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Chapter 216 Kobe, I borrow money [First update, please subscribe]

1 month 31 day,
Old Lu rarely came back. He wanted to go back to Pengcheng to see relatives and friends. Lu Yu didn't have time to accompany him, so he went to Pengcheng with Hu Weidong, while Lu Yu and Yi Jianlian came to Shencheng.

There was something wrong with Yi Jianlian's visa. He came to the embassy a few days ago to re-apply and said that he was asked to pick it up today.

Lu Yu accompanied Yi Jianlian to Shencheng.

First, to change the visa, and secondly, Yi Jianlian has to come back to see his parents.

Walking into the embassy, ​​the visa officer who handled Yi Jianlian was very enthusiastic and sorted out all the procedures. After asking the reason, he realized that the visa officer was also a fan of Lu Yu.

Suddenly, Lu Yu saw in the corner a man wearing rimless glasses and his hair meticulously combed, like a creampie boy talking on the phone.

Lu Yu walked over casually and listened to what the man was saying.

"My visa was rejected... Well, I was just rejected. The visa officer asked me what I was going to do in the United States. I can't tell him what to do to watch the game in the United States... IDG wants to sell shares? How much? 5000 million Dollars? Where did I get so much money..."

Lu Yu confirmed that he was not mistaken, the man was Ma Huateng.

IDG is Tencent's first-round investor.

IDG and Yingke have 20% of the shares, respectively, which are 220 million US dollars. After two years, IDG sees that Tencent is developing well. Now it wants to sell the 20% of the shares. Ma Huateng must want to buy back the first time, but I didn't expect it. The other party actually asked for $5000 million.

Of course he couldn't come up with that much money.

Now Tencent is in the stage of burning money, let alone 5000 million, even 500 million he has to tighten his belt.

As soon as Ma Huateng hung up the phone, Lu Yu came over and said, "I'm sorry, I just heard you say that your visa was rejected?"

Ma Huateng glanced at Lu Yu vigilantly, because Lu Yu was wearing a mask, he didn't recognize him, but felt that the man in front of him was a little tall: "You are..."

He originally wanted to ask Lu Yu if he was a scalper, because there were several scalpers at the gate of the embassy negotiating prices with those who couldn't get a visa.

"First of all, I'm not a scalper."

Lu Yu smiled, then took off his mask: "I'm a player and I play in the NBA. My name is Lu Yu. If your visa is rejected, I think I can help."

Ma Huateng was stunned.

He recognized Lu Yu. Although he is not a basketball fan, Lu Yu's reputation in China is too great, especially since Anta's advertisements have been hit on CCTV.

"Can you really help?" Ma Huateng said in surprise.

This time, he plans to go to Los Angeles to inspect the annual video game exhibition to see if Tencent has an entry point into the game.

When the embassy was applying for a visa, the visa officer asked Ma Huateng, "What are you doing abroad?"

Ma Huateng, who has a sincere heart, hesitates and can't answer.Impatient, the visa officer refused Ma Huateng's visa.

With Ma Huateng going abroad is one of Tencent's five entrepreneurial veterans, Zeng Liqing, who is in charge of sales.After Ma Huateng was rejected, Zeng Liqing went up to submit the materials, and then talked to the visa officer about Tencent's great prospects.

With a three-inch tongue, the visa officer was actually persuaded and agreed to give Zeng Liqing a visa, and then asked, are you the only one in your company?Who else is going?

Zeng Liqing pointed to the information about Ma Huateng who had just been refused a visa and said, there is also him, he is my boss.

It is said that this Zeng Liqing was born to be a sales material.When Ma Huateng founded Tencent, he convened three classmates: Zhang Zhidong, Chen Yidan, and Xu Chenye.

Several of them have their own expertise, but they are all scientific and technical men who are not good at words, so they need to find a sales talent who can speak well.By chance, I found Zeng Liqing.

