I was born again with 100 million

Chapter 461 Ma Yun is here too!
Because the two parties made an appointment at 10:[-] am, Lin Xiao made a more leisurely schedule for the next morning.

When I got up in the morning, I had a pleasant meal of Pearl's special breakfast, and then I was ready to go to the hotel.

Lin Xiao plans to step on the spot, too much ahead of time seems to be in a hurry, being late seems to be a failure to keep the promise, and being stuck on time is just right.

After all, he didn't really want money to go here, he just wanted to hear the outside world's valuation of his company.

At the same time that Lin Xiao was calm, Yang Zhixiong told Lin Xiao earlier that the two rushed to the hotel door, then entered the lobby and went straight to the upstairs reception room.

"Joe, do you think we can convince Mr. Sun today?" One of the thin men spoke while walking, and it was Ma Yun of Ah Li.

The one Ma Yun calls Joe is his right-hand assistant Cai Congxin.

After hearing Ma Yun's words at this time, Cai Congxin replied:
"Whether you can talk it out or not, since we know that Mr. Sun is coming to Mingzhu, of course we have to give it a try."

"Anyway, he is one of the company's investors after all, so it shouldn't be difficult to meet him."

Ma Yun nodded, and said with a trace of sadness on his already thin face:

"I hope Softbank can continue to invest this time, otherwise the company's funds will not last long."

Speaking of this, Ma Yun is somewhat worried. After receiving 2000 million yuan of investment from Softbank last year, he was full of confidence to build the world's largest B2B e-commerce website, so he began to deploy it all over the world.

It's a pity that the stall was too big, which put the company in an embarrassing situation. More importantly, the entire Internet industry has really entered a cold winter at this time, making it difficult for all companies to raise funds.

Just last month, he discussed with several company executives to withdraw all those overseas offices, and began to shrink the scale in an all-round way.

But even so, the crisis facing Ari is still not small, because they only have more than 700 million yuan in their books at this time, and with Ari's current operating expenses, they can only last for about half a year.

With little money left and no profit model found, the first thought of Ma Yun and others was naturally to refinance, so they just withdrew from Mingzhu to Hangzhou, and they left immediately after learning that Sun Zhengyi had come to Mingzhu come.

Especially Ma Yun and Cai Congxin knew that Sun Zhengyi was looking for a project to invest in this time, which made them very excited.

But what made them feel a little embarrassed was that Ahri was not included in the entrepreneurial team Sun Zhengyi was going to meet this time.

Relying on his eloquence, Ma Yun finally made a phone call to win the opportunity to meet Sun Zhengyi. Softbank replied that Sun Zhengyi would meet with them after meeting all the entrepreneurial teams at 12 o'clock in the morning.

In order to show their sincerity, Ma Yun and the two arrived at the hotel more than two hours earlier.

The two went upstairs while talking, and when they got out of the elevator, they didn't speak any more. They came to the reception room and asked, and when they learned that there was someone inside, the two didn't ask any more questions.

After all, it wasn't their time yet, so they had to sit down on the chair outside the reception room and waited with a bit of suffering.

Just as the two of them sat down, the door of the reception room opened suddenly, and four people walked out of the reception room.

Seeing the figures of several people, Ma Yun, who had just sat down, immediately stood up again. Among the four people, he recognized at a glance that the middle-aged man in a suit who was about 40 years old was Yang Zhixiong, the person in charge of Softbank Huaxia. .

But seeing that the other party was still seeing off the guests, he couldn't rush forward.

The four of them talked a few words at the door of the reception room, and then Yang Zhixiong stood at the door of the reception room, while the other three left.

After these people left, Ma Yun immediately stepped forward and greeted them familiarly.

"Mr. Yang! We meet again!"

Yang Zhixiong turned his head and found that it was Ma Yun. He reached out and shook hands with Ma Yun, "Boss Ma, you guys came here very early."

Softbank invested in Ali, and many of the affairs were handled by Yang Zhixiong, so the two are also very familiar.

In addition, Ma Yun is eloquent and good at talking. Yang Zhixiong has a good feeling for him.

Hearing Yang Zhixiong said that he came early, Ma Yun smiled, "We came here from Hangzhou on purpose, and came to the hotel as soon as we arrived at Mingzhu. Does Mr. Sun have any guests there? Why don't we call first?" call?"

While talking, Ma Yun poked his head in the direction of the reception room.

After Yang Zhixiong listened, he raised his hand and glanced at his watch, and said to Ma Yun: "The time of the previous meetings has been shortened. There will be no one here. It will be nearly 10 minutes before the next meeting at 20 o'clock. How about I Go ask Sun Dong, if I want to meet with you first."

