Chapter 354: 8 million begging for alms

In 2004, Ding Lei ranked 6th in the Forbes Rich Rankings, and in 2005, because of the rise in Yiwang's stock price, Ding Lei's position on the list will be even higher.

If Baidu is successfully listed this year, Li Yan will definitely be on the list.

Gao Yang asked these two to beg for alms and help the people in their hometown build a road. For these two, it was really a slight meaning.

Gao Yang also wanted to test the attitudes of these two bigwigs towards money and wealth. If they are too stingy, they will not play with them in business in the future.

Everyone is purely about personal relationships and is just friends.

"You invested $20 million in Silicon Valley? What did you invest..."

Gao Yang actually had an investment in Silicon Valley, which shocked Ding Lei and Li Yan.

Gao Yang talked about investing in Android companies at the end of last year. At that time, he didn't know Ding Lei and Li Yan.

Li Yan was happy: "Good guy, I arranged someone to come to you last year. I wanted to invest in your 51.com, but you didn't want to accept it. Turn around and you mortgage your mother-in-law's real estate and take out a loan to invest in a small Silicon Valley company. You are crazy."

Gao Yang said: "Brother Yan, Brother Lei, you two are both programmers. I don't understand technology. What do you think is the prospect of an open source smartphone system for a company like Android?"

Ding Lei smiled and said, "If you want to talk about technology, Lao Li is still good at it."

Gao Yang, do you know that Google's early development mainly relied on Larry, one of the two founders, who wrote a search algorithm called PageRank.

This thing is borrowed from by Lao Li, a ranking system called RankDex.

Old Li is so awesome. He only dares to return to China to start a business and do whiteness, and then rely on the VC capital of the United States to make whiteness, and then return to the United States to go public and raise funds.

You are amazing. You dare to take out a loan to be a VC for Silicon Valley startups. What you want to do is to build a mobile operating system."

Li Yan also smiled and said, "Gaoyang, what do you say? You invested $20 million in a Silicon Valley startup. The Andy Rubin you just mentioned has ten years of professional experience in Apple and Microsoft. It is not difficult to implement open source mobile operating systems in terms of technology.

The difficulty lies in the development of an ecosystem, and it will be accepted by mobile phone manufacturers.

I can't say that there is no possibility of success, it's just that the probability is very small. If it succeeds, you may make a lot of money."

Gao Yang said: "We invested more than 20 million US dollars, 30 million US dollars, and there was another 10 million US dollars. It was invested by a friend who works in the industry with me..."

Gao Yang introduced Lu Tao's investment in Android company and said:

"I don't understand technical things, so I just look at the future and the general trend of the industry development.

I believe that China will definitely become the world's largest smartphone market in the future, because we have a large population and our economy is developing rapidly.

In addition, in the future, there will definitely be large local mobile phone brand manufacturers with global influence. The stage of intelligence is the best opportunity.

So, I first invest and support companies like Android to build open source operating systems.

In the future, I would like to invest in branded mobile phones with Brother Tao.

Luxshare Seiko, which Brother Tao now invests in partnership with others, starts with connector OEM. The business is developing well, with too many orders to be completed, and will increase capital and expand shares next year and open a new factory.

I think that in a few years, they will have the technical strength to produce mobile phones.

I don’t believe that Symbian and Windows can completely dominate the smartphone market, and open source systems must have room for survival.

At that time, we have an open source operating system like Android and we also make our own branded mobile phones, and we will always find a breakthrough.

In addition, with the help of an open source platform like Android, we can attract global open source software enthusiasts as much as possible to build its application ecosystem, and then find ways to cooperate with upstream chip design and chip manufacturers. There will always be opportunities.

Once it is successful, hehe..."

Ding Lei shook his head and laughed: "Crazy, you guy is so ambitious. If you want to make a mobile phone, I remembered a friend, A Duan.

He started out as a Bawang game console, and later worked as a BKE Electronics, developed cordless phones, VCDs, and learning machines, and was very successful. He became the CCTV King twice.

In 2001, Yiwang was in crisis. He bought a lot of Yiwang stocks at a price of less than US$1, and he kept them until last year and made a profit of hundreds of times.

Last year, A Duan commanded the team and created another brand OPO, making MP3 and MP4.

I think you are very similar to A Duan. He is doing electronic products and the Internet. They are all very thoughtful and have many routines.

Maybe you can talk about mobile phones together, why don’t I introduce you to know?”

Gao Yang was so happy: "Okay, then thank you Brother Lei."

Gao Yang knew that the Duan in Ding Lei's mouth was Duan Yongping, who was a legend in the investment world.

