After all, the capital is not Xiao Qi's home court. After the failed but fortunately failed DreamPad customized version came to an end, and after the discussion with Hoffman came to an end, Xiao Qi also took a flight back to his two wives after saying goodbye.
Arrive in Chengdu.
Hoffman had returned to the United States with the contract the day before and started the work of forming the three major companies.
The game company Xiao Qi named it "CoolGame", which means "cool game" in Chinese. As for whether Americans regard "Cool" as "cool", how can Xiao Qi care?
Airbnb, Foursquare and CoolGame, Xiao Qi's interests are not huge, but the overall plan given by Hoffman, combined with Xiao Qi's previous plan, does have a completely new look.
As expected, only professionals can do professional things!
Companies that sprout and grow in the United States can only do best with American thinking. What's more, if Hoffman, the "king of Silicon Valley connections" and "one of the most successful angel investors", operates it himself, he will naturally be better than
The three companies in the previous life were even more powerful.
For the three companies, Xiao Qi transferred a total of US$500 million in initial start-up funds from overseas accounts. When the funds arrive in the new offshore company's account, Hoffman will use the funds in batches with Xiao Qi's consent.
Spend.
Xiao Qi followed the principle of employing people without suspicion and not using people who were suspicious. He had already discussed the general steps with Huffman at the beginning of the negotiation. Under normal circumstances, Xiao Qi would not let Hoffman go without any major changes.
Man only uses the funds after applying at any time.
However, Hoffman is not ignorant. Every week he will update Xiao Qi on the progress of the company's formation. The financial supervision of the three companies is controlled by professionals, and detailed documents will be sent to Xiao Qi once a week.
That's how we do business together.
Only if both parties are sensible, and try their best to consider the interests of the collaborator while abiding by the rules from the beginning, will the relationship last long.
The biggest use of the first US$500 million allocated by Xiao Qi is to attract talents and build a framework. Compared with traditional industries such as store decoration, rent, operation, etc., it is much more convenient and can be done directly on the Internet.
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It is precisely because of the various conveniences of the Internet that when it becomes popular in the future, it will directly defeat those offline companies that operate the same projects.
A Jingxi company that had accumulated nothing before was able to force China's two super giants, Gome and Suning, to the point where they almost jumped off the building. This shows the huge advantages and disadvantages of online marketing and physical marketing.
Another example. Hong Kong's 80,000 square meters of industrial land directly forced all Hong Kong manufacturing industries to collapse. From now on, Hong Kong can only rely on the financial, service and port industries to survive. It will never be like a treasure island again.
The rapid development of manufacturing and industry has reduced it to a place with no development potential.
If online business comes out like this, there is no need to rent a large amount of space in Hong Kong for production and marketing. The transaction is completed entirely on the Internet, and Hong Kong only needs to provide some warehouses. This kind of business model can completely combine those
Hong Kong's real economy, which was under great pressure, was destroyed!
The same situation exists in the United States. No matter how vast your territory is and how sparsely populated you are, no matter how much support your government provides, you can never compare with my network operation model that does not require a business premises at all, right?
For example, Facebook. If it is an offline company, if it wants to develop its business in more than 100 countries, it will have to establish a total of thousands of branches in these countries and hire tens of thousands of people to handle various social networking companies.
Business, spending tens of billions of dollars on this venue, personnel and advertising expenses - such a company, with only some advertising revenue, really doesn't know how to die.
In other words, only the Internet, a wonderful tool that connects the world, can give birth to so many outstanding companies. In reality, it is not enough for companies to refuse to admit defeat, because this is a huge trend that no one can stop.
Because of this, the expenditure of US$500 million is very sufficient in Hoffman's opinion, enough to cover all preparation expenses within three months.
Creating a mature website is not an easy task.
Now is no longer the era when YAHOO, GOOGLE, and Facebook could start slowly and crudely. If you want to do it quickly, the most successful example is Tang Mingxiang's Chosegirl.
This Internet company, which has been included in the classic cases of Harvard Business School and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, appeared in the most perfect way, thus attracting a lot of people's attention, and this is why it was approved as quickly as possible.
success.
Therefore, today's websites often need to make necessary preparations before they are launched. Factors such as traffic flow, page design, beautification plans, etc. must be taken into consideration to avoid being robbed by others taking advantage of temporary mistakes during rapid development.
Users go - WhatsApp suffered a brief server failure after it was acquired by Facebook, causing millions of users to switch to other instant messaging tools with the same functions.
According to the initial operating conditions plan given by Xiao Qi, Hoffman gave different times for the operating hours of the three network companies.
The preparation period for CoolGame is about three months, Foursquare can complete the trip in one month, and Airbnb takes the longest, about half a year.
With Hoffman's operational methods and experience, and his huge connections in Silicon Valley, he knows all kinds of talents clearly. The whole process should be as fast as flowing water, but this speed is indeed faster than Xiao Qi expected.
A little longer.
But Hoffman said that anyway, the operating models of the three companies have been registered by Xiao Qi, so the three companies are the only business. In this case, it is better to make it better than planned, and then get the
Come out and shock the world.
Xiao Qi thought about it and agreed, so he agreed.
Again, what professionals say is that it is the specifics that determine the development of things. Xiao Qi is only responsible for giving suggestions in the general direction. Since Hoffman thinks it is appropriate to do so, then follow his decision.
The total market value of these three companies in the previous life was close to 20 billion US dollars. If Xiao Qi and Hoffman were allowed to improve them, their value should be higher than that in the previous life, right?
Xiao Qi is full of expectations for their development!
PS: In my opinion, JD.com is purely a company that exploded with large sums of money. Its success also indicates that it is unlikely that small Internet companies will succeed in the future. This is a capital operation.