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Yin Mingshan readily agreed to Lin Fan's plan without considering it for a few days.
For this group of private entrepreneurs who went overseas in the 1980s and 1990s, there is nothing they dare not do.
Don’t rely too much on gray or black first pot of gold to start your business.
Although Yin Mingshan has never sold health care products or acquired state-owned assets via MBO, he has seen many ups and downs in the business world for nearly twenty years, and he doesn't care about Lin Fan's "sexy operations".
Lifan can also benefit from implementing the plan proposed by Lin Fan. As long as it can benefit, it is worth doing.
As for whether they would be exposed, the two of them also considered it and decided to have closer negotiations. The two parties negotiated and worked out a detailed plan to reduce the possibility of exposure.
Lin Fan decided to leave the follow-up work with Lifan, which was actually the dirty work, to Eberhard and Tarpenning.
After all, he can't do all the dirty and tiring work by himself, and he has to drag the two of them into the water.
The two founders of Tesla didn't have much of a moral obsession. After some consideration, they decided to join Lin Fan's black boat.
Tesla launched a high-profile challenge to global car companies, but no one responded.
It took a lot of effort to come to a Lifan family. Although they are a weak group, they cannot let them go easily.
For this reason, Lin Fan also specifically explained to the two of them that competing with Lifan was more about laying a foundation for entering the Chinese market and letting Chinese consumers understand the Tesla brand first.
After communicating with Yin Mingshan, Tesla responded to the outside world through social accounts opened on Twitter and Facebook.
The main idea is: I am very grateful to China Lifan Motors for taking the challenge. Tesla will compete with Lifan Motors on the same stage next spring.
By the time this message was replied to, nearly a week had passed since Lifan accepted the challenge.
Public opinion is gradually ebbing, and the media and netizens all think that Tesla will not compete with an emerging car company, because it does not make much sense!
If you win, you will win without force; if you lose, you will lose face.
As a result, Tesla is really stubborn, oh, that’s wrong, it’s called a promise worth a thousand pieces of gold!
The news of this response also dispels the negative public opinions about Tesla these days.
Some people think that Tesla and Lin Fan are making malicious hype, have no sportsmanship in racing competition, and do not respond to Lifan. How is that different from arrogant car companies such as Porsche and Ferrari?
Originally, the "personality" created by Tesla was a fighter, a fighter who attacked the arrogant traditional car companies.
But now, Fighter has become arrogant and disdained to compete with a Chinese car company.
As a result, many of the Madonnas turned Tesla fans into fans, and passers-by turned into anti-fans, and started verbally criticizing Tesla on social networks!
When this news spread to China, netizens were even more worried.
There has been a lot of quarrel on the Tianya Forum. Zhengfang netizens think that Tesla does not need to compete with Lifan because it is not a player in the same rank at all;
Opposing netizens believe that Tesla looks down on Chinese cars, is breaking its promises, and is suspected of malicious hype.
The two sides debated and argued, and even raised the issue of whether Lin Fan was patriotic.
Now that Tesla has spoken out in time, all the controversy has been put to rest.
Some netizens went to Tesla's social account to comment and leave messages, apologizing to Tesla for their inappropriate remarks a few days ago that "I judge a gentleman with a villain's heart."
The operators of Tesla's social account selected those touching messages to reply, showing a very generous and down-to-earth attitude.
As for the spring race between Tesla and Lifan Motors, many American netizens said they were not interested in it and could not bear to watch a massacre.
Domestic netizens were dissatisfied with these remarks by Americans. Most people sided with Lifan, feeling that Lifan would have won if it could rise to the challenge.
Even if Lifan loses the competition, it will definitely become the backbone of the national automobile industry through unremitting efforts and arduous struggle in the future.
The TV series "Bright Sword" will not be officially released until one month, otherwise the spirit of "Bright Sword" will definitely be shouted out by netizens.
Lifan has benefited a lot from this incident. Looking at BYD and Geely, their eyes are red and they feel regretful. Why did Lifan take advantage of such a good loophole?
