I was born again with 100 million

Chapter 465 Refused to Vote for Ahri!

Realizing profit, this word came from Shen Nanpeng's mouth, and most people in the Internet industry in China probably wouldn't believe it.

After all, several major portal websites and e-commerce websites are still in a state of loss.

Let's put it this way, except for the ancient network, other Huaxia Internet companies basically don't make money.

However, Lin Xiao believed in Shen Nanpeng's words.

Eternal Network is now a special existence in China's Internet industry, and the most special thing is its profitability.

In fact, in the previous life, Ctrip also showed similar characteristics.

In the previous life, Ctrip raised a total of three rounds of financing before going public and raised $1200 million. Until it went public, it realized profitability before the money was spent.

In 2003, Ctrip.com successfully landed on Nasdaq, becoming the first domestic Internet company to go public with only a few million dollars in capital.

After thinking about these things, Lin Xiao immediately asked Shen Nanpeng, "What is Ctrip's financing plan this time?"

As soon as these words came out, both Shen Nanpeng and Liang Jianzhang's spirits were lifted. They both heard that Lin Xiao was actually interested in chasing and investing in Ctrip.

"The minimum is 800 million yuan, and the maximum is 1000 million yuan." Shen Nanpeng spoke quickly, with calm and shrewd eyes.

"I calculated it. Including this acquisition, there is a total of 1000 million yuan. Ctrip can support the completion of the initial layout, and then it will be able to operate normally through internal hematopoiesis."

Lin Xiao nodded, and then said to Shen Nanpeng: "Last year I invested 120 million yuan in you and obtained 20% of the shares. Then this time I will invest 880 million yuan to help you make up 1000 million yuan. What about the equity?" How much are you going to sell?"

Ctrip has a clear division of labor for a long time. It has been agreed before that Shen Nanpeng will make all the decisions on investment and financing. So at this time, Shen Nanpeng did not seek Liang Jianzhang's opinion, but pondered for a while before speaking. said:
"Mr. Lin, before this, I actually had an assessment of Ctrip. The valuation was 3200 million yuan. According to this valuation, 880 million yuan accounted for 27.5% of the equity."

"However, considering that we will have a round of financing before the world to facilitate the entry of investment banks, and you already have 20% of the equity in the early stage, our offer this time is 880 million yuan for 25% of the shares. I hope you can understand and accept it. "

After hearing this, Lin Xiao took a serious look at the other party. During the conversation between Shen Nanpeng and him today, Lin Xiao's only thought was that the other party was really good because he had worked in those world-class investment banks and financial institutions. Both the planning and the use of funds have very precise control and planning.

This point is actually lacking in many Internet company entrepreneurs in China, including Lin Xiao himself.

Thinking about what later generations Shen Nanpeng did after quitting Ctrip, a thought flashed in Lin Xiao's mind, but it's not suitable to say it at this time.

Lin Xiao just nodded, and said directly: "Okay! I accept this plan!"

880 million yuan, for him, it is not too big a deal at present.

Shen Nanpeng and Liang Jianzhang looked at each other with smiles on their faces. Things went smoother than they expected.

Thinking of this, Shen Nanpeng immediately praised: "Boss Lin is really straightforward, and the layout is also great!"

"I am optimistic about your team!" Lin Xiao smiled, and then said:

"Let's have a brief discussion. We'll talk about some details later. Ari's Ma Yun and the others are still waiting there."

Shen Nanpeng immediately agreed, and then the three of them discussed some other things.

In fact, there are only two things to be finalized, the time when Lin Xiao's funds are in place, and then the subsequent equity distribution.

As for the funds, Lin Xiao directly said that the account will be available the next day.

Because when Lin Xiao voted for Ctrip last year, he voted in his own name, not in the name of future investment, so this time, Lin Xiao still plans to vote in his own name.

It happened that when he and Lan Yumo shared dividends together, Lin Xiao got 1867 million yuan of 1830 million yuan.

Except for the villa he just bought, Lin Xiao has not used any other money, so he can just take out 880 million yuan for this investment.

As for the shareholding, it is not simply 20% before plus 25% this time, because Lin Xiao's follow-up investment will require all shareholders to dilute their shares, including Lin Xiao himself.

Calculated in this way, after Lin Xiao made the investment, he took 40% of Ctrip's equity, and Ctrip's founding team accounted for 60% of Ctrip's equity.

