Chapter 92: Opening Series A Funding and Starting Option Plan (3.2K, please subscribe)
The last night of 2010, at the Sky Garden Hotel.
There are eight tables for ten people in the banquet hall on the top floor. The dishes on the tables are exquisite, with ingredients such as grouper, Australian lobster, abalone, fish maw, etc., cooked in a delicious way.
Each group of FoxTao had rehearsed small performances. After a few highlights were over, the stage became a KTV. Everyone was young and the atmosphere was very lively.
Xu Xingxing patted Wang Zihao on the shoulder and asked loudly, "Brother Hao, isn't Brother Sen here yet? The lucky draw is about to begin."
Xiang Pengfei was singing "Love Until Death" at the top of his lungs on the stage. His tone-deaf voice made the audience frown.
"Almost there. We set off half an hour ago." Wang Zihao responded in the same loud voice.
Xu Xingxing nodded, thought about it, and decided to walk out of the banquet hall and go downstairs to pick up Chen Yansen.
"Sister Muyan, let me toast you. Thank you for your teaching during this period." Wang Zihao raised his glass and said to Liu Muyan with a smile.
"I drove here, so I can only drink beverages, Zihao, don't mind." Liu Muyan smiled and clinked glasses with him.
She is only seven years older than Wang Zihao. To put it bluntly, she still has the mentality of a young person. During her part-time job at FoxTao, she became more and more familiar with everyone.
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As soon as Chen Yansen parked the car, he saw Xu Xingxing with his head lowered, looking around outside the hotel lobby.
"Why are you standing here?" Chen Yansen asked with a smile.
"We're still waiting for you! The lottery will start soon, and we're just waiting for you! The upstairs is almost like a KTV box." Xu Xingxing grabbed Chen Yansen's sleeve and was about to pull him upstairs.
At this time, Mengjie also came over.
"Hello, sister-in-law!" Xu Xingxing blinked, quickly let go, walked forward and held Meng Jie's arm, looking very familiar.
Mengjie nodded and said hello.
"Didn't I let Zihao take it first?" Chen Yansen shook his head and couldn't help but complain.
"For something like a lucky draw, you definitely have to host it to make it a ceremonial event, and everyone will be willing to wait." Xu Xingxing said with a smile.
The three of them walked into the elevator and went straight to the top floor of the hotel. This banquet hall, except for a dozen pillars, was surrounded by five or six meter high glass curtain walls on all four sides, giving people a dreamy feeling of being in the center of the city.
No wonder the minimum consumption is 68,000. The area is not large, but the decoration is extremely luxurious.
As soon as Chen Yansen entered the room, he saw Xiang Pengfei pulling a chair and sitting on the stage singing. After listening to half a sentence, an expression of disgust immediately appeared on his face.
This kid is really inhuman! Xiang Pengfei was sitting on a high place and saw Chen Yansen at the door at a glance.
He cleared his throat and shouted, "Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome the most handsome man in Fox Tao to make a shining appearance!"
Everyone followed the direction Xiang Pengfei pointed and soon found Chen Yansen.
Chen Yansen grinned, rushed towards Pengfei and pointed, then walked confidently onto the stage and took the microphone.
"We bid farewell to the old and usher in the new, and look forward to the future. I believe that Fox Tao in 2011 will be even more successful! Now let Zihao draw the lottery for me. I'll go downstairs to have a bite first. After I'm full, I'll give everyone a surprise."
Chen Yansen said a few simple words and gave the stage to Wang Zihao.
He walked to his seat, clinked glasses with Cao Dahua, Wang Jing and Liu Muyan, then slowly picked up his food and started eating.
Wang Zihao had no choice but to walk to the center of the stage like a duck on a shelf, and started drawing from the third prize. Occasionally, he deliberately gave the wrong name to create some show effect and make everyone laugh.
After more than an hour, all the prizes were drawn. The lucky ones won mobile phones, while the unlucky ones won shopping cards worth 1,000 yuan.
