Chapter 913: Sword Fighting at West Lake (Part 1)

Many people may not know the name of West Lake Sword Contest, but if you mention Taobao, you will think of Ma Fengyun. Because everyone knows that the future richest man is a martial arts fan.

However, West Lake Sword Contest is not a martial arts film, but a grand event of the domestic Internet. Of course, the current West Lake Sword Contest is not a grand event, because Alibaba is just an Internet company and can only be regarded as a small name in China. And part of this fame comes from the $20 million financing that Ma Fengyun got from Softbank.

Such a huge amount of financing is undoubtedly rare in China, especially when the Internet industry bubble burst and the global Internet industry was in mourning, such a large investment naturally caused a big sensation in the industry.

According to the normal historical trajectory, the gathering of Internet entrepreneurs in the Zucchini Case should have been held in September last year, that is, September 2000.

At that time, the global Internet industry was in recession. Although China was not affected much, it was the same industry after all, so many Internet giants had the idea of ​​sitting together.

Ma Fengyun, who received such a large amount of investment, burned half of the money raised in a few months and achieved a lot of results, such as the number of registered members of Alibaba breaking the 300,000 mark.

He also wanted investors to have some confidence in him, so he organized such a conference. However, because of the appearance of Yang Dongxu, it was not as difficult for Ma Fengyun to get investment from Softbank as in the original historical trajectory.

At the same time, Softbank also had special trust in Ma Fengyun and did not urge him to produce results. In addition, the domestic game market was hot, and instant messaging software was even more fierce.

Although the outside world was stormy, the domestic market was a bustling and prosperous harbor. So everyone was not eager to sit together to discuss anything.

So the time of the West Lake Sword Contest was moved from September 2000 in the original history to March 8 this year. I don’t know if it was foreseen that Chinese women would be the strongest driving force for him to become the richest man in the future. Ma Fengyun’s choice of the time for this event is very intriguing.

Of course, this is just Yang Dongxu’s malicious speculation, and the reason why he chose this day is probably the most likely coincidence. Because it was the first time, it was not as grand as in the news reports of later generations.

It was just a group of CEOs of Internet companies, whether they were game developers, chat software developers, or other software developers.

Everyone was very curious about Ma Fengyun, who was able to raise $20 million in financing, so after he sent out the invitation, everyone had nothing to do anyway, so they all went to Hangzhou to get together.

The gathering place was not Alibaba, because his company is not that big now, and Hangzhou does not have a unique Alibaba headquarters.

The gathering place was chosen as Xinghai Hotel. Xinghai Hotel has its own lake. As long as it is not necessary to divert tourists during the peak period, it can be blocked off to focus on hotel guests.

In addition, as a five-star hotel, the supporting facilities are also extremely complete. Not only is there a conference hall that can accommodate thousands of people for the annual meeting, there are also top-level conference room suites and even more luxurious presidential suites. At the same time, there is also the security and service of a five-star hotel, which is undoubtedly satisfactory.

Therefore, Ma Fengyun, who likes to spend money and is never afraid of spending money, directly used Xinghai Hotel as the venue for this gathering. Yang Dongxu was also among the invited guests.

After all, Rising Sun Technology has been leading the domestic game market in recent years, even though Legend has not recovered from the previous incident of internal personnel stealing equipment and gold coins.

But Legend is still the most popular online game in China, but the gap between it and several other popular games is not so exaggerated, and it has been caught up by the other parties.

And this year, next week, Rising Sun Technology is preparing to launch the online version of "Swordsman Love". This is definitely a game that has become popular on the Internet before it was launched. Last year, when some internal players showed off some internal information and pictures on the forum, they attracted tens of thousands of rumors and replies.

Although Qiu Bosong had the intention of cooperating with his former disciples to promote it, this game that is completely in the style of Chinese martial arts has indeed stirred up the dreams of countless netizens. After all, martial arts are a childhood dream for everyone in China.

Because it is a private invitation party, the format and rules are very free. The bosses who have arrived are standing on the balcony of the hotel, looking at the lake and mountains in the distance and drinking.

Yang Dongxu's arrival attracted a lot of attention. First of all, his height. We don't say that Internet people are all short, but there are really few people as tall as him.

The second is youth. When it comes to Internet bigwigs, many people think of men who are not tall, a little fat, wearing glasses and bald, and women who are serious and exude the aura of Miejue Nun Tai. So it's hard to attract the attention of a tall and handsome young man who suddenly mixed in with such a group of people.

