Chapter 119 Starting construction
Baixiaosheng Company has 11 days in the Spring Festival holiday, 4 days more than the statutory holiday.
Yu Xing only used one reason to make the decision before - I want to stay at home for a few more days, so I just follow mine.
So, this matter was decided. At the same time, everyone also felt that the period around the Spring Festival would be a low traffic trough for the workplace platform, and it would be easier for a few more days.
But on the last day of January 31, many users returned to their posts. Bai Xiaosheng''s website was unexpectedly lively. Lu Haiying, Zhong Zhiling, Song Yufeng and Kong Huilin all planned to return to work early.
Plus...
Some employees reported some urging from their families.
"Your company is working so late, are you going to run away?"
"Did you go bankrupt before the New Year? If you go late, will your desk be pulled away by other colleagues?"
"Your company didn''t receive a lawyer''s letter and was fractured again. It didn''t look like a serious company!"
"Hey, I heard from you, isn''t your company going to get options? Everyone else went first. Will you lose points if you don''t go?"
For various reasons, Yu Xing welcomed a team of up to 12 employees on February 1st.
Yu Guosheng and Chu Qiying don’t have so many people at home. They don’t even have enough benches at once. The living room is full of sitting or standing. Some put gifts, some greetings to New Year, some rush to not pour tea for the old couple, and some express their confidence in the aftermath of the New Year in front of Yu Xing.
"Okay, okay, calm down, calm down, good guy, I suddenly felt like I was having a meeting in the company, but you didn''t make such noise during the meeting." Yu Xing was quiet at home these days, and suddenly he felt his voice rushing into his mind.
The living room quickly became quiet.
"Thank you all for passing by me, I will announce good news-"
"The company has not yet closed down and is still operating normally!"
Yu Xing gave a serious notice.
Everyone burst into laughter. Everyone had a QQ work group and could see the news shared by their colleagues over the past few days.
Yu Xing said enthusiastically: "The second news is that the company''s A round of funds will be available on the 10th of this month. That is, after thinking about a Spring Festival holiday, the investment institutions of the A round of investment did not give up on us and still fulfilled their contract!"
Everyone applauded, "Round A is completed, will the B round still be far away?"
Yu Xing waited until the applause ended and said loudly: "Third, our Bai Xiaosheng''s original intention to run a company has not changed, that is, everyone must make money, make money, make money!"
More warmer applause came from the living room.
Yu Xing waved his hand repeatedly to calm everyone down again, and then said, "Let''s go, it''s too crowded here. Let''s go to the hotel first, Zhiling, you take everyone to the Jinniushan Hotel to order food. Today, my dear father and mother pay for the reimbursement!"
The living room was lively and there was another New Year''s greeting, and then Zhong Zhiling led people to the hotel first.
"Let''s go, change your clothes, I''ll pay for it." Yu Xing blinked at the old couple.
"This is Mr. Yu..." Chu Qiying saw his son''s "entrepreneurship style". "I think you are lying on the sofa every day..."
Yu Xing couldn''t help laughing: "I''m not half dead, I''m thinking about life!"
Chu Qiying was still surprised: "You have so many people in your company, do you usually... also do you?"
She always feels like a big child.
"This is not too many. The Guiai.com I set up at school last year, which had hundreds of people. They were running around all summer and their clothes were sweating every day." Yu Xing smiled, "This person is quite small, but now we are completely an Internet company, which is a light asset operation."
Chu Qiying often talked with her son last year, but she didn''t hear him mention this. Now she feels a little sad.
Yu Guosheng, however, gave a complimentary look: "I endure hardships..."
Yu Xing interrupted, "Then there will be endless hardships. Change your clothes. I have to take them to see the grapes."
Yu Guosheng rolled his eyes, what is the beauty of Broken Grapes!
A lunch at Jinniushan Hotel is not much, after all, this is a county town.
However, Yu Guosheng and Chu Qiying experienced the young atmosphere of a startup company. The young people at the table had different personalities, some talked endlessly, some were quite quiet, some talked about blind dates during the New Year, and some talked casually about the current topics of the website.
Chu Qiying felt this light mood and couldn''t help but say, "When you meet a suitable girl, can you introduce Yu Xing to you?"
Yu Xing said seriously: "We usually don''t see customers or users, and we all see them in our own company. However, our company strictly prohibits office romance. How do you ask them to introduce it?"
Chu Qiying saw these young people burst into laughter before she could speak.
She was quite confused and could only ask while laughing: "What''s going on? Why are you laughing at? Why are you laughing at?"
