Rebirth starts with small money

Chapter 666

"I'll go, Ma Xiaoteng. Did I give you face?"

In the hotel room, Chen Li shouted directly into the microphone.

At this moment, Chen Li~ didn't have the usual polite look at all, instead he seemed a little out of breath.

Uh~ That's right, this adjective really accurately describes Chen Li's attitude at the moment.

There is no other reason~ because the guy surnamed Ma on the other side of the phone is blackmailing him!
"Xiao Chen~!"

"Brother Aotian~!"

"What are you talking about?"

"Didn't I see that your company has been listed successfully~!"

"As far as our penguin e-commerce is doing small things, you don't like it, do you?"

"And I'm just passing the 500 million US dollars. In the end, the money still has to go back to you?"

"Ma Xiaoteng, can you be more shameless?"

"Yes~! As long as Brother Aotian is willing to borrow money, I can be as shameless as you want~ hehe!"

"F*ck! Little pony. How did you become like this? You are not the little pony I knew!"

Holding the phone~ Chen Li suddenly felt a heartache, but he didn't know how to complain.

Because all of this is actually the cause and effect of him fooling Ma Xiaoyun into selling software patches.

To be honest~ In Chen Li's memory, the eloquence of Brother Ma in his previous life~ really can't be compared with other entrepreneurs who are equally famous as him.

Not to mention the guy like Jack Ma who can blow his bullshit to the sky, and not to mention the always serious Liu Dong, just take Zhou Hongyi from Hongma Technology who is not very good at words. Ma Xiaoteng in the previous life probably couldn't talk to others .

After all, at that time Zhou Hongyi came out to start a business by himself. Although he was a technician, he traveled a lot~ and gradually worked out.

In Chen Li's memory, Ma Xiaoteng in his previous life was not very good at expressing himself.

Although this buddy has attended some public occasions and given speeches many times, it is obvious that this buddy is really not good at these things.

But~ that was Ma Xiaoteng from the previous life~ not the current Ma Xiaoteng!
But today's Ma Xiaoteng, in Chen Li's eyes, is simply a scoundrel!

Because just now, this guy claimed that Chen Li had become a billionaire under the pretext of the successful listing of Red Horse Technology. He insisted on asking Chen Li to lend 500 million US dollars to the company's e-commerce!
Pay attention~ it is "loaned" to Penguin E-commerce, and the opening is 500 million US dollars!

You must know that this is 2001, and the 500 million US dollars is more than 4000 million Huaxia coins!

And forget it, Chen Li is not short of this money, but the most important thing is that this guy Ma Xiaoteng borrowed this money, not for business development, this guy borrowed money to buy back stocks from Chen Li.

Speaking of which~ this matter was also Chen Li's own crime.

In fact, ever since Chen Li got to know Ma Xiaoteng, Chen Li has never benefited from this buddy.

Not to mention making money, Chen Li also secretly sold Tengxun because of this buddy, which caused him to spend several million more to buy Tengxun back.

Reasonable~ It's just this kind of relationship. Chen Li became friends with this guy, it was really bad luck for eight lifetimes.

To be honest~ If it weren't for this guy's achievements in his previous life, after Chen Li bought Fujixun, it would be impossible for Chen Li to continue to make friends with this guy.

But the fact is that Chen Li and Ma Xiaoteng are truly friends now, even surpassing Chen Li's partners Ma Xiaoyun and Zhou Hongyi in terms of the degree of relationship.

In fact, it is not very accurate to measure the closeness of this relationship, because Chen Li can be regarded as friends with Ma Xiaoyun or Ma Xiaoteng now.

But Ma Xiaoyun is usually busy, while Ma Xiaoteng and Chen Li spend more time dealing with each other, so the relationship between the two seems to be closer.

It's just that what Chen Li never expected was that this little brother Ma has changed Chen Li's previous impression of him since he embarked on the road of e-commerce. flicker.

This guy has been thinking about Chen Li all day long, whether he wants to get some money from Chen Li~ or he wants to get some technical talents from the team behind Chen Li.

That's right~ Brother Ma also knows that there is a team behind Chen Li, so this guy has been trying to get some talents from Chen Li.

But where did Chen Li come from the team, so he could only reject the other party, but when he refused~ the little Ma over there became more and more dependent on him.

So ~ now Chen Li feels a headache when he sees this one!

uh. ok!This is actually a manifestation of the relatively good relationship between the two at present. In fact, Ma Xiaoteng is not really a scoundrel.

Although he took some funds from Chen Li, Chen Li's share in Penguin E-commerce has also increased from the previous 20% to 49%.

