Chapter 145: A Narrow Encounter
This trip back to Beijing was on a mission, Lin Yi didn't even have time to go back to school, and as soon as the plane landed, he directly found Liu Jianni's office.
This time, the two didn't use the topic of coffee as an opening statement, and Lin Yi couldn't wait to ask, "How is the financing going?"
"It didn't go well."
Liu Jianni had already communicated with him briefly on the phone before, and at this time, she could introduce it in detail: "Originally, after the last event, your influence in the industry has expanded, especially after being interviewed by Youth Daily, there are some organizations that are interested in you."
"But just after I issued a financing intention on your behalf, that is, since you entered Shencheng and the relationship between Zhang Xuhao broke down, Ele.me launched a new round of financing immediately after."
This did not surprise Lin Yi, he also knew that the round of financing was definitely advanced, but there was no sense of accomplishment of "changing history", but a full sense of urgency.
He guessed that it should be on the first day of their war that Zhang Xuhao realized the importance of ammunition.
Although Lin Yi's side prepared earlier, he found Liu Jianni to operate this matter before setting off from the capital, but the situation was not optimistic.
"Since the two targets are put on the shelves at the same time, of course, investors will wait for the price to sell, and it is inevitable to pick and choose."
"Because your size is smaller than Hungry is a fact that everyone knows, just like when you are trading stocks, you know that you want to buy leading stocks, and generally investors will prefer companies with bigger scale and leading edges."
Speaking of which, Liu Jianni also has to care about the situation on Lin Yi's side, after all, she is still a Series A investor in the casual takeaway network.
Lin Yi briefly introduced: "Before I came back, we had just gained a foothold in Shencheng, which was a major blow to Hungry."
"The financial side can be stable at the moment, I don't know how much cash reserves Eleme has, but judging from the previous battles between the two sides and his strength this time, he can't hold out longer than us."
"But the key is who can get the financial replenishment earlier, if he gets the money and we don't, then it will be very passive, that's why I left Shencheng and ran back to you."
Liu Jianni did not echo his statement: "The so-called major blow is just your side of the story, others will only see that you are still much bigger than you when you are hungry."
Lin Yi knew that Liu Jianni was not finding fault with him, but just explaining the possible considerations of other investors when making decisions.
He laid out an important fact: "At least in the last two months or so we have been growing faster than him, maybe now he is still three times our size, but before that it was more than ten times the size."
"Of course I know that."
"But you need to convince investors that you have the ability to maintain this speed advantage, and then surpass Hungry in the near future."
"There's also a very important question, even if they believe you can achieve the transcendence, how much will it cost you to achieve this in the current situation where the two sides are at war?"
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Lin Yi stretched out a finger: "We only took $1 million in the last round."
This reason is not enough, Liu Jianni replied: "But you have only used more than two months, if you want to add now, it should be at least an order of magnitude more."
Lin Yi thought for a while and explained: "Investors may still think that I am no different from Ele.me and homogeneous competition, but in fact, our business model is still different from theirs."
In this regard, Liu Jianni was noncommittal, but said: "If you think the business model is a bright spot, then you can be prepared, and I will make an appointment with some investors to take you to meet in the next few days."
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Coming out of Liu Jianni's side, Lin Yi went back to school to find her senior sister, and then made some preparations in advance with her, this time they were much more serious than when they participated in the entrepreneurship competition last year.
Next
In the past two days, Lin Yi followed Liu Jianni to meet a wave of investors intensively, and the other party inevitably mentioned the problem of being hungry, and Lin Yi naturally tried his best to explain to the other party the difference between casual and hungry.
What he emphasized was that the speed of casual development in the past two or three months was faster, and the two things that successfully took root in Shencheng under the obstruction of Hungry.me, highlighting a "never defeated against Hungry.me".
Of course, Lin Yi is sure that Zhang Xuhao will definitely brag when he meets investors outside, and he has never taken advantage of him.
Just as he was thinking this, he noticed that the man was walking towards him.
This time, Lin Yi and Jianni Liu visited Hongshan Capital, a very well-known investment institution, founded in Silicon Valley, USA, whose domestic person in charge has many years of experience in the financial industry, and also founded a veteran online travel agency, and has a brilliant record after entering the venture capital industry.
A giant elder of the godfather level.
In the corridor of this company, Lin Yi and Zhang Xuhao met in a narrow way, and the eyes of the two people collided in the air without any spark of love.
They were led by the staff of this agency, one was walking inside, the other was walking out, and the two of them kept walking by as if nothing had happened, without saying a word.
Liu Jianni has not been in contact with Zhang Xuhao, but as Lin Yi's investor, she also recognizes this biggest competitor.
Because in someone else's company, she didn't speak, but just silently sent a message to Lin Yi, which read: "Calm down."
And Lin Yiyi replied with an ok expression.
They soon met the boss here, the legendary Shen Ju Lao, who wore a pair of glasses and looked polite, and seemed to be very kind.
This is the conference room of Hongshan, as usual, Lin Yi first came to the stage with a PPT, and the introduction was mixed with boasting about the situation of the casual takeaway network.
At the end, he also tried to forcibly put on a close: "Shen Ju Lao, I found that the two of us just happened to be fellow villagers in Zhijiang."
The hometown of this Shen Ju is Haining, Hecheng, and the people of Zhijiang like to specify their hometown to a certain county when they introduce themselves, so that Jin Daxia, who writes martial arts, is more suitable to call his hometown.
Shen Ju Lao did not explain, although he was originally from Zhijiang, he grew up in Shencheng since he was a child.
He was still amiable, but replied vigorously: "The young man who went out just now is still my junior at Shencheng Jiaotong University."
Well, the set came close to failure.
The two sides didn't talk for too long, and after the end, Lin Yi and Liu Jianni shook hands with Shen Julao respectively, and then said goodbye and left the conference room.
It wasn't until he got off the elevator and got out of the building that Lin Yi asked, "What did they mean by letting us collide directly with Zhang Xuhao just now?"
Lin Yi wouldn't believe that a big company like Hongshan couldn't even arrange for two groups of guests who didn't deal with each other to stagger each other on their own territory.
Liu Jianni pondered for a moment, "Don't think too much."
Ordinary Road 2010.
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