"Auntie, they are a couple, they are also a couple, and these two are almost a couple." Tong Xingjian, who once had the identity of Zhenai.com''s "informer" and smiled and clarified the situation.
This is not a ban on office romance, it is almost an encouragement of office romance...
Chu Qiying glared at her son, all of which were fooling words!
Yu Xing said sternly: "Don''t worry about me, our first goal now is..."
He raised his hand to see if everyone had a tacit understanding.
Sure enough, everyone still had a tacit understanding or remember what they heard at home before, and said in unison: "Make money, make money, make money!"
The waiter passing by outside the private room heard the voice and was extremely suspicious that this nest of guests was engaged in pyramid schemes!
Yu Xing gave a thumbs up and brought laughter from everyone.
Chu Qiying looked at her husband. Well, young people today don’t understand their mental state very well, but... they are indeed quite high-spirited. Maybe they might just not understand but respect them.
A group of people had lunch lively, and then went to see the new grapes grown by the boss in a hurry.
The grapes are actually not good at looking, but Yu Xing explained in detail some useless knowledge on growing grapes.
"We are introducing seedlings, not seeds, because reproduction with seeds will lead to genetic recombination, and offspring that may appear different from parents, which is not conducive to maintaining the characteristics of the new variety."
"Well, you see, the grafted interface is a bit rotten. This may be because the humidity is too high, or the mouth is not completely sealed and there is a bacterial infection. This needs to be done again."
But this is indeed far from the Internet.
Yu Xing saw that everyone was not interested, so he talked casually and ended this section soon.
Lu Haiying asked more questions: "Senior brother, do you still want to be the King of Grapes?"
"It''s okay to wait until I have money." Yu Xing replied with a smile.
As long as you have money, you can do whatever you want.
Lu Haiying understands that the Grape King is still far away.
Based on your fingers, although the company has improved, when will it be rich?
The 12 people from Bai Xiaosheng did not have dinner anymore and took the bus to Shencheng.
Yu Xing wanted to keep them and let them go tomorrow, but the young people were full of energy and... there was really nothing fun here. Most of them thought of cleaning up in Shanghai and tidying up their emotions in the face of work in the new year. As soon as they came and left, Yu Xing''s itinerary was clear that he returned to the company on the morning of February 3, which was also one day ahead of schedule.
Chu Qiying was a little reluctant to leave after hearing her son’s arrangement, but soon became a nagging of eating on time and putting on clothes on cold weather.
By the morning of the 3rd, Yu Guosheng, who had not shown concern in the past two days, couldn''t help but instruct his son: "Xingxing, if you run a company and a career, do it well, and don''t violate the law."
Yu Xing smiled and said, "If you have to choose, don''t violate the law or make mistakes?"
When Yu Guosheng heard this answer, he looked at his son calmly. After a long time, he seemed to have a flash of light in his eyes and sighed faintly: "Don''t make mistakes."
"Look at your expression, you are playing with it." Yu Xing said with a smile, "Our company is to promote social progress and legal progress."
Yu Guosheng just nodded and didn''t say anything more.
The son is not his own accessory, he has long been adult.
Yu Xing simply carried a bag when he came, but it was still the case when he went there. He said goodbye to his parents, and when he sat in the car, he always felt that he had forgotten something.
When he arrived in Shencheng, Yu Xing suddenly received a call from his cousin and remembered that he had forgotten him.
"Brother... were you asking me to grow grapes at home?" Chu Zhiguang felt a little aggrieved. Japan and Japan also went there, and brought back the varieties. He said that he would take himself to Shencheng during the Chinese New Year, but why did he leave again in a blink of an eye?
"Come on the way to meet the investor, you can just take the bus over, it''s not far away." Yu Xing said, "Come on, there is no car. Come on, come and be an assistant for me first."
Chu Zhiguang was also willing to go to Shencheng as a temporary assistant. He hung up the phone, picked a few clothes, greeted his parents excitedly, and then went straight to the station, making up his mind to hang out with his brother.
Yu Xing still needs to refine the "dialogue" column that the website intends to add, but he does need someone who is more trustworthy to help.
He thought for a while and was about to call Xiaoying, but he saw the number "teacher" light up on the screen of his mobile phone.
Huh…
Yu Xing was very surprised and pressed to answer the call.
"Hey..." Liu Jingrong''s voice was a little low.
"Hey, teacher, happy New Year." Yu Xing greeted.
Liu Jingrong said half helplessly and half sadly: "Don''t call me teacher, I''m not your teacher anymore."
Yu Xing said without hesitation: "Okay, Old Liu."