Zeng Liqing has a strong figure and a strong aura. When he went out to talk with Ma Huateng, others thought he was the boss and Ma Huateng was the secretary of the attendant.

In the early days of entrepreneurship, Ma Huateng took three classmates to type codes in the office, and Zeng Liqing went out to run the business.

Thanks to his efforts, Tencent received US$550 million in investment from IDG and Hong Kong Yingke when it was about to fail.

After Tencent got on the right track, Zeng Liqing served as Tencent's chief operating officer, the second person after Ma Huateng.

The visa officer glanced at the document and shook his head, a little disbelieving.

Just then, Lu Yu came over.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Visa Officer, I have something to trouble you. A friend of mine is the CEO of Tencent. He is going to Los Angeles to inspect this year's video game exhibition. He only has one chance a year. I hope you can help him apply for his visa. It's the Mr. Ma Huateng you rejected just now."

When the visa officer saw that it was Lu Yu, he quickly stood up.

"It turns out that Mr. Ma is your friend. When I asked him the question, he didn't answer, so I refused the visa. If it is your friend, I can rest assured that this Mr. Zeng just proved Mr. Ma. identity, in this way, I will handle it."

Zeng Liqing looked at Lu Yu in surprise.

He also recognized Lu Yu as the Chinese star who played in the NBA.

"Thank you so much, Mr. Lu." Zeng Liqing shook hands with Lu Yu.

On the other hand, Ma Huateng was also relieved. If he couldn't go to Los Angeles this time, he might miss this video game show.

He also thanked Lu Yu.

The three of them chatted in the lobby of the embassy, ​​from Lu Yu's identity as an NBA player, to the media industry that Lu Yu has deployed in the United States, and to the domestic communications market and future network layout.

Ma Huateng was surprised by Lu Yu's business vision.

In his opinion, if Lu Yu doesn't play football, he is a businessman, which is enough to dominate the business circle.

Suddenly, Lu Yu's words changed: "I take the liberty to ask, just now, President Ma said that IDG is going to sell their Tencent shares. I don't know if this news is true or not?"

Zeng Liqing didn't know the news yet, so he was stunned and looked at Ma Huateng beside him.

Ma Huateng smiled helplessly: "Yeah, they may think that they have almost made enough money, so they plan to sell it. Logically, we should have the right of first repurchase, but their bid is too high, and I definitely can't get so much money. "

"Then if I want to buy this share, can President Ma communicate with the IDG people and introduce me?" Lu Yu finally showed his fox's tail.

"of course."

Ma Huateng smiled and said, "It happens that I will go to Los Angeles this time. After I finish my business, we can meet in Boston. IDG's headquarters is in Boston."

Yingke's previous 20% stake has been bought by South Africa's MIH Holding Group.

If this share is bought by the South African MIH Holding Group, MIH will hold a full 40% of the shares, which is a situation that Ma Huateng does not want to see.

But Lu Yu is different. From the conversation just now, he can hear that Lu Yu is not involved in many industries. Even if Lu Yu owns this 20% of the shares, he is only an ordinary shareholder like IDG.

"Great, then I'll wait for you in Boston." Lu Yu smiled.

At this time, Yi Jianlian's visa problem was also solved, and he came over and prepared to leave with Lu Yu.

After Lu Yu and Yi Jianlian left.

Zeng Liqing asked suspiciously, "Mr. Ma, do you really want to use the preemptive right to help Lu Yu acquire IDG shares?"

Ma Huateng nodded indifferently, with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Did you not notice that Lu Yu's business vision is different from others?"

"What's the difference?"

"I heard Mr. Ren mentioned before that when he endorsed Anta, he didn't ask for too much endorsement fees, but chose 5% of Anta's shares. On one side is Anta, which has an annual revenue of only US$300 million, which one would you choose?"

"This..." Zeng Liqing thought for a while, but the final result made him unsatisfied.

At that time, Anta's annual revenue was only a few million US dollars, let alone 5% of the shares, even if it was given 50% of the shares, he would not do it.

