Chapter 274 Let Shi Lei help with the pretense (5700
Shi Lei was woken up by Zheng Xu's phone call in the morning. After sending Wei Xingyue home last night, Shi Lei was sure that he could still leave at least 130,000 yuan in independent funds. So he studied the recent stock market K-line chart and accidentally went into the middle of the night.
On the phone, Zheng Xu's excitement still didn't pass. Although he was still a little embarrassed, he couldn't hide the excitement. He asked Shi Lei when he could choose office supplies. He was already impatient to set up his company immediately.
Shi Lei made an appointment with him for an hour later and met at IKEA. He got up and washed up. He was a little late and rushed to IKEA.
He selected some office desks and chairs, and some file cabinets needed in the office, etc., and spent more than 10,000 yuan. According to Shi Lei's idea, he could buy better office desks and chairs, but Zheng Xu insisted on the cheapest ones. His business has just begun. In terms of office supplies, he hopes to reduce funds as much as possible.
I found a truck, and Zheng Xu's girlfriend Fang Ting sent the table, chairs and cabinets to the office I just rented yesterday. Shi Lei and Zheng Xu went to the computer city to choose computers.
Seeing Shi Lei driving a Maserati CEO who had not yet been registered, Zheng Xu was stunned and asked, "Mr. Shi, is this your new car?"
Shi Lei nodded and said, "Well, the car I just picked up."
Zheng Xu's eyes rolled, his face showed joy. Shi Lei didn't care, but just asked him to get in the car quickly.
Zheng Xu had a computer himself, and Fang Ting had one, but he had to buy it for the two colleagues who could be on duty at any time. Under Shi Lei's persuasion, he finally bought three computers. The two of them originally needed to work with one. Moreover, once the company started running, they would always need to recruit a clerk who handled personnel and logistics work. They could not let them do everything themselves. Their energy should be mainly focused on the improvement of the app and future promotion.
There are three computers, two of which require the best configuration at the moment. After all, they are programmers and have very high requirements for computer hardware.
The other one is for clerks, and the configuration is ordinary. In total, the cost is less than 30,000 yuan. In addition to the previous expense of purchasing office desks and chairs, the expense has reached more than 40,000 yuan.
There are also some debris, including water dispensers and small refrigerators. Although the company is still small now, it always needs these things, and logistics support must be provided.
These cost several thousand yuan, and the amount of consumption in office supplies has exceeded 50,000 yuan.
Let Zheng Xu buy the rest slowly in practice. Shi Lei, according to the agreement, reduced all the expenses he needed to invest in the first phase, and transferred the remaining more than 40,000 yuan to Zheng Xu.
Zhang Meimei's 100,000 was transferred to Zheng Xu's account yesterday. So far, Zheng Xu's company's 450,000 angel round financing, and the first 200,000 yen have all arrived.
Seeing that Shi Lei was leaving, Zheng Xu strongly invited Shi Lei to the company to check out: "Mr. Shi, although you are just our angel round investor, no matter what, our company is actually open today. I still want to invite you to take a look. I also hope you will give your opinions on our company."
Shi Lei felt that this had nothing to do with him and wanted to refuse, but seeing Zheng Xu as if he was very earnest, he nodded and agreed.
When he arrived at the new industrial park, Shi Lei noticed that there were two people waiting for them downstairs. It was normal for people in this kind of place to be present. Shi Lei didn't expect that they would be waiting for them, but Zheng Xu lowered the car window from a distance and waved at the two people desperately. Shi Lei realized that the two might be the former colleague Zheng Xu found. He also instantly understood why Zheng Xu strongly asked him to come and visit.
Although he has already obtained investment and has invested in office space and even office utensils, those two former colleagues may still be skeptical. After all, it is impossible to tell them the specific amount of Zheng Xu's financing. Even if he will give them some technology stocks in the future, it is definitely not the time to let them know the company's core secrets.
Shi Lei's appearance, especially when he was driving a Maserati worth more than 2 million yuan, and waiting for Zheng Xu to introduce that this is the angel investor of their company, will inevitably greatly strengthen the determination of the two of them.
Shi Lei looked at Zheng Xu and smiled and said, "It turns out that I was invited to come here to enhance the confidence of the employees."
Zheng Xu felt a little embarrassed and said, "Mr. Shi, I'm sorry, I should tell you the truth. It's just that my company can really start business today, but the desks and chairs have not even been arranged. I'm afraid they will have ideas, and I can't make the company accounts public to them. So, I can only ask you to help."
Shi Lei nodded, as if he said casually: "In the future, I will just tell me if I don't have any trouble, I will try my best to cooperate with you. Remember, I am your investor, of course I hope your company will run as soon as possible, and I hope my investment will be rewarded faster."
Zheng Xu apologized again and nodded repeatedly to show that he would never be so clever again.
After parked the car, the two of them had already come over. Shi Lei and Zheng Xu got out of the car, and Zheng Xu immediately introduced the three of them.
Seeing Shi Lei stretching out his hand, the two of them stretched out their hand in fear and fear, Shi Lei smiled and said, "I have always been worried that Mr. Zheng will not find a suitable helper in a short period of time. He is very capable and has good ideas. I am optimistic about the development of his company, otherwise I will not invest in him. But this is the only thing that makes me doubt it. Just meet you. This company doesn't need too many people at the moment. There are three of you, and they are colleagues who have known each other in the past. I believe that they will definitely cooperate perfectly. I believe you will be able to achieve results as soon as possible."
Before Shi Lei got off the car, he had already been talking back and forth in his mind several times. Now he had to pretend that the more profound and mysterious he was, the better. Only in this way can he strengthen the confidence of the two of them.
Seeing the car that Shi Lei drove, the two of them had no doubt about Shi Lei's investment strength at all, so naturally they would not have any questions about Zheng Xu's generous angel round financing. But this is just a Maserati after all, with more than two million yuan. Now, it is less than two million to buy a three-bedroom and two-living room apartment near this industrial park. It is impossible to equate the economic strength of spending two million yuan to buy a house and spending two million yuan to buy a car. People who drive more than two million yuan will have to be worth tens of millions of yuan at least, which is almost the consensus of most people.
It is hard for anyone to think that Shi Lei’s all his belongings are actually not as good as this Maserati.
"Hello, Mr. Shi, we will definitely do our best to assist Zheng Xu. No, from today on, he will be our boss and Mr. Zheng. We will definitely work together to make the company's performance as soon as possible."
Shi Lei nodded with a smile, and the four of them went upstairs together and simply looked at the office.
There is really nothing to see. The tables and chairs have been shipped, but IKEA's products are all combined, and they will be boards that need to be assembled by themselves.
Zheng Xu explained a little embarrassedly: "The company has just started and the office area is not big, so I am not willing to spend Mr. Shi's investment in these places. However, your computers are the best configuration, and I will not be lenient in the places where you should spend money, but I will ask you two to temporarily make up for these. After we have achieved results and round A financing, the company will expand and we will change to a larger office, and these office supplies will be updated as well."
Chapter completed!