Great Entrepreneur Reborn

A few days later, Liu Jian sat happily talking with Ji Haoran in the newly rented office. Speaking of which, Ji Haoran is really a talent, and he is very organized. He found an office as soon as the contract was signed.

The office is not in the best location, the rent there is too high, there is no need to invest too much. Considering many reasons, the place Ji Haoran chose is surrounded by many venture capital companies. It is easy to find good investment directions in such a concentrated place, and it is easy to be poached by other companies, but Ji Haoran is very confident that he will kill him from it. Bleed out.

It seems that Ji Haoran is still a very responsible person, and Liu Jian is very satisfied with this.

"Boss, the company's affairs are basically like this. I didn't hire too many people. I just recruited a front desk, two analysts, and a few clerks. If we need other manpower, we can temporarily recruit and collect information. There are many companies like this, and we don't need to set up such a separate department." Ji Haoran introduced sternly.

Liu Jian stood up and looked at the high-rise buildings outside. I don't know how many venture capital companies exist here. If he didn't have the advantage of foresight, he wouldn't dare to spend so much money to set foot in this field. To know that a possible failure of an investment will bring a multi-millionaire back to zero.

And what kind of development this company will have in the future, and whether it can bring surprises to yourself, depends on the person in front of you.

"President Ji, I'm very satisfied with all of this. But what really determines the fate of the company is our investment. What kind of progress has the two companies I asked you to investigate." Liu Jian first affirmed Ji Haoran's work, and then Asked about his own concerns.

Ji Haoran took out two folders and said: "I met some friends in the bank. Through the introduction of these friends, I initially contacted the two companies. As you said, boss, most of Amazon's shareholders are dissatisfied with the president. Bezos’ business approach, they’ve held several board meetings and threatened to sell their stock if they don’t change their business strategy.”

Good news, this is really good news for Liu Jian. Before this, although he had expected it, Liu Jian was still very worried about whether he would really sell Amazon's shares. You must know that even if the current situation is not optimistic, Amazon The stock is still strong and has not fallen to the bottom.

Liu Jian knows that now is the best opportunity. When the Internet bubble bursts and other Internet companies go bankrupt, Amazon's strength will usher in countless spotlights. It will continue to climb and become the second largest Internet company in the world.

"How many are there for sale, how much can we get?" Liu Jian asked nervously.

Ji Haoran took out the information and handed it to Liu Jian: "Preliminary judgment, only three shareholders are the most willing to sell, and they have contacted buyers in the market. I checked and they own a total of 12.5% ​​of Amazon's shares. Preliminary The estimated price is 20 million, and Amazon’s market value is less than 200 million, so their asking price is not low.”

Liu Jian's hands trembled, what a joke, he had only 30 million capital in total, and now he was asking for two-thirds of his own, how could he have money to invest in other things.

Ji Haoran is a professional, Liu Jian asked: "From your point of view, if we really choose to buy shares, how much capital will we need?"

Ji Haoran smiled and said: "I have investigated these three people. They invested a total of 3 million US dollars and got these shares. They wanted to sell them as early as Amazon's listing. It's just because of the investment. At that time, there was an agreement that they could not sell some of their shares within three years, so they have been waiting until now. Last year, because of the booming Internet market, they already wanted to sell, but there were too many Internet companies, and they had The prices are high and no one is interested.”

Liu Jian breathed a sigh of relief: "Now other companies are very popular, and the companies they invest in are moving slowly, so they want to sell their shares for cash and then invest in emerging companies. This is the situation."

Ji Haoran nodded and said: "This is the form, but this year because Amazon's momentum has continued to decline, everyone has lost confidence, and no one is willing to pay for it. I believe that if the boss intervenes at this time, it should be around 18 million. Take those stocks."

"Eighteen million, this number is acceptable." Liu Jian thought to himself, but he didn't say it out loud. He naturally hoped to spend less money, so he had to force Ji Haoran.

It was originally planned. Now that there is dawn, Liu Jian said without hesitation: "You can discuss this project in person. If it is 15 million, they will have five times the profit. There should be a chance. Try to Fight for it, if you don’t lower the purchase price by one million dollars, I will give you a commission of one hundred thousand dollars, which is a reward in addition to salary. Of course, this business must be done.”

There is no better way, Liu Jian can only tempt Ji Haoran with benefits, forcing him to go all out to work for himself. There is no way, as an upstart, Liu Jian really can't think of any job that can motivate employees more than money.

Sure enough, when he heard Liu Jian's reward conditions, Ji Haoran's temples kept throbbing.

Liu Jian asked again: "How about Google, their asking price won't be too high!"

Liu Jian found that the market value of each of these companies was not large, and they were ruthless enough to ask for money. No wonder Robin Li chose to return to China to start a business, and he couldn't afford to be hurt here.

Ji Haoran opened another folder and said: "There is no trouble with them, but they are only willing to sell 20% of the shares, five million, which is more ruthless than Amazon's asking price before listing, and this is for private investment. Because the current Internet The company is at its most prosperous time, and this emerging company is the easiest to attract venture capital funds, but they are very disgusted with venture capital, unlike venture capital funds entering. However, their requirements are also very strict. , not allowed to sell within three years, no dividends within three years, if the company goes public, this period will be extended for two years to invest all the funds in the development of the company."

This was completely beyond Liu Jian's expectations~www.readwn.com~ No wonder they have insufficient funds. In a place with such a strong business atmosphere in the United States, all kinds of companies are the most indispensable. Everyone invests to make money, but Google's request completely eliminates the opportunity for venture capital to make profits. If there is no profit in five years, who would take this risk. With this time, investing in other places has already recovered the cost and achieved high returns.

But this is very much in line with Liu Jian's wishes. What he is looking at is never in front of him. These are all for future investment. After five years, these stocks may not be 5 million, 50 million, 500 million can be bought, and 20% is considered Five billion is difficult to impress Google's shareholders.

Without any hesitation, Liu Jian immediately agreed and asked Ji Haoran to contact Sean Anderson and Larry Page to implement the investment. In this way, even if Amazon finally rejected his investment, he had achieved his goal of coming to the United States.

After all, the world's largest English search engine company and Chinese search engine company have their own shares. According to the future trend of them going hand in hand, I can wait to count the money until I get soft.

Li Yanhong finally agreed to Liu Jian's conditions. Liu Jian obtained 42% of the company's shares with an investment of 1.5 million US dollars, which was 300,000 US dollars higher than his previous life. Except for the 45% shares owned by Li Yanhong, his friends Xu Yong also invested in technology and owns 10% of the shares. Liu Jian did not have absolute control of the company because of his high capital, because he knew that Baidu's success was inseparable from Robin Li.

It is precisely because of Liu Jian's grandeur that both Li Yanhong and Xu Yong are grateful, and the three of them became friends, and have maintained a good personal friendship in future cooperation. The two provided a lot of advice, of course, they were all Baidu's successful experience in the previous life, which made Robin Li feel like a treasure.