I am a rich second generation!

Chapter 145 With a background, it's easy to do things!

With the official start of the financing meeting.

The staff of Byte also came out one after another, and appeared in the venue with the financing bidding intention form.

Chu Man, who had just left, also appeared in front of Gu Cheng again with a few staff members holding documents.

Under her order, several thick stacks of documents were neatly placed on the table.

"Mr. Gu, here are all the financial reports and business growth of ByteDance from the C-round financing on April 2014, 4 to the present. You can simply check it out.

In addition, this is the bidding document for this D round of financing. You can fill in your psychological valuation and intention share on it. In addition, Mr. Gu can rest assured that this bidding letter of intent has no Anyone can get it by any means. "

Seeing that the staff had put down the financial report materials, Chu Man also carefully placed a gray-brown cowhide document bag in front of Gu Cheng
"Thank you, Consultant Chu."

Gu Cheng nodded slightly, and greeted him politely.

It wasn't until Chu Man's back gradually disappeared that Gu Cheng turned his head and looked at Lin Xiao: "Just fill in?"

For this financing meeting, Gu Cheng did not bring a large group of professionals with him like other investment banks.

Gu Cheng couldn't understand the so-called financial statements and business statements, but because of the memory of his previous life, he didn't intend to check these things.

He just needs to be clear that in five years, Byte's valuation will exceed 4000 billion U.S. dollars.

Lin Xiao nodded lightly when he heard the words: "Fill in the numbers according to the numbers I told you, and then just wait for the notification."

"Don't you need to say hello?"

"Someone has already said what should be said to Byte's decision-makers, so there is no need to repeat it.

In addition, I just asked that Chuman to remove his seat in the forest group. Sitting here with you is equivalent to sending a message. If Zhang Yiming still doesn't understand, then he is not qualified to be the president of Byte. "

After slightly nodding his head, Gu Cheng also took out a page of bidding documents with an inexplicable fragrance from the cowhide bag. First, he filled in the [Evaluation] column with 90 billion U.S. dollars.

Then I also wrote 8% in the [Intention Equity] column.

As for the other columns, Gu Cheng didn't even look at them, and finally wrote his name and company name in the byline.

After all, it's just a bidding document, and it's not a contract with legal benefits, just a little bit of confusion
If it is a formal financing contract, there are hundreds of thousands of regulations in the contract. Even if you hire the most professional team of lawyers, you will have to study for a period of time before you dare to sign it officially. Don't take it seriously?

After Gu Cheng signed the paper and just put the document back into the leather bag, the byte staff who had been on the sidelines also looked at it in surprise.
You must know that this round of bytes has reserved a full hour.

Although the major capitals probably have collected most of the detailed information on ByteDance before participating in this financing meeting, they still have to do some superficial work, right?
On the other hand, on Gu Cheng's side, from the delivery of the documents to the signature.

No more than 3 minutes in between.

Are these young and old just here to join in the fun?

Although he was puzzled, but out of professionalism, the staff also came over and asked: "Mr. Gu, have you completed the bidding documents for your company?"

Gu Cheng raised his head slightly when he heard the words, glanced at him and said, "That's right."

"That's right. If Mr. Gu doesn't need to reconfirm it again, I will seal the document bag with wax paint to ensure that the information you filled out will not be known to other irrelevant people."

Nodding his head, Gu Cheng didn't say much, and gently pushed the file bag in front of the staff.

Although the document sealing is only a simple process, the staff also acted very seriously, and there was even another staff member who took photos for backup.
Looking at this scene, Gu Cheng was also a little curious.

Zhao Tai, who had been sitting next to Gu Cheng, looked at Gu Cheng's expression, and explained in his ear: "This is the basic process of the bidding meeting.

Don't think you just filled it out, but from the outside world, it is a top secret document.

Byte’s board of directors has more than 20 seats, but there are only 7 people who are directly responsible for this financing. Leaking, that is, the exposure of commercial secrets
If it affects the financing process, maybe these staff members will be imprisoned, and it is normal to take it seriously. "

Hearing Zhao Tai's explanation, Gu Cheng nodded his head, expressing his clarity.

