My Age of Investment

After settling Charles, Robin Lee, and Cao Guowei, Xia Jingxing made another phone call to Pork Ding.

Pork Ding has not raised pigs yet, and is obsessed with game development all day long. He occasionally takes time to go to the bar to play discs. He is not very interested in participating in those conspiracies and tricks, not to mention that Xiaonei did not poach anyone from their pig factory.

On the contrary, he had a good impression of Xia Jingxing's initiative to call and send an advertising cooperation order to show his favor.

He has no objection to Xiaonei.com's entry into the Chinese Internet arena, and he doesn't want to grab their food anyway.

SNS is an emerging market, and Xia Jingxing has made it clear that he wants to make a name for himself in this field, and for this reason he even got on Facebook in the United States, so why should he be someone else's pawn.

Standing on the sidelines and accepting cooperation orders with a smile is in line with the self-cultivation of an old sinister.

After some friendly communication, Xia Jingxing basically confirmed Ding Sanshi's attitude that he would not interfere in the SNS dispute, and welcomed him into the Internet circle.

At this time, there are still two domestic Internet giants, Penguin and Shanda.

Shanda is mainly engaged in games. In recent years, it wants to penetrate into the pan-entertainment field. Xiaonei has little conflict of interest with them.

Last year, Shanda wanted to forcibly acquire Sina, and Vision Capital also helped them a lot. Although Vision Capital sold its stocks and ran away early, there is always a friendship.

After receiving the call, Chen Tianqiao first congratulated Xia Jingxing for being the richest man. Then he said that he was very optimistic about the future development prospects of Xiaonei.com, and jokingly proposed a shareholding request, but Xia Jingxing declined it.

College students and game users overlap highly. When Shanda wanted to acquire Sina, it also took a fancy to its large-scale Internet users, so it had little interest in Xiaonei.

And Xia Jingxing's refusal did not surprise Chen Tianqiao too much, after all, the other party was not short of money at all.

After some friendly communication, Xia Jingxing basically figured out the situation. At the moment, Chen Tianqiao is still obsessed with his dream of creating an Internet Disney, and has little interest in other things.

Even the game business is not very important, let alone a campus SNS.

Penguins were different, Xiao Ma felt that Xia Jingxing was dishonest, so he only bought shares in their penguins on the front foot, and started messing with SNS again on the back foot.

For door-to-door advertising cooperation on Xiaonei.com,

Ponima naturally refused without hesitation.

At the same time, he became wary of Xiaoneiwang and Xia Jingxing again, always feeling that the other party had no good intentions.

When Vision Capital acquired Penguin shares from the secondary market last year, some analysts raised the concept of a "China-US social empire".

At that time, a large number of retail investors believed it was true, and ran into the market foolishly, scrambling for high positions.

Later, retail investors suffered miserably, and after Envision Capital’s “acquisition” of Penguin failed, no one mentioned the social empire spanning China and the United States anymore.

However, this incident left a deep impression on Ponima, and now Vision Capital invested heavily in Xiaonei, which reminded him of this incident again.

At present, Penguin not only has QQ, but also launched Penguin.com in 2003. Now it has become one of the four major portals, with a strong momentum of development and continuous expansion of its boundaries.

Stimulated by Xiaonei, the suspicious Bonima also called Liu Zhiping, and they secretly discussed Penguin's entry into the campus SNS.

Excluding Ari, Penguin was the only website among the six listed Internet giants that rejected Xia Jingxing's offer, and Yuanjing Capital was also the shareholder of the other party.

Really don't give any face!

Because of this incident, Xia Jingxing had even more dissatisfaction with Xiao Ma.

However, he gained a lot from this circle of pier worship.

At least he has figured out the attitudes of various Internet leaders towards him, Vision Capital, and Xiaonei, and stabilized the major Internet giants.

But this stability can only be said to be temporary, because the current domestic SNS model has not been successfully verified.

Once the fruit is ripe, people will naturally be jealous.

But if he can temporarily stabilize this group of people, his goal will be achieved.

As long as these peripheral forces are stabilized, he can also free up his hands to concentrate on dealing with opponents such as Thousand Oaks and Zhanzuo.com, as well as the junior high school alliance behind these people.

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Two days later, Thousand Oaks Group and Zhanzuo.com held a grand press conference in a hotel, announcing in a high-profile manner that the two companies will conduct a strategic merger.

As soon as the meeting started, Xia Jingxing received related news.

He had been prepared for this and was not surprised at all.

Because Tong Shijie had already leaked the news to him in advance.