Chen Yansen took the stage again and said with a smile: "Two things. First, to make everyone happy, I will add 10 more prizes of 10,000 yuan tonight. The draw will start in three minutes. Second, I am going to start the A round of financing for FoxTao. At that time, I will issue an option to all students, with an exercise price of 0.01 yuan."
A 10,000 yuan prize?
Options?
Except for a few people, most of the people here don’t really know what options are.
"Teacher Wang, what are options for?" Xu Xingxing came close to Wang Jing and asked curiously.
"To put it simply, it is a check that will be cashed in the future. When FoxTao goes public or starts a repurchase plan, these options can be exchanged for cash. However, only Mr. Chen knows the specific quantity and value."
Wang Jing thought about it and explained slowly.
When the people around heard this, they suddenly realized that it was all about money.
Based on their understanding of Chen Yansen, the value of this option must be very high since it can be announced at the annual meeting.
For a moment, there were cheers everywhere and people whistled.
Chen Yansen did not delay and picked 10 people on the spot, giving each of them 10,000 yuan in cash.
In a blink of an eye, 29 more strands of humanitarian flames appeared on the panel.
After getting off the stage, Chen Yansen ate while watching them making noise on the stage.
Several team leaders became the targets of the booing and went on stage one by one to sing a song.
Song Yuncheng, as an employee of FoxTao No. 1, is no exception. She has served as the leader of the design team, operation team and customer service team. As soon as she came on stage, the applause continued.
Song Yuncheng had even met Ma Wenteng and Zhang Yong, but she was so embarrassed by the group of college students in the audience that her face turned red. She took the microphone and sang Fish Leong's "Courage" softly.
Looking at Chen Yansen and Meng Jie in the audience, Song Yuncheng finally came to his senses and his eyes slowly became moist.
In just a few minutes, her mood went from sour and stinging to numb.
When he looked up at Chen Yansen again, the warmth in Song Yuncheng's eyes had disappeared.
Just as the song was halfway through, Chen Yansen saw Zhang Wenbo running over in a panic. Just as he was wondering, he heard him hurriedly say, "Brother Sen, Zihao is fighting with someone outside!"
fight?
Could it be that this boy was drunk? Chen Yansen didn't have time to think about it, and called Pengfei, Zhang Yifeng and seven or eight other boys to hurry out.
After leaving the banquet hall and walking to the bathroom door, I saw Wang Zihao grabbing a man by the collar. The two men were wrestling on the ground, and Wang Zihao was about to throw a punch.
Liu Muyan and a long-haired woman were trying to stop the fight.
"Rat, stop it!" Chen Yansen shouted.
After going to college, Chen Yansen seldom called him that. After all, Wang Zihao was the leader of the Fox Tao release team, and calling him by his nickname all the time would be an embarrassment to him.
Wang Zihao, who was about to take action, gradually calmed down when he heard the familiar voice.
"What's going on?" Chen Yansen stepped forward, pulled Wang Zihao up and asked.
"I" Wang Zihao looked at Liu Muyan and swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth.
"You go back first, I'll handle it." Chen Yansen glanced at the man who was pressed to the ground by Wang Zihao. He was thin and it didn't take so many people to deal with him.
Xiang Pengfei, Zhang Yifeng and others looked at each other. Although they were not sure about the situation, they turned around and went back. As they left, they said, "Brother Sen, call us if you need anything."
After the people walked away, Wang Zihao whispered, "This idiot is Sister Mu Yan's fiancé. He lied to her that he was working overtime at the company, but ended up having dinner with another woman in the private room, and was just caught by Sister Mu Yan."
Chen Yansen nodded slightly and thought: Is this so bloody?
He glanced at Liu Muyan. She stood aside, motionless, with an unsightly expression, staring coldly at the man on the ground.
"Zhou Yuwen, who is she?" Liu Muyan calmed down and asked in a cold voice.
