Xu Ye hadn't expected Zhao Ming to call the very next morning and say yes to the partnership.

So that same afternoon he went over to Lisheng Capital, spent several hours in Zhao Ming's office, and came away with a whole stack of business plans.

At an investment firm as substantial as Lisheng Capital, founders came knocking every single day. Finding projects to invest in was simply not a problem they had.

Back at the company, Xu Ye called in the investment team at once and started going through the proposals in the conference room.

The professionals in the first few groups of Lisheng Capital's investment department had in fact already read every one of these, and what reached Zhao Ming's hands were the ones they had cut — most of them with no real investment value.

Xu Ye eliminated a lot of them after one look at the name.

As someone who had “been through it all before,” he knew perfectly well which industries would make money in the next few years, which would have trouble making any, and which would most likely lose it.

He had almost finished the whole pile before one name finally caught his eye — Yingke Live.

If he remembered right, 2015 would be the year the livestreaming industry exploded.

Right now, this was the picture.

Douyu, Zhanqi, Longzhu, Huomao and Huya were all up and running already. The last of these had started out as YY Live before being spun off and renamed.

Most of the platforms were still losing money at this stage, and some of them would fold later on. But as the industry grew, a handful would pull away from the rest, and several streaming companies would even go public.

Yingke Live didn't have quite the profile of the other major platforms, but as far as he could recall it wasn't among the ones that fell away, and he had a vague memory of scrolling past news of the company's listing.

Xu Ye slapped the plan down on the conference table. "Take a look at this one. What do you…