In the morning, at the busiest time of Yangcheng Baiyun International Airport, a small private plane queued up along the taxiway among a large number of commercial airliners.
Everything looks in order.
Suddenly, the small plane saw the opportunity and quickly turned into a side road and directly onto the runway, then accelerated into the blue sky.
Li Ze was shocked when he took a private flight for the first time.
He glanced at the sloping liquid in the wine glass, and looked blankly at Wen Liang across from him: "Is flying so efficient now? On such a hot day, I can't even warm my butt."
Wen Liang replied casually: "The takeoff and landing conditions for small planes are low, so it's normal to go faster."
"This has nothing to do with the size of the plane. You are jumping in line!"
"No way, everyone thinks my time is valuable, so they usually don't want to take the initiative to waste my time."
"How fast can you grab it?"
"Except for the ones with a few small planes that can't be grabbed, everything else is fine."
Li Ze sipped the champagne and said deliberately: "Then... if you and Mr. Hu happen to take a flight together, who goes first?"
"Which airport are you assigned to?" Wen Liang replied thoughtfully.
Li Ze was startled and immediately sat up straight: "Huh? Have you ever experienced this?"
Wen Liang didn't even look at Li Ze, and said lightly: "I was the first at Capital International Airport. It's hard to say at Baiyun. I haven't tried it."
"Yes, Mr. Wen!" Li Ze exclaimed, "You are such a good person, I have been blessed to have followed you for eight lifetimes."
Wen Liang looked like a coward and said: "It's good that you know, and respect me, otherwise I won't be able to let you out of the company in a minute!"
"I'm scared." Li Ze put down his wine glass and said, "It's an honor to go on a business trip with Mr. Wen~"
Wen Liang glanced at Li Ze and said with deep approval: "It's indeed an honor. There is no need for the two of us to go together now."
Li Ze cheered: "That's not true!"
With a squeaking sound, the wine glass placed on the table finally stopped tilting, and the plane entered a level flight state.
Speaking of which, Li Ze has never gone to other places with Wen Liang.
This is the first time ever.
It's really an opportunity that I managed to find with great difficulty.
Because under normal circumstances, Wen Liang and Li Ze will have one person in charge of the headquarters, and only in extraordinary circumstances will Wang Wanyu be in charge alone.
Although Mr. Ze has been rotating in and out of the CEO position of the subsidiary company, he is the real second-in-command of Bolang.
However, compared to Wen Liang, neither Mr. Ze nor Mr. Wang are more interesting. They basically cooperate with several other senior executives to stay busy.
Wen Liang is different. He just wants people to be there, or to appear through live broadcasts and other methods, so that there will be no phenomenon that Bolang is too busy.
Maybe this is called the unique aura of the soul of the company.
Li Ze and Wen Liang were going to the capital together this time, and they had a lot of things to do. Two office teams had already left for the capital more than two hours in advance.
The team size exceeds two hundred people.
The noise was louder than any of Wen Liang's previous business trips.
Originally, Wen Liang was expected to go to Beijing on the 10th, but this has been postponed for a week, so he naturally has to hurry up.
In a broad sense, things are not complicated. It is simply that Bolang has once again carried out large-scale business strategic investment and mergers and acquisitions. Unlike the last time, which focused on the application of Internet ecology, this time the scale is larger and the scope is wider.
More industries are involved.
In addition to basic mergers and acquisitions, there will also be a considerable amount of strategic investment.
Strictly speaking, this should be Bolang’s first time to ‘buy, buy, buy’.
Because in many subdivided fields, Bolang really has no foundation at all. Now to seize time, we can only use it directly.
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The flight spanning more than 2,000 kilometers is boring no matter how you look at it.
In the past month or so, Wen Liang's flights all over the country were always short-distance flights, controlled within one and a half hours and a thousand kilometers, and would not frequently fly for three hours.
Anyway, that would make it easier for Wen Liang to see more scenery.
Because Wen Liang basically traveled alone at that time.
It's okay for now.
There was Li Ze to chat with.
Chi Chi Wai Wai Wai Wai Wai, inevitably talk about some common things.