However, some sane netizens always believe that car quality is the first priority, and marketing is only an auxiliary. You must not put the cart before the horse.
How can young people listen to this and make up their mind to support domestic products and Lifan.
I was really tricked, and they admit it!
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Lifan’s matter has come to an end, and Tesla’s Series C financing negotiations have also entered its final stages.
In Tesla's office, the two founders of Ai and Ta, Lin Fan and Compass, SDL, Value Equity Capital, Lin Capital represented Rich and other old shareholders, Defeng Jedraper, Waterfall Investment, Michael Rall
Sen, Bezos Venture Capital representatives and other planned new shareholders sat together to discuss the plan.
Eberhard glanced at the investors present and said calmly: "Does anyone have any objection to the plan of "Tesla's Series C financing of US$40 million and a post-money valuation of US$200 million?"
"
Seeing all the shareholders present shaking their heads, Eberhard showed a satisfied smile.
This round of financing should be the easiest among Tesla’s recent rounds of financing negotiations.
Thanks to Tesla's stunning debut at the Auto Show, the media rushed to report on it, and Tesla suddenly became a hot topic.
After a little negotiation, the current round of investors agreed to the offer.
Draper originally cited Tesla's post-B round valuation of US$63 million as an argument, saying that it had nearly tripled in value and was too much.
But when Eberhard placed an order for more than a hundred cars, Draper found no reason to refute.
Being able to sell a car and being unable to sell a car are two states and two valuations.
Eberhard withdrew his gaze and continued: "Let me talk about the investment share allocation plan.
This round of financing was led by Value Equity Capital with an investment of US$14 million, followed by Mr.
."
Lin Fan nodded. The total financing share of 40 million US dollars was clearly divided, and all parties benefited.
Value Equity Capital is nominally the lead investor, that’s because he and Lin Capital are counted separately.
For this matter, Lin Fan also argued with the representative of Value Equity Capital, and finally got the other party to relent.
As for DFJ, Bill Gates' family office Waterfall Investments, and Bezos' venture capital firm, after the completion of this round of financing, the three parties each hold only 1.05% of the shares.
This is a small amount of shares, and its symbolic significance is greater than its practical significance.
None of the three parties had any big objections. Anyway, they were just joining in the fun.
"Since everyone has no objections, let's sign the investment agreement today!"
After saying that, Eberhard glanced at everyone.
"Okay, sign it!"
After Lin Fan was the first to express his stance, other investors also expressed their stance one after another.
Therefore, under the witness of all parties, Eberhard signed an agreement on behalf of Tesla and the six investment institutions participating in the C round of financing. 鵵婲小徾网
Lin Fan and Lin Capital needed to invest nearly 20 million U.S. dollars, but the shareholding ratio remained unchanged at 49.21%. They did not break through the control line and only maintained their equity interests without being diluted.
Including the part of equity obtained from Series B investment, Value Equity Capital’s total shareholding reaches 10.81%, making it an important shareholder of Tesla;
The equity of two shareholders including SDL and Compass was diluted to 2.54%; the option pool was 6.35%;
Eberhard's shareholding was diluted to 17.46%, and Tarpenning's shareholding was diluted to 7.94%.
The matter came to a successful conclusion here. After Lin Fan left Tesla, he asked Zhang Chenguang to drive and prepare to go to San Francisco.
Accompanying him was Rich from Lam Capital.
Sitting in the Phantom's comfortable and spacious back seat, Lin Fan crossed his legs and looked relaxed and comfortable, but in fact he was listening carefully to Ricky's work report sitting next to him.
"Sir Lin, Yelp was founded in October 2004 by former PayPal engineers Jeremy Stoppelman and Russell Simmons.
In the first year of their establishment, they established a firm foothold in the San Francisco market and became the entertainment guide for the new generation of local Internet workers..."
Ricky briefly introduced the development history of Yelp, and then talked about the current situation.
