Winning the new financial era

Chapter 280 Earn more than a dozen small goals
"Mr. Zhang, you really guessed it right. Ms. Pang from Ari came to negotiate with me again."

Rocket.com CEO Mark laughed while talking on the phone, and he could see that he was in a good mood at the moment.

Zhang Yida was discussing with Huang Xiaofeng the next operation strategy of shared bicycles. When he received a call from Mark, he gave Huang Xiaofeng a "pause" gesture and began to chat with Mark in detail.

"is it?"

Zhang Yida smiled, not surprised by this result.For Ahri, hundreds of millions of dollars are far less than the time saved and the grand blueprint for international expansion.

"Then what price did Pang Lei offer you?" Zhang Yida asked Mark with a smile.

"22 billion US dollars, a full... 2 million US dollars more than last time."

Mark especially emphasized the tone of "2 million US dollars" and dragged on for a long time.

Zhang Yida reclined on the sofa, put the phone to his ear, and continued to ask: "Then do you think this price has reached their upper limit?"

"Definitely not!"

Mark said in a very affirmative tone that he is also a very "competent" businessman. In his opinion, Ahri's talk broke down last time, and he came back again this time. It must be because he valued Lazada so much.

Zhang Yida also mentioned Ahri's international strategy to him, and he now agrees with Zhang Yida's point of view: Lazada is a very important overseas springboard for Ahri, and it has an irreplaceable role.

"Then how much do you think Lazada should sell for?"

Mark replied without thinking: "$30 billion! Not even a penny less!"

Zhang Yida smiled and shook his head, Mark really regarded Ah Li as a winner.

Originally, he wanted to sell it for US$20 billion. If he hadn't been on the sidelines to dissuade him, he might have sold it long ago.

Seeing that Ali has changed his mind now, he wants to sell it for another $30 billion.

But everything goes too far, Zhang Yida is really afraid that Ali will be angered, and then buy a small e-commerce company by himself, and slowly operate it in Southeast Asia.

If that was the case, Zhang Yida was dumbfounded. He poured hundreds of millions of dollars into it, and then "deeply locked in".

If Pinduoduo now has a market value of tens of billions of dollars, hundreds of millions of users, and hundreds of billions of GMV, it is not impossible for Zhang Yida to consider whether to take over Laizanda.

But now that Pinduoduo’s domestic affairs have not been straightened out, how dare it blindly expand overseas?
Waiting for Pinduoduo to develop insignificantly for another two years will almost stabilize the roots, and it will not be too late to go to sea by then.

Zhang Yida decided to persuade this Mr. Mark, who was taking advantage of money, and said: "Mr. Mark, there is an old saying in China that goes, "When you see something good, you accept it, enough is enough."

Mark was chanting the old Chinese saying Zhang Yida said: When we are still in the lead in doing something, we can consider whether we should stop. If we continue to persist, it does not mean that the result will be better.

Mark silently recollected the meaning of this sentence, feeling that Chinese is really broad and profound!
"Jack Ma has a very temper, I'm afraid I will push him into a hurry, if he doesn't acquire Lazada and starts his own platform, we will be dumbfounded.

More than 20 billion US dollars of acquisition funds have been poured into Southeast Asia. I believe that within two years, Ahri can start from scratch and achieve Lazada's current size.

Ari has no shortage of funds, manpower, experience, or anything else. The only thing he lacks is time.

This is why they chose to acquire Lazada instead of building an e-commerce platform from scratch. "

Mark still respects Zhang Yida's opinions. First of all, Zhang Yida is an Internet rich man who is not worth less than him. In addition, he is also expected to turn his head back.

So now Mark is very willing to cooperate with Zhang Yida, communicate more with each other, and strive to sell Lazada at a good price together.He added:
"Okay then! Since you said that, Mr. Zhang, there must be a reason for you.

You are in China, compared to us, you must be more familiar with Ari and Mr. Jack Ma.

