novelraw Chapter 620 : Looking Is Fine, but Don_t Touch
Chapter 620 : Looking Is Fine, but Don_t Touch
Chapter 620: Looking Is Fine, but Don't Touch
Chen Fan suddenly realized why he had felt that person was somewhat familiar earlier.
Damn, it was actually the famous Jack Ma.
In the Chinese business world, the name Jack Ma only represented one person.
That was Ma Yun, the founder of Alibaba.
In the Chinese business world, there were three most famous "Ma", namely Ma Yun, Ma Huateng, and Ma Mingzhe.
The first two need no introduction, and the last one is the CEO of Ping An Insurance.
However, it's now 2004, and Ma Yun has not yet reached the level of fame he will have in the future, to the point where everyone calls him "father". He's still just Jack Ma in people's mouths now.
Chen Fan recalled in his mind the several rounds of financing Alibaba had in his previous life.
The first round of financing was in 1999.
Ma Yun met the benefactor of his life, Cai Chongxin. This co-founder not only brought Ma Yun a $5 million investment led by Goldman Sachs Group, but also brought Alibaba a first-class system, building an international capital structure from the ground up. This laid the foundation for Alibaba's future take-off.
The second round of financing was in December 2000, when Ma Yun met the second most important man in his life, Masayoshi Son of SoftBank.
Masayoshi Son, representing SoftBank, led an investment of $20 million for Alibaba. This revived the struggling Alibaba once again.
The third round of financing was in February 2004, which is this year, raising $102 million, of which Masayoshi Son's SoftBank invested $80 million.
When was the fourth time again?
Chen Fan couldn't remember clearly, but it seemed to be at the end of this year.
He remembered that because of SARS last year, online shopping gradually became known and accepted by domestic netizens.
However, in 2004, the domestic online shopping market was still dominated by EachNet.
After being acquired by eBay from abroad, EachNet's financial strength increased greatly, directly occupying more than 90% of the domestic market.
It was because of the third round of financing that Ma Yun had the funds to quickly start the war, making Taobao the second largest online shopping platform after eBay's EachNet.
However, at this time, Alibaba had not yet launched Alipay.
If people wanted to shop online in China, they could only go to the bank to apply for a bank card first, then activate online banking, and get a payment password generator, also known as a U shield.
With this thing, one could shop online.
However, soon after, Alibaba launched a killer: Alipay.
In the subsequent business war, with Alipay dominating on all sides, EachNet was pushed back step by step and eventually withdrew from the market.
Chen Fan suddenly realized something.
No wonder he would encounter Jack Ma here, it turns out he came to Beijing for investment.
At this time, Taobao was being beaten by eBay's EachNet without any resistance, and urgently needed a large amount of funds to support the upcoming business war.
If there wasn't the fourth round of financing later, there probably wouldn't be today's Taobao.
Chen Fan guessed that Ma Yun was preparing to make a last-ditch effort now, so he needed a lot of funds to support the upcoming business war.
He knew that soon, at the end of the year in December, Ma Yun would obtain another round of financing, $82 million, of which SoftBank would invest another $60 million.
Chen Fan was a bit excited.
Should he intervene?
Before SoftBank invests, should he give Jack Ma a hand in advance and invest in Alibaba?
This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
If there was no chance to meet him before, that would have been fine, but now, with the opportunity right in front of him, it would be a shame not to take action.
Chen Fan was secretly excited, wishing he could say goodbye and leave right away.
However, he still had to deal with Nalan Wan'er in front of him, so he had to first take out his phone and send a message to Feng Pojun outside, asking him to keep Ma Yun there no matter what.
Seeing Chen Fan playing with his phone as soon as they met, Nalan Wan'er's face didn't look too good.
"Yo, Wan'er, is this the master you mentioned? He doesn't look very reliable."
A group of young masters nearby, seeing that Chen Fan didn't even stand up when he saw them, felt a bit unhappy, and someone immediately started to mock.
Nalan Wan'er frowned: "Gao Song, if you dare to say one more word, get the hell out of here immediately."
Chen Fan looked up in confusion.
"Master? What master?"
Nalan Wan'er was a bit embarrassed, not knowing how to explain for a moment.
A girl next to her, however, smiled and stared at Chen Fan.
"Wan'er said that the two songs their band performed last time were actually written by her, but her master gave her a little guidance."
"She also said you're her master. Hey, is that true?"
Chen Fan glanced at Nalan Wan'er, whose eyes were avoiding his gaze, obviously a bit embarrassed.
Chen Fan understood.
Probably a bunch of young people were together, and this little girl wanted to save face and show off a bit. But her friends didn't believe her words.
So Nalan Wan'er called him over to prove it for her.
Nalan Wan'er stared at Chen Fan, her neck stiff.
"Help me prove it."
Chen Fan was a bit helpless.
"You hurriedly called me over just for this?"
"Yes."
"Didn't you say you had something very important to meet me about?"
Nalan Wan'er looked matter-of-fact.
"Isn't this important enough?"
Chen Fan was somewhat amused and exasperated.
"Please. I'm very busy, I have things to do today, I won't play with you guys anymore."
He said as he stood up to say goodbye.
Seeing this, Nalan Wan'er panicked immediately.
"You can't leave."
She didn't care about maintaining her cool demeanor anymore and rushed over to grab Chen Fan's arm.
"You can't leave, you haven't proven it for me yet."
Chen Fan looked at this girl, helplessly turned to look at the people behind him.
"What she said is actually true, those two songs were indeed written by her, I just helped her polish them a bit."
At this moment, one of the girls suddenly pointed at Chen Fan with some excitement.
"I... I know you, are you Commoner? I've seen your videos online."
"Ah, it's you, it really is Commoner!"
In an instant, several girls got excited and rushed over to Chen Fan, chattering.
"Handsome, can we take a photo together?"
"I'm your fan, can you give me an autograph, just sign on my chest..."
Chen Fan glanced at her trembling chest, immediately feeling a bit troubled.
It seemed that it would be impossible to leave quickly today.
Chen Fan hurriedly raised both hands.
"Ladies, photos are fine, autographs are also fine, but let's do it one by one, can you not touch me randomly?"
"Miss, can you please remove your hand from my butt..."
Nalan Wan'er stood aside, seeing this scene, immediately pouted, feeling a bit unhappy.
Chen Fan was clearly called over by her, why did these seductive bitches have to surround Chen Fan and talk endlessly, and even want to touch his muscles.
She even saw her best friend deliberately pulling down her zipper a bit, revealing a deep cleavage.
Nalan Wan'er looked down at her own flat chest, and immediately felt more annoyed.
"Hmph, a bunch of seductive bitches."