"Mr. Sun will be in a hurry later. You may not have such ample time to talk until 12 o'clock."

Hearing Yang Zhixiong's words, Ma Yun was overjoyed and said, "Then thank you, Mr. Yang."

Yang Zhixiong nodded, entered the reception room, and walked out again half a minute later, motioning for Ma Yun and the others to enter.

Ma Yun and Cai Congxin looked at each other, then walked in energetically.

"Mr. Sun, long time no see!"

Entering the reception room, Ma Yun greeted the rich man sitting in the middle from a distance, with a warm smile on his face.

Sun Zhengyi smiled and greeted Ma Yun. After the two parties sat down, Sun Zhengyi asked Ma Yun:

"President Ma came to see me this time?"

"When I learned that Mr. Sun was in Pearl, I came here as soon as possible. I am very grateful to Mr. Sun for taking time out of his busy schedule to meet with us."

Ma Yun's tone was very polite, while looking at Sun Zhengyi's expression at any time, he continued to say:

"Mr. Sun has invested in Ari for almost a year. Taking this opportunity, I would like to report to Mr. Sun about Ari's current development."

After Sun Zhengyi nodded to signal Ma Yun to continue, Ma Yun immediately said:
"In the past year, Ahri has achieved very significant growth. We have recruited a group of outstanding overseas returnees, and our popularity in the entire international market has continued to increase. We were rated as the best B2B site in the world by Forbes..."

I have to say that Lao Ma's eloquence is indeed very good. He spoke for more than 6 minutes in one breath, and the organization was very clear. Not only did he point out all the achievements that Ahri could make this year.

As for the decision to cancel the various overseas offices, it is also said that Ahri’s tactical retreat in response to the risks of the external environment in a timely manner, mainly to save the company’s operating costs, so as to better cope with the current downward trend of the entire Internet industry.

At the same time, I did not forget to express my optimism and longing for the future of the Internet, and finally, I expressed my purpose for coming here.

"Mr. Sun, we need to admit that we did not expect the rapid development of Ahri. It was previously agreed that Softbank would invest 3000 million yuan in Ahli, but we only wanted 2000 million yuan in the end.

Of course, there is no problem with our funds at present, but the existing funds of the company can hardly guarantee that we can continue to maintain such a high-speed development, so I have another purpose for coming here this time, which is to invite Mr. Sun to continue to increase investment in Ali, 3000 million yuan is cast. "

When he said this, although Ma Yun had a smile on his face, his heart was somewhat bitter.

Last year, the Internet situation was very good, and Ma Yun was also full of optimism about the future. At that time, he had agreed with Sun Zhengyi that Softbank would take 3000% of Ali's shares for 30 million yuan, but at the last moment, he went back on his word.

Because Ma Yun was worried that if Softbank took 30% of the shares so early, Ari would be controlled by Softbank in the end.

So in the end it only cost $2000 million.

But the world is impermanent, and now if you want to reach the original agreement, you have to come to the door to ask for help.

"President Ma!" At this moment, Sun Zhengyi spoke, and he shook his head slightly.

"At this stage, it is impossible for me to invest another 1000 million yuan in Ahri."

Seeing that Ma Yun seemed to have something to say, Sun Zhengyi waved his hand and said directly: "The reason is very simple, the Internet industry is now entering a cold winter, and although Ari seems to be expanding rapidly, he still can't find a suitable profit model.

For Softbank, the 2000 million yuan invested before is already facing a relatively large risk.Unless the situation of the entire industry improves or Ahri finds a good profit model, SoftBank will not invest in Ahli again. "

Hearing what Sun Zhengyi said was so absolute, Ma Yun's face immediately turned ugly.

However, Ma Yun is not an ordinary person, especially good at eloquence, he immediately spoke again and started talking with Sun Zhengyi.

Talk about how the Internet has changed the world, how bright the future is, how excellent Ahri's team and concept are, and how good the foundation is now...

Just as Sun Zhengyi and Ma Yun were talking, at 9:55, Lin Xiao came to the hotel.

Entering the hotel, someone led Lin Xiao upstairs immediately.

Pang Fei followed Lin Xiao into a living room upstairs, and left first, seeing that nothing was going on.

And the person who led the way said to Lin Xiao: "Hi sir, please wait here for a while, we are meeting guests inside."

Lin Xiao nodded, seeing that the time was still 4 minutes away, he stood at the door and waited.

After about 2 minutes, the door suddenly opened.

Looking up, Lin Xiao was stunned.

Hey, isn't this Ma Yun?Looking at the expression on his face, he seemed a little disappointed?
In the blink of an eye, Lin Xiao had a rough guess as to why Ma Yun was here.

