Lin Yi was asked the most question during the interview, in addition to why Wanli Travel reached a valuation of $4 billion in a short period of time, another topic that people are very interested in is naturally his net worth.

Although as a non-listed company, Wanlixing's shareholding structure is not open to the public, but this account is not difficult to calculate.

With a valuation of $4 billion, as long as his shareholding ratio exceeds 25%, it means that his personal net worth has exceeded $1 billion.

Wanli Travel has only publicly done two rounds of financing, and the proportion of 25% will not be a problem at all.

This is an important threshold, not only because it is enough to be on the Forbes rich list, but also because it means that any country in the world is enough to be called the top rich.

So even the more rigorous financial media did not hesitate to use the title of "the youngest self-made billionaire" when reporting on him.

The female reporter sitting across from Lin Yi now asked with a smile: "Mr. Lin, can you tell us about your current worth, I think many readers are as curious as I am." ”

This female reporter is not only good-looking, but also very professional, and looks directly at the interviewee during the interview.

However, in addition to being polite, it seems that he deliberately has a sense of appreciation and worship, leaning forward slightly and leaning towards each other unconsciously.

It's not the first time Lin Yi has answered this question recently, and he has been surprised, and he skillfully plays Tai Chi to deal with it:

"Several of my partners, and even our entire entrepreneurial team, did not regard financial returns as the fundamental purpose of entrepreneurship."

"We never calculate how much we have, and we don't take this as a factor when financing the company."

"The company has reached a valuation, which is more like a reward and praise for our work in the past period."

"One of the most striking signs is that the entire management team of the company has never cashed out any of the company's equity during the financing process so far, or sold equity for a profit."

"In the words of our new friend, Mr. Zhang Lei of Kaolin Capital, we want to be friends of time. We believe that in the long-term development process, Wanli Travel can gradually reveal its true value. ”

Of course, the information given by Lin Yi is true, but the reason why he has not cashed out is because the company prohibits it, and he and his senior sister lead by example, so no one uses this brain.

The female reporter was a little sorry, because this answer was decent, nothing serious, but it was also high-sounding and not newsworthy.

It is even more regrettable that the young rich man does not seem to have any response to her hints.

However, she doesn't seem to have given up easily, and she has to ask for some exclusive information:

"Mr. Lin should only be 20 years old this year, right, and there is a sophomore who is not well known as Jingdian."

This sounded like he was going to ask about his study career, but he didn't expect to turn in an unexpected direction: "We are all curious, I don't know what Mr. Lin has for the other half of the future?" ”

Well?

Lin Yi was very sure that this was a question that was not on the interview outline, but the topic did not seem to be sensitive in his own identity, so he did not make a special trip to stop the interview, but replied succinctly after a short consideration:

"Elegance, intelligence, tenacity, if there is someone who can bring together all the good qualities and conduct, of course I would appreciate it, and if so, I believe that it would be the ideal partner in work and life."

This paragraph is actually just a polite remark, but Lin Yi still deliberately patched it:

"Of course, at this stage, my team and I will only consider the development of Wanli Travel as the first consideration."

Because he has been in contact with a lot of media recently, Lin Yi quickly put this little twist and turn behind him.

So naturally, he wouldn't have noticed that the female reporter didn't add anything he specially added when she wrote the report.

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Lin Yi and Wanli Travel's wave of publicity continued until September.

The reason why it began to cool down is that on the one hand, the previous intensity has been very large, and on the other hand, it is also because there are new hot spots for the media to report.

Cheng Wei and Liu Qing returned to China.

Lin Yihui knew this, not that these two kindly invited him to tea, but that they held a high-profile press conference and announced that Dudu Taxi had completed a Series D financing of $700 million.

Another bombshell!

A month has passed, and the taxi industry has once again burst out with huge financing, which is undoubtedly the top of the Internet entrepreneurship circle this year.

Wanli Travel and Dudu take a taxi one after another, one 800 million and one 700 million, it doesn't sound like anything special.

But you must know that the battle of thousands of regiments, which has attracted much attention since 2010, is only three or four hundred million yuan per group as the top two and the last round of financing a few months ago!

Wang Xing sent a message to Lin Yi and joked: "If I had known that this was the case, I wouldn't have done any group buying and should have made taxi software." ”

Of course, he was joking, although 2010 and 2012 were only two years apart, but the entrepreneurial environment was completely different.

Each group started as a website, but the taxi app appeared in the form of an app from the beginning, completely relying on smartphones.

Dudu's announcement this time was unusually high-profile, and he also took the initiative to reveal a lot of other information, such as in addition to the goose factory continuing to follow the investment, the new investors in this round are DST and Ma Xi.

DST is an outlier in the international venture capital circle, because its capital background and managers come from Russia, which is very rare in the circle.

But there's no doubt that DST and his family Milner are very discerning investors, with plenty of success in countries on both sides of the Pacific.

His investment characteristics are that he does not seek control of the company, does not require access to the board of directors, does not participate in the company's day-to-day operations and strategic decisions, and pursues high returns very purely.

This kind of "hands-off" style of investment will obviously be welcomed by entrepreneurs, and based on their own special background, they do not have to worry about his bad intentions, but make him a lot of money.

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As for the company, the term is the ancient name of Singapore, one of the most active and successful sovereign wealth funds in the world.

In short, these two institutions are no less than Kaolin Capital's big-name investment institutions, and their status is fully worthy of the term "internationally renowned".

There are these two companies on the platform, and both of them take a taxi, and the lineup of investors in this round can be called luxurious.

At the press conference, Liu Qing, as the host, also deliberately emphasized:

"In fact, there are more investors who are very receptive to Dudu Taxi, and have been contacting and discussing investment matters with us, and we will continue to communicate with them."

This is obviously aimed at the fact that Wanli Travel has melted 800 million and has taken 700 million, which means that "Lao Tzu is not unavailable, but it is not rare".

No matter how true or false it is, Cheng Wei and Liu Qing's attitude of competing with Wanli Travel in all aspects is undoubtedly accurate.

Like the previous Wanli Travel, they all took the opportunity to launch a large-scale media campaign, and Liu Qing soon appeared on the interview show of China Television.

There are actually media who ingeniously want to invite Lin Yi and Cheng Wei to have a conversation, but they are undoubtedly rejected by both of them.

They don't want to act in a fake way, and they can't quarrel in broad daylight.

The media that didn't get the melon had to regret playing themselves and throwing out "After the subsidy war, I saw the propaganda war, when will the grievances and hatreds of the taxi industry stop?" >> Altercation.