Chapter 137 (1/2)
At 8:50 a.m. on Saturday, Li Mu came to Baidu's office in Yanjing, which is in rapid development and expansion. Even on weekends, hundreds of employees are working overtime. The technology and product departments of Internet companies are almost normalized. Li Mu has been used to it for a long time.
When the girl at the front desk heard that he had come to see Jack Zhou, she hurriedly took him to a meeting room. Jack Zhou had said hello to her before. Today, an important guest is coming to talk about cooperation. When someone comes, she needs to be informed as soon as possible.
Li Mu sat in the meeting room for just two minutes, and a man in his thirties, with a gentle appearance, a suit and leather shoes, and rimless glasses pushed in. When he saw Li Mu, the whole man was stunned. After a while, he came back and asked tentatively, ”are you Mr. Li mu?”
Li Mu nodded, ”it's me.”
Jack was stunned.
Li Mu and Li Mu have communicated with each other on email several times. Combined with the two projects Li Mu runs, he speculated about Li Mu with his own intuition. He always felt that the age of this man must be between 30 and 35 years old, and he must have studied or even worked abroad. He may even have worked in a world-famous Internet company. However, he never dreamed of that, right Fang seems so young that he is only 20 years old?
Although surprised, Jack Zhou soon calmed down, shook hands with Li Mu warmly and politely said, ”Mr. Li will wait a moment, and our VP will be here soon.”
VP is the abbreviation of vice president. People in the industry like to use English abbreviations to show their height. Li Mu is used to this for a long time, so he nodded and didn't say much.
As the person in charge of investment, Jack Zhou usually negotiates with the investee and plays a game at the capital level. However, after several communications with Li Mu, he failed to find any breakthrough point in Li Mu, which made him feel a little frustrated. Today, when I saw him, I found that the other side was so young, which was even more frustrating.
A few minutes later, three middle-aged men and a 27-8-year-old woman came to the conference room. Jack Zhou made a quick introduction, with the focus on VP Tan Yaocheng.
Li Mu once heard of this man's fame. In 2006, when he was listed in Baidu, he left all over. Later, he became an angel investor. He invested in many projects and was quite successful. He was a big winner in life.
Tan Yaocheng also didn't expect Li Mu to be so young. In fact, he also set a Facebook image for Li Mu in his heart. Unexpectedly, there was such a big deviation, similar to Jack Zhou. He was shocked for a long time before he accepted the reality.
Jack Zhou also introduced other people to Li Mu, such as technical director and operation director. Li Mu didn't care to remember their names, because he knew that there was only one person he wanted to conquer at present, that is, Tan Yaocheng.
As for Baidu's technical director and operation director, what is their relationship? Only if they have reached a financing agreement with Baidu can these people work.
Tan Yaocheng is also a person who pays attention to efficiency when he does things, so after simple politeness, he began to go straight to the main topic: ”today, I'd like to invite Mr. Li to come here, mainly because of Baidu's interest in the two websites of easy to listen and post bar. Jack Zhou should have talked to you before. We have the intention to package and purchase these two businesses, and this intention is very sincere I don't know Mr. Li... ”
Li Mu smiled a little, and some rude hands raised to interrupt his words: ”Mr. Tan, I have made it clear in my email with Mr. Zhou that I will not accept any company's intention to make a package purchase.”
Tan Yaocheng didn't expect that Li Mu almost didn't even think about it, or even Baidu didn't ask about its current price intention, so he directly refused to buy a package. Why did such a young man do things so decisively, even to some arbitrary degree? Is he too confident in himself or in the future of easy to listen and post?
Although Li Mu refused so simply, Tan Yaocheng didn't give up. He smiled and said, ”Mr. Li, don't you want to hear our latest offer? Some time ago, we communicated with investors far away in Silicon Valley. The current offer is much higher than the one Jack gave you in the previous week. ”
Baidu is very optimistic about the two businesses of easy to listen and post bar, especially the post bar, which is a community artifact. With it, there will be a giant magnet to gather users. Combined with Baidu's advantages, they will be able to build a leader in the community field. They also made the current situation, analysis and evaluation of these two businesses into an English version and sent it to investors in Silicon Valley, Finally, the investors gave a clear reply: if Baidu could take these two businesses in a package, the investors would increase the capital of Baidu by 10 million dollars.