[Sorry, everyone, I calculated the exchange rate wrongly. The current valuation of Toutiao is 400 million. Oh, I was taught by the physical education teacher. I really can't write about business. Let's take a look. I try to add a heroine recently so that everyone can enjoy it.]

It was early 2013, and Toutiao's valuation was around 50 million US dollars, or about 400 million US dollars. Zhang Yiming's entrepreneurial path was not smooth. At least he encountered a little difficulty at this time and invested everywhere, but investors rejected him because he could not find a profit point.

Unfortunately, Zhang Yiming had to go north to Russia. In May of his childhood, he raised a financing of 50 million US dollars. However, the company raised by ByteDance at that time. I think Zhang Yiming should be a little helpless. After all, ByteDance's main business is Toutiao. The valuation of the headquarters is higher than that of ByteDance, but it will not be much higher. It is estimated that it should be similar to Zhou Yuwen's valuation of Qingmu Technology.

It is naturally impossible for Zhou Yuwen to come to find Zhang Yiming for no reason. Compared with the giants that have been formed in Tencent, Zhou Yuwen wants to get on this aircraft carrier that has not yet been formed.

Zhang Yiming felt that he was on the same level as Zhou Yuwen, and there should be more topics to chat, so he didn't hide anything from Zhou Yuwen. He said that he was in a hurry to lack funds, and he could hold on to it with about 10 million US dollars.

Toutiao's valuation is $50 million, and 10 million is 20% of its shares.

Zhou Yuwen asked: "Why don't you just use the head office to finance it? In this way, there will be more capital interested."

"ByteDance's B round is in May, but to be honest, I am not very optimistic about the domestic capital market. I plan to try the waters abroad. If it really doesn't work, I can only use the head office to subsidize the branch." Zhang Yiming said with a smile.

At this time, ByteDance's valuation was about one billion, and it may be less than one billion, which is a little lower than Zhou Yuwen's takeaway company. However, eight years later, ByteDance's valuation was $180 billion, and its value increased by dozens of times. Toutiao's valuation was also about $30 billion, and even its annual revenue was 20 billion.

Zhang Yiming was talking about his depression there, and Zhou Yuwen was silent and asked: "Do you accept individual investors?"

"?" Zhang Yiming was stunned and said curiously: "Does Mr. Zhou have any investors you know?"

"No, I want to recommend myself to Mr. Zhang." Zhou Yuwen said with a smile.

Zhang Yiming couldn't believe that everyone is an entrepreneur, and everyone knows how much money they have. You haven't developed well. Come and invest in me? Is this reliable? You don't want equity replacement, right? Then I'm not interested in your takeaway platform.

Zhou Yuwen smiled and said that he had paid attention to ByteDance before. If Mr. Zhang was willing, he could invest in ByteDance as a person who invested in it himself.

Zhang Yiming was curious: "You have money?"

"There is another point. Toutiao's valuation is 50 million. What is ByteDance's approximate?"

ByteDance must include Toutiao. The equity structure is very complicated. To be honest, Zhou Yuwen doesn’t understand it very well. Zhou Yuwen just wants to simply occupy a stake.

Zhang Yiming calculated and said that ByteDance's current valuation is around 130-150 million US dollars, and his price is high, but Zhou Yuwen doesn't care. Based on 130 million, it's exactly one billion.

At present, Zhang Yiming lacks development funds of 100 million yuan. Zhou Yuwen just happened to have the 100 million yuan that he planned to give to Jiang Ting was ready to return. Now Jiang Ting doesn't want it anymore, so Zhou Yuwen thought about it and invested it directly to Zhang Yiming.

"Mr. Zhou isn't he kidding?" Zhang Yiming was a little surprised, but also a little surprised.

"There is no joke in the business world. If Mr. Zhang is willing, then I will invest in ByteDance as a personal capacity." Zhou Yuwen said.

The two were chatting, and at this time, Da Qiangzi came to find Zhou Yuwen again, asked Zhou Yuwen what he was talking about, and greeted Zhang Yiming.

What Zhang Yiming is doing now is information push, and few people can see the value of it, so they don’t pay much attention to Zhang Yiming, just say hello and are just plain.

Da Qiangzi came to find Zhou Yuwen and planned to introduce an investor to Zhou Yuwen. After all, he is a fellow villager, so he still needs to take care of him.

So Zhou Yuwen hurriedly greeted Zhang Yiming and said hello to chat with him if he had time.

Zhang Yiming expressed his understanding.

Then in the evening, Zhou Yuwen specially invited Zhang Yiming to the coffee shop to talk about the details. Zhou Yuwen felt that the Toutiao project could continue to be optimized. Although the paid information was not popular, it could be opened in advance.

Zhang Yiming is now committed to ByteDance and does not have his own payment platform. He can only introduce Alipay and WeChat in the future. However, Zhou Yuwen currently has his own payment software, so Zhou Yuwen said that if he successfully invested, then his own Easy Payment can be directly posted and given users a payment window.

Zhang Yiming nodded and said that this was OK.

So the two sides quickly reached an oral agreement and agreed to sign a formal agreement in a week.

The two chatted almost the same way and shook hands with each other.

