China News Service, August 11th. On the evening of the 11th, Lei Jun, founder and chairman of Xiaomi Group, said in his annual speech: "In recent years, there have been many rumors on the Internet, and some said that Ma Huateng wanted to sell QQ to me when he started his business. I didn't buy it; some said that Jack Ma asked me to invest when he started his business, but I didn't invest; these rumors make me seem to have no vision. Here, I want to clarify that they didn't find me, these are all rumors. "
Lei Jun said, "The only acquisition I've seriously discussed is NetEase. At that time, NetEase was established for more than a year, and the company had about five or six people, mainly providing personal homepage hosting services. It did a very good job, and even helped Guangzhou Telecom to do a An email system. I offered a price of 10 million, which was quite a lot at the time, but Ding Lei quickly refused.”
"Just 2 months later, NetEase raised $10 million, and its valuation reached more than $60 million, which is about 500 million yuan at the dollar exchange rate at the time." Lei Jun said, "It's a crazy time, I don't understand it. , but was shocked."
Lei Jun also revealed, "I made a lot of friends on BBS back then, and some of them are very successful today: one is a programmer in a pager company called Runxun, called Ma Huateng; another is in Ningbo. The telecommunications bureau is an engineer named Ding Lei.
"I didn't ask why they had such high enthusiasm and spent so much time in the forum back then. But I believe that this experience had a decisive impact on their later careers," Lei Jun said.
(Zhongxin Finance)
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