Chapter 136 The Barbarian at the Door
Xiao Wang got angry for a while, and decided to forget about the military boxing and fighting championships.

We are all decent people, so why not have a competition between the second generation of rich people, and thus the League of Legends million cash game scored twice.

Xiao Wang personally led his IG team. Xie Jingxing did not contact the Royal team from last time. It was said that it was because it was currently in the off-season and some players went to meet female fans for offline adventures and treasure hunts.

It was late at night when they finally found a team called WE. Four professional fighters led the rookie Xie Jingxing, and as expected, they lost the game.

[Military boxing is useless? 】

As soon as the crystal exploded, Xiao Wang quickly sent a WeChat message with sarcastic remarks.

Xie Jing Xing felt extremely annoyed. He tapped on the keyboard for a long time and weakly uttered two words: [Wait.]

[If you are new, practice more and don’t be stubborn. ] Xiao Wang replied immediately.

Xie Jingxing could imagine the grinning face of this bastard, so he threw away his phone and opened the game again.

He is a real-life CSgo player after all. He was unable to react in time to press the flash button in the game just now, and was trapped in the fountain by Xiao Wang who used an equipment called "Murderous Sword" to bully him.

This was obviously not his fault, he was simply taking advantage of the fact that he was a novice.

"Meet Juntai's people tomorrow morning to discuss the Yunshan Group spin-off and listing project." Song Anli came over wrapped in a bath towel and wiped her hair as she reminded him that it was time to go to bed.

Without even turning his head, Xie Jingxing clicked his mouse to fill up the game points and buy all twenty pages of rune pages and all heroes: "Buy a game club."

"…Should we do market research first?" Song Anli suggested.

When queuing up for a game, I immediately selected the game character Garen holding a big sword, and imitated my teammates by typing "No support on the 5th floor".

After completing the operation in a very professional manner, Xie Jingxing looked back at her with satisfaction: "Don't worry about the arrangements. I will practice my skills to beat him solo first."

"He seems to have won but the fact is that you won more. Don't take it too seriously as it's just a small bet for fun." Song Anli advised kindly, rather helplessly.

Grapefruit Capital's investment in Dianping, as well as subsequent follow-up investments in Didi, Ele.me, and Dianping, will all be realized through Grapefruit's US$20 million first fund and Grapefruit China's RMB billion first fund.

In other words, Xie Jingxing used his own funds to complete the early investment in these three projects, and used the two funds raised by many LPs including Xiao Wang to take over for himself, burning money to increase the project valuation.

According to a rough estimate, in the most ideal case, the return on investment of his own funds can be as high as 20 times to 30 times by the time of listing, and the return on investment of the two phases of funds raised by LP is predicted to be around 5 to 8 times.

Although for the entire financial market, a 5-8 times return rate is considered a good project that is hard to find, but Xie Jingxing made more money from it, which is equivalent to letting Xiao Wang work for him.

It doesn't matter if you are unhappy and spend a little money to invest in a game club, but it is unnecessary to play the game yourself to prove yourself, because his time is precious.

Song Anli smiled and walked forward a few steps slowly. She leaned forward slightly, hugged him from behind, rested her chin on his shoulder, and coaxed him in a gentle voice, "Let's go to bed after this game, okay?"

The computer screen turned gray at the right moment, and the game character controlled by Xie Jingxing dropped his sword and fell to the ground. He was inexplicably dazed.

"Do I look like a robot to you?"

The screen lit up again with warm tones, forming a sharp contrast with Xie Jingxing's expression.

In the interweaving of light and darkness, Song Anli felt a little cold for no reason. Her gentle smile turned stiff and she swallowed the words on the tip of her tongue back into her stomach. Her intuition told her that it was better not to speak.

"Have you found your own position?" Xie Jingxing continued to ask.

Song Anli lowered her head silently. The air conditioner was blowing warm air, but her body couldn't stop feeling cold. She just stood there in a daze.

[The bottom lane keeps calling me to go, how can I go? The opponents keep entering my jungle? ]

[I'm going to trick you, so what... You don't need to ask for my contact information, I'm at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Shanghai, if you don't come to me offline, you're a grandson...]

[Staying in a hotel is considered showing off your wealth? ... I haven’t even told you that I’m worth hundreds of billions... Ma Huateng is my good brother, I will block your account tomorrow...]

The game screen showed the failed settlement interface, and noisy shouting and cursing continued to be heard in the YY voice channel.

Until the faint light from the sky outside the window broke through the darkness, Xie Jingxing threw down the mouse, stretched, stood up and walked towards the bedroom: "Assemble a gaming computer for me."

"Ok."

Song Anli responded softly, and with difficulty moved her legs that were swollen and swollen after standing there for half the night, she followed him closely.

The tens of projects invested by Taihe and Xiyou, with a net investment value of over 10 billion, and the countless people associated with them, all revolve around Xie Jingxing.

Like a huge and precise gear structure, he is the most important one among them. While the other gears revolve around him, they also push him to revolve forever involuntarily.

This is the fate that all top entrepreneurs cannot escape and cannot be changed by personal will.

