"How's it going? Brother, the person I introduced is not bad, right?"
They sent Fu Jixun off together, and Chen Hong began to "acquire credit" for Lin Fan.
"Okay, thank you for your hard work, brother Chen Hong."
Lin Fan put his arms around this good brother's shoulders, with a smile on his face.
Some people are born to eat this bowl of rice.
Lin Fan discovered that Chen Hong had not been back to China for a few years, but his connections were incredibly extensive.
"How about you open a headhunting company?"
Chen Hong glanced at Lin Fan, "Tch, that's you, if it were someone else, do you think I would be so interested in you?"
After that, Chen Hong started talking to himself again.
“To do a good job in our small intermediary business, we must have bosses, professional managers, bosses and executives in the investment circle, as well as legal, accounting, consulting, etc., and we must know only a few of the best in each industry.
I have no choice but to live under pressure. If I don’t go out shamelessly and get to know more people, I won’t be able to get along at all!”
Lin Fan smiled. This kind of virtue is undoubtedly the virtue of the old Versailles.
"I may have to trouble you a little bit next, brother."
Chen Hong was stunned at first, then said with a smile: "Then it's up to you, I'll open a headhunting company."
Lin Fan knew that the other party was joking, so he stopped being polite and started making demands directly.
"A person in charge of a VC fund, a person in charge of a PE fund, and someone who is familiar with the rules of the entertainment and film industry. If you can help me, we will be the last three people."
Chen Hong was puzzled, "I know about the PE fund. Bailu Fund's US$500 million should be managed by someone.
But why are you recruiting another VC fund manager? Your first domestic fund has just been established, why are you recruiting so many people?
If there are more people, it will cost more and it will easily cause Fu Jixun's displeasure.
In fact, it is enough to have Lao Fu alone, and a man who can be caught by Baidu will not be capable?
Take my advice, just him alone will be fine for now.
Didn’t Lao Fu say it yet? Just bring over the team led by Defengjie and start work in minutes."
Lin Fan nodded, "I know, it's not for Lin Capital, it's for Axel China's fund manager."
"Why are you recruiting Axel?"
Lin Fan briefly explained and said that he wanted to invest a sum of money in Axel's China Fund.
So Chen Hong stopped asking and readily agreed.
Then he asked: "What about the entertainment industry? Are you planning to invest in movies? Then why don't you introduce some female stars to my brother?"
Lin Fan looked at the unformed Chen Hong, who was winking at him, so he had no choice but to explain about the copyright fund.
After listening to it, Chen Hong didn't really understand it, but he also knew that there was no such thing as copyright these days.
After some persuasion, Lin Fan still insisted on setting up a copyright fund.
Chen Hong didn't bother to persuade him anymore. If you have money, you should be willful.
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Without letting Lin Fan wait for two days, Chen Hong led the candidate to the Bund Hotel.
"This is Mr. Tong Shijie, who is now in charge of the business in China of BVP Beauchamp Investment in Silicon Valley.
Speaking of which, you are both alumni of Stanford, and Lao Tong graduated from Stanford with a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering."
As soon as he entered the room, Chen Hong began to introduce the tall and burly Tong Shijie next to him.
Tong Shijie wears glasses and has oily hair. He is about thirty years old and dressed casually. He wears a long-sleeved striped shirt tucked into jeans, a typical American style.
In fact, he is from Taiwan, a descendant of a Kuomintang officer, and immigrated to the United States at the age of 13.
He has a very impressive resume. After graduating from Stanford, he founded two Internet companies in Hong Kong and Singapore, both of which were acquired by large companies.
After becoming financially free, I went to MIT and Harvard to study for a period of time and studied for two master's degrees.
After that, he worked at Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Asia Kunzhong Private Equity.
Currently serves as the China chief representative of Beauchamp Venture Capital.
Beauchamp Ventures is well-known in the United States, and it also participated in Skip’s Series A investment.
But in the Chinese market, the other party only set up a small office, and Tong Shijie was not a managing partner or managing director, but a weird-looking "chief representative in China."
