Archived Financial Talent

Chapter 339 Ali Going Public

Cai Xin is responsible for the overall operation of Ali Company, so he is the most clear about the current situation of Ali Company.

When Boss Ma said that there was going to be a price subsidy war, Cai Xin quickly figured out how much it would cost.

When Ali was attacking Penguin's e-commerce business before, it had already thrown a lot of money out, resulting in the fact that Ali's current profits are not much.

Originally, Boss Ma decided to increase the merchant's commission point later, but he didn't expect that Lin Feng would blow up the e-commerce trend, which led to the rise of many e-commerce platforms in China, so this plan was also shelved.

"Can you get a loan from the bank?" Boss Ma looked forward to Cai Xin with a hint of hope in his eyes.

When Cai Xin saw Boss Ma's eyes, he immediately felt guilty, so he just had to bite the bullet and explain.

"This is a bit difficult. After all, our company's statements are not very good-looking, and we don't have any real estate mortgage at all, so it is difficult to get another loan from the bank."

"What's more, our company still owes billions of dollars in loans to the bank and has not repaid it. Now if we want to borrow money, no bank is willing to lend us a loan."

Cai Xin's words made Boss Ma's heart sink, and he sat on the sofa thinking hard about making a decision.

"Boss Sun, can you ask him to raise some more funds?"

In the end, Boss Ma thought of Boss Sun again. After all, Boss Sun also owns a big company in country R, ​​so it is reasonable to say that there is no problem in refinancing them.

When Cai Xin heard Boss Ma's words, he suddenly showed embarrassment, wondering whether to tell him the truth.

"Old Cai, what's the matter?" Boss Ma quickly noticed the abnormality on his face, and asked suspiciously.

Cai Xin looked at Boss Ma, and finally made up his mind, took out the phone from his pocket, clicked on a news and handed the phone to Boss Ma.

Boss Ma didn't understand why Cai Xin did this, he took the phone in doubt, and then looked at the content on the phone screen.

"Ruan Ying Group, a company in country R, ​​has lost tens of billions of dollars due to the impact of the subprime mortgage crisis in country M. At present, the company's chairman, Mr. Sun, has announced that the company has started to lay off employees, and at the same time sell assets to recover funds."

Boss Ma didn't read the message, the phone slipped from his hand and fell to the ground.

Fortunately, Cai Xin's mobile phone is a rice mobile phone, so there is nothing wrong with falling on the ground at such a height, and the screen of the mobile phone lying on the ground is still on.

"How could this be, no..." Boss Ma stared blankly at the ceiling, leaning against the back of the sofa, muttering in a low voice.

He couldn't believe that Boss Sun of Ruanying Group was also affected by the subprime mortgage crisis. After all, he had chatted with Boss Sun and knew that Boss Sun was very courageous and capable.

But Boss Ma wouldn't think about it. In history, when so many powerful figures have fallen to the ground, don't mention Boss Sun.

"Old Ma, are you okay?" Cai Xin frowned, picked up the mobile phone on the ground with a bit of distress, reached out to wipe the dust on the mobile phone, and then carefully put it back into his pocket.

A few minutes later, Boss Ma looked at Cai Xin after regaining his composure.

"Then do we still have a chance?"

When Boss Ma said this, there was a hint of disappointment in his tone, but there was also a glimmer of hope in the disappointment.

Seeing Boss Ma's disappointed expression, Cai Xin felt a block in his heart.

But he is also very clear in his heart that the current global economic situation is not very good. Many banks have also begun to tighten their money, and some capital has also begun to reduce investment. It will give people a sense of security.

"Why don't we ask Lin Feng to borrow some money?" Cai Xin looked at Boss Ma's disappointed expression, his brain became hot, and he immediately started to come up with bad ideas.

"We are going to defeat Lin Feng now, and you still asked me to borrow money from him, are you out of your mind?"

When Boss Ma heard Cai Xin's bad idea, his expression immediately changed. He stood up and shouted at Cai Xin.

When Cai Xin saw Boss Ma like this, he felt numb in his heart.

If you hadn't been fighting against Lin Feng, the company would have become like this.

Lin Feng would not rush into the e-commerce industry so unscrupulously, and Penguin Company would not join hands with Lin Feng.

Cai Xin sometimes wondered, if Boss Ma hadn't opposed Lin Feng, then for Lin Feng, if he wanted to enter the e-commerce industry, the best partner would be Alibaba.

Although Cai Xin often listened to Boss Ma talking about chicken soup, he said that he would definitely change the world in the future and create his own legend.

But the fact is that before Boss Ma became a legend, he had already provoked a current legend.

Who is Lin Feng?The richest man in China, the legendary investment king.

Cai Xin couldn't figure out why the clever boss Ma he knew wanted to get along with Lin Feng. Could this be the legend that one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers?
Lin Feng is a tiger, and Cai Xin has no objection, but he said that Boss Ma is a tiger. Cai Xin looked at Boss Ma sitting on the sofa with a hideous face, and couldn't help sighing in his heart. No matter how you look at it, he looks a bit like a sick cat. Kong yelled, but couldn't come up with any useful solution.

"If you don't ask Lin Feng to borrow money, then there is the last way left."

Cai Xin's words made Boss Ma who was sitting there suddenly feel like a drowning man suddenly grabbing a life-saving straw.

