Friday the 20th, the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month.
According to the legal holiday arrangement, today is still a working day, and the New Year's Eve the day after tomorrow is an official holiday.
However, Bolang made arrangements for the Spring Festival holiday as early as the 10th, with paid holidays starting from the 18th, and double wages on the job starting from the 16th.
At around ten o'clock, Wen Liang walked into the company and scanned the room. Only a handful of people were still working.
Just the front desk, Duan Yi and Powan.
It's normal. A small company that was only formalized last month is about to celebrate the New Year and encounter so many things. Some people want to run away with their buckets.
Of course, Wang Wanyu, Chen Jiaxin, and Li Ze are still there, as are Wan An and Li Xia.
As for Sun Baoyin, Tang Pu and the others have mostly boarded planes or high-speed trains and gone home to celebrate the New Year.
Different from usual, Wen Liang directly brought the child Li Rang into the general manager's office.
Wan An made tea for Wen Liang as usual, but changed from her usual rigid style and took the initiative to chat with Li Rang.
Li Rang naturally knew this elder sister who in her eyes did not like to talk.
She is a polite child, so she will not fail to talk to her.
As a result, the older one, the younger one, and the other two started chatting.
Wen Liang, who was sitting behind his desk, was slightly surprised.
'The rain has passed and the sky has cleared, do you think it's OK again?'
Wen Liang could only think so.
It can't be said that he can completely understand Wan An's thoughts, but he can definitely see a little bit of it.
It wasn't Li Rang's first day at the company. Wan An was as rigid as usual, as if he didn't dare to take the initiative to contact Li Rang.
It looks very much like she was invited to participate in the New Year's Eve dinner last night. Without the beginning of summer, Wan An feels that she can do it again...
As the Chinese New Year is approaching, Wen Liang still comes to the company, obviously he has some official business to pay attention to.
For example, the latest actions on Weibo.
Wen Liang flipped through the relevant reports in the public opinion system and quickly browsed the hot spots of relevant events by clicking on the pictures.
Weibo issued a statement.
The same style as before, in short:
"My Weibo name is White Lotus. Everything has nothing to do with my Weibo. Everything is based on the official information on my Weibo. All other information is just rumors."
"The Starlight Project is progressing smoothly."
"There is some misunderstanding and we will resolve it as soon as possible."
"..."
A discerning person can still discern something from this white lotus-like statement.
Wen Liang flipped through the most popular discussions among netizens.
Mainly focus on a few key points.
The first point.
A netizen commented: "Weibo's statement on Chunqiu is still very serious. It said that the Starlight Project is progressing smoothly, but it never mentioned the next batch of cooperation partners. On the other hand, on Xiaocheng Book, user cooperation has been going on, such as 'Xixi'
Some well-known users such as "Xuejie'" posted new cooperative advertising content last night."
This is Wen Liang's logic in handling the "Senior Xixi" incident. Many things will be done under the name "Senior Xixi".
Huang Xixi will not complain either.
This is not the same as dealing with the Deng Pei incident. Deng Pei encouraged Huang Xixi and Wen Liang to propose that she join Bolang. As soon as she entered the company, she made it clear that Che Ma wanted benefits and demonstrated to all her friends what it meant for some relatives to join.
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Therefore, the final solution was for Deng Pei to set up a marketing and promotion company on his own, and let Bolang take care of the business. This way, he would get the benefit of the doubt and not cause too many troubles within Bolang.
As for "obedient" and "tool people", if you want to make money, you must make sacrifices, and nothing will fall into the sky.
Of course, this is also because Chen Jiaxin needs to handle some disputes with Deng Pei well, so Wen Liang chooses a relatively extreme way to push things along.
Regarding this matter, the logic Wen Liang told his friends is:
Human nature is unavoidable, and it's okay for one person to achieve enlightenment and ascend to heaven, but don't cause trouble within the company.
If you make too many mistakes, sooner or later there will be loopholes everywhere...
Wen Liang restrained his thoughts and turned to the second point.
Still a comment from a netizen: "The so-called misunderstanding is that Weibo is using its own platform influence to deliberately divert everyone's attention. It can basically be understood that the Internet advertising trading platform that Weibo built itself in rumors has indeed gone wrong.
The big problem is the much-hyped single-day advertising revenue of 38.86 million. I have said this before. Don’t say 38.86 million, just say 3.88 million. That’s 1.4 billion in revenue a year. Weibo needs to be that big.
How can the revenue plate be valued at over US$2 billion?”
The third point.
"Mr. Jia is still doing the same thing. The statement means that the matter is over. You can discuss it if you want. Please go to other platforms. I don't welcome you on Weibo. If you insist on coming, then delete the comments and block your Weibo updates.
Actually, this also tells everyone that the Starlight Project is dead in name only."
"..."
The discussion on the Internet is still relatively lively, but Sina Weibo, a large public community platform, does not allow discussion, so everyone can only go to forums, Tieba, and Xiaocheng Book.
Xiaocheng Book does not currently have a hot list function, so as long as it is not causing trouble, it doesn't matter how you discuss it.
In fact, compared to the popularity of related topics on Weibo, netizens are also happy to discuss the future of Xiaocheng Shu, which has grown to tens of millions of users.
It also contributed to the increasing traffic of Xiaocheng Book.
Now the daily activity of Xiaocheng Book is 20 to 30 million, which is more than the total number of registered users.
Ridiculous!
Looking through the news on the Internet, Wen Liang also sorted things out in his mind.
"Now it seems that Mr. Jia really wanted to take advantage of the Spring Festival as a big holiday to gradually dilute the impact of the incident, and finally let it go on the surface."
"It's only been two or three days. With the current chaotic situation on Weibo in the rear, Mr. Jia wants to make another big move, but he is powerless."
"..."
