The conference room in the Renren office building.
Lu Yang was sitting on the main seat, and opposite him sat a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes. He had sharp eyes and a straight nose, and he looked wealthy.
It was Huang Deng, the investment manager of Longteng Capital who met with Lu Yang last week.
Judging from the cigarette butts in the ashtray, the two people had been talking for a long time.
Huang Deng looked at Lu Yang again. This young founder was much more difficult to deal with than he thought, and his way of thinking was also more mature than his peers.
"Lu Yang, let me take a step back. With four million funds, we, Longteng, hold 38% of the shares. What do you think of this sincerity? You must know that in the past, we rarely paid so much attention to this kind of Internet business incubation projects."
Lu Yang smiled, it didn't matter that Huang Deng was an idiot, he still thought he was an idiot!
From the beginning of the negotiation between the two people, Huang Deng planned to invest 4 million and asked for 45% of the shares. Do you really think that he is a person who has never seen the world?
It took more than half a year for Renren to develop from its initial development to now having 1.5 million users, and I have already invested 4 to 5 million in real money.
"I'm sorry, Manager Huang, your offer does not meet my expectations. Four million, 20% is my limit! If it were for other capital, I might not sell it."
The two sides were in a stalemate, and Huang Deng was a little impatient.
"Four million, 20%, are you kidding me? Do you know what this means? Does your Renren have a valuation of 20 million? Young people, don't be too ignorant!"
Lu Yang lit a cigarette and said neither humble nor arrogantly: "To be honest, the valuation of 20 million is really not much. My goal is to hit 50 million!"
Huang Deng laughed angrily. He stared at Lu Yang for a long time and finally said: "Don't say I didn't give you a chance. Now the 139 community is also entering the SNS social model. If you refuse our investment, then we, Longteng Capital, will
They will switch to your competitors, and by then the valuation of Renren may not even be worth one million!"
Lu Yang raised his eyebrows: "Are you threatening me?"
Huang Deng said meaningfully: "You can understand it this way!"
Lu Yang exhaled a puff of smoke: "I am really not afraid of threats. If you can support the 139 community, I will lose!"
"Then we'll see!"
Huang Deng stood up and slammed the door and walked out!
Lu Yang's originally frivolous brow gradually wrinkled.
After Huang Deng left, he called Jia Xin to the office.
Recently, Jia Xin often takes three subordinates on business trips.
Their job is to contact major agencies and celebrities to join Renren.com.
Fortunately, the influence of Renren is now beginning to emerge, and they can acquire celebrities at a much lower cost than expected.
Currently, Renren promotes TV series and movies in the entertainment industry free of charge, achieving a win-win situation for both parties.
After Jia Xin reported the performance of the past month, he took the initiative to talk to Lu Yang about a cooperation.
Zhang Weiguo, the producer of the movie House of Flying Daggers, contacted Jia Xin the day before yesterday and proposed that he would like to do a three-month promotion on Renren and asked her to make an offer.
Lu Yang is very familiar with House of Flying Daggers, the star of Andy Lau and International Chapter.
It is said that the publicity and distribution fee for House of Flying Daggers was higher than that for Hero, reaching 20 million. He later went to the cinema to watch this movie.
It was rare to meet such a wealthy client, so Lu Yang asked Jia Xin to focus on following up with producer Zhang Weiguo to win the promotional cooperation for House of Flying Daggers.
He also chatted with Jia Xin about the development plan for the second half of the year.
If nothing goes wrong, Jay Chou's Qilixiang album will be released this year.
Lu Yang asked Jia Xin to try to contact Jay Chou to see if the album could be promoted and released simultaneously on Renren.com.
Jia Xin’s mantra for external promotion is: We, Renren.com, occupy 80% of the market share of domestic universities, with two million real-name registered users and eight million browsing users. All user groups are college students with intellectual literacy and rich professional knowledge.
Spending power is stable.
After chatting with Jia Xin, Lu Yang called Fan Pingchuan again.
Lu Yang got straight to the point: "Senior Fan, have you ever heard of 139 Community?"
Fan Pingchuan replied: "I heard that this is an SNS social networking site that was just released after the Spring Festival this year. The development ideas are the same as ours, and even the layout of the web page is the same. I suspect they copied it from us."
Lu Yang asked: "It's hard to say whether they will copy or not, but do you know how many registered users they have now?"
Fan Pingchuan shook his head.
Lu Yang and Fan Pingfan analyzed the current social network giants.
It's 2004, and the three most popular social networking services in the world are Friendster, MySpace, and Bebo.
In fact, if you look back at the development of the Internet, you will find that in the early development of the Internet, equality and anonymity emerged out of opposition to traditional thinking, which led to the Internet becoming an unregulated world.
For example, there is a huge amount of bad information and a paradise for virus creators.
Facebook was also released in 2004. They made an innovation, which was the introduction of the real-name system for the first time in the Internet world. This made the Internet world, which was originally a mixed bag of people, for the first time a site with content that was highly close to the real world.
Zach once said: On MySpace, people can write whatever they want on their resumes. We have always believed that if we put some restrictions on users, they will share more information because they will feel that the site is more
Order and more security.
In a nutshell: Google can help you find what you need, but Facebook can help you know who you are.
Fan Pingchuan has also seen the news about Facebook, but the news said that Facebook will eventually become cannon fodder and cannot truly develop.
He didn't know why Lu Yang was so sure that Facebook would develop.
Lu Yang said: "If you focus on this 139 community, they are probably our biggest competitor in the country!"
Currently, Xiaonei.com, Kaixin.com, and 5Q.com are not yet on the market, so Lu Yang has plenty of time.
But more and more giants are paying attention to this piece of cake and want to get involved.
Lu Yang logged onto the Renren homepage and focused on the operations of Nut Technology.
Under the operation of Xie Zhiqiang and the daily lottery, Nut Technology has 600,000 fans.
The daily MP3 lottery has become one of the things that many users pay attention to.
He looked at Renren’s hot search rankings again.
No. 1 on the list: Russian election
Second on the list: Tens of thousands of people around the world marched to protest the first anniversary of the outbreak of the US-Yin war
Third on the list: Ma Jiajue was arrested, thanks to his roommate for not killing him
These hot searches instantly brought Lu Yang's thoughts back to 2004.
His mind always jumps repeatedly between 2022 and 2004.
After browsing the hot searches, Lu Yang dialed Lao Lu's phone number.
After the phone rang a few times, Lu Jianjun's voice came.
"Hey, Lu Yang."
"Dad, the time for the new product launch is coming soon. How is your stocking up?"
"Well, this, is it enough to prepare three thousand units?"
"It's a bit small. Please prepare more, at least 5,000 units. Even if you can't sell them all, you can sell them slowly in the future."
Lu Jianjun was worried that Lu Yang's press conference was more of a gimmick than reality.
If there is too much stock at that time, the factory will not only squeeze the goods, but also the funds.
He told Lu Yang on the phone to take his time and be down-to-earth, and not to become fat in one sitting.
In fact, Lu Yang didn't have much confidence in the online sales of MP3, but the sword was already on the string and he had to make a move...