Reborn multinational giant

In the morning, he met and talked with Sun Zhengyi at the headquarters of Softbank Group. Sun Zhengyi did not directly tell him that SoftBank wants to invest in Huizhong, but only chatted with him about the potential and development of WeChat, the unit of billions and the operation of some of the world’s top capitals. Things like that.

Although Sun Zhengyi did not say clearly, Fang Zhe would not be so stupid to guess that Sun Zhengyi and Softbank want to invest in Huizhong. Just from Sun Zhengyi said a lot of optimism about WeChat, about SoftBank's investment in Japan and the global technology industry and investment The strength of the industry and so on.

All the things Sun Zhengyi said were telling Fang Zhe that SoftBank wanted to invest in Huizhong, and that it was a must, because Fang Zhe remembered that when Sun Zhengyi showed the strength of SoftBank, he also mentioned that he was optimistic. The two companies in the United States and Europe that followed the trend of WeChat’s global rise in startups. The implication is that if SoftBank fails to invest in Huizhong, it will invest in Huizhong’s competitors. Moreover, WeChat’s stronghold in Japan, SoftBank’s stronghold, will probably Face many difficulties.

Fortunately, Sun Zhengyi simply chatted with himself, and did not rush to force himself to agree to Softbank’s investment. He specifically met with Fang Zhe, because Fang Zhe happened to be in Japan, so he took this opportunity to call Fang Zhe first. A hello, let Fang Zhe have a psychological preparation in advance.

If it was just a Softbank, it would be fine, but Fang Zhe knew that in addition to Softbank, there are many top capital giants in Europe, America and the world.

Carlyle in the United States, Blackstone, Sequoia, 3i in the United Kingdom, etc., none of them is worse than SoftBank or even surpassing SoftBank. However, WeChat wants to gain a firm foothold in the world. SoftBank alone is not enough. How to balance It is Fang Zhe's most troublesome problem now to balance these capitals, and even the government departments of various countries that are even higher!

On the third day after Fang Zhe returned from Japan, Huizhong held its sixth closed-door meeting since its establishment in a high-level club in Changping, Yanjing.

"I've already told everyone about the situation. If you have any thoughts, please tell me!" Fang Zhe glanced around the conference table after talking about his meeting with Sun Zhengyi in Japan and his headaches with other capitals around the world. six people.

These six people include Zheng Siwen, Li Yifei, who has already served as the president of Alipay, Chen Yimei, the vice president in charge of administration, and the other three core executives promoted by Huizhong in the past two years. Together with Shangzhe, these seven people are Huizhong The core management team now!

"President Fang, it seems that we can't escape this disaster!" It was Li Yifei who spoke first.

Since the establishment of Huizhong’s wholly-owned third-party payment company Alipay in the middle of last year, Li Yifei has served as the president of Alipay. In addition to attending Huizhong’s all-hands meetings or high-level meetings like today’s closed-door meetings, he usually It rarely appears in Huizhong.

In the past year, Li Yifei did not disappoint Fang Zhe. Under his leadership, the total number of registered users of Alipay has exceeded 30 million.

Among them, the majority is not Huizhong’s millions of paying game users in China, but Huizhong’s investment in JD.com, Mibud and other e-commerce platforms with frequent payment behaviors.The remaining users come from YY, Ele.me and other related companies invested by Huizhong, as well as natural registered users.

With the gradual expansion of the scale of Alipay, convenient services including financial management, mobile phone recharge, living payment, and other convenience services have been continuously added to the Alipay application. Therefore, more and more users have registered for Alipay to use these services.

However, through the development of payment over the past year or so, almost all users are limited to domestic users, and the total number of foreign users is less than two million. The reason is that the payment and financial services involved in Alipay are required in any country and region. Very high and difficult to access business, Fang Zhe can only watch Paypal and tens of millions of overseas paying users eagerly, and has always used paypal, visa and other payment channels that have been developed overseas for many years.

Therefore, in the past year, the main business center of Alipay has been placed on the various potential users accumulated in the domestic conversion system of Huizhong. As long as these user groups continue to grow, Alipay will continue to grow and develop. As for overseas, I am afraid that only when WeChat and Huizhong have a firm foothold in the world, can Alipay gradually open the market globally.

"It can't be said that it is a catastrophe. Capital is also an opportunity and a boost for us!" After listening to Li Yifei, Zheng Siwen, who has been in the financial investment circle for many years, also expressed his views.

After Zheng Siwen said this sentence, he did not speak any more. The executives present, including Li Yifei, are all smart people. Of course, they understand what Zheng Siwen means by opportunities and assistance. They are nothing more than helping Huizhong develop faster. All kinds of problems.

The reason why Li Yifei said it was a "catastrophe" is just to follow Fang Zhe’s temper, because in the past, Fang Zhe’s attitude towards capital has always been shut out, and Huizhong has provided sufficient cash support because of its huge game business. , There is really no need to divide the cake for others.

It's just that today is different. The problems and difficulties encountered by Huizhong's further development are no longer something Fang Zheguang wants to solve with Huizhong's own money.

Chen Yimei and three other executives also expressed their views. As Fang Zhe expected, everyone believed that it is almost impossible for Huizhong to continue to grow and develop globally without relying on external capital. Even if Huizhong can grit his teeth and persist, there will be endless troubles waiting for Huizhong in the future!

"It seems that the time has indeed come to spend money to eliminate disasters!" Fang Zhe also understood in his heart that the days when he tried his best to prevent foreign capital from entering Huizhong had come to an end. If that is the case, then accept it calmly for himself and the people present. The high-levels and the entire Huizhong strive for the best interests.

After Fang Zhe expressed his agreement with external capital investment in Huizhong, he conducted a simple vote by show of hands. The result was no exception. The vote was unanimous. All the core executives of Huizhong agreed with Huizhong in the next few months to six months. Inside, prepare to contact capital to introduce foreign capital investment.

Therefore, the content of the next closed-door meeting became everyone's discussion on how Huizhong should deal with the entry of foreign capital, including which capital to let in, what is the valuation, and how many shares it will occupy after entering a series of issues.

However, these issues are not only important but also complex. Fang Zhe and Huizhong's senior executives need to study what Huizhong needs most at the moment, which capital can provide and what kind of assistance, and so on.

It will take at least one or two months for these issues to be thoroughly resolved. This is why Sun Zhengyi is not in a hurry to force Fang Zhe to agree to invest. The main purpose of SoftBank’s investment in Huizhong is to value Huizhong’s development. Let SoftBank invest in Huizhong, not to mention that none of Fang Zhe and Huizhong's high-level executives are willing, even Sun Zhengyi and Softbank are not willing.

After more than five hours, Fang Zhe and the other six executives had been exhausted from the discussion. Fang Zhe also raised the last question discussed in this closed-door meeting: the split of PayPay!