“Currently, they are looking for opportunities to expand to other cities.
But they also have a heavyweight rival, Citysearch, an Internet review website founded in the 1990s.
This website was established earlier than Yelp, has more users, and covers a wider area.
In addition, for restaurants and various stores that have settled in, Yelp will help them create information and profile pages on the platform for free.
But to gain more exposure, stores need to purchase the advanced services launched by Yelp.
However, I have learned in detail that this service is not selling very well.
In addition to this profit model, Yelp has not found other feasible ways to make profits.
Generally speaking, Yelp is still in its early stage, and everything from its products to its business model is still full of immaturity."
Lin Fan nodded. Yelp is actually the American version of "Dianping", a website that provides local life services. Users can find restaurants on it, reserve a table, and after the meal, they can write about their dining experience and rate the restaurant.
"You've had contact with the two founders. How was the conversation? What's their attitude?"
Lin Fan looked at Ricky with a smile. After learning about the Yelp project from Qiu Zhiyi, he did not take action personally, but left full authority to Ricky for follow-up.
As the head of Rainwater Fund, Ricky has been with the company for a while, but has yet to officially invest in the first project.
Lin Fan left this matter to him, not only to allow the other party to achieve a historic breakthrough, but also to have some competition in it.
“It was a good conversation!”
Ricky shrugged, "They heard that we, Lin Capital, invested in LinkedIn, and Peter Thiel invested in Facebook, so they naturally have a certain affinity with us."
Lin Fan smiled, the famous "PayPal Entrepreneur Gangster", except Musk who has a bad relationship with him, everyone else gets along well with him.
Invisibly, this also broadened his network of contacts and won him a reputation in the industry.
"Then what? Are they willing to accept capital injection from Lam Capital?"
Ricky smiled calmly: "We have discussed the valuation and financing scale, and they generally tend to agree.
It’s just that before formalizing the cooperation, they want to meet with you, the real big boss.”
Lin Fan had no doubt that he was there. Even if they didn't ask him to meet, he would ask them to chat.
Each venture capital company's decision-making process and operating model are different.
But most of them are investment managers who go around looking for projects, have almost negotiated them, and finally hand them over to the investment committee for a decision, or arrange for entrepreneurs to meet with the founding partners, that is, the real big bosses of the venture capital companies.
The big boss has a "face-to-face meeting" to see if he is someone who can become successful.
The car stopped in front of an office building in San Francisco. Lin Fan, Ricky, and Zhang Chenguang got out of the car and walked into the office building together.
Yelp has only completed an angel round of financing of US$1 million invested by MRLVentures Venture Incubator, so it is still not strong in terms of financial strength and is still working in the entrepreneurial incubator.
After Lin Fan, Ruiqi, and Zhang Chenguang walked into the entrepreneurial incubator in the building, they immediately saw dozens of young people working in the open office area.
The office environment is not bad. At a glance, it looks like a large Internet company.
In fact, these dozens of people may belong to dozens of different companies.
These young people are very focused, sitting on office chairs with simple designs and looking at the computer screen without blinking.
There are also young people sitting together in twos and threes, discussing products, and occasionally popping up a few professional terms.
The arrival of Lin Fan and the others did not alarm the entrepreneurs gathered here at all. Many people raised their eyelids and continued working.
"Sir Lin!"
A young man in his twenties with messy black hair that looked like a chicken coop suddenly jumped up from his workstation and walked quickly towards Lin Fan and his party.
Such a big movement finally attracted the attention of other young entrepreneurs, and they started whispering among themselves.
"This is?"
Lin Fan was startled by the sharp shout, saw a young man with black hair walking towards him quickly, and quickly asked Ricky.
"This is Yelp's founder and CEO, Stoppelman."
Hearing Ricky's words, Zhang Chenguang quietly moved back.
He was also startled by the sharp shout just now. Someone suddenly called the boss's name. He did not dare to hesitate and rushed forward quickly, blocking Lin Fan's body, keeping his eyes on the foreigner who was rushing towards them.
