"What are you laughing at? You look so cunning when you laugh."
During dinner, Gu Qingqing looked at Tan Jincheng somewhat puzzled.
Tan Jincheng stared at Gu Qingqing and said,
"I'm laughing because I'm getting both wealth and beauty."
Indeed, she's beautiful and comes from a good family.
When they met her uncle during the Mid-Autumn Festival, they also praised her, and her aunt even secretly took a photo, saying she wanted to send it to Tan Jincheng's mother.
"Hmph, I've noticed you're getting more and more presumptuous when you speak."
"Am I? Am I wrong?"
"Yes, you weren't like this before. Was your previous gentleness all an act?"
"Then which one do you prefer?"
"I like both, but I prefer the current you more, because it makes you seem closer."
Young couples in their first love always have endless things to say, and Gu Qingqing also showed a different side of herself than before, becoming cute and playful.
After their relationship was clarified, she seemed more unrestrained.
"You just said you'd invest in my startup in the future, do you already have an idea?"
Tan Jincheng nodded.
This was probably what he liked most about Gu Qingqing; she always understood him so well.
The feelings between a man and a woman are sometimes so wonderful, able to guess each other's thoughts.
"I do have a little, but not yet. Let's talk about it later. The conditions aren't mature yet, and besides, I don't have the ability to do those money-burning internet industries right now."
Besides working on a certain social platform, Tan Jincheng also had another project, which was Meiyou.
It also makes money from women, but Meiyou requires less investment and has a smaller niche market.
After smartphones and 3G networks become popular, it can be used for practice.
Although this pure tool for women later ventured into e-commerce, it didn't seem to make much of a splash; however, as a pure tool APP, for recording women's physiological cycles and pregnancy, it still held a certain market position.
Any young man who isn't single, has dated for a few years, or whose wife has been pregnant, should know about this software, and some may even have downloaded it.
Coincidentally, Tan Jincheng had used both the aforementioned social platform and Meiyou in his previous life.
Although he was born in the 80s, his acceptance of new things was not much lower than those born in the 90s, and he could even chat with his sister born in the 00s about TFBoys.
Although its e-commerce aspect was lukewarm, it doesn't mean the software wasn't profitable.
As one of the most popular APPs among female mobile internet users, relying on a tool+community+e-commerce model, it lived quite well.
Around 2020, it seemed to have aimed for an IPO, but later, for unknown reasons, it withdrew.
He remembered media reports at the time valuing it at 5 billion yuan.
This project could definitely be used for practice.
The initial investment doesn't need to be too large, a few million yuan would suffice.
Hire a few experienced programmers to build the basic framework, then gradually add features and develop the tool's effectiveness.
Once the Android and iOS clients are developed and listed on app stores to slowly penetrate the market, capital will come knocking; oh, right, app stores themselves also seem developable, apparently not too difficult.
In the early days of Android, there were many different kinds of app stores.
Those with significant market share but no strong backing were eventually acquired by the major giants, and the acquisition prices were not low.
In fact, in the early stage of the smartphone era, the mobile app market was very viable.
The chaotic order for entrepreneurs who couldn't see the direction was not good, but for Tan Jincheng, it was an opportunity.
Learning from Ajax and Borussia Dortmund's method of nurturing young players and then reselling them, any app he remembered using in his previous life certainly had market prospects.
He would develop them one by one.
Once market share was gained, if a giant stepped in, he would sell it directly.
If not, he would develop discreetly.
Once capital acts, it's quite generous, often involving tens of millions or hundreds of millions in acquisitions, which is quite considerable for an investment of a few million.
Develop the app, make the interface beautiful, make it very powerful, and then sell it to capital magnates, fleecing their wool, using their funds for research and development in lithium batteries and automobiles.
App development cycles are short, and market penetration is fast.
Giants are often hesitant to grab market share, so monetization is not an issue.
Among these, some promising APPs can also be used to exchange for resources.
Building cars isn't just about having money; one also needs certain connections, such as merging with technology companies.
Once this path is successful, it's also a good route.
The entire vehicle manufacturing is a huge industry, requiring at least tens of billions of yuan in capital.
Tan Jincheng once watched several interviews where the founders of NIO, XPeng, and Li Auto all said that an electric vehicle company needs at least 20 billion yuan to reach mass production.
Chery also had a plan to invest 100 billion yuan within five years.
From these reports, it's not hard to see that to gain market recognition, at least 20 billion yuan in initial capital is needed.
Where will this 20 billion yuan come from?
The first promotion of new energy vehicles should have been between 2009 and 2010.
