454 The Dilemma of Rice Tech (2-in-1)
The amazing box office of "Guild Wars", after sharing with distributors and theater advertisers, Huang Yifei got a total net income of about 700 million. For many ordinary people www.biquge.info the income of this figure is simply astronomical.
But for Huang Yifei now, the more than $100 million in money has given him a bit of a headache. Because Rice Technology has directly transformed into a research and development model like Huawei from the beginning of the factory model, but Rice Technology does not have such a background as Huawei, let alone Huawei's scientific and technological strength.
To put it in layman's terms, that is, the step is bigger, and the egg is starting to be pulled!
As a high-tech industry, hundreds of millions of dollars invested in it can be a splash, and it is also a start-up company like Rice Technology, a company that does not even have the most basic underlying patents.
So on the first day he came to Yanjing, Lei Jun found Huang Yifei and said to him: "Yifei, Huaxin Semiconductor and Future Lab not only consumed all the investment, but even invested all the profits of Rice Technology. Now there is almost no liquidity in the account of Rice Technology, and even the advance payment of raw materials is problematic. ”
Hearing Lei Jun's words, Huang Yifei's brows furrowed, if the funds were broken, it would have a fatal impact on a fledgling technology company. Once the payment for raw materials is not paid and the technology media knows, then it will be more and more difficult for Rice Technology to raise funds, and the supply chain will be stopped.
To exaggerate, it is very likely that Rice Technology will go to an abyss because of its own leap forward!
However, Huang Yifei has already launched the layout of Huaxin Semiconductor, and the future laboratory has begun to take shape with additional investment later. If you give up now, not only will it have a huge impact on the reputation of Rice Technology, but even the huge investment in the past will be wasted. You must know that the total investment of the entire Huaxin Semiconductor and Future Lab has exceeded 400 million US dollars!
In exchange for RMB, it is close to 3 billion yuan of investment, and this is not a valuation, but a real cash investment! It can be said that all the belongings on Huang Yifei's books, even including Lei Jun's angel investment, have already paid a huge price.
And now there is no way to make additional investment, because the offline expansion of Rice Home has been used in the next round of rice technology financing. Because China's real estate has soared again under the national policy of 4 trillion yuan of economic revitalization, the cost of offline physical stores has also increased exponentially, and it is really impossible to spare money to invest in research and development.
Looking at Lei Jun with a sad face, Huang Yifei didn't know what to say. Half a year ago, when the two of them first discussed the future development direction, they were so radiant, because the goal of the two of them was to become the second Huawei, a high-tech company based on research and development.
Perhaps it was the rapid development of rice technology that caused both of them to be overly optimistic. In particular, Huang Yifei thinks that he knows the development direction of mobile phones in the future, and thinks that Huawei's Kirin chip catches up with foreign Qualcomm, and even surpasses MediaTek, which is only a few years, and it doesn't seem very difficult.
But Huang Yifei forgot that Hua Wei seemed to have changed from a miscellaneous machine that charged phone bills to send mobile phones, to China's No. 1 mobile phone company. Although the time is only a few years, the foundation is not a few years to achieve, it has a deep capital!
Because Huawei has more than 20 years of experience in network communication, HiSilicon Semiconductor, which developed Kirin chips, has been designing semiconductor technology since 1991. And even so, when it started with mobile phone chips, it also relied on a large number of blood transfusions from the parent company!
Huang Yifei does not have the technical accumulation of this kind of technology, and Rice Technology, as the parent company, needs financing to expand, how can he have the money to support Huaxin Semiconductor and Future Laboratory, and he can come up with almost all the profits, which is already the limit of Rice Technology Company.
It is difficult to ride a tiger, which is the adjective of Huang Yifei's current state, and he did not expect that his decision-making for the future would develop into this. It seems that this world is far from being as simple as I think, and I am reborn with excellent physical fitness, and I can play boxing, and even develop fighting events and promotion companies.
But when he really faced the sea of business, the level of the otaku in his previous life was completely insufficient. However, Huang Yifei still has an advantage, that is, he knows that the future will always be the home of technology companies, and those brands that are smash hits simply by relying on cost performance will be slowly eliminated after all.
Even the Xiaomi of later generations also suffered Waterloo in 2016, and Hua Wei has its own core things, so it can carry Qualcomm and the domestic heroes!
Science and technology will always be the primary productive force, and Huang Yifei will never forget this wise saying!
"Mr. Lei, we have now reached the key thing, further we can be called great like Apple in the future, take a step back, we will be in the midst of all kinds of cost-effective companies, and we will never be able to stand at the top! I still have 100 million US dollars in cash in my account, which can be invested in it for as long as I can! Also, I can release a part of my equity to obtain greater financing!"
