You call this entrepreneurship?

Chapter 102 Misunderstanding?

When he was building a campus network, Qin Shaoyan knew that there would definitely be imitators.

There is not much technical difficulty in this thing, and there is no moat.

Qin Shaoyan was also mentally prepared. His campus network had a first-mover advantage and had sufficient funds to survive the initial stage.

Other imitators are either burning venture capital money or burning their own money.

It is normal for people who follow the trend to come in and want a piece of the pie.

Taylor's talk about imitators on the phone made Qin Shaoyan more vigilant. What did the other party mean by mentioning this?
Do you want to lower the price?
Or is he trying to imply something?
Qin Shaoyan paced back and forth in the rental house wearing slippers, thinking about hundreds of millions of dollars in financing.

Early in the morning, Qin Shaoyan took a nap, got up from the bed and started looking for the address book on his mobile phone.

"Hey, is this Lawyer Zhang Yuan? To me, Qin Shaoyan, please come over today. I have something very important to consult."

After agreeing on the meeting time, Qin Shaoyan took a nap and appeared in the company in high spirits.

Zhang Yuan also rushed over with his assistant, sat in the small conference room and started communicating.

"Lawyer Zhang, I have a question." Qin Shaoyan pondered for two seconds, "I have two companies, how can I lend the financing of one to the other without breaking the law? Down."

"Ah?!" Zhang Yuan was a little confused.

Mr. Qin, your request is too much.

Qin Shaoyan briefly talked about the campus network and Facebook, and then talked about his beautiful vision.

"Mr. Qin." Zhang Yuan pondered for a while and said, "The money raised from venture capital financing will have a designated purpose and cannot be used casually."

"In other words, I can't spend American investors' money, right." Qin Shaoyan was a little regretful.

"Mr. Qin, if you really want to use this financing to promote the campus network, you might as well merge." Zhang Yuan suggested, "Anyway, you are the shareholder and controlling owner of both companies."

"No." Qin Shaoyan sternly refused, "The campus network is the campus network, and Facebook is Facebook. Don't confuse the two."

Zhang Yuan couldn't figure out what Mr. Qin meant for a while, so he asked, "Which company is Mr. Qin looking for for financing?"

"Sequoia Capital." Qin Shaoyan gestured, "a well-known Internet investment institution in Silicon Valley."

"Oh, Sequoia." Zhang Yuan laughed, "I know a few people from Sequoia, and we met for dinner together yesterday."

"Huh?" Qin Shaoyan was a little surprised, "Where are the people from Sequoia in Yanjing?"

"Ah, yes." Zhang Yuan was stunned for a moment and quickly explained, "They came back from the United States and opened a Sequoia branch in China."

Qin Shaoyan slapped his hands fiercely, "This is a good thing! We must support it vigorously!"

"Yes." Zhang Yuan nodded in agreement, "My friends also feel that the domestic Internet is developing rapidly, but there are very few venture capital institutions focusing on the Internet."

Qin Shaoyan stretched out his palm and said, "Lawyer Zhang, give me the phone numbers of some of your friends."

Zhang Yuan was stunned for a moment, not knowing what Mr. Qin was going to do, so he could only take out his phone and open the address book to look for his friend's phone number.

"This is Zheng Nan, the director and general manager, right?" Qin Shaoyan asked, pointing to one of the people's names.

"Yes." Zhang Yuan nodded.

"Okay, wait for me first." Qin Shaoyan took his cell phone and went out.

As soon as Qin Shaoyan went out, he dialed Zheng Nan directly.

"Okay." Zheng Nan asked with some confusion.

He had only told friends and family about the new card he had recently applied for, so why were there still calls from unknown numbers?

Could it be a harassing phone call?
Qin Shaoyan asked in a firm tone: "Are you from Sequoia?" "Yes, I am." Zheng Nan felt a little strange, "Excuse me..."

Qin Shaoyan didn't give Zheng Nan a chance to ask questions at all, and directly interrupted the other party, "Do you Sequoia still have business integrity! Do you still have business ethics? Why do you want to push back and not give a positive answer? I'm here to press. I can’t sell tens of millions of dollars of goods, just to wait for you to come, and the daily cost is free?”

"Is this how Sequoia invests? Why don't you invest? It's not like I don't have other connections. It's not a big deal if Sequoia doesn't invest. Microsoft and Yahoo are waiting in line there!"

Zheng Nan was confused by this series of words. What is this?

Before he could ask again, the person on the other end hung up the phone.

Zheng Nan was in a daze listening to the busy tone on her phone, thinking for a long time without remembering what projects she had.

To be on the safe side, he also called and asked around other partners.

Everyone said that the company has not even opened yet, and it has a crappy project.

Zheng Nan was suspicious of this phone call and thought about whether to call back and ask what was going on.

Before he could make any move, the other party called again.

"Hello, hello, is this Mr. Zheng?" He was still the same person, but his tone was much softer.

"I am." Zheng Nan asked, "Who are you?"

"My surname is Qin, and my name is Qin Shaoyan." Qin Shaoyan apologized repeatedly, "I'm really sorry. I just made a big mistake. The whole thing is a misunderstanding. Mr. Zheng, please don't take it to heart."

"Misunderstanding?" Zheng Nan frowned, "What misunderstanding? Aren't you looking for Sequoia? Why are there still misunderstandings?"

"After I communicated with the American side, I realized that I thought you were sent by Sequoia to inspect. I'm sorry." Qin Shaoyan explained, "I had an agreement with the American Sequoia before, and they would send a team to inspect and verify. The situation of the website and the issue of the business model.”

website?

business model?

Zheng Nan immediately cheered up, "Mr. Qin, your website is in China, right?"

"Yes, it's in Yanjing." Qin Shaoyan said with some embarrassment, "I was too impatient just now and complained before I understood it. I apologize to you."

"It's okay, it's okay." Zheng Nan responded with a smile.

Qin Shaoyan exchanged greetings with him and then hung up the phone.

Zheng Nan immediately stood up, called the partners together, and explained what had just happened.

"Didn't we agree that everyone should do their own thing? What's the point of them coming to the country again?"

"Yeah, let's talk about business integrity and business ethics."

"Which of you knows who Qin Shaoyan is?"

Several partners looked at each other, and then looked at Zheng Nan together.

Zheng Nan thought for a while, "Call Sequoia and ask if they are coming to China."

"I'm going to ask." A partner got up and went to make a phone call.

After a few minutes, the partner who called me came back and nodded, "Yes, they sent a team to China in early March, saying they wanted to examine new business models."

"Then did you say which company you were inspecting?"

"They didn't disclose this or that. I feel like they are hiding something from us."

Zheng Nan waved his hand, "Let's go meet this Qin Shaoyan tomorrow."

(End of this chapter)