In fact, this kind of position only exists among foreign investors who do not pay attention to the Chinese market.
Therefore, Chen Hong was a bit embarrassed to mention the other person's position when making introductions.
Lin Fan walked forward with a smile and shook hands with Tong Shijie, who was about the same height as him, "Hello, Mr. Tong!"
"Hello, Mr. Lin!"
Tong Shijie doesn't have a Wanwan accent, and his Mandarin is very standard.
While talking, he also looked at Lin Fan.
As a Chinese-American, he knew very well about Lin Fan's deeds, so when Chen Hong contacted him, he accepted the call without any hesitation.
After exchanging a few pleasantries, the three of them sat down on the sofa and started chatting over tea and coffee.
"Axel plans to set up a VC fund in China with a scale of US$100 million, no exit period, and no restrictions on investment fields..."
In the industry, Tong Shijie is not well-known yet. Although his resume is impressive, no one in the investment circle is a bad student.
Therefore, Lin Fan stopped going around in circles with the other party and directly reported the situation of the fund.
Tong Shijie's eyes lit up when he heard this. Isn't this the stage he longed for? This trip was the right one.
Boshang Venture Capital does not pay attention to the Chinese market. Since taking office at the beginning of the year, he has recommended many projects to the US headquarters. As a result, it was almost the end of the year and two projects were approved - Blog China and Hongcheng Education.
He only invested in two projects in one year, and when he met friends in the industry, he was a little embarrassed.
But Lin Fan just spent 100 million US dollars when he came up, and he didn't have so many rules.
The most important thing is that Axel is also a well-known institution with an easy-to-use brand.
"I have a question, Mr. Lin, what is your relationship with Axel?"
Lin Fan knew that the other party would inquire about this, so he did not hide it and told him everything about the agreement he had made with Breyer.
Tong Shijie asked: "Like Sequoia America and Sequoia China?"
Lin Fan nodded, "Yes, the difference is that Axel China has a lot more freedom in investment, which is very important."
Tong Shijie understood and asked again: "What if we have a conflict with Lin Capital?"
"First of all, we will maintain communication, and any conflicts can be resolved in advance..."
Lin Fan also attached great importance to the "Vest" and began to tell Tong Shijie about his various arrangements.
He also didn't expect that Chen Hong would actually find Tong Shijie for him.
Although this person is not well-known now, he is a good investor. In the future, he will join Qiming Venture Partners and GGV Investment, and will invest in many mobile Internet star projects such as Xiaomi, Xiaohongshu, and Musical.ly.
The most awesome thing is that he also took Chinese funds to the United States to invest in many good projects, such as the American version of Pinduoduo Wish.
Because Tong Shijie is not very famous at the moment, and he is not doing well in the investment circle.
Therefore, after Lin Fan provided excellent conditions such as managing director of Axel China, fund partner, and 10% institutional profit sharing, Tong Shijie happily agreed to join.
The whole conversation took less than an hour, which was efficient and fast.
Then, Lin Fan contacted Breyer on the spot, who was in the United States, and said on the phone that the team had been selected and would be sent to the United States to meet them on a certain day.
Breyer and Lin Fan had already reached a consensus and naturally had no objections. They also said that they would do a good job in reception and signing of contracts, etc.
Seeing Lin Fan contacting the American team so quickly, Tong Shijie was stunned for a long time. Could it be a bit hasty?
Before he could recover, Tong Shijie left in confusion with the news that he had passed the interview.
Shortly after seeing Tong Shijie off, Chen Hong received a call and went downstairs.
After a while, Chen Hong led a middle-aged man in his early forties into Lin Fan's office.
"This is Mr. Zhang Zhao, currently the art director of Enlight Media."
After Chen Hong finished his introduction, Zhang Zhao smiled and stretched out his hand to Lin Fan, "Hello, Mr. Xia!"
Lin Fan was stunned for a moment. Was he forcing himself to go to Lao Jia and never return?
"Go back to China next week", stealing Lao Jia's golden words;
"