Chen Fan suddenly realized why he felt that person was familiar.
Nima, it turned out to be the famous Jack Horse.
In the domestic business community, the name Jack Ma represents only one person.
That is Ma Yun, the founder of Alibaba.
In the domestic business world, there are two most famous horses, namely Ma Yun, Ma Huateng and Ma Mingzhe.
There is no need to introduce the first two, but the one behind is the CEO of 놂安保險.
But now is 2004, Ma Yun is still far from the fame of later generations, to the extent that everyone calls him dad. He is still just Jack Ma in everyone's heart.
Chen Fan recalled in his mind Alibaba's several financings in its previous life.
The first round of financing was in 1999.
Ma Yun met Joseph Tsai, a noble man in his life. This co-founder not only brought Ma Yun a $5 million investment led by Goldman Sachs Group, but also brought a first-class system to Alibaba, building an international capital structure from the bottom up, laying the foundation for Alibaba's future Tencent.
The second round of financing was in December 2000. This time, Ma Yun met the second most important man in her life—Sun Zhengyi of Softbank.
Sun Zhengyi led the investment of SoftBank and brought $20 million to Alibaba, which revived the struggling Alibaba.
The first round of financing was in 2004, which was in February this year, with a financing of US$102 million, of which Sun Zhengyi's SoftBank invested US$80 million.
When was the fourth time?
Chen Fan couldn't quite remember, it seemed to be the end of this year.
He remembered that it was because of the SARS outbreak last year that online shopping was gradually understood and accepted by domestic netizens.
However, in 2004, the domestic online shopping market was still dominated by Eachnet.
After EachNet was acquired by the foreign company eBay, its capital increased significantly, and it directly occupied more than 90% of the domestic market.
It was because of the second round of financing that Ma Yun had the funds to start the war quickly and made Taobao.com an online shopping platform second only to eBay EachNet.
However, at this time, Alibaba had not yet launched Alipay.
If you want to shop online in China, you can only go to the bank to apply for a bank card, then activate online banking, and get a payment code device, which is the so-called U-Shield.
With this thing, you can shop online.
But soon, Alibaba launched its killer weapon: Alipay.
In the subsequent business war, relying on Alipay to dominate the market, Eachnet was defeated step by step and finally withdrew from the market.
Chen Fan began to react.
No wonder I met Jack Ma here, it seems he came to Beijing to invest.
At this time, Taobao.com was completely defeated by eBay EachNet and was in urgent need of a large amount of funds to support the next business war.
Without the fourth round of financing, there would probably be no Taobao.com today.
Chen Fan estimated that Ma Yun was ready to give it a try, so he needed a lot of funds to support the next business war.
He knew that Ma Yun would soon receive a round of financing of US$82 million in December, of which SoftBank would inject another US$60 million.
Chen Fan was somewhat excited.
Do you want to intervene?
Before SoftBank injects capital, why not help Jackma in advance and inject capital into Alibaba at the same time?
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
It would be fine if I didn't have the chance to meet him before, but now that the opportunity is in front of me, it would be a bit unreasonable if I don't take action.
Chen Fan was secretly excited and wanted to say goodbye and leave right away.
However, he still had to deal with Nalan Wan'er in front of him, so he had to take out his mobile phone and send a message to Feng Pojun outside, asking him to keep Ma Yun at all costs.
Seeing that Chen Fan was fiddling with his phone as soon as they met, Nalan Wan'er looked unhappy.
"Hey, Wan'er, this is your dream master. He doesn't look very reliable."
A group of young masters nearby were annoyed when they saw Chen Fan didn't even stand up when he saw them, and some of them started to mock him on the spot.
Nalan Wan'er frowned and said, "Gao Song, if you dare to say another word, get out of here right now."
Chen Fan looked up in confusion.
"Master? What master?"
Nalan Wan'er was a little embarrassed and didn't know how to explain it for a moment.
A girl next to him stared at Chen Fan with a smile.
"Wan'er said that the two songs that her band sang in the performance last time were actually written by her, but her teacher gave her a little guidance."
"She also said that you are her master. Hey, is that true?"
Chen Fan glanced at Nalan Wan'er. The girl avoided his gaze and was obviously a little embarrassed.
Chen Fan understood.
I guess they were a group of young people together, and this little girl wanted to show off because she wanted to save face, but she didn't expect her friends to not believe her.
That's why Nalan Wan'er called her over to prove it for herself.
Nalan Wan'er stiffened her neck and stared at Chen Fan.
"Prove it for me."
Chen Fan felt helpless.
"Is this what you called me here for?"
"Yes."
"Didn't you say you had something important to discuss with me?"
Nalan Wan'er looked as if it was a matter of course.
“Isn’t this important enough?”
Chen Fan was a little amused.
"Please. I'm busy. I have things to do today. I won't play with you guys."
As he said this, he stood up and was about to say goodbye.
Seeing this, Nalan Wan'er panicked immediately.
"You can't leave."
He didn't care about keeping a cool demeanor and rushed over to grab Chen Fan's arm.
"You can't leave. You haven't given me proof yet."
Chen Fan glanced at the girl, then turned around helplessly to look at the people behind him.
"What she said was actually true. She did write those two songs. I just helped her polish them up."
At this moment, one of the girls suddenly pointed at Chen Fan in surprise.
"I... I know you. Are you an ordinary person? I've seen your videos on the Internet."
"Ah, it's you, you're such an ordinary person!"
For a moment, several little girls were excited and rushed to Chen Fan's position chattering.
"Handsome guy, can we take a photo together?"
"I'm your fan, can you please sign an autograph for me, just on my chest..."
Chen Fan glanced at the other person's trembling chest and suddenly felt a little embarrassed.
It seems that it is difficult to leave quickly today.
Chen Fan quickly raised his hands.
"Ladies, you can take photos and sign autographs, but let's do it one by one. Can you please stop touching me?"
"Girl, can you please take your hands off my ass..."
Nalan Wan'er stood aside, watching this scene, and immediately pouted her lips, feeling a little unhappy.
It was obviously Chen Fan who was called here by himself, so why did these bitches keep talking to Chen Fan endlessly and even wanted to touch his muscles?
She even saw her best friend secretly pulling down the zipper of her clothes to reveal a cleavage.
Nalan Wan'er looked down at her rough chest and suddenly became more annoyed.
"Humph, a bunch of lewd bitches."