Chapter 137 Arrogance

At 8:50 a.m. on Saturday, Li Mu came to Baidu's office address in Yanjing. Baidu is undergoing rapid development and expansion. Even on weekend mornings, there are still hundreds of employees working overtime. The technology and product departments of the Internet company , Overtime is almost normal, Li Mu has long been used to it.し

When the girl at the front desk heard that he was looking for Jack Zhou, she hurriedly took him to a conference room. Jack Zhou had greeted her before. Today, an important guest is coming to discuss cooperation, and she should be notified as soon as possible.

Li Mu sat in the conference room for just two minutes when a gentle-looking man in his thirties, wearing suits, leather shoes, and rimless glasses pushed the door and entered. When he saw Li Mu, he was stunned at first. Only then did he react, and he asked tentatively, "Are you Mr. Li Mu?"

Li Mu nodded: "It's me."

Jack Zhou was stunned.

He communicated with Li Mu several times, and combined with the two projects operated by Li Mu, he used his own intuition to speculate on Li Mu, and he always felt that the age of this man must be between thirty and thirty-five years old. He has studied or even worked overseas, and he may even have worked in a world-renowned Internet company. However, he never dreamed that the other person would look so young as if he was only about twenty years old?

Although he was surprised, Jack Zhou calmed down quickly, shook hands with Li Mu enthusiastically, and politely said, "Mr. Li, wait a moment, our vp will be here soon."

VP is the abbreviation of Vice President. People in the industry like to use English abbreviations to express his loftiness. Li Mu has long been used to this, so he nodded and didn't say much.

As the person in charge of investment, Jack Zhou usually negotiates with the investee and conducts games at the capital level. However, after communicating with Li Mu several times, he could not find any breakthrough point in Li Mu, which made him feel I've always been a little frustrated, but I'll see you today. Finding out that the other party is so young, this frustration is even more in my heart.

A few minutes later, three middle-aged men and a twenty-seven- or eight-year-old woman came to the conference room, and Jack Zhou hurriedly made an introduction. Among them, the focus is on vp Tan Yaocheng.

Li Mu once heard that this person was big enough in 2006. He retired after Baidu went public, and then he became an angel investor. He invested in many projects and was relatively successful. It's a big winner in life.

Tan Yaocheng didn't expect Li Mu to be so young. In fact, he also set a Facebook image for Li Mu in his heart. He didn't expect such a big deviation, similar to Jack Zhou, and he was shocked for a long time before accepting this reality.

Jack Zhou also introduced other people to Li Mu,

For example, technical director and operation director, Li Mu didn't pay much attention to remembering their names, because he knew that there was only one person he wanted to conquer right now, and that was Tan Yaocheng.

As for Baidu's technical director and director of operations. Something to do with yourself? These people will only work if they have reached a financing agreement with Baidu.

Tan Yaocheng is also a person who pays attention to efficiency in doing things, so after a simple courtesy, he began to get straight to the point: "I invited Mr. Li to come over today, mainly because of Baidu's interest in the two websites Yiting.com and Tieba. Before Jack Zhou should have also talked to you, we have the intention to package and acquire these two businesses, and this intention is very sincere. I don’t know Mr. Li…”

Li Mu smiled slightly, and raised his hand rudely to interrupt him: "Mr. Tan, I have made it clear in my email with Mr. Zhou a long time ago about packaging and acquisition. I do not accept packaging from any company. Intention to acquire."

Tan Yaocheng didn't expect that Li Mu almost didn't even think about it, and even refused to package the acquisition without asking Baidu's current intention price. Why is such a young man so decisive, even to the point of being arbitrary? Is he too confident in himself, or is he too confident in the future of Yiting.com and Tieba?

Although Li Mu refused so simply. Tan Yaocheng still didn't give up, he smiled and said, "Mr. Li, don't you want to hear the quotation? We communicated with investors in Silicon Valley some time ago, and the current quotation is better than the quotation that Jack gave you before. much higher."

Baidu is very optimistic about the two businesses of Yiting.com and Tieba, especially Tieba. This is a community artifact. With it, there will be a giant magnet to gather users. Combined with Baidu's advantages, it will definitely be able to build a community domain. The leader, they also made an English version of the current situation, analysis and evaluation of these two businesses and sent them to investors in Silicon Valley. Finally, the investors gave a clear answer: If Baidu can package and win these two businesses, Investors will increase Baidu's capital by 10 million US dollars.

It can be seen that investors are also very optimistic about the integration prospects of these two businesses and Baidu.

Before Tan Yaocheng came in, he had already made a new offer for Li Mu, 25 million RMB. After tax, this price even made his heart beat faster. For a project that was only a few months old, such a high value is like the Internet The wonders of the field.