Wen Liang dug through the bag beside the seat and took out a bag of melon seeds. While eating the melon seeds, he said, "What are your plans for major events in life?"
Li Ze did not shy away from this matter, and answered directly: "Xiao Wang and Xiao Zhao haven't had enough fun yet, and their thoughts haven't been settled yet. They rarely appear in school now. If they don't mention it specifically, it's hard to tell.
How many people still remember that the two of them were co-founders, and they just happened to be happy about it."
"These two are really a lazy dog and a lazy dog. They're absolutely crazy. I'll pick them up and beat them up." Wen Liang said angrily. He was not surprised that Wang Zhiyi, this boring thing, would "lead Zhao Mingjie bad".
These two things are my favorite to play everywhere now, not only in Yangcheng, but also in surrounding cities, such as... Wancheng.
But I had a hard time deciding not to go to Macau.
Although these two comparisons say that even if someone goes to Macau and loses hundreds of millions or billions, Wen Liang can settle the matter without having to step forward, but there is still a bottom line between these two comparisons. You also know to bring a security team with you when you go out.
I cherish my life very much.
In fact, Wang Zhiyi is just boring, and basically spends all his money on these things. For example, tens of millions of frames are not the same seven days a week.
Zhao Mingjie doesn't even have this hobby, he just likes to wander.
The two also have an excuse to step on the horse, euphemistically called divergent thinking, to create better algorithms.
Li Ze continued: "Lao Zhang's thoughts are all on the laboratory. His family is doing well. After Bolang develops, he will naturally be able to benefit from it. The family has arranged a marriage for him, saying that he is a couple.
Let's see, I met this woman once, she is Xiaojiabiyu type, she should be compatible with her."
"As you know, Lao Yin, he is not at a disadvantage when it comes to relationships, and now he has a fixed partner."
"Xiao Qin has made arrangements with his family and plans to get engaged after graduating from college next year."
"Bowen... Bowen said he is not interested in relationships now, and his family also wanted to arrange it for him, but he refused."
"Old Tang negotiated one by himself. I only met him two days ago. It's okay. My personal opinion is not suitable for him, but I can't say anything about this kind of thing."
"Xiao Chen, you should be aware that he has always been very popular among women, and now he represents Bolang. I heard that Mr. Hu talked to him about matchmaking in March. It is actually difficult for him, after all...
I’m spoiled for choice, there are all kinds of fat, fat, thin, and so on. It’s quite moisturizing.”
Wen Liang smiled when he heard this. He really knew this. Chen Jiaxin occasionally complained that he was too popular.
After all, everyone can see that he is the one who has the closest relationship with Wen Liang among the co-founder team, holds a lot of shares, and is also a guest of many people.
How can I put it, he has more choices than Wenliangdu.
Finally, Li Ze also talked about himself: "You also know my partner, but I haven't met him yet. I will consider getting married in the next two years."
Of course Li Ze knew that his partner was Wen Liang.
She is not a high-altitude flower, nor is she a college classmate. She is a girl from an ordinary family. She is two years younger than Li Ze, who will turn 24 in the second half of the year, but she graduated with a bachelor's degree last year.
His appearance is considered average. According to Li Ze, there is nothing special about him in every aspect.
Maybe this is called fate.
Wen Liang thought for a while and expressed his opinion: "If you personally think it is suitable, get married and have children this year. You guys had contact in the second half of last year. I believe that such a long time is enough for you to make a judgment."
"Huh?" Li Ze looked puzzled.
Wen Liang gave his opinion: "Although the company will get busier and busier in the future, with me here, it will be the most relaxing time for you. It is good to take this opportunity to have a baby."
Li Zenong frowned: "How to say?"
Wen Liang said bluntly: "I will not always focus on the company, understand?"
Li Ze: "I..."
"Okay, okay, let me make some arrangements. Who wants me to be a toiler?"
Wen Liang said sincerely: "There is nothing wrong with getting married early and having children early. As long as you live a suitable life, it will be fine. If you really meet that kind of soul mate, your moral bottom line will probably suddenly become flexible."
"Don't think that it's not good to get ahead of me. I'm not old enough, otherwise it doesn't matter when I get married."
