Chapter 257 Inspection
Chapter 257 Inspection
The times are developing rapidly, and in 05, some windows have been closed one after another.
For ordinary people, the Internet cafe qualification certificate, which is the easiest to get rich, is no longer as easy to obtain as before by paying a 200 yuan handling fee. At this time, it is difficult to buy an Internet cafe qualification even for 200,000 yuan.
This is true for most other industries. The days when you could just open a store and sit back and count money like a few years ago will no longer be possible in the future.
Xu Mingyuan is not in a hurry. Although the current market environment seems to be highly competitive, it is far from the level of a battle royale ten years later.
It will take until after 08 when the market share is gradually divided up and the competition for the existing market begins, and then real competition will arrive.
Everyone makes mistakes. No matter how successful an entrepreneur is, he or she will have made a lot of mistakes, big and small, behind the scenes.
But Xu Mingyuan will not do that. He has foresight in major events, and small mistakes will not affect the development of the company.
If he was short of money, he would make a fortune in the stock market or buy a piece of land and wait for it to appreciate in value. If he needed money urgently, he would go to the bank to get a mortgage loan and get some quick money, without even looking for an investor.
Sometimes Xu Mingyuan would feel bored. After all, the uncertainty he once had was gone. Even if he succeeded now, he would take it for granted and it was no big deal.
But this boring attitude is seen by outsiders as a calm, mature and stable outward appearance.
For example, Li Yunfeng, who was brought up by Xu Mingyuan himself, was almost treated as a god from heaven.
Among the employees, Li Yunfeng knows Xu Mingyuan's rise to fame better than anyone else.
When Xu Mingyuan first used plug-ins in the small Internet cafe, Cheng Liang naturally told Li Yunfeng and other salesmen who were doing field sales to increase their enthusiasm for sales.
Later, Xu Mingyuan sold Lightning Technology without hesitation and let Li Yunfeng be responsible for the acquisition of Junxing Technology.
In Li Yunfeng's eyes, every step Xu Mingyuan took seemed like a gamble, but as expected, he never made a mistake.
Even now, although Xu Mingyuan wants to promote him, Li Yunfeng still works meticulously.
If the opinions he occasionally put forward were rejected by him, he would absolutely abandon his own personal ideas and complete Xu Mingyuan's requirements.
What did Xu Mingyuan say about Li Yunfeng? Although he was not as capable as Yao Jianhui, he was obedient and very easy to use.
There are only fifteen people in the studio of Classmate.com, including Li Yunfeng and his assistant Zheng Haowen, who is Tao Shuxin's cousin. The rented studio is 200 square meters and looks very empty.
But I didn’t see Zheng Haowen here today. He must have been sent to the Computer Science Department of Jiangnan University to negotiate.
As soon as they saw Xu Mingyuan coming in, some sharp-eyed people immediately noticed him and quickly stood up and waved.
"Boss, hey, the boss's wife is here to inspect our work too?"
"Boss lady..."
"Boss lady..."
The studio was full of young people from Jiangnan University. The Internet had a vitality that traditional companies could not match. They all let Xu Mingyuan go and instead greeted Tao Shuxin warmly.
Tao Shuxin has only been here a few times, and the last time she came was at the beginning of this year's school year.
Everyone was very enthusiastic at that time, but it was the first time that someone called herself the boss lady loudly, and her face immediately turned red.
"Hey, hey, hey, seniors, stop teasing me. We haven't even started yet, how can you call me the boss lady..." Tao Shuxin blushed as she hugged Xu Mingyuan's arm, but she didn't mean to let go. She opened her eyes wide and said, "What do you want to drink? I'll go downstairs to buy it."
"Can we trouble the boss lady for this? Guangyu, do you have eyes? The snack shelf is closest to you, go and bring some boxes of food and drinks to the boss lady."
"Okay, wait a minute!"
The young man wearing glasses next to the snack rack grabbed a bunch of snacks from the rack and brought them over.
"No, no..." Tao Shuxin said no, but she loosened her hand around Xu Mingyuan, took the box with both hands, and said with a smile, "Thank you."
The greedy Tao Shuxin certainly wouldn't refuse the temptation of snacks. Besides, all the money was paid by Xu Mingyuan, so she could share some of it.
Tao Shuxin no longer looked at Xu Mingyuan chatting with them. She just lowered her head and looked for her favorite snacks. She noticed that these snacks were not common in the market and were not cheap.
Xu Mingyuan took Tao Shuxin to the office separated by frosted glass walls, sat down directly on the sofa, and picked up a bag of snacks and opened it to eat.
"Wow, snacks are so expensive. Do you have a small store in the company?" Tao Shuxin said quietly.
"I'm so bored. Whoever wants to eat it can go get it."
Xu Mingyuan was speechless and stuffed two chocolate beans into her mouth. This little girl looked down on him too much.
For the classmate network, Xu Mingyuan adopted flexible management. If the effect is good, it can also be used when technical personnel are transferred to establish new projects in the future.
These young people who have just entered society and are working in the Internet industry are still very motivated.
Because there are only fifteen people in the studio at present, part of the maintenance and technology are handed over to the team of Jiangnan University's Computer Science Department, and more than half of the space is not used, so five or six people choose to sleep on the floor in the company and rarely go out a week.