He aspired to become the richest man, injected 100 million US dollars into Xiaonei.com, and Facebook strategically invested in Xiaonei.com...

The combination of these incidents has brought tremendous pressure to the first-year junior league, including Chen Yizhou.

Behind Chen Yizhou stands DCM and Legend Capital, and behind Zhanzuo.com stands Sequoia China.

Several venture capital institutions are key members of the Junior One Alliance.

Under Xia Jingxing's huge external threat, Chen Yizhou suggested that there should be no more internal friction, so a merger became the best solution.

Not only the merger, but at the press conference, Chen Yizhou also announced that the merged New Thousand Oaks Group will receive USD 100 million in Series B financing jointly invested by more than ten venture capital institutions.

This is also a counterattack to Xiaonei. If you inject 100 million US dollars, then we will also raise 100 million US dollars.

If we add the $5 million previously raised by Zhanzuo.com and the $48 million previously raised by Thousand Oaks Group, New Thousand Oaks Group’s book cash reserve will exceed that of Xiaonei.com.

The word "richest man" brings a lot of pressure, and the first-year junior high school alliance can't just admit defeat, so they can only join forces to make their momentum bigger.

If it weren't for the foundation of the Thousand Oaks Group, the SNS market hadn't fully exploded, and the League of Junior One would want to inject 200 million US dollars.

Because they have a large number of people, the investment pressure shared by more than a dozen institutions is not particularly large.

After the capital injection of 100 million US dollars, the equity structure of the New Thousand Oaks Group was severely damaged, and there were more than a dozen shareholders at once.

Although Chen Yizhou is still the largest individual shareholder, he can no longer keep his promises like before.

Many hidden dangers are completely covered up under the bright surface.

Right now, New Thousand Oaks Group is thinking about giving Xia Jingxing a good fight.

At the press conference, a reporter from the media asked Chen Yizhou: "Is Thousand Oaks Group's completion of such a large amount of financing a counterattack against Xiaonei.com? What do you think of the financing arms race with Xiaonei.com?"

Chen Yizhou replied calmly: "We are not trying to fight back, but to prove our strength.

Because some companies just spend 100 million U.S. dollars when they come up, and they are quite a battle of overwhelming power.

Although Thousand Oaks Group is a start-up company, it is also very popular with capital. More than a dozen top investment institutions in China and the United States are standing behind us...

Also, the term financing arms race is not appropriate.

Thousand Oaks Group develops with an open and win-win attitude. Entrepreneurs and investors win-win, not any competition.

Some companies develop on their own behind closed doors. In my eyes, they are very petty.

It is often said that those who gain the Tao will be helped more, but those who have lost the Way will be helped less.

Please wait and see the future situation. "

At the press conference, Chen Yizhou acted very relaxed, as if there was no pressure at all.

Most of the reporters who didn't know the truth were stunned. They didn't pay attention to the richest man at all.

Then, a reporter quickly asked: "You mean, Xiaonei.com will be unjust and helpless? But behind Xiaonei.com, there is a richest man worth 34.5 billion."

Chen Yizhou has already been cornered by Xia Jingxing, and more than a dozen venture capital institutions behind him have already pointed out that he is required to fire at the press conference to facilitate the next operation.

So Chen Yizhou continued to say firmly: "Whether it will be unjust and helpless, time will tell everything.

As for the richest man worth 34.5 billion, I think this statistic is very watery.

As far as I know, most of them are unlisted company equity that is difficult to realize.

In addition, Envision Capital has a large shop and never cooperates with domestic venture capital institutions. Maybe it feels that it has strong strength and looks down upon it. "

Hearing Chen Yizhou's bombardment of Envision Capital, the reporter continued to ask, like a shark smelling blood, "Can you give a few examples?"

Chen Yizhou took the examples of Tudou.com, Ganji.com and several other companies to explain in detail, and added: "This is not like a venture capital institution, but more like gobbling up the entire Chinese Internet industry.

The appetite is huge, the battle line is very long, and the consumption of funds is a huge figure.

If this continues, it's hard to say what the consequences will be? "

The reporters heard Chen Yizhou's subtext, which was cursing Envision Capital to collapse.

He just became the richest man, and you cursed him to death, big news.

So, the reporters scrambled to continue asking questions, trying to get some big news out of Chen Yizhou's mouth.

But Chen Yizhou avoided talking about it, and turned around to talk about Thousand Oaks Group's next plan.

Because Chen Yizhou felt that the heat was almost ready, if he continued to criticize Xia Jingxing, it would appear that he was too narrow-minded. A few comments are just right, because enthusiastic reporters will help fuel the flames, and he doesn't need to make any effort.