With the news that Zerun Technology would be raising funds, the major venture capital institutions immediately moved.
Not only were there world-renowned Sequoia, goldman sachs, and other international capitals.
There were also many investment companies with state-owned backgrounds, such as Shen Ventures and Shanghai Science and Technology Fund, who came to Zerun Technology to get in touch with Li Ze.
Originally, Li Ze only planned to introduce one or two international venture capital institutions to help Zerun Technology enter the European market.
However, after contacting a few investment companies with state-owned assets, Li Ze thought about it and decided to bring in another state-owned investment company.
After all, Zerun Technology's foundation was still in China.
The introduction of state-owned assets would be much more convenient for Zerun Technology's future development in the country, including some policy aspects.
After several rounds of negotiations, Li Ze finally chose Sequoia Capital and Shanghai Science and Technology Creation Fund!
He chose Sequoia Capital purely because the other party gave the highest valuation, and its strength and energy were not inferior to other international venture capital institutions.
As for the Shanghai Science and Technology Foundation, it was simple.
Zerun Technology was in Shanghai after all. Under the same conditions, Li Ze naturally chose Shanghai Science and Technology Foundation, which had the backing of Shanghai's state-owned assets.
This round of funding was led by Sequoia Capital, followed by Shanghai Science and Technology Foundation.
Li Ze released a total of 15% of the shares.
In addition, Zerun Technology's valuation was 670 million USD!
The iMusic platform played a big role in the valuation of the entire company. At least, it increased the valuation of Zerun Technology by about 200 million US dollars.
After all, ever since the launch of the iMusic platform, the number of paid music downloads had increased rapidly.
As Zerun Technology's MP3 player sales increased, the future of the iMusic platform's paid music download business had an incomparably broad prospect.
After this round of financing, Zerun Technology's equity structure had also undergone major changes.
In addition, Li Ze also took advantage of this financing to set up a 10% option pool, so the shares of each shareholder were diluted accordingly.
After some adjustments, the actual shares of Zerun Technology were: Zerun Holding Group (60.18%), IDG China Branch (8.67%), IDG US Corporation (7.65%), Sequoia Capital (9%), Shanghai Science and Technology Foundation (4.5%), and 10% of the options pool.
For this reason, Zerun Technology also received more than 100 million US dollars in funding.
With this sum of money and Zerun Technology's own profits over the past few months, Zerun Technology could quickly expand its channels in the entire European market...
After Zerun Technology completed this round of funding, it immediately began to enter the European market.
As Zerun Technology was basically on the right track in the US market, Lin Yue was transferred to Europe again to be responsible for the development of the entire European market.
However, before Lin Yue went to Europe, Li Ze asked her to go back to China.
"CEO Lin, there's a good thing that I specially asked you to return to the country first.”
Li Ze was sitting in the conference room of Zerun Technology. He looked at Lin Yue and said with a smile.
In addition to Lin Yue, there were also Vice President Sun Ting, Director of the product development department Xu Kai, Director of iMusic's R D department Zhang Dongsheng, and all the executives of Zerun Technology in the conference room.
Hearing Li Ze's words, Lin Yue couldn't help but smile and ask,""Director Li, what good news is it?”
The others also looked at Li Ze curiously.
Li Ze smiled." Didn't the company carry out a round of financing before? I discussed it with the major shareholders and set up an option pool.”
"So, I'm going to take this opportunity to give everyone some options. From now on, Zerun Technology will also belong to your own company and your own business!”
Hearing Li Ze's words, everyone present immediately fell into a pleasant surprise.
No one expected Li Ze to give them an option at this time!
They knew about the company's previous financing, which was valued at 670 million USD. However, they did not know that Li Ze had also set up an option pool!
This was a company with a valuation of 670 million USD.
Even a 0.1% option was worth 670,000 USD. If converted to Chinese currency, it would be more than five million!
Moreover, if the company could be listed in the future, the value of the options in their hands would only be higher. It might even increase by a few times or even ten times!
For a moment, everyone was excited.
"President Li, is this true? We can all get options in the company?？”
Xu Kai's eyes widened in disbelief, and his breathing became slightly rapid.
"Of course!" Li Ze chuckled. Every single one of you here has one.”
"This is the option incentive plan I came up with these two days. You can take a look first…"
According to Li Ze's option reward plan, as the company's president, Lin Yue could receive 1.5% of the option reward, while Sun Ting, Xu Kai, Zhang Dongsheng, and other executives could receive 0.2-0.5%.
This time, Li Ze only gave out a total of 5% of the options.
