"Before we develop overseas resources for QQ, we must capture the Southeast Asian market," Chen Dong said.
The heads of the engineering department nodded repeatedly.
Chen Dong looked at Annie, "Wasn't Asia Trip Capital coming over in the next couple of days?"
“They’ve already arranged to meet us tomorrow,” Anne said.
"Everyone, go out first, leave the documents here." Chen Dong was annoyed by the engineering department staff and told them to leave.
After everyone left, Chen Dong frowned again. "Xiang Feng's people will be here soon. We can't talk to them about investment without any leverage."
Annie and Lin Zhiyuan exchanged a glance, completely baffled as to what Chen Dong meant by having no bargaining chips.
After all, in terms of technical strength, financial background, and layout in Europe and America, Longteng is still ahead of QQ in every aspect.
Annie asked, "We have the results of ICQ being online for six months. Isn't that convincing enough?"
Chen Dong shook his head. "That's not enough. So-called investment requires not only capital, but also ability; not only timing, but also background—the so-called right time, right place, and right people."
"Xiang Feng came to inspect our ICQ on behalf of the company this time, simply to investigate the differences between the teams behind ICQ and QQ, and the market potential of the two products."
Lin Zhiyuan didn't like these roundabout ways and said directly, "I've discussed projects with Xiang Feng several times, and they're not unaware of Longteng's background."
"They even came here with great fanfare to investigate."
Chen Dong interrupted Lin Zhiyuan, "No matter what, we must secure the capital for this Asian trip."
"By the way, Annie, how's that Yu Weie you contacted going?"
Anne hesitated before saying, "Yu Wei'e said he needs to think about it some more."
“There’s no time.” Chen Dong frowned, and after a few seconds of silence, he said, “We must take down Yu Wei’e before Xiang Feng arrives at Longteng.”
"Whether it's a resignation letter or any other evidence, I want Xiang Feng's people to see that we have won Yu Weie over."
With favorable timing, location, and human factors, Yu Wei'e represents the "human factors" of Tencent Technology.
With only one day left, Annie was under immense pressure. How could she persuade Yu Wei'e to submit her resignation to the company in just one day?
After thinking for a moment, Annie finally said, "Unless we increase the requirements for hiring, I don't think Yu Wei'e will give me an answer in a short time."
“But now Xiang Feng doesn’t have much time left for Long Teng,” Chen Dong gritted his teeth, “so let’s give him a strong dose of medicine.”
"When you contact Yu Wei'e, tell him that if he can't give you an answer within a day, we'll have to contact Zhao Nanzhou, the new software engineer at Tencent Technology."
Chen Dong was directly shifting the pressure onto Yu Wei'e.
"Give him only one day to consider. If he doesn't choose us, then we'll choose Zhao Nanzhou," Chen Dong said ruthlessly.
In any case, as long as Longteng Electronics can poach employees from Tencent Technology, it can temporarily disrupt the personnel balance within their company.
This is also one of the criteria that Asian investment banks consider.
The internal balance of Penguin Technology has been disrupted, which increases the concerns of executives at Asia Ventures when they are evaluating the company.
A day later, Yu Wei'e's resignation letter was stamped with the official seal, and Annie received the electronic fax version of the resignation letter and delivered it to Chen Dong right on time.
At this moment, Xiang Feng and his group from Asia Travel Capital had just arrived at the headquarters of Longteng Electronics.
Since Xiang Feng was not visiting in his personal capacity but in the name of his company, he treated Chen Dong and Lin Zhiyuan with much more courtesy.
"Mr. Chen, it's been a long time." Cyber, a partner at Asia Travel, greeted him and introduced, "I am a partner at Asia Travel Capital, and this is Xiang Feng, our company's investment director."
"By the way, Xiang Feng, we've collaborated with your company several times, so you should be familiar with us."
"These are investment assistant Li Chunshu, risk control Steven, and Xiang Feng, the newly promoted investment director of our Asia Travel Capital."
Xiang Feng nodded politely, while Chen Dong glanced at him and said with a sneer, "Please sit down, everyone."
“Actually, this isn’t the first time Asia Travel Capital has cooperated with Longteng Company,” Cyber said bluntly. “The reason we’ve come to China on behalf of the company this time is because we’re interested in products in the field of communication tools.”
"However, we are currently looking at two products on the market: ICQ from Longteng Technology and QQ from Tencent Technology."
"The purpose of this visit to your company is to make a final decision."
Instead of answering directly, Chen Dong asked, "Asia Travel Capital has always focused on investing in real industries. Why are you interested in virtual online goods this time?"
Cyber said, "That's right, Mr. Chen."
"Recently, a North American music media company, together with all the media and record companies in Europe and North America, organized an event called 'Media Gathering,' which has revitalized the media network in Europe and America."
Cyber said earnestly, "The media industry has launched numerous promotional and expansion activities not only offline but also online."
"Many of our senior executives on our Asia trip have noticed this new field of new media."
"New media, well, the carriers are these network communication software and other virtual goods."
In other words, Asia Travel Capital is not interested in network communication software; they are interested in the entire new media sector.
After hearing this, Chen Dong had to admire the foresight of the Asian tour team.
They may not have a god-like perspective, but they are always able to capture the changes in the times in a timely manner. Just like now, all the capital and angel investors are rushing in to grab a piece of the social network pie. What they see is the profitability of the project.
However, what Asia Travel Capital saw was the power of new media represented by social networks.
Chen Dong glanced at Annie, who immediately placed the materials she had prepared in front of the executives on the Asia tour.
"Since you all want to evaluate this project, I must demonstrate its strength to you. The most important and tangible achievement of a virtual online product project is data."
"This is an outstanding achievement we have made in Europe and North America since ICQ was launched six months ago."
Several big bosses were flipping through the data together when Xiang Feng casually reminded them, "We at Asia Travel Capital have long had control of this market research data."
“We came here in person because we want to get data that we can’t get on the market,” Xiang Feng said, unusually serious. He looked at Chen Dong and said, “What I mean is, you have to show us something different.”
His words were a reminder to Chen Dong that ICQ's bargaining chips were not enough.
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