……………
As he was scrolling the mouse with his right hand, there was a knock on the office door.
Li Ze and Wang Wanyu walked in together.
At this time, Li Rang's child was already sitting upright, well-behaved and sensible.
There was no extra action because Wang Wanyu walked in.
Facing Wen Liang's gaze, Li Ze first handed over a folder, and then reported: "Weibo's statement last night was considered by many people as a sign that Weibo wanted to downplay the incident and let it go. So this morning we
Orange Book is more lively.”
As he spoke, a smile appeared on Li Ze's face: "As of 10:30 in the morning, the Xiaocheng Book platform has received 1,000 new brand partner applications. After preliminary verification, about 60% of them fully meet the standards."
“300 of the applications were from big Vs with 300,000 followers on the original Weibo platform.”
"In a word, 70% of the non-celebrity Vs on the Weibo platform who did not participate in the 999 cooperative advertising plans are on the list of 300 people."
Wen Liang smiled: "This is the meaning of submitting a petition."
Li Ze basically agreed with Wen Liang's view and said: "Almost, after a series of things, and we still have not given up helping platform users and brand partners defend their rights, the existing 1,079 brand partners are more supportive of the platform than before.
a lot of."
At this point, Li Ze's tone became teasing: "The attitude of the advertiser group has also changed somewhat from before. Weibo has forcibly launched 999 cooperative advertisements for the New Year's Eve. It was not comprehensive enough and has hurt a large number of advertisers."
enthusiasm.”
"Two days ago, I got into Weibo's self-built advertising trading platform, and now I hear that many advertisers want to switch to demand-side platforms."
"I think this is an opportunity for us, an opportunity to form a positive cycle from SSP (supply side), DSP (demand side) to ADX (advertising exchange)."
After listening, Wen Liang thought about it for a while and decided: "Everyone may not be as anxious about the New Year as they actually show. During the Spring Festival, everyone mainly wants to celebrate the New Year. Everything is suspended. It is an opportunity, but don't be anxious and sort it out slowly."
Li Ze agreed: "I think so too. The Chinese New Year period is our best opportunity to sort out internally. Only if the product strength and vitality of Xiaocheng Shu are strong enough, will the outside world have sufficient confidence."
Wang Wanyu, who had been silent, took over and said with a smile: "The outside world's confidence in our company should be at its peak now. I have just received an olive branch from some investment institutions."
Wang Wanyu is not an ordinary financial person, her job scope also includes financing planning.
Qian Dejian on Weibo is not following the conventional route. He just wants to break through from Wen Liang, the core figure on the surface.
These venture capital methods are now routine, at least for Bolang.
Hearing this, Li Ze raised his thick eyebrows: "Oh? Are they really swarming here?"
"Yes." Wang Wanyu nodded gently, "They are all well-known investment institutions, full of sincerity."
Wen Liang raised his eyebrows when he heard this, made a gesture, and said with a smile: "How can you be so sincere?"
Wang Wanyu handed the folder she brought over to Wen Liang and introduced it in a clear and logical manner: "There are 5 venture capital companies and 1 private equity company. There are not the top ones in the country."
"The private equity firm that currently offers the highest price has given a pre-money valuation of US$300 million or RMB 1.9 billion."
“It’s a full $100 million higher than the others!”
Wen Liang was noncommittal and just said: "High valuation means high requirements."
"Yes." Wang Wanyu did not deny it. "The requirements for this private equity company are 35% of the shares, at least 1 shareholder seat, etc. Anyway, the lion is talking loudly."
"I checked through my channels and found that this private equity company has nothing to do with the major domestic Internet companies and is relatively independent. In fashionable terms, this private equity company is backed by old money (old money/ancestors have been rich to this day).
I used to focus more on traditional industries, but now I want to test the Internet."
Li Ze on the side suddenly smiled and asked: "Are we considered new money (new money/new rich who have made a fortune) from now on?"
Wen Liang, who was flipping through the documents, looked up at Li Ze and said with a smile: "You all can count, but I may not be able to count."
Mr. Wen is considered a second generation.
Although Mr. Wen didn't get much credit from the old Wen family for starting his business, according to the development of his previous life, Wen Liang's parents would be deputy directors in a few years, so it would be okay.
Li Ze was not surprised. They all knew that the old Wen family had some foundation.
Wen Liang closed the folder and said calmly: "Even if we accept this financing, there should still be a gap between us and our new money."
Afterwards, Wen Liang looked at Li Ze and Wang Wanyu opposite: "How should I put it? These venture capital investors and private equity investors are more sincere than expected. I think some of them have already sent representatives to fly to Yangcheng."
"There are also those that have done due diligence, such as this private placement."
"But no matter which company, the appetite is not small, at least 20% of the shares are required."
"What I told Qian Dejian is not a lie. No matter in the past, now or in the future, I will never have such a hasty financing plan, at least not with Bolang!"
"This is just one aspect. On the other hand, their sincerity is still not enough, and their understanding of Bolang is very shallow."
At this point, Wen Liang paused for a moment, and then continued to emphasize: "As for investment and financing matters, we have already made an agreement, and that's it. We won't discuss it further."
"Now an investment manager from an institution has arrived in Yangcheng. He has been here for a long time. It is really unreasonable not to deal with it. In this way, Mr. Wang and Mr. Chen will go and treat him to a cup of tea in the afternoon and simply deal with it."
Wang Wanyu responded: "Okay."
Li Ze had no objection to Wen Liang's decision.
Now Bolang is not short of money for development, and its mobile game business has not even entered the deployment stage. Xiaocheng Book is an asset-light enterprise with low costs and high revenue, so there is no need to rush to raise funds.
And these capitals do have a huge appetite. They can hold 20% of the shares and have people participate in the company's operations. It's a big deal to just deal with it -
