"Mr. Zhang, you really guessed it. Ms. Pang from Ahri came to negotiate with me again. ”

Rocket.com CEO Mark laughed as he talked on the phone, and it could be seen that he was in a good mood at the moment.

Zhang Yida was discussing the next bike-sharing operation strategy with Huang Xiaofeng, and when he received a call from Mark, he gave Huang Xiaofeng a "pause" gesture and began to chat with Mark.

"Really?"

Zhang Yida smiled, not surprised by this result. For Ahri, a few hundred million dollars is far less than the time saved and the grand blueprint for international expansion.

"Then what price did Pang Lei offer you?" Zhang Yida asked Mark with a smile.

"$2.2 billion, a full ...... from last time $200 million. ”

Mark especially accentuated his tone with "$200 million" and dragged on a long note.

Zhang Yida reclined on the sofa, put the phone to his ear, and continued to ask: "Then do you think this price has reached the upper limit of their reserve price?"

"Definitely not!"

Mark said in a very affirmative tone, he is also a very "competent" businessman, in his opinion, Ahri fell apart last time, and this time he came to eat back grass, and he must have paid special attention to Zanda.

Zhang Yida also mentioned Ahri's international strategy to him, and he now agrees with Zhang Yida's point of view: coming to Zanda is a very important overseas springboard for Ahri, and it has an irreplaceable role.

"Then how much do you think you should sell for Zenda?"

Mark replied without thinking, "$3 billion! Not a penny less!"

Zhang Yida smiled and shook his head, this Mark really treats Ahri as a Kaizi.

Originally, he wanted to sell it for $2 billion, but if he hadn't been dissuaded by himself, he might have sold it a long time ago.

Now I see that Ahri has changed his mind and wants to sell it for $3 billion again.

But everything is too much, Zhang Yida is really afraid that Ahri will be provoked, and then he buys a small e-commerce company and slowly operates in Southeast Asia.

If that really happened, Zhang Yida was dumbfounded, threw hundreds of millions of dollars into it back and forth, and then "locked himself deeply".

If Pindoduo now has a market value of tens of billions of dollars, hundreds of millions of users, and hundreds of billions of GMV, Zhang Yida will not be unable to consider whether to take over Zenda.

But now that things in China have not been straightened out, how dare you blindly expand overseas?

After two years of obscene development, the roots will almost be firmly rooted, and it will not be too late to go to sea again.

Zhang Yida decided to persuade Mr. Mark, who was in the eye of money, and he said: "Mr. Mark, we have an old saying in China that "when you see a good thing, you will accept it, and you can stop when it is enough." ”

Mark said the old Chinese saying of Zhang Yida: when we are still in the lead in doing things, we can consider whether we should stop, and if we continue to persevere, it does not mean that the results will be better.

Mark silently recalled the meaning of this sentence, and sighed that Chinese is really broad and profound!

"Jackma is very temperamental, I'm afraid of forcing him, if he doesn't buy Zenda and open his own platform, we will be dumbfounded.

With more than $2 billion in acquisitions going to Southeast Asia, I believe that in no more than 2 years, Ahri will be able to start from scratch and achieve the current size of Zenda.

Ahri has no shortage of funds, no shortage of manpower, no lack of experience, nothing is lacking, the only thing he lacks is time.

This is also the reason why they chose to acquire Laizanda instead of building an e-commerce platform from scratch. ”

Mark still respects Zhang Yida's opinion very much, first of all, Zhang Yida is an Internet rich man whose worth is not weaker than him, and he also expects that Ahri will eat back grass.

So Mark is now very willing to cooperate with Zhang Yida, communicate more with each other, and strive to sell Zenda at a good price together. He added:

"Well, Mr. Zhang, since you said so, there must be a reason for you.

You are in China, and you must be more familiar with Ahri and Mr. Jackma than we are.

Mr. Zhang, what do you think our reserve price should be?"

