Winning the new financial era

Chapter 483 Tickets
After negotiating with the team and shareholders for a while, Liu Chuanjun decided to move closer to Ruixiang.

Ruixiang Industrial Investment Fund participated in the A+ round of financing of Meicai.com, and 10% of the shares have been diluted in subsequent rounds of financing, leaving only 5.44% at present.

After accepting the investment of USD 4 million from Ruixiang Phase III Industrial Investment Fund, Ruixiang's shareholding ratio will rise to 17.94%.

It was quite difficult for Liu Chuanjun to make this decision.

Because of the acceptance of this financing, Meicai.com will be deeply labeled as "Sharp Xiangxie" and keep Ari and Penguin out.

Considering Zhang Yida's frequent miracles, Liu Chuanjun chose to bet on him.

For the fresh track, who will have the last laugh in the future?Will it be profitable in the future?
Zhang Yida didn't know about these problems, so he could only choose to "cast the track".

In addition to Meicai, Zhang Yida also met Xu Zheng, CEO of Youxian.

Xu Zheng is not a simple person either. Born in 1981, he was admitted to the University of Science and Technology of China at the age of 15. At the age of 17, he started a business with his classmates at the school, mainly engaged in the pager business.

At the age of 25, he became the youngest general manager of the world's top 28 business, and at the age of [-], he became the general manager of Lenovo's notebook business unit.

Zhang Yida and Xu Zheng met several times, but they didn't know each other well.Ruixiang invested US$500 million in the Pre-A round of financing of Youxian Daily, and Lanlan has been responsible for following up the project since then.

As a person who knew how to do business at the age of 17, Xu Zheng was very active.

He guessed that Zhang Yida came to the door in person, there must be something important, because Lan Lan had always dealt with him before.

Instead of rushing to ask why he came here, he joked with Zhang Yida: "If I didn't sell pagers back then, but did e-commerce, I might have become the richest man."

Zhang Yida smiled and said, "Don't say it, it's really possible."

Xu Zheng sighed, shook his head and said with a smile: "No way, when we were in college, venture capital was hard to get.

Sea turtles like Charles Zhang and Robin Lee are more popular, while land turtles like Jack Ma and us are not favored at all.

If I could get venture capital back then, maybe I would have dropped out of school to start a business. "

Zhang Yida nodded, "Thanks to the blessing of entering the new era, college students can now get venture capital. Compared with their predecessors, our generation of entrepreneurs is indeed much happier."

Fearing that Zhang Yida might misunderstand what he said, Xu Zheng went on to say: "Angel investment and A-round financing are easy to get, but the difficulty is to bring a project on the right track and into a profitable state.

If you give me 13 million U.S. dollars in 5000, after five years, I would not dare to guarantee that I will return the investor a sharp investment of 666 billion U.S. dollars. "

Xu Zheng's speech was very watertight, and he praised Zhang Yida again without saying a word.

For boasting, Zhang Yida has seen too much, he has already become numb, and he will not get carried away just because of one or two compliments.

He came to Xu Zheng, in fact, for investment matters.

As a representative company of the front warehouse model, Daily Fresh is favored by capital.

Since its establishment at the end of 14, it has received 7 consecutive rounds of financing, with a valuation of over US$15 billion.

The only tricky thing is that Penguin has followed up the investment for three consecutive rounds, and its shareholding ratio is higher than that of Ruixiang.

Now the whole world knows that Penguin and Ruixiang have parted ways. At this time, whether Xu Zheng dares to accept Ruixiang's investment is a big question mark.

After a brief chat with Xu Zheng about business, Zhang Yida said directly, "It's been half a year since the C+ round of financing. Is Daily Youxian interested in another round?"

This stumped Xu Zheng. The representative of Penguin Investment once reminded him vaguely to kick him out of Ruixiang Industry Investment Fund.

But he didn't dare. After all, Ruixiang is not a small company, the kind that offends casually.

Entrepreneurship is actually doing business. I would rather have many friends than one less enemy.

Fortunately, Ruixiang does not hold many shares. After several rounds of dilution, only 4.94% is left, which is not even the 5% important position line.

Seeing that Xu Zheng has been practicing Tai Chi, Penguin didn't force him all the time.

Now that Zhang Yida wants to invest in Daily Fresh, this is forcing him to stand in line.

No matter which side you stand on, you will offend the people on the other side.

What he admires most is Chen Wei. Didi's shareholders include Penguin, Ari, and Ruixiang.

Even Didi acquired Uber China, and the shareholders added a thousand degrees by the way.

With so many shareholders, he didn't know how Chen Wei balanced the forces of all parties.

Anyway, this trick of being both right and left is played by Chen Wei to a new height.

"Mr. Zhang, this incident surprised me. Why did you suddenly think of investing in Daily Fresh?"

Zhang Yida said with a smile: "We have always been optimistic about the fresh food industry, but it is not profitable right now, but it is because the penetration rate is not high and users have not yet formed a habit.

Waiting for the uncles and aunts who go to the vegetable market and fruit market to grow old, the daily Youxian will usher in the profitable day sooner or later. "

Xu Zheng felt that Zhang Yida's words were very good, and he said that he was heartbroken, but he couldn't offend Penguin just because of this.

Xu Zheng said with a smile: "I'm not too anxious about financing. There is still a lot of funds raised in the last round, and the next round of financing may have to wait for a while."

Zhang Yida heard the implication, it seemed that the other party was going to go dark with Penguin.

This is also human nature. The valuation of Ruixiang and Zhonghe is only one-third of that of Penguin.

He is a normal person and should be able to do multiple choice questions.

Zhang Yida simply kept silent about the financing, chatted with Xu Zheng for a few more gossips, took his leave and left.

Seeing Zhang Yida's reaction, Xu Zheng knew that he had offended the former a lot this time.

But he can't help it. If he has to choose to stand in line, he can only hug the penguin with thicker legs.

Zhang Yida really wanted to get angry about this matter, and even quit Daily Youxian, but he couldn't help it.

……

“We have investigated Hema Xiansheng, Super Species, 7FRESH and many other companies this month, and also consulted with McKinsey to provide an industry consulting report.

The following conclusions are drawn for the fresh food industry that the group is about to enter. "

Zhang Yida looked at Xie Zheyuan, who was talking eloquently on the stage in the conference room. This was a senior talent recruited by Zhonghe Group from the Yonghui Fresh Food Division.

The other party has served as the vice president of Yonghui and the general manager of the fresh food business department, and has very experienced experience in the fields of fresh food supply chain and product selection.

Instead of rushing to start the project immediately, Xie Zheyuan led the team deployed by Zhonghe Group.Survey the entire fresh food industry.

Now it is time to analyze these survey results, which are basically some failure cases. There is no large-scale profitable enterprise in the fresh food industry.

During this period of time, Zhang Yida was also chatting with the bosses of companies related to the fresh food industry. On the one hand, he was making investment arrangements, and on the other hand, he had a better understanding of this industry.

"In the future retail format related to fresh food, my team and I judge that there will be two relatively large opportunities.

One is a supermarket model similar to Hema, which is convenient for the online part, offline reservation + self-pickup.

There is also a community convenience store type, online pre-sale, group purchase, offline self-pickup + delivery. "

Zhang Yida listened carefully. Although the fresh food market is losing money right now, everyone is betting on the future.

With the size of Ruixiang and Zhonghe, a little loss can still be tolerated. The most important thing is that no one wants to miss the ticket to the next big era.

　Thank you for working more rewarding!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)