Ordinary Road 2010

Li Robin was already the richest man in 2011, but he still couldn't get rid of his preoccupied personality, and missed many opportunities because of this.

Originally, with the status of Xiongchang, it could make a difference in the raging O2O tide.

For example, Dianping.com first found Xiongchang before joining Goose Factory. For example, each group had a long talk with Xiongchang before merging with Dianping.

Now when he heard Lin Yi mention the bet against each other, he instinctively felt that there would be an advantage to take advantage of, and asked with interest:

"What kind of gambling method?"

"It's very simple. Xiongchang is now giving me 1 million US dollars to take away 20% of the shares, and I promise to become the No. times."

Li Luobin pondered in his mind. He thought the No. 1 of the online car-hailing market worth $3 million was expensive, but if it was No. 1, it would be worth the money.

If Lin Yi can't do it, after half a year, the investment can be exchanged for 40% of the shares. In that case, he can consider increasing the capital to hold the company or buy it directly. At that time, Lin Yi has no capital or confidence to refuse.

Bear Factory differs from Goose Factory and A Factory in terms of investment strategy in that:

The latter likes to invest in the first echelon of the industry, while the former is more willing to find an acquisition in the second echelon and do it by himself.

To a certain extent, this was also a helpless move, because every time Li Robin turned the corner and was ready to make a shot, the first echelon had already been taken into the bag by the two ATs in advance.

Robin Li also has a little doubt that market share is difficult to measure, and the two survey agencies can produce four different results using different methods.

Especially in the online car-hailing industry, Dudu, Kuaidu, and Wanli Chuxing are not listed companies, and the data blown out is very watery.

He was worried that Lin Yi was playing tricks.

Lin Yi is very calm about this: "How to write the contract is a lawyer's business, or it can be changed to increase the order size by at least ten times, I don't care."

Lin Yi knew that a tenfold increase in half a year might sound like an exaggeration, but it was actually an easier goal to achieve than being number one in the industry.

At this moment, no one knows better than him what will happen in the next six months.

He did not hesitate to propose such a harsh gambling condition, just to participate in this game, otherwise he would not even be eligible to be on the table.

As for half a year later, if he fails to achieve the scheduled goal, what difference does it make if he holds 60% or 80% of the shares of Wanli Travel?

Li Luobin didn't plan to change it to scale. It doesn't matter whether it grows ten times or twenty times. The title of "number one" is very important.

Anyway, taxi-hailing software is still in the investment period, no matter how large it is, it is a money-losing product, and even the larger the scale, the faster the loss.

He just wants to use this to send a signal to shareholders, employees, and everyone:

Bear factory is still bear factory, BATBAT, B ranked first!

Li Luobin was amazed at Lin Yi's self-confidence at the moment, whether he was ambitious or desperate, for a moment he thought of himself when he was young.

"it is good."

A simple word hit Lin Yi's heart like a heavy weight.

Become!

He clenched his fists hard, suppressing his excitement to control himself from losing his composure in front of the gold master's father, only his expression couldn't be concealed.

Well, from this moment on, Xiong Chang is his benefactor father.

Although Li Robin had already verbally agreed, the investment of 100 million US dollars was not so easy. With his cautious personality, he had to go through all the procedures and procedures that should be followed. Lin Yi naturally agreed [-]% to cooperate.

But he also added one more point: "I have a very familiar investor friend who has helped a lot before, but when Wanli Travel started with its own funds, it has not come in, this time I hope she can be a bear. The factory’s follow-up investment.”

Lin Yi was referring to Liu Jianni, who had agreed not to let her do it for nothing, and now it was time to fulfill her promise, and Lin Yi had other plans.

This situation is very common. Whether it is friendship between friends or any exchange of interests, Li Luobin has no reason to refuse, but only asks:

"It cannot affect the share given to the bear factory."

Lin Yi thought about it for a while, and promised, "No more than 2000 million US dollars."

Li Robin nodded in agreement.

……

Coming out of Xiongchang, Lin Yi found Liu Jianni non-stop, told her the news, and asked her to start preparations as soon as possible.

Liu Jianni is very pleased. She made Lin Yi as a friend before to a large extent because he is young and has unlimited possibilities in the future. She did not expect to be rewarded so soon.

"The project led by Xiongchang, and the amount is [-] million U.S. dollars. This kind of opportunity is not worrying about no one following. I can sign the contract at any time and send the money over at any time. Don't worry."

