Chapter 67: Difficult Questions to Answer
As soon as he and Xiang Ruihan got out of the elevator, Yan Maobo, the boss of the "Tongchen Travel" company, stepped forward with a smile and said, "Haha! Presumably you are Li Hao of Yihao Investment Company, Mr. Li! I didn't expect that Mr. Li is not only young and promising, but also talented, there are not many young people like Mr. Li now!
Yan Maobo held Li Hao's right hand with both hands, and the wrinkles on his face were squeezed together with a smile, others were a little lucky when they were middle-aged, just the beer belly that popped out was in stark contrast to Li Hao's flat belly.
Li Hao let go of Yan Maobo's hands, and then said to him calmly, "Mr. Yan, it's over." Young and promising, a talent, in fact, I can't get to do it. ”
Li Hao said quite realistically. If it weren't for the privilege of Shenhao Games, he might still be driving people in Macau as a driver.
"Mr. Li, you are too modest! please, please, please, come to Mr. Li, let me introduce you, this is the deputy general manager of my company, Xu Liangpeng, the one standing next to him is the director of operations of our company, Jin Jun......" Yan Maobo was gracious but difficult to introduce Li Hao in turn, until the last sweet-looking product manager Shi Yingxue, the introduction was completed. He enthusiastically continued to take Li Hao to visit the company.
The scale of the company is medium in the industry, but as more and more price wars continue to start, the company is now on the verge of making a choice. It is to continue the price war to the end, and take small profits but quick turnover. Or reorganize the industry, take differentiated services, and specialize in customized services.
As the company's CEO, Yan Maobo knows very well in his heart that there will never be a way out for any company that fights a price war, because this will only make itself more and more dead. Especially in a sunrise industry like tourism, if the company has no other development, sooner or later it will be dragged down and swallowed up by these giants in the industry.
Yan Maobo introduced the company to Li Hao and Ruihan while quietly observing Li Hao's facial expressions. To be honest, there have been two groups of investors before, but after negotiation, I found that these investors are more willing to invest their money in those industry leaders with stable development. As for travel companies like "Tongchen Travel", which are in urgent need of transformation, the investment risk is too great, and the slightest carelessness may lead to the loss of money.
A group of high-level executives followed behind Yan Maobo and Li Hao, as if they were traveling with the prince in ancient times, so frightened that the ordinary employees in the company didn't even dare to sneeze loudly.
After about 15 minutes of visiting, Li Hao was led to the conference room by Yan Maobo to discuss the investment matters.
When Li Hao and Xiang Ruihan sat down, Yan Maobo turned on the multi-function projector and reported to Li Hao on the company's financial and operational status in recent years.
"Mr. Li, the graph analysis chart you see now is our company's business data in the past six months, the orange cylinder represents the monthly turnover, and the blue cylinder represents the monthly expenditure cost......"
Everyone stayed in the conference room for an hour, and Yan Maobo also introduced Li Hao for an hour. Including Xu Liangpeng, vice president of the company, and Jin Jun, director of operations, also gave some assistance and supplements when the boss paused in the introduction, "Mr. Li, the transformation of the company's product line that we mentioned just now, the main direction of transformation is to change the original popular tourism route to high-end and refined, such as the cultural tourism just mentioned, which is an opportunity for our company's transformation!" One of the most serious problems of today's cultural tourism is that the culture is not rigorous, and too many commercial interests are mixed in it, not culture for the sake of culture, which causes cultural distortion, mere formality, and vulgar as a laughing stock......"
Xu Liangpeng, deputy general manager, impassionedly introduced the company's development direction to Li Hao. Another hour passed for the meeting, but Li Hao couldn't see any intentional expression on his face.
Maybe it's because the air conditioning in the meeting room is too hot, or maybe it's because you're nervous. I saw that the boss Yan Maobo and the vice president Xu Liangpeng were gradually wet with sweat on their backs.
Xiang Ruihan, who was sitting next to Li Hao, played the role of investment director and kept asking questions to everyone at the meeting, making the boss Li Hao a lot easier.
In the final stage of the investment negotiation, after drinking a sip of mineral water, the boss Yan Maobo sorted out his emotions and asked Li Hao, "Mr. Li, you see that the two sides have also understood for more than two hours, and you have also read the business plan, financial statements and other data." Including the many professional questions I asked the director just now, we also know everything and explain it to you all the time. Mr. Li, can I take the liberty of asking you, you see, does your company have any relevant interest or investment intentions for us?"
The reason why Yan Maobo asked directly was mainly because they had been rejected twice, and it had dragged on for more than four months, leaving little time for the company's development. If the company is not able to obtain financing within six months, the situation they face will be very serious. And the entire operation team may also gradually disintegrate due to lack of cohesion.
Just as Xu Liangpeng, deputy general manager, Jin Jun, director of operations, Shi Yingxue, product manager, Zou Yingdan, business department manager, and others were all waiting with bated breath for Li Hao's reply. Li Hao, who was only seen sitting at the conference table, used the privilege of viewing to see the investment potential of the industrial transformation of "Tongchen Travel". Two seconds later, an investable value of 77.1 appeared in my mind, which means that the investment is less risky, but it does not mean that there is no risk at all.
Li Hao sat up slightly, and then said in front of everyone present, "Mr. Yan, before you ask me about my investment intentions, I have a question that I want to ask everyone here first. ”
"What's the problem? Mr. Li, please say. Yan Maobo said earnestly.
"My question is, how can you guarantee that Tongchen Tourism will be able to transform successfully?" Li Hao asked quite directly, although the potential can be invested, but this does not mean that there is no risk at all. After all, there are many people who fail in transformation.
At this time, Yan Maobo, the boss of the travel company, said to Li Hao in a precarious position, "Well, Mr. Li, this question of yours, I can assure you here that I, Yan Maobo, will lead all the employees of the company to overcome the difficulties we are facing, and will not let Mr. Li's money go down the drain!"
Li Hao smiled after hearing this, and then said to Yan Maobo in business, "Mr. Yan, I am very willing to believe you. But your promise is to ask me to invest 18 million funds, if this were you, would you be willing?"
Li Hao's question is difficult to answer.