Even after being reborn, you're still in the entertainment industry?

Chapter 134 Investors Arrive

The box office performance of "Initial D" was quite popular. It received support from Jay Chou's fans in mainland China, Hong Kong Island and Taiwan, and won the weekly box office championship.

The box office in the Land of Sakura was slightly worse. After all, the actor from the Land of Sakura who appeared the most in the film was the little girl who played "Natsuki", and her box office appeal was not that strong.

But again, the box office performance of this movie has little to do with the supporting role Sheng Yunxuan.

Sheng Yunxuan cooperated with the crew to travel around the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong and Macau for promotional activities, and then returned directly to Yanjing.

The reason why they are so anxious is mainly because another investor has taken a fancy to Sheng Yunxuan's Liudu Technology and has come to them to invest!
Liudu.com already had over 500,000 officially registered users, and after Jay Chou added Chen Guanxi to his registered account, the number of registered users skyrocketed to 800,000.

This is the appeal of today’s top superstar Jay Chou!

This size is already considered an eye-catching large website in the early stage of domestic Internet development.

In addition, this year Liudu.com has also found a way to make a certain profit by placing advertisements.

Advertising revenue sharing and creator incentive programs have also increased the number of outstanding creators on the website.

Now when you go to 6du.com, you will find that there are obviously more high-quality videos.

There are endless videos of complaints, funny stories, secondary creations, pranks, mashups, lip syncing, etc., and even early store visits and vehicle reviews have been released.

The company has recently been discussing signing some outstanding creators and supporting them in producing various special columns...

A novel website model, coupled with a huge number of registered users, a certain profit-making method, and a website design that surpasses the current level under the guidance of Sheng Yunxuan!
Due to various factors, more and more investors are optimistic about Liudu.com.

At the beginning of this year, the company was included in a list of "companies with the most investment value", and naturally more and more investors paid attention to the company!

Hong Zhifeng from the company now calls several times a day, urging Sheng Yunxuan to come back quickly to make a decision.

If going public is your real goal, giving up your shares now would undoubtedly be a huge disadvantage.

Because Sheng Yunxuan vaguely remembered that when the first domestic video website went public in the United States, its market value immediately soared to three or four billion US dollars.

If you think this way, then Sheng Yunxuan should grit his teeth and persevere.

But financing is not just about getting funds.

After all, the various resources brought by the investors after joining in would be of great benefit to Six Degrees Technology, which had just started to make some progress...

Well, the main reason is that Sheng Yunxuan himself can’t take it anymore!

The bigger the Internet company, the more money it burns.

Employee salaries only account for one-third of the expenditure at most, and the bulk of the money is spent on hardware such as renting servers and upgrading bandwidth.

This year, another expense was added, and we had to pay the website creators, which resulted in even greater cash consumption on the books.

Sheng Yunxuan had to work so hard to make money by himself. Even if he could rely on three gigolos at once, he still couldn't afford it!
It was precisely because of this that Sheng Yunxuan immediately ran back to Yanjing to meet with investors after finishing this trip.

The investment company we contacted this time is from the United States.

When we came to discuss cooperation, there was a team of two foreigners and four Chinese people.

When they saw Sheng Yunxuan, the company boss, come out, the two foreigners had no reaction, after all, they didn't know Sheng Yunxuan.

But the remaining four Chinese people could not hide their surprise on their faces.

Although Sheng Yunxuan wasn't a well-known celebrity, he was still quite popular. At least the four Chinese men in suits and ties, who looked quite elite, all knew him.

They were really surprised that a star, instead of acting or singing, started an Internet business and even achieved quite impressive results.

No wonder Sheng Yunxuan had been active on 6D.com for a long time. I thought he just enjoyed the internet, but it turned out he actually ran the website himself...

The foreigner who led the group was a white man. After learning about Sheng Yunxuan's celebrity status from his employees, he was a little surprised.

However, this foreigner obviously lacked understanding of Sheng Yunxuan's current level of fame, so he didn't feel much.

In fact, before Sheng Yunxuan came back, the company had already learned almost everything it needed to know.

Now that I finally met the boss Sheng Yunxuan, I didn't waste any time and started discussing more specific investment terms.

Compared with those investors last year who wanted to take away most of the shares with just two or three million, the conditions proposed by the foreign investor this time were much more sincere.

It means a fixed price, investing three million and getting 30% of the shares.

Well, these three million are US dollars...

Sheng Yunxuan also did some searching and found out that the current exchange rate between the two currencies is 8.21, so four million US dollars is equivalent to twenty-five million.

Under such conditions, the valuation of Liudu.com is around 70 to 80 million, which means its market value is close to 100 million after rounding up.

Getting such conditions in the first round of financing is already quite generous.

Hong Zhifeng, who was sitting next to Sheng Yunxuan and held the title of "General Manager", suddenly flushed with excitement.

He still vaguely remembered the Spring Festival two years ago when he had just resigned and met Sheng Yunxuan. He was so excited by their words that he joined this company that seemed so unreliable at the time...

But Hong Zhifeng himself never expected that it had only been a year and a half.

Liudu Technology, which didn't even have a proper office space at the beginning and had only Sheng Yunxuan as the boss, except for one programmer, now has a market value of nearly 100 million!

The foreigner opposite noticed the change in Hong Zhifeng's expression, narrowed his eyes, and became more certain that Six Degrees Technology was indeed just a startup company with little experience, and he felt more at ease.

Sheng Yunxuan glanced at Hong Zhifeng, who was unable to conceal his excitement, and suddenly the corner of his mouth twitched.

It seems this guy can only focus on technology from now on, and can't even put on an act at the negotiation table...

Sheng Yunxuan actually hadn't experienced much of these things, but he did have one good thing. So many simulated memories had given him a lot of life experience!

I just happened to experience the life of the legendary Shanxi merchant "Qiao Zhiyong". Although the historical background is different, I still have some experience in negotiating and talking with people.

The bargaining chips that can be brought up at the beginning of the negotiation are definitely not the other party’s final bottom line!

So facing the foreigner who was now confident, Sheng Yunxuan shook his head with a stern look on his face.

"I don't accept this condition!"

"This is the company I've poured so much effort into, the company that embodies my internet dreams. It's like the child I'm personally raising... so I have to pay more!"

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(End of this chapter)