As a result, I never dreamed that Li Mu said indifferently at this time: "Trust me, President Tan, with Baidu's current size, you can't afford the price of a packaged acquisition."

Several people in the conference room looked embarrassed.

Tan Yaocheng was startled again, what is the origin of this kid? If you don't ask for a price, you can't afford it. Isn't it too arrogant?

However, based on the information disclosed by Li Mu before, Tan Yaocheng probably guessed Li Mu's real intention, only financing, not selling.

Tan Yaocheng asked: "Mr. Li is very optimistic about these two businesses? What do you think the future development prospects of these two businesses are?"

"Let's put it this way." Li Mu leaned forward a little and said to several people with full confidence: "If I compare the prospect of the future to a grenade, then Yiting.com is just a fuse ring on the grenade."

Speaking of which, Li Mu made a circle with his fingers and said, "Please note, it's just the pull ring on the fuse that fits on the finger like a key ring. It is an entry point that I found from the field of online music audition and download. , As for Tieba, it is the fuse of the grenade, and the fundamental purpose of the existence of EasyTing.com and Tieba is to detonate the real grenade, so if you ask me what the future development prospects are, you can compare the power of the fuse and the grenade. ."

Tan Yaocheng frowned, the fuse is just a fuse, how powerful can it be? It's tiny, how can it be compared to grenades? Another way to understand it, Li Mu means that the current Yiting.com and Tieba are nothing at all. The two together are just a fuse for his grenade. This kid is so arrogant at a young age. ok?

Tan Yaocheng decided to sound the alarm for the young man in front of him, and said in a familiar tone: "Although the idea of ​​Tieba's model is very good, after all, you lack sufficient traffic and financial support. Once this model has a lot of traffic and funds Many companies or individuals imitate it, and I believe that it will soon surpass your Tieba and suppress it so much that you can’t lift your head up.”

The so-called company with a lot of traffic and capital in his mouth is actually talking about Baidu itself, and the implication is nothing more than a warning to Li Mu that if he refuses, he can catch up with him in minutes.

But Li Mu said: "If there are companies or individuals who want to imitate my Tieba, it's really not difficult, but even if they follow me to imitate Tieba, they are just follow-up dogs with no goals."

As soon as the word "follow the wind" came out, everyone could feel the ridicule from Li Mu. In fact, when they saw YiTing.com and Tieba, their first thought was to follow the trend and launch similar products...

At this time, Li Mu ignored the embarrassed expressions of the people present and continued: "If anyone here has been following Tieba, then he must know how fast Tieba's product development is. Within more than a month, we not only went online. We launched the Singer Post Bar, and also launched the post bar sign-in function and membership upgrade system. Then, we launched the celebrity post bar including all film and television singers, variety show hosts and other celebrities in the Mainland, Taiwan and Taiwan. Powerful functions, that is, users create their own posts! Just ask, which companies can achieve such a fast and high-quality product update speed? For other companies, it will take at least half a year or even longer to do it Bar?"

What Li Mu said is true. The rhythm of this kind of product development is simply inhuman. The reason why Tieba can do it is because Li Mu understands the success or failure of various Internet products in later generations. Others spent a long time in research, development and trial and error, and finally accumulated successful experience.

Tan Yaocheng also fell into contemplation. Although Li Mu's words were harsh, they were true facts. The update speed of products was so fast, and the functions of each update were almost astonishing. This kind of person is really difficult to imitate. If you imitate other people's 10 version, other people's 30 has already been released. If you don't have such a strong product development team, you will never be able to catch up.

Seeing that Tan Yaocheng didn't speak for a long time, Li Mu cleared his throat when he read www.uukanshu.com, and said, "Just now, Mr. Tan talked about traffic and funds, something you may not know. Now Tieba has more than 4 million registered users. Now, there are more than 200,000 daily active users. With such a fast growth rate, are you still worried about the traffic problem? Even if others have stronger traffic, but without the high conversion rate and viscosity of Tieba, it is basically useless. of."

"In addition to traffic, there are funds. I admit that funds are the bottleneck of my next development, but I think financing is also to make up for this problem. I believe that even if I don't take Baidu's money, I still don't have to worry about financing."

Tan Yaocheng folded his hands on the table, glanced at Li Mu, nodded slightly, and asked, "If financing, what are your conditions?" (To be continued.)

ps: The third update, we fought it out! One chapter is 3670 words, one chapter is 3483 words, and now this chapter is 3161 words, and the three are more than 10,000 words together! From the time it was put on the shelves to now, the daily updates of Bu Ge have been more than 10,000 words! For an office worker who gets up at 7:30 in the morning to go to work and can only go home at 8:00 in the evening, it is really too hard, too hard, and there is almost no time for relaxation. To honor the mission!

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