"Anyway, if you can get married, get married as soon as possible. Even Xiao Chen is old enough. There is no need to delay. Get married if it suits you."
Li Ze smiled and nodded: "Okay, getting married early and having children will give you an excuse to tie you to the company."
Wen Liang smiled and said nothing.
While he was gibbering, Li Ze suddenly gossiped: "I'm a little curious. Even blog posts suddenly 'disappear' from time to time. How come you don't have any need for them?"
"If you find out, can it be me?" Wen Liang Erlang raised his legs, "Besides, I'm different from you."
Li Ze thought it made sense when he heard it: "That's right. You are too famous. If you are not careful, it will be a huge scandal. It is best if we don't find out."
The biggest difference between Wen Liang and other co-founders is that he has a clear fiancée, and her fiancée has a great background.
Regarding this kind of thing, Su Jian can express his understanding through his subtle experience. Lao Litou and others can turn a blind eye, but others will not.
For example, netizens.
Such as business competitors.
The scandal had a great impact on Bolang.
Li Ze and the others didn't care, because they didn't know their fiancées, and they were both famous at a young age. How could they not be friends?
So... Wan An, the low-key general secretary, can only be said to be a perfect arrangement.
Speaking of Wan An, her appearance really doesn't suit her background, so much so that she didn't even have a best friend for so long, and she was a little upset about this some time ago.
Wan'an's thinking on this matter is very simple, and she hopes to be gentle and gentle, so she thinks about how great it would be if she had a good-looking best friend to lure her into the trap.
This actually reflects a hidden common social phenomenon: when brothers are called out, it is for real affection, but when best friends are called out, it is easy to introduce them to other men.
Wen Liang also muttered at that time that Wan An should really change his name to Wan Wansen.
Apart from being able to change into a gentle form, she would never get what she really wanted, and she didn't dare to think about it.
Moreover, with the rapid development of Bolang, the fee paid by Wen Liang last year will soon be a drop in the bucket for Wan An - because if the co-founder's job number is not included, Wan An's job number ranks third.
Bolang's first regular employee is Finance Wu Mingxiao, and the second regular employee is Front Desk Qin Qing. These two people did not leave in the first month, so they will naturally not be stupid enough to resign later, and they will naturally still shine in their respective positions.
Wan'an previously received 150,000 share options and has exercised them this year. The exercise price is based on a valuation of 30 million and a total share capital of 1 billion shares, which only costs 4,500 yuan.
According to this year's latest internal valuation of 700 billion, although the total share capital has become 10 billion, the number of shares has not changed.
That is to say, the value of Wan'an's shares has reached 10.5 million.
The key point is that Wan'an's general secretary's position, as well as the driver's position, are not low in salary, with the annual comprehensive income reaching one million.
If Bolang develops for a few more years, Wan'an's shareholding value is estimated to easily exceed 100 million, and this value can be realized directly through the internal repurchase process.
Therefore, 2.7 billion was distributed in the first quarter. The asset management company picked up 500 million US dollars two days ago. Wen Liang, who can distribute 500 million US dollars or more than 1.5 billion US dollars, has no idea how much cash he has in his pocket, transferred it to
Wan'an has a fixed asset worth tens of millions.
But Wan'an was very helpless about this.
She didn't dare to say that she was not short of money.
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At noon, the plane arrived at the Capital International Airport.
We boarded the car almost door to door and went all the way to the Four Seasons Hotel... After so many visits to the capital, Wen Liang has never stayed at Diaoyutai.
It's not that I'm not allowed to live there, it's just that there are a lot of business matters every time, so it's not that convenient to live there.
The main thing is that Mr. Wen has passed the stage where he needs to rely on food, clothing, housing and transportation to show his identity. Just brush his face.
After a brief lunch, Wen Liang and Li Ze visited Kingsoft Software together.
Qiu Bojun, who has retired, as well as Chairman Lei Jun, CEO Zhang Hongjiang and their entourage expressed a warm welcome to Wen Liang and their arrival.
The two sides inevitably exchanged friendly greetings.
"Mr. Wen and Mr. Ze visited our Jinshan together, which really made Jinshan shine." Lei Jun said with a smile, "The two bosses have worked hard all the way."