But in just over a year, Anta's revenue has now doubled several times.

And with the development of Lu Yu in the NBA, Anta's brand influence will only increase. The market cake of sports brands is hundreds of billions of dollars, and it maintains an annual growth rate of 20%.

Maybe after ten years, Lu Yu will be able to retire with this 5% equity.

Zeng Liqing had to admit that Lu Yu's business vision was unusual.

"But what does this have to do with your support for his purchase of IDG's equity?"

Ma Huateng smiled and said, "Doesn't that mean we also have great potential?"

It seems that Ma Huateng is joking. In fact, he did not say the real reason. In fact, Lu Yu owns Tencent shares and has another advantage——

Isn't Lu Yu a free spokesperson?
Anta needs to pay 5% of the shares to Lu Yu, but Tencent asked Lu Yu to buy it with real money.

What's more, if Lu Yu doesn't buy it, IDG will still sell it, and it's unclear who to sell it to.

It would be more cost-effective to sell to Lu Yu.

……

On February 2, Lu Yu flew to Los Angeles instead of New York.

Yi Jianlian returned to Spokane from Los Angeles.

He still has games to play in the future. If it hadn't been for the seed team for March Madness, Mark Foyou would not have allowed Yi Jianlian to follow Lu Yu back to China for so many days.

After arriving in Los Angeles, Lu Yu called Kobe directly.

After confirming that Kobe was at home, Lu Yu took a taxi directly to Kobe's house, said hello to Vanessa, and sat directly opposite Kobe.

"Kobe, I want to borrow some money from you." Lu Yu said straight to the point.

Before he came back, he had already confirmed with Snoopy that the company only had 3000 million US dollars in its account, which was the remainder of magazine sales, his own salary, restaurant profits and endorsement fees over the past year.

The main reason is that the magazine has invested a lot of money on the Internet recently. Before the traffic does not increase, the website only has a market value, and the realization channels are limited, and the market value cannot be realized, so this is a hole that cannot be accessed by light.

The restaurant has also opened many branches, and the rent, decoration, and staff wages are not small expenses.

This way, there is not much money left.

But compared to other NBA players, which player can have 3000 million in cash in his first season?
But that's not enough.

IDG wanted to sell its Tencent shares for US$5000 million. You must know that they only spent 220 million yuan when they bought it, which is a huge profit.

IDG now sells 5000 million, and the most annoying is Li Zekai of Yingke.

In fact, from the very beginning, IDG and Li Zekai were not optimistic about Tencent. It is said that IDG negotiated with Ma Huateng for a long time and asked Tencent how to make money, and Ma Huateng's answer was helpless: "I don't know either."

Therefore, the two are not optimistic about the "unreliable" Tencent, and have been looking for opportunities to sell them.

Later, Li Zekai sold 20% of his shares to the South African MIH Investment Group for $1260 million.

At that time, Lu Yu had just entered the NBA, when he was poor and poor, and he had been developing in the United States, and he never thought about investing in domestic business.

If he hadn't happened to go to apply for a visa with Yi Jianlian this time, he wouldn't have met Ma Huateng.

When he met Ma Huateng, he thought of Tencent, and when he thought of Tencent, he thought of Tencent News, the originator of the first batch of online media in China.

To put it bluntly, what Lu Yu has done is still to build his own media empire.

It's just a little bit of Tencent's rise by the way.

Li Zekai is of course depressed, because he sold 1260 million US dollars, but only a few months later, IDG will sell the same shares for 5000 million.

Of course, Lu Yu knew that IDG would regret it in the future.

But the problem now is that Lu Yu doesn't have enough money, so he found Kobe and wanted to borrow some money from Kobe.

Kobe was stunned for a moment, glanced at Vanessa with a guilty conscience, and then looked at Lu Yu again.

"land……"

Before he could finish speaking, Lu Yu interrupted him.

"Okay, I know, you are very embarrassed, don't borrow it!"

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