As soon as he finished speaking, Mu Chenhao immediately stopped smiling, "But you know, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Information News. If you fail to seize it, it will be you who will lose, not me!"
Li Weimin knew very well that what Mu Chenhao said was true.
This matter was indeed a big gamble for him, but in fact, even if he lost the bet, he himself would not lose much. In the Internet wave, the first one to bear the brunt is traditional paper media. This is something everyone knows. It just depends on how fierce this wave is.
There are too many media people who are deeply obsessed with traditional media. It is not that they cannot see the situation clearly, but that they are reluctant to part with their vested interests.
Just like when Kodak was the first to invent the digital camera, it knew that the future must be a world of digital cameras, but because it was reluctant to make huge profits from film, it strongly resisted the development and popularization of digital camera technology, and finally had to face the end of being wiped out.
Of course, Kodak's destruction had other factors besides digital cameras, but there is no doubt that this incident was the most direct factor in Kodak's demise.
Don’t they themselves understand? No, it's just a matter of luck.
Since Li Weimin was able to give up his iron rice bowl job at the university, he was certainly not an indecisive person. Although Chen Qiang, the current president of the Information Newspaper, was older, he was an old man with great ambitions. If everyone agrees, I believe Chen Qiang will give in half-heartedly.
But now his only concern is actually about face and reputation.
After all, the management of the Information Newspaper has always had a good relationship with the Propaganda Department and the Mountain City Science and Technology Association. It can even be said that they share the same views and advance and retreat together.
If at this time, the management of the Information News surrendered their shares and sided with Mu Chenhao, it would be too unkind. This would be considered as a stab in the back by two higher-level units.
Li Weimin rolled his eyes, and then asked, "How to solve the policy problem? The Information News is a regular newspaper with a publication number. The country does not allow foreign investment. If Lao Chen agrees to hand over the management's equity, you can also exceed 50 % of the shares, which constitutes a holding, will not be approved.”
Mu Chenhao seemed to have understood his doubts a long time ago, "This is not a problem. Although our group has foreign financing in its development, we also have our own wholly domestically owned company. The 5% will be held by them. It is completely in line with the policy. Regulation."
Li Weimin weighed it in his mind and said, "Mr. Mu, I understand. Let me think about it first. After all, Lao Chen still has the final say on this matter. If he doesn't agree, our talk will be in vain."
Mu Chenhao also nodded, "Okay, no problem, I'll give you a week and let me know the results as soon as possible!"
Li Weimin nodded thoughtfully.
In the evening, Mu Chenhao refused the invitation from the Information News, saying that he had other things to do, so he checked out of the accommodation arranged by the Association for Science and Technology, and took Xia Qingkong to stay at the Mountain City International Hotel, one of several five-star hotels in the mountain city.
Originally, Xia Qingkong had no complaints, but Mu Chenhao didn't want his wife to suffer, so he decided to change to a better environment.
After entering the hotel, Mu Chenhao and Xia Qingkong did not go out again, and low roars could be heard from time to time in the room.
At about eleven o'clock in the evening, there was a knock on the door.
Mu Chenhao closed the bedroom door and saw a familiar figure outside through the peephole on the door.
It was Zhang Yao who had left the mountain city for a long time after the negotiation was completed.
Mu Chenhao poured a glass of water for Zhang Yao, and then said in a deep voice, "Is everything going well?"
Zhang Yao's face looked a little heavy, and then he shook his head, "Minister Hu from Shancheng Propaganda Department disagrees. I have lowered the transferred shares to 6%, but he still disagrees."
It turned out that before coming to Shancheng, Mu Chenhao had already formed an alliance with Zhang Yao. Zhang Yao financed the acquisition of the Information Newspaper in his own name, which was considered a hidden line, while Mu Chenhao exerted pressure openly.
Mu Chenhao rubbed his chin and thought for a moment, "Did he listen to the conditions we gave? Did he say anything?"
Zhang Yao recalled for a moment, "I didn't say anything. I just said that he didn't want to do this, so we gave up."
Mu Chenhao murmured, "This is not going to be easy..."
Zhang Yao originally had strong objections to Mu Chenhao, but through these two months of contact, he found that Mu Chenhao still dealt with matters, and the two had reconciled, so they started to cooperate.
In fact, Zhang Yao has always had some doubts in his heart, so he couldn't help but ask, "If you pursue the holding information newspaper and get the shares from the management, why bother to gnaw at the two tough bones of the Association for Science and Technology and the Propaganda Department?" Mu Chenhao smiled and said, "The situation of the Information Newspaper is special and it has to be like this. If we cannot obtain enough equity to constitute absolute control, we will not be able to absolutely control the Information Newspaper, especially regarding the withdrawal of funds after we make profits in the future. If you don’t have absolute control, you must obtain their consent.
We can only transfer the shares, which is too passive. "
Of course, Zhang Yao understands this. Exiting domestic venture capital after making profits has always been a problem.
Mu Chenhao continued, "Moreover, if we don't absolutely hold the controlling stake, and the portal website of the Information Newspaper becomes bigger in the future, it is inevitable that someone will be tempted. 51% is not a safe number, so we should talk as soon as possible while we can still talk about it." Finalize everything.”
Zhang Yao spread his hands, "I still don't understand. If you want to build this portal now, why do you have to hold Information News? According to my original plan, I only planned to take Information News for 10 to 20% of the equity. The risk is small and the profit is not bad. ”
Just as Mu Chenhao was about to explain, Zhang Yao continued, "Now you have to hold a controlling stake, even an absolute controlling share, just to build this portal. Since it's so laborious, why bother looking for an information newspaper? You can't just pick a team to do it directly. Is that enough?”
Mu Chenhao shook his head, "Brother Yao, you still don't understand. As a portal website, there is nothing more suitable than the current information newspaper."
Zhang Yao asked, "Oh? Why?" Mu Chenhao answered patiently, "First, the Information Newspaper has a talent advantage, especially the management team. Almost everyone is an expert, and they are good at different things and are highly complementary. . Second, the Information Newspaper has resource advantages. It is originally a media, and I don’t need to do anything about this advantage.
Introduce? "
"So what about third place?" Zhang Yao did not comment, but asked noncommittally. "Third, and most importantly, what is the essence of a portal? It is media! To put it bluntly, a portal is a media, but the carrier of this media is on the Internet. Since the essence of a portal is media, then An information newspaper with the same media background is inherently faster than other competitors in building a portal website.”