Considering that the founding team of Ctrip consists of two other people besides Liang Jianzhang and Shen Nanpeng who are sitting here now, Lin Xiao has actually become the largest single shareholder of Ctrip.

After simply finalizing these matters, Lin Xiao said to Shen Nanpeng and the two of them: "A Li Ma Yun still has something to do with me, and it will be almost noon soon, I will chat with them first, then we will have a meal together, and then we will go to your place The company went to see."

"Okay, Mr. Lin, then we'll wait for you downstairs first." Liang Jianzhang said.

Lin Xiao nodded immediately, and asked the two to call Ma Yun up when they reached the hotel lobby.

Ma Yun and Cai Congxin had been watching the elevator in the hotel lobby. As soon as Liang Jianzhang and Shen Nanpeng came out, they immediately greeted them.

At this time, Ma Yun pretended to be casual and asked Liang Jianzhang and Shen Nanpeng with a smile: "Is the investment settled?"

Hearing Ma Yun's question, Liang Jianzhang didn't think too much, and replied with a smile, "It's settled."

When Ma Yun and Cai Congxin heard this, they were immediately overjoyed. Lin Xiao really had the money to invest and was willing to invest in Internet companies.

At this time, the two didn't bother to ask about the specific situation of Liang Jianzhang and Shen Nanpeng. They just asked Lin Xiao's room number, then hurried into the elevator and went to find Lin Xiao.

When the two left, Shen Nanpeng, who had already recalled it, made fun of Liang Jianzhang and said, "Jianzhang, you don't know if you've been tricked."

Liang Jianzhang froze for a moment, but didn't react for a while.

At this time, Shen Nanpeng explained: "Do you know why I took the initiative to talk to President Lin first?"

"I guess that Ma Yun and the others are here to solicit investment in all likelihood. I don't know how much money Mr. Lin has prepared for investment, so it's better to negotiate earlier."

Liang Jianzhang smiled wryly after hearing this, "With smart people like you, I really fell for it if I didn't pay attention."

Shen Nanpeng just smiled and didn't speak.

On the other side, Lin Xiao greeted Ma Yun and Cai Congxin who came to the room to sit down and start chatting.

He had vaguely guessed the intention of Ma Yun and the others, but naturally he would not start talking about it at this time.

After chatting like this for nearly 10 minutes, Ma Yun finally couldn't help bringing the topic to investment.

"Mr. Lin, your Eternal Network is rich and powerful. Softbank's investment, if you say no, you reject it."

Lin Xiao smiled faintly, "Not to mention rich and powerful, the funds may be billions of dollars more abundant than other Internet companies."

After hearing Lin Xiao's words, Ma Yun suddenly felt refreshed, and then said:
"Mr. Lin, you see that you have a lot of money in your hands, and you have always been interested in e-commerce, why don't you invest in Ari?
Ahri is developing very well now, this year we were just named the best B2B site in the world by Forbes..."

As he said that, Ma Yun just praised his Ari with hype.

After Ma Yun finished speaking, Lin Xiao asked with a smile: "Mr. Ma, just now at Softbank, they seem to have rejected the chase investment."

The meaning of Lin Xiao's words is very simple. As a shareholder, Softbank has refused to chase after the investment. You came to me to invest?

It's a bit hurtful to say this, but Ma Yun didn't mean any embarrassment, but said with a normal expression:
"Mr. Lin, I don't think Softbank has pursued the investment, so it doesn't matter if you invest in Ahri."

"For one thing, in the current Internet environment, SoftBank has already invested 2000 million yuan, so there is their risk management and control mechanism for not following up the investment."

"Secondly, Mr. Lin, you are engaged in the Internet industry yourself, and you should have a deeper understanding of this industry. At the Internet Conference last year, didn't you also say that the future of the Internet is bright."

Ma Yun's words were a bit flattering to Lin Xiao, but Lin Xiao was unmoved, but he did not directly express his attitude, but asked Ma Yun:

"What's your financing plan?"

Hearing Lin Xiao's question, Ma Yun thought there was hope, so he was overjoyed immediately, and immediately said:

"Mr. Lin, I also know that the valuation of the Internet industry is generally declining, but Ali has indeed achieved sufficient development this year, so we want to maintain the valuation of last year."