Huang Yifei controls 51% of the equity of Rice Technology, and after these rounds of financing, he only occupies 45% of the equity (including 10% of the original shares that were previously given to Zhang Fan). And because of the influx of angel investment, Lei Jun's share share has been reduced from 45% to 35%!
Although Huang Yifei no longer has an absolute controlling stake, he is still the largest shareholder of Rice Technology, and Huang Yifei also knows that the valuation of four billion US dollars is definitely not the limit of Rice Company, even if it is ten times more easily. So not to the point of last resort, he is unwilling to dilute his original shares.
Now that it has reached this point, Huang Yifei has no choice, either to release the original shares and choose to continue financing, or to consider going public.
But now Rice Technology is in a more critical moment, and listing is not the best choice and time. What's more, Huang Yifei's preparation for listing has not yet begun, and the lack of money is already imminent, so he must only consider financing!
After listening to Huang Yifei's words, Lei Jun nodded and said with a stern face: "I can still take out about 50 million US dollars, this part is not an angel investment, it is my private injection." ”
"No need, continue to raise funds!" Huang Yifei decisively rejected Lei Jun's idea of continuing to inject capital. Because he knows that the current Lei Jun is far from reaching the net worth of the next generation, and the 50 million may be that he has pressed all his belongings! To put it mildly, it is the coffin book!
Although Lei Jun is the godfather of China's IT, seriously speaking, before the creation of Xiaomi Technology, he was not as good as his juniors Ma Huateng and Ding Lei, because he did not create a top Internet brand of his own.
Jinshan can barely be counted as one, but it has declined too quickly, and its influence is far less than that of NetEase, let alone compared with the giant penguins. As a historical prophet, Huang Yifei is well aware that according to the development of history, Rice Technology will definitely become one of the top technology companies, and its market value will also be squeezed into the first-tier club.
But now history has been changed by itself, and rice technology has reached this point of making a big mistake because of its steps. To be honest, Huang Yifei doesn't have much confidence in the future development, he can still make money by boxing, as well as Kunlun fighting and dragon promotion, and even whale live broadcast that is also burning money now, etc.
Take 10,000 steps back and say, Huang Yifei is in Yanjing and Donghai, there are still two buildings, no matter how rice technology collapses, Huang Yifei will hurt his muscles and bones at most, and the most fundamental core industry will not have much impact, so it's a big deal to quit the technology circle and fight with peace of mind.
But Lei Jun is different, this is his whole belongings pressed up, and even blocked his last passion for starting a business. If rice technology collapses, he really collapses. Jinshan is half dead, and the identity of an angel investor will also be affected because of Rice Technology, with his age of forty, how much time can he have to make a comeback?
Lei Jun heard that Huang Yifei rejected him, and with his IQ, he naturally understood the reason for Huang Yifei's refusal. At this time, Lei Jun said with a faint smile on his face: "Yifei, rice technology is everything to me, my future, my dream! I am 44 years old this year, this may be my last business venture, and it is also my most successful." If Rice Technology fails, I will also have nothing, because I know that I will not have a next time. ”
Lei Jun's words have already been said to this point, Huang Yifei knew that there was no need to say anything, so he stood up and said: "Mr. Lei, rice technology is not so easy to collapse, and I will not compromise on the pursuit of technology companies." Prepare for the listing process, we're going to blow the final blow!"
There are always pros and cons to going public, and Huang Yifei can use his historical foresight to at least have a basic control over the general direction, and he can "dictatorship" run the company according to his own ideas. But once listed, it must be accountable to shareholders, and it must also have annual financial statements.
It is difficult to invest in Huaxin Semiconductor and Future Lab without reservation like this now, after all, not to mention that the report is not good-looking, the stock price will plummet, and it may not even be able to pass the proposal.
But now Huang Yifei has no other choice, only by going public can he get a huge amount of money, so that Huaxin Laboratory and the future laboratory can be completely developed!
"Well, I'm ready. Lei Jun nodded, there is no way for either side Maybe this is the last way, and it is also a way that can completely change the current situation, otherwise Huang Yifei and Lei Jun will not be able to plug this hole.
In addition to the matter of rice technology, Huang Yifei also announced an important thing on the last day of 2012, that is, Kunlun KLF will acquire Bellator (Warrior Fighting Championship) and M1 fighting events, completely becoming a new Kunlun KLF, and will directly launch a full range of unlimited fighting events in 2013!
After this news was released, the eyes of the whole world were attracted by China, and many people did not expect that the Kunlun KLF, which had only been established for a year, actually annexed the world's second and third ranked martial arts events. Although even so, Kunlun KLF still has a very big gap with the UFC, but at least from the beginning of the position where you can't even see the taillights, you can see the back of the UFC, and the next thing is to completely surpass the UFC and become the world's No. 1 unrestricted fighting event!
