Wall Street Legend

Ye Dongqing is not a picky eater. Even if gold is readily available everywhere, he will still choose the purest one.

To put it lightly, there must be a 100-fold return in ten years. Whether it is Apple, Netflix, Tencent FB, etc., the heights that may be reached in the future will exceed this red line, at least judging from the development trajectory of previous lives. in this way.

If there are dozens of times, you can consider it, and forget about ten or twenty times. Anyway, the space to choose from is relatively large, and it is not worth wasting too much energy. It is better to continue to increase the existing shareholding. He doesn’t have the money yet. There is nothing wrong with thinking that there is so much money that there is no place to invest, so it should be used wisely.

Therefore, among the more than ten Internet entrepreneurs present today, most of them are the bosses of various companies. What Ye Dongqing needs to do is to screen out which stocks are potential stocks worth investing in and which ones are junk stocks that will only make his investment in vain. This not only depends on the fields they are involved in, but also depends on the character of the supervisor or founder. You must know that many potential startups have died due to the entrepreneurs' insistence.

These entrepreneurs, who have had the right to speak from the beginning, may have everything going smoothly in the beginning, but managing a company with a few people and managing a company with hundreds or even thousands of employees are two different concepts. Everyone, like Ye Dongqing, feels reassured by the management system they have formulated. Many failures start from the source. For example, Mr. Wang An of Wang An Computer was ranked among the top ten richest people in the world at his peak. First, it didn’t take long for him to personally destroy the future of Wang An Computer Company. No one else could blame him.

Compared to the so-called friendship, Ye Dongqing still prefers to believe in the justice provided by the law, let controllable professional managers help him manage the company, and sign a series of harsh agreements to ensure that he can rest assured. Bonny is a special case. Based on his past life experience, he believes that Bonny can be a good CEO, not to mention that the investment money is not much. Success is good, but failure is not a big deal. The eggs are scattered in several baskets. .

Knowing that there is no similar habit in China, most founders will be quite willful. Ye Dongqing heard multinational businessmen complaining about similar things more than once, so he had to be on guard and could agree to hand over management rights to Boni Ma. No. The representative will also make the same commitment to others. Soon after meeting him, he has already decided that no matter who he invests in, he must have a certain say within the company.

If a manager loses control and insists on doing something he knows will fail, it will definitely feel very, very unpleasant.

Mr. Zhang from Sohu is very popular. He knows almost all the people present. He is more like a host than Pony. At this moment, he is helping Ye Dongqing introduce the guests present and the fields they are engaged in. Some names and companies are familiar to Ye Dongqing in his mind. Got the number.

When he came to China this time, he asked Tamsui Investment Group to prepare a full US$500 million in cash in advance so that he could get the shares he wanted at any time. Judging from the current market environment, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a "dragon crossing the river" , because this amount is almost the same as the total market value of Sohu, NetEase and Sina combined. It is true that the Nasdaq market is recovering, but investors have no confidence in the development prospects of the local giants in the United States. How can they have confidence in these small companies in China?

After experiencing the Internet bubble crisis, their total market value was already very low. Even though it has recovered slightly in recent months, its market value is still so low that no one pays attention to it. In the final analysis, they still lack self-confidence. Regardless of how they are promoted locally, in fact On the Nasdaq market, there are currently only very ordinary companies, and probably only Ye Dongqing knows that these companies have some growth potential, and also knows how huge the future Internet market will be in this land.

After going around in a circle before talking about himself, Mr. Zhang introduced himself: "I, Zhang Chao, founded a company called Sohu. I am currently engaged in the portal website market, which is what Yahoo does. I once received a postdoctoral degree from MIT. Later, I returned to China to start my own business, and I am considered one of the earliest entrepreneurs in the country, but I don’t have such achievements as Xiao Ma.”

"No, I'm just lucky. Tencent still needs to learn from you." Boni said, holding a box of cigarettes in his hand, and after finishing half of the pack, he asked the waiter to get a whole carton of Zhonghua.

Ye Dongqing interrupted: "I know your company. If the company's funds were not too tight, I would have suggested that Boni buy the entire Sohu. In fact, I have similar ideas now. We can discuss it in detail when we have time. "

After looking at Tencent, he changed his mind and felt that merging an already well-established portal would look pretty good. Today’s Tencent is just an empty shelf with far from rich content. Judging from the current layout, Look, it’s worth spending more money to help with operational expansion, even if it means providing interest-free loans.

Mr. Zhang has been relieved recently. If possible, who would be willing to sell the company he has cultivated? Unless he has lost the confidence to expand again, he is quite confident now. However, he did not say these words. He wants to hear Ye Dongqing's quotation first before discussing. If the operation goes well, this news may make Sohu's stock price rise. Bo, American investors don’t know him, but they know Ye Dongqing.

As a businessman, he is always accustomed to pursuing profit when thinking about problems. He said it politely, but in fact he was not interested in the sale proposal. He just wanted to get more financing through the issuance of additional shares.

At this moment, a middle-aged man spoke. His name was Guo Fan. He was one of the oldest Internet entrepreneurs in China. He founded a website called Huicong.com. He said as if he was joking: "If you are interested, I can help you." Part of the shares will be transferred to you, my company is being listed in Xiangjiang, and I have recently been short of money to engage in other businesses."

Ye Dongqing had never heard of the name of this company and was not interested. He said tactfully: "I believe Tencent should be able to achieve more cooperation with your company. Let's eat first. I drank a bit too much last night. Let's talk about it today. , would you like to raise your glass and take a sip?"

I changed the topic and had no intention of picking it up again. I originally thought that Jack Ma would come, but unfortunately he didn’t. The recently successful entrepreneur has not been accepted by this small circle yet, and no one has contacted him. He, many people think that the so-called Taobao is a nonsense and do not believe that anyone would be willing to buy things on the Internet.

This makes Ye Dongqing feel a little regretful. Catching more than 300 kilograms of tuna and catching dozens of kilograms of tuna are definitely two different concepts...