Chapter 148 Photo Wall
Of course, it is not easy to implement the strategy of different rights for the same shares in a company. After all, the owner of the company must first obtain the approval of investors. Especially difficult.
After all, investors are paying real money. They may not care about the company’s operating rights, but they must consider the investment income. If they don’t even have decision-making power on their investments, how can they ensure that the company’s owners are in control? In the process of executing the company's development strategy, can it ensure the interests of shareholders, that is, investors?
So, for An Rusong today, in the process of attracting investment and accelerating development for NGN Company, he can also effectively promote the strategy of different rights for the same shares, so as to ensure that he has a strong influence on NGN Company. To achieve absolute control, you must do two things: < br>
First, give profits to investors, for example, define the shares he holds with higher voting rights as "original shares". This part of his shares enjoys special voting rights, so in Dividends, transfers, etc. will be subject to varying degrees of restrictions. For example, dividends should be paid later, and when you want to sell, you also need to wait later.
As for the shares held by investors, they are defined as "dividend shares". Although these shares have a weak voice, they can have priority in participating in the company's dividends. At the same time, they can also be sold or sold externally according to the investors' personal wishes. transfer.
In this way, a situation is formed. If the company's management is not good, An Rusong, the decision-maker, will lose the most money. If the company's stock falls and the prospects are not good, investors can always Sell the stocks and run away with the bucket, but An Rusong is the one who has to wait until the end to run away.
With such an agreement, An Rusong and investors can establish a mutual trust based on interests. After all, investors invest in NGN Company only to obtain profits, not to buy Get off his company.
Second, An Rusong must prove his ability to investors, or in other words, prove that the development direction he has set for the company is feasible and has great prospects. To put it bluntly, he is telling investors that he, An Rusong, is the most suitable person for the position of chairman of NGN Company.
To achieve this goal, An Rusong needs a PPT. He needs to show investors his promotion plan in the future.
An Rusong was a programmer in his previous life, but programmers may not necessarily be able to make PPT. The so-called "can do" here does not mean whether he can use PPT software, but whether he can make a beautiful and cool PPT. .
An Rusong lacks aesthetic factors and artistic ability, so the PPT he made can only be described as crude. Therefore, when he was negotiating with Macaulay today, he did not prepare a PPT at all. Be prepared to wing it.
In the conference room, the two parties were at a deadlock from the beginning of the negotiation, because An Rusong would implement the different rights strategy for the same shares as the first restrictive condition for starting the negotiation, that is, if the GC Fund did not accept him With absolute control over NGN Company, there is no need to start this negotiation.
When Wen Caiyuan called, the reason why she heard a lot of noise on the other end of the phone was because the negotiation team brought by Macaulay was fried.
The strategy of different rights for the same shares is not uncommon among listed companies today, but the companies that can really implement this strategy are the so-called unicorn companies that are quite successful and have generally promising prospects. , and NGN Company, to be honest, although its prospects are also optimistic by the venture capital community, it is not that good.
What's the key point? Quite simply, in the industry assessments made by various venture capital institutions, the rapid development momentum of NGN is considered unsustainable.
Although NGN Farm is currently very popular and has a significant stimulating effect on the development of NGN software, relatively simple web games like NGN Farm update and iterate very quickly, and NGN software only relies on Such a product has accumulated a large number of users, and its stickiness is relatively weak.
Once another popular game comes out and attracts players from NGN Farm, the popularity of NGN software will naturally be taken away.
To put it bluntly, a large number of investors in the venture capital circle believe that in the current situation where there are many kinds of instant messaging software in the world, if NGN software wants to truly break out of the encirclement, it still lacks the ones with its own characteristics. Drainage point, before this "point" appears, large-scale investment in NGN companies is still too risky.
So, the negotiation was actually stuck on the second condition that An Rusong had to come up with - he had to prove that the development direction he had set for the company was feasible and had great prospects.
On the right side of the long table in the conference room, An Rusong, who only had an old assistant, looked a little lonely. Opposite him, there were six blond Americans sitting in a row. Macaulay, left of center, also had obvious dissatisfaction on his face.