Mr. Zhang, what do you think our reserve price should be? "

Zhang Yida thought for a while and said, "25 billion US dollars! You and Pang Lei can slowly negotiate the price!
Anyway, they are the ones who are anxious, not you.

All you have to do is act like you want to sell the company but struggle with the price.

Let Ahri always hope that this deal will be negotiated.That way they can mark you up a little bit until you reach your goal. "

After hearing this, Mark said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang, you are really a difficult opponent. You don't look like a 21-year-old young man at all."

"Aspirations don't come at a young age!" Zhang Yida uttered another golden sentence.

"Whether a person has ambition has nothing to do with his age!"

Mark exclaimed: "Is this also what ancient Chinese philosophers said? It seems that I have to learn Chinese well. It's really interesting."

After Zhang Yida taught Mark a few more famous sayings, he hung up the phone.

Then he recruited Song Caiwei and said, "Go and buy a set of Xinhua Dictionary, as well as [-] Tang poems and the Three Character Classic.

Oh, yes, there is also a Chinese-German dictionary.

Then mail it to Mr. Mark of German Rocket Network. "

Huang Xiaofeng was a little curious and asked, "What kind of operation is this?"

"The barbarian country admires the Chinese culture and asked me to help."

……

"Ms. Pang, happy cooperation!"

Pang Lei looked at the "unscrupulous" German in front of her and became furious. She reluctantly shook hands with Mark and said, "Congratulations, Mr. Mark, you have made a good deal!"

Mark smiled, "Ms. Pang, you have also gained a mature and stable e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia. In the future, Ahri Group will definitely become an international giant comparable to Amazon."

The Lazada was sold for a good price of 26 billion US dollars, and Mark also praised the other party in a good mood.

Pang Lei sighed helplessly. Although the purchase price of 26 billion US dollars did not exceed her own bottom line, the feeling of being ripped off was really uncomfortable.

She has been in Germany for several days and talks with Mark once a day.

Her acquisition offer was initially US$22 billion, but the Mark in front of her was unmoved, and talked to her every day about how promising Lazada was and how much revenue had increased.

If Mark hadn't let go of his mouth a little bit, and the quotation would drop a little every day, she would have thought that the other party was dishonest and would have gone back to China.

In this way, Pang Lei raised the price by tens of millions of dollars every day, and Mark lowered the price by tens of millions of dollars every day.

After talking for nearly a week, it was finally negotiated at a price of 26 billion US dollars.

Pang Lei was very dissatisfied with this result. If Jack Ma hadn't specifically told her to complete the deal within a week, she felt that she would definitely be able to negotiate a better purchase price.

But the matter has come to this point, and she only wants to understand the matter as quickly as possible.

Then she flew to the United States and Singapore, and negotiated with JP Morgan, Temasek and other shareholders.

Ruixiang, the largest shareholder, was put at the end by her because she was afraid that Zhang Yida would raise the price.

But Zhang Yida didn't come forward, Lan Lan was in charge of negotiating with Pang Lei.

In Ruixiang's office, Lan Lan chatted enthusiastically with Pang Lei.

"Mr. Pang, I have known for a long time that you are a role model for women in the Chinese business world. Unfortunately, I have never had the chance to see you. Today I finally saw you."

For Lan Lan's praise, Pang Lei didn't take it seriously, and replied: "Mr. Lan, you are also very good. You are only in your early 30s and you are the CFO of Ruixiang."

The two boasted to each other in business, and neither of them cut to the point rashly.

In the end, it was Lan Lan who spoke first to get to the point, "Mr. Pang, are you here for Lazada?"

"Not bad!"

When Pang Lei uttered these words, she was also very confident. Except for Ruixiang, she had negotiated her intentions with all other shareholders of Lazada.

As a major shareholder with few voting rights, Ruixiang couldn't stop the transaction even if he wanted to.

The most is not to sell shares!

Ruixiang does not sell shares, and she has also considered a countermeasure, which is to inject capital continuously, then burn money, inject capital again, and burn money again...

