Lao Zhou lived in his own private house. He stood in front of the window and looked out into the distance. The gorgeous night view of Victoria Harbor did not fill his heart with any color, but only made him feel scared.
How scared are you?
He even put on a disguise when boarding the plane for fear of being recognized, so he felt at ease after landing in Hong Kong.
"grass!"
It took him a whole glass of whiskey to calm down, and he cursed hard.
The so-called 3Q war has neither a righteous side nor an evil side. It is essentially gangsters fighting each other, but Lao Zhou has portrayed himself as a lone brave man.
In business wars, there are ups and downs, there are losses and there are wins.
I couldn't get through QQ 360, so I just admitted my defeat. Unexpectedly, the other party actually reported the case - just like two children having a fight and one of them sues the teacher.
Yes, he thought he was about to win.
At this time, the phone rang again, and it was still Qi Xiangdong.
"How are you, Lao Zhou?"
"Arrived safely, where are you?"
"I took a few people to hide in Huairou. I am working here temporarily and am preparing to replace the core employees with new mobile phones and numbers to avoid being eavesdropped."
"No, no, you ask them to connect to the United States via VPN and then use data to make calls through Skype. This is safer."
"Ok, I know!"
"What's going on over there at Penguin?"
"not yet."
"Then let's do this first and contact you later."
Is this a business war?
This is a spy war!
Lao Zhou shook his head, poured another glass of wine, and continued to stand in front of the window, with all kinds of thoughts passing through his mind. Along the way, he criticized Baidu, Alibaba, and all the paid anti-virus software, and even killed them with his own hands.
Relatives and friends send it to worship heaven.
There is a man named Liu Ren, who has served as a senior executive of newspapers such as "China Computer News" and "Computer News", and is a media authority in the Internet circle.
At that time, making 3721 offended a lot of people, so Liu Ren helped in the quarrel, and the two were as close as brothers. Lao Zhou loved audio and gave him a set of very expensive equipment.
Later, 3721 sold himself to Yahoo, Liu Ren was very dissatisfied, and the two became less close than before.
Lao Zhou established 360 to do free anti-virus, but also offended a bunch of paid software companies. At that time, Liu Ren planned several articles specifically to hack 360.
After Lao Zhou learned about it, he deliberately sent someone to contact Liu Ren and asked him to spend money to delete the manuscript and pay in cash.
This is normal in the media world. Liu Ren didn't think much about it. As a result, the moment he took the money, the police who had set up an ambush rushed in... Finally, he was charged with extortion and sentenced to three years.
Of course, this is just a rumor and everyone has different opinions, but it is true that this person was convicted of blackmailing 360.
"..."
Lao Zhou was drinking and thinking about the past. He didn't think he was a bad person at all. He just kept double standards. He was okay with others, but Penguin was not okay with him.
After drinking another glass of wine, the night was already deep.
He had no intention of sleeping and was thinking about browsing the Internet. While browsing, his eyes narrowed and he stared at a few pieces of news:
"Maiwo Network Chairman Yao Yuan has arrived in New York and is about to ring the bell for listing!"
“The road show was a hit and the IPO subscription exceeded expectations!”
"'Angry Birds' and 'Fruit Ninja' boost Maiwo Network, and North American investors are optimistic about it!"
“Experts predict that Maiwo Network may set a new record for the listing of domestic Internet companies!”
"..."
Lao Zhou looked at it and sighed inexplicably, knowing that a new giant had officially risen.
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The joys and sorrows of Internet companies are not the same. I just think they are noisy!
——Yao·Shuren·Yuan
new york, hotel.
Yinyin just finished taking a shower.
She had wet hair that still smelled of shampoo, and stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window in a slippery style. Under the colorful lights of the Big Apple City, she sometimes overlapped and sometimes separated from the figure behind her.
The beautiful, slender and powerful muscle lines changed in various postures, as if containing some kind of dance-like rhythm, until both of them exhaled a long breath and slumped down on the expensive hand-woven pure wool carpet.
"call!"
Yinyin picked up a glass of water and drank it, her whole body covered in sweat.
Under normal circumstances, he takes the dominant position, but when the man is particularly excited or something important happens, he will secretly pretend to be invincible.
Sex is a way for women to comfort men.
This is not dirty or involves any values, but a very normal mentality. For example, when a boyfriend celebrates his birthday, the woman will be more cooperative than usual.
It's the same as boys racking their brains to coax women.
She would naturally come over for such a big event as going public, and Yao Yuan also needed her very much. Only with her around could he feel at peace.
"Do you want some water?"
"Drink, I'm going to die of thirst."
Yinyin poured another glass of water, and Yao Yuan finished it. After a while, he smiled and said: "I have also made arrangements at the company to ring the bell with us when the time comes. These grandsons have prepared a big drum, which is really noisy.
"
"Why is it called ringing the bell? Is it really ringing the bell?"
"The domestic market will ring the ancient big bell, but foreigners don't have it, so they just press a button. It will be like a studio, with a host and rehearsals, so we don't have to worry about it."
“I heard it will be broadcast in Times Square?”
"Yes, Nasdaq has a building with a big screen outside the building that broadcasts live."
Yinyin’s Pomelo Street is also on the market and I want to know more about it.
Yao Yuan has been busy recently, and the two of them have been together less and more apart. They haven't been intimate for a long time. They hugged her and talked about the process, as well as the previous road shows.
The underwriter arranged ten days of intensive road shows, and he attended seven of them.
Some are in the form of speeches, in which a hall is filled with investors, and you speak on the stage. Some are in the form of interviews, where everyone sits at a table and answers questions face to face.
The underwriter has its own regular customers, and it will recommend Maiwo Network to those funds, companies, and wealthy people, and these high-level customers will only accept the recommendation of this underwriter.
Therefore, the IPO must find a number of strong underwriters so that it can cover the largest number of investors.
It's easy to communicate with these people. They don't care how much market share you have in China. They only listen to content they think is valuable.
Yao Yuan's strategy worked, and he proposed three concepts:
Chinese version of Facebook, 200 million users!
The most powerful social game developer, the famous farm game is made by us!
The most powerful mobile game developer, Bird, Ninja, Crocodile, etc. have a total download volume of 300 million!
"OH!"
This is a common reaction among foreigners. They understand it and find it valuable.
"Then, when I go on the market, how will I introduce Youzi Street? Youzi Street doesn't seem to have any conceptual features!"
Yinyin became distressed and had no doubt that she would not be able to go public.
"Youzi Street is small, and it only cost 2 to 3 billion US dollars when it went public. At that time, we thought about practicing. Now that the momentum is good, we will continue to do it for the long term and develop slowly in the future."
Yao Yuan kissed her and saw that the time was already 12 o'clock.
"I brought more than a dozen people with me this time, including Yu Jiajia, Wu Jun, Han Tao, Yao Xiaobo, Xu Meng, Gu Jiaming, and even Liu Weiwei and Wensha were called back by me.
They are all the ones who came to me first, even if they all have their own positions, I want everyone to witness it together."
He was looking at the night view of the Big Apple City outside and looking back on the past. He was exactly like Zhou Hongyi at this moment, but their moods were completely different.
“Back then, I started my business in a utility room. Fast forward 9 years. Who would have thought it would be today?”
Yao Yuan thought of everyone's appearance and couldn't help but laugh: "Everyone is pretending to be calm, I wonder who can sleep tonight!"