Son, how did you become the richest man in elementary school?

He cannot accept it.

In other words, even if he could accept it, the other two investors of Penguin would never accept it.

After all, last year.

IDG and Xiangjiang Mr. Li invested a total of 220 million dollars, and then the two parties took away a total of 40% of the shares.

Based on the calculations at that time, in fact, Penguin's valuation had already reached 550 million dollars.

But now that the valuation of NPX is calculated, the increase in the number of Penguin users has not increased the valuation, and it has even been reduced to 500 million dollars.

This is pure loss!

It is almost unnecessary to ask Ma Huateng to know that this result, neither IDG nor Mr. Li from Xiangjiang, is absolutely impossible to accept.

The question now is not whether Ma Huateng is willing to sell the shares, but whether the other two shareholders will not agree.

"Mr. Meg, you should know that we..."

"I know." Before Ma Huateng finished speaking, Meg interrupted him again:

"Last year, you accepted two investments. I also understand that my valuation is lower than theirs, but you must know that the Internet today is not the Internet three years ago."

"Even if your number of users is higher and your product is better, so what?"

"As I said before, there is no way to bring profit. No matter how many users there are, it will only bring higher losses."

"So, in terms of price, it is the result of our NPX after careful consideration."

"You have only two choices."

"Accept, or not accept."

Speaking of which, Meg paused slightly, with a smile on her face that made Ma Huateng a little uncomfortable, but she was powerless to resist:

"After all, the right to decide is in our hands."

……

Chapter 164 Subscription Services

"Go slowly, Mr. Meg."

"pony, you are a smart person, I hope you can seriously consider my proposal."

"Thank you Mr. Meg, I need time to think."

"..."

At the entrance of the company, Ma Huateng saw off Mr. Meg from NPX, exhaled sullenly, and returned to the company.

Confusion was written all over his face.

Seeing his expression, a group of employees who were excited at first realized that the situation was not optimistic, but they still couldn't help asking:

"Old horse, what's the matter?"

"How did the discussion go? I heard you said that you have to think about it. Did the other party make a condition?"

"What are the conditions?"

"..."

Although everyone knew that the situation might not be good, they still couldn't help asking.

no way.

The company situation is terrible.

And one thing to say, those investors didn't bother to come before, and some didn't even bother to ask for conditions. This time, at least someone made conditions.

However, when Ma Huateng just shook his head:

"Valuation is 500 million dollars, they are willing to invest 800 million, but they have to hold 80% of the shares..."

"what?"

"So much money, so many shares?"

"Are you crazy about money?"

"Crazy, crazy, even if we agree, the investors on the other two sides don't agree, right?"

"..."

Everyone cursed angrily, and even felt that the foreign friend before was here to mess with their mentality.

But scolding is scolding.

After scolding, those who should worry have to worry:

"This is the first time. These capitals are all cannibalistic, and they all fall into the eyes of money."

"I can't help it. After all, investing is not about charity. The previous MOL was brilliant, and it didn't kill a lot of investors. Now everyone is very cautious."

"Understanding is understanding, but what should we do now, every day we delay, our situation gets worse, and the server is almost at its limit."

"We're running out of time."

"..."

In an instant, the office that was originally full of vigor and prosperity became lifeless again.

Even Ma Huateng, who has always led everyone, is also sad at the moment:

"If it doesn't work, I'll talk to IDG again, maybe they are willing to invest more."

"I'm afraid the possibility is not high." Chen Yidan shook his head:

"I have actually contacted there before, but they made it clear that unless we show profitable results, they refuse to give us additional investment."

"Even, they also said that if someone wants to invest, they must first communicate with them. I think they may want to sell their shares."

"Then... what about Mr. Li from Xiangjiang?" Ma Huateng asked again.

"I'm afraid it's even worse." Chen Yidan shook his head again, dispelling Ma Huateng's thoughts:

"If we say that IDG is still on the sidelines, Mr. Li from Xiangjiang is more anxious. He didn't have much confidence in us. This year, Mr. Li is fully committed to Xiangjiang Telecom."