Zhang Yida thought for a while and said, "2.5 billion US dollars!

Anyway, it's them who are in a hurry, not you.

All you have to do is show that you want to sell the company, but you're struggling with the price.

Ahri always had hope that the deal would be negotiated. That way they can give you a little bit of a markup until you reach your goal. ”

After hearing this, Mark smiled and said, "Mr. Zhang, you are really a difficult opponent, not at all like a 21-year-old young man. ”

"Ambition is not in old age!" Zhang Yida came out with another golden sentence.

"Whether a person has ambitions or not has nothing to do with his age!"

Mark exclaimed, "Is this what the ancient Chinese philosophers said? It seems that I am going to learn Chinese well, it is really interesting." ”

Zhang Yida taught Mark a few more famous sayings and aphorisms before hanging up the phone.

Then he summoned Song Caiwei and said: "Go and purchase a set of Xinhua dictionaries, as well as 300 Tang poems and three character classics."

Oh yes, and the Hand-German dictionary.

Then mail it to Mr. Mark from Deutsche Rocket Network. ”

Huang Xiaofeng was a little curious and asked, "What kind of operation is this?"

"The Barbarian State admires the culture of the Celestial Empire and asks me to help. ”

......

"Ms. Pang, happy cooperation!"

Pang Lei looked at the "dishonest" German in front of her, and she was angry, reluctantly shook hands with Mark, and said, "Congratulations, Mr. Mark, you have done a good business!"

Mark smiled, "Ms. Pang, you have also gained a mature and stable Southeast Asian e-commerce platform, and the future Ahri Group will definitely become an international giant comparable to Amazon." ”

sold Lyzanda for a good price, a full $2.6 billion, and Mark was also in a good mood to praise the other party.

Pang Lei sighed helplessly, although the purchase price of $2.6 billion did not exceed her bottom line, the taste of being ripped off was really uncomfortable.

She had been in Germany for several days and would negotiate with Mark once a day.

Her initial offer was $2.2 billion, but Mark in front of her was unmoved, and every day he talked to her about how promising Zenda was and how much revenue had grown.

If Mark hadn't relented a little and the price would drop every day, she would have thought that the other party was insincere and would have returned to China.

In this way, Pang Lei raised the price by tens of millions of dollars a day, and Mark reduced the price by tens of millions of dollars a day.

After nearly a week of talks, it was finally negotiated for $2.6 billion.

Pang Lei was very unhappy with the result, and if it hadn't been for Jackma's special explanation that she had done the deal within a week, she felt that she would definitely be able to negotiate a better purchase price.

But at this point, she just wanted to know about it as quickly as possible.

Then she flew to the United States and Singapore to negotiate with JP Morgan, Temasek and other shareholders.

Ruixiang, the largest shareholder, was put last by her, because she was afraid that Zhang Yida would sit on the ground and raise the price.

However, Zhang Yida did not come forward, and it was Lan Lan who was responsible for negotiating with Pang Lei.

In one of Ruixiang's offices, Lan Lan chatted with Pang Lei enthusiastically.

"Mr. Pang, I have known for a long time that you are a model for women in China's business community, but unfortunately I have never had the opportunity to see you, and today I finally met the deity. ”

For Lan Lan's praise, Pang Lei didn't take it too seriously, and also praised back: "Mr. Lan, you are also very good, you are only in your early 30s and served as the CFO of Ruixiang." ”

The two complimented each other on business, but neither of them rushed to the point.

In the end, it was Lan Lan who spoke first to get to the point, "Mr. Pang, are you here for the matter of coming to Zanda?"

"Not bad!"

When Pang Lei said this, she was also very confident, and she had negotiated her intentions with other shareholders who came to Zanda except Ruixiang.

As a major shareholder with little voting rights, Ruixiang can't stop this transaction even if he wants to.

At most, they don't sell their shares!

