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Chapter 551 Fortune
Generally speaking, a company with a market value of more than one billion US dollars will be called a unicorn in the industry.

Now according to such a valuation, what is Forrest Gump?
Almost a walking unicorn.

It's not that the investment circle has never seen top people in other circles investing for wealth growth, but they are all involved in their own related fields, athletes invest in sports drinks, government officials speak vernacular around the world, star actors invest in film and television companies...

This Forrest Gump seems to have nothing to do with online taxi-hailing companies like Uber.

As soon as Uber's statement was exposed, it was reposted by people in the investment circle. Many professional managers who had been in the middle class for decades only felt blood rushing to their foreheads.

As for the people in the entertainment industry, they were even more surprised.

Forrest Gump from the east, movie star from the east, investor from the east... A wolf from the east?
Is a guy who has already robbed us of our movie star going to take US dollars to Huaxia by plane by plane?

Of course, no matter how much curiosity, astonishment, and jealousy permeate the outside world, Gan Jing's first thing to do is to solve the company's fire.

Uber's current shareholding has been quite dispersed. The founder Kalanick has slightly more shares than Gan Jing. At the same time, he controls most of the voting shares. This is the way to control the company after several rounds of financing.

Apart from him, Forrest Gump's 20% stake is the second natural person, followed by several Wall Street predators, such as DCM and Sequoia, all of which are world-renowned venture capital funds.

Gan Jing was a little troubled by such a sudden incident, he just wanted to make money honestly.

"Lowry."

The first thing Gan Jing did when he saw his manager was to confirm where his bottom line should be in this matter.

"Can they forcefully buy out my shares?"

Lori was polite and said seriously, "Of course not."

Gan Jing immediately became angry: "Then what are you talking about, beat them to death."

"Hey, but maybe you can change the shell."

Gan Jing turned into something as stable as the earth, and asked, "How do you say it?"

"Asset transfer, original team evacuation... If there is only one shell left in Uber, then your shares will be worthless."

"But why didn't they do this before?" Gan Jing was a little puzzled.

"It's relatively simple to say, but the procedure is more complicated. It would be easier if the company didn't start up, but you followed the investment in the first two rounds of financing, so it would be a lose-lose. Now Kalanick probably thinks that your shares The threat is a bit big."

Gan Jing thought for a while, and understood the founder who had met a few times. At first, he was a small company with no money. Now that the company has taken shape, he is called a "big boss" wherever he goes, so he has a natural attitude. It is different.

According to Huaxia dialect, this is called, how can you allow others to snore and sleep beside the couch.

Lowry's expression was very serious, as were the senior executives who participated in the meeting. Gan Jing, a company in this part of the United States, hardly asked about it, and Lowry exercised all his rights.

Forrest Gump's venture capital company is the one that Lowry has worked in the most relaxed and personally comfortable way. In the same horizontal comparison, the salary is also in the forefront.

Therefore, all the executives of the company are still doing their best.

It was the first time for many people sitting in the conference room to meet the big boss, but the first meeting was because of the turmoil caused by the company's most valuable investment, and they couldn't help but feel a little worried.

Gan Jing thought about it and felt a little uncomfortable, but there were some things that he couldn't say on this occasion, so he asked quite calmly, "Then what is our best way now?"

It was a bit late for Lowry to get the news of the statement, but he had already prepared a plan.

"First of all, let's do a share transfer, from a single shareholding to a number of small shares, so it looks inconspicuous, but correspondingly, our voting rights will be much smaller."

Gan Jing didn't care much about voting rights at first, but he was upset and didn't want to give up this, so he just continued to listen noncommittally.

"Second, it's not so easy to change the shell. It's just a last resort. Uber has already launched business in several countries. The statement they issued to force us to sell the shares is just a wild price. The greatest possibility I still want us to participate in the follow-up investment normally.”

Since the investment was given at the initial stage, the contract was drafted to guarantee the dilution of equity by financing, so Gan Jing's shareholding was able to maintain a 20% scale after several rounds of financing.

If you lose this right, you will either be given an additional increase in the same proportion in the next financing, or your shares will be diluted.

This is a bit like domestic Lei Jun’s investment in Duowan. He initially invested an amount of 100 million US dollars. When it was listed last year, the book return on this investment was almost 112 times.

In the middle, Lei Jun didn't have much money to pursue, and Gan Jing is currently in a similar situation.

However, Li Xueling, the CEO of Duowan, is the one who still considers Lei Jun’s interests and refuses Tencent’s investment. Uber’s Kalanick will definitely not be like this.

From the moment he knew the statement, Gan Jing never tried to contact him, and he didn't want to look at his face at all.

Lowry observed Forrest Gump's face, and continued: "Thirdly, we also need to put some pressure on them. My preliminary expectation is to extensively contact other big names on Wall Street to negotiate the sale of this share. Didn't they want to If we sell, then we will pretend to sell, but to a target they don't want to give."

Gan Jing looked at him for a while, then asked, "Is there any more?"

"That's all for now," Lowry said.

"Success, let's do this. The third point is that I will create some content to put pressure on them. I am good at the media." Gan Jing was extremely decisive, or in other words, he was willing to trust the handling of professionals.

As for media pressure, he is considered a semi-professional in this regard, after all, he often needs to be in contact.

Lowry led a group of people to lead the way.

By this time, it had been two days since knowing the statement, getting on the news, investigating the situation, and discussing countermeasures. During the day, the crew was filming on the roof of the Empire State Building, and at night they saw the producer Forrest Gump shining in the hotel from time to time. on television.

Another day later, Gan Jing finally appeared in the film crew, but he was still not just for the filming, but had an appointment with the senior vice president of Goldman Sachs to discuss the sale of shares.

By the way, he can be regarded as a cameo in this film as a passerby conducting business negotiations on the top floor of the Empire State Building.

I have to say that Forrest Gump in this state is a little strange to the crew members, especially Wu Xingbo and Tang Wei. They can see Forrest Gump chatting with Goldman Sachs from time to time, as if he is not at all A film king is like an authentic and excellent venture capitalist.

No, not VCs.

According to the estimates in the news, A-Gump is afraid that he will not only be on the annual rich list of the film and television industry, but will become one of the hundred richest people in the whole country.

what does this mean?
It means that he is capital himself.

(End of this chapter)