"Is he the CEO of Xuri Technology? He's really young. He's probably not married at this age?" Zhonglian's CEO Jian Yang held a glass of red wine in his hand and looked at Yang Dongxu.

"It should be him. He is so young and can be invited here. I guess there is no one else except the CEO of Xuri Technology." Standing next to him was Lin Wei from Jiucheng.

If the tall and handsome Yang Dongxu is an exception among the middle-aged greasy bald uncles working in the Internet industry. Then Lin Wei is definitely a flower among the female Internet professionals, and she is still very beautiful.

With a height of about 1.7 meters, her long legs are particularly conspicuous in front of Jian Yang, a short and fat middle-aged man. It is estimated that she can be a model on stage without any problem.

In addition to her long legs, Lin Wei's facial features are also very delicate, especially her temperament makes people feel that she is a talented woman at first glance. She is indeed a talented woman. She graduated from the Department of Economics and Management at Harvard University in the United States with a doctorate degree and a master's degree. At the same time, she is also proficient in computers.

This is an absolute female genius, and she is also a genius with a top figure and face, as well as work ability and emotional intelligence.

When Jiucheng was first established, it was just a small game agency. It was Lin Wei who saw the development prospects of the domestic game market and directly resigned from her high-paying job in the United States. Instead of asking for a penny, she asked for Jiucheng's shares and became the CEO of this small game company with a market value of less than 2 million at the time.

But now the valuation of Jiucheng has reached hundreds of millions, and it plans to go public in the next one or two years. When the assets are magnified by the stock market, it will basically be a billion.

If Yang Dongxu keeps controlling Sunrise Technology and does not go public, Jiucheng is likely to become the first game company in China with a market value of over 1 billion. Compared with Lianzhong, which has already achieved success, it feels a bit old.

"If I had known you were coming, I would not have come." It was the first time for Yang Dongxu to attend such a gathering. At first, he felt a bit like a pilgrimage. After all, in his previous life, these people were all great people in another world.

But it was just a sigh. Now he is no worse than anyone else present in terms of identity and status, or even higher. But although all the faces are familiar.

But to really say that they are acquainted, Yang Dongxu basically knows these people through the Internet in the future. These people may have guessed that it was him through Sunrise Technology, but they have never spoken to each other, so they can naturally be considered acquaintances.

Therefore, among all the people, the only one Yang Dongxu is familiar with is Qiu Bosong, who was also invited, and Ma Fengyun, who is greeting guests.

However, I can't say that I know Ma Fengyun. The two of us can only say that we have met and talked a few words. Although Softbank's investment in Alibaba was Yang Dongxu's idea, there was no communication between the two.

"If you don't come to this so-called domestic Internet party, it will be a bit monotonous." Qiu Bosong said half-jokingly.

It doesn't matter where the party is held if it is not upscale. What matters is the person who holds the party and who the invited guests are. This is the criterion for whether a party is awesome.

Ma Fengyun can only be regarded as a newcomer in the Internet industry now, although this newcomer has been in the limelight recently. But it is just icing on the cake for this party.

So every guest who can be invited will add a lot of glory to the party. Unlike in the future when Alibaba became an empire and Ma Fengyun became the richest man after success, even if he wore cloth shoes on the street, everyone felt that he was very stylish, not old-fashioned and out of touch.

"It's so ridiculous to say that, is there a big one over there?" Yang Dongxu pointed his mouth in the direction of his three points.

The person standing over there is not Lin Wei and Jian Yang, but Zhang Chaofan, the CEO of Huiming.com. Although those who were invited here are all the leaders of the Internet industry.

But now those who make software undoubtedly look down on those who make games, so the CEO of Huiming.com stands together with Baidu CEO Li Yanhong and others. Originally, Qiu Bosong also belonged to their group, while Yang Dongxu should belong to Lin Wei's side.

When talking about b2b, the first thing that everyone thinks of may be Ma Fengyun's Taobao, but in fact, the largest b2b in China is Huicong.com, or in terms of the Internet industry alone, Huiming.com is the real boss.

Whether it is Xuri Technology, Jiucheng, or Feixun and Parkson, which have risen rapidly in the past two years, they are far behind them. Of course, if you want to talk about giants related to computing, in addition to Huiming.com, Lenovo and Xuri should also be included.

However, Lenovo and Ma Fengyun were not on the same page, and Xuri Technology had always been independent. In addition, since Yang Dongxu had come, Ye Rongrong felt there was no need for her to come, so only one of the three giants came, Huiming.com, which instantly added a lot of luster to the party and became the absolute focus of the party.