Ruixiang does not sell shares, and she has also considered a way to deal with it, that is, to keep injecting capital, then burning money, then injecting capital, and then burning money......

If Ruixiang does not follow the capital injection, the shares will be diluted. It would be better to follow the capital injection, and borrow Ruixiang's money to develop to Zada.

Anyway, the controlling stake is in the hands of Ahri, and he is not afraid of Ruixiang taking away the control of the company, and there is a small shareholder who will contribute money and efforts, what a happy thing it is.

As for financial dividends, according to the efficiency of Zenda's burning money, there is no need to think about it in five years.

Even if it is profitable, or listed, Ruixiang will get some financial returns.

For Ahri, the significance of strategic holding is the most real, if Ruixiang does not quit, it is not a big deal, anyway, it can't make any waves.

"Other shareholders have also informed us about this. ”

Lan Lan nodded, and said, "The price of $2.6 billion is right? Rui Xiang is willing to sell all his shares and not leave a single share." ”

Pang Lei was a little surprised, she thought she needed to have a good verbal battle, but she didn't expect Rui Xiang to speak so well.

The price is not discussed, the shares are not kept, and the conditions are not discussed, and all the shares are sold.

Pang Lei had some delusions for a while, did Zhang Yida find out in his conscience, and felt that he had done too much to reform himself.

But she quickly dispelled this thought from her mind, guessing that Zhang Yida was purely trying to make money.

She has calculated Ruixiang's capital contribution, and the two rounds of capital contribution add up to only 430 million US dollars, and according to the purchase price of 2.6 billion US dollars, Ruixiang, which holds 24.72% of the shares, can get an exit return of 642.72 million US dollars.

In less than a year of investment, the net profit exceeded 210 million US dollars, with an annual return of more than 50%.

Zhang Yida's bite is refreshing, but it is bitter.

Pang Lei didn't gossip much, took out the equity transfer intention agreement, and signed it with Lan Lan on behalf of both parties on the spot.

Then came to Zanda to convene a general meeting of shareholders to vote on the draft acquisition resolution.

When Zanda CEO Bitnet received the news, the whole person was in a state of confusion.

With the exception of the founding management team, all other shareholders agreed to approve Ahri's proposed acquisition.

Bitner's arms couldn't twist his thighs, and he and the management team, who lacked voting rights, could only follow the crowd and agree to sell the company.

In this way, the acquisition of Southeast Asia's largest Internet company came to an end.

The $2.6 billion "sky-high" acquisition has caused a sensation in the entire Internet circle in Southeast Asia.

The big financier Ahri also caught fire, and the Japanese media shouted: Ahri has no secret of his ambition to dominate the world!

There are also media attention to how much return Ruixiang has obtained from the largest shareholder of Zenda!

Ruixiang released a little news and made a profit of more than 200 million US dollars.

The media then helped Ruixiang calculate the return on investment, 100 million US dollars for nearly 1 year, 330 million US dollars for 3 months, and a profit of more than 200 million US dollars, with an annual return on investment of 116%.

The investors of the third phase of Ruixiang Industrial Fund all called separately and chatted with Zhang Yida.

But unfortunately, the first investment of $100 million came from the second phase of the fund, and the second investment of $330 million came from Ruixiang's own funds.

When the investment came to Zanda, the third phase of the industrial fund had not yet appeared! Or the major investors were still hesitating.

missed the huge return of Zenda, which made the investors of the third phase of the fund beat their chests, and at the same time strengthened their confidence to hug Zhang Yida's thighs.

Zhang Yida didn't feel anything special, but he just made a dozen small goals, and allocated a part of it to the investors of the second phase of the fund, and the real one that belonged to Ruixiang was just over 100 million, and the unit was US dollars.

However, this acquisition also made Ruixiang Industrial Fund completely famous. At the same time, it also sent a message to the outside world: investing in the Internet in Southeast Asia can really make money.

Many domestic venture capitalists are gearing up to enter Southeast Asia.