"I'm even more curious about how you persuaded Xiongchang? You must know that Xiongchang's war voter is a famous mother-in-law."

She complained about Xiongchang with Lin Yi without any scruples, which is also a manifestation of the relationship.

"It's a lie."

Lin bypassed the strategic investment department by himself, directly approached Li Luobin himself through the LBS business department, and told her what made him make up his mind through the betting.

As a follow-up investor in this round, Liu Jianni couldn't hide this matter.

And Lin Yi also has other goals: "Jane, how many years have you worked in venture capital, are you interested in changing jobs, would you consider it as a CFO of Wanli Travel?"

He didn't call him "Mr. Liu" this time.

Liu Jianni was still lamenting that Lin Yi's method of seeking investment from Xiongchang was novel and worthy of promotion. She did not expect to receive such an invitation, which made her confirm in disbelief:

"Are you serious?"

"of course."

Lin Yi used a very sincere expression and a very firm tone to convince her that he was definitely not joking with her.

"That is, more than half a year ago, I gave you 100 million US dollars as a trial, and then you gave me several times the income and entered every round of the game."

"A few seconds ago, I was still feeling that you gave me another important opportunity. I don't know how much I can earn this time."

"Now are you going to take me away?"

Liu Jianni smiled when she said this, she said this without any ambiguity, and she didn't wait for Lin Yi's answer.

While saying these few words, she had already sorted it out in her mind: "This is a very important decision, please allow me to think about it for a while."

"no problem."

Lin Yi naturally knew that there was no way to answer such questions related to the entire career planning on the spot, and the topic of the two quickly returned to the investment of Xiongchang.

Xiongchang spent two weeks preparing for the [-] million US dollars, and Liu Jianni did not lose the chain, and then this round of investment was finally finalized.

When the 1.2 million US dollars arrived in the account, Lin Yi told the senior sister: "After three or four months of running around, I didn't really feel until this moment that I got the ticket to the taxi-hailing market."

On the same day, Xiongchang and Wanli Travel jointly announced this investment, and the two sides will carry out in-depth strategic cooperation at the same time.

As soon as the news came out, the stone was shocked!

Chapter 398 Living With a Net worth of [-] Million Dollars

"Is Robin Lee crazy?"

This is a hotly discussed issue in the venture capital circle recently, because Xiongchang's decisive move this time is completely unlike the previous investment style.

Haven't you heard that the combat investment department has changed?

Soon someone found out that this decision was made by the boss Li Robin himself. You must know that the more sticky a person is, the more ruthless he is, but he can do amazing things by gritting his teeth and stomping his feet.

Everyone can only explain it this way.

No matter how the outside world guessed, the scolding in the offices of Dudu in Beijing and Kuaidu in Lin'an had no effect on Lin Yi in the slightest.

He was explaining the source of the money to the team members in the office. Except for the senior sister, everyone else had just learned the shocking news.

$1.2 billion!

Don't compare this number with other taxi-hailing software, it is countable among startups in the entire IT industry.

When outsiders want to discuss the speed of wealth creation in this industry, they often use a sentence called "unicorns in three years, Nasdaq in five years".

The so-called unicorns are start-up companies with a valuation of more than US$10 billion. Nasdaq is the most commonly used exchange for US stock technology companies to list.

Although the post-investment valuation of Wanli Travel is less than 10 billion, it has been established for less than half a year!

All in all, it's a super blockbuster.

"Big companies like BAT are different from ordinary venture capital institutions. After all, they are still enterprises rather than financial institutions. Therefore, when investing, they value strategic value and business synergy rather than economic returns."

"If I were dealing with venture capital, it would be impossible to get such a valuation and financing amount at this point in time."

Lin Yi explained it himself, and found that his colleagues didn't care why Xiongchang was willing to give the money, anyway, as long as the money arrives in the account!

Or, morale +100.

On the day when the news was announced, Lin Yi received another wave of phone bombardment, and he didn't have time to reply one by one until he was busy with all his work, so it was already late at night after returning to the dormitory.

Lin Yi is still in the dormitory of Jingdian, because he often travels on business, and when he is in Beijing, he leaves early and returns late, so he seldom meets his roommates.

But this time, when he went back, he found that none of the three in the dormitory had slept.

After Li Jianguo dropped out of school, the school did not arrange for other people to live in their dormitory, and the local Duan Yumin often went home, so there were only three "permanent residents" in the dormitory:

Zheng Xun, Wang Wenfeng and Lu Zilong.

