America's Road to Fame

Chapter 237 Completion of the Siheyuan

Boss Ma is very proud recently. The Huaguo version of HOLA is developing rapidly. In less than a month, it already has more than 500 million users. Including the previous users, it is estimated that in less than two weeks, the number of users will exceed [-] million. up.

Although it is far from the hundreds of millions of QQ users, it is a social software on the PC side, while HOLA is an APP for mobile smartphones. At present, Penguin has not yet produced an APP similar to HOLA, which also gives HOLA more Time to expand advantage.

Boss Ma also took a deep breath when Penguin relied on its advantages in the social field to directly compete with Ali on e-commerce. It is no wonder that he is so happy now that he can finally give Penguin back.

This time, Boss Ma will go to Yanjing in person, mainly to meet the people of Zha Lang, and to talk about investing in Weibo. With HOLA and Weibo, the drainage effect on Taobao will not be worse than that of Baidu.

"You really want to buy Manchester United?"

In addition to chatting with William Chen about these cooperation matters, Boss Ma is most concerned about his acquisition of the team. A team, it seems that at this time, Boss Ma has become interested in football.

But this is not surprising, after all, Manchester United's reputation in the world is too great.

"Yes, we are negotiating now, and the specific price has not been negotiated yet."

"That's nothing more than a question of more money and less money. For you, you should be sure. Didn't you say that you would give 30 billion US dollars to Manchester United? Tsk tsk, it's really rich."

Boss Ma looked at William Chen and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He already has quite a status in the business world of Huaguo, but he is really incomparable with the little brother in front of him. He is the fourth richest man in the world and he is only in his early twenties. At this age, his net worth is more than twice that of the richest man in China. He even suspects that with his recent aggressive acquisitions, his actual net worth may be far more than that.

"Haha, that's just a bluff, but Manchester United's profitability is indeed good, but now in terms of team development, Europe is still far behind the United States, and Manchester United's reputation is wasted. If Manchester United's commercial value is fully developed Come out, then the annual income will more than double. And buying this team will also be of great benefit to enhancing the popularity of my brand.”

What William Chen said is also true. After a full investigation by his acquisition team, he concluded that Manchester United's commercial development is still in a very low-level state.Why are those teams in the United States not as profitable as Manchester United, and not as well-known globally as Manchester United, but they are still worth a lot?Because the commercial development of American sports is far ahead of European football clubs.

To put it bluntly, most of the managers of European clubs are retired players, and most of UEFA officials have no experience in commercial development. How can these people do a good job in commercial promotion and development?It is a waste of the popularity of football, the world's number one sport.

Then you may ask, since these people don't understand, why don't there be professional people to help them develop?The reason is that whether it is the management of the club or UEFA, their income is too low. For example, at this time, the management of Manchester United, including the CEO, does not have an annual salary of more than 80 pounds before tax. , after tax deduction, the highest is more than 60 pounds, and the lowest is less than 50 pounds.

This kind of annual salary seems to be very high in the eyes of ordinary people, but this is Manchester United, one of the most famous clubs in the world. With such an annual salary, what top business talents can be hired?Wouldn't it be good for such a talent to go to a big company to get a high salary and stock incentives?

Therefore, if Chen William buys Manchester United, the first thing to do is to recruit several outstanding business talents in the sports industry in the United States, and at the same time greatly increase the salary of the management.

Therefore, raising the salary level may be the wish of every worker.But if your boss suddenly wants to significantly increase your salary in this position, don't be too happy too early, you may soon lose your job.Because since he does this, it is likely that he is dissatisfied with your job and plans to introduce more capable talents, so he increases his salary to attract talents to join.

"By the way, Ma, I have something to tell you." William Chen looked at Ma's puzzled expression and said, "People from Jingdong have approached me, and I think the conditions are good, so I plan to invest."

Hearing that this was the case, Boss Ma didn't care too much and said, "You can vote if you want, but don't say I remind you every time, their model is not easy to do."

At this time, Boss Ma didn't care about Jingdong at all, after all, the difference in size was too great.On the contrary, Dadongzi has been pulling Boss Ma to build up the heat, no matter what happens, he always says "Boss Ma must be framing me", making everyone wonder why Boss Ma is targeting him like this, and it gradually started Jingdong's fame.

But no matter what, it is best for William Chen to say hello to Boss Ma in advance about this matter, and to say what he said, no matter what he thinks, it will appear aboveboard and nothing will happen.But if you don't say it, the other party will know about it sooner or later, and then the relationship will be prone to cracks.

This time Chen Weilian and the others arrived in Yanjing, not only Li Ying sent someone to pick him up, but even Wang Zhonglei came, and first accompanied them to see Chen Weilian's courtyard.

After the visit, William Chen was very satisfied with the decoration of the courtyard.On the exterior, it still retains the original traditional style, just like a former building that has gone through the vicissitudes of time and is still as new.

The entrance door of the courtyard house is very spectacular, giving people the feeling of a palace, but when you open the door and enter it, you can see that the Chinese and Western styles are well combined and coexist harmoniously.

William Chen's courtyard house is twice as big as Deng Wendi's. The front, middle and rear residences are arranged in a well-arranged pattern. There is a swimming pool in the middle courtyard. Switch between open and closed, even when it snows in winter, you can swim in the swimming pool through the glass and enjoy the snow outside.

Ivanta likes this design very much.

Moreover, a few towering trees were specially transplanted in the courtyard. These few trees alone are expensive. In summer, almost the entire courtyard can be covered by the shade of trees, which is very cool.

"Honey, I really want to live in it early and experience it. It feels even better than Wendi's house." Ivanta said happily to William Chen.

But don't be in a hurry, the renovation has just been completed, and it still needs to be aired out. Recently, they can only live in William Chen's flat in Haidian Jiayuan.

Even Boss Ma, after seeing this courtyard house, couldn't help being moved, and had the idea of ​​reorganizing such a courtyard house if he had the opportunity.

Sure enough, Dadongzi did not disappoint William Chen, and quickly replied, agreeing to invest in Huaxia Future Capital.

Huaxia Future Capital will invest US$10 million in Jingdong at a valuation of US$3 billion, holding a 30% stake.At the same time, Jingdong has also reached an agreement with investors. During the IPO, the AB shares will be adjusted. After the adjustment, Jingdong investors, including Huaxia Future Capital and Capital Today, will hold A shares. Class B ordinary shares, and Dadongzi will hold Class B shares, the voting rights of Class B shares are 10 times that of Class A shares, so that Dadongzi will not be afraid of losing control of Jingdong due to too much financing up.

This round of financing is Jingdong’s C round of financing. According to Dadongzi, the funds obtained from this financing will be used to further improve Jingdong’s warehousing and logistics system, which will help Jingdong realize profitability as soon as possible.

In this regard, Chen Weilian told him that the profit is not in a hurry, the main thing is to improve the user experience, and it takes 3-5 days to receive the goods when shopping in other places, so if you shop from Jingdong and arrive in 2-3 days, then For users, this experience is very special and will be more attractive to them.

And in terms of price, Jingdong's self-operated system, with the increase in storage, will gradually have an advantage in terms of price. The most important thing is to let customers experience the quality of their self-operated products. These are the core of Jingdong Competitiveness.

Of course, Dadongzi will not let the hot spot of William Chen go, and now is the time when he is the most famous. Therefore, regarding this financing, Jingdong specially held a press conference to inform the media. You said, the fourth richest man in the world Does investing in Jingdong show that you are optimistic about Jingdong?With the investment of this super rich man, do you feel at ease when you come to Jingdong to shop?
This enthusiasm must be rubbed off, and marketing will come first.

William Chen didn't care too much about this, as long as Jingdong could develop, everything would be fine.Besides, he was already used to this kind of exposure.

(End of this chapter)