Chapter 31 Successful Financing
Zhou Shi submitted his application depressedly, and the military training seemed to be out of the blue. He had no impression of the military training in his previous life, but there was definitely no live-fire exercise. He thought he could have a good experience this time, but he was dragged down by the company's affairs.
The equity division within the company is 70% of Zhou Shi, 25% of Wang Feng, and about 5% of other employees. The Tieba Forum has relatively low technical requirements. The main creativity and operational plans are basically Zhou Shi's ideas. It is appropriate for the technology leader to take such a proportion of shares, and Wang Feng himself did not say anything.
However, in order to fear trouble, Zhou Shi divided his equity into two parts. Xinghe Capital, the offshore investment company he established previously, accounted for 50%, and he personally accounted for 20%.
The investment ratios of several venture capital investors were also divided well. DFJ came from behind to invest 5 million. Idg and Jifu Asia invested a total of 5 million yuan. Zhou Hongyi and SoftBank chose to withdraw. The valuation of 50 million US dollars. After investing 10 million US dollars, they accounted for 20% of the shares. After listening to Lao Zhou's persuasion, Zhou Shi did not insist on the initial 16.7%. However, he still set up repurchase terms and supplementary agreements, and then announced the financing news to the public.
Even though the first Super Girl was very popular, far beyond his previous life, it still did not stop Zhou Shi from becoming the protagonist of financial news during this period. As Zhou Shi's identity information was further disclosed, the second place in Hunan Province was a Peking University student, a post-80s student, less than 20 years old, with a net worth of tens of millions of dollars. The company received a constant stream of interview requests, and Mango TV also took the opportunity to speak out. Super Girl's creativity came from Zhou Shi. The company's phone number was blown up again, and its hot state forced Zhou Shi to accept an interview.
Without choosing traditional media, Zhou Shi accepted a joint interview with Yahoo, Sina, Sohu and NetEase. Zhou Shi, who has not yet cultivated his skills, can only talk about it in general.
"How did you think of starting a business?" reporter a
"I want to make my life more valuable" Zhou Shi
"How did you choose to start a business with the Tieba model?" Reporter b
"At first, I thought that the operating cost of websites like Tieba is not high, and the people who speak in BBS are more elites and high-tech. So I want to set up a forum that is low-threshold and open to everyone, and then have the current Tieba."
"How did you come up with the idea of web2.0?" Reporter c
"It should be the joint role of practice and learning. Yuanpeiban is quite good at learning. I learned a lot, but I didn't learn well. Then I summarized my experience in the operation of Tieba and slowly formed the web2.0de idea."
"What do you think of this financing? Many people online think that the financing price is inflated?" Reporter d
"I think this is everyone's trust in me, and I feel that my courage is getting stronger. Instead of investing in projects, I think it's more about investing in "people" themselves. Our team is very good, so whether this financing is cost-effective depends on the future development of our company." Zhou Shi
"You have such a big net worth now, will you continue to study? How to balance study and work? Can you guarantee that you will not waste investors' money?" Reporter a
"If nothing unexpected happens, I should continue to study. As for the balance between work and study, it depends on many factors. I don't know what kind of competition I will face in the future, and it is not easy to preview the future development."
"Some people say you will become Bill Gates of China. Do you think this is possible?"
"I won't be the so-and-so in China, I am me, wealth is not my only pursuit." Zhou Shi felt a little difficult to deal with.
"How did you achieve what you are now?" reporter c
"I don't think it's suitable to use achievements now, but more about the achievements brought by luck and hard work. I set different small goals for myself at each stage of my life and then achieve them step by step."
"What small goals have you set for yourself?" reporter c asked
"My little goal in high school was to get into a good university. My little goal after college was to earn 100 million before graduation." Finally, it was time to wait for this, and occasionally I had to show off!
"..." The field was speechless
Zhou Shi Wuxin said it again, and after a few perfunctory questions, he terminated the interview.
Without surprise, Zhou Shi's remarks caused another storm. If it weren't for the promotion of Weibo, it would have really spread across the country. A large number of media began to discuss Zhou Shi, some thought he was arrogant and hypocritical, while others thought he was sincere and bold. However, not many people questioned him for a small goal of 100 million, and even now, the value on the surface is close to tens of millions of dollars. Not far from a 100 million yuan. Of course, there are still financial programs on TV to discuss whether Zhou Shi can achieve his small goal, and there are actually many bearish people.
With funds, we naturally have to change the venue. Zhongguancun's high-tech park is a good choice. With this financing, many honors can be obtained. It was difficult to enjoy moral treatment before, but now it can be enjoyed. The board of directors was officially established, Zhou Shi, Wang Feng, Youwei, He Tiancheng and Yin Yue. People who do people really don't show much ability and political achievements. There are also two venture capitalists, Fu Xiang of Defengjie and Xiong Xiaoge of Idg unexpectedly became the company's director. But well, with their connections, Zhou Shi has better launched a blog plan.
"In the next stage, our focus is on blogs. Our primary goal is to have opinion leaders in various industries. Whether he is a well-known scholar and expert, a well-known corporate executive, an entertainment and sports star, a reporter group, or an opinion leader in some forums and posts, these are our goals. We first use these social public opinion centers to attract the public, form a wide range of user groups, and then promote interactions between them and break the information barriers in the crowd. This is our first goal in blogging." Zhou Shi did not talk about those big truths, but talked about the work goals of the next stage. Knowing and experience can only steadily follow
In development, the number of registered users of Tieba can quickly exceed the 30 million mark. The next growth rate may not be so fast. After all, the number of users on the entire Internet is only about 70 million. At this time, the number of registered users of QQ can exceed the 100 million mark. Zhou Shi has registered many of them before, not to mention others. Moreover, with investment funds, Zhou Shi once again suppressed Tieba's profit plan, reducing the scale of advertising. He increased his investment in game portals, and decided to go through the breakthrough of mini games and web games, purchase game adaptation rights for popular online novels, and develop independent games. Finally, he talked about the key blog plan.
Each of them had clear plans and clear goals. The two directors who participated in the first work meeting stood up and applauded Zhou Shi, obviously very satisfied with Zhou Shi's work.
However, Zhou Shi shook his head and sighed.
"Mr. Zhou's plan is already very good, what's the pity?" Xiong Xiaoge said curiously.
"You can say it!" Zhou Shi was not in the mood to speak in detail and said to Yin Yue.
(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!