While the foreign media were still making noise, Lu Beifeng had already led the acquisition team and arrived at Pengcheng's international airport on a special plane.
As soon as the plane landed, a group of people walked out of the tarmac.
Ma Hongbo appeared out of nowhere with a smile on his face and said very enthusiastically: "Hello, Mr. Lu, Mr. Zhou, welcome to Pengcheng."
Zhou Chongming nodded slightly. He knew Ma Hongbo as the person in charge of Fantasy Technology. When Lu Beifeng handed over the funds to the other company, he was still in charge.
Ma Hongbo looked at Lu Beifeng and said hurriedly: "Mr. Lu, there is really an emergency this time."
Lu Beifeng gave the other party a dull look.
Ma Hongbo has been in the workplace for so many years. There is no reason why he is unclear about his temper and has been harassed repeatedly.
He turned to Zhou Chongming and said: "You go to Hengtai headquarters first, I will go there later."
Zhou Chongming nodded and led the team to set off first.
Under Shen Xinyi's arrangement, Lu Beifeng and Ma Hongbo came to a business cafe in the airport.
Ma Hongbo didn't talk too much. He took out the financial expenses of Fantasy Technology and explained his purpose simply and clearly.
The company is now short of money and asked Lu Beifeng if he wanted to start Series C financing.
Once US$3 billion in Series B financing was injected, the company started a crazy explosion mode.
In the past few months, Fantasy Technology’s charging piles have been in major cities across the country.
Key southern coastal cities have completed large-scale coverage as early as the first half of the year, and are now beginning to surround cities with a slightly lower priority.
They have the absolute leading technology in the industry, and there is no competitor in the entire market, which is full of uncultivated and fertile wasteland.
It explains that I come, I see, I conquer!
As long as company employees arrive in a certain city, that city belongs to them.
With great momentum all the way, Fantasy Technology’s charging piles are spreading across the country at an extremely fast speed.
Ma Hongbo has personally experienced Meituan’s infancy and knows the importance of this period.
As long as you have funds, you must not be stingy with money. If you need to offer recharge discounts, you should offer recharge discounts. If you need to recruit people, you should recruit people. Make every effort to seize the market.
Currently, the company has 450,000 charging piles in operation and 120,000 charging piles under construction, covering 169 cities from Mongolia to the border areas.
The company's rapid development has also brought about a very serious consequence, which is that money is being spent every day.
There are losses of more than 4 billion every month, and the US$3 billion in Series B financing cannot be spent at all.
Lu Beifeng looked at the financial expenses and the final account balance.
If he remembered correctly, when the financing ended in July, there was still 22 billion on the account.
Now there are only 3.95 billion left in the company's account, of which 3 billion is the recharge funds of car owners. In fact, only 950 million of the funds belong to the company.
Even though Lu Beifeng was well-informed, he could not help but take a breath of cold air.
He knew that charging piles were gold-swallowing behemoths, so after initially investing 5.5 billion to obtain 100% of the shares, he decided not to participate in subsequent financing, but he did not expect that the speed of spending money would be so exaggerated.
More than 20 billion in cash, if used as firewood, may not be completely burned in a year or two. It took Ma Hongbo a few months to spend it all.
Ma Hongbo saw what Lu Beifeng was thinking, coughed a few times and explained: "The rental fees for the venue consume most of the company's working capital."
The purchase of spare parts for charging piles can be delivered quarterly or semi-annually, but the lease contract for the land is guaranteed for more than ten years. If you pay for one year first, you will never be able to get away with it.
More than 20 billion, at least 10 billion was spent on land leasing.
Lu Beifeng asked: "How much is the debt now?"
Ma Hongbo said without hesitation: "Including suppliers' arrears, it is about 20 billion."
“What is the company’s current valuation?”
"$40 billion."
"260 billion, the debt ratio is only 8%."
Lu Beifeng took a sip of coffee, tapped his fingertips on the table, pondered for a moment and said, "First prepare the information and go to the bank for a loan. You can borrow as much as you can."
"Although bank lending is tightening now, it is only for the real estate industry. For high-quality enterprises like ours, they hope that we can lend more and meet the quota."
"The funds received from the loan will be used first. After I finish the things at hand, I will let Zhang Jiali join the company to investigate. If there is no problem, we will proceed to the C round, or directly start the listing round.
Ma Hongbo didn't understand and said in surprise: "Is it going public so soon?"
His original listing plan for Fantasy Technology was on par with Ant Financial's US$260 billion.
The same goes for the market value of companies in the future.
After all, they both have the surname Ma, so there is no reason for him to be worse than those two horses.
Lu Beifeng Dandan said: "The stock of new energy vehicles in China is too small, and the number of million charging piles has reached the ceiling."
“I don’t want the company’s development to stagnate, so I can only set out to overseas markets.”
"I only raise financing once every four or five months. Who can withstand this speed of spending money? If you want to make money, you can only make money in the financial market."
The company is developing too fast.
Sometimes being too fast is not a good thing.
The upper limit of Fantasy Technology is determined by the new energy vehicle market and is also restricted by the new energy vehicle market.
There will be a market only if there is demand. There are not enough new energy vehicles in stock, so there is no need to talk about charging piles.
The country has already done almost the same thing. In the future, we only need to slowly expand the scale of charging piles according to the stock of cars.
Going to sea has become their only choice at present.
It is a big deal for a company to go overseas. There is no reason not to take advantage of this shareholder trend and go public to make money.
Having said that, foreigners like to deceive themselves and others about environmental protection, and there is no reason not to strongly support such an environmentally friendly project as new energy.
The corner of Boss Lu's mouth raised as he suddenly thought of his future retirement goal.
He wants to become an environmentally friendly young man, vigorously promote the environmental protection concept of new energy vehicles, and call on the world to protect the earth together.
Lu Beifeng's words made Ma Hongbo fall into deep thought.
The development in recent years has been so smooth that he was a little carried away for a while.
The stock of new energy vehicles cannot keep up, so what’s the point of having more charging piles?
The company's development has been too advanced and has entered a bottleneck period prematurely.
Listing overseas has become a last resort.
If a group of highly motivated people lose their goal, they will easily fall into internal strife.
Ma Hongbo lowered his head and said in a deep voice: "Mr. Lu, this is a mistake in my judgment."
He shouldn't compare with Meituan in the first place. Cars that cost tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands are really not comparable to takeaways that cost more than ten yuan.
Lu Beifeng chuckled and said: "Okay, this is not a big deal. Charging piles will be built sooner or later. It's just sooner or later."
"There are 3.5 million new energy vehicles in stock in China, and I have also set a three-to-one plan. You just completed the task ahead of schedule. Logically speaking, I should reward you."
Ma Hongbo was frightened, thinking that Lu Beifeng would say something sarcastic again.
Lu Beifeng said with a smile: "Don't think too much, after all, no one makes a small mistake. In the future, the domestic market will be gradually replenished, and the overseas market will be established steadily. When the time comes, Zhang Jiali will go over and cooperate with the investigation."
Ma Hongbo made a slight error in judgment, but the flaws were not concealed.
Lu Beifeng did not deny his past contributions to the company.
He is not Chen Shaojie. He has been facing extreme pressure from Lu Beifeng. To be able to do this is already a score of 95.
You can give some encouragement and tolerance appropriately.
Ma Hongbo looked grateful and felt relieved. He repeatedly promised: "I will try my best to cooperate with Team Leader Zhang's work."