Chapter 249: Consider Financing
If you want to win the five percent of Ali's shares, the first problem to be solved is money!
Where does the money come from?
He thought about this question for a long time, but he never made up his mind. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In a sense, he and Ma Yun belong to the same kind of people, and they have a strong desire to control the company.
In the morning meeting, Ma Yun has been clinging to the bottom line of 5%, in order not to reduce the proportion of his and his team's shares in Ali too much, thereby weakening his own right to speak.
This can also be seen from the development history of Ali for more than 10 years in the previous life, as many as six or seven rounds of financing process, even if the individual shares have been weakened to more than 10 percent, but has been firmly controlling the control of the company, this is the ability, and why is it not a desire to control?
In the final analysis, I don't want the business I started to be controlled by others, and then embark on a path that is not in line with my wishes.
This mentality also applies to Gu Heng today, his two companies, Hengchuang and Hengcheng, if they really want to carry out financing, it is not that they can't find suitable investors, but before, in addition to cashing out a certain share of Hengchuang to obtain development funds, he basically did not consider financing.
The main reason is that I still want to make a plate, and then I can exchange the smallest stake for more financing amount, so as to firmly control an absolute controlling stake in the company.
And this is also the biggest reason why Gu Heng has not made up his mind now.
If you want to get funds, the best way is undoubtedly to raise money, and Hengchuang and Hengcheng, now more potential for development should be Hengcheng with YY games, but now YY games have just started, far from reaching a peak period, and it is not cost-effective to raise funds too early at present.
After weighing the pros and cons, Gu Heng finally decided to raise money!
The reason that forced him to make this decision was still Ali, only with the capital in hand, when he carried out the next round of financing in the future, it was possible to maintain not to fall behind, or even further expand the shareholding in his hands.
If I remember correctly, in order to seize the online shopping market with eBay, Taobao has always adopted a free strategy for buyers and sellers, and the inevitable result of free is to burn a large amount of money.
This also leads to the fact that Ali's next round of financing is estimated to come soon.
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In the evening, the reception banquet for Ma Yun and others was placed in the Huatian Hotel, since he had several more in-depth conversations with Chen Jiming, the relationship between him and the other party seemed to have a nature of both teacher and friend, so whenever he invited guests to dinner, this became his first choice.
During the banquet, when the wine was in full swing, Chen Jiming, who happened to be free, came in to greet him, but Gu Heng's "Mr. Chen" fell into the ears of Ma Yun and others.
Huatian Hotel, which is also a brand, plus it is a state-owned enterprise, Mr. Chen's weight is a bit light.
As we all know, state-owned enterprises are generally regarded as institutional enterprises, and their relationship networks are quite extensive.
Like Sinopec these state-level enterprises, the executive level of the chairman is generally the deputy ministerial level, and such as Huatian Hotel such a provincial state-owned enterprise, the chairman is the deputy department level, although the administrative level does not necessarily represent the real power, but with this aura, coupled with the capital in the hands of people, they can make their network wider than the same level of businessmen.
So, naturally, when they saw Gu Heng's broad appearance, Ma Yun and the others secretly raised Gu Heng's level in their hearts. You must know that in the capital market, the wider the social circle, the easier the road in the future.
In the view of Ma Yun and others, Gu Heng, a young man who started with an Internet company, can still maintain his network of relationships in society, which is not simply outstanding can be summarized.
After Chen Jiming left, Gu Heng re-entered the table, looked at Ma Yun and the others who had a slightly strange look in their eyes, and said with a smile: "I have some cooperation with Mr. Chen, so we know each other after coming and going." ”
Chen is always in the hotel service industry, but Mr. Gu is in the Internet industry, which can be put online, this ability is not simple. ”
Cai Congxin's compliment was obviously something in his words, probably because he was curious about the cooperation between Gu Heng and Chen Jiming.
"Actually, to put it bluntly, it's nothing, that is, I have a Meituan network in my hand, which is mainly for students to order meals and rooms in a group purchase and reservation business in nearby restaurants and hotels, and Mr. Chen also wants to develop the hotel market around the school. ”
Gu Heng probably said that Meituan.com, there is nothing else, it is to show off his strength a little, and in the case that the cooperation has not yet been finally negotiated, he will hold himself a little higher, and at the negotiation table, the initiative will be one more point.
said that there was a heart, and the listener also had the intention to cooperate with a high-end five-star hotel on the market, which obviously also meant that Gu Heng still had some hole cards in his hand that they didn't know.
It was only now that they suddenly realized that they never seemed to really see through the young man in front of them, and the more they understood, the more they discovered the unfathomable nature of the other party.
In less than two years, how many things have come out of his hands, i.e. online game forum, Hengchuang network management software, game trading platform, Alipay, YY games, and the Meituan network just mentioned.
This is a bit scary, not to mention how many of these products can become bigger and stronger, at least this pioneering ability is enough to make people admire.
Besides, the development of Internet enterprises must be based on users, and with so many products in hand, how many users can be gathered in the end? It is no wonder that after the YY game was launched, it was able to stir up hot topics on the whole network in just seven days.
At this time, Ma Yun was inevitably a little hot about the user resources in Gu Heng's hands. How much help would it be if these users could be driven to their own online shopping platforms?
"By the way, Mr. Ma, as far as I know, among Alibaba's shareholders, there seem to be well-known investment institutions such as Goldman Sachs and Softbank, do you think that if I take out YY games for financing, will they be willing to invest?"
Hearing this, Ma Yun, who was still quietly looking at Gu Heng, didn't come back to his senses for a long time, then his eyes narrowed, and he asked, "Mr. Gu, are you serious?"
"Of course it's true, I originally planned to develop YY games and then consider the issue of financing. But now it seems that this issue has to be put on the agenda earlier, otherwise I will be a little short of funds in my hands if I inject Ali. ”
Gu Heng began to open his eyes and talk nonsense again, if it was just this injection of Ali, he would be able to find a way to turn around, but considering the next development of the company, as well as Ali's next round of financing after the launch of Taobao, he must prepare enough funds by himself, so that he can be prepared, and even expand the share of shares he occupies.
In addition, he also wanted to test Ma Yun's attitude a little, to see his views on capital, and his attitude towards him, who was about to become a collaborator.