Chapter 1035: Chapter 636: Give Mr. Lei a Shock
In the office, Xu Dalai opened his mouth, hesitating to speak several tis.
He’s no fool; he naturally understands what terrifying benefits becoming a pre-installed APP on Mr. Lei’s phone could bring, considering its current sales montum!
Nowadays, it’s the era when smartphones are rapidly becoming popular.
And Xiaomi phones are the first smartphones for many people.
What does that represent?
It represents that these people are new users of smartphone apps!
They are targets that many apps want to seize!
If Youuqu can truly beco a pre-installed APP on Xiaomi phones, it ans it is very likely to gain tens of millions of registered users within a year.
More importantly, Cheng Zhu is very aware of how high Youuqu’s user retention rate is.
Back then, TikTok’s various data were extrely frightening.
If everyone didn’t love playing it, how could it have beco so popular?
This represents that as long as the user base becos large, it can imdiately take off!
In a few days, it will be a new year.
At the end of this year, Cheng Zhu will end Youuqu’s Cold Start phase.
Starting from New Year’s Day, he will begin large-scale external investnt to promote Youuqu.
Marketing efforts will be strong, and money will be invested heavily in advertising.
However, the effects they can achieve are estimated not to be much stronger than direct phone pre-installation!
At this mont, Xu Dalai looked at Cheng Zhu, hesitated for a while, then suddenly smiled.
“Mr. Cheng must be doing this intentionally; you want everyone to sit down and discuss the feasibility of this matter, right?” At this point, the CEO of Shunwei Capital naturally saw through his intention.
No wonder, no wonder at first, you only gave us the sa share as ByteDance, just to make us dissatisfied and then sit down to talk slowly!
Upon hearing this, Cheng Zhu openly admitted it, not even bothering to pretend.
“Yes, it’s indeed because I want to achieve a deeper cooperation,” he smiled.
Xu Dalai felt that the young man’s ambitions and plans were beyond his expectations.
Moreover, he seed not to mind showing his ambition and desires.
His approach was very open, appearing to be resolute and enterprising.
Investors like them love to deeply understand others.
After all, as the saying goes, many tis when investing, you’re actually investing in people.
In fact, Xu Dalai also didn’t like people who were too timid.
If a start-up company boss lacks ambition and doesn’t strive to secure opportunities for himself and his company, that’s truly contemptible.
However, there is a problem.
Xu Dalai looked at Cheng Zhu, seriously saying: “I wonder if Mr. Cheng has specific knowledge about our Shunwei investnt project. We also invested in the short video APP, Kuai Shou.”
Cheng Zhu imdiately understood what he ant.
Apps like Kuai Shou, UC Browser, and Zhihu are often pre-installed favorites on Xiaomi phones.
The number of pre-installed APPs on Xiaomi phones is relatively high.
When you buy a new phone and turn it on, it’s already pre-installed with a large number of apps.
So you might continue to use, while others might be ruthlessly deleted by you.
This was equivalent to Xu Dalai implicitly suggesting the direct competition between Youuqu and Kuai Shou.
“Mr. Xu must have already studied Youuqu; you can certainly tell that our positioning is completely different from Kuai Shou, even though they’re both on the short video track.”
“In fact, our current user positioning is different…” Cheng Zhu began to speak eloquently, talking for three to four minutes.
Xu Dalai frequently nodded, and in the end, simply said: “I will convey this matter on your behalf.”
After saying that, he began to ask: “Then, Mr. Cheng, what is the specific share you can give us?”
And Cheng Zhu’s answer instantly made Xu Dalai very intrigued!
“My limit is… slightly higher than Red Mountain Capital.” Cheng Zhu said.
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About an hour later, Xu Dalai left Youuqu’s headquarters.
After talking with Cheng Zhu for so long, he admired the young man more and more.
He just felt that Cheng Zhu: “is a bit overambitious.”
Or rather, his expectations for Youuqu’s future seem surprisingly unrealistic.
“He actually wants to beco one of the world’s top unicorns.” Xu Dalai laughed.
He indeed had high hopes for Youuqu but not to that extent.
“That at least needs to be on par with Tencent and Alibaba.” Xu Dalai thought.
Nowadays, the internet industry already has several big giants standing there.
Wanting to break through under the gaze and scrutiny of these giants, reaching their level, is almost impossible.
“But it’s normal, given he’s young!” Xu Dalai didn’t find anything wrong with this.
Many truly ambitious people have dreams at this stage that aren’t rely “creating a profitable company” but often “creating a great company”!
Yes, great!
To him, after today’s close encounter, he has a deeper understanding of Cheng Zhu’s personal abilities.
This young man has many traits that others don’t.
“And his foresight seems particularly good.”
“So good that it even feels a bit uncanny to …”
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So far, Xu Dalai is still uncertain if Mr. Lei will agree to Cheng Zhu’s request.
But he believes the possibility is quite high.
“The conditions he offered are too tempting.”
“This ans for this round of financing, he will let Shunwei Capital lead the investnt!”