Now the three of them were looking at Lin Yi who had just entered the door with weird eyes, making him wonder if there was something on his face.

"What's the matter?"

Wang Wenfeng walked around him, looked at him carefully, and said in a serious manner: "Observe the difference between the biological structure of a billionaire and an ordinary human being who is a Muggle."

As soon as Lin heard this, he understood that many people who called today also asked about this matter.

This statement cannot be miscalculated. He actually got 2000 million US dollars of the 1280 million US dollars sold by Renranwaimai before, which is less than [-] million yuan when converted into RMB.

This time is different.

The post-investment valuation of Wanli Travel this round reached 5 million US dollars, in which Xiongchang and Liu Jianni took a total of 24% of the shares without fulfilling the performance promise of the gambling conditions.

Usually in this situation, there is an opportunity to fight with Xiongchang to raise the valuation to 6 million, but Lin Yi was worried that Li Luobin would not change his mind if he thought about it again, so he would rather have 4% more shares.

Based on 5 million yuan, Lin Yi accounts for about 80% of the remaining shares, and the rest belongs to senior sister, CTO Wang Kai, and other team members.

In other words, after this round of financing, Lin Yi's theoretical net worth has exceeded 3 million US dollars!

This number is too abstract, what is the specific concept?

Based on the US dollar exchange rate and gold price in 2013, it is equivalent to about six or seven tons of gold.

Lin Yi himself was taken aback when he thought of this, and he also felt incredible at this speed of value-added, but his own reaction may be a little flat, because the 3 million US dollars cannot be spent.

"The valuation of such things as financing is just a reference. If this venture fails, then my shares in Wanli Travel will be worthless. You don't have to take it too seriously."

Lin Yi didn't want the attitudes of the people around him to change because of this, but in reality they couldn't be indifferent.

His words are equivalent to indirectly acknowledging the title of billionaire. Although Wang Wenfeng and the others don't know the exact number, they definitely understand that the unit is "[-] million US dollars".

Zheng Xun hesitated for a moment and said, "Lin Yi, you are now an entrepreneurial star in the school. Today, after the official account of the Youth League Committee forwarded your financing news, many people came to us to inquire about your affairs."

"This time, it's not just the classmates in the class making fun of you, but a bunch of people who don't know each other came over to ask questions. I'm not even sure if they are from the school."

"Of course the few of us won't talk about your affairs outside, but you come and go alone in the school every day, and you leave early and return late, don't you have to pay attention to safety issues?"

He also immediately added a few words: "We don't mean anything else, and you are very welcome to continue living in the dormitory."

"The three of us have been waiting for you until now, just to remind you that your status is different now, so it's better to be careful."

Old Zheng's attitude towards him was still different, and Lin Yi sighed when he realized this.

No matter what they said, beware of other people's evil thoughts, this reminder came very timely, and Lin Yi himself hadn't realized it yet.

As the saying goes, people make money and birds die for food. Although Lin Yi knows that his wealth is temporarily empty, the robbers may not understand this.

A billionaire, if no one knows about it, it's fine, since everyone knows about it and lives in a student dormitory in a big way, it's really out of place.

Lin Yi accepted their love, but it was too strange to bring a bodyguard in and out of the school, so after a little thought, he said:

"I understand, I will find a house outside as soon as possible to move out. But no matter what, I am still a person in this dormitory, thank you brother."

In this life, I haven't attended a few serious classes since college, and if I move out of school, my short campus life is over.

Fortunately, he didn't worry about his graduation. It can be seen from the school's official account that the news of Wanli Travel was reprinted, which is still a performance.

Lin Yi hugged each of them, and the atmosphere suddenly became a little sad, reminding them all of the time when Li Jianguo left at the end of last semester.

Thinking of Li Jianguo, since he left Korea, Lin Yi hasn't seen this veteran, because he is busy with his second start-up, and Lin Yi is not the type who likes to chat, the two of them have very little contact, and they still get it from their roommates. Know that he has enrolled.

"When Jianguo returns to China during the holidays, let's make an appointment to go to Crazy Grilled Wings and make a supper."

Some places may not be very remarkable, they are nothing more than carrying a period of youthful past, so there is always a special place in the memory.

All three of them nodded in agreement, and Wang Wenfeng gave him a hammer on his chest, and said with a smile a promise made a long time ago: