Chapter 971 No Money
Ten years ago, a millionaire was still a legend. Although millionaires have become common in recent years, a million-dollar fortune is still an astronomical figure for ordinary people. Not to mention anything else, isn’t the "Yang Baiwan" who made the newspaper news an object of admiration for many people?
Zhang Hao is a student, and he spent so much money in such a short time. As a father, how could Zhang Jianguo not be worried?
This is not a question of money. With the current wealth of the Zhang family, one million eight hundred thousand is nothing. The key issue is that Zhang Jianguo is worried that Zhang Hao will be cheated, or even make friends with the wrong people and go astray.
However, Song Chaoyuan felt that this matter might not be as serious as Zhang Jianguo thought. Song Chaoyuan knew Zhang Hao very well. Although Zhang Hao was naughty when he was a child, he has grown up to be a young man with his own opinions and ideas.
Besides, Zhang Hao is not a nerd who only knows how to study. He is very smart. It is not so easy to deceive Zhang Hao.
"Uncle, did Zhang Hao tell you what project this money was invested in?" Song Chaoyuan comforted Zhang Jianguo and then asked.
"He said it, but I couldn't understand what he said." Zhang Jianguo frowned.
"It's okay, what did he say?"
"Well, let me think about it..." Zhang Jianguo scratched his head and thought for a while before saying to Song Yuanchao, "He said he and his friend founded a company called something, it's called something, it's hard to pronounce and I can't understand it."
"What's so special about that?" Song Chaoyuan was speechless and asked, "What does this company do? What products does it make?"
"Who knows what kind of product it is? They say it's virtual or something like the Internet. Listen, it's all virtual. Virtual means nothing, right? How can it be a good thing? I might just be cheated out of this money, and all my efforts will be in vain!" Zhang Jianguo got angry again when he said this. He picked up the cigarette and took a puff. Then he found that the cigarette was finished and the butt was burnt. He threw the cigarette butt to the ground and stepped on it. As soon as he finished this action, Zhang Jianguo suddenly remembered something. He quickly squatted down and picked up the cigarette butt, and subconsciously looked back at the room behind him.
Song Chaoyuan was confused and didn't understand what Zhang Jianguo was talking about. He thought about it and comforted Zhang Jianguo, telling him not to rush and not to make a conclusion immediately. Shenghua has a branch in the United States, and he can ask the American side to ask about Zhang Hao's situation and find out what Zhang Hao is doing.
By the way, didn't Zhang Hao move now? Song Chaoyuan asked Zhang Jianguo to give him Zhang Hao's new address and contact information. It wouldn't be too late to tell Zhang Jianguo and the others when he got some news.
After dinner at Zhang Jianguo's house, Song Chaoyuan talked about Qiongdao and the beautiful scenery of Lucheng, using this method to ease the cold war between Zhang Jianguo and Sun Xia. When Song Chaoyuan left, the relationship between Zhang Jianguo and his wife seemed much better, at least not as clear as at the beginning. After all, they all understood Song Yuanchao's intentions, and they had to do it for Song Chaoyuan's sake. In addition, Song Chaoyuan also talked to Sun Xia privately about Zhang Hao's matter, telling her that he would find out the situation through his connections in the United States. Now that the final situation is not clear, there is no need for the two of them to be unhappy about this matter. As the saying goes, a harmonious family brings prosperity, so why do they have to be so unwilling to give in?
When they got home, the children were almost rested. Song Chaoyuan took a bath, and Lin Yan settled the children and asked Song Chaoyuan about his visit to Zhang Jianguo. Song Chaoyuan told Lin Yan about the situation. Lin Yan frowned slightly after listening. She subconsciously felt that it was a bit strange that Zhang Hao suddenly used so much money. However, Song Chaoyuan was right. It was difficult to draw a conclusion now because the matter was not clear yet. It was better to wait until the United States understood the situation.
After checking the time, Song Chaoyuan called the American company before going to bed.
After Ruth resigned from Sit Company, the current general manager of Sit is Zheng Guoyuan. Not long after leaving Sit, Ruth went to the United States with her husband. She has mostly stayed in China over the years and has not returned home very often. Now she is pregnant, and her husband has not met his family since their marriage, so this is a good opportunity for them to go back together.
Although Ruth left Sit, she is still a shareholder of Sit. After the equity adjustment of Sit, Ruth's shares in Sit were exchanged for shares of Shenghua. In addition to Ruth's contribution to Sit, after soliciting Ruth's opinion, Song Chaoyuan suggested that Ruth serve as the COO of Shenghua USA. Ruth did not reject Song Chaoyuan's kindness and officially took up the position shortly after returning to China.
On the phone, Song Chaoyuan told Ruth about Zhang Hao's situation in detail. After listening, Ruth told Song Chaoyuan that she would investigate Zhang Hao's situation as soon as possible and tell Song Chaoyuan immediately when she had the results.