Gao Yang seriously doubted whether Duan Yongping was also a rebirth, because the investment was too accurate and he also brought several generals to follow him all the way.

Ding Lei asked again: "Gaoyang, what is the budget for the road you want to build, and how much money is there?"

Gao Yang said: "The budget is more than 14 million, and it is still 8 million. I have a brother who works as a deputy county in the suburbs of Shudu. His old man is a deputy provincial, so he can only find ways to help him apply for three to four million special funds from provincial units.

Then, at the Jinyang city and county levels, my second brother-in-law could find a way to apply for two or three million yuan.

I said that they are not allowed to engage in vacancies with the farmers in various villages along the way, so I want to find you and Brother Yan to get involved in a relationship and solve the problem of 8 million yuan.

I won’t let you donate for nothing. In the future, Jiajiahui Supermarket and Brother Tao’s Luxshare Precision will increase their capital and expand their shares. I will introduce you to the investment. These two companies will have hope of listing and financing in the future."

Ding Lei smiled and said, "I will talk about these things in the future. I can donate 4 million to build this road, but you have to ensure the quality of the project."

Gao Yang said: "Brother Lei, don't worry about the quality of the project. This time, two townships organized and built together. The other town is Chengguan Town in the county. The top leader is my uncle Wu Peng and Ruohan's biological brother.

After all discussions, the project will openly bid, mainly state-owned infrastructure companies, everything will be managed in a standardized manner, and both townships will arrange cadres to take turns to watch the construction site...

In a word, no one dares to make money from this project. Whoever dares to make money, I will let anyone go in for free.

My second brother-in-law and my classmates have all guaranteed this."

Ding Lei asked again: "Gaoyang, ask you a question, why do you have to take the trouble to do such things, similar to doing good deeds?"

Gao Yang thought for a while: "Let me say that, I have a kind of empathy for people with poor and difficult life, because I was poor since I was a child, and I could only eat meat for about a month.

I remember when I was a child, I was about 5 years old. Every year, people from other provinces walked thousands of miles and begged all the way, mainly from Anhui Province and Henan Province.

At that time, my family was very poor. When I met such a person, my parents would still give people a bowl of rice or something. Many villagers in our village would do this.

Everyone is poor, but they have to survive.

I didn't do well in the college entrance examination, so I only went to the college line and was able to go to the normal college. I didn't go to the technical secondary school. Because I only studied for two years, I could work early.

If I repeat the year, I should be able to get into college, but my family does not have financial support, and I don’t want my parents to be too tired.

Now, I meet beggars on the street. As long as I don’t look like a liar, I will give them some money, not much, enough for them to have a few full meals.

I never thought that doing good or not doing good has nothing to do with nobility, but just such empathy.

I also have a rural concept, as the saying goes, "small grass and mountains, wild people bear soil." I do something for the villagers in my hometown, and do not deliberately."

Ding Lei nodded: "Then I will sponsor 4 million. If you want to get rich, build roads first. This is a good thing."

Li Yan smiled and said, "Okay, then I will also sponsor 4 million."

Gao Yang clasped his fists: "Thank you Brother Lei, Brother Yan, you sponsor it in your personal name or company name."

Ding Lei and Li Yan both said: "In personal name."

Gao Yang clasped his fists again: "Thank you, when this road is completed, I will ask them to erect a merit monument for you two."

Ding Lei laughed: "As for it, there is no need to be so exaggerated."

Gao Yang said: "You must not leave your name without doing good deeds. Or you can erect a project monument. It is very simple. Just record the aid of Yi.com and Baidu to build this road, which is also a kind of image publicity."

Li Yan and Ding Lei looked at each other and nodded, expressing their agreement.

No one's money was blown by the strong wind. The two of them were willing to sponsor 4 million each, which was due to Gao Yang's face and his network resources.

After returning home in the evening, Gao Yang immediately called Wu Peng and Xiao Jin and said that he had begged for 8 million yuan and that after the project started, he would pay the money to the special fund account.

Wu Peng and Xiao Jin were naturally overjoyed and immediately discussed and started the project bidding as soon as possible, and then found a way to apply for special funds from relevant superior departments.

Gu Yawen was a little puzzled: "Honey, if you want to sponsor the construction of the road in your hometown, we can also invest privately, that is, it's just a few million."

Gao Yang shook his head and smiled: "No need. It's not that I'm reluctant to let go of this little money. I want to use this to see Brother Lei and Brother Yan's style of being a human being, determine how to interact with them in the future and establish a relationship. If you are not a member of the same place, there is no need to tie it together."
Chapter completed!