Chapter 347 Breaking the pot
“How is Jinshan now?”
Li Dongling pulled up a chair and sat next to Lei Jun.
As soon as he heard this, Lei Jun showed a look of helplessness and depression on his face. During his time in Jinshan, it was probably more serious than when he was besieged by several sects when he was working on new energy vehicles. A bit difficult.
After all, even if the car business fails, he is still the cash king of Yanjing, with a cold 140 billion yuan lying in his account, and has also invested in ByteDance, Weilai, Xiaopeng, and Lalamove , Kuaishou, iQiyi, YY, Zhihu and other hundreds of companies have all cashed out, and it is estimated that they can add a few more cold 100 billion to their accounts.
Not to mention these cold hundreds of billions, even with a cash flow of 140 billion in the account, theoretically, according to the market value, you can buy two Geely cars that are besieging Xiaomi Motors, and you can buy the entire SAIC Group.
You can also acquire three Xiaopeng, two Weilai, or buy 80% of the equity of Changan Automobile, or buy one and a half Cyrus, 4.5 Jianghuai Automobile Factory, 3.5 Yutong Automobile, 12 Zotye, 56 Big Auto, 4 Yadi, 4.5 Leapmotor, two Ji Krypton, and a bunch of other companies that are related to cars.
As for whether these companies will sell themselves, when more than 100 billion in cold cash is placed in front of the presidents of major automobile companies, who will not be confused? These listed automobile companies have all kinds of tricks. How many years does it take to cash out and earn this money.
In addition to BYD and state-owned automobile companies, no other automobile company can withstand such a gold and dollar offensive.
But now, if Jinshan falls, the hard work of Lei Jun, Qiu Bojun, and everyone on Jinshan will be in vain. Jinshan is not listed, and his equity cannot be cashed out.
It is impossible that after Kingsoft went public, he left Kingsoft "confused and dejected". He only had the 4 billion cash he cashed out from selling Joyo.com, Kingsoft stocks, etc. to comfort him...
Everyone present today, except Except for Yu Minhong, everyone is an insider, and everyone can roughly guess the current situation of Jinshan. After all, Jinshan cannot hide the fact that it is soliciting investment from everywhere.
“Not so good!”
“We are re-developing Kingsoft Office Software, but it will take time and development funds. Now Brother Zhang is looking for new investors for Kingsoft!” Lei Jun said to Li Dongling.
Today Lei Jun, like Yu Minhong, was invited here by Li Dongling. The person named Zhang in his mouth was Zhang Xuanlong, known as the "Godfather of Zhongguancun".
From Sitong to Lenovo to the listing of Founder, it was all run by Zhang Xuanlong. He was also the founder of Kingsoft. Although Zhang Xuanlong was from Hong Kong, the ups and downs in Zhongguancun were all related to him. , it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a person who can influence the pattern of Zhongguancun.
Now Zhang Xuanlong is looking for new investors for Jinshan, but to be honest, Zhang Xuanlong’s connections are all in Zhongguancun.
Zhongguancun has the strength to control Jinshan, but only three companies, Sitong, Lenovo, and Founder, are inextricably linked to Zhang Xuanlong. Not surprisingly, Zhang Xuanlong I will definitely use my personal connections to recruit one of them to save Jinshan.
In the previous life, Lenovo invested US$4.5 million in Jinshan due to Zhang Xuanlong's relationship and took away 30% of Jinshan's equity.
If the timeline is extended, Lenovo will definitely have made a profit after ten or twenty years. After Kingsoft was listed, as the number one general software company in China, Kingsoft’s stock price skyrocketed, but after the investment, Within a few years, Jinshan was still in losses.
Even though it launched a new generation of WPS office software and regained market share, Kingsoft still suffered a huge loss due to rampant piracy.
In order to make money and keep Kingsoft alive, Kingsoft has done everything, but it failed to go public four times. Even if it can finally go public, it does not rely on software business, but on games, Xishan The game revenue brought by Ju Game Studio allowed Kingsoft to successfully go public.
At that time, the outside world did not treat Kingsoft as a software giant, but as a gaming company. At the beginning of its listing, Kingsoft's market value was only about HK$5 billion.
After Lei Jun finished speaking, he also had some speculations in his mind as to why Li Dongling came to him this time.
Li Dongling looked at Lei Jun in front of him, "I asked you to come here today because I have some things that I want to discuss with Jinshan!" "Donngling Hi-Tech has just reached a new cooperation project with Gong Wang. , develop domestic printers!
