Reborn in 2014, getting rich from the World Cup

Chapter 584 Share swap?

It is difficult to attract investment.

Yang Zheng would definitely be the first to object.

For him, it is difficult to refuse investment.

Usually, it is difficult to refuse investment in those projects that are promising.

Musical.L is not very well-known now.

Normally.

It is not easy for Zhu Jun and Lu Yu to get their first investment.

But you can wait a few months, in July.

Musical.L topped the app charts on the US app store app store app store app store app store.

It has become the most popular free app in more than 30 countries, including the United States, the United States of America, and the United States of Tanks.

It will be really easy for them to attract investment.

In Yang Zheng's previous life, Musical.L had three major rounds of financing.

The first round is right now, in April 2015.

The amount of financing was only US$500 million, and 20% of the shares were sold.

The second round was in August after reaching the top of the list.

The amount of financing was US$1600 million, and only 15% of the shares were sold.

The third round was a year later in May 2016.

The amount of financing is US$1 million, and 20% of the shares are sold.

In other words.

After only one year of development, Musical.L's valuation soared from US$2500 million to US$5 million.

And another year later.

In June 2017.

Douyin acquired Musical.L at a valuation of US$10 billion.

A total of two years and seven months.

2500 million becomes 10 billion.

A full 40 times return.

Just from an investment perspective.

Yang Zheng can enter with his eyes closed.

Of course, he was too lazy to say so much.

Whether it's 500 million US dollars or 1000 million US dollars.

He can give Zhu Jun and Lu Yu as much as they want.

The only problem is...

"What about the shares? How much do you plan to give up?"

Yang Zheng asked after glancing at the two of them.

He knew the bottom price in the hearts of both of them.

So this negotiation...

He really doesn't need to use his brain.

"Two percent... maybe thirty percent."

Zhu Jun changed his words halfway through his speech.

The shares they originally wanted to give up were 20%.

And the funds they want are only 500 million US dollars.

But let’s talk business.

They will definitely ask for a sky-high price and then pay a low price.

So they started with $1000 million.

Originally, they planned to slowly get along with Yang Zheng.

But Yang Zheng agreed without saying anything.

This made them feel a little embarrassed.

After all, they are not that kind of profiteers.

I can't do the kind of thing where I just take whatever I can get out of it.

So I temporarily gave him 10% of the shares.

500 million is 20%.

Shouldn’t 1000 million be 40%?

That's not how it works.

The more shares you own, the more control you have over the company, in theory.

Therefore, the value of shares does not rise smoothly.

Instead, it should be an exponential increase.

and.

A company only has 100% of the shares in total.

If you give 40% to Yang Zheng.

Only 60% remains.

And if Zhu Jun and Lu Yu share the shares equally.

Then wouldn’t Yang Zheng become the largest shareholder?

So they will definitely not give up 40% of their shares.

I would even rather ask for less money.

Yang Zheng naturally knew about these situations.

He also knew the psychological bottom line of Zhu Jun and Lu Yu.

So he also knew: the shareholding ratio might not be negotiable anymore, but there was still room for discussion on the amount of funds.

Not much for him.

1000 million or 800 million, there is basically no difference.

It’s not that he is stupid and has a lot of money, so he thinks 200 million US dollars is nothing.

But he invested in Musical.L not for the purpose of making money.

Can't say the same.

His ultimate goal, of course, is to make money.

But what he wants to earn is not the money from investing in the appreciation of Musical.L's shares.

He plans to directly acquire Musical.L in full, just like he did with Douyin in his previous life.

Leveraging Musical.L's overseas base, develop its own short video platform.

So he sincerely hopes that Musical.L can become bigger and stronger.

Not to mention 200 million US dollars.

If possible, he would even give 2000 million.

Just 30% of the shares is already the limit.

Zhu Jun and Lu Yu couldn't give up any more.

And he can't be so stupid as to give away money for free, right?

"Then it's settled."

After Yang Zheng said this, he looked at Shen Yixin and said, "Go prepare the contract."

"Ok."

Shen Yixin nodded and left.

Zhu Jun and Lu Yu looked at each other, both of them with a look of disbelief in their eyes.

Are you ready to sign the contract?

1000 million US dollars was obtained just like that?

Is it that easy?

Until Shen Yixin brought the contract.

Both parties signed and sealed.

Yang Zheng directly asked Shen Yixin to transfer the money.

After the two confirmed that the funds had arrived.

Then they all grinned in unison.

There's no way the numbers on the bank card are fake, right?

It's over.

Zhu Jun and Lu Yu invited Yang Zheng to visit the company.

Yang Zheng also wanted to go and take a look.

After all, it is the first domestic short video software to achieve success overseas.

It is definitely worth referring to.

But when a few people were preparing to set off.

Yang Zheng received a call from Zhu Chengming and said he would come over to talk to him again.

Compared to Musical.L, this is undoubtedly the real big business.

Musical.L was ultimately worth only $10 billion.

And now what he is discussing with Zhu Chengming is a business worth 200 billion.

So he stayed in the hotel and waited for Zhu Chengming to come.

in the afternoon.

In the hotel room.

Zhu Chengming was stunned when he came in, then smiled and said:

"At your age, you're still interested in Go?"

Yang Zheng was getting a little bored waiting for him, so he asked the hotel for a set of Go to study.

After playing Go with Zhang Xiaocong several times.

He found this thing to be quite interesting.

"Simply Playing."

Yang Zheng replied, then asked, "How is it? What's the result of the discussion?"

Zhu Chengming paused and said, "Share swap."

Yang Zheng nodded in understanding.

This was the result he had guessed.

Because 200 billion, even if it is cut down further, it will reach the 170 billion he expected.

It is also an extremely exaggerated amount.

It may not be the case that Haidong Holdings cannot come up with the funds.

But after taking it out, there will definitely be problems with cash flow.

For a venture capital firm, cash flow cannot be a problem at all.

Therefore, for Haidong Holdings, the best solution is share swap.

Yang Zheng has investigated Haidong Holdings.

There was only one reason why he didn't want to reject the share swap proposal - Haidong Holdings owned 8.6% of Penguin's shares.

In addition, Haidong Holdings also has shares in several large Internet companies to varying degrees.

There are also many other types of companies.

Yang Zheng couldn't even find out the details.

But what Zhang Qingxun said was: The total value of Haidong Holdings is no less than one trillion.

"What's the replacement ratio?"

Yang Zheng asked.

"5%."

Zhu Chengming said this.

Yang Zheng was stunned by what he heard.

Assuming Haidong Holdings is valued at one trillion yuan, 5% would be 500 billion yuan.

They certainly wouldn't be so generous.

Then you want more than 10%.

Yang Zheng was thinking about how to refuse to exchange too many shares.

I didn't expect Zhu Chengming, or the people from Haidong Holdings.

She was greedier than he thought, and she looked up to him more.

"In exchange for 20% of Zhengrong Holdings' shares."

After Zhu Chengming finished speaking.

Yang Zheng was really stunned.

Zhengrong Holdings is the company he uses for tax planning.

All the shares of his companies are under the name of Zhengrong Holdings.

Even the Baichen Century Building is there.

According to rough estimates, the value of the assets currently owned by Zhengrong Holdings is around 1500 billion.

Mainly shares of Huoduoduo and Zhengrong Media.

20% of 1500 billion is 300 billion.

Haidong Holdings is exchanging shares worth 500 billion yuan.

They really don't care about anything else and are purely investing in Yang Zheng.