Chapter 626 What Is the Real Sense of Achievement

Ding Zhenglin's development in the next ten years does coincide with what he said today. Today, he is restrained and embarrassed by his own pranks, but in the future, his performance in the financial field of the Internet industry is like a sharpshooter. Baifa Baizhong has indeed won an important seat for itself in the industry and has become a benchmark in the investment banking circle.

And he can do all this, the decisive factor is that today he has completely pinned his ambition on Sequoia.

Li Mu suddenly felt that this person seemed to be more difficult to bite than Chen Tong.

In front of Sequoia, Li Mu really dare not pretend Its strength is staggering. If it is simply compared to the platform, it is naturally impossible for Makino Technology to compare with Sequoia.

Since the platform can’t compare, let’s talk about it with money.

So Li Mu said, "Although our scale can't be compared to Sequoia, we can also give you the opportunity to display your ambitions, and we will give you better treatment than Sequoia."

Although Sequoia is very big, Sequoia's business in China has just started. Although Ding Zhenglin got a good position in Sequoia China, his income level is definitely not up yet, and he may hold very little The market value of some Sequoia shares is definitely not much higher, after all, he has not really become famous in the industry yet.

Ding Zhenglin smiled slightly and said seriously: "Mr. Li, salary is not really important to me, what I am looking for is not to earn hundreds of thousands or millions a year, but to use capital leverage to leverage a behemoth. A sense of accomplishment."

Li Mu said: "I believe that Muye Technology can also give you the sense of achievement you want. As for you saying that the treatment is not important, I disagree. I think the normal operation mode is that the greater your ability, the more you should earn. The more, if there is a chronic imbalance in the middle, the pattern will certainly not last.”

Ding Zhenglin laughed at himself and said, "Maybe I am more concerned about my pursuit."

Li Mu said with a smile: "Pursue and income can also be coordinated with each other, and there is no need to be wronged for the pursuit."

Ding Zhenglin was noncommittal to Li Mu's words, but remembered one thing and said to Li Mu, "Mr. Li, I wonder if you have heard of Hou Yantang? He is the founder of the Internet Express Flashget."

Li Mu nodded: "I know, the technology is very powerful, and the flashget is basically completed by him alone."

"Yes." Ding Zhenglin said with a smile: "In fact, many companies are very optimistic about the development prospects of flashget. Some Internet companies want to buy this product from Hou Yantang, and some venture capitalists hope that Mr. Hou can register a company, and then Invest in him and run flashget regularly, but Mr. Hou refused all of them without exception."

Li Mu is very familiar with Hou Yantang's deeds. This is almost the talk of the older generation of programmers for many years. When the Internet Express was at its best, it could be said that it was arrogant. There were too many people who wanted to buy him and invest in him. Even Baidu's Mr. Li called him specifically, and asked him to come to Yanjing for a chat, but he told Mr. Li: "I don't have time to go to Yanjing. If you come to Chang'an, I can consider meeting you." Niu The degree of compulsion is evident.

At that time, the Internet Express was very popular, and Xunlei had not yet begun to really rise. Hou Yantang did have great capital, but the development after he rejected everyone was too interesting. It is not updated once a year, but the speed of development of Xunlei at that time was almost a continuous update and iteration of several versions a year, and the product quickly went from catching up to achieving overtake, so the Internet Express also quickly declined, although it was good to take advantage of the thoroughness. It was sold before the decline, but for Hou Yantang, he missed too much. Even the founder of Xunlei joked that thanks to World of Warcraft,

They have the opportunity to develop.

Li Mu didn't expect that Ding Zhenglin would suddenly mention this person, he was very curious and couldn't help asking him, "Mr. Ding, what do you want to say?"

Ding Zhenglin smiled and said: "To tell you the truth, I also talked to Mr. Tang on behalf of Sequoia a few days ago, and I asked him, some people want to buy your products with millions of dollars, and some people want to invest millions of dollars I will open a company for you, but why are you unmoved? You just bury your head in Chang'an, live your own life, and be your own personal webmaster. He said that his pursuit of life is not measured by money , being a personal webmaster is his favorite role, and it can give him enough sense of accomplishment. If he sells this product, he will lose this sense of accomplishment; if he takes investment to open a company, he will lose the sense of being his best He likes the opportunity of the role, so after considering it comprehensively, he still feels that being his own personal webmaster is the most comfortable. Although I was a little disappointed after listening to it, I still admire him. He has his own pursuit and can withstand temptation. Perseverance This kind of spirit is hard to come by for your own pursuit.”

