Chapter 453
Zhang Pingyi couldn't remember how many times he had to rush to work at short notice. He really couldn't survive when he met a boss like Qin Shaoyan who made things up casually without any strength.
That afternoon, Zhang Pingyi called Wang Jun, CTO of the campus network, and gathered several technical backbones to study this new social 2.0 product, "Weibo."
If it's just for display, it's not that difficult, but these people will inevitably have divergent thinking when discussing together.
So several people quickly fell into intense technical arguments in the conference room, trying to prove to others that their ideas were correct.
Until ten o'clock in the evening, when Qin Shaoyan was getting ready to get off work, he passed by the conference room and found that the lights were still on. When he went in, he found that Zhang Pingyi and others were still having a meeting.
"Hey, haven't you finished it yet?" Qin Shaoyan asked curiously.
Everyone suddenly stopped arguing, looked at Qin Shaoyan together, and then suddenly started talking at random.
"Mr. Qin, I still have a question!"
"Mr. Qin, there's something I don't understand."
"Mr. Qin, I think there is something unclear about what you said."
Before Qin Shaoyan could react, he was pulled into the room by everyone, and then pressed on a chair to be tortured.
"What are you going to do?" Qin Shaoyan was a little scared, "I have to get off work!"
"We won't get off work until we figure it out today." How could anyone let this guy go?
Qin Shaoyan had no choice but to pull up the whiteboard again, picked up a pen and began to draw a schematic diagram on it, explaining the entire product logic and operation methods of Weibo again.
At half past twelve in the evening, the tired Qin Shaoyan returned home.
At this time, the lights were still on in the second bedroom, and Mingyue immediately came out of the room when she heard the sound of opening the door.
While reaching out to take off Qin Shaoyan's coat and hanging it up, he asked: "Are you hungry? Can I get you something to eat?"
"No, just give me a glass of water." Qin Shaoyan slumped on the sofa, stretched out comfortably, and asked casually, "Why aren't you asleep yet?"
"I have some unfinished work, so I'll seize the time to correct it." Mingyue handed over the water glass, "I won't be able to sleep until you come back."
"You don't have to wait for me. I'm working overtime and I don't know when. I might stay up all night." Qin Shaoyan sighed.
Mingyue was a little curious, "Don't your company make a lot of money? Why are you still so busy?"
"The company is going to be listed in the United States this year, and there is a lot of preliminary preparation work." Qin Shaoyan let out a sigh of relief.
Mingyue continued to ask: "Should it be easier after the listing is completed?"
"Huh?" Qin Shaoyan was startled, then smiled bitterly, "I'm afraid I'll have to be busy for a while. In order to maintain the stock price, I have to continue to struggle."
"Oh." Mingyue nodded in understanding, "Actually, I don't understand why so many bosses want to list their companies. It's understandable that companies don't make money and go public. Why do companies want to go public if they are very profitable?"
"Of course it's to make more money." Qin Shaoyan explained, "On the surface, the company issues shares to raise funds in the stock market, and uses these funds to continue to develop the company."
"Actually, these are all excuses. Their purpose is to continuously push up the company's stock price and make the company's stock become more and more valuable."
"Then what?" Mingyue asked doubtfully.
"Then I have to find a way to legally make the money from the stock market my own." Qin Shaoyan explained, "There are many methods and the process is very complicated, but the purpose is the same, to make money."
"Isn't the money from the stock market used to develop the company?" Mingyue became more and more confused as she listened, "How come it becomes my own."
"Isn't the purpose of starting a company just to make money? Raise funds from the stock market, then develop the company and make more money. This is the normal logic." Qin Shaoyan smiled slightly, "But it's a lot of trouble. Developing the company may not necessarily continue to make money. Ah, it would be more fun and convenient to make money directly from the stock market.”
"I told the investors that I took the money to continue doing business, but in fact, I poured it into my own pocket."
"Ah?" Mingyue was very shocked, "Isn't this just cheating money?"
"How can things in the market be called money fraud?" Qin Shaoyan immediately corrected him, "It is normal for companies to invest funds and make profits and losses."
"Besides, do you think stock investors don't know? Many of them know it very well."
"Then why are they still willing to be fooled into buying stocks?" Mingyue found it difficult to understand.
"Because they want to use the stock to deceive others and make a fortune from it." Qin Shaoyan sneered, "It's like passing a flower by beating a drum, passing it from one person to another. As long as the value continues to appreciate during the passing process, the chain in the middle will Everyone feels that they have earned something.”
