111 The barbarians at the gates
Wu Mo's marketing and health management are the tones set by this investment company when it was established. Therefore, the important business of the company is mainly Ankang's decision. Now it's time for Ankang to make up his mind again.
Ankang has been coming up with various ideas and making various decisions more than once during this time. Every decision is not something that can be easily made for Ankang. Because any decision has a huge impact on a startup like theirs. Startups can't stand the test of the market. The slightest disturbance could throw the company into an abyss from which it will never recover.
As the helmsman of this company and the operator of major projects, Ankang is well aware of the heavy responsibility on his shoulders.
Of course, for Ankang, he has a creed, that is, "don't cause trouble, don't be afraid of things". When things come, the soldiers will come to cover up the water, but he will not cause trouble because of his ability and the advantages of the environment.
What Wu Mo told him was obviously not caused by them. However, An Kang and Wu Mo could also see that someone must be stirring up trouble behind.
Because the target company they are going to invest in has a good relationship between the top and bottom, and the investment process is going very smoothly, and the last few exchanges with the target company are also very smooth, and if they go according to the plan, they have basically reached the stage of signing the agreement. Their discussion of the details of the agreement is not an investment clause, but a written description that only requires the participation of a lawyer.
In other words, the process of Ankang and Wu Mo's Kangmosi Investment Company's investment in that target company has been 99% completed, and the matter is already a certainty.
However, at this time, the target company suddenly sent an official email informing them that they had reached an investment agreement with another investor. Regarding that investor, An Kang and Wu Mo didn't feel the rumor at all before.
This is not only a strange thing, but also makes Ankang feel a deep sense of crisis. It's as if you're a tourist enjoying the scenery on the Sunshine Boulevard. Unexpectedly, a sniper rifle stretched out from a big tree behind him and aimed a doji at the tourist. The sniper did not rush to shoot, but the trigger was pulled when the tourist reached the finish line with the last step.
If the other party is a head-on confrontation and fair competition, then Ankang thinks that even if it is out, it is forgivable. Although in most cases, investors occupy the initiative in investment behavior, but investment is a consensual thing after all. It's like a rich family who takes a fancy to a poor girl, although the rich family has the initiative, but the poor girl is unwilling and can't overlord it.
What's more, investing is not about current earnings, but about future expectations. The future operating performance of the target company is the real investment objective.
Of course, there is no shortage of "barbarians at the door" in the market, but Ankang prefers to be a partner who cooperates sincerely, rather than a barbarian who is obsessed with investment returns.
I have read this book many times. If you look at it as a story, Ankang thinks the book is more exciting than most, and Ankang is also amazed by the battle of wits in this real merger and acquisition case.
But if it is taken as a living example of the investment world, the actions of many of them do not stand up to the scrutiny of ethics and professionalism. Of course, Ankang thinks that he has no right to stand on the moral high ground to judge others, but a small group of people weaving a series of lies for their own interests is not worthy of praise after all.
Even in a life-and-death war on the battlefield, it is also the best policy to "surrender without a fight".
In addition, the target company only notified at the last minute that it would not accept the funds of Comes Investment Company, which also made Ankang very unhappy.
After reading the information given by Wu Mo, Ankang picked up his mobile phone and called the chairman of the target company to inquire about the relevant situation.
The chairman of the target company said a lot of sorry words, and finally under Ankang's questioning, he finally told the truth.
The one who reached an investment agreement with the target company before the Commosi investment company was an investment company that neither Ankang nor Wu Mo had ever heard of. While talking to the general manager of the target company, Ankang used the computer to check the situation of the company called "Shanghai Yusheng Investment Co., Ltd."
The investment company, which is owned by a legal person named Gong Yu, was founded only three months ago. Ankang began to contact the target company half a year ago. Before the establishment of Yusheng Investment, Ankang had already begun to do due diligence on the target company.
This shows two things: either the company was founded solely for the investment of Commosi, or the company was founded and chose Commosi as a sniping target.
Whatever the case may be, the other party is prepared. Their investment terms are the same as those of Commosys' investment, but they give more capital, require less equity, give more freedom to operate, and require fewer VAM conditions.
Everything is the momentum of Lida Kangmosi.
This is a good condition for target companies that are in urgent need of funds to quench their thirst and are worried that their equity will be diluted. Under such conditions, although the personnel at all levels of the target company maintain good personal relations with Ankang and Wu Mo, they are enough to ignore these private feelings, so as to obtain the most beneficial opportunities for the company.
It can be said that it is not a precision strike.
Ankang also envisioned a possibility. Since that Yusheng Investment is a newly established company, it may have been just an accident that it got him. After all, newly established investment companies are more or less utilitarian and hope to close the deal as soon as possible in order to increase their investment performance. Maybe they just want to learn from the resources and investment logic of Commos Investment.
However, in less than a month, An Kang and Wu Mo finally realized that the progress of the matter was consistent with the result they had initially judged through their intuition.
Although the newly established investment company has an obvious element of learning, their goal is very clear, that is, to compete with Comes Investment, and it is a vicious competition.
The founder of Yusheng Investment Company is the son of the owner of a well-known clothing company in the south. He had just returned from studying in the United States and persuaded his father to open an investment company, ready to use the power of capital to help his father integrate industry resources.
Logically speaking, this investment company should integrate enterprises and resources in the upstream and downstream industrial chain of the garment industry, and has nothing to do with the company that Ankang wants to invest in. But I didn't expect that the first integration of this investment company after its establishment was integrated into Ankang's doorstep.
Of course, compared with Ankang, the young man named Gong Yu is just a novice in the investment world. But the strength behind it should not be underestimated. According to the situation introduced by the chairman of the target company, the funds that Gong Yu can use in his hands have reached the scale of 1.5 billion yuan. In addition, there are thousands of dollars of overseas investment funds. This kind of capital scale is difficult for Comes to invest.