Chapter 7: First VC Investment

"And the Lord said, His doomers, who walk in the world, will save his Lamb. ”

Just when Piaggio's face was gray.

Able smiled and walked up to him and said a holy word.

The word is the words of Jesus Christ in the Bible.

As for whether this sentence was really said by Jesus Christ, who cares?

Maybe it's true, maybe it's not.

But no one cares about it.

"Is there anything I can help you with? ”

He asked Piaggio.

Piaggio shook his head frustratedly, "Nothing. I'm fine sir. ”

"Your face looks a little bad. Don't you really need any help?"

"No, thank you, sir. ”

After a little politeness, Piaggio turned his head and wanted to leave.

There was no investment from Doleaya Capital, the funds were broken, and the experiment could not be continued.

But he couldn't give up.

This experiment, this technique. The real operation has been, although only two years.

But the theory of this technology has been planned since more than ten years ago. Piaggio has been working on this technology for almost fifteen years.

In order to experiment and start a business, he sold his house, sold his car, and his wife divorced him.

He is not allowed to start a business or fail an experiment.

Although in fact, the investment manager, that is, the fat man named Marcus, was actually right.

Before Doleaa Capital, he had searched for almost all of the venture capital firms in Los Angeles.

Without exception, all you get is rejection.

Even the investment of Turaea Capital was insisted on by Marcus.

Now it seems that the investment has failed, and Marcus's own job may be lost.

Piaggio didn't dare to blame Marcus, he had already helped himself enough.

Piaggio turned away.

Abel hesitated.

The mysterious smoky text quickly appeared in front of his eyes.

[Mission: Mission completed]

[Reward: The latest e-waste disposal technology (please pay attention to check)]

What is this?

Reminders?

The smoke of fate is so obvious, Abel naturally can't let the other party go.

"Wait a minute, sir. ”

Abel said loudly.

"I heard you have a company or some technology that you need to invest in. ”

"I just have a little bit of money here, and I also have the intention of investing. I don't know if you have time, tell me about your investment plan?!"

Hear this.

Piaggio was shocked.

He turned around, "Sir, are you telling the truth?"

Abel smiled and sat on top of the Ferrari F12 next to him.

"Look at this car, how beautiful it is. I made money by investing and owned it. ”

"Investing, it's my business. ”

……………………

More than an hour later.

Inside a café on Beverly Hills.

Abel sat with the chubby Marcus and the lanky Piaggio.

"So, Mr. Sephorosa. Are you interested in buying 85% of the shares of Bluestar Future in the hands of Duria Capital?"

The fat man in a suit and leather shoes, carrying a large document bag, reconfirmed the general situation, and asked Abel.

Bluestar Future is the name of the company that Piaggio started.

Dolea Capital is one of the many venture capitalists in the western United States.

In the whole world, the country with the largest venture capital must be the United States. And in the whole of the United States, the place with the most venture capital must be the western metropolitan area of the United States.

The entire Western Metropolitan Area is very large, with Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and other cities in it.

In particular, San Francisco's Silicon Valley is the mecca of global IT, high-tech, and Internet entrepreneurship. Some newspapers even said that more than half of the venture capital in the United States was smashed in Silicon Valley.

Venture capital managers like Marcus spend their days haunting Silicon Valley, looking for possible investment opportunities and looking for new technologies.

They're trying to discover the next Facebook, the next Twitter, or the next Google.

Most of these venture capital operations are to put eggs in dozens of baskets.

With so many eggs, just one can hatch a Tyrannosaurus rex.

Then these venture capitals are making a lot of money. Piaggio's blue star future is the egg that Marcus is optimistic about that may grow into a Tyrannosaurus rex.

Of course.

Now it is necessary to add the word once in front of the word bullishness.

In two years, Doraia Capital has not received any good news from the side of Bluestar Future.

The company's patience and Marcus's expectations have been exhausted.

If you want to blame Piaggio, you can't do PPT, unlike some startups, there is nothing at hand at all, but he relies on PPT to make a good future and draw a beautiful pie.

It has attracted a group of venture capital companies to invest heavily in it.

For example, Huaxia only sold about 500 semi-finished electric vehicles, but in the end it was successfully listed, with a market value of tens of billions.

Another example is the Xibei boss who is still stranded in the United States and has been saying that he will return to Huaxia next week. People are even more powerful, with tens of billions of investments, and even a large number of domestic stars in China are also victims.

Both of these are the culmination of PPT Dafa, and Piaggio doesn't even have one ten-thousandth of their skills.

Capital has lost faith in him.

In the face of Marcus's inquiry, Abel actually didn't know anything about the future of this blue star.

But he still has some confidence.

Is this a hint from the mysterious smoke to yourself, or a prize for completing the task yourself.

This smoke, Abel decided to call it the smoke of fate.

It can't give prizes directly, nor does it directly add attribute points, and it doesn't have the function of opening the mall to redeem.

But it seems to have the power to guide fate, and Abel directly calls it the smoke of fate.

"Sure. I am very confident and very interested in Mr. Piaggio. Willing to invest. ”

Abel said to Marcus.

Hearing his affirmative answer, Piaggio gave him a happy smile.

"Okay. Marcus shrugged and turned his head to look at the Ferrari outside the café.

Someone is willing to take over an investment that could cost them a job, recoup the company's losses, and make their resume less ugly.

What more could you ask for?

"Good. Mr. Sephorosa. ”

Marcus took out a bunch of documents seriously: "Doleaia Capital has invested a total of two million US dollars in Bluestar Future Company, accounting for 85% of the company's shares. ”

"If you want to take over, you need to provide at least $2 million, and Dolaea Capital is willing to give you the shares!"

"All?85%?"

"Yes. ”

"No problem!"

In Los Angeles, where venture capital is everywhere, such cooperation, such transfers are very common.

Naturally, the efficiency is also extremely high.

Soon a special lawyer came to the door to draw up the contract.

Through his previous memories, Abel found the lawyer he was familiar with, and the two parties reviewed the contract.

The contract was signed.

Abel lost $2 million in his Wells Fargo account, and finally got an extra Ferrari sports car and 90 percent of the stock of a company called Blue Star Future.

Why 90 percent? and not 85 percent?

Because he added another $200,000 in venture capital and got 5% of the stock.

Altogether it is 90%.

The remaining 10% of the shares are in the hands of Piaggio and the entrepreneurial team.

This model is the one that is popular throughout Silicon Valley.

Basically, venture capital accounts for the majority, and entrepreneurship and original management teams account for a small part.

Only in this way will the entrepreneurial team work with all their heart, because they are actually their own bosses.

100% ownership is not impossible, but it is likely to seriously discourage the enthusiasm of the entrepreneurial team.

This is a very serious problem for high-tech companies in the early days.

Moreover, Piaggio is reluctant to sell the last 10% of his shares and that of the startup team.

The second mission of Smoke of Fate.

This is the end of the day.