250、The game of capital
Rossey and Rebs talked in the room for a long time.
Compared with Lao Ma, Rebs is not that good at speaking.
Luo Xiu didn't talk to him about the virtual things, and he talked about future technologies and mobile phone trends.
The two had a great time talking, and many opinions and opinions coincided.
The difference is that people have real insights into the future, while Luo Xiu is the one who has returned from the future.
After the conversation ended, Rebs personally sent Luo Xiu out.
When the female employees saw this scene, they proudly said to the male employees: "Did you see it? Mr. Lei is so polite to him. It seems that there is no problem with the interview."
"You always say that people who work in technology don't have time to manage their personal image, so why do they have time?"
"You are just making excuses for your own laziness."
After hearing this, the male employee said dissatisfiedly: "You really don't understand Mr. Lei. He personally sent someone out, which only means that he did not regard the other party as his own."
"Yes, he wasn't that polite to us."
"How about we bet? The loser invites a meal."
"Go ahead, bet, who is afraid of whom!"
...
Luo Xiu didn't know that he had become someone else's bet.
What made him uneasy was that when he just went out, he met another person walking in.
If you remember correctly, he is Mr. Liu of Morningside Capital.
I didn't expect that I had contacted Rebs so early but still couldn't intercept the fool in advance.
In fact, Rebs had successfully started his business twice before he founded Xiaomi, with rich assets and a venture capitalist, so he didn't need to get financing so early.
Later, he went back to his alma mater to give a speech and told the inside story.
He originally told the employees that he had paid all the money for Xiaomi. But one of them co-founders said that if you spend all your money, we will be under pressure.
So Rebs said that OK, I'll go raise funds.
The co-founder is right, spending your own money to start a business is different from spending other people’s money.
At that time, for the first financing, Rebs found a fund that he knew very well, flew to the Magic City in person, and sat in the other party's office for two hours.
During those two hours, countless questions were asked, which made his clothes sweat.
Finally, Rebs replied, "You just asked me that I have never made hardware, how can I prove that I can do the hardware well? Who knows?"
From this speech, Losseo knew that Rebs had suffered setbacks in his initial financing process.
Later he found Mr. Liu of Morningside Capital, obtained a $5 million investment and also sold 20% of the original equity.
After several financings in the future, this equity has been diluted to less than 10%, and it still has a market value of US$5 billion and a return on investment of 1,000 times.
Rossey knew Rebs was looking for financing, so he talked to him all morning about dreams.
Because the founders of the company are very worried that their company will eventually be kidnapped by capital, and in the end, they have to go against the original intention of starting a business due to the pressure of capital.
Luo Xiu brought him a book called "Silicon Valley Fire" and talked to him about the spirit of Silicon Valley, which was to show that we are the same type of people. I invested in your company not to change you, but to work together in the same direction.
Everything was going well and the conversation between the two was very pleasant, but now the sudden appearance of Morningside Capital made Luo Xiu's heart hang up again.
In the original history, Morningside had only one idea in the early days of Xiaomi and didn’t even have a plan, so it directly invested $5 million, which only shows that he also admired Rebs’ personality.
The efforts made by Luo Xiu in the first meeting in the morning could only be tied with Morningside.
If you want to invest this amount of money, you must take out other favorable conditions.
At noon, Luo Xiu ate something casually and returned to the hotel to think about his advantages.
The first thing he thought of was his future father-in-law.
As a giant crocodile in the real estate industry, my future father-in-law has a strong political, business and capital relationship network, but Rebs himself is not short of these things.
Moreover, the source of funds behind Morningside Capital is also a real estate giant.
The two sides tied again.
Just when Luo Xiu was at a loss, his phone suddenly rang, and it was a strange call.
Since registering his own company, he has received a large number of unfamiliar calls every day.
Most of them ask your company whether to invest in Baidu advertising, whether to register trademarks on behalf of others, and whether to turn over funds...
When Luo Xiu saw an incoming call that was not recorded in the communications, he usually pressed it a few times first. If the other party continues to call, it means that there may be something important, and he will answer the phone.
"Hey, hello!"
"Hello, guess who I am?"
"I guess you're a liar." Luo Xiu hung up the phone after saying that.
Then he remembered that the voice was indeed a bit familiar, as if the girl who borrowed clothes at the airport, but how could she have my phone number?
At this time, the phone rang again. After Luo Xiu answered, the other party said angrily: "Okay, Luo Xiu, why am I lying to you?"
Jiang Shuyue thought to herself, even if I want to lie to you, you won’t give me a chance.
"You are Miss Jiang, I'm sorry, your opening remarks are too much like those scam calls."
"Okay, I'll forgive you." Jiang Shuyue was not too worried about being hung up.
"By the way, why did you get my phone number?"
"I saw it on the visit registration and wanted to invite you to dinner. Thank you for lending me clothes to wear."
Of course, she also has another purpose to know the results of Luo Xiu's "interview".
"Yeah, okay!"
Luo Xiu originally wanted to refuse, but thought that she was a person inside Xiaomi after all, or could provide some help to herself, so she agreed immediately.
Nine o'clock in the evening.
Luo Xiu came to the Western restaurant where he was acquainted and found a seat to sit down.
Ten minutes later, Jiang Shuyue arrived as promised.
Compared to the daytime, she should have gone home to wash her hair, changed into a dress, and put on light makeup.
In her words, the group of technical men in the company are not worth her getting up half an hour early to put on makeup every day.
"I'm sorry, there's a traffic jam on the road. Have you been waiting for a long time?" Jiang Shuyue said apologetically.
"I've just arrived, so please sit down."
As soon as Jiang Shuyue sat down, Luo Xiu smelled the familiar perfume smell on her body, exactly the same as the one he had with her coat.
"By the way, how did you talk to Mr. Lei in the morning?" Jiang Shuyue asked urgently.
After all, this is related to the bet with the group of male colleagues, and she herself hopes that a handsome guy can come in the company.
Even if this handsome guy already has a girlfriend, he is likely not to get it, but it is good to keep it there to be a pleasing eye.
"We had a very pleasant chat, and the only thing we were worried about was that Lei always had a better choice."
Luo Xiu answered truthfully.
"Our President Lei has indeed high requirements for talents. There are several people interviewed for each position, and the best is selected, but I believe you can definitely come in."
"Thanks!"
Luo Xiu raised the lemonade in his hand and touched her a glass, "Actually, I don't know much about your company. I only know that you want to make mobile phones. Can you tell me how far it has been made?"
"It's just the beginning, and we're quite confused now. Even if we make our phones, we don't know if we can sell them. How to sell them, we don't have a good channel?"
"I don't know how to sell it?"
Chapter completed!