Silicon Valley

The Isearch brand has been well-known all over the world and adheres to the principle of "don't be evil". Therefore, it is difficult for Henry to let Isearch help the Chinese government to control public opinion.

But Henry couldn't put down the meat of the Chinese market, so he thought about it, and if he couldn't, he would secretly control other search companies.

Right now, 3721 is an opportunity. The competition in China's Internet market is disorderly and chaotic. With Zhou Hongyi in 3721, it is certain to be a hooligan. Therefore, 3721 will definitely stand out!

"The scale is not too big, but considering that you are a start-up company, it's okay..." Henry asked Zhou Hongyi at this time, "Has 3721 received investment from other venture capital institutions before?"

Zhou Hongyi shook his head, "No!"

"Well, how much are you going to raise?" Henry asked.

"1,000,000!"

Zhou Hongyi looked at Henry with hopeful eyes. Henry smiled and nodded, "$1 million is no problem, but how many shares are you going to take out?"

Zhou Hongyi obviously had already thought about it, and replied directly: "20%..."

"Mr. Zhou, I can invest $2.5 million in 3721, but I want 40% of the shares! If there is a financing plan in the future, I will lead the investment and invite many companies to participate!" Henry asked with a smile, "Zhou Hongyi Sir, what do you think?"

Zhou Hongyi frowned, the other party's shareholding was too high, and 40% of the company could almost control 3721. This requirement really made him embarrassed. In Zhou Hongyi's mind, there is a war between heaven and man. On the one hand, 3721 will be able to develop by leaps and bounds with this investment. On the other hand, he will be in danger of losing the company. There are many examples of founders being kicked out by investors...

The cafe here is also very high-end, and there is a young beauty playing a melodious violin next to it. Henry picked up the coffee cup and drank it slowly. Lu Zhishan looked at him, and the two smiled tacitly.

After a minute or two, Zhou Hongyi raised his head and looked at Henry, "Mr. William, please allow me to think about a few days?" he pleaded.

Henry thought for a moment and nodded, "Then I'll give you three days. After three days, I'll leave China!"

"Thank you, Mr. William!" Zhou Hongyi said happily.

At this time, Henry tore off a note from the table, and then wrote down a mobile phone number, "Call me when you think about it." With that, Henry handed the note to Zhou Hongyi. Zhou Hongyi carefully put the note paper into his jacket pocket, and then said goodbye to Henry and Lu Zhishan.

Lu Zhishan looked at Zhou Hongyi's leaving back, and said to Henry: "It can be seen that he has a strong desire to control 3721. It is not easy for you to get 40% of the shares. However, you don't already have Isearch. , why invest in such a small company?"

"Any company grows from small to large. 3721 may pose a threat to Isearch, so the best way is to invest in it to completely kill the possible threat!" Henry laughed, "$2.5 million is simply not enough. For Internet companies, 3721 will definitely have the second and third rounds of financing! At that time, I will organize several companies to join hands to get the absolute controlling stake of the entire 3721 company. In the end, even if 3721 develops, it will It's also making money for me!"

Lu Zhishan nodded, "That makes sense. However, within three days, he should seek help from other venture capital firms!"

"It doesn't matter! Before accepting other venture capital, he will definitely talk to me again. It's a big deal to invest more in him." Henry smiled confidently, "3721 Company, I'm sure of it!"

Lu Zhishan suddenly thought of something and wanted to say to Henry: "Oh, by the way, I heard that Beijing Zhongguancun will hold the 'China Internet Summit' tonight, most of the Internet companies in China will send people to attend, I think, you should I'd be very interested... As for the specific address, just ask someone to find out."

"China Internet Summit?" Henry murmured, thinking to himself, this is indeed a good opportunity to get in touch with more Chinese Internet companies. The Chinese government can block foreign websites, but domestic websites should not be blocked as well. Henry grinned and secretly acquired all of China's promising Internet companies, isn't it the same!

The major shareholders of the Big Three of BAT are all foreign companies, so Henry has every opportunity to secretly complete absolute control! The founder of a Chinese internet company can be reduced to a puppet and ousted if he doesn't obey.

...

At 8 o'clock in the evening, Beijing Green Palace Hotel, a 5-star hotel that has just been built, is located at No. 76, Zhichun Road, Haidian District, Beijing. With its luxurious interior decoration, luxurious environment, complete facilities, warm service and advantageous geographical location, the hotel has become the preferred business hotel for IT professionals in Zhongguancun. Therefore, the China Internet Summit is also held here.

This time, Henry only came to participate with bodyguards. The invitation letter was obtained by Lu Zhishan for Henry.

At this moment, the hotel is crowded with people.

Some leaders of Zhongguancun have already spoken on the stage, and they have talked a lot, all praising the development of China's Internet, and Henry is almost drowsy listening to it.

After the leaders finished speaking, they invited the CEOs of some representative companies to speak on stage.

The first person to be invited to the stage was Ding Lei, the founder of NetEase.

NetEase was established early, it was established in 1997 and is headquartered in Guangzhou. NetEase is the third Chinese portal after Global Online and ICQ, with a market share of 15%. Today, due to the influence of the Henry Butterfly Effect, the Internet bubble has been brought forward. Unfortunately, NetEase was founded at the time of the bursting of the Internet bubble. Therefore, NetEase's development was very difficult and no one was willing to invest.

3721, founded by Zhou Hongyi, was also severely affected by this environment. Otherwise, Zhou Hongyi would not have broken his leg and walked out of the venture capital company in a daze. In the previous life, as long as there was a good project and then found a venture capital institution, basically the first fund was easy to get.

Right now, venture capital institutions are very cautious and will never invest in Internet companies lightly.

Henry took a glass of wine on the table and watched the others while drinking.

There were quite a few familiar faces, but what surprised Henry was that Zhou Hongyi was also there. At the same time, Henry also saw Robin Li, the founder of Baidu!

Baidu is famous and one of the three giants of BAT. In the past life, people often compared Google and Baidu. Many years ago, the two companies established search companies around the same time, and both became industry giants. However, one desperately sells fake drug advertisements, and one desperately climbs high-tech, the development of the two is completely different...

Robin Li said that Google is a dream company, while Baidu is a pragmatic company!

So, what kind of company is a pragmatic company in Robin Li's eyes? In fact, it is very simple, it is a company that makes money!

Making money is pragmatic!

In order to make money, Baidu can be useless.

Henry originally thought that Robin Li was still in the United States, because in his impression, Baidu was founded in 1999.

Robin Li invented hyperlink analysis in 1996, which is to evaluate the quality of linked websites by analyzing the number of linked websites, which ensures that when users search, the more popular the content is, the higher the ranking. And this is one of Baidu's core technologies in the future.

Isearch searches use Google's technology PageRank (page level). PageRank determines the rank of a page through the vast network of hyperlinks. The higher the rank, the higher the ranking of the website.

Whether hyperlink analysis, or PageRank, is an algorithm for page ranking.

Li Yanhong was very talented and was later invited to work in Infoseek, a famous search engine company in Silicon Valley.

But he is a man of great ambition and control, and he returns to China every year for inspection. Once he feels that China's environment is mature, he will immediately return to China to start a business. Today, China's Internet is developing faster than it was in the past. Perhaps, he felt that the time was ripe and returned to China to start a business ahead of schedule.

Henry drank the wine, put down the glass, looked at Li Yanhong, and walked towards him...

(To be continued ~^~)