There is also the Kunlun martial arts competition after more than a year of development, has completely entered the formal, almost all the well-known traditional martial arts schools in China, have almost joined the Kunlun martial arts fighting. At the same time, in order to stimulate the competitiveness of these traditional martial arts people, Huang Yifei is not the title of world champion, world king, etc., and directly calls him the leader of the martial arts league!
At the same time, the Kunlun martial arts fighting event also brought Huang Yifei an unexpected joy, that is, his ratings in China even surpassed Kunlun fighting, becoming the highest-rated fighting event of Kunlun Fighting Company!
The ultra-high ratings naturally drive the benefits of advertising costs, naming fees and so on. At the same time, it also made the prize money of the Kunlun martial arts event rise, attracting too many traditional martial arts people to participate, and entering a virtuous circle stage.
This is also something that Huang Yifei didn't expect before, originally Kunlun martial arts was just a public welfare project that he used to burn money, and planned to lose money to support China's traditional martial arts to enter the actual combat stage. As a result, I didn't expect that the status of traditional martial arts in the hearts of Chinese people is far more than what is free fighting, unlimited fighting, and so on.
Maybe many people don't pay much attention to martial arts, but the vast majority of people have read or understood martial arts novels. Huang Yifei still remembers a sentence that martial arts novels are fairy tales for adults.
When the once ethereal martial arts people appeared on the TV screen, many people couldn't help but watch with great curiosity in their hearts. It's not even just men, but the whole family is sitting in front of the TV, pointing and talking curiously that Shaolin kung fu is like this, Wudang martial arts is like this, it turns out that the southern fist is like this, and the northern leg is kicked like this.
The astonishing development of Kunlun martial arts allowed Huang Yifei to see the vitality of ancient traditional martial arts in modern times. Moreover, batches of traditional martial arts heirs, after experiencing modern ring fighting and training, have begun to integrate their traditional martial arts moves into modern fighting, and are no longer the original martial arts routines and flower fist embroidered legs.
Huang Yifei officially announced that Kunlun martial arts had entered the world martial arts directory and began to compete with foreign martial arts! However, in order to protect this seedling that had developed with great difficulty, as well as the self-esteem of domestic martial artists, Huang Yifei only announced that traditional martial arts people from other countries could also join Kunlun martial arts fighting, such as free fighting, unlimited fighting and other modern martial arts, and could not participate in it.
The focus of the invitation is naturally Japan's karate and South Korea's taekwondo, karate is easy to say, Huang Yifei has almost conquered Japanese martial arts, and won their pinnacle of the title of 100 people, so Huang Yifei announced that Kunlun martial arts allowed Japan to join, many karate people chose to join and fight.
But Korean taekwondo is a bit difficult to do, after all, Huang Yifei is now the national enemy of South Korea, and the perverted self-esteem of South Koreans can't allow failure. So basically they all rejected Huang Yifei's invitation and were unwilling to come to China to participate in Kunlun martial arts.
Huang Yifei didn't take this to heart, because if he wasn't hurt, he would never wake up. When a few years later, when the Korean students in the World Taekwondo Martial Arts Gym found out that they were not the opponents of the Chinese Martial Arts Gym students at all, then they knew that they would be eliminated.
Because people in this world who can learn martial arts will naturally choose the strongest martial arts!
In the last time of 2012, after announcing these important decisions, Huang Yifei could finally take a good rest. Together with his teammates and Chen Jingyi, he spent his 22nd birthday in Yanjing, and then returned to Star City together, planning to rest for more than a month and spend the Chinese New Year at the same time.
Over the years, Huang Yifei has been "fighting in the south and the north" all over the world, and rarely stays at home for more than a week, let alone rest for a month. As a professional athlete who frequently faces competitions, Huang Yifei does not have a month of such "luxury" rest.
But now that Huang Yifei's competition frequency has finally come down, he can accompany his parents well. At the same time, Huang Yifei also felt a little that time flies, and he has changed from a fifteen-year-old boy to a twenty-two-year-old young man today.
However, Huang Yifei immediately faced a very embarrassing thing, that is, it seems that Chen Jingyi will graduate from college this year, but his credits are only in his sophomore year, and there is almost a two-year gap with Chen Jingyi.
So Huang Yifei's original desire to have a good rest was shattered, and he used the time he spent with Chen Jingyi for a month, and he was crazy about his homework. At the same time, he began to add courses and planned to complete enough credits for graduation faster.
Because Chen Jingyi has been admitted to Stanford University for a master's degree in advance, why can't she be too far behind, and strive to graduate from college early, right?
More than a month passed quickly, and Huang Yifei returned to the United States again, this time in addition to going to Stanford for the exam, he was preparing for the competition with all his might. Because he is going to challenge the best man in the world so far in free fighting - the magic boy Harry!