Liu Jingrong: “…”
Why does it feel even more awkward!
He took a breath and said in a hard tone: "Liu Wanying is going to work in Shencheng. I asked her what investment company she wants to start, and it is also related to your company. Yu Xing, I tell you, don''t mess around."
Yu Xing said: "Old Liu, I am serious, but we also let the flow, regardless of career or life."
Liu Jingrong hung up the phone, but he was still not used to this kind of perspective of looking at the dialogue.
Yu Xing thought about it and did not call, but sent Xiaoying a text message asking if she needed help renting a house.
Liu Wanying replied quickly: After renting it, you don’t have to care about this, first implement your investment in Bai Xiaosheng.
Yu Xing planned to wait to chat with Xiaoying.
But before he could think about it, today seemed to be the recovery of work after the holiday, and another unexpected call came in, but it was Xu Xin from Capital Today.
"Hey, Mr. Xu, happy new year." Yu Xing''s tone was very enthusiastic.
"I''ll talk about Bai Xiaosheng''s financing again." Xu Xin went straight and straightforward, simple and clear.
Yu Xing said in a little embarrassedly: "Mr. Xu, our Series A financing has been settled, this, wait..."
Xu Xin interrupted in surprise: "Is it settled? So fast? Which company did you discuss with?"
Yu Xing did not hide it: "Kestaffa Capital, a new institution."
Xu Xin has never heard of the name of this venture capital firm.
She had told her husband before that capital can wait for round B today, but she didn''t expect that it would be possible to reach round B now, and the changes around the Spring Festival are really fast.
Xu Xin was silent for a while and asked, "It''s convenient to say how much it invests, and have you estimated how much?"
"Conveniently, Mr. Xu, Hong Falcon invested $1 million, accounting for 10% of the shares." Yu Xing added, "Its simple financial investment will not involve Bai Xiaosheng''s company operations."
Xu Xin listened to this investment and valuation and expressed her opinion: "You have less money now. In fact, you will also have less money from your Series B financing. Bai Xiao can only use the institutional money in the early stage of his life, and the valuation increase of your Series B financing is relatively reduced."
The company developed with US$1 million and US$2.5 million will have different sizes, and the valuations will naturally be different at that time.
"Mr. Xu, I don''t want to focus on this aspect of dealing with investors." Yu Xing smiled, "I''m going to get 1 million now. When I spend it, more investors will come to me instead of me going to find them."
He continued: "Maybe, the evaluation given by Capital to Bai Xiaosheng today is correct, but I believe that with more investors, Bai Xiaosheng can get a more correct evaluation."
Can all venture capital reach a tacit understanding with Today''s Capital like Sequoia China?
Yu Xing finally said: "What''s more, we also have the bank executives introduced by Mr. Xu. The loan money is also money, and it''s the same for use."
Seeing that he was so straightforward, Xu Xin breathed a sigh of regret to give her grandson the issuer''s contact information.
But she closed her emotions in a flash and said: "The development of a workplace social and topic platform in China is still a very curious future. Mr. Yu, if you have the opportunity, I will cooperate next time."
"Mr. Xu, you are the most professional and ethical investor I have ever met!" Yu Xing did not stingy with his own praise. "Although I have not seen several, you satisfy all my fantasies about professional investors! If you don''t mind, Bai Xiaosheng''s first consideration for the B round of financing is today''s capital!"
Xu Xin reached out and refused to slap the smiling person. Before hanging up the phone, she greeted him: "Is that so? I hope we can meet again next time."
Yu Xing kept warm: "Yes, yes, okay, since Mr. Xu wants to meet and have a meeting, let''s make an appointment. Bai Xiaosheng has launched a new ''dialogue'' column, hoping to bring thoughts to successful business people to the majority of users. Mr. Xu, I can do it anytime when you have time."
Xu Xin: “…”
How could a new thing appear when you say this?
Do you really don’t know what greetings are and what skin is on the other side of the phone?
She declined, "What do you want to talk about? I''ve been busy lately."
Yu Xing thought for a while: "Mr. Xu, when you are not busy, you will chat whenever you are not busy. Now you can talk - why did you miss Bai Xiaosheng''s A round? You just don''t want to increase your valuation?"
“Yu Xing!”
Xu Xin''s voice was still in her ears, but the call was hung up.
Yu Xing put down his phone and thought about it carefully, thinking that this, as the first topic of conversation, was actually really good.
Everyone was not emotional and had a calm conversation with each other and had a peaceful relationship. They not only reviewed the past, but also actively prepared for the next round.
(This chapter ends)