"Estimated at 1 million yuan, Mr. Lin, you invest 1000 million yuan and get 10% of the company's equity."

As he spoke, Ma Yun looked at Lin Xiao with an expectant smile.

The next moment, his smile faded a lot.

After hearing this, Lin Xiao shook his head directly, "You should find someone else."

"Does Lin always feel that this valuation is too high?" Cai Congxin who was on the side quickly took the conversation.

"If you think the valuation is high, Mr. Lin can quote us to discuss it."

"It's not a question of quotation." Lin Xiao waved his hand.

After vaguely guessing the reason why Ma Yun came to the door, Lin Xiao had already made a decision in his heart, and he would never vote for Ari now.

To be honest, 1000 million yuan is not a problem at all for Lin Xiao, but he is not happy to invest this money in Ari!
Now Alipay is his own, and the e-commerce platform has already deployed the project to start. At this time, Ali is really not attractive in Lin Xiao's eyes.

Of course, the most important thing is not because of this, but because of Lao Ma's behavior.

If Ma Yun agreed at this time last year, Lin Xiao might have voted directly, and then he would not have thought about doing e-commerce by himself.

But at that time, Ari chose Softbank and rejected him when he offered a higher offer.

Now that Softbank is no longer popular, and he licked his face to ask for money from himself, why should he give it?

The other party was outside Softbank's reception room just now, and he was still pretending to comfort himself there, but now that he knew that he had money in his hand, he ran over and lowered his posture.

Ah!
"I don't want to invest in e-commerce now, and I'm not interested in Ahri either!"

Lin Xiao refused politely.

When Ma Yun and Cai Congxin, who were full of expectations, heard Lin Xiao's absolute words, their hearts skipped a beat.

After learning that Lin Xiao had voted for Ctrip, they were full of confidence in the meeting with Lin Xiao, even more confident than when they met Sun Zhengyi before.

After all, Sun Zhengyi obviously has no intention of investing in Internet companies for the time being, while Lin Xiao has just invested in Ctrip.

However, Ma Yun and the two did not give up. They still had a glimmer of hope that this was just Lin Xiao's means to lower the price.

Cai Congxin took the initiative to say at this time: "Mr. Lin, 900 million yuan, 10% of the shares."

"No vote!" Lin Xiao directly refused!
"800 million yuan, 10% of the shares." Cai Congxin made another offer.

"No vote!"

Lin Xiao once again refused without hesitation!

Cai Congxin and Ma Yun looked at each other, their faces became serious, Cai Congxin said in a deep voice:

"Mr. Lin, 700 million yuan, 10% of the shares, we have made the biggest concession."

Smiling lightly, Lin Xiao stood up directly, and then waved his hands in the astonished eyes of the two of them, saying: "You two, there's no need to embarrass yourself, I'm not interested in voting for Ari."

"Let's go, let's not talk about this matter, let's go have a meal together, and the people from Ctrip are also there."

At this time, Ma Yun and the two finally knew how determined Lin Xiao's attitude was.

However, Ma Yun was also extremely unconvinced. Just when Lin Xiao mentioned Ctrip, he finally couldn't help asking:

"Why would you vote for Ctrip, but not Ari? Could it be that Ari is not as good as Ctrip?"

why?
Lin Xiao laughed.

I didn't want to say it at first, but since Ma Yun asked so directly, I just told them.

"In my eyes, it's really not comparable!"

Looking at Ma Yun, Lin Xiao said, "It's very simple. Under such a good situation last year, they were willing to accept my investment. Even if the general environment changes this year, I am willing to invest in them."

"But Ari..." Lin Xiao chuckled lightly.

"I don't know if you two still remember, I actually made an offer last year, and I was willing to increase the valuation by 50% on Softbank's offer, and also took out 20% of the shares. You took 2000 million yuan from Softbank. This can actually get 3000 million yuan.”

"But... you refused!"

Hearing this, the expressions of Ma Yun and Cai Congxin were a little unnatural, and he already understood the meaning of Lin Xiao's words.

But Lin Xiao didn't stop. Now that he said that, he might as well explain it clearly.

At this time, Lin Xiao was somewhat venting his unhappiness.

It would be understandable for Ari to take Softbank and Yahoo’s investment in his previous life. After all, the domestic financing environment in his previous life was not good, and it was difficult for Internet companies to get money.