"Old Cai, tell me quickly, what is the solution?"

Cai Xin looked at Boss Ma and said, "IPO."

"IPO?" Boss Ma repeated, and his eyes slowly became brighter.

"You mean to promote the listing of Ali Company?"

Cai Xin looked at Boss Ma and nodded heavily.

"But according to the current global economy, if we go public at this time, we may not be able to raise much money."

Boss Ma still has two brushes, and he quickly analyzed the flaws in this proposal.

"We can spin off Taobao first and go public separately."

Cai Xin sat opposite Boss Ma and continued: "Although our company's profit is not very satisfactory, the data of our e-commerce business is still good, so if we list this business separately, we should be able to raise good funds. .”

Boss Ma heard what Cai Xin said, thought about it, and thought it made sense.

"Then where do we go to market?"

"Over there in country M, after all, there is a very complete listing system for companies like us."

Boss Ma looked at Cai Xin suspiciously, and said, "Why can't you choose Xiangjiang?"

"Now there is a subprime mortgage crisis in country M, and I don't know when it will end."

"I'm afraid that our listing plan will be stranded because of the economic downturn there."

Cai Xin moved his butt and approached Boss Ma a few centimeters away.

"I've also considered this issue. Although the economic downturn in country M will have a certain impact on our listing, I have estimated that the impact will not be great."

"The most important thing is that we think about it differently. At this time, there is a need for a company with value investment to give those prudent investors a chance to choose."

Boss Ma is not as experienced as Cai Xin in financial investment knowledge, but he believes in Cai Xin.

"That's how it is. Hurry up and find a good investment bank to help us plan the listing. Now that Lin Feng has started to do it, we can't delay it for too long."

Lin Feng also heard from Zhang Shi that he knew that Ali Company was going to go public.

After the news of Alibaba's going public came to the market, many investment banks and capital came to the door.

Cai Xin's analysis is correct. Although country M is currently suffering from the subprime mortgage crisis, there is still a lot of capital interested in companies like Alibaba, the number one e-commerce leader in China.

Now a lot of capital is looking for relationships, to see if they can get the original shares when Alibaba goes public.

Although this time it is only the listing of Ali's e-commerce business and does not involve Ali's payment business, but even so, many people think it is a piece of "fat meat", and many people want to have a bite.

But how can those institutions and capital without strength get meat? In the end, the guidance of Ali's listing was jointly obtained by Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Morgan.

Lin Feng looked at Zhang Shi, who was sitting in front of him, and listened to his continuous analysis of how much room for growth Ali would have after going public. Anyway, Lin Feng could tell that Zhang Shi really wanted to get the allotment shares of Ali Company.

"Don't you know some people on Wall Street, you can try to ask them for help."

Hearing Lin Feng's words, Zhang Shi showed an unnatural expression on his face.

"Actually, my friends on Wall Street have no way to get shares. Now they can only wait for them to go public and buy them directly on the secondary market."

Lin Feng looked at Zhang Shi and found the unnatural look on his face, but he didn't say anything.

"By the way, Dangdang.com now has huge user support from Penguin and Weichat. How is the current performance?"

When Zhang Shi heard Lin Feng asked about the situation of Dangdang.com, he quickly said: "Now that Dangdang.com has such a huge user data, its daily sales performance is constantly breaking new highs."

"Following this trend, I believe it won't take long to become the second largest e-commerce company in China."

"Are you sure?" Lin Feng was not blindly happy when he heard Zhang Shi's words.

After all, he knows how powerful the current domestic e-commerce companies are. Could it be that Dangdang.com is so easy to catch up with these companies.

Let’s not talk about Lin Feng’s own Xingkong Electric. After all, although this company accounts for 80.00% of the market share of the entire domestic electrical appliance sales, its business is too simple, so Lin Feng has asked Hou Long to start the company’s business at a later stage. become diversified.

Aside from Xingkong Electric, JD.com’s market share is not small. Although there is still a big gap with Ali’s share, due to the convenience and speed of JD.com’s express delivery, JD.com’s market share is also constantly increasing.

Of course, in Lin Feng's heart, he doesn't want JD.com's business to develop so fast. After all, he has signed a gambling agreement with JD.com. If the scale of JD.com's development really meets the conditions that Lin Feng said, then Lin Feng had no choice but to use that money as a long-term investment in JD.com.

But in Lin Feng's heart, he was still more willing to let Jingdong Company break the contract and lose money, so that Lin Feng would have the opportunity to annex Jingdong Company directly.

In addition to JD.com, Penguin should not be underestimated.

Although Penguin's e-commerce business was hit hard by Ali when it was in business, it is still in operation. Although the sales are not high, it has a huge user base like Penguin. I believe that if it does well in the future, it will definitely be able to make e-commerce grow up.

"Boss, don't worry, I definitely don't dare to talk nonsense about this." Zhang Shi quickly took out a document from the briefcase next to him and put it in front of Lin Feng.

"This is the latest sales summary of Dangdang.com. You can read it and know that what I said is true."

Lin Feng glanced at Zhang Shi, then picked up the report and casually opened it.

"what!"

When Zhang Shi heard Lin Feng's voice, his heart was lifted immediately, and he didn't know what Lin Feng had discovered.

(End of this chapter)