During this period, the state introduced many policies to vigorously develop new energy vehicle production, offering many policy benefits.
However, unfortunately, during this period, besides the general public not being very accepting of new energy vehicles, it was mostly due to corporate inaction.
Most companies aimed to defraud national subsidies and had no intention of focusing on technology or genuinely manufacturing cars.
This even included some state-owned enterprises; of course, not a few were later investigated and penalized.
After a round of reshuffling and market planning, new energy vehicles entered a period of rapid growth in 2013, and production fully boomed by the end of 2014.
Therefore, 2014 was dubbed the "Year One of New Energy Vehicles" by the industry.
If there are less than 10 years until 2014, earning 20 billion yuan in less than ten years to catch the boom period of new energy vehicles is a continuation of Tan Jincheng's five-year plan.
It can also be called a ten-year plan, as true entrepreneurship began in 2004.
Earning 20 billion in 10 years is not impossible.
Listing Flash Drive, raising enough capital, and then using the changes of these ten years to pluck the wool of capital in various ways, haha, seems feasible too.
200 small goals, a long and arduous journey!
"Hey, I'm talking to you, what are you thinking about?"
Gu Qingqing poked Tan Jincheng's head.
Tan Jincheng, momentarily distracted, blurted out,
"I'm thinking about how to earn 200 small goals."
Gu Qingqing was somewhat stunned,
"What are small goals?"
"Huh? What 200 small goals?"
Tan Jincheng smiled,
"That's not important. What did you just ask me?"
"Oh, I asked if you could reveal your startup direction, even if it can't be done now, just let me hear it."
"How should I explain it to you, let me think,"
Tan Jincheng said, stroking his chin in thought.
How should this be explained?
There shouldn't be a concept of "APP" at this time, right?
He didn't know if there was, but he certainly hadn't heard of it.
The first generation iPhone hadn't been released yet, otherwise, he could find someone to buy two back for reference and explanation.
"It's like the games on your phone. In the future, I want to make this kind of built-in phone software. With the promotion of mobile phones, this kind of built-in software should have good market prospects."
This explanation should be close enough.
After all, they are all phone software, and they are all for entertainment, not much difference.
"Oh, that. Yes, indeed. Phone prices are falling faster and faster, and more and more people can afford phones. Doing this might really make money."
"Yes, but no rush. You focus on your studies first. If you have the chance to get a master's degree, that would be good too. Our family definitely needs someone with a high level of education."
Gu Qingqing blushed and pouted, saying,
"Who's 'our family' with you? You're your family, I'm my family, hmph!"
Her cute appearance made Tan Jincheng unable to resist gently pinching her nose.
"You, you and I are one family."
Although they were officially dating, their relationship was currently limited to holding hands.
Gu Qingqing was still a bit overwhelmed by such intimate gestures.
So she quickly changed the subject,
"Aren't you afraid I'll become a strong woman in the future by saying all this?"
"No, even if you become a strong woman, you'll still be my strong woman."
Encouraging a girlfriend to pursue a career is indeed not always a good idea.
Gu Qingqing was now full of curiosity about everything and trusted Tan Jincheng deeply, even somewhat adored him.
It wasn't impossible for her to embark on the path of a strong woman from now on.
A strong woman focused on her career would inevitably find it difficult to care for her family, affecting family harmony, but Tan Jincheng believed he could handle these things, and that was for later.
Firstly, he would definitely be strategizing from behind the scenes for the internet aspects, and funding would also be provided by him.
This meant that the company's main arteries would be on his side, and Gu Qingqing would appear more as a manager.
In a family, if the wife is a strong woman, the husband's life will naturally not be easy, but if the wife is a mere "vase," it's actually not very interesting.
Tan Jincheng didn't want his future wife to be a vase.
Why get married if you're going to choose a vase as a wife?
It would be more suitable to just enjoy life.
Cultivating Gu Qingqing's management and financial skills could better help his career and manage the home front.
Think about which of those tycoons' wives were vases?
Even if they didn't appear in the media, Tan Jincheng didn't think they were simple housewives.
Even the one who came later from Dong Ge's family was very capable.
That famous scene at the future press conference was spread across the entire network, often brought up for a laugh.
Women are not subservient to men.
True men have the strength to conquer capable women, not suppress their abilities out of fear that their wives will become strong women.
"Oh, stop, stop talking, hurry and take me back, it'll be dark soon."
It was getting too cheesy, and Gu Qingqing couldn't handle it anymore.
"Then call me Gege and I'll let you go."
(End of this chapter)