If Ruixiang does not follow up with the capital injection, the shares will be diluted.Following the capital injection, it would be even better, borrowing Ruixiang's money to develop Lazada.

Anyway, the controlling right is in the hands of Ari, and he is not afraid of Ruixiang taking control of the company. It is such a happy thing to have a small shareholder who will follow along and contribute money and efforts.

As for financial dividends, according to the efficiency of Lazada's burning of money, there is no need to think about it within five years.

Even if it makes a profit, or goes public, Ruixiang will get some financial returns at worst.

For Ari, the meaning of strategic holding is the most real. If Ruixiang doesn't quit, it's no big deal, and it won't cause any trouble anyway.

"Other shareholders have also notified us of this matter."

Lan Lan nodded, and said again: "The price is 26 billion US dollars, right? Ruixiang is willing to sell all the shares, not even one share."

Pang Lei was a little surprised, at first she thought it would take some verbal confrontation, but she didn't expect Rui Xiang to be so talkative.

The price is not discussed, the shares are not kept, and any conditions are not discussed. The upside is to sell all the shares.

Pang Lei had some delusions for a while, maybe Zhang Yida found out with his conscience that he felt that he had done too many sinful things and wanted to reform himself.

But she quickly got rid of this idea from her mind, guessing that Zhang Yida was purely for making money.

She calculated Ruixiang’s investment, and the two rounds of investment added up to only 4.3 million U.S. dollars. Based on the purchase price of 26 billion U.S. dollars, Ruixiang, which holds 24.72% of the shares, can obtain an exit return of 6.4272 million U.S. dollars.

In less than a year of investment, the net profit exceeded 2.1 million US dollars, and the annual return rate exceeded 50%.

Zhang Yida enjoyed this mouthful, but Ah Li suffered.

Pang Lei didn't gossip too much, and took out the equity transfer agreement, and signed with Lan Lan on the spot on behalf of both parties.

Then Lazada held a general meeting of shareholders to vote on the acquisition resolution.

When Bitene, the CEO of Lazada, received the news, he was in a daze.

Except for the founding management team, other shareholders have agreed to pass the acquisition draft of Ahri.

Bitney's arms can't twist his thighs, and he and his management team, who lack voting rights, can only follow the trend and agree to sell the company.

In this way, the acquisition of the largest Internet company in Southeast Asia came to an end.

The "sky-high price" acquisition of US$26 billion caused a sensation in the entire Internet circle in Southeast Asia.

The big money owner Ahri also became popular, and the Japanese media called out: Ahri made no secret of his ambition to dominate the world!

There are also media concerned about how much return Rui Xiang, the largest shareholder of Lazada, has received!

Ruixiang released a little bit of news and made a profit of more than 2 million US dollars.

The media then helped Ruixiang calculate the return on investment. After investing US$1 million for nearly one year and US$1 million for three months, the profit exceeded US$3.3 million, and the annual return on investment was as high as 3%.

The investors of the third phase of Ruixiang Industrial Fund all called separately and chatted with Zhang Yida for a few words.

But unfortunately, Lazada's first investment of US$1 million came from the second phase of the fund, and the second US$3.3 million came from Ruixiang's own funds.

When I invested in Zanda, the third phase of the industrial fund hadn't been seen yet!In other words, major investors are still hesitating.

Missing out on Lazada's huge returns made the funders of the third phase of the fund beat their chests, and at the same time strengthened their confidence to hold on to Zhang Yida's thigh.

Zhang Yida didn't feel anything special, he just made a dozen small goals, part of which was distributed to investors in the second phase of the fund, and what really belonged to Ruixiang was only more than [-] million yuan, and the unit was US dollars.

However, this acquisition has also given Ruixiang Industrial Fund a solid reputation.At the same time, it also sent a message to the outside world: investing in the Internet in Southeast Asia can really make money.

Many domestic VCs are gearing up and preparing to enter Southeast Asia.

(End of this chapter)