Rebirth of the Wild Age

Of the 25 academic masters of the Silicon Valley Ph.D. Group, 21 of them plan to return to China to start their own businesses within half a year.

Song Weiyang specially went to their party before leaving Beijing. It was found that these people were short of money, but not short of money. What they lacked was millions of dollars in funds, and hundreds of thousands of investments were not worth it at all. Although the average age of these 25 people was under 30 years old, their personal assets were all in the $500,000+!

At the end of a party, Song Weiyang contacted everyone, only interested in the projects of Deng Zhonghan and his partners.

After graduating from the University of Science and Technology of China, this person went to the United States to study and obtained three master's degrees in physics, electronic engineering and economics within five years. He became the first person to span the three majors of science, engineering and business since the University of California was founded more than 100 years ago. .

Before Deng Zhonghan graduated with a master's degree, he joined IBM as a senior researcher and won the IBM Invention and Creation Award. He only worked at IBM for more than half a year before running to Silicon Valley to start his own business. His business scope is to develop high-end digital imaging semiconductor sensors for high-end applications such as surveillance, satellites, and outer space exploration.

Now, Deng Zhonghan decided to step down as the chairman of the American company (a few years later, the market value of this company reached 150 million US dollars), and brought his team back to China to establish China Star Micro.

How much money do you have now? Song Weiyang asked directly.

Deng Zhonghan said with a smile: The Ministry of Information Industry has invested 10 million yuan.

Is this money enough to make chips? Song Weiyang said.

Barely enough, we only make multimedia chips. Deng Zhonghan said.

Song Weiyang asked again: Is private investment allowed?

Deng Zhonghan adjusted his glasses, nodded and said, Yes, but the Ministry of Information Industry requires absolute control. If Boss Song wants to invest, I'm afraid he won't be able to get much equity, because my team also needs 35% of technology shares.

Song Weiyang said: How are the shares distributed now?

Deng Zhonghan said: The Ministry of Information Industry directly invested 10 million yuan and provided policy support, accounting for 65% of the shares; my team owns a number of patents and is responsible for management, research and development, and operations, accounting for 35% of the shares.

If I also invest 10 million yuan, how many shares can I get? Song Weiyang said.

Deng Zhonghan said with a smile: You have to ask the officials of the Ministry of Information Industry. I can't make the decision, but of course I hope to have more start-up funds.

Song Weiyang turned his mind and suddenly came up with an excellent idea.

In the past few months, Shenzhou Science and Technology Company has been severely suppressed by the Ministry of Information Industry, and the business development of PHS in the provincial capital has tended to stagnate. Why not take the opportunity to turn the Ministry of Information Industry into one of its own?

The Ministry of Information Industry has always had its own small treasury called National Electronic Information Industry Development Fund, which is also the fund that is investing in Vimicro. Moreover, this fund is directly managed by the Ministry of Information Industry, and no venture capital company has been set up for hosting at this time.

Under the recommendation of the telecom leader, Song Weiyang successfully found a leader of the Ministry of Information Industry, and the two parties quickly reached a deal and cooperation.

The Electronic Information Development Fund of the Ministry of Information Industry invested 20 million yuan to obtain 3% of the shares of China Science and Technology Corporation. Shenzhou Science and Technology Corporation invested 30 million yuan to obtain 14% of Vimicro's shares.

What does this deal mean?

It means that the Ministry of Information Industry won the shares of China Science and Technology worth hundreds of millions without paying a penny, which is completely tantamount to picking up money on the ground for nothing. At the same time, China Microsystems, which the Ministry of Information Industry has placed high hopes on, has an additional start-up capital of 10 million yuan, while the Ministry of Information Industry only gave up 14% of the shares, and still absolutely controls China Microsystems.

And what about Shenzhou Technology? In fact, only 10 million yuan was spent to obtain 14% of Vimicro's equity, and the company's shares worth more than 100 million yuan were given to the Ministry of Information Industry.

It seems that China Science and Technology is suffering, but in fact, everyone is happy.

In the future, the Ministry of Information Industry will be China Tech's own staff. PHS will open new businesses in a few big cities at will, and it will be easy to earn back that little money, and it will also avoid policy risks in the next ten years.

And Vimicro, which owns 14% of the shares of China Science and Technology, also has a bright future. In just six years, the multimedia chips designed by Vimicro will be able to occupy more than 60% of the global market share, and will definitely be the undisputed hegemony of the industry. The size of a company can be scary.

