phone rang. It was a text message from Li Jiaxin, "Six yuan spicy hot pot is not enough. I want to eat the one worth 60 yuan today."

Ah Xin was mixed in the crowd and only spoke a few words to Pang Bing and Dong Li.

Regardless of whether other people in the circle know about it or not, the two of them still maintain the relationship of director and female star, boss and female star on the surface.

Now this Sister Xin is having a private conversation with Joey Wong.

Li Jiaxin is becoming more and more popular, especially among seniors in their 30s such as Joey Wong, Zhang Min, Zhou Huimin and Chen Hong.

We're all in our 30s, and we agreed to grow old together. Now that our youthful looks are gone, why are you the only one secretly reverting to your 20s? You seem younger and younger, which doesn't make sense.

Since the filming of "My Love from the Star" started, the crew's official account updated Weibo for the first time to interact with netizens, and it has continued to this day. Li Jiaxin also updates her own status on Weibo every now and then.

Whether it is a behind-the-scenes group photo of the crew or taking other beautiful photos.

This person has restored her 32-year-old appearance to a youthful state, and her performance has become a hot topic on the Internet.

The beauty of the most beautiful Miss Hong Kong has sparked a wave of skincare craze.

Of course, other creative teams also have their own dynamic updates and interact with netizens, so the opening of various Yageo stores is popular in Harbour City and has a continuous advertising effect.

It’s November now, and the new year’s beauty pageant is about to start.

Li Wenyu planned to give Gao Yuanyuan, who was about to become a female fighter, a cheat by hiring internet trolls to register on the off-site versions of Weibo and Penguin.

He wanted to try out the technology he had learned for several months, write an automatic registration and voting script, and compete with the Penguin Security Department.

He is just practicing, if he wants to really cheat he will have to hire top hackers for help!
Li Wenyu, 21 years old.

Mathematics, (63/100).

Computer Science and Technology, (68/100).

Cybersecurity, (67/100).

Software Engineering, (63/100).

……

The four doors are just passing, and there is no high-quality technology yet.

But up to now, he still has 45 free attributes!

In the next month or two, with the help of the brain evolution brought about by 300 points of fitness, I will further improve my hacking ability in the battle with penguins.

Learn to the level of 70 or 80 and accumulate more free attribute points?
He will become the world's hacker king in 03, and this requires actual combat!
No longer have to worry about Weibo being hacked during business wars.

(End of this chapter)