Global monopoly of technology

Chapter 99 [Gates and Google Enter]

The two new faces, one is the investor representing Bill Gates. Gates has been reducing Microsoft’s stock. His assets are diversified. Although he is famous as the founder of Microsoft, most of his wealth is actually Not from Microsoft, but from other investments.

The other side is impressively Google, which was successfully listed on the stock exchange last month. The person sent by Google is its strategic investment department.

Of course, although it is a strategic investment department, Bluestar Technology only accepts financial investment. Simply put, you give me money and I give you equity. If you want to interfere in the company's operations, I'm sorry, go out and turn left.

At about 10:20, three commercial vehicles drove to the entrance of the Hilton Hotel. Compared with the previous ones, they were all top luxury business vehicles. These vehicles are all of the same brand and are quite satisfactory. They are considered to be ordinary people. It's a top luxury car, but that's it for the current situation.

Soon, the front and back of the three cars got off a group of people first, about six or seven business people in formal wear, including men and women, and most of the media footage quickly followed one of the beautiful women. .

No way, beautiful women are naturally more attractive to the lens.

It was Qin Weimu. This was her first appearance in the media. Many male reporters were immediately attracted by this beautiful scenery.

When focusing on Qin Weimu among these business people, nouns such as [mature], [OL], and [lady] popped up unconsciously.

But she is by no means gaudy, she is beautiful with connotation, she is very beautiful and professional.

After getting out of the car, the group of people gathered in the middle of the car. After a while, the driver of the commercial car in the middle got out of the car and arrived at the car and opened the door.

Under the gaze of everyone, a handsome and sunny young man came out of the car, except for Luo Sheng.

Compared with the people next to him are wearing formal work clothes, his clothes appear to be maverick. As always, his personal style of simplicity is also very ordinary.

But there is a saying, it looks ordinary, but in fact, Luo Sheng's outfit is not cheap at all. There is no brand trademark because all of them are tailor-made.

But in the current situation, he is extremely eye-catching and impressive in his "normal" costume.

"That is Luo Sheng, the founder of Bluestar Technology?"

"very young!"

"I heard it was eight or five years old, twenty years old, nineteen years old actually..."

"This age matches the height of the career, it's really irritating!"

"For a long time, I couldn't understand why Bluestar Technology could become the darling of capital because it burned so much money. One after another VCs rushed to give him money..."

"Do you want to understand now?"

"Uh, I didn't understand."

"That's right, if you want to understand, you are still here, you should have abandoned your pen and went to business. I might have taken you instead of Luo Sheng."

"..."

At this moment, Luo Sheng got out of the car and headed towards the Hilton Hotel, Qin Weimu and other company team members also followed.

The reporters present kept talking, but did not forget to take a photo.

Luo Sheng's achievements in the industry nowadays, many people have studied him, but the results are almost invariable, and the conclusion is... it is almost impossible to replicate.

It is because of this that it is legendary, and it will be talked about by the industry and paid attention to by the world.

In the end, it can only be flattered. For example, when everyone looked down on the energy of hao123, they made a decisive acquisition, or once actively sought financing but were all rejected. Now most of those people have regretted it.

Once an opportunity is missed, it is really missed.

Now even if you want to invest in Bluestar Technology, you may not have that capital. The last round of financing reached nearly 2.7 billion yuan. This time I am afraid it is even more exaggerated.

Before Luo Sheng and the others entered the Hilton Hotel, the manager of the hotel greeted them warmly and led them to the meeting place. This kind of reception was very skillful for him.

Along the way, I have passed the winding staircase, and countless stars and celebrities from all walks of life have passed.

After Luo Sheng and his people entered the meeting room, a few minutes later, people from the investment bank of Morgan also came. So far all the investors have entered the meeting room, and the meeting door closed.

When raising funds privately, negotiation and negotiation have the right to disclose or not disclose to a third party.

Luo Sheng exchanged greetings with old acquaintances, and chatted with the main investors present for a while before getting into the topic.

First of all, Luo Sheng asked Qin Weimu to give all investors a brief account of Bluestar Technology’s current operating conditions and its development vision for a period of time in the future, mainly about where the money from the C round of financing was used, and at the same time It is not surprising that this round of financing may be the company's last privately raised funds.

Qin Weimu is young, but his professional level is unquestionable. He also masters many fluent foreign languages. After all, foreign legal professionals and most of the investors are foreigners, but this is a minor problem.

Although it is a simple repetition, Qin Weimu still spent more than ten minutes.

With the development of Bluestar Technology up to now, the scale is not small, and the business has become very extensive.

At the end, the person in charge of the Gates investment representative who attended the meeting questioned: "Sorry, I think the existing business operations of Bluestar Technology are healthy and are developing in the direction expected by investors, but the online video business prevents me from understanding."

Luo Sheng spoke and said, "Please speak."

The other party immediately replied: "According to the beautiful lady just now, Bluestar's concept of online video sharing in streaming media is a bit weird... If I don’t understand it wrong, you make an online video website, but let users add content and Make consumption, and the website can make money from it? IMHO, this is too nonsense..."

With that said, the head of Microsoft’s investment representative looked at other people, and most of them nodded silently. The head of strategic investment from Google frowned, as if thinking deeply, but with doubts.

"What new model is this?"

Many of the investors attending the meeting have some research on the Internet, not to mention that there are other well-known Internet companies, such as Google and Tengxun.

However, everyone was confused about the online video business model proposed by Bluestar Technology.

Gates’ investors are very straightforward. Users add content and consume, and finally the website makes money from it. What role does the website play in it?What contribution did you make?Why do you earn this money?

Obviously, no one understands.

Luo Sheng was not surprised at all. At this time, there were very few people who could understand this model, and he even doubted whether anyone understood it.

However, to take away a lot of investors' money and not let him interfere, it is not an excessive matter to give an explanation.

At the moment, Bluestar Technology has no idea of ​​making money, but spending money is like flowing water. How the money gets out of the hands of investors depends entirely on Luo Sheng's mouth, so he calmly and confidently said:

"I strongly believe that the key to BluestarVideo's success in the field of streaming online video services is that the video player always works. People don't mind whether the product is perfect, as long as they can work... But you have to do one thing!"

Luo Sheng raised a finger, glanced at the major investors present, and then said: “It’s true that the online video products currently made by Bluestar Technology are inspired by the sharing function of PayPal. ."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was confused. How could it be related to PayPal?Can this be involved?Hell, one is the online video business and the other is the online payment business. They are totally inconsistent. Can they be more nonsense than this?

At this moment, there is only one thought in the investor's mind: wanting to predict the ideas in Luo Sheng's mind is as unreliable as predicting the stock market.

Perhaps it is precisely because others can't see through, or even think that the path is wild, that's why he can succeed and always be ahead of others.

I can only comfort myself so much.

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