Although wealth status has improved, due to lack of experience, experience is still somewhat weak.

However, Gu Cheng didn't slap his face swollen to pretend to be fat, he pretended to understand when it was time to learn, because he knew that no matter how naive he was, no one would dare to underestimate him.

In the area of ​​other capital companies, the performance is much more professional
Almost no matter the size of the company, the professionals brought by each company are carefully reviewing financial reports and business documents, and making the last evaluation before financing.

Time passed slowly.
Compared to the tense atmosphere of other companies, Gu Cheng's side seems much more relaxed
The young and old seemed not to take this financing into their hearts at all, and were still chatting about some unimportant things.

"Brother Lin, you said two days ago that you could help me build a bulletproof car like yours. What happened?"

Hearing Gu Cheng's inquiry, Lin Xiao also smiled softly and said, "I have already handed in the application for you, and we should be able to start manufacturing after the resources from the military industry are approved.

But don't worry, I will hand over this car to you within three months at most. "

Before Gu Cheng could respond, Lin Xiao seemed to have thought of something, and continued: "But I have to tell you in advance, the starting fee for customization is 6000 million, you must call me the money as soon as possible, The approval of each department has to confirm the payment, otherwise the delivery time is delayed, and you can only blame yourself."

"Understand, understand, it's only tens of millions, I won't delay.

But let me tell you, since I want to do it, I must buy the best one for me, don't save me money, I don't have big money, I'm willing to spend a little money to enjoy it. "

"That's estimated to be hundreds of millions."

"It's only a few tens of millions more, the difference is not big."

Lin Xiao: "."

Principal Wang: "."

Zhao Tai: "."

Gu Cheng didn't see their speechless expressions, but thought a little in his heart. When he got tired of playing in China, he would definitely have to go abroad for a while. It must be worth spending a hundred million to ensure his safety.

And Lin Xiao also said that it is normal to have to go through layers of official approvals, which is a little troublesome, and Gu Cheng understands it very well.

But what seemed to be a very normal chat between the two reached the ears of several other people, but it was another Versailles speech.
Principal Wang glanced at Gu Cheng enviously.

It's not a day or two since he's been greedy for Lin Xiao's bulletproof car. He even begged him, the richest man in the world, to apply for one, but it didn't get approved. ready for delivery
Isn't this discriminatory treatment too serious?
Is he still the chief rich second generation on the surface?

As for Yu Wenwen and Chen Guo who were sitting on the other side, their hearts surged again.
The minimum customization fee is 6000 million, and it is likely to exceed [-] million.
You must know that the actual price of the private jet [Gulfstream 650] that is bought the most by bigwigs is around 4 million. This car can be worth a quarter of a private jet. How luxurious it must be, the two of them even thought dare not think
I just feel like coming out with Gu Cheng, as if I have come to a new world.
"Oh, by the way, before I come here, I plan to buy a batch of commercial vehicles to be used as the company's courtesy car. Brother Lin, you have a wide range of ways, so help me get a batch?"

"Rolls-Royce? Bentley? Maybach?"

"Let's have some of these brands."

"Okay, I'll get someone to contact you when I go back today. These cars are simple, and as long as the money is in place, they can be settled at any time."

After responding to Gu Cheng, Lin Xiao seemed to have thought of something, and said again: "I remember that your company doesn't seem to have a fixed address now, are you interested in moving to the capital? Most of the old men in the family are based in the capital, so here You're better off too."

Gu Cheng heard the words and said with a faint smile: "Let's forget it, in my eyes there is no difference between the capital and Shanghai, and the second grandfather is in Shanghai, who would dare to trip me up secretly?

And some time ago I planned to build a headquarters building, and the Shanghai Land Resources Management also wanted to approve a piece of land for me at a low price. If it can be negotiated, at least it can save more than a billion yuan, but there is no such thing in the capital. Good point. "

"That's right, as long as Mr. Gu is here, there is no difference between Beijing and Shanghai."