The remaining 5% of the option pool was reserved for the subsequent recruitment of other high-end talents…
Seeing the options that they could obtain, everyone's faces were filled with joy. This represented tens of millions, or even tens of millions!
How could he not be excited!
At this moment, everyone really had the urge to 'risk their lives' for the company.
Because from this moment on, they were no longer just ordinary workers, but shareholders with shares in the company!
The better the company developed, the higher the value of the options they held!
Li Ze saw everyone's reaction and couldn't help but smile in his heart.
Zerun Technology was only waiting to successfully enter the European market and gain a foothold. After it succeeded, it would start to promote its listing.
It was inevitable to set up an option pool and give options to the company's executives.
After a while, everyone finally calmed down.
"Thank you, President Li! We will definitely work hard for the company in the future and live up to your kindness!”
The few of them said to Li Ze gratefully.
Li Ze smiled and waved his hand." Zerun Technology will belong to all of us in the future. I hope that everyone can work together and contribute to the development of our company!"”
"President Li is right! Zerun Technology will be our company from now on!”
Everyone's faces were still filled with excitement.
After Zerun Technology's option reward plan was implemented, Lin Yue quickly left for Europe to explore the market there...
Late December.
Shanghai officials sold several commercial plots of land, and Li Ze also participated in the auction in the name of Zerun Holding Group. In the end, he won a plot of land in the Pu Dong District for 430 million.
This money was naturally transferred from Legend of Mir 2.
Now, the Legend of Mir 2's monthly revenue was more than 100 million. Even if they transferred 430 million to buy that piece of land, the Legend of Mir 2's account still had more than 400 million!
He did not need to worry about the money to build the headquarters building.
In addition, Li Ze was prepared to start construction after the New Year and build the headquarters of Zerun Holding Group on that plot of land.
After the building was built.
At that time, Zerun Holding Group and a series of companies under it would move there.
However, it would take more than a year for the building to be built and put into use…
It was now 2002.
Capital City, Zhongguancun, Yinfeng Building.
"Boss, last month, we had more than 200 orders online. The highest number of orders in a day was nearly 20!”
" Now, many customers hope that we can set up our own website. This way, it will be much more convenient for them to buy our products online…"
Xiao Liu said to Da Qiangzi.
Hearing this, Da Qiangzi couldn't help but be startled. He said in surprise,""There were actually more than 200 deals online last month?”
"Yes, I am. Do you think…we should set up our own website to sell goods?”
Little Liu asked.
Big Hadron pondered for a moment, gritted his teeth, and said,""Good! Then let's try setting up a website first!"
During this period of time, he had been taking advantage of the lack of customers in the store to promote his products online. Da Qiangzi had long been attracted by the online sales model.
It was just that he could not make up his mind in a short period of time.
However, now that he knew that there were more than 200 deals online last month alone, Da Qiangzi felt that there was a lot of potential in selling goods online.
After making his decision, he quickly found someone to build the website.
However, he was only creating a forum and not a mall. He was obviously testing the waters.
In addition, after his forum went online, there were only a few dozen users at first. They were all old customers who had bought things from him before.
For this reason, when Big Hadron had nothing to do, he would chat with dozens of users on his own forum.
As they chatted slowly, they became familiar with the users.
He also knew that these users were basically Internet experts. They were either forum moderators or experienced players.
He was quite influential in various online communities and netizen groups.
Moreover, the other party had chatted with Da Qiangzi a lot. After getting to know him, they were all willing to help Da Qiangzi recommend his website to other netizens.
It was precisely because of the promotion and recommendation of these Internet experts, forum moderators, veteran players, etc. that the number of forum users of Big Hadron slowly increased.
Moreover, the growth rate was getting faster and faster. Unknowingly, it had already grown to thousands of registered users.
And the number of orders was also increasing day by day…
Seeing this situation, Big Hadron's thoughts became more active.
Especially when she thought of the conversation she had with Li Ze back then. In addition, as the number of users on the forum increased, the number of orders also gradually increased...
Relying on the forum to sell goods had become more and more cumbersome and inconvenient.
Moreover, it would require a lot of time and manpower.
Therefore, Da Qiangzi finally decided to make a proper e-commerce website…
He specially hired a group of technicians to develop the mall.
After more than a month, the development of the mall was finally completed and went online smoothly.
However, it was already March 2002.
After the official launch of Goudong Mall, Da Qiangzi thought of Li Ze again.
"Perhaps…it's time to look for Chairman Li! Otherwise, with my own funds, it would be impossible for Gou Dong City to develop quickly.”
"There are currently so many e-commerce websites. If you want to break out of the encirclement and stand out, it will be very, very difficult without sufficient financial support!”