"Then everyone wants to be in the middle chain and feels that they are not the last one to take over."
"..." Mingyue felt that she was really not suitable to listen to these things, "Isn't there anyone who cares?"
"The stock market is risky, so you need to be cautious when entering the market." Qin Shaoyan chuckled, "I've already warned you, but you still want to go in, so what else is there to say?"
"Besides, this is a market economy, don't play if you don't like it."
"When all investors are wiped out by the stock market, the stock market will be gone. Hayek's big hand will adjust itself. What should we worry about?"
"Oh." Mingyue nodded and suddenly asked, "Then when you went to the United States to go public this time, were you actually going to defraud Americans of their money?"
"Ahem, it's different." Qin Shaoyan almost spit out the tea in his mouth, "I am a serious businessman. I make money from the US stock market because I sincerely want to develop the company! I am different from them."
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"Wow, then you are awesome." Mingyue clapped cooperatively, showing admiration in her eyes, "So Mr. Qin, how do you want to develop the company after you get the money?"
"Of course we will make the campus network bigger and stronger and become the number one social platform in the country." Qin Shaoyan said enthusiastically, "Then we will use the traffic advantage of the social platform to penetrate the entertainment industry, continue to make games, and then find ways to make chat software."< br>
"Then it's just waiting..."
"What are you waiting for?" Mingyue asked.
"Waiting for the mobile Internet..." Qin Shaoyan looked at the ceiling and said with emotion, "There should be no BAT by then..."
"But before that, I have to relax first."
"Relax for what?" Mingyue asked cooperatively.
"I have worked hard for so many years, but I can't enjoy it anymore?" Qin Shaoyan said with emotion, "I used to think that now that I was rich, I could do whatever I wanted without having to go to work, and I could sleep as late as I wanted."
"Now that I have money, not only do I have to go to work, but I also have to work overtime."
"I have decided that after Campus Online is launched, I will buy myself a building first and spend a lot of money." "I will make an epoch-making online game for everyone to play for free, not to make money, but to have fun."
“What will be spent then is the money of American stock investors.”
Mingyue smiled and listened quietly to Qin Shaoyan's continuous talk, and suddenly asked: "Are you a little nervous?"
Qin Shaoyan was startled and subconsciously wanted to deny it, but in the end he sighed, "After all, it's the first time. I thought I was still in college a few years ago, and now I'm going to take a company public."
"Hey, this time I go to the United States, you come with me."
"Okay." Mingyue smiled and nodded.
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Qin Shaoyan took this trip to the United States very seriously and not only took his girlfriend with him.
His right-hand men were all present, including Zhang Pingyi, an important partner, Zhou Yuan, the general manager of the operations department, several old employees from the early days of the campus network, and Edward Damon, the general manager of the public relations department.
In terms of legal affairs, there is Qin Shaoyan's Queen's Law Firm - Junde Xinheng. This time the law firm can be said to be fully mobilized, from director Dong Songting to senior partners.
Junde Xinheng has also gotten better in the past two years. By working for Qin Shaoyan, the entire law firm has developed rapidly.
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From a small law firm with less than ten people in the beginning to an annual income of tens of millions now, it all started when Qin Shaoyan asked them to work on credit.
In order to ensure Mr. Qin's listing plan, Dong Songting called Zhang Yuan, the barrister he had worked with last time.
This Zhang Yuan single-handedly handled all the legal issues regarding the establishment of TNB for Qin Shaoyan, allowing Qin Shaoyan to successfully invest in Facebook.
Moreover, he was previously the assistant of barrister Liu Gang, who designed the famous VIE structure and allowed Sina to successfully list in the United States.
Zhang Yuan participated in the entire process and was very experienced in this kind of thing.
The investment institutions also had a full lineup. On the IDG side, Xiong Xiaoge led Zhou Dao and several confidants, Zheng Nan from China Sequoia led several managing directors, and Xu Xin from Capital Today was also present in person.
These people are all backbone elites and are very familiar with the process and business of listing.
Xiong Xiaoge fiddled with his phone, edited a few words and sent the text message, and then Zhou Dao said, "It's been sent, Mr. Xiong."
"Well, let me take a look." Xiong Xiaoge leaned over to the laptop screen and saw a new blog post from his account on the Weibo page, and the content was sent by his own text message.
"Not bad, not bad." Xiong Xiaoge was very satisfied, "Mr. Qin, your technical strength is very strong. You have produced the finished product in such a short time."
"This is just a beta version." Qin Shaoyan said modestly, "The official version still needs to be improved and launched. Zhang Pingyi went back to prepare to reorganize the server structure, otherwise the server will be unstable as there are more users."