Today, Macaulay came with real sincerity. He even considered raising NGN’s valuation to US$100 million. In other words, the upper limit of GC Fund’s negotiation today is 2,000 US dollars. An investment of 10,000 US dollars in exchange for 20% of the shares of NGN Company.
This condition is generous enough. After all, An Rusong’s NGN company has only been established for how long? You must know that after Facebook was launched, its valuation did not expand so fast. It took a year of development before it started to take off directly. Don't say that Facebook has a strong competitor. After all, NGN Software has more competitors, and every one of its competitors is powerful. As a result, Macaulay happily led the team over with full confidence and sincerity, but An Rusong welcomed him with a completely unfair precondition. This guy was like a tyrant, Want to completely monopolize the decision-making power of NGN Company.
"An," waving his hands to his negotiating partners to signal everyone to quiet down, Macaulay said to An Rusong in as calm a tone as possible, "Maybe, you should Listen to our quotation first, and then consider the issue of different rights for the same shares.”
Opposite him, the smile on An Rusong's face did not diminish. He looked at the Americans who wanted to get angry and said calmly: "Macaulay, the issue of different rights for the same shares can be discussed later. , but the issue of quotation can also be discussed later. My idea is that if our negotiations want to continue, you might as well listen to me talk about a new function that will be launched in NGN in the near future. ”
< br>After a pause, he emphasized his tone and said: "Believe me, this is a A simple but epoch-making new function. "
Macaulay turned to look at the negotiation assistants sitting on the left and right, and finally spread his hands and said to An Rusong in a helpless tone: "Then show it. "
What he said was English, just two simple words: "showit," such a simple response showed that he was not really interested in the "epoch-making new features" that An Rusong said. Interested, he didn't believe this statement either.
"No problem, but, Macaulay, although we are friends, we still have to go through the necessary procedures," An Rusong handed over a document at hand and said, " Before I make the corresponding presentation, you need to sign a confidentiality agreement. At the same time, I also want to ask your negotiation assistant to leave here temporarily and go to the lounge next to you to relax.”
He also spoke English, and the remaining Americans could naturally understand him. Therefore, when he heard that the place needed to be "cleared," several Americans were very dissatisfied, and the conference room suddenly became noisy again.
These Americans are all white, and they lack respect for people of color. What’s more, An Rusong is a Korean. Strictly speaking, Koreans are the lowest class of American citizens, so they naturally don’t respect them. It needs to be respected. If it weren't for Macaulay being the leader of this negotiation, these guys would have taken to the streets long ago.
Macaulay frowned and stared at him. After pondering for a long time, he shook his head and said: "Ann, I hope the so-called new function you showed me is indeed as extraordinary as you said. Otherwise, today, The negotiation will be a complete failure."
After saying that, he took the confidential document, read it carefully, and signed his name at the end.
Afterwards, he quietly discussed with his team and persuaded the remaining people to leave the conference room.
After several Americans exited the conference room, An Rusong nodded to the old assistant beside him. The latter activated from the silent state. He took out a mobile phone and took a photo of Macaulay. photo.
Macaulay looked at An Rusong doubtfully and spread his hands, meaning to ask him what he was doing.
An Rusong did not answer directly. He watched Lao Maozi’s assistant connect his phone to the projection screen, and then said: "Macaulay, next, please allow me to show you the NGN personal space. I named the new feature that was launched after the mid-month update, 'Photo Wall'."
"As the name suggests, its function is to allow users of NGN software to add themselves. Take photos taken with your mobile phone and upload them to your personal space. Through the three simple steps of uploading, modifying and publishing, you can share your beautiful photos with all users on the Internet. Through this display, you can make new friends and establish a wide range of A social circle without geographical restrictions.”
“This is an improved forum,” Macaulay crossed his arms and disagreed with An Rusong’s statement.
An Rusong did not defend himself. He gestured towards the projection screen, indicating to Macaulay to watch it himself.
At this time, Lao Maozi's assistant had already opened a personal space in the NGN software and found an application called "Photo Wall". He then called up the photo he had just taken for Macaulay from his phone. photo.
The assistant’s mobile phone is a new Nokia N93I. The camera function of this mobile phone is already very powerful, using a 3.2-megapixel Zeiss lens, but to be honest, the photos it takes are just like that. It has nothing to do with beauty.
(End of this chapter)