Song Weiyang can definitely take advantage of Vimicro's several privatization reforms in the next ten years, and continue to buy into the company's stock, and it is not difficult to become a major shareholder. He also has the foresight of a traveler, guiding Vimicro to focus on the smartphone market, making most mobile phone brands use Vimicro's image chips.

Old Shen, get ready to start. Song Weiyang said with a smile on the phone.

Shen Fuxing also breathed a sigh of relief, and said with emotion: In the future, I finally don't have to be afraid that PHS will be banned, and there must be someone on it.

Song Weiyang said: Now that we don't have to worry about the future, can PHS' revenue increase by more than 50% next year?

Shen Fuxing laughed loudly: As long as the Ministry of Information Industry opens its eyes and closes its eyes, I am confident that the revenue of PHS will increase by 100% next year.

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Linzhou, by the West Lake, Ma Xiaoyun's home.

This is also the address of Alibaba's company. Cai Chongxin has given up his annual salary of 700,000 US dollars and came to Ma Xiaoyun's men to get a monthly salary of 500 yuan.

When Cai Chongxin first joined the company, Ma Xiaoyun didn’t even register the company because the domain name of Alibaba was registered by Canadians. Before getting the domain name, Ma Xiaoyun couldn't confirm the name of the company, so he just kept procrastinating, and attracted hundreds of corporate customers based on his industry reputation alone. handwritten agreement.

When Cai Chongxin figured out the situation, he suddenly fell into a state of confusion, and his three views were refreshed. He hurriedly went to help Ma Xiaoyun register the company, blowing on the electric fan, sweating every night to give lectures to the Eighteen Arhats, talking about shares and rights, and took out more than ten contracts in English that conformed to international practice, and asked Ma Xiaoyun and the employees to sign and pledge. By the way, I also asked Song Weiyang to sign a copy.

In just a few months, Alibaba has more than 41,000 members.

This is not more than 40,000 netizens, but more than 40,000 companies and buyers, and there are only so many advertisers searched by Sogou!

There are millions of small enterprises in China. Under the environment of export frustration and domestic economic downturn, they have a serious backlog of inventory and can't find a way out. And many foreign small buyers want to buy Chinese products but lack channels. Alibaba just built a platform for them.

On this day, Cai Chongxin came back from the United States and said to Ma Xiaoyun: I have negotiated a financing plan. Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, ab and other companies have agreed to jointly raise US$5 million.

You didn't go to see Lao Song? Ma Xiaoyun asked.

Song Weiyang? Cai Chong said.

Ma Xiaoyun nodded and said, Yes, I promised to give him priority in financing.

Cai Chongxin explained: Boss, Alibaba's financing is not only a lack of money, but also to obtain more resources. Now our main market is in Europe and the United States, and Jinniu Capital only has influence in China and cannot give us more help.

But I promised Song Weiyang a long time ago that I can't say nothing. Ma Xiaoyun said.

Cai Chongxin frowned and said, Then I will give Jinniu Capital a financing amount of US$500,000.

Ma Xiaoyun said: It's too little, he can vote as much as he wants, and it's like repaying his favor.

Okay, you are the boss, you have the final say. Cai Chongxin had some headaches. In business, he didn't like this kind of human interaction.

Alibaba is really not short of money. Although the company's funds are almost bottomed out, many institutions are rushing to invest. Ma Xiaoyun has rejected 38 investors before.

Let's put it this way, if you travel back to 1999 and win 100 million in lottery tickets, you want to invest all of it in Alibaba. But I'm sorry, Ma Xiaoyun and Cai Chongxin will not ask you for a penny, they only accept those big companies that can bring resources.

Historically, Alibaba launched the second round of financing only two months after the first round of financing. The purpose of this financing is not simply to make money, but to open up the Japanese benzene market. In order to obtain SoftBank’s business resources, Masayoshi Son was specially hired as Alibaba’s chief consultant.

Cai Chongxin left immediately, flew to see Song Weiyang who had just returned to Shenghai, and said straight to the point: Mr. Song, Alibaba is starting the second round of financing. Goldman Sachs and other institutions are expected to invest 5 million US dollars. How much are you willing to invest?

10 million. Song Weiyang laughed.

U.S. dollars? Cai Chongxin asked in surprise.

Of course. Song Weiyang said.

Before Song Weiyang held 10% of the shares of Alibaba, and now he has spent another 10 million U.S. dollars, this company can be said to be named Song.

Cai Chongxin said with emotion: Mr. Song is really discerning. Congratulations, you are about to become a major shareholder of Alibaba.