And because of Chen Li's "participation", which is both money and advice, the current development of Penguin's e-commerce is far better than that of eBay at this time, and it can even be named the number one e-commerce website in China. head.

But it is also because of this that Penguin e-commerce has been taken seriously by some caring people.

For example, investment institutions such as IDG~Goldman Sachs, and even Softbank in the island country have their eyes on Ma Xiaoteng.

In fact, it was also this time that Chen Li realized the extent of the story about Ma Xiaoyun convincing the Softbank guy in just a few minutes in the previous life!

In the previous life, it was always said that Ma Xiaoyun was eloquent, and it took a few minutes to fool Sun Yi from Softbank, and then he invested 2500 million US dollars in Ma Xiaoyun in a daze, and then successively invested nearly 8000 US dollars. million dollars.

But in fact~ that's because SoftBank intends to enter the e-commerce industry.

The reason why Softbank values ​​this is because of the success of eBay and Amazon in the United States.

To put it bluntly, what SoftBank values ​​is not Ali, but what they value is the development of the Internet industry in China as a whole and the development prospects of the e-commerce market.

Of course~ It is undeniable that Ma Xiaoyun's ability to "fool" may have had a certain impact on Softbank's people, but the proportion will definitely not be very large.

Because this time, Softbank is eyeing Ma Xiaoteng!
And it was not Softbank that Ma Xiaoteng approached, but the people from Softbank directly approached Ma Xiaoteng.

However, unlike Ma Xiaoyun in his previous life, who had to accept a large amount of shares in exchange for a large amount of funds because he failed to raise funds everywhere, the situation that Ma Xiaoyun is facing now is much better.

At the beginning, Ma Xiaoyun was looking for money everywhere, but now, Xiao Ma is someone else forcing money into his hands.

However, the largest shareholder of Penguin E-commerce is not his brother Ma, but Chen Li who holds 49% of Penguin E-commerce.

So ~ when Penguin E-Commerce was about to raise its next round of financing, this little brother Ma came up with the idea of ​​Chen Li's shares.

That's right~ Don't look at Chen Li now holds 49% of the shares of Penguin E-commerce, but Ma Xiaoteng was willing to give up these shares to Chen Li~ that was conditional.

Aside from the fact that Chen Li only has 20% of the voting rights, there is another condition that Penguin E-commerce can repurchase the remaining 29% of Chen Li's shares at a reasonable price at an appropriate time.

And this appropriate time. Don't even think about it, it must be before the listing.

In fact, Ali Baba and Softbank also signed a similar agreement in the previous life, but their conditions were more complicated than the one signed by Chen Li, and there were more conditions.

And Chen Li seems to hold 49% of the shares, but in fact, to put it bluntly~ Chen Li has money, so he first uses it for Penguin E-commerce.

If the enterprise e-commerce starts, then Chen Li's investment can reap greater returns.

If you don't do it, the money is basically gone.

That is to say~ Ma Xiaoteng is actually laying eggs with Chen Li's chicken.

If an ordinary person talks about such conditions with Chen Li, Chen Li will definitely kick the other party away, but if this person is Ma Xiaoteng, that's a different matter.

So in the end, Chen Li agreed to the other party and gave Ma Xiaoteng 200 million US dollars.

Not only that~ he also bought back the part of shares that Xu Xing took away from Xu Xing's old owner, Baling Capital.

Therefore, today's Penguin E-commerce has a shareholding structure in which Chen Li holds 49%, while Ma Xiaoteng and the other three tigers hold 51%.

If the financing continues, Chen Li's shares will be diluted, but after the dilution, Chen Li will definitely still be the company's largest shareholder.

But this kind of shareholding structure is definitely unhealthy in the eyes of those capitals.

After all, strictly speaking~ Chen Li does not belong to the founding team, he should be regarded as "capital" in another sense.

In fact, it is not him who Chen Li uses to control the shares of Penguin E-commerce, but an investment company also registered in Hong Kong City.

So in this case, if Penguin E-commerce wants to continue financing, a clear decision must be made regarding the division of the equity structure.

So~ this guy Ma Xiaoteng is going to buy back the shares in Chen Li's hands in the name of Penguin E-commerce!

Of course, this is actually not a big deal to Chen Li!
Anyway, if Penguin E-commerce wants to get those shares back, it must be bought with real money, and Chen Li is naturally profitable based on the current valuation of Penguin E-commerce at 5000 million US dollars.

Of course ~ if he can keep those shares, Chen Li will definitely earn more in the future.

But in that case, the agreement signed by Chen Li and Ma Xiaoteng would be meaningless.