If Xie Jingxing cannot learn to fight against it, what awaits him will be becoming a puppet representing the collective interests, unable to control even his own game time.

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[The game values ​​are unbalanced. You should release a function that allows you to use points to exchange for gold coins in the game store to buy equipment, and also skins that increase attack power. ]

Shenzhen, Tencent Binhai Building, Xiao Ma Ge finished a set of health-preserving gymnastics facing the rising sun, picked up his phone and saw the nonsensical message from Xie Jingxing, and was confused for a moment.

"He wants to invest in games?" he asked, wiping the sweat from his forehead.

"I haven't heard of it. It might be the project he discussed with Peng Zhijian."

Liu Chih-Ping was also puzzled: "President Tang from Xiyou is here, why don't we go over and take a look?"

"It's progressing fast enough."

Xiao Ma Ge put on his suit jacket, and the two of them walked towards the meeting room side by side.

The investment project of Dianping was almost discussed, and Zhang Tao made a special trip to Tencent to meet Zhang Xiaolong to discuss cooperation on WeChat payment and WeChat traffic promotion. Peng Zhijian also invited Zhang Xuhao to discuss cooperation on WeChat payment.

Seeing this, Tang Man also came over, and everyone held a pre-war mobilization meeting to reassure all parties.

"We just discussed Dianping's financing conditions. We invested $16 million at a pre-investment valuation of $3.2 billion and acquired a 20% stake."

At the corner of the conference room corridor, Peng Zhijian lowered his voice to make an impromptu report to the two bosses: "Taihe invested a total of 19 million US dollars in equity transfer with a pre-investment valuation of 1.33 billion US dollars, and obtained a 7% stake."

"Zhang Tao gave up 2% of his personal old shares to Xiyou. The overall post-investment valuation of Dianping in this round will reach US$22 billion or more."

Pony Ma did not comment, saying that Dianping's valuation is roughly around US$20 billion, and a slight difference is within the psychologically acceptable price range.

He looked through the glass at Zhang Xuhao, who looked a little immature, sitting in the conference room. "How is Ele.me?"

"Zhang Xuhao has not yet made up his mind to accept our investment, but it will not affect the cooperation to fight Meituan."

Peng Zhijian said calmly: "I personally think that whether the food delivery market can be the main competitive point for mobile payment is still debatable. I am more inclined to focus on Dianping." Dianping expected to complete financing and formulate a marketing plan in December. Suddenly, an unknown ally appeared here, and he, as the person in charge of strategic investment, was in a difficult position.

And speaking objectively, the takeout market size so far this year has totaled less than 60 billion yuan, which doesn't seem to be able to support a money-burning strategy.

Xie Jingxing is not the only smart person. A few days ago, Alibaba took advantage of the Double Eleven event to launch Taobao's embedded online food delivery business, which brought a huge wave of traffic but failed to make any splash.

Even if we take a step back, Dianping is a strategic investment and Ele.me is a strategic cooperation, so we should definitely give priority to allocating more resources to the former.

"Believe first, then question." Xiao Ma Ge calmly interrupted the conversation.

In fact, he and Liu Chih-ping did not see how much potential the food delivery industry had, but it was still the same old point of view that Meituan and Alibaba launched their food delivery businesses within just a few days of each other, and Tencent had no choice but to follow suit.

I'm not afraid of losing money, I'm just afraid of being left behind.

At least Ele.me has the largest market share, and its accumulation over several years of operation is enough to give Meituan and Taodiandian a leg up, such as its sales team and reserve of delivery riders, which are gaps that cannot be made up overnight.

Therefore, this joint combat plan called "Happy New Year's Day" that is being planned will be launched from the food delivery industry with Ele.me as the fulcrum, and the Beijing city will be used as the main battlefield to fight with Meituan, striving to prevent Meituan's food delivery from being available in the Beijing area.

Dianping is following behind and has fully expanded to second- and third-tier cities. As long as Tencent can withstand Meituan's counterattack for one to two weeks and drag the Nuomi + Baidu combination into the water, the advantages of Tencent's offline payment scenarios can be maximized.

In this way, Tencent's resource support for Ele.me and Meituan can be staggered and prioritized. In the worst case scenario, Dianping will not be able to beat Meituan and will remain the second place forever, while Ele.me will crush Meituan Takeout.

Ele.me’s advantages are obvious enough, and it is almost inevitable that its strategic position is higher than Dianping. There is nothing to discuss.

Pony Ma and Martin Lau are very busy with their work, so just showing up in the meeting room to listen for a while before making the final decision shows that they value the project very much.

After a few brief words, he left everyone to continue discussing the details and called Tang Man out of the meeting room to ask, "Boss Xie, are you going to invest in games?"

"Well, I've been on a business trip these days and I don't know the specific situation. I'll go back and talk to Mr. Xie and get back to you."

Tang Man's eyes were blank and she didn't finish her words. How could she know what kind of weird game project Xie Jingxing had set his eyes on?

Xiao Ma smiled helplessly: "You go and get busy first."