Xu Mingyuan pretended not to notice this phenomenon and left everything to Li Yunfeng to decide on the situation. As a qualified capitalist, he would not stop his employees from giving their enthusiasm and sweat.
"What if someone takes it away?"
Although they had not yet gotten married, Tao Shuxin had already started to consider Xu Mingyuan's wallet.
"If you want to take it away, just take it away. How much does it cost to eat?"
The young girl, who had not experienced society, still had a childlike mentality. Xu Mingyuan felt helpless, but he still patiently taught the girl why she should do this. The salary Xu Mingyuan offered was not high, averaging around 4000 yuan. Even Li Guangyu, who had the best skills, received less than 5000 yuan.
These people are all good students from the Computer Science Department of Jiangnan University. If they go a little further south, they can earn about 5,000 to 6,000 yuan when they start working.
The main reason why they could work with peace of mind was that Xu Mingyuan gave them small shares.
A technical talent like Li Guangyu was given 1% of the shares when he was in Zheng Song's team.
Xu Mingyuan gave 5 shares to the remaining first batch of employees who joined the company, but the prerequisite was that they had to sign a contract. He had the right of first refusal, and if anyone wanted to flee early within three years, his shares would be repurchased at a low price.
Since Xu Mingyuan cannot give them cash or dividends at the moment, he gives them an advance on future profits and asks them to work hard, as there will be opportunities in the future.
Xu Mingyuan and Li Yunfeng were discussing something, and Tao Shuxin was listening quietly beside them.
During the chat, Li Yunfeng said with a little excitement: "Acorn Capital wants to buy 40% of your shares for 20 million US dollars."
He also owns 5% of the shares. If he sells them now, he will immediately become a multi-millionaire.
The price offered by Oaknut Capital is very high, already twice the market price, but Li Yunfeng will not choose to do so. He believes that Xu Mingyuan will earn a hundredfold return in the future.
"Don't bother with these people anymore. Classmates.com has no plans to sell its shares."
Xu Mingyuan waved his hand to refuse. The price of the Internet changes every day, and he has never cared about these things.
Classmates.com has an ambiguous attitude and has not mentioned whether it plans to raise funds, so naturally someone will come to it.
Xu Mingyuan's purpose was to see the financing price that investors could offer so that he could have an idea in his mind and, by the way, prevent these dozen high-tech talents from choosing to leave.
A year ago, just two months after Classmates.com was launched, someone asked to acquire it for 5 million RMB. By the end of the year, the price had increased several times.
By the time Classmate Farm went online this year, the price was over 100 million yuan, and now they are no longer pursuing a full acquisition.
Xu Mingyuan currently holds more than 60% of the shares. If he sells them all, he will immediately have a large amount of cash in his hands. However, he is not short of money now. If he is short of money, he can also go to the bank for a loan.
The current bank interest rates cannot keep up with inflation, so if you can get a loan, you will make a profit. Xu Mingyuan would not be so stupid as to sell directly for cash.
I remember that Xu Mingyuan gave shares to Zheng Song, the vice dean of the Computer Department, but he was too lazy to take them, so I had to use a lot of effort to force them on him. I wonder if he is now beating his thigh and crying and saying he regrets it.
Xu Mingyuan couldn't help but feel a little emotional, some people's lives are as lonely as snow.
People always care about the interests of the present, without any vision for the future, and only themselves are invincible...
"Wow, it's worth so much money?"
Tao Shuxin's eyes widened. She had studied Principles of Economics as an elective course and knew that the current exchange rate for US dollar to RMB was more than eight yuan.
Usually Xu Mingyuan said silently that he didn't know how much money he had, but he didn't expect that just a small studio would be worth so much.
What's more, he is a major shareholder of Sailing Technology, so Tao Shuxin has no idea how much assets he has.
"Hi, Xiaoqian."
"Tsk tsk tsk..."
Tao Shuxin frowned and touched her face, but she did not mock Xu Mingyuan for being cocky anymore.
No wonder more young girls have been chatting up Xu Mingyuan recently. Even Su Muqing, who hadn't come to the music club for a long time, came back to teach her how to practice her voice. It turned out that they were all connected through their classmates' network.
Tao Shuxin had a strange feeling at this moment. She didn't see what Xu Mingyuan did. It had only been half a year, but she suddenly saw that the classmate network had a bright future.
Tao Shuxin couldn't help feeling a little melancholy when she thought about how Xu Mingyuan was laughing and joking with her all day long, but was secretly doing something big behind her back.
"Let's go, what are you looking at?"
They had finished talking about everything that needed to be talked about. Their main purpose was to check on what had happened recently and to take a look at the development progress of the parking space grabbing game. Xu Mingyuan had no plans to have a meal with them or anything like that.
It's good for everyone to be busy. Wasting employees' time is wasting the boss's money.
"Ugh……"
Tao Shuxin let out a long sigh.
"What's wrong with you?"
Xu Mingyuan looked at the little girl with a melancholy face in confusion.
"Humph."
Tao Shuxin snorted and put down the box of snacks that she wanted to sneak away.
When Tao Shuxin thought about how she had been thinking about eating and drinking all day, her face turned dull and she hummed in discomfort.
Never eat it again...
(End of this chapter)