"Mr. Lei, you're welcome."
"..."
Then we moved into the conference room.
Wen Liang closed his mouth.
He was just dropping by for a formality. For a business matter of this scale, Li Ze didn't even need to come forward.
Because the teams from both sides have already conducted preliminary docking and consultations.
Li Ze quickly put forward Bolang's needs: "...According to our assessment, your company's WPS office suite can contribute approximately 500 million in revenue this year, which will be a large increase compared to last year's revenue of approximately 900 million.
, based on this calculation, the WPS office suite will contribute approximately 500 million in revenue next year.”
"Based on your company's previous highest market value of HK$11 billion, and based on the overall revenue for the year, WPS office suite revenue accounts for approximately 13% to 15%."
"According to this, the price our company can offer to acquire the WPS office suite is RMB 1.5 billion."
This price is relatively superior, and the fair price is about 1.2 billion.
Because the profit of WPS office suite is actually not high, usually only 15%.
Even if calculated based on the price of 1.2 billion, it will take about twenty or even thirty years for WPS to earn a profit of 1.2 billion.
There is no way, the market is so cruel.
Microsoft's office suite is too boring.
And the price of 1.2 billion actually takes into account the impact of WPS on Kingsoft’s stock price.
After all, the main source of revenue of Kingsoft Software is...the game business, led by Xishanju, and the Internet security business, of which the game business revenue accounts for more than 50%.
Regarding the price of 1.5 billion, Lei Jun and Qiu Bojun looked at each other with surprise.
Then Lei Jun went straight to the point and asked his doubts: "Mr. Ze's quotation is a bit higher than the fair evaluation system..."
"Mutual benefit." Li Ze said with a smile first, then added, "Mr. Lei can also understand that Bolang needs the highest efficiency now."
Lei Jun smiled: "It's a pleasure to cooperate."
Bolang doesn't need much, it's just a WPS, and it doesn't package Kingsoft's application software system, so its impact on Kingsoft software is actually limited.
So of course cooperation can be achieved.
The next thing will naturally be left to the teams of both parties to handle.
After a brief exchange of greetings, Wen Liang and Li Ze said goodbye and left.
Wen Liang then went directly back to the hotel to sleep.
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It is said that he has been working hard for a long time, and Mr. Ze certainly has no time to rest.
After leaving Kingsoft, I went to another company and negotiated the acquisition of a PDF software.
Of course it is incomparable to WPS, and the cost is only more than 60 million.
On this day, a Bolang team also went to Fujian to acquire Meitu Xiuxiu from Meitu, a company they had previously cooperated with.
Meitu's current valuation is less than US$200 million. Although it is mainly supported by the Meitu Xiuxiu software, the reason for its rapid increase in valuation is the recent release of Meitu mobile phone.
The fair value of Meitu Xiuxiu is approximately RMB 300 million.
Bolang acquired Meitu for 500 million and gave Meitu the relevant authorization to use some of Meitu Xiuxiu’s algorithms.
You can use the beautiful pictures without authorizing them, but they will definitely be infringing.
In just two days, Bolang completed more than 10 commercial mergers and acquisitions.
It mainly covers the three major tools that are benchmarked against Microsoft Office, as well as domestic software that is benchmarked against Adobe's PS, Pr, Ai, Id, Ae, Fl and other tools.
Needless to say, there are three main items in Microsoft office: Word (document), PPT (presentation), and Excel (table). WPS is the benchmark and is almost a must-have tool.
As for Adobe, the product of Dogecoin Company, in a word, it is a productivity tool.
PS is P-picture software, Pr is professional video and movie editing, and Ai is industry-standard vector illustration software used in publishing, multimedia and online images;
Id is a desktop publishing (DTP) application mainly used for typesetting and editing of various printed matter.
Ae is a graphics and video processing software. The official introduction is for magnificent visual effects and dynamic graphics.
Fl is a software for creating Flash animation files, which is essential for 2D animation production.
Oh...the PDF software we acquired was also designed to compete with Adobe.
PDF.
In fact, what Bolang seeks is not benchmarking in the true sense, but to make the Xingchen Desktop System basically possess the preliminary tool elements of a qualified desktop system.