This stage should be the stage when Ahri is beginning to face a crisis. Nine out of ten times out of ten, the other party came here to seek investment from Softbank, but judging by the expression on the other party’s face, it should not be there.

Lin Xiao recalled that in his previous life, Softbank did invest in Ahri again, but that was after the Internet bubble passed.

Ma Yun also saw Lin Xiao at this time, and immediately restrained the previous expression on his face, and greeted with a smile:

"Boss Lin, what a coincidence."

"Yes, Mr. Ma, what a coincidence." Lin Xiao replied.

As soon as the two finished greeting each other, Lin Xiao saw a man standing next to Ma Yun and Cai Congxin stepping forward and stretching out his hand towards him.

"Hello, it's the ancient Mr. Lin, I've heard of you for a long time! I'm Liao Zhixiong, we talked on the phone yesterday."

"Hello, Mr. Liao!"

Lin Xiao greeted Liao Zhixiong, and the two shook hands again.

Liao Zhixiong looked at Lin Xiao, and asked curiously, "Boss Lin is alone?"

No wonder Liao Zhixiong was curious. Lin Xiao was not the first person Sun Zhengyi met today, but the only one.

Moreover, Liao Zhixiong, as the person in charge of Huaxia Softbank, has actually met quite a few entrepreneurs, but this is the first time he has met investors alone.

"Yes, alone." Lin Xiao nodded. Lan Yumo will be in Pearl as a director who will invest in Huaxin Technology in the future, and it is not convenient to bring it to such an occasion.

After answering, Lin Xiao said casually: "I happened to have something to do in Mingzhu a few days ago, so I didn't prepare, and I didn't bring an interpreter or anything. It doesn't matter, right?"

"It's okay, we have translations." At this time, Liao Zhixiong took the words and said.

Although he said so, Liao Zhixiong secretly smiled in his heart. In his opinion, although Lin Xiao was calm, he was just pretending.

Liao Zhixiong never thought that Lin Xiao didn't come here for Softbank's money. After all, Lin Xiao agreed to come, and in Liao Zhixiong's view, it already represented his attitude.

Moreover, Liao Zhixiong didn't quite believe what Lin Xiao said yesterday that he happened to be in the pearl. When he thought about it, Lin Xiao must have rushed to the pearl from Yanjing immediately after receiving his call, just like Ma Yun.

Under such circumstances, Lin Xiao was not in a hurry at this time, and even came alone to show that he didn't pay much attention to it. In all likelihood, it was just to take more initiative in the negotiation.

Liao Zhixiong has seen many people with this mentality.

Thinking of this, Liao Zhixiong raised his hand to check the time and found that it was already 10 o'clock. He immediately said: "Boss Lin, Sun Dong is inside, let's go in!"

After speaking, Liao Zhixiong said to Ma Yun and the other two: "Mr. Ma, Mr. Sun still wants to see Mr. Lin, so I won't see you off."

"No need to send it off, Mr. Liao, you are busy!" Ma Yun said quickly at this time.

Liao Zhixiong nodded, turned around and walked in. Lin Xiao also said a polite word to Ma Yun and the two at this time, and then entered the reception room with Liao Zhixiong.

Outside the reception room, Ma Yun and Cai Congxin watched Lin Xiao go in. After the door was closed again, Ma Yun asked Cai Congxin, "Lin Xiao is here to attract investment, right?"

"It should be!" Cai Congxin nodded and said.

Ma Yun immediately analyzed: "Gengu Network previously spent nearly [-] million yuan to purchase game copyrights, and now it is looking for Softbank again. It is very likely that funds are tight."

"Maybe he also took a fancy to SoftBank's resources." Cai Congxin said.

Ma Yun immediately agreed and said: "It is very likely that there are two reasons, and I don't know if he can get money from Softbank. Since the ancient network has profit channels, it is not certain that Softbank will invest in him."

"It's no wonder that he looks very relaxed. Another person coming here may be very confident."

When he said this, Ma Yun's tone was a little envious. China is the only Internet company with a mature profit model like Eternal Network.

After a pause, Ma Yun asked Cai Congxin's opinion again: "Why don't we wait here? Let's see how the negotiation between Lin Xiao and Softbank is going. By the way, let's see if we still have a chance."

In fact, Ma Yun still has another thought, that is, it would be nice if Lin Xiao was also rejected by Softbank, so that he would feel more balanced.

Cai Congxin actually had a similar idea with Ma Yun, and immediately agreed, and the two sat up on the chairs outside the reception room.

It's just that what Ma Yun and the others didn't know was that Lin Xiao was invited by Softbank.

But just like that, Lin Xiao wasn't ready to ask for the other party's money yet.

(End of this chapter)