Becoming a Russian Oligarch After Rebirth
Chapter 931 - 866: Helping Every Dream

Chapter 931: Chapter 866: Helping Every Dream

Zhang Xiaoxi drove Wang Ye back to Mansion Garden, got out of the car, handed the car keys to Wang Ye, and said with a smile:

"That’s it, Boss, after driving around all day, you need to hit the road again tomorrow, so get some rest early. I won’t disturb you by coming in..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Zhang Xiaoxi’s phone began to ring.

She hesitated for a moment, seemingly feeling it would be somewhat impolite to take the call in front of Wang Ye.

Wang Ye didn’t mind and gestured for her to answer the call.

Zhang Xiaoxi pulled out her phone, glanced at the caller ID, and frowned.

After answering the phone and saying "hello," she heard a few words from the other side.

Then she responded decisively, "President Liu, haven’t I told you before? Our company isn’t interested in investing in any e-commerce websites right now. We have our own projects. I’m busy, hanging up now..."

After saying that, she hung up the phone.

She then somewhat awkwardly explained to Wang Ye:

"Ah, these last two years, it’s like many people in the country have gone mad, all getting into the Internet and e-commerce.

The guy who called was originally selling office supplies, things like printers, CDs, and the like.

The person is quite sincere, so both President Liu’s company and ours have been getting our office supplies from him, so he’s sort of an acquaintance.

But since last year, like he was possessed, he insisted on moving his shop from offline to online to engage in e-commerce.

He spent quite a bit of money on a website and then ran out of capital to buy stock, so now he’s seeking investment everywhere.

Perhaps because he thinks that my asset management company sounds like those venture capital firms, President Liu has approached me several times to pitch his e-commerce website, wanting me to invest some money.

Hey, this President Liu is after all a talented graduate from Renmin University of China. Surely he could do better than meddling in such small business affairs."

A thought occurred to Wang Ye.

Surname Liu?

Sells CDs?

A Renmin University graduate!

The person Zhang Xiaoxi was talking about, could it be Da Qiangzi...

That could be quite interesting!

He thought carefully for a moment and remembered that JD.com was indeed established around 2004.

Of course, it was very small scale at the beginning, without even getting any financing until 2007 when they finally obtained their first venture capital...

The early stages of Da Qiangzi’s entrepreneurship were quite miserable indeed.

...

After finishing her story, Zhang Xiaoxi was about to say goodbye and leave when Wang Ye stopped her.

"You know... That sounds quite interesting. Tell him to come here right now, and tell him he has half an hour to pitch his website or himself," Wang Ye said with a smile.

Zhang Xiaoxi’s mouth hung open in shock, her eyes wide with astonishment.

Are you kidding me? President Liu’s crappy website was actually getting a chance to be pitched in front of her Boss!

And the Boss even gave him half an hour...

Honestly, the value of the Boss’s half an hour is far more precious than that broken website by many times!

She really couldn’t understand which part of what she’d just said had attracted the Boss’s attention...

But since Wang Ye had asked to meet President Liu, she naturally wouldn’t intervene.

She had to remind President Liu later that this was an incredibly rare opportunity!

Whether he could shoot for the stars tonight would depend on this half hour...

...

Meanwhile, in a worn-down office building in Zhongguancun, Da Qiangzi was looking at his phone with a troubled expression, flipping through his contacts over and over.

He was thinking about who else he could call to scrape together some venture capital.

Honestly, when he started his e-commerce business, he had no idea it would be this tough!

Well, it’s not that the e-commerce business was hard per se, but it was just a lot more expensive than he had anticipated!

He had run a shop for several years, relying on the word "integrity," and frankly, his business had been quite successful.

Da Qiangzi had no secrets to doing business, just one principle: "genuine quality goods"!

Back in those days, bringing up Zhongguancun might make many people "shudder in fear"...

Fakes passed as genuine, forced sales, or even fraud and deception!

The reputation of the place had long been tarnished!

But in Da Qiangzi’s store, counterfeit goods were never sold, and the pricing was fair, earning only the money he deserved without being greedy.

With just this one principle, the reputation of his store made its mark.

If he had continued to run his store steadily, not to mention becoming a big boss, at the very least he could have gained a foothold in the capital and set up family and home.

For a kid like Da Qiangzi who came from the countryside, this would have been quite extraordinary.

Unfortunately, for some unknown reason, he was bewitched and insisted on following others into the Internet and e-commerce.

Now, the money he earned from the store in the past years had all been poured into it, and though the website was up and running,

he no longer had enough capital to stock up on inventory!

Da Qiangzi’s e-commerce website was different from others.

The site sold all electronic products, known in the industry as "3C" products, and all of them were branded goods he personally represented.

Meaning, he needed to pay upfront to purchase goods from manufacturers, and only after obtaining the products would he sell them on his website.

This model had its advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage, of course, was that all products were guaranteed quality, and he could offer after-sales service, providing consumers a reliable and trustworthy shopping platform with no risk of counterfeit products.