So ~ after Ma Xiaoteng proposed to buy back the 20% shares in Chen Li's hands, Chen Li agreed without saying a word.

The 200 million US dollars turned into 1000 million US dollars, and Chen Li still has 29% of the shares remaining, and he is still the major shareholder of Penguin E-commerce.

But what Chen Li never expected was that Ma Xiaoteng would come up with an empty-handed white wolf with him.

This buddy got an interest-free loan of 500 million US dollars from Softbank, and then planned to borrow another 500 million US dollars from Chen Li, for a total of 1000 million US dollars to buy back 20% of Chen Li's shares in Penguin E-commerce.

That's why Chen Li called him shameless!
To be honest~ With regard to this series of operations by Brother Ma, I have to say one thing. The capital industry is really fun.

Obviously~ this idea was not conceived by Xiao Ma, but by Softbank.

The reason why Softbank came up with this trick. The purpose is also very clear. They helped Ma Xiaoteng get back the 20% of the shares, and Penguin E-commerce promised to let them enter the market.

As for why they gave an interest-free loan of 500 million US dollars instead of 1000 million US dollars, this can be regarded as a classic method in the capital market.

Help others to help half, as for the other half, you need to solve it yourself, if you can’t even solve this half, it only proves that you are incapable!
So I'm sorry. Even half of this agreement may come to naught.

But here comes the question, can Ma Xiaoteng find 500 million US dollars?
able!But that is based on financing. If it is simply raising funds, it is simply impossible based on the current operating conditions of Penguin E-commerce.

But~ the current Xiao Ma is no longer the Xiao Ma in Chen Li's memory in his previous life.

In the past, Chen Li often used Brother Xiao Ma's personality as an example. After all, it was not easy to make some achievements in the e-commerce industry with Brother Xiao Ma's original character.

Therefore~Chen Li often advises Xiao Ma to liberate his nature, to open up the pattern~to release the other self in his heart.

Then this buddy was released to Chen Li to see.

As soon as he was released, this guy performed an empty glove white wolf trick for Chen Li, and he could take back the previous 20% of the shares from Chen Li without spending a penny.

Uh~ Well, it must be an exaggeration not to spend a penny. After all, whether it is the 500 million interest-free loan from Softbank or the 500 million borrowed by Chen Li, it will have to be repaid sooner or later.

But that is a debt that Penguin E-commerce should repay. What does it have to do with him, Ma Xiaoteng?
Uh~ That's not right!

To put it bluntly~ Brother Ma just wants to solve the problem of too many shares in Chen Li's hands as soon as possible.

The sooner this problem is resolved, the better!The premise is that it cannot affect the normal development of the company.

Brother Xiao Ma believes that with the current development strategy of Penguin E-commerce, there should be no problem in achieving this.

But there is actually another big problem, that is, doing so will not offend Chen Li, the largest shareholder.

If doing so will eventually lead to the founding team and Chen Li turning against each other, that is definitely not what Xiao Ma wants to see.

And with his current friendship with Chen Li, he didn't want to go that far with Chen Li either.

In the final analysis~ At the beginning, he was the one who licked his face and went to ask Chen Li to invest money, so he couldn't sell Chen Li in a flash, could he?
But it was precisely because he was Chen Li's friend that he knew that Chen Li would have no problems with this matter.

In fact~ Chen Li mentioned about the 20% shares more than once. After all, he is also very clear that the 49% shares in his hand are really too much!
This is different from Shengtong Network. Chen Li really thinks that nearly half of the shares are too much.

In his opinion, 29% of the shares are very good, and it is fully in line with his original intention of being a shopkeeper.

It's just that Penguin E-commerce has not carried out the next round of financing for a long time, and there is no money in hand~ Naturally, it is difficult to mention this matter.

It's just that ~ Brother Xiaoma's move still makes Chen Li a little disgusted. Of course ~ Chen Li is mainly disgusted by Softbank, because this trick was taught by Softbank.

After thinking about it~ Chen Li said into the microphone:

"Are you stupid?"

"Is capital money so easy to get?"

"Okay~ I know you want to solve this matter, so let's do this!"

"Don't take the money from Softbank!"

"What kind of nonsense interest-free loans, free ones are the most expensive, don't you need me to teach you?"

"That's it~ I'll take out the shares, and Attorney Zhang will go over and sign the contract with you."

"The price is calculated according to the current market value ~ this money. Even if I lent it to Penguin E-commerce!"

"Give it to me later when Penguin E-commerce is rich in funds!"

"That's right~ It's calculated according to bank interest!"

(End of this chapter)