Xu Dalai would be staying in Hang City for a day today. After returning to his hotel, he imdiately called Lei Bu Si to explain the situation.
It didn’t take long for the call to get through, and Lei Bu Si’s accented Mandarin ca through the phone.
“Hello, Dalai.”
“Mr. Lei, let discuss the specifics of today’s eting with Cheng Zhu with you…” Xu Dalai began to report.
When he ntioned that Cheng Zhu wanted Youuqu to beco a pre-installed application on Xiaomi phones, there was a noticeable pause on the other end of the line.
“Pre-installed?” Lei Bu Si laughed.
“This young man is quite interesting!” Mr. Lei said.
From what Xu Dalai knew about him, he had already vaguely guessed sothing.
He imdiately asked, “Mr. Lei, you wouldn’t have already planned to invest in Youuqu and make it a pre-installed application, would you?”
“Indeed, that was my plan.” Lei Bu Si replied with a laugh.
“Huh?” Now it was Xu Dalai’s turn to be dumbfounded.
In fact, if Cheng Zhu knew this, he would also be dumbfounded.
Damn, the condition I’ve been striving for, he already intended to give ?
Damn, so why am I even bothering with all this!
Lei Bu Si shared his true thoughts: “Regarding the investnt in Youuqu, I personally have high expectations for future returns.”
“I took a look at so backend data in our app store.”
“I am extrely optimistic about Youuqu.”
“Personally, I think that within five years, even if we only participate in this round of financing, the future returns will be at least 50 tis, or possibly even over 100 tis!”
Upon hearing this, Xu Dalai was even more shocked.
Because this ans that what Mr. Lei is optimistic about is not only this project but also Cheng Zhu as a person!
If a company’s founder is not capable, a project, no matter how good, might still fail.
Within five years, only participating in this round of financing, yet the returns are as high as a hundred tis, what kind of concept is that?
How much would this valuation soar!
However, he was also very aware that Mr. Lei’s investnt acun was always spot-on.
He has done quite a few investnts with hundredfold returns!
In the future, Lei Bu Si could beco the legendary “Beijing Cash King,” largely related to his involvent in nurous investnts.
“However, regarding this cooperation, I actually have a question.” Mr. Lei said over the phone.
“What is it?”
“This is a question you can’t answer for , I’ll call Cheng Zhu later. If there’s no issue with this matter, then pre-installation it is!” He said it with unparalleled straightforwardness!
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Half an hour later, Cheng Zhu, who was chatting with Zhang Sixing in the office, suddenly received a phone call.
He answered the phone and imdiately heard that incredibly familiar accented voice.
Yes, the call was from the famous singer, Mr. Lei.
The hit song: “Are you ok”.
This song is already extrely popular dostically now.
“Hi, Mr. Cheng, it’s , Lei Jun.” He said.
“Hello, hello, Mr. Lei.”
Cheng Zhu stood up straight away, putting one hand in his pocket, and walked to the window to take the call, leaving a suave figure for Zhang Sixing.
Upon hearing that very famous na within their programr circle, Zhang Sixing was instantly on high alert.
There was no helping it, it was Lei Jun, the guy whose university-written code could be included in textbooks.
“Has Cheng Zhu already reached the point where he can banter with Mr. Lei?” Zhang Sixing was shocked!
Although he was honest and introverted, and generally uninteresting, it didn’t an he couldn’t be amazed.
Cheng Zhu, with one hand in his pocket and the other holding the phone, chatted happily, with neither of them diving straight into the main topic, instead exchanging a few pleasantries.
But given Lei Bu Si’s precious ti, and the fact that currently, Xiaomi was at one of its most challenging periods, later being referred to as the darkest hour, he was actually quite busy.
Mr. Lei quickly said, “Mr. Cheng, I want to ask you a question.”
“Okay.”
“[Youuqu] and the overseas short video app [Musical.ly] have so similarities. Needless to say, by next year, as Youuqu gains popularity, such voices will only increase.”
Lei Bu Si continued: “[Musical.ly] was founded in the United States by Zhu Jun and Yang Luyu, way before Youuqu.”
“Although I personally feel Youuqu is more complete, better executed, and more suited to dostic conditions, just because of this timing issue, Youuqu may face a lot of attacks or be labeled as a copycat.”
“Have you prepared for this?” he asked.
Cheng Zhu recalled, vaguely rembering that around this ti, it seed Mr. Lei’s phone was being “beaten up” by a group of competitor companies.
Pretty much all the major competitors that could be nad were suing Xiaomi.
Perhaps due to his personal situation, it made him very curious about what Cheng Zhu would do.
At this mont, Cheng Zhu stood before the large window.
This office building was tall, allowing him to overlook the surrounding scenery.
He looked down at everything and uttered sothing that stunned Lei Bu Si, completely unexpected.
“Easy, when the discussions are the loudest, buy it!”
“Directly throw money at it, and acquire it completely!”
“anwhile, complete [Youuqu]’s internationalization in the short video track! Kill two birds with one stone!” Cheng Zhu spoke with resolute confidence!
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