Letting Gu Cheng come to the capital was because Lin Xiao wanted him to be closer to the inner circle. Since Gu Cheng was unwilling, he did not force it.

Between chatting, more than an hour passed quickly
The bidding documents of major companies have already been taken away by Byte.

Byte CFO Jiang Bo, the host of the financing meeting, appeared in front of everyone again.

Wearing a neat suit, Jiang Bo held a small card and looked around the media reporters and major capital parties with a smile.

The media reporters who had been waiting for the news also knew that the results of the first round of bidding had been announced, so they immediately cheered up, fearing that any information announced by Jiang Bo would be missed.

"The first round of financing bidding includes 65 companies. After the preliminary screening by the board of directors, there are always 11 companies whose bids are close to the intention of our company.

The eleven companies are Xiangjiang Jianyin International Co., Ltd.

Sequoia Capital Fund (Hua Guo Holdings).

Sang Hikuni Edo SoftBank Group.

Shanghai Gray Rhino Capital Holdings Co., Ltd.

Hangzhou Stone Capital Holdings Co., Ltd.

"

"In order not to waste the precious time of major companies, I announce the official start of the second round of financing bidding, and the second round will be participated by the 11 companies announced just now.
Representatives of other companies can stay to watch, or they can be taken to the Ritz-Carlton by our company's staff for a meal. "

After Jiang Bo finished speaking, the major capital parties were not surprised. Everyone knew that the real competition was between these 11 top capitals. These companies that failed to bid were nothing more than to show their faces.
After all, companies also need qualifications.

In the future, it will be said that their company has also participated in financing bidding at the level of tens of billions of dollars, which is a perfect qualification!
And the media reporters who had been waiting for a long time also edited the manuscript and sent it to their respective companies.

Gray Rhino Capital, a capital company that was not famous before, has also officially entered the sight of the Huaguo capital circle.

The second round of bidding is no different from the previous round of bidding.

It's just filling out a bidding document again. The only difference is that the reserved time has changed from 1 hour to 20 minutes.

This time, Gu Cheng didn't even spend 3 minutes, and only took 20 seconds to complete the bidding documents.

This scene fell to Shen Peng, Sun Zhengyi, and Zhao Kegou, but it had another meaning in their eyes.

In addition to sufficient funds, each of their major capital companies also has a strong influence, so they don't worry about financing failure at all.
And what about Gu Cheng's Gray Rhino Capital?

No matter how rich it is, it is just a new capital.

Why are they more unscrupulous than they behave?
They all have big brains when it comes to capitalism. For a while, these capital tycoons all have big brains, thinking whether Gu Cheng still has some trump cards hidden.
And Zhao Kegou, who is closest to Gu Cheng, is like a sinister smiling tiger, knowing that Gu Cheng has sufficient funds, and even filled in an extra 110 million US dollars in the valuation in the second round of bidding documents, from 111 billion US dollars. The value rose to [-] billion.
It can be said that this valuation is aimed at Gu Cheng.
Another hour passed, but none of the 65 company representatives left the venue early.

If nothing else happens, Byte’s D round of financing will be confirmed today. Although they have lost the qualification to share the cake, they still want to stay on the scene to see which companies can share the big cake of ByteDance .

Several figures appeared on the stage again, and this time it was not the former host Jiang Bo, but Zhang Yiming, the president of ByteDance.

Zhang Yiming first spent a few minutes talking about the scene, and then began to announce the bidding results.

"The bidding results have come out. After the resolution of the board of directors, CCB International, Softbank Bank Group, Sequoia Capital, and Gray Rhino Capital will conduct the final negotiation on financing details. Representatives of major companies are also invited to the conference room for this round of discussions. The final process of financing."

As Zhang Yiming's voice fell to the ground, everyone knew clearly...

cake
The so-called final financing details negotiation is nothing more than negotiating some share of the cake.

At Zhang Yiming's invitation, Gu Cheng, Lin Xiao, Sun Zhengyi, Zhao Kegou, and Shen Peng slowly got up and walked to the backstage conference room.

