On September 1st, the sun was shining brightly, Wen Tianhe's first day as CEO, the company went bankrupt.
The story started when Tianhe saw off his second brother Wen Tianyue at the airport three and a half hours ago.
With tears in his eyes, the second elder brother sincerely said to his younger brother, "Baby, brother will be back in a month at most. During this time, the company will be handed over to you."
Tianhe said displeased: "Don't call me by my nickname at the airport! Don't worry, I can do it, take care of yourself in Silicon Valley, remember to ask for Zuckerberg's autograph for me, I like him very much."
"When I'm settled, you fly over, I'll make an appointment with Xiao Zha, and we'll go to Cesong to have a meal together, and call Jobs by the way."
"Jobs is dead." Tianhe said expressionlessly.
Wen Tianyue immediately changed his words: "I mean Cook, you two must have something in common."
"Go now." Tianhe said, "Stop drinking on the plane."
Announced to board the plane, Tianhe watched his brother get on the business jet staggeringly drunk from the two bottles of wine last night through the glass wall, then turned around and left the VIP lounge, got on the car, and said to the driver: "Go to the company, inform me Supervisor, we have a meeting at ten o'clock."
The driver glanced at Wen Tianhe in the rear-view mirror and played a song. Amid the melodious music of Partita No. 4 in D major, the car was stuck on the elevated road. During the morning rush hour, the traffic jam was endless.
"Boss, if you're sleepy, why don't you sleep for a while?"
"not sleepy."
Tianhe had a long talk with his elder brother before departure, but he was very energetic this morning—because it was a big day for him to officially take over the company, he brushed his hair in the rear-view mirror and looked at himself today.
Wen Tianhe, 23 years old, Leo, 180cm, 18cm, 1.8 billion net worth, 1,800 square meters of large villas, 18 sets of self-occupied houses in the world, a master's student in the Department of Computer Science at Cambridge, the youngest founder of Epeus Information Technology Co., Ltd. His son, a long-legged handsome guy who likes to wear shirts but dislikes ties, gay, zero.
So 18 cm doesn't do much.
Tianhe's eyebrows and eyes are inherited from his Germanic mother, and the bridge of nose and lips are inherited from his father. He combines the advantages of his parents. When he was studying in Cambridge, his fair skin and delicate facial features often caused him many unnecessary troubles. The good-looking skins are the same, and the interesting soul is one in a hundred. Tianhe is not the kind of vulgar person who only looks at the appearance. Many times, he hopes that he can look more ordinary, so that the professors will pay more attention to his codes and marvel at him. His talent, not always staring at his face.
The driver, Xiao Liu, turned his head towards the back seat: "Boss, the supervisors are all ready."
"Very good." Tianhe plucked his forehead gracefully: "Can I change the song? Now I need music other than Bach."
Xiao Liu said sincerely: "I heard that Bach can make people calm."
Tianhe: "Aunt Fang listened to Bach when she was doing housework. Some people say that God is responsible for washing the world, and Bach is responsible for washing clothes. This song always reminds me of drum washing machines."
Xiao Liu changed to a Mozart, and although there was no traffic jam, he drove slowly, as if hoping that this Bentley would never reach its destination.
Tianhe said politely: "Is it convenient to drive faster? If you feel uncomfortable, take a break and let me drive?"
Xiao Liu speeded up a little, and looked at Tianhe in the rear view mirror full of compassion.
Wisteria New District, 27th Floor, Building 2, Hi-tech Park, General Manager Office Floor, Epeus Information Technology Co., Ltd.
"Second Boss is at the garage, get ready!"
The Chief Financial Officer said solemnly: "I'm really afraid that the second boss will fight with the shareholders."
The vice president patted the chief financial officer on the shoulder: "Just tell the truth, there won't be a fight. If there is a real fight, let's pretend to be a fight, hold him down, and let the shareholders beat him a few times, it won't hurt, right?"
"How can you treat the second boss like this?" the chief financial officer said in disbelief.
Vice President: "Creditors also need to vent their emotions, not to mention that after today, the boss will still say something."
The chief financial officer thought for a while, and then asked, "Should we seal all the windows? What if the boss jumps off the building?"
"Yes! Yes!" The vice president woke up like a dream: "Just in case!"
The chief assistant said: "Impossible, the second boss is an elegant person, he can't jump off a building, it's too ugly, if you use a rope."
"It's even more ugly to hang yourself!" said the vice president, "You'll lose control! With his style, the bed can only be covered with rose petals flown in from Paris..."
"Here we go! Enter the elevator!"
In front of the drinking fountain, all the executives dispersed in a rush, and the chief assistant knocked on the door of the conference room. In the large conference room, there were representatives from the bank, investors, and the heads of the three funds.
"Our second boss is coming to the company soon." The chief assistant said, "Five more minutes."
"Okay, okay." The credit manager of the bank, who is over 50 years old, took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his bald head.
The head of the sub-branch asked Mr. Chao: "The second boss is a real legal person of your company, right?"
The chief assistant said: "The change procedures have been completed last month, he is a legal person, that's right."