"I received news that he currently plans to sell all non-core projects, and even borrowed 180 billion dollars from the bank to spend a lot of money on Xiangjiang Telecom."

"This means that it is absolutely impossible to find Mr. Li to pursue investment. Even now, he is probably trying to find a way to sell our shares."

This……

Chen Yidan's words made the already gloomy atmosphere fall to the bottom in an instant.

Ma Huateng also felt his heart sink.

Investors from both parties obviously don't trust Penguin anymore, and it is absolutely impossible to pursue investment, let alone re-investment.

This is worse!

"I think we should discuss how to find a profitable direction." Someone suggested.

But it was quickly refuted:

"Everyone knows that we need to find a profit direction, but the question is, we have discussed this issue many times, but the result is not the same?"

"The whole world is looking for the profit direction of the Internet, but in fact, in our instant chat category, there is no reference to any profit model at all."

"That's right, search engines can earn revenue through bidding searches, and portals can also earn money through attracting advertisements, but what should we do?"

"Maybe we can increase the advertising inside Penguin appropriately?" someone asked.

"no!"

Ma Huateng shook his head directly:

"Penguin is a chat software, the reason why it is popular is because we wholeheartedly provide users with good online chat services."

"What's more, our client terminal is different from the portal website. There is no place to add advertisements at all. If you add advertisements forcibly, you will not make much money, and you will be easily disgusted by netizens."

"If you can't make money through advertising, how can you make money?" Everyone was distressed.

Profitability is a big issue.

And this problem, at present, is still somewhat difficult for everyone to resolve.

Everyone is troubled.

In the end, Xu Chenye, who was in charge of operation planning, put forward his own idea:

"I look overseas, but there are projects similar to subscription services. Maybe... we can learn from this model?"

"Open subscription service?" Ma Huateng narrowed his eyes: "Tell me in detail?"

"Some time ago, an Internet company in the United States that mainly engaged in online media launched a special subscription service."

"Users can become members of the company through paid subscriptions, enjoy special exclusive news feeds, and follow news feeds."

"I was wondering, can we make something like this too?"

Subscription service?

Everyone pondered for a while, but soon everyone shook their heads:

"We are chat software, what's the use of a subscription service?"

"We don't engage in information push. Users mainly chat with people. Such a subscription service seems to have nothing to do with our instant messaging."

"It's not necessary to learn how to push news like them. Is it possible that we can increase some privileges?" Xu Chenye suggested.

But in the same way, everyone shook their heads:

"Increasing privileges and distinguishing players, isn't that just looking for scolding?"

"Even if you are not afraid of being scolded, how do you tell the difference? Can we still restrict users from speaking, and only member users can send messages?"

"Or, our member user message delay rate is lower?"

"Isn't this nonsense?"

"This method doesn't work. I think we still have to learn the advertising model. This should be a good route."

"..."

Everyone discussed it one after another, and they were not too optimistic about the so-called subscription service.

Xu Chenye scratched his head, feeling a little helpless.

He just has a concept, how to operate it, or even whether it can be operated, he has no way at all.

When it was Ma Huateng, he narrowed his eyes at this time.

Subscription service!

join membership!

These few words attracted his attention, and a flash of light flashed in his mind.

However, before he caught this aura, the phone in his arms rang, interrupting his train of thought.

Ma Huateng took a look, feeling a little strange.

The number was a landline from Yanjing, but it was an unfamiliar number.

After thinking about it, Ma Huateng still answered the phone.

And the first sentence of this phone call made Ma Huateng's cold heart warm up again:

"Hello, is this Mr. Ma Huateng from Penguin Network Technology Company?"

"This is Yuanxiu Investment. My name is Luo Xiang. May I ask if your company is interested in accepting our investment recently?"

"..."

Chapter 165 Gu Xiu: Are You Really an Ordinary Family?

The next day, in the same office, a group of young people who were struggling with Penguin were gearing up.

Waiting for the guests to come.

"This time we will definitely be able to negotiate a deal, haha, there will be funds soon, and we won't be so tired."