"That Chairman Li is the second richest man in the country. He also said that if I need any investment, I can go to him at any time…"
Thinking of this, Da Qiangzi took out the name card that Li Ze had given him.
When Li Ze was ranked second on the Hurun Rich List, there were many discussions and reports on the news network. Naturally, Big Hadron knew about it.
At that time, he was quite surprised.
Although he had originally treated Li Ze as a big shot in the business world, he did not expect Li Ze to become the second richest man in the country.
The 8.1 billion in assets had completely stunned him.
8.1 billion…How much money was that!
Big Hadron couldn't imagine it.
Although he knew that it was just assets and not so much cash, and even the rankings were exaggerated and false, there was not much difference.
At that time, Da Qiangzi felt an inexplicable sense of pride and excitement when he thought about how he had once sat face to face with the second richest man in the country and chatted for more than half an hour. The other party had even said that he was very optimistic about him.
Because of this, he was even more convinced of Li Ze's words and judgment.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have delayed the implementation of the chain store model he had originally envisioned and instead spent all his free time selling goods online...
Looking at the phone number on the business card in his hand, Da Qiangzi finally took out his mobile phone and dialed the number on it...
……
Zerun Holding Group.
"President Li, a person called Da Qiangzi called just now. He said that he wanted to visit you and ask when it's convenient for you.”
"I told him that I had to ask you about this first. How do you think I should reply to him?”
Mu Qinglan walked into Li Ze's office and said.
When Li Ze heard that it was Da Qiangzi who had called to visit him, he was instantly invigorated.
It had been almost half a year since she had met him at the Yinfeng Building in Zhongguan Village in the capital. She hadn't expected him to finally come knocking on her door.
'Looks like that Big Hadron is determined to start that Goudong Mall, so he's looking for me to invest…'
Li Ze thought to himself.
Then, he immediately raised his head and instructed Mu Qinglan,""Xiaomu, help me reply to Da Qiangzi. Tell him that I'll be at the company for the next few days. If he wants to come over to visit, he can come to the company directly.”
" Okay, President Li, I'll call him back now..." Mu Qinglan quickly replied.
"Yes."
Li Ze nodded.
After Mu Qinglan left, he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. Then, he smiled." According to the information revealed by Little Dong's inner voice, Da Qiangzi will only establish Goudong Mall in two years.”
" And now, it seems like I've indeed affected his original trajectory, allowing him to establish the Gou Dong Mall ahead of time…"
Two days later.
Da Qiangzi had specially rushed to Shanghai from the capital to visit Li Ze at Zerun Holding Group.
"Hello, Director Li! I hope I didn't disturb you with this visit?”
Da Qiangzi said hurriedly as Mu Qinglan led him to Li Ze's office.
Li Ze smiled and waved his hand."There's nothing to disturb. Qiang Zi, sit down first.”
"Alright, thank you, Chairman Li!"
Big Hadron thanked him and sat down.
At this moment, Li Ze glanced at him and smiled.""Qiang Zi, you came all the way from the capital to visit me. Is there something you need?”
Big Hadron smiled with embarrassment. After a moment of hesitation, he said,""Well…Chairman Li, to be honest, I came to look for you this time because I want to get an investment from you!”
Li Ze looked at him and motioned for him to continue.
Big Hadron sorted out his thoughts and continued,""I was fortunate enough to meet you last time and ask you many questions. I've benefited a lot.”
"In the past half a year, I have been trying to sell goods online, or rather, try the e-commerce model. For more than five months, I started by advertising on the hardware forum and adding friends through QQ.”
"Slowly, at the end of last year, I found someone to make my own forum and sell goods on it. The orders have been increasing rapidly…"
"After a few months of experimentation, I also feel that the e-commerce model is indeed a major retail development direction in the future. He had many advantages that offline stores did not have.”
"For example, the cost of renting a shop, the cost of labor, the cost of renovating the shop, etc. These are all incomparable to offline physical stores.”
"Therefore, I recruited a group of technical staff before the year and asked them to start developing an official e-commerce website. Currently, the website had been developed and was online.”
"Although the website hasn't been online for long, there are already thousands of users.”
"However, I also understand that if we want to really make the platform work, we need a lot of financial support. Whether it's promoting the website, opening up the product supply chain, or establishing your own warehouse logistics system, all of these require money.”
"And it's a lot of money."
"So I remembered that you told me back then that if I needed an investment, I could come to you, so I came…"
After saying that, Da Qiangzi looked at Li Ze nervously.
Although he felt that since Li Ze had said that he could invest in him, there should not be any problem. However, as long as Li Ze did not really agree, he would inevitably be a little nervous…
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