I hope that Kingsoft can join this project and develop printer driver software for Lingyun printers. Of course, I know that Kingsoft is developing an important node of a new generation of office software and manpower is very tight, but Lingyun printers are willing to pay for this. Considerable R&D remuneration.
In addition, Tanglin Hi-Tech is willing to invest US$3 million in Kingsoft in exchange for 30% of Kingsoft’s equity. I hope that Kingsoft can have more cooperation projects with Tanglin Hi-Tech in the future! "
Li Dongling said to Lei Jun. After hearing this, Lei Jun's throat suddenly moved, and his face showed joy. He wanted to agree immediately, but the current head of Jinshan is Qiu Bojun, and the major shareholder is Zhang. Xuanlong, they must agree to come down.
"I need to report this matter to the headquarters! "Lei Jun said while suppressing his joy. After that, he went directly outside and started making phone calls.
Li Dongling looked at Lei Jun. Dongling High-tech invested in Jinshan not for the profits that would come after Jinshan went public more than ten years later.
Rather, it will use Kingsoft’s software development capabilities to develop office, industrial software, mobile operating systems, etc. for companies under Tanglin Hi-Tech.
In the domestic software industry, there are only a few companies in the domestic software industry that dare to compete with Microsoft and overseas software giants. It is estimated that there are only a few companies in Jinshan.
It is not only the development and operation software for printers, but also the EDA software platform for the chip industry. EDA software is indispensable for designing chips, including chip design, simulation, verification and other large and small processes and links, all of which require it. to EDA software.
Different links correspond to different EDA software. Without these EDA software platforms, even if there is a photolithography machine, chips cannot be produced.
For example, in the future, the cost of designing a 14-nanometer chip will be US$200 million. The process of designing a 7-nanometer chip will double, but the cost will triple, reaching US$600 million. This is still developed with the help of EDA software. Yes, without these software, human sea tactics would need to be used to complete the work of running the original software, and the research and development costs would increase by more than two hundred times!
Now even office software is controlled by Microsoft and other companies, let alone industrial software. It is almost a desert in China. Now overseas companies that develop EDA software are willing to authorize it for domestic use, but what about the future? What day will happen if overseas EDA software companies prohibit the use of Dongxin Semiconductor? !
Li Dongling had to prepare for a rainy day and make preparations in advance. Dongxin Semiconductor needs to have its own EDA software. It may not be advanced or efficient, but it must be available.
Looking at the entire domestic software industry, who else can be recruited to help develop EDA and dare to fight with overseas software giants, except for the overly iron-clad Jinshan? !
In addition to these, the mobile operating system owned by Tanglin Hi-Tech will also need a research and development team in the future. If Kingsoft can be recruited to join, the research and development capabilities can be greatly increased.
"The board of directors of Jinshan has agreed to Mr. Li's investment, but the specific cooperation must be discussed in detail after meeting!"
Lei Jun came back from outside soon and said to Li Dongling with a smile. The whole person seemed to be excited. Heaving a sigh of relief, with this investment from Dongling Hi-tech, Jinshan will not have to worry about the risk of food shortages within a year or two.
“The domestic software industry may not have a good time in the future. Even if Kingsoft develops a new generation of WPS office software that can surpass Microsoft Office, I am afraid it will not be popular but will gain market share and be re-established by users. Accept it, but because of the existence of pirated software, you may not be able to make money!”
Li Dongling’s words felt like a bucket of cold water had been poured on Lei Jun, who was still in high spirits. Although he didn’t want to admit it, he still couldn’t. I know, Li Dongling is probably telling the truth.
As far as the current domestic genuine software environment is concerned, even if Kingsoft beats Microsoft Office software, how many paid genuine office software can be sold, up to hundreds of thousands of units, and then they are pirated everywhere.
"In addition, Microsoft has always done everything possible to deal with its competitors. If Kingsoft really beats Microsoft in office software, then even if Microsoft doesn't make money, I'm afraid it won't make things easier for Kingsoft!" Li Dongling said.
Lei Jun, who was a little excited just now and felt that Jinshan had temporarily overcome the difficulties, now had a look of helplessness on his face, even a little desperate.
Lei Jun knows that if it really fails in office software, then Microsoft will definitely cause trouble in China. He would rather let piracy of office software spread than let Kingsoft make the money. .
(End of this chapter)