Chapter 169: Ugly Words Ahead
The reason why he talks about shares, Zhao Fusheng has his own considerations.
As the saying goes, to promote Mien, to fight Mi hatred. Small grace can gush springs, and great grace is like great hatred. Human nature cannot withstand beatings, torture, and temptation. Those who can achieve both love and money may be wise men.
In the simplest way, Dad Zhao and his comrades-in-arms may be able to accept the matter of joint stock now, but when the supermarket grows bigger, will everyone's hearts be as united as they are now?
How will the shareholders of more than a dozen companies distribute power when the time comes? Who doesn't have a three-family and six relatives, fox friends and dog friends, who want to stretch out a hand and get a piece of the pie when the time comes, what should they do?
After many things have happened, we are reluctant to write them down, because we clearly know that although the process of these things is worth knowing, the process of recording them will make us have to go through those pains, anxieties, doubts, and even betrayals.
Zhao Fusheng was reluctant to talk too deeply about things with his father, because he felt that now his father and his comrades-in-arms were in the initial stage of starting a business, and if he put some possible things in the future in front of them, it would make the original sincere friendship of the elders covered with a layer of money.
Generally speaking, human growth is a one-way street, that is, as you grow older, you become more and more humble, the more you know awe, the more sympathy and empathy, and the more weighty you have, which is growth. But in fact, we often see the opposite, and sometimes we even find that the people we once respected and approved the more they didn't know it, the more they didn't know it.
Why do people do this?
It may be that you take yourself too seriously, and the perception of yourself by the people around you can coordinate and balance self-knowledge, but because you value yourself too seriously, you can only accept and recognize yourself, and reject and deny yourself, and in the long run, you will form your own small circle around yourself, all of which are "pushing" yourself, so you value yourself more and more, and you will become a ruler that has long been out of balance, and your own centimeter is someone else's ten centimeters, in other words, someone else's ten centimeters is also a centimeter in your own eyes. I met many such people, who were very talented in themselves, but in the end they were confined to their own self-awareness, could not find their way, and lost themselves.
Zhao Fusheng often warns himself now, don't become such a person, so he admonishes himself to do at least two things: First, don't be someone else's teacher, and don't be someone else's master. Second, if a person particularly likes himself, or if he particularly likes a person, he retreats one after another and keeps a certain distance, and the sense of distance is the greatest objectivity. But do you know if you do both?
Not necessarily, I'm afraid, but at least I hope to have humility and awe. To understand the world and discover oneself, it seems that there is no other way to do it than to read.
Life is like calculus, going in the wrong direction to the limit of the microdecomposition of a cruel truth.
Zhao Fusheng has always believed that sometimes it is more appropriate to say ugly things in front of him than hindsight, but the problem is that in this situation, if he breaks something, it may cause an invisible rift between his father and his comrades.
This rift may seem inconspicuous now, but one day, it will become a big problem that affects the entire supermarket business.
Therefore, Zhao Fusheng did not choose a drastic way to cut, but used another method.
"Fusheng, you said it carefully, how to attract investment?" Zhao's father didn't speak, but it was Hou Liangping, who had been silent, who had been silent.
Because he is not familiar with his father's comrades-in-arms, Zhao Fusheng has no deep impression of Hou Liangping, but it can be seen that this Uncle Hou's character should belong to the kind of taciturn and not very fond of talking.
"The way to attract capital is very simple, that is, we will make this shopping mall a limited liability company, and all of you will be shareholders at that time, but in order to avoid external capital from invading our internal structure, we will structure the internal structure in the form of ABC three types of equity before introducing capital, and ABC stocks have the same market value. It's just that each share of Class A shares has only one voting right. Class B shares, each share, have six voting rights. and Class C shares, each share, have sixty voting rights..."
"What are you talking about?" Before Zhao Fusheng could finish speaking, Chen Hai interrupted.
"I made it very clear, in short, in order to avoid the dilution of our shares in the future, so from now on, we will classify everyone's shares. For example, our family now accounts for half of the shares, if there is an investment in the future, it will definitely be diluted, and when the time comes, it may even be kicked out, in order to avoid such a situation, I think we can make our family's shares become class C shares, and Uncle Chen, your shares, if you can sign an agreement promising not to sell, can also be converted into class C shares, otherwise, you can only exercise voting rights as class B shares. As for the funds brought in, they can only be used as ordinary A shares. Zhao Fusheng said a lot of things, and Chen Hai and Hou Liangping were all confused, and even Zhao's father was at a loss, and he couldn't understand what his son was saying at all.
Why hasn't it started business yet, and it's a matter of what shares are involved?
Zhao Fusheng looked at their expressions, and knew that his words had a big impact on these elders, he was not in a hurry anyway, he sat there by himself, picked up an apple and ate it, giving his father, Chen Hai and Hou Liangping enough time to digest.
In fact, he made a bit of a fuss in doing so, after all, even later technology companies only used a 10-to-1 two-tier equity structure. And now a supermarket that has just started a business is actually planning to use a three-tier equity structure, if any economist knows, it will definitely go crazy.
But in fact, Zhao Fusheng knows that such a structure is still risky, and it does not guarantee the absolute control of the entrepreneur over the company, because there will always be dilution of equity in the financing process, and once the founder's stock is diluted to a critical value, if other shareholders unite against the founder, it is still very likely that the founder will lose absolute control.
To put it more clearly, once one of my father's comrades-in-arms has two hearts, after the equity is diluted, it is very likely that his family will make a wedding dress for others.
It's not that Zhao Fusheng doesn't trust these uncles and elders, it's because each of them is not alone, they have to support a large family, and now everyone starts a business together.
In his previous life, Zhao Fusheng encountered such a thing, starting a business with a good friend, but in the end, people designed to deceive him of all his net worth.
If Tan Kaixuan hadn't come forward at that time, maybe Zhao Fusheng would have been imprisoned.
And that time, in the face of the friend who was blocked by Tan Kaixuan and himself, Zhao Fusheng said: "I understand that you have difficulties, and I understand that you have difficulties, and I also respect the reason why you have to do it, it doesn't matter, I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed." ”
Since then, Zhao Fusheng gave up the idea of partnering with others to do business, and honestly returned to his hometown to work.
Because he knows very well that he is not the material for business. Instead of reluctantly continuing to mess around outside, it is better to recognize the reality as soon as possible and live the second half of your life honestly, so as not to cause any more trouble.
It's just that the rebirth that happened ten years later was something that Zhao Fusheng never expected, after all, fate is such a thing, and it often makes people cry and laugh.
Of course, Zhao Fusheng only made this suggestion, as for whether his father and his comrades-in-arms would accept it, that was their business.
If you are willing to accept it, then let's work together to start a business. If he didn't want to, Zhao Fusheng didn't mind returning the money to them and letting them out.
In fact, Zhao Fusheng didn't expect his father to be able to take down the first floor of Hualian Commercial Building, and he knew that he might as well go to the bank for a loan to support his father's business with future advertising.
It's a big deal to confess everything to your parents than to break up unhappily in the end.
In his thoughts, as long as his father's comrades-in-arms don't try to add drama to themselves, he doesn't mind taking this group of veterans to prosper together.