In particular, I also paid attention to whether the foreigner had any sharp weapons on his hands or body, and whether he had any malicious intent on his face.
Now that the threat was temporarily lifted, he stood beside Lin Fan, secretly on guard.
"Sir Lin, it's nice to meet you. I'm your fan, Jeremy Stoppelman. Just call me Jeremy."
The young man was very enthusiastic. After approaching Lin Fan and his party, he smiled and held out his right hand to Lin Fan.
"How many centimeters?"
Lin Fan thought to himself, thinking that this name is still awesome, and fortunately this brother did not go to China to study.
"Hello, Jeremy, nice to see you too."
Lin Fan spoke freely. After shaking hands with Jeremy, he looked around with his peripheral vision, only to find that a large number of foreigners were watching.
Jeremy realized that he had been careless. He had just shouted so loudly that everyone here probably heard it.
He himself has been in a startup incubator for so long, so he naturally knows how hungry the fellow sufferers around him are.
As soon as investors come to the incubator, their eyes will glow green.
Now there are big entrepreneurs and investment giants like Sir Lin here, which is great, they all look like they are ready to pounce at any time.
Jeremy also noticed that several people were rummaging through boxes and cabinets, looking for various documents, probably business plans.
"Everyone, come with me!"
Jeremy did not dare to stay for a long time, so he protected Lin Fan and his party, and walked to his company's workstation while being "surrounded by a pack of wolves".
Seeing Jeremy desperately protecting his food, many young entrepreneurs temporarily put out their thoughts and watched Lin Fan and his entourage leave.
"This is my partner, Russell Simmons."
After bringing the people to the work station, Jeremy began to introduce Lin Fan to a golden retriever who was standing up and ready to greet everyone.
"Sir Lin, nice to meet you."
Russell is a frail-looking man, in his twenties, with dull blond hair and a non-mainstream haircut, Fahrenheit style. His head looks bigger than his body.
coordination.
Lin Fan shook hands with Jin Mao, looked around, and asked, "Is there a quieter place?"
"Yes, yes, come with me!"
Jeremy said, and he and Russell hurried forward to lead the way, taking Lin Fan and the others to the shared office of the incubator.
After inviting Lin Fan and the others to sit down, and pouring each of them a cup of coffee, Jeremy said with a smile: "The environment here is relatively simple, don't dislike it, Sir Lin."
"Extreme Spiritual Chaos Jue"
"How could it be? This place is better than Stanford's startup incubator."
Lin Fan picked up the coffee and gestured to Jeremy, "At least we still have coffee to drink."
After saying that, Lin Fan picked up the cup and brought it to his mouth, taking a big sip.
Seeing Lin Fan being so down-to-earth, Jeremy and Russell felt a lot more relieved, with smiles on their faces.
"I heard that you two want to interview me?"
Putting down the cup, Lin Fan looked at the two of them and said calmly.
"Yes, Sir Lin, we are very satisfied with all the terms offered by Lin Capital..."
Having said this, Jeremy paused and made eye contact with his partner before looking at Lin Fan again.
He gritted his teeth and said as if he were pouring beans out of a bamboo tube: "Yelp would like to develop a function for friends to recommend restaurants and stores to each other. We would like to talk to you, Sir Lin, to see if we can introduce Yelp to cooperate with Facebook.
one time."
"That's it?"
When Lin Fan saw the two of them hesitating, he thought it was something big.
"Yes, that's it!"
Jeremy also added: "Is it possible? Sir Lin, we really want to launch this function."
"It's okay, but I heard you only raised US$5 million."
Lin Fan shook his head slightly, frowned and sighed: "It's hard to get things done with this little money!
You want to use this sharing function to use Lam Capital’s relationship chain to conduct viral marketing, am I right?”
The person opposite me saw through all my little thoughts.
Jeremy was so heartbroken that he finally stopped hiding and began to elaborate on his plan.