After hanging up the phone, Song Chaoyuan was no longer interested. He had not been in Shanghai for these days. Although he and Lin Yan had phone calls every day, the couple missed each other very much. Looking at his wife beside him, Song Chaoyuan's heart was a little restless. He whispered something in Lin Yan's ear, and Lin Yan's ears suddenly turned red. Song Chaoyuan smiled at her expression, turned off the light, and hugged her directly...
Netscape, California, USA.
Zhang Hao, Mark, and Jimmy.
The three of them are the founders of Netscape. Since Netscape was founded in mid-July last year, the official version 1.0 of Netscape's first browser was successfully completed by the three of them in early September.
After completing this browser, Netscape promoted the product. After discussion among the three, they decided to sell it as shareware and promote it in major universities across the United States.
At the beginning, the sales of this browser were not very good. After all, not many people were exposed to the Internet. However, because they continued to add functions and improve this browser, and Zhang Hao proposed a trial version model in the promotion process to major universities across the United States, a trial function was added to the browser. After installation, you can try it for free for a certain period of time. If you find the trial suitable, you can purchase an activation code through the Internet to activate it. If the trial is not suitable, you can still maintain the minimum basic functions.
This promotion model opened up a gap for Netscape's product sales. The emergence of this model improved the sales of the browser. By the end of the year, with the update of browser version 1.30, the market began to gradually accept this product and the situation began to improve.
In the first half of 1994, Netscape's browser was further enhanced, and the version was developed from 1.30 to 1.40. The new version is much more powerful than the original version, and its functions are becoming more and more complete. Netscape is no longer a small workshop with three people. Now, in addition to the three of them, the entire company also has a technical team of about ten people to focus on development, function improvement and maintenance. In addition, several administrative and financial personnel have been hired. From all aspects, it has initially become a relatively complete formal company.
"You two, we don't have enough money on our books. If there is no further capital injection, we can only last until the end of next month at most." Jimmy handed the paper in his hand to Zhang Hao and Mark with a serious expression.
After taking a look at the paper, I found out that it was the company's financial report. It was simple but clear, listing the company's income, expenditure and account balance. According to the monthly expenditure, it was indeed as Jimmy said that the company's money was almost gone.
"That's not right. I remember that we just injected 150,000 yuan of funds two months ago. How come there is only this little left?" Mark looked carefully and immediately frowned and asked.
"Mark, have you forgotten the cost of renting the server? And this month we spent some development fees, plus employee costs, these expenses account for more than half of the total!" Jimmy motioned for Mark to look at the details of the expenditure column. Mark took another careful look and stopped talking.
As the number of browser users continues to grow, the company's expenses are also increasing. Not to mention the monthly expenses of the technical team, the company's technical team currently has a monthly personnel cost of nearly $60,000, plus administrative staff and other office expenses, this amount has exceeded $80,000.
In addition, browsers require servers, and the growing number of users places higher and higher demands on servers. The cost of renting and maintaining servers is even higher than the personnel cost.
This is still acceptable because Netscape is currently just a small company, and most of its technical personnel are ordinary technicians and college graduates. If they are high-end technical personnel, this money is far from enough.
Zhang Hao, Mark and Jimmy, the three technical core members, have only received the minimum salary from the company since its establishment. Because they are starting a business, the cost in this regard can be said to be negligible. This is also the reason why Netscape has been able to survive until now with these funds.
The sales of the browser continued to grow, and the company gradually grew bigger, but from the current expenditure and income comparison, the income part could not support the expenditure. Even though Zhang Hao, Mark, and Jimmy had continued to invest a lot of money in the company during this period, by now, the investment had been almost spent.
"Mike, can you continue here..." Jimmy looked up at Zhang Hao and couldn't help but ask.
But before he could finish his words, he saw Zhang Hao shaking his head.
Almost all of Zhang Hao's money has been invested in the company. Not only his own savings from working, but also the money in the account that Zhang Jianguo gave to Zhang Hao has been almost all taken out and invested in the company.
It was more than 300,000 US dollars, which could be said to be all the money Zhang Hao had. Moreover, Zhang Jianguo had already known about the use of the money in this account. Because he had a very unpleasant argument with Zhang Jianguo on the phone about this, it was extremely difficult for him to continue asking his family for money.
Having said that, if it weren't for Zhang Hao's investment, Netscape would never have been able to survive until now. It would have had to find another way out long ago due to a lack of funds.
As for Mark and Jimmy, it goes without saying that they didn't have much money to begin with, and they had already invested all their salaries in these days. It was simply unrealistic to think of taking money out of their pockets.
"Guys, if there is no follow-up investment, we will have to find other ways." Jimmy spread his hands, shrugged helplessly and said to Zhang Hao and Mark.
Zhang Hao and Mark looked at each other, both of them had helplessness in their eyes, but at the same time they also agreed with Jimmy's point of view.