The media reporters once again began to edit the manuscript.

It must be known that the manuscripts uploaded an hour ago had the highest reading volume and even exceeded 50, which is enough to prove that in addition to major capital companies, there are also countless ordinary people who are paying attention to every process of this financing.

In the office, Zhang Yiming and several other members of the board of directors in charge of this financing sat on one side, while on the other side sat the capital side represented by Gu Cheng and others.

Chu Man was sitting at the side, planning to record the content of the negotiation with a notebook.

"First of all, before discussing the details of this financing, please sign a confidentiality agreement. This detailed negotiation is related to our company's future strategic planning and is a commercial secret. Please understand."

After speaking, several documents were handed over to Gu Cheng, Sun Zhengyi and other capital representatives.

Several other bigwigs have signed this kind of non-disclosure agreement, if not one hundred, there are eighty. name.

Gu Cheng looked a little more curiously, but when he saw that everyone else had finished signing, he also signed his own name directly.

When the confidentiality agreement was put away, Zhang Yiming organized his language and spoke slowly.

"In this D round of financing, we, ByteDance, intend to take a 13% share in financing, and based on the bidding intentions of your major companies, we have given a valuation of 110 billion US dollars.

If you agree with this valuation, we have the premise to continue the discussion. "

Everyone pondered for half a minute, before Shen Peng from Sequoia Capital spoke first: "Agreed."

Sun Zhengyi: "Yes."

Zhao Kegou: "I agree too."

But Gu Cheng didn't speak for a long time.
Seeing everyone's eyes on Gu Cheng, Zhang Yiming quickly said: "This is the second regulation of this financing negotiation.

顾总对于字节跃动的估值也是120亿美金，但实际融资金额为90亿美金的标准，也就是1%股份为6亿软妹币，另外每1%股剩下的1.92亿软妹币则算为资源融资。

Mr. Gu's intended financing share is 8%, which means that Mr. Gu will provide our company with resource support worth 15.36 billion soft sister coins.

And this agreement has been formally approved by the board of directors. "

After Zhang Yiming finished speaking, apart from Gu Cheng and Lin Xiao who remained calm, the three big bosses, Shen Peng, Zhao Kegou, and Sun Zhengyi raised their brows.

Resource investment is very common in the capital market.

But they couldn't figure out what resources could be worth 15.36 billion?
And according to what Zhang Yiming said, Gu Cheng has already been pre-appointed for this round of financing?Even 8% of the equity has been determined.

The few other people hadn't spoken yet, but Sun Zhengyi said in a cold tone in unproficient Mandarin: "I have no objection to the investment of resources, but according to Mr. Zhang, a total of 13% of the financing will be allocated for D." share, of which Mr. Gu accounted for 8%.

So the three of us can only get 5%? "

Zhang Yiming nodded: "That's what I mean."

Originally, the D round of financing only planned to take out 10% of the shares, but Gu Cheng asked for 8% alone. If it weren't for the fear that the remaining 2% would not be able to satisfy the appetite of other capital, the board of directors would not even let go and take out an additional 3% .

You must know that according to the current development of Byte, let alone take 3% more shares, even if you take three thousandths more, the future loss may be worth billions.

"If this is the case, I think we have no way to negotiate in this regard, and our minimum requirement for Softbank is to obtain a 5% share.

If Mr. Zhang agrees, I can call the shots and add another 110 million US dollars to the 5 billion US dollar valuation.

I learned that Douyin's overseas version of tiktok has already started research and development, and our Softbank also has certain resources in international finance, which can greatly shorten the promotion time. "

Hearing this, Zhang Yiming couldn't help but feel a little moved.
But when he saw Lin Xiao sitting next to Gu Cheng, he also suppressed his thoughts
Although the conditions offered by Sun Zhengyi are very sweet, they are not as good as the conditions given by Lin Xiao.
We must know that with the development of short videos, all kinds of borderline works emerge in an endless stream. Regulators have long been staring at short video apps headed by Douyin, Kuaishou, and Duanzi, and there was even news that they would start vigorously rectifying them.
But what he didn't know was that the news was not groundless.

