My Age of Investment

In a private room of the Americas Club located on the top floor of the China Resources Building in Beijing, Xia Jingxing clinked glasses with Wang Xiaochuan and chatted happily.

Seeing that the foreshadowing was almost done, Xia Jingxing started to get down to business.

"Senior Brother Wang~"

The baby-faced Wang Xiaochuan quickly waved his hand and interrupted, "Mr. Xia, just call me Xiaochuan."

Xia Jingxing laughed, "Forget it, you are a few years older than me, I'll just call you Lao Wang."

Old bastard?

Wang Xiaochuan has a black line, why is it a bit unpleasant?

Xia Jingxing, as if unaware, addressed Wang Xiaochuan one by one.

"Old Wang, you approached Zhang Yong before and made a request for an overseas holding group to invest in Sogou. Later, Zhang Yong was busy handling international business, and he delayed this matter."

Wang Xiaochuan listened patiently, with a slight smile on his face, and quickly analyzed Xia Jingxing's purpose in asking him to dinner.

Although Xia Jingxing respected him as "senior brother", they actually had no friendship and had only met a few times.

Otherwise, he would not have gone to Zhang Yong to discuss investing in shares, but would have gone directly to Xia Jingxing, a truly important person, to discuss it.

The reason why he chose Overseas Holdings was actually because of its rising momentum in recent years, and he hoped to use the power of this new giant to develop Sogou's business.

But in the end, due to too much pressure from Charles and 360, he had no choice but to choose Ahri Group, which had a lower priority.

Hearing Xia Jingxing's tone today, it seemed that the other party wanted to restart investment and shareholding?

"I don't want to be careless anymore. Let's be direct. I want to acquire Sogou. What do you think?"

Wang Xiaochuan suddenly became excited. This was far different from what he had imagined!

Just as he was about to politely decline, Xia Jingxing interrupted: "Don't rush to answer me yet, listen to my conditions."

Wang Xiaochuan opened his mouth, but finally swallowed the words back.

He is a truly smart man. Not only is his technical level first-rate, but he also handles interpersonal relationships very well. Otherwise, he would not have maintained his independence under the coercion and inducement of many giants. The company itself has also achieved good development. , in this regard, star entrepreneurs such as Dai Wei and Huang Xin need to learn from this old veteran.

“After Sogou is acquired, I plan to use it as a basis to establish a mobile Internet business group in parallel with social networks, pan-entertainment and other business groups.

This business group includes not only search engine business, but also many businesses such as maps, browsers, app stores and other C-side software.

In other words, this will be a very large business group, enough for you to display your personal talents.

I know that you are an unappreciated talent and have always wanted to expand the search engine business, but Charles did not give you enough support, so that the proverb "If you give birth to Robin Li, why give birth to Wang Xiaochuan" has spread in the Internet arena. "

Wang Xiaochuan looked at the cup on the table expressionlessly, which made Xia Jingxing a little unsure of what he was thinking at this moment.

After thinking about it, Xia Jingxing continued: "When Charles acquired aRen, he took a fancy to you, who was in your early twenties and worked part-time as the technical director.

At that time, you were still a graduate student at Aoki University and helped Chen Yizhou develop the question-based search engine "Sun Wukong Search".

It can be said that you are the first person to develop a search engine in China. Robin Li launched Qianxun several months after you.

It's a pity that I was still in my first year of high school in my hometown in Chengdu at that time, otherwise I would definitely vote for you! "

Wang Xiaochuan couldn't hold back any longer and burst into laughter. The folk rumor of "Beijingxing, Nanmayun" was indeed not groundless. It was so awesome that even a dead person could be said to be alive.

"What? You don't believe it?" Xia Jingxing looked angry at being questioned.

Wang Xiaochuan smiled and was about to defend, but was interrupted again by Xia Jingxing: "I remember when the Sun Wukong search was first launched, Teacher Liu from the microcomputer class recommended it to us students. He said: This is six classes higher than you. It was developed by my senior brother Wang Xiaochuan. If you want to work in the Internet and computers in the future, you should learn from your senior brother Wang. First, get an International Mathematical Olympiad gold medal, and then win the "Elida Youth Invention Award" awarded by Yang Zhenning. You can be recommended. Aoki majored in computer science.

My blood was boiling when I heard it. Unfortunately, I ended up going to Stanford by accident. Otherwise, I would have entered Aoki University, and maybe I would have started a business in the capital. "

Wang Xiaochuan could hardly remember what Teacher Liu looked like, but he was still happy to receive such praise from Xia Jingxing.

He didn't doubt that Xia Jingxing was making it up, because he was really the light of the school when he was a teenager, and he was one of the top few in the No. 7 Middle School where top students gathered. He won awards and got soft, and he was sent by the school to compete for honors. elite students.

Following this topic, Xia Jingxing chatted with Wang Xiaochuan about their common memories in high school, and then began to praise Wang Xiaochuan again.

"It's a pity that Chen Yizhou likes speculation too much. He holds the king of you and search engines in his hands, but he has played a bad hand."

Xia Jingxing shook his head as he spoke, with a look of regret on his face.

Wang Xiaochuan defended his old club Chen Yizhou: "There was no way. Because we were caught up in the Internet bubble at that time, aRen had no hope of going public, so we could only reduce our support for the search engine business."

Xia Jingxing smiled, "Why didn't he keep the Sun Wukong search and just sell aRen?

To put it bluntly, he is a person who sometimes has poor vision and often fails to persist when he needs it most. He likes to choose projects that can see short-term benefits. "

Wang Xiaochuan was silent. It seemed that Chen Yizhou had this problem, so although he often stepped on the stroke, he could not become a big boss.

"Alas, it's such a pity that all your talent was in vain. It gave Robin Li a few crucial years of development time and allowed Qianxun to go through the weakest early stage of development."

Xia Jingxing sighed and glanced at Wang Xiaochuan, whose eyes were somewhat dim. He was secretly proud in his heart. He thought that he couldn't get through the water, but he didn't expect that your brother also had obsessions that he couldn't let go of.

It’s okay if you can’t let it go. Only if we can’t let it go will we have a common goal.

Xia Jingxing asked: "I heard that when Charles acquired aRen, because he appreciated your talent, he once said to you: No matter how long you go to school, I can wait for you, and I will give you whatever money you want?"

Wang Xiaochuan smiled and nodded, "Charles said this, he is still very good to me. Without him, I would not be where I am today."

Xia Jingxing sneered, "Charles is too content with enjoying himself and has lost the ambition he had in his early years.

I heard that when you officially joined Sohu after graduating from graduate school, he recruited you into the office and said to you: Give you six people to kill Qianxun! "

Looking at Xia Jingxing's sarcastic expression, Wang Xiaochuan looked a little embarrassed, because there was indeed such a thing. Charles Niubi coaxedly said that he wanted to kill Qianxun, but in the end he was only willing to give him six developers' salary.

This little money was not enough to accomplish anything. In the end, he could only turn 6 full-time employees into 12 part-time employees. Then more than a dozen people worked day and night, sleeping four or five hours a night, and spent a lot of money. It took 11 months to develop the search engine.

After such a delay, the gap with Qianxun became even greater. Qianxun went public the year after Sogou launched it. From then on, Sogou had no hope of surpassing Qianxun. He, Wang Xiaochuan, will always be under Robin Li. Every time the media mentions When I look at him, I also regard him as a tragic figure.

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