Chapter 152: Ma Xiaoyun, the down and out (Part 2)
After gathering his mood, Lin Chen asked tentatively: "Before talking about this project, can you first tell me about Ma Xiaoyun? I remember, didn't he go into education?"
After confirming that this world was a parallel world, the thing that surprised Lin Chen the most was undoubtedly the matter between Ma Xiaoyun and Taobao.
In this world, although Ma Xiaoyun still founded Ali Baba and Taobao, he failed to persevere in Ali Baba's most difficult time like Lin Chen's previous life. Instead, he abandoned Ali Baba early.
Sold to Yahu together with Taobao.
And Ma Xiaoyun herself, after receiving a huge sum of money, turned around and re-entered the education industry, but her whereabouts were unknown soon after, and she disappeared from the public.
Liu Xing said: "Dr. Lin, Ma Xiaoyun's business venture after leaving Ali Ba Ba was not smooth. He originally planned to use the money from selling Ali Ba Ba to start online education, but this market is still very immature at least in China.
, Ma Xiaoyun burned all the money after persisting for a year."
"But about a month ago, Ma Xiaoyun came to Goldman Sachs on Hong Kong Island, where I work, hoping that we could provide him with venture capital."
"Ma Xiaoyun seems to want to re-enter the e-commerce market and start over. But unfortunately, our company's senior management feels that the e-commerce market is now stable. Even if Ma Xiaoyun wants to start over, this market has no chance for latecomers. So.
At that time, Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong rejected his proposal."
"That was a month ago, so what now?" Lin Chen asked very curiously: "He should not only have found Goldman Sachs, right? Has anyone else invested in him?"
"As far as I know, no." Liu Xing shook his head: "Ma Xiaoyun gave up halfway and the impact was too great. People in investment banks thought that his personality was not suitable for starting a business, and there was no money to be made in e-commerce.
Hope, so as far as I know, no investment bank is willing to invest in him."
"Then why do you want me to invest in him?" Lin Chen asked Liu Xing's opinion instead: "Your colleagues are not optimistic about it, so what makes you think I should invest in Ma Xiaoyun?"
"Director Lin, to tell you the truth, I am not very optimistic about Ma Xiaoyun's desire to re-enter the e-commerce industry. But I think Ma Xiaoyun is a very charming businessman. I think his previous failure was more due to luck. He
Such a person, to describe it in one sentence, is like a creature in a pond with golden scales, he turns into a dragon when encountering a storm!"
"So I suggest, Director Lin, that even if you don't plan to invest in Ma Xiaoyun's project, you'd better meet with him."
Lin Chen smiled, Liu Xing's idea was really special, or should he actually be that kind of natural investor? Being able to discover Ma Xiaoyun's qualities just by feeling can be considered a kind of talent.
In fact, Lin Chen had already made a decision in his heart without Liu Xing's persuasion.
How could Lin Chen not want to meet the richest man in China in his previous life?
What's more, he strongly agreed with Liu Xing's words that Ma Xiaoyun was by no means a thing in the pond, but a hidden dragon.
In the previous life, many people thought that Ma Xiaoyun was lucky and entered the e-commerce field early. But from the situation of Ali Baba in this life, we can see that Ma Xiaoyun herself is crucial to the development of Ali Baba and Taobao.
Without him, Ahli Baba is just an ordinary Internet company now, and Taobao is far from the glorious scene of Lin Chen's previous life where one family was the only one.
So, can Ma Xiaoyun, who now wants to make a comeback, succeed? In the field of e-commerce that once failed, can he return as the king?
Lin Chen was very curious.
"Liu Xing, please make an appointment with Ma Xiaoyun for me. I want to see him. The sooner the better."
"good!"
Liu Xing nodded excitedly. Lin Chen's willingness to meet Ma Xiaoyun was already an affirmation of him.
Even the four major investment banks were not optimistic about the person, but Lin Chen was willing to meet him. Even if there was no result in the end, for Liu Xing, it was enough to show that his new boss valued his words.
What those who invest in projects fear most is that their bosses ignore their opinions. When Liu Xing chose to leave Goldman Sachs, wasn't it because those ghost leaders simply didn't believe in his investment vision as a Chinese?
Liu Xing acted very quickly, or maybe Ma Xiaoyun is really in a bad situation now.
After that day, only half a day later, Lin Chen received a reply from Liu Xing, saying that he had made an appointment with Ma Xiaoyun and that he would personally come to Donghai to explain his project plan to Lin Chen in detail.
Just like that, early the next morning, before it was time to go to work, a short man with an unattractive appearance and a shaky appearance appeared under the Lin Chen company building.
This man is the now down-and-out Ma Xiaoyun.
Ma Xiaoyun looked up at the magnificent company building in front of her, and then thought about where she currently works, with a look of emotion on her face.
Once upon a time, I also worked in a company building like this, and the people around me were all high-end white-collar workers.
Unfortunately, due to temporary difficulties, I finally chose to give up.
Ma Xiaoyun still regrets this choice of selling Ahli Baba, which she worked so hard to develop and grow, to others.
So this time, Ma Xiaoyun decided to make a comeback and get up where he failed.
This time, he will never give up easily.
However, ideals are very realistic, and the road to entrepreneurship is extremely difficult. People like him who have experienced failures are not trusted by others.
Until now, he has lost count of how many big companies and bosses he has been rejected by.
Some people even kicked him out directly after knowing it was him.
In their eyes, he is a loser, and no one will give money to a loser.
Fortunately, just yesterday, Ma Xiaoyun, who had failed many times, once again saw a glimmer of hope.
There is an investment company owner who is willing to listen to his plan.
Although this company is not well-known in the industry, the person who called him revealed that their company had just spent US$300 million to invest in Huawei Mobile.
Ma Xiaoyun thought of the news about Huawei mobile phones she had seen on Weibo before. The recent series of personnel changes in the other party were precisely because Huawei mobile phones had changed owners.
Being able to spend huge sums of money to buy Huawei Mobile Phones means that although this company is unknown, it is obviously very powerful.
So Ma Xiaoyun came to Donghai overnight, spent the night in a 100-yuan hotel, and then arrived at the door of the other party's company early in the morning.
All this is just for a short meeting.
This time, he must seize the opportunity.
"I want to make money!"
"I want to be prosperous!"
"I want to become a master!"
"I want to take back everything that belongs to me!"
Under the looks of the people around her as if she was crazy, Ma Xiaoyun yelled a few times and then strode into the building!