"Another thing is that Mr. Xie suggested that WeChat Pay could carry out some holiday marketing activities during the Chinese New Year, which would fit in well with the takeaway group buying lifestyle consumption scenario." Tang Man said after careful consideration.

Watching Pony Ma and Martin Lau walk away with frowns on their faces, she felt nervous inside, as only her own small boss could direct Tencent in a cooperative project.

The focus is also outrageous. They actually choose to use specific holiday marketing promotions as an excuse. Often, the boss's intervention in professional details ends up in a laughable and sad ending...

But Pony Ma didn’t think so. In the elevator, he subconsciously looked up at the camera and said, “I remember WeChat had a holiday marketing plan to sponsor the Spring Festival Gala?”

"When he came to lobby for the acquisition of the WhatsApp project at the end of June, the WeChat business group had just submitted a marketing plan to sponsor the Spring Festival Gala." Liu Chih-ping folded his hands in front of his chest and spoke in a low voice.

Xiao Ma Ge's expression was tense: "Re-examine the plan and try to link Dianping and Ele.me."

"Let's organize a large-scale internal anti-corruption campaign after the new year. I will be in charge." Liu Chih-Ping said murderously.

Tencent and Xie Jingxing have collaborated on many occasions and it is no exaggeration to describe them as being very close. However, he occasionally demonstrates a deep understanding of many of Tencent's internal business secrets, which has always been a thorn in the hearts of both parties.

Xiao Ma Ge tacitly agreed and closed his eyes in deep thought until the elevator reached the floor, and reluctantly comforted him: "He not only understands us, but it is dangerous to be friends with such a person, but it is even more deadly to be an enemy."

"Sometimes I really wonder whether he is a genius or Moses." Liu Chih-ping told a joke.

Xiao Ma Ge shook his head and raised his phone to indicate: "He must be a genius."

The chat history was displayed on the phone screen. Xie Jingxing sent several messages in a row. He was no different from the irritable trolls in the game forum. He fiercely questioned why the weapons were not weakened and the swordsman was strengthened...

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At the same time, in Beijing, Wangjing, Meituan headquarters.

Wang Xing, who calls himself a "struggler", does not have an independent office. He likes to occupy an ordinary workstation in the public office area and is called "Brother Xing" by his employees.

These are the values ​​​​inspired in him by his parents' hard-working and simple entrepreneurial experiences when he was a child. They are to fight side by side with employees and to be loved by them.

In the small conference room, Wang Xing rubbed his bald head vigorously to suppress his anger and said to himself over and over again.

"Brother Xing, I really didn't want to abandon everyone. I don't know what happened to me... I met her without my mind being able to control myself. I didn't agree to anything..."

The young girl in front of him was crying and putting on makeup, sobbing and explaining incoherently.

Wang Xing listened quietly. This girl came to Beijing alone in 07 before graduating from university and joined Xiaonei.com. She has been wholeheartedly following him and Wang Huiwen in starting a business ever since then.

She is like a little sister who shares the joys and sorrows with him in daily life and is like a family member to him. At critical moments, she is also a member of the founding team who holds Meituan’s original equity. He cannot bear to blame her.

"Oh!"

After a long time, the young girl poured out her heart and left with guilt.

Just as the door of the conference room was closed, a flying thermos cup smashed the picture frame on the wall. Wang Xing's neck was visibly bruised: "You bastard, I'll fuck your mother!"

Wang Huiwen, who always had a good attitude and greeted everyone with a smile, didn't want to persuade them at this time. He stood by the window in a daze, overlooking an LED van parked on the street downstairs.

The car was facing the Meituan office, and a string of blood-red characters flashed back and forth on the LED screen: We are looking to buy Meituan’s original shares at a high price. Please contact Ms. Su, contact email/mobile phone number…

Xie Jingxing asked Su He to be responsible for purchasing the old shares held by institutional investors in Meituan's early days. She made some slight changes and launched an open acquisition without distinction to all original Meituan shareholders.

This is a five-fold premium over Meituan’s current valuation, buy as much as you can!

All the founding team members, big and small, who held original shares, were her targets, and almost all the founding team members who held original shares are now important executives of Meituan.

This meant that the founding team of Meituan was artificially split, and the young girl was the victim. Su He privately offered her a ten-fold premium and met her for a cup of coffee on a whim.

Fortunately, the friendship between them after years of working together played a role, and today he took the initiative to find Wang Xing to admit his mistake.

But this trend is very wrong. A tenfold premium is not a temptation that a normal human being can withstand, nor is it a price that a normal person can offer.

Su He's behavior is exactly like that of a hooligan. Even if he is dragged out and executed after pulling up his pants, he still wants to have some fun on Meituan first.

"This reminds me of the barbarian standing at the door...Xie Jingxing, this guy dares to move the gameplay of the secondary market to the primary market, too crazy." Wang Huiwen took off his glasses and rubbed the lenses.

"Fuck his ancestors for eighteen generations!"

Wang Xing slammed the table and said, "Don't even think about playing dumb with me. If he dares to reach out his hand, I will chop it off! We will have a meeting tonight to adjust the food delivery business strategy!"

(End of this chapter)