Chen Xiao reacted immediately. The thank you letter sent by Baidu some time ago was probably not a spam email, but a cooperation invitation letter.

Chen Xiao's brain was running fast, thinking about the current situation of whiteness.

In 2000, Whiteness should have just completed the first round of financing.

Integritypartners and capitalfund purchased 4.8 million shares of Whiteness at $0.25 per share, taking about 24% of the shares of Whiteness, which had about 20 million shares at this time.

In other words, the current market value of Baidu is about 5 million meters, or about 42 million RMB.

Why does Chen Xiao remember it so clearly? That's because the deeds of the two companies investing in Baidu were listed as classic investment cases.

A few years later, when Baidu rushed to the Nasdaq to list, both companies made a lot of money, earning hundreds of times the return.

Chen Xiao thinks that his career has just started, and he is still a small technology company. Through the 11181 website and the Internet cafe management system, it is just a little bit of money.

I didn't expect that Whiteness would take the initiative to come to the door.

Zhang Xian asked Chen Xiao's opinion: "Chen Xiao, you see, or you can wait in the conference room."

Jiangcheng is a poor place, and the annual GDP is not even as much as a company's revenue.

Whether it is a company from Shanghai or Yanjing, the local government has to receive it warmly, not to mention that the above has just greeted it.

To be realistic, what if these giant companies invest in Jiangcheng?

Chen Xiao nodded and said, "Then let's go to the conference room now."

In the conference room, Yang Bin was discussing with his team.

The people of Shengda Company were filled with righteous indignation one by one, and they were very unhappy in their hearts.

No matter what, Shengda is a company with a market value of hundreds of millions, and its annual revenue this year is likely to exceed 1 billion.

Shengda's goal is Xiaguo Internet giants such as Xinlang, Huohu, and Wangyi.

Its Center Wave and Net Wing just went public in the United States last year, and Huohu also just went public on the Nasdaq in the United States in July this year, and they have made a lot of money.

Shengda's goal is to be listed in the United States as soon as possible.

So they didn't take Chen Xiao and that little plug-in in their eyes at all.

I originally thought that this investigation would be able to reach a certain sense of reconciliation with Chen Xiao and get the source code of the plug-in.

But he didn't think that Chen Xiao, this little brat, would not give Sheng Da face at all.

In the discussion just now, Shengda's staff have already made harsh words.

Some things that cannot be solved by law can be solved by other means.

In this day and age, with some power, it should be easy for Chen Xiao to be unable to study, or to ruin Chen Xiao's reputation.

No matter how bad it is, pressure can be exerted from above, so that Chen Xiao's company cannot operate normally.

When the company is about to open, many approval processes are also determined by the relevant departments.

Just when everyone was discussing very lively, they suddenly found that Chen Xiao had turned back again.

Everyone closed their mouths.

But Chen Xiao went to the conference room next door.

More than 10 minutes later, Zhang Ke, head of Baidu Marketing Department, and his colleagues came to the Cultural Bureau.

In the conference room, everyone saw Chen Xiao.

After some introductions, Zhang Ke confirmed. The developer of 11181 is indeed Chen Xiao.

I didn't expect Chen Xiao to be so young, not like a programmer of Baidu Company at all, and he started to go bald in his 30s.

Zhang Ke was very enthusiastic, and regardless of the exhaustion of the journey, he said, "I found you!"

Zhang Ke said: "Our technicians sent you at least three emails of thanks and invitation to cooperate, but none of them got a response."

Chen Xiao smiled and said, "I didn't expect you to come!"

After some chats, Zhang Ke didn't talk nonsense and directly expressed his desire to cooperate with Baidu.

"The 11181 website has done a very good job. We hope that your website can add a white search engine to the homepage, so that the white search bar can be more intuitively displayed in front of users."

It is also helpless for Baidu to do this. After all, he can't make much money just relying on services for Xinlang, Wangyi, Huohu and other websites, and the right to speak is still in the hands of others, making Baidu's survival very difficult.

Baidu's primary goal now is to expand its influence as much as possible, and to tap profit points as much as possible, so as to make its financial statements and development potential look better.

In this way, in the negotiation with venture capital companies such as IDG, we can seize the opportunity.

Li Yanhong has decided to push the business to a wider range of individual users and implement PPC.

Only in this way can we make our statements look better and successfully obtain the second round of financing.

And Xia Guo's personal Internet market is still in its infancy, and users know that the whiteness is pitiful.

At this critical stage, if we can cooperate with the 11181 website, which has a very wide user market, it will be beneficial to Whiteness without any harm.

The influence of the 1181 website is very wide, not only occupying enough market in Jiangyang Province, but also with the crazy expansion of the Internet cafe management system (the reason for free) and the popularity of the Shuiyue Legend plug-in, in many provinces in the southern region of Xia Kingdom. Internet cafes, the 11181 website basically locks the home page of the browser.

Because the advertising fee of the website is very low, Chen Xiao really did not make much money relying on this website.

But the significance of the website is not to earn that little advertising fee, but to occupy the market as soon as possible and gain the favor of capital.

Zhang Ke has two cooperation plans The first one is to use cash to buy the homepage interface of the 11181 website, and to promote the whiteness search engine in a way similar to advertising.

Another way is to invest in the 11181 website and see if you can become a shareholder of the website.

The first method is more realistic, and the second method is risky, but if the 11181 website achieves greater success in the future, the income of Baidu will be very rich, more like Baidu's angel investment.

Although Baidu doesn't have much cash in his hand, he should still have the strength to cooperate with a small website.

For the first solution proposed by Zhang Ke, the unit price is still calculated by pv, 1 piece 2 per 10,000 pv times.

The price is higher than the advertised price.

Zhang Ke held his breath and looked at Chen Xiao.

The original purpose of Chen Xiao's 11181 website was to attract investment, so that he would have more sufficient original funds to do more technology projects.

In particular, he has just lit up the ordinary lithium battery technology tree. This technology is a basic technology whether it is for the current MP3, or the future mobile phone and new energy vehicle projects.

But to do research and development, you have to spend a lot of money.

Chen Xiao definitely doesn't have this strength now.

It's a very good start for Baidu to be able to cooperate with himself.

It's just that Chen Xiao didn't expect that the first user who was interested in the 11181 website was Bai Du, who he didn't like very much.

Seeing that Chen Xiao had not spoken, Zhang Ke took a deep breath and said, "We still have a second plan in our hands."

Chen Xiao did not immediately respond to Zhang Ke's words but said:

"Minister Zhang, I have a little immature suggestion, what is your opinion?"