Reborn Entrepreneurial Giant

News that Microsoft wanted to acquire Facebook began to circulate in September, but it was quickly debunked by rumors that Microsoft wanted to acquire 5% of Facebook's shares.

Ms. Zhou of Victoria Harbor Investment, who has a close relationship with Xiangjiang Li Bancheng, seems to be involved in it. I don't know how to know that Qu Li has invested in Facebook and bought 1% of the shares. After in-depth understanding, it is found that Qu Li is really a treasure boy.

Lehman helped Honor deal with a lot of financial problems, and Dinghui could help Honor cooperate with operators to open up the domestic market, while Hutchison’s European market was not very attractive to him.

"After T-Mobile reached a cooperation agreement with Honor, it contacted Apple again."

"You even know this?"

"It just so happens that a friend knows about it." Ms. Zhou

"Then wish us a happy cooperation." Qu Li hesitated for a moment and chose these three companies

Lehman Brothers acquired 20 million shares, Dinghui and Victoria Harbor each subscribed for 10 million shares, and Glory received US$260 million in cash. The stock price was 6.5 yuan and the total share capital became 150 million, with a valuation of about US$1 billion.

On September 30, 2007, Glory held a press conference in Zhongguancun. Lehman, Dinghui, and Victoria Harbor Investment attended and announced the news that shocked the entire Chinese Internet venture capital circle.

"Can you believe it, but he did it!"

Post bars, blogs, forums, and financial TV programs started discussing why this news is like a hoax, how can Glory, which has been established for 10 months, be worth 1 billion US dollars?

"Can you believe it?" Inexplicably became a buzzword on the Internet, this junior high school student is defiant!

"We are optimistic about the future of Honor technology and smartphones..." Andrew of Lehman Brothers bragged

"What made you invest in Jumei at a high price, and then invest in Glory at an astronomical price?" A reporter asked Andrew, wondering whether there was insider trading.

"In fact, it is the ability of the founder team that made us make the final decision. Qu Li is a very visionary, courageous, and creative founder. To tell you something that you may not know, Jumei is here The branch in the United States achieved sales of 30 million U.S. dollars within three months of its establishment. The domestic data for the third quarter is still unknown, but I remember that Jumei’s daily sales exceeded 1 million soft sister coins more than a month ago..."

"Wow! I'm so excited!!!" Seeing such news, the reporter's mood is complicated and difficult to understand. Shein has been keeping a low profile for more than ten years since it was established, because it is afraid of domestic investors and entrepreneurs being involved, and Jumei is so high-profile. , Maybe someone will use money to attract employees in key positions in Jumei.

"Jumei has started the listing process, and strives to go public in the shortest possible time." Qu Li threw another bomb, and then stopped answering questions about Jumei. He didn't care about the hard work of the reporter friends at all, but there was money to make up for their feelings.

Dinghui Wang Shu is very well-known in the industry. He is responsible for investing in Penguin in IDG. It is said that he also opposes selling Penguin's stock. He joined Dinghui last year and invested in Glory this year. I don't know where he got the confidence. So a reporter asked he.

"Tianming is very well-known in China, and there are mixed reviews in the industry. We had the opportunity to learn about Glory through the introduction of friends in the mobile company. After getting to know Tianming, we realized that many compliments can be applied to him. He may be a real genius. , I still can't imagine how the Glory team did it, it's amazing!"

Another reporter asked Ms. Zhou from Horizons Investment that they had nothing to do with it.

"I was planning to invest in a well-known Internet company abroad. I didn't expect Qu Sheng to be one step ahead, and he made a career that shocked Silicon Valley in just a few months. Shopee was reported by the Wall Street media as the biggest discovery of this summer... "

"In the process of investigating Jumei, we found a bigger surprise. Only after we really participated in the financing of Glory did we find that Qu Sheng's structure and vision are top-notch among many entrepreneurs. After discussing with Li Sheng, we both agreed. I don’t think this opportunity should be missed.”

Ms. Zhou from Victoria Harbor gave Glory a very high evaluation, and even went against the principle to invest in domestic technology companies. You must know that there are only a handful of domestic technology companies invested by Victoria Harbor ten years later.

"Mr. Qu, how did you do it? Honor was valued at more than US$1 billion within 10 months of its establishment. Is Honor really worth so much?" a reporter questioned.

"The investors' money is not in my hands. If they think it's worth it, it's worth it. My mission is to live up to the investors' trust in me..."

After the interview, the news of Honor's successful financing became the financial headlines of the next day, and even the entertainment sector had news from Qu Li: "He founded a technology company with a market value of more than 1 billion U.S. dollars during the filming of "Red Cliff"..."

This media is purely making trouble. "Red Cliff" hasn't finished filming yet, so how can it be called a bad movie? Well, they didn't say it, but their meaning is already obvious.

The last episode of "Winning in China" will be recorded soon, Wang Lifen invited him to participate, Qu Li readily agreed, and was welcomed by the judges, contestants and media.

After the pleasantries, the host began to ask him questions: "There are many doubts from the outside world. Honor has not sold a single mobile phone, and has not made a penny. How can it be worth 1 billion US dollars?"

"How do you know Glory didn't make any money?"

"Really, how do you make money, mobile phone or other business?"

"When will this episode of your program air?" Qu Li asked

"About the weekend of the third week in October."

"Some things are still being kept secret for the time being. Can Zhongshi guarantee that there will be no news from here before the show airs?"

"Then I want to ask everyone, can you keep Qu Li a secret?"

"able!"

"You have seen it too, and everyone is willing to keep it a secret for you."

"Well, I hope everyone will keep their word. In fact, we have reached a cooperation agreement with Deutsche Telekom, one of the largest telecom operators in the world. Their telecom companies in the United States and Germany have purchased 450,000 smartphones from us."

"Wow, so Honor is really making smartphones?"

"This is our first product, the 2G version of Honor G1." Qu Li took out another engineering phone, don't ask how many he has, anyway, he can definitely take it out when needed.

"It's so beautiful, let's take a close-up..."

Metal frame, textured plastic back cover, full keyboard, 2.8-inch Samsung touch screen, compared with iPhone, the display effect of the phone is amazing.

Summing up Xiaomi's experience and lessons, Qu Li did not emphasize the strength of supply chain companies. This is actually a kind of immaturity, and there will be endless troubles.

Qu Li once again bragged about the rich functions of Honor G1 from various angles, which is far more powerful than Nokia.

"What's the difference between this and Nokia and BlackBerry?"

"The highly free open source operating system greatly reduces the difficulty of mobile phone software development. In theory, you can treat this mobile phone as a laptop computer from 2,000 years ago."

"Let's put it this way, Nokia is just a mobile phone, and Honor is not just a mobile phone."

"BlackBerry's full keyboard is very famous, but Honor has all the functions they can achieve. We still have what they don't have. And don't you think Honor is more beautiful?"

The camera zooms in, and the metal frame of Honor is shining brightly!