Xiong Xiaoge doesn't understand technical issues, but he still understands the product. "This thing is so convenient. You can type a few words on a web page and send it. You don't even need a computer. You only need a mobile phone to send a blog post via text message."
You can post blog posts anytime and anywhere as long as there is a network and signal, and the content is short and the reading time is short. The cost of social interaction is greatly reduced, and the desire to participate in interaction is strong.
This is much more fun than blogs, which are stinky and long, with little practical information. Most of them are either whining or making headlines, which makes everyone feel annoyed after reading them.
Blogs are only supported by celebrities. There is a lot of praise at the bottom of the blogs posted by those celebrities, and nothing can be discussed, and ordinary netizens have no sense of participation.
Zheng Nan from Sequoia also registered an account on a whim, and interacted with Xiong Xiaoge back and forth. He felt that Weibo was really novel and convenient.
Especially in terms of convenience, the content of different users is placed directly on one page, and all can be seen at a glance.
Unlike forums, post bars, and blogs, you first browse the title and then click in to see the text.
What people who play forums and post bars these days are most afraid of is, of course, clickbait.
Weibo has solved this problem very well. The entire blog post can be up to 140 words long, all put together, and can be scanned at a glance, eliminating the phenomenon of clickbait that is deeply hated by netizens.
"This Weibo is indeed convenient, but..." Zheng Nan changed the subject, "This form of Weibo is easy for competitors to follow suit."
"Of course there will be many, especially other big Internet companies, portals, at least Sina will definitely follow up, and Penguin." Qin Shaoyan said without hesitation, "After all, Weibo is too convenient to copy, but it requires It’s more difficult to operate it well, and you still need to look at the specific operations.”
Xiong Xiaoge interrupted at this time and said: "You can trust Qin Shaoyan on how to operate. This guy can always give you some new tricks."
Zheng Nan doesn’t worry about other competitors. After all, the original owner hasn’t launched it on the market yet. “When do you plan to release this?”
"By the end of the year or the beginning of 2007." Qin Shaoyan thought for a while, "The campus network has a more important expansion strategy for the next step, and we will work together to promote it at that time."
Zheng Nan perked up and started discussing with Xiong Xiaoge in a low voice.
Qin Shaoyan turned to look at Mingyue who was reading a book next to him, "Are you still used to flying?"
"Well, it's not bad." Mingyue whispered, "It's my first time to fly, so I'm a little nervous."
"It's okay, I don't like flying either." Qin Shaoyan curiously asked, "What are you looking at?"
"The magazine on the plane." Mingyue showed the cover to Qin Shaoyan, "I took a look at the financial information inside. It's quite interesting. Look at this New York Stock Exchange. The entire hall is full of traders, all relying on gestures and shouting."< br>
It was indeed a very interesting scene, in the noisy hall, with traders holding pens and notes in one hand and a phone in the other, while communicating with gestures and shouts.
Later, after electronicization, there were fewer and fewer traders. By 2020, there were only one-tenth of the original number of traders.
"This is a characteristic of the New York Stock Exchange." Qin Shaoyan explained, "They like to adopt the traditional professional market model. Brokers conduct transactions in the hall, communicate and negotiate face-to-face, and reach transactions through traditional methods such as gestures and shouting."< br>
Mingyue was a little curious, "Will it be noisy then?"
"We are not going to the New York Stock Exchange this time. If you are interested, I can take you for a walk." Qin Shaoyan said with a smile.
"Hey, aren't we going to go to the market to ring the bell?" Mingyue was a little confused.
"We are going to Nasdaq, not the New York Stock Exchange." Qin Shaoyan explained, "There are three major stock exchanges in the United States, the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Exchange and the American Stock Exchange."
"The New York Stock Exchange has relatively strict financial requirements and listing standards for listed companies, such as market capitalization, profitability, stock price and number of shareholders. It is suitable for mature large companies and enterprises."
"Nasdaq has relatively low requirements and is extremely friendly to start-ups and growth companies. The low-threshold listing standards are an ideal listing platform for small and medium-sized enterprises and technology start-ups, such as Microsoft, Apple, domestic Sina, NetEase, Companies like Sohu are all listed on Nasdaq.”
"Oh." Mingyue suddenly realized, "Nasdaq is more convenient to defraud money, right?"
"..." Qin Shaoyan thought for a while and said seriously, "You can't just talk about an exchange with outstanding achievements and a long history like this."
(End of chapter)