Expect giants like Adobe, the American company, to adapt.
Given the current situation where America is eager to have a chance to try it out, and the fact that Adobe is unlikely to be interested in the Star Desktop System at this stage, don’t even think about it!
Let’s put it this way, what’s listed here are only commonly used tools and software from Adobe. There are also some tools that are commonly used for certain types of work. Some of them are not even adapted to macOS. What’s even more funny is that Adobe’s family bucket
It was originally designed to adapt to macOS...
What's more difficult for Bolang is that personal computers have developed for so many years, and the tools and software listed above are just a drop in the ocean.
If you want the Star Desktop System to truly be worthy of the term productivity tool, the road ahead is long enough to be desperate!
At present, Bolang's main purpose of acquiring these commonly used software tools is for users.
The well-known WPS and Meitu Xiuxiu both have over 200 million users. Among them, WPS’s PC monthly active users are as high as 60 million, and its mobile monthly active users are close to 30 million.
In contrast, if Bolang re-builds and develops similar software and then promotes it, the cost may be higher.
Moreover, user habits still need to be cultivated a little bit. It is better to spend some money now to directly have a good foundation and bring consumers a better user experience.
Taking advantage of Prism's east wind, Xinghai's computer series can be made easier.
The more consumers there are, the faster the ecological adaptation progress will be.
The current situation is incomparable to Windows, but if we only compare productivity with Apple, it's... not bad.
If you can't seize the Windows market, how can you not seize Apple's market?
Besides, Bolang also has vertical game adaptation.
"Lord of Glory" is quietly taking over LOL and becoming a national MOBA game.
With Bolang's good appeal in the domestic business community, domestic users don't have to worry about playing games.
As for overseas markets...
Take your time. Take your time.
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On the morning of the 19th, after the dust of these acquisitions had settled and been sorted out, Li Ze, who was in Beijing, led the release of the official joint statement.
The general idea is:
“In order to forward-lookingly develop the Xingchen desktop system ecosystem and provide a relatively excellent user experience, our company has completed the acquisition of software including WPS office suite, Meitu Xiuxiu, PDF reader, video editing, animation production and other software;
Our company will invest no less than RMB 500 million in first-phase R&D funds in the coming time to complete the integration and reorganization of these software and form two major tool software systems, mainly daily office suite and creative design suite, to provide
A more comprehensive collaborative use experience, working hard for a better user experience!”
The news was sent out through official channels and quickly covered the widest range. It was listed on the Xiaocheng Book hot list and triggered a lot of discussion.
"Bolang is really ruthless. Everyone is still discussing how to replace it with domestic products all day long. Prism is too scary and so on. Bolang has already started to build the PC ecosystem on its own."
"What else can I say? Just support and it will be over!"
"Many years ago, we expected our country to have its own operating system. Although there is a Star system, it does not cover the computer side. Now, Bolang has started to do ecological adaptation. We look forward to the early arrival of the Star desktop system. After all, Microsoft is
Prism accomplice, my personal Internet privacy information is not important, but the information of more than one billion people in our country is very important!"
"But 500 million can't do much, so we need to invest more in the future."
"According to incomplete statistics, Bolang spent at least 2 billion yuan to acquire these software. Adding the 500 million yuan, it is more than Adobe's half-year profit. Don't mistake money for money!"
"Don't mistake money for money. Take WPS as an example. According to Kingsoft's financial report, the money spent to acquire WPS is worth several times the net profit of WPS in the past twenty years! Even in the future, WPS will take at least twenty years to earn so much profit.
!”
"If Bolang was a listed company, this kind of operation would directly upset the shareholders. You should scold Bolang for selling your land!"
"I finally know what the core value of Bolang is. It changes because of me. It really changes because of me!!"
"Can I say... I hope Bolang will also invest in the information support system?"
"..."
Because the prism is still there, there is no discussion on the domestic Internet about why Bolang spends money to do repetitive work.
In the past, everyone would have thought, there are Adobe family buckets, Microsoft Office, and this and that, why would you do it yourself?
Now everyone doesn’t think so.
You have to have it yourself to really have it, at least you won't be controlled by America or monitored by America.