After the chief assistant left, everyone looked at each other again.
"Who's going to start later?" said the credit manager.
"Let's start with the bank," said the investor. "This one owes the most money to the bank."
"It's better for you to come." The head of the branch couldn't take it anymore: "Or, the Panda Fund first?"
"No, no, you guys should go first."
"You first you first..."
The person in charge of Panda Fund said: "I suggest that everyone should stop having unrealistic fantasies. With the current financial situation of this company, even if Buffett is reborn, I don't think it can be saved."
"Buffett is not dead yet." The person in charge of the Conrad Fund said, "Our family just entrusted him with more than 7 billion yuan. It's too unlucky to say that."
The person in charge of Panda Fund sneered: "Where did you find more than 7 billion QQ coins from your family? Why haven't you heard of it? I think your boss asked Ma Huateng's background to transfer more than 7 billion QQ coins?"
The person in charge of Conrad suddenly raised his voice an octave: "I thought that everyone is like your family, and I voted for Tencent, so I read a lot of readings for my industry draft every day!"
"Okay." The branch manager said earnestly: "Everyone is here to collect debts, so don't fight each other. I remember that you almost fought to vote for Epeus. If you knew today, why did you do it?"
Everyone in the conference room was silent again. It's like waiting to attend Buffett's funeral.
When Tianhe entered the company, the eyes of all the employees on the general manager's office floor brightened, and then dimmed.
"Second boss, your coffee."
"Thank you, I don't drink Starbucks, so don't call me the second boss in the future." Assistant Tianhe Chao smiled and asked the chief financial officer, "Mecy, are all the executives in the conference room?"
The chief financial officer immediately said: "A few guests came today and wanted to meet you first. We are sitting in the big conference room. It is not convenient for us to ask someone to change the place."
Tianhe pushed the door into the meeting room, turned around and said, "Then you can inform me that the supervisor's regular meeting has been changed to the afternoon... What are you?"
In the conference room, a group of shareholder representatives jumped out and shouted "Spurise!" as if they saw Buffett uncover his coffin
"Everyone... Good afternoon, isn't today the quarterly shareholder representative meeting? Why is the bank here?" Before Tianhe understood the situation, the chief financial officer and vice president followed in, and closed the door of the large meeting room.
In the meeting room, the driver said to the general assistant: "Do you want to check the windows again? The company's locks are locked, where are the corridors?"
The chief assistant replied: "Even the men's toilet has been checked, no problem."
All the colleagues outside raised their heads and looked at the door of the large meeting room.
"What?" Tianhe thought for a moment that he had heard it wrong, and repeated again: "How is it possible?"
There was a dead silence in the conference room. Everyone looked at the branch manager, who wiped his sweat again and said, "Didn't your brother tell you?"
"I just sent him away three and a half hours ago!" Rao Tianhe, who has gone through countless storms, did not recover when faced with "insolvency" and "insolvency": "Wait a minute, I Give him a call, no no... he should be on the plane to San Francisco..."
"Now the legal person of your company is you, right?" The person in charge of the fund said: "Epeus's financial situation, the shareholders have already got a preliminary understanding, the list of assets, your director of Messime, has also accepted the first eighty-nine points .”
"Wait." Tianhe couldn't take the information handed over, and said, "Pour me some water."
"This debt is two years past due..."
"During the period when your brother was the legal person and CEO, he successively mortgaged all the real estate and cars under his name to the bank..."
"In June of this year, in order to relieve financial pressure, Wen Tianyue took 60 million company funds out of the country through illegal means and went to Macau. The fate is obvious..."
"Little brother, look, I'm going to retire next year. Because of your company, I can't count on spending my old age comfortably... What to do next, there must be an explanation..."
"That's not what you two brothers said when they raised funds. Now not only the company's gambling has not been completed, emails are not answered, phone calls are not answered, and WeChat swears, and every swearing is a minute-long voice... Listen? This Does it sound like a scholar? It's simply insulting!"
"Last year, your company also voted for a sci-fi film with 180 million follow-up votes, just to let young actors bring money into the team, and promised a box office of 4 billion. In the end, the director made a web game ppt and ran away first. , the coal boss doesn’t even take you to play like this!”
"And what I don't understand is, why did Wen Tianyue guarantee a loan for a company with no prospects for performance?"
"Toronto's server group costs 14 million dollars a year in rent, and that's not counting the electricity bill. Look at what you have developed yourself, using super servers to set up private servers! When I first came, I also see that your company programmers are playing World of Warcraft... "
Tianhe was a little dizzy from the noise, took the water handed by the vice president, drank it in one gulp, and put the glass down heavily, with a bang.
The conference room was silent again.
Tianhe stared at the water glass, and after half a minute, turned his gaze to a group of shareholder representatives.
"Ah, I see." Tianhe had a flash of inspiration and said, "You went to the wrong company!"
Two hours later, the shareholder representatives left the large conference room one after another.
Tianhe sat at one end of the long conference table, like a sculpture.
"Boss?" the chief financial officer asked tentatively.
