Chapter 123 Morning tea at Lei Jun's family (Part 1)
Although Ren Pingsheng has no one in the online media circle, he knows very well the founder of the Happy Age.
Li Xuelin, the founder of Happy Age, is a typical example of the counterattack of literati in the Internet circle. He graduated from the Department of Philosophy of Renmin University. His first job was to work as a reporter at China Youth Daily.
During his time as a reporter, Li Xuelin interviewed all veterans in the IT industry in China and accumulated rich connections in the circle. Because of his bold and bold style of speaking and writing, he was listed as one of the "Four Famous IT Records in Beijing".
With his qualifications in the IT media circle, Li Xuelin has served as the editor-in-chief of Sohu IT and the editor-in-chief of Luyi, and has been immersed in the portal for many years. During his two years at Luyi, Li Xuelin has independent of the four channels of real estate, games, automobiles and technology, and established a company that is responsible for its own profits and losses, achieving good results.
But if you are good at literature, you will be creative, and Li Xuelin soon embarked on the path of self-entrepreneurship.
In that era of Internet creation, dragons and snakes were mixed, each showing their magical powers and making heroes in every style. Many entrepreneurs were not from IT business professionals, including Wang Xing, who founded each group in later generations, Tang Yan, who founded Momo, Fan Sanwen, who founded Snowball, etc., and Li Xuelin was their pioneer.
After coming out of Luyi, Li Xuelin received a $1 million investment and founded Happy Age in Huacheng City. His current main product is Duole Games.
The person who invested in Li Xuelin for the first time was Lei Jun.
So, Ren Pingsheng called Lei Jun first, hoping that he would introduce him to Li Xuelin from the center.
Although he and Lei Jun only met one person, both parties had done a business and had a favor.
Moreover, Ren Pingsheng believed that during the night talk in Yanjing at the end of last year, his views and speeches on "the foundation of the foundation" had left a deep impression on Lei Jun.
With these accumulations, he believed that Lei Jun would not refuse this request.
Lei Jun was indeed a very interesting person. Not only did he agree, he also asked Ren Pingsheng to fly to Huacheng City for an interview immediately.
He left at will, Ren Pingsheng flew to Huacheng that night. The next morning, he was already sitting in the garden on the roof of Leijun's private villa and drinking morning tea with the three of them.
Li Xuelin is 10 years older than Ren Pingsheng, but his face looks younger, with a chubby figure, wearing a pair of black-framed glasses, and always having a smile on his face. It does look like a media editor gives people the usual impression, but the eyes behind the black-framed glasses are very focused, and sparks of thought flash from time to time.
The other person, who looks three years older than Li Xuelin, has a thin figure, a slightly longer hair, plain facial features, and speaks with a heavy Minnan accent.
At the beginning, Ren Pingsheng didn't understand why this person appeared in Lei Jun's villa. He thought it was just a private party with Lei and Li.
After Lei Jun introduced the third person's name, Ren Pingsheng remembered it.
Cai Wensheng, in his previous life, this name was not as loud as Lei Jun, and his company was not as successful as Li Xuelin, but he also made a fortune of 10 billion yuan, becoming one of the profiters of this Internet wave.
Unlike other Internet entrepreneurs, Cai Wensheng has entered the public eye with an investment domain name.
At the end of the 20th century, when few people understood the value of domain names, Cai Wensheng had a unique vision and registered tens of thousands of top-level domain names, especially those mainly based on pinyin. For example, the famous Aiqiyi Video website in the future, he spent millions of yuan to buy the domain name from Cai Wensheng.
These domain names were sold one after another, allowing Cai Wensheng to easily gain a rich pot of gold.
Afterwards, Cai Wensheng imitated hao1234 to make website 253, and quickly sold it to Google, and also held an Internet webmaster conference to explore business opportunities for personal websites.
During this period, he also invested in a series of startups such as Internet Express, Storm Video, and Youmaster, and all of them received considerable returns.
Judging from the rise of Cai Wensheng, he does not have much advanced theoretical support, nor does he do the "Ideal World" first and cultivate it into a stable cash bull before he can gradually carry out other businesses.
To create a game portal, open a player gang system, and create a business like player self-media requires professional online media practitioners and experienced HTML developers. This cannot be achieved overnight in a short time.
Moreover, the internal test of "Ideal World" is about to be launched, and even if Ren Pingsheng does it himself, it will be too late.
Therefore, cooperating with Dole is Ren Pingsheng's best choice at present.
After listening to Ren Pingsheng's explanation, Li Xuelin hugged his chest with his hands and said for a while: "Mr. Ren, your suggestions are very good, and I really want to cooperate with you."
"However, the largest customer base of Dole is the game "World of Warcraft". Our guild system is also designed for their needs. If you want to create a special partition for your game, it may not be too late in a short time."
Ren Pingsheng saw it in his eyes and understood it in his heart.
The reasons Li Xuelin said are all excuses. His real idea was to worry about Ren Pingsheng.
The short conversation just now made Li Xuelin feel that the young man in front of him was unfathomable. His understanding of Internet trends and business opportunities was not inferior to himself and Lei Jun.
Although he just wants to cooperate with Duole and carry out his own online game promotion, if he wants to intervene in the field of online media in the future, it will inevitably pose a great threat to Duole.
Isn’t I cultivating future enemies now that I agree to join forces with him?
Li Xuelin, who has been dealing with IT bosses for many years, has mastered the power and scheming of the bosses through his experiences. It is safest to stay away from people or things that he does not understand or grasp.
Seeing that Li Xuelin's attitude was unstable, Ren Pingsheng decided to throw out his second hydrangea.
"Mr. Li, I respect your achievements in the Internet media industry and I am also optimistic about the development prospects of the WEB2.0 era. In addition to cooperation in game content, I personally also want to invest in Happy Times Company to lay the foundation for our long-term cooperation."
After saying that, Ren Pingsheng said to Lei Jun humbly:
"Of course, whether you accept my investment depends on what Mr. Lei means."
Lei Jun didn't make much noise since their conversation started. He just sat aside, drank his own tea with a smile, and watched the game between the two young juniors.
Seeing that the topic turned to him, Lei Jun did not refuse. He put down the teacup in his hand and spoke slowly.
"I have a story, you two might as well listen to it."
Chapter completed!