But last year, when he was willing to pay and increase the valuation by 50%, the other party still chose Softbank. This is definitely very uncomfortable for Lin Xiao, who has always wanted to promote Huaxia Internet's self-reliance and self-improvement after rebirth!
So at this time, there was no politeness in Lin Xiao's words.

"You two, you can say that I hold grudges, or that I am stingy. Since you think my money is not as good as that of the islanders, why should I invest in it for you?"

"There are so many places where you can make money, why give it to Ari?"

As soon as Lin Xiao said this, the expressions of Ma Yun and Cai Congxin were not only unnatural, but also very ugly.

The two looked at each other, and then Ma Yun reluctantly said to Lin Xiao: "Boss Lin, goodbye."

"Goodbye." Lin Xiao also didn't mean to keep the two of them. When it comes to this matter, the two of them must be unable to hold back their faces. It is definitely impossible to have lunch or something.

Ma Yun and Cai Congxin left the room angrily.

Lin Xiao stood up, stretched comfortably, and then prepared to call Lan Yumo and Ctrip's people to have dinner together.

On the other side, Ma Yun and Cai Congxin were not so relaxed. They left the room with ugly faces and did not speak. They went downstairs to the hotel lobby in silence.

When Shen Nanpeng and Liang Jianzhang from Ctrip saw Ma Yun and Cai Congxin coming down, they also took the initiative to say hello.

"Mr. Ma, have you got the investment? Mr. Lin is very happy!" Liang Jianzhang asked.

In Liang Jianzhang's mind, Lin Xiao was so quick to vote for his own Ctrip just now, so it shouldn't be too much of a problem to vote for Ali.

After all, Ali has become somewhat famous in the Internet industry this year.

readily?

Hearing Liang Jianzhang's words, the corners of Ma Yun's eyes couldn't help twitching slightly.

He didn't answer directly, but said to Liang Jianzhang and Shen Nanpeng:
"We left beforehand. If you have time to come to Hangzhou in the future, come and sit with Ari."

Seeing Ma Yun like this, Liang Jianzhang also realized that maybe the other party didn't get the investment, so he said yes, and didn't ask any more questions.

Originally, I wanted to ask the other party to eat together, but seeing that the faces of the two were not quite right, I didn't say it again.

And Ma Yun and Cai Congxin didn't say anything more, and left the hotel in a hurry.

The two left the hotel, and after walking far away, Ma Yun said with an extremely ugly face:
"I didn't expect Lin Xiao to be so small-minded. Just because he didn't choose his investment last year, he is showing embarrassment now."

At this time, he completely forgot that if he hadn't insisted on asking Lin Xiao why he didn't vote for Ahri, the latter one would never have happened.

Although Cai Congxin was vaguely aware of this, it was not easy to talk about Ma Yun at this time, so he could only comfort him and said:

"In fact, it's fine if Lin Xiao doesn't invest. He obviously angered SoftBank today. If he really wants to bring in, it may not be a good thing for our company."

When Ma Yun heard this, his face immediately looked better, and he said in agreement: "Yes, although we are a little sad now that we didn't get the money, but if we really want to plant such a hidden danger, the company may still have trouble in the future."

What the two of them said was obviously a bit of self-deception, but after saying this, the two of them felt a lot more comfortable.

Relieved, Ma Yun said with some displeasure: "I don't believe it anymore, without his Lin Xiao's money, our Ari would not be able to develop."

"Hmph, one day, my Ari will surpass Lin Xiao's Eternal Network!"

Just as Ma Yun was saying this, suddenly two young men stopped beside him.

One of the young men pointed at Ma Yun, and then asked his companion with a sneer:

"Did you just hear what this man was saying?"

"heard it."

The other person sneered in his tone:

"Is this person delusional? He actually said that he wanted to surpass Lin Xiao's ancient network?"

"Yeah, it's ridiculous! There are so many good products in the ancient network, what is this person talking about? I have never heard of it."

"Maybe it's a neuropathy!"

As the two talked, they looked at Ma Yun contemptuously.

The voices of the two young men were very loud, and Ma Yun could hear them clearly.

Looking at the disdainful eyes of the two before they left, and hearing the mocking voice, Ma Yun, who was holding back his breath just now, suddenly felt aggrieved and depressed...

　More than 5 words, the amount of two chapters, I thought it was coherent, so I posted it together, there should be more in the evening~

　　
　
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