Kuaishou later underwent a three-month self-examination, and the even worse joke was permanently removed from the shelves in April 3. Today’s Toutiao’s company’s valuation was cut in half.

Douyin is developing too fast, and its foundation is not stable.

The most important thing right now is to seek asylum.

In any case, the foundation of Byte is still in China. Although the overseas market is popular, it is far less important than the domestic market.

Not to mention that Gu Cheng also offered 1% of 6 million, even if 1% is only 5 million or 4 million, there is a high probability that they will agree, but they may have a grudge in the future...

From this point, it can be seen that Byte’s decision-makers are more courageous than the other two companies, and they know what is the priority.

"Mr. Sun, I'm sorry, I have to admit that the conditions you offered are very attractive, but for the sake of the company's development, I have to reject you."

Sun Zhengyi didn't expect that he would be rejected even after raising the conditions so high. He also shook his head and said, "If that's the case, then I can only look forward to the next cooperation."

After finishing speaking, Sun Zhengyi also stood up with the help of his assistant.

The 5% share has to be divided equally among the three companies, which means that one company has less than 2% of the share.
He traveled thousands of miles from Sangri country to Hua country, and he will never be satisfied with this point. He is not Gu Cheng either, so he can't see how Douyin will develop in the future.

Moreover, Kuaishou’s financing was also during this period. Since Byte failed to invest here, he also planned to invest in Kuaishou, another giant in the short video market.

Zhang Yiming also got up to send Sun Zhengyi away, leaving only three of the original four employers.

Seeing this scene, Gu Cheng and Lin Xiao couldn't help but look at each other.

Gu Cheng was thinking, if Sequoia and Jianyin couldn't accept it like Sun Zhengyi, then should he discuss it with Lin Xiao, spend an extra 30 billion, and directly eat the remaining 5% share?

But Shen Peng and Zhao Kegou didn't give Gu Cheng this chance.
After negotiating for half an hour, it was finally decided that each company would take 18.15% of the shares with 2.5 billion soft sister coins.
"After the financing is officially successful, ByteDance will add five board seats, Gray Rhino Capital will have three board seats, CCB International will have one, and Sequoia will have one."

two hours later
Following Zhang Yiming's last regulation, Gu Cheng and others agreed.

ByteDance's D round of financing, which lasted for several months, has finally come to an end.
Gu Cheng's Gray Rhino Capital took an 48% share with 8 billion soft sister coins.

Sequoia and CCB International each won 18.15% of the share with 2.5 billion.

In other words, ByteDance’s D-round financing has obtained a total of 84.3 billion development funds, which is as high as 66.6 billion more than the previous D-round financing of 17.7 billion funds.
Gu Cheng also couldn't help thinking for a while in his mind.

I don't know if there are more big wings worth 17.7 billion starting to incite. Will the Douyin in this life develop faster and bigger than the previous life?
And during the nearly 3 hours of negotiation, Shen Peng and Zhao Kegou also knew what the 15.36 billion resources were that made Byte so exciting.
If there are really those big bosses who protect him, as long as Byte does not kill himself, the future development in China will definitely be smooth!

Sequoia and CCB International also boarded an invincible giant ship by mistake
All of a sudden, the way the two looked at Gu Cheng changed again and again.

Originally, they thought that Gu Cheng's biggest background was the trillion-dollar giant Chuangsheng Group, but now it seems that this is just a drop in the bucket for Gu Cheng to reveal his background.
Since his rebirth, Gu Cheng has always planned to invest in bytes.
And with the help of Lin Xiao, Gu Cheng finally accomplished the biggest goal since his rebirth, and it was so simple.
This made Gu Cheng have to lament that it is easier to do things with a background.
　I went to the hospital for a re-examination today. The PH value of the urine test was too high. The doctor was worried that there was a metabolic problem after the operation, so he checked it several times, so I came back later, the update was later, and the number of words was less than 1000 words. Very ashamed, crying in pain.

　　
　
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