"You've seen it all, why are you still asking? Are you stupid?" Zhou Yuwen smiled indifferently, got up from the ground, calmly straightened his shirt and brushed off the dust on his body.
"I want you to say it yourself." Liu Muyan's face turned pale and she bit her lip.
"She is my girlfriend and you are my fiancée. Is there any problem?" Zhou Yuwen glanced at Chen Yansen and Wang Zihao and replied arrogantly.
Tears welled up in Liu Muyan's eyes. She could never have imagined that her childhood sweetheart, who was even engaged to her, would actually betray her.
Chen Yansen said nothing, just watching the fun. He smelled a similar scent from Zhou Yuwen.
"Zhou Yuwen, we're over!" Liu Muyan broke down and squatted on the ground crying.
"Oh, let's end it then." Zhou Yuwen smiled heartlessly, then he hugged the long-haired girl and went into the private room.
Upon seeing this, Wang Zihao chased after him and was ready to beat him up.
Chen Yansen stopped her and pointed at the crying Liu Muyan.
Wang Zihao lost his temper and stood there at a loss. After a long while, he finally remembered to take out a tissue and handed it to Liu Muyan.
Chen Yansen squinted his eyes and staggered back to the banquet hall.
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Shenzhen, Penguin headquarters.
"You mean, the 10 million in two months has now become 100 million?" Ma Huateng looked at Liu Zhiping opposite and asked.
"Maybe even more than that. I heard that SIG Asia Ventures and Rakuten are urgently evaluating FoxTao's profit model. It's possible that the valuation will reach 300 million US dollars." Liu Zhiping pushed his glasses and said with a faint smile.
"Is it really like what this guy said, that we don't have the genes for e-commerce? He has made the shopping guide, a niche market that is so bad, the best. What if he takes over Paipai.com?"
Ma Huateng's voice gradually became lower and he finally sighed.
He is a smart man, so how could he not understand that an ambitious young man like Chen Yansen would never yield to others.
How many precedents did he break in order to get Zhang Xiaolong to join Penguin?
Do we have to continue making exceptions?
Judging from the last contact, Chen Yansen’s belief is probably even stronger than Zhang Xiaolong’s.
"It's difficult. If he wanted to join Penguin, he wouldn't refuse Zheng Chunbin's invitation." Liu Zhiping smiled and shook his head slightly.
"That 10 million was not invested in the FoxTao project, but in the person. Facts have proved that my investment was very successful, but how can I get a return?"
Ma Huateng stared at his old friend, as if waiting for an answer.
"Give him the same treatment as Zhang Xiaolong?" Liu Zhiping asked tentatively.
"For FoxTao's Series A financing, please go there in person and tell Chen Yansen that if he is willing to help Penguin improve its e-commerce sector, I will give him an annual salary of 30 million plus 200 million stock options."
Ma Wenteng pondered for a moment and made a decisive decision.
He didn't pay attention to what Chen Yansen said last time at first, but when the valuation of FoxTao broke through the 1 billion mark, he began to take it seriously and started to think about it secretly.
If a person has no power, no one will believe him even if he speaks the truth. But once he has power, when he farts, people will say it smells good.
Ma Huateng has exactly this mentality.
"Okay." Liu Zhiping did not refuse. He was also curious about how this young man, Chen Yansen, could grow a new project from scratch to tens of millions of users.
Every step the opponent takes is precise and accurate. This level of accuracy is frightening.
"MiTalk is already online. How much more does Zhang Xiaolong need?" Ma Wenteng asked after talking to Chen Yansen.
"Xiaolong said that the details still need to be polished." Liu Zhiping frowned. He understood Ma Huateng's urgency.
"Give him half a month, it must be online!" Ma Huateng's eyes were sharp and his tone was serious.
WeChat was the next T0-level communication app product within Penguin, but it was preempted by MiTalk, which made him very unhappy and he had no patience to wait any longer.
What details? Just make it work!
(End of this chapter)
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