"Do you want me to be CFO?"

She sat on the chair, a little lost in thought.

Unconsciously, her sitting posture changed to squatting on a chair.

The well-proportioned flesh of the calf and the thigh are together, with his hands still hugging his legs, his head resting on his knees, and his eyes are gradually losing focus.

After a while, she came back to her senses, then picked up her phone and purchased a batch of books online.

This time I didn’t buy a romance novel, but a book related to the work of a CFO.

She was still thinking about whether to sign up for some more classes.

"Everything is for pomelo tea." Shen Qingning thought to herself.

Time passed and May 12th came in a blink of an eye.

Cheng Zhu planned to complete the financing in late May, so he had been waiting for his favorite venture capital to come to him.

During this period, [Rice Tuan Takeaway], [Are You Hungry], and [Baidu Takeout] also contacted him, but Cheng Zhu still refused with the same old tactics.

"Settling in, settling in, settling in is nothing!"

"Stand still!"

Nowadays, pomelo tea stores are basically operating at full capacity, unless the weather is particularly bad.

In this case, the difference between opening the takeout service or not is not big, and it will not increase Cheng Zhu's income. After all, the limit of cups per day is there.

However, Pomelo Tea's stores will expand wildly in the second half of the year.

First- and second-tier cities are so big, and there are only so many stores in each city, which is simply not enough coverage.

What's more, the consumption power of the young people's market will become higher and higher, and they will also enter third-tier cities in the future.

"Once the number of stores increases, they will not be so saturated, and takeout will have to keep up."

"And it's 15 years now. Now is one of the best times to enter the platform. All the major platforms are thinking about expansion, and they haven't yet reached the stage of cutting off the business."

He doesn't think the capital behind the food delivery platform can endure for long, and he doesn't believe they will stay put.

These capitals have their own plans, just like Zhao Long of Shendu Capital invested in a food delivery platform and then invested in Yuecha.

"The path he is taking now is actually a bit like the path [Longzhu Capital] took later."

As far as Cheng Zhu is concerned, the third brother [Baidu Waimai] who was beaten to death because of a fight between his eldest brother and his second brother, is completely ignored.

"[Rice Ball Delivery] and [Are You Hungry] have actually been OK in the past few years, and they are both in the stage of explosive development."

"Anyway, I have only been involved in the high-end Internet celebrity milk tea business for a few years. The different situations of these two platforms after many years can not be taken into consideration."

"However, they actually have their own advantages and disadvantages." Cheng Zhu knew this clearly.

He is a young man who has experienced the stage of [Takeaway War].

He was still young during the [Thousand Regiments War] before, so I didn’t really have much to do with him.

But the [Takeaway War] will actually affect personal lives and is closely related to young consumers.

Later, he also conducted special research on these two platforms, and basically knew them well.

In fact, he personally prefers one of the two platforms.

However, he does not need to make a decision in such a hurry.

"Because now I am choosing the capital behind it, not the platform."

"There is actually an optimal solution here!" Cheng Zhu thought to himself.

Since the news that Youcha planned to conduct a second round of financing was released, it can be said that the entire capital market has been shaken.

In [Top Ten Venture Capital] alone, there are already two contact processes.

Shendu Capital even sent someone to contact us!

This incident made Shen Minglang so excited that he went to Lao Shen again to gain a sense of presence.

"See, we were not arrogant at all before, nor were we bragging at all!"

"Shendu Capital also wants to invest in our Pomelo Tea, but they can't help it!"

But Cheng Zhu still remained patient.

Finally, yesterday, May 11, his favorite capital came to his door—Red Mountain Capital (China).

Red Mountain Capital is an investment institution that has ranked first on the Hurun Global Unicorn Top 100 Active Investment Institutions list for several times!

Its status in the capital world is beyond doubt and needs no words!

Getting its investment is a blockbuster thrown to the business world!

Because of its different style, when the financing news is released, the shock effect will be completely different.

But this is not what Cheng Zhu attaches most importance to.

"The most useful thing to me now is the capital behind the food delivery platform."

"And Red Mountain Capital is special here."

"The person Yue Dongyi probably doesn't want me to come into contact with the most is Red Mountain Capital. With his business acumen, he has definitely seen everything!"

"As for why Hongshan Capital is special?"

"Because it invested in both [Rice Balls] and [Are You Hungry]?"

In 2010, Red Mountain Capital participated in Mi Tuan’s Series A financing.

In 2011, in the B round of financing, it and Alibaba invested another US$50 million in Mi Tuan.

"And in 2014, the US$300 million in financing that Mi Tuan received still included money from Red Mountain Capital!"

"Just in January this year, Mi Tuan has completed its D round of financing, and its valuation at this stage has reached a terrifying US$7 billion."

"Interestingly, Hongshan also invested in [Are You Hungry] in 2013 and January this year?"

In other words, in the 15-year money-burning war for food delivery, both major platforms are burning money from the same venture capital institution!

It looks like my left hand is beating my right hand, but it is not the case.

There are many influencing factors here.

For example, [Mi Tuan]’s initial focus was not on takeout at all, but [Are You Hungry] was different? It focused on takeout from the beginning.

However, these are not what Cheng Zhu needs to consider now.

He only knew that he could not find a better choice than Red Mountain Capital!

Today, Wang Zeng, the managing director of Red Mountain Capital, will come to Hangzhou to discuss relevant matters with Cheng Zhu.

Cheng Zhu had heard about this person in his previous life and even seen him once.

This person is known as the best investor in Chinese consumption.

Before meeting in this life, he specifically checked this guy's information and immediately understood why he came to Hangzhou.

Wang Zeng previously served as a partner at Tiantu Capital, and then chose to leave his job in 2014 and joined Red Mountain.

He is currently the best person to contact the pomelo tea business.

Because among his past achievements, there are people like [Zhou Hei Ya].

It can even be said that without Wang Zeng, [Zhou Hei Ya] would not be able to achieve what it is now!

In Cheng Zhu's memory, this person later invested in products such as [Liu Liu Mei], [Pai Guoyuan], [Small Lactobacillus], etc.

He mainly invests in this kind of consumer brands.

It is estimated that many people have seen this bald head on Douyin, sitting there and talking with great aura.

This bald man is now selling courses

As soon as Pulin Capital heard that someone from Red Mountain Capital was coming, Yue Dongyi couldn't sit still and said he wanted to come over as well.

But what this veteran naughty king said was: "I happen to be going to Hangzhou to see Jingjing, so I'll drop by and join in the fun."

Cheng Zhu complained in his mind: "Does Yue Lingjing know that your uncle is coming?"

As a result, there were five people sitting in the conference room at two o'clock in the afternoon, and Cheng Zhu called Shen Minglang and Shen Qingning.

In fact, these people are currently Cheng Zhu’s main targets for the second round of financing.

It was obvious that Yue Dongyi and Wang Zeng knew each other, and they looked quite familiar.

But Cheng Zhu didn't know whether it was real or fake.

Generally speaking, although Wang Zeng comes from Red Mountain Capital, he is now the managing director, and he is still not as good as Yuedong Yiniu.

For Yue Dongyi, who is known as an investment genius, if it is the boss of Hongshan, he may be a little weak, but if it is you, a guy who just changed jobs and went to Hongshan not long ago, it will be different.

And whether it is Lao Yue or Cheng Zhu, they know very well: "This person has just gone to Hongshan not long ago, and he must want to make a difference this year!"

Pomelo tea is undoubtedly an excellent choice!

Otherwise, according to this person's investment style, he actually prefers to participate in the first round of financing and start investing from that time, rather than participating in Pomelo Tea's second round of financing like now.
To be continued...