Li Mu probably understood what Ding Zhenglin was trying to convey. He told the example of his disappointment at Hou Yantang, saying that he admired Hou Yantang's spirit. In fact, he hoped that he would treat him as well as he did. Just like Hou Yantang, on another level, he may also want to express that he and Hou Yantang are the same person in some aspects, that is, the persistence in pursuit is greater than the desire for material things.

Li Mu shook his head after hearing this, thinking that you should also give a better example. You used him to talk about something today and set up this flag, and you won't need me to look for you after two or three years. After you see the tragedy on Hou Yantang , If you think back to what you said today, your face will swell up if you don't get beaten. It's not good to take anyone as an example, take him as an example...

Ding Zhenglin was also surprised. After he finished telling the story, he thought he could end the topic here, but Li Mu shook his head and didn't say anything.

Li Mu sighed and said to Ding Zhenglin, "I have a completely different opinion from you on this matter. I think Hou Yantang is wasting a wonderful opportunity, an opportunity to become a multi-millionaire or even a billionaire. Do you think his refusal to sell flashget and take investment is a meager fame and fortune? Don't be kidding, that's because he uses flashget to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. For him, it's hundreds of thousands of dollars a year without anyone Constraints, and his wife and children are still on the kang head, he is completely satisfied. You have been in an investment bank for so long, and you should be very familiar with the development of the Internet. Don't you find that those individual webmasters have a lot in common? Most of them The thinking of individual webmasters is solidified, stagnant, and it is safe to be rich. You can wait a few years to see. After a few years, all individual webmasters who do not transform will only have a dead end, or guarding tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people a month. Traffic advertising is half-dead, and it is impossible to have a big development.”

Ding Zhenglin suddenly felt that the momentum of Li Mu's speech at this moment was extremely strong in his opinion. He not only denied the personal webmaster's thinking mode from a high position, but also completely denied the future development direction of the personal webmaster. He subconsciously believed what he said, and couldn't come up with a single word to deny him or explain it to Hou Yantang.

Li Mu looked at Ding Zhenglin at this time and said solemnly: "Actually, I understand your thoughts very well, you have ambitions, you want to achieve things, and you want to achieve great things, I don't deny that you must be on a platform as big as Sequoia. You can achieve a career, but then again, don't you think that doing things in a venture capital company has a sense of accomplishment and a state that you will never achieve?"

Ding Zhenglin couldn't help but ask, "What sense of accomplishment and realm?"

Li Mu said: "The work you are doing now is ultimately the art of vision and negotiation. You see a project, negotiate a good condition, and then throw the company's money to him, and you don't have to worry about the rest. Whether he succeeds or fails, the only connection with you is your performance. You can’t actually control all of this from a more macro perspective. Today, you invest in a portal website, tomorrow in an online education software, and the day after tomorrow, in a player. You can only focus on the three products themselves, the portal website, the online education software and the player. What if these three are all successful? They are just three successful cases in your career.

However, if you join Muye Technology, you can use your vision, negotiation art, and potential macro control ability to build an industrial chain according to Muye Technology's industrial model and resource conditions. Invest in a portal today and invest in a portal tomorrow. Invest in an online education software, and you can integrate online education into the portal website. The day after tomorrow, you bring in a player and embed it into the online education software to create a portal website for online video education. yy Import the resources of tens of millions of users in, and then connect Alipay as a payment channel, you may have spawned the largest online video education brand in the country, and then you may be able to kill New Oriental, which is currently in the midst of the education field. This is called real success! "

Li Mu's words made Ding Zhenglin's eyes widen. The first half of his speech was an accurate description of his job function itself, while the second half of his speech almost opened the door to a new world for him. Just use the latter to compare it. I have to admit that the former sense of achievement is really nothing, it is more than the difference between clouds and mud!

Li Mu could already see the shock in the depths of his pupils at this time, smiled slightly, and said, "For example, your current job is like chasing as many beautiful girls as possible and having a few successful relationships. It’s true that beautiful girls have a lot of flirting, and they do have a sense of accomplishment, but in my opinion, what is the real sense of accomplishment? That is, you not only have to fall in love with these beautiful girls, but also blend them perfectly Together, to form a harmonious family of polygamous and polygamous fusion, this is the real arrogance!"

(To be continued.)