"I urgently need to listen to Bach." Tianhe said.
"It's not good! The branch manager is about to jump off the building! The window of the women's toilet is not locked, and the upper body has already climbed out! Come and a few male colleagues to hold him—"
Vice President: "..."
Another hour later, Tianhe faced the bento on the table and waved his hands wearily.
"No, thank you."
"There is always something to eat." The vice president opened the lunch box at Yoshino's house, he was already very hungry, and said, "President Xiao Wen, don't make trouble with your body."
The chief financial officer looked worriedly at the boxed lunch on the table. He was the one who paid for the lunch. Now that the bill has been withdrawn, he doesn't know if it can be reimbursed. He owes three months' salary, and he doesn't know when it will be paid. Wen Tianyue swears and tells them that his brother has a solution, but now it seems that it is all deceit.
"You always knew?" Tianhe murmured.
"Mr. Wen said that after you take over as the legal person, the money will arrive soon." The vice president said, "Do you want to call the small shareholders in the company and hold a meeting together?"
Tianhe said calmly: "No, didn't you say that you have completed the E-round financing and plan to go public next year?"
The chief financial officer said: "The E-round financing totals 60 million, and it's all in Macau."
"You are the chief financial officer." Tianhe said in disbelief, "You actually let him spend 60 million to gamble in Macau?! You are dereliction of duty!"
"What can I do?" The chief financial officer said with a sad face, "Boss Wen has always had the final say, and it's not a day or two to misappropriate the company's funds. I don't know that he used the financing to play slot machines!"
"What slot machine can play 60 million?" Tianhe said in despair.
Vice President: "In the VIP room, the wagers are all 100,000, and it shows 10. He thought it was ten one hundred, and pressed a bunch of zeros. As soon as he started shaking, a big ball fell from the top. The casino is still cheering. I always thought I hit it…”
"Okay, stop talking." The chief financial officer interrupted.
"Oh yes! I also bought a lot of macaroons." The vice president remembered: "It's all in the company's refrigerator, would you like some? It's been there for three months, but it hasn't expired yet. I sent this one, and it’s not finished yet.”
Tianhe: "..."
"What should we do now?" Tianhe said.
The chief financial officer said: "Can new financing be obtained?"
Tianhe looked at the chief financial officer in a daze, and the vice president offered advice and said, "Do you still have a big brother?"
"My elder brother is researching space shuttles." Tianhe replied, "It's been fifteen years since I couldn't get in touch."
The chief financial officer thought for a while and said, "Your mother..."
"Impossible." Tianhe rebuffed straight away: "My uncle's family won't give me a penny, and she has remarried."
The vice president thought for a while and said, "Your father's reputation is still there. You should ask an old friend for help, and then raise a F-round financing. First pay off part of the debt, and apply for a debt-to-equity swap for the rest?"
The chief financial officer said: "I'll be honest, now that the outside world has changed, it's really hard to fool around."
The vice president said: "Then we can only find a way to go public, and put our hopes on the stockholders."
Chief Financial Officer: "Based on the current accounts, the audit cannot allow us to go public, and the brokerage will not sign. After the China Securities Regulatory Commission implements the IQ access system, the control is much stricter than before."
The chief financial officer kept winking at the vice president, but the vice president pretended he couldn't see it, neither of them wanted to say those two words.
"How much do you owe in total?" Tianhe was a little distracted and asked, "I didn't hear clearly just now."
"1.4 billion." The vice president replied: "From June until now, the entire company has not paid any salary."
The chief financial officer watched the vice president finish eating two large servings of fried rice with preserved vegetables, got up and said, "Why don't I have someone send the debt details to your home first, and you can take a look at them in the next few days before consulting your personal financial affairs." consultant."
"So you want to file for bankruptcy, right?" Tianhe said in a deep voice.
The two looked at each other without saying a word.
The chief assistant knocked on the door and came in, saying, "President Wen's phone has been turned off."
"Still on the plane." Tianhe said: "This time, maybe it's just to talk about new investment. Let's take it easy, there is still hope."
"Yes, yes." The chief financial officer said together with the vice president.
"If you can find a way to pay the salary first, the employees will not have much opinion." The vice president said: "The most important thing is to stabilize people's hearts now. Everyone has feelings for Epues. Don't be too hard on it, ah ?”
Tianhe met the vice president's worried eyes and replied, "The salary will definitely be paid... But now I feel... I have to go back and rest for a while."
Tianhe was a little dizzy when he stood up. The vice president opened the door and sent him out of the company. A group of reporters who came from nowhere immediately surrounded him, shooting wildly with flashlights.
"Mr. Wen! How are you feeling now? Is it convenient for an interview?"
"Is Epues going to file for bankruptcy?"
"You agreed to release the epoch-making artificial intelligence in the fourth quarter. Is there any hope of it coming out?"
"Mr. Wen, are you okay?"
"Hey! Don't be like this! We Mr. Wen are also decent people with fans, don't go too far!"
The chief assistant pushed the reporter away, and the driver loyally protected Tianhe, got into the elevator and ran away.