At this time, Miss Yang and Su Qianqian also came back from shopping. Su Qianqian was still a little immature, but Miss Yang was already full of style. She was wearing a big bag of small bags in her hands and everything she bought for shopping. At this time, she was wearing a black and white lace skirt, a pair of long legs, and a pair of long boots that were over the knees. Her big wavy hairstyle was very beautiful.

When I came over, I asked Zhou Yuwen: "It's not over yet?"

“Just ending.”

Zhou Yuwen had already stood up with Zhang Yiming at this time, and Zhou Yuwen said, "Mr. Zhang, then I won't give it to you."

"Okay. Mr. Zhou, you are busy."

The two separated at the entrance of the coffee shop. Zhou Yuwen looked at both of them wearing new clothes and said with a smile: "It seems that they have increased taxes to the country a lot today."

"Hey, Xiao Zhou didn't tell me about you. Qianqian was exhausted by you every day. You would give her this salary? It's not enough to spend. You have to reimburse Qianqian's expenses today." Miss Yang said directly complaining.

Su Qianqian is the kind of jasper-shaped family. She wears clothes that cost at most several thousand yuan. These are very good in the student class, but they are nothing to Miss Yang. So Miss Yang thinks that Zhou Yuwen is too bad to Su Qianqian, even Qiao Linlin is not as good as Qiao Linlin. She knows the relationship between Zhou Yuwen and Qiao Linlin.

After hearing this, Zhou Yuwen looked at Su Qianqian and asked, "What did you buy today?"

"I didn't buy anything, so I bought a card and a piece of clothing. These clothes are so expensive, Zhou Yuwen." Su Qianqian said with a red face.

Zhou Yuwen took the small handbag from Su Qianqian's hand and looked at it. Fortunately, one card is only worth more than 1,000 yuan, which is Ms. Yang's consumption concept.

Zhou Yuwen smiled and said, "There is still one day tomorrow. I'll take you to have a walk around and buy something for Aunt Wen and my mother."

"Okay!" Su Qianqian was naturally happy when she heard that Zhou Yuwen wanted to take him shopping.

"Then don't buy me some?" Miss Yang smiled and blinked.

Zhou Yuwen rolled his eyes and said that you were beautiful.

Then the three of them wanted to go back to the hotel, and Ms. Yang said that it would be fine if you go back, I'm going home, it's boring.

"What's wrong?"

"Why should I keep here?" Ms. Yang curled her lips. This is true. She doesn't have a place to live, so why do she stay in a hotel? She and Zhou Yuwen are friends, but they are also simple friends. When Zhou Yuwen comes to Shanghai, Ms. Yang can entertain her, but there is no need to accompany her like this.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yuwen is actually not authentic. He came to Shanghai once and took Miss Yang to take Su Qianqian around, but he didn't do anything. It was a guest from afar, but the guests also had to do all aspects appropriately.

Zhou Yuwen thought for a while: "I went home so early? Is it rare to have time, so don't jump in the bar?"

Speaking of the bar, Ms. Yang thought of what happened last time and sat in the driver's seat and glanced at Zhou Yuwen: "What's the point? You don't like it."

"Who said I don't like it? Miss Yang likes it. I'll accompany you to the end. Where are you looking for such a reliable bodyguard like me?"

That's right, Zhou Yuwen is not reliable in other places, but has a high safety factor. Moreover, when Miss Yang wants to go to a bar, she can still make a fuss about scandals, which will be helpful to her career.

"This is what you want to take me there, you want to invite me."

"That's sure."

Miss Yang was happy and asked Zhou Yuwen to get in the car. Su Qianqian definitely didn't like the bar environment and was unwilling to go there. She also knew why Zhou Yuwen had suddenly done this. Miss Yang took her around for a while. After all, Zhou Yuwen had to spend some money to treat her, so she could live up to her face.

So Su Qianqian said sensibly: "Just go, I'll go back first."

"Um."

So Su Qianqian returned to the hotel, Zhou Yuwen got into Ms. Yang's co-pilot, and Ms. Yang started the car and said on the way that she would not wear this if she had known to go to the disco.

Zhou Yuwen reexamined Miss Yang's outfit, short skirt and boots, and long legs were full. Zhou Yuwen said: "This outfit is pretty good."

"No, I can't jump up."

"Actually, I never knew, what's good about this bar disco?"

"You definitely don't understand, because you are not under pressure. Today I will give you some insights."

Miss Yang smiled and stepped on the accelerator. At night, she took Zhou Yuwen to the death and rushed to the most famous underground bar in Shanghai. The outside was full of luxury cars. Miss Yang parked the car and then ran to the back seat by herself. Zhou Yuwen was curious about what she was doing, but turned her head and found that she was taking off her clothes.

"Oh, turn around, I want to change my clothes!" said Miss Yang.

"As for it?" Zhou Yuwen turned his head and looked at Miss Yang who was busy changing clothes in the rearview mirror. Zhou Yuwen couldn't understand.

"I've all come out to play, so I'll definitely have to have fun!"

Miss Yang changed into the black clothes she just bought today, then put on heavy makeup, wore black-framed glasses and masks, so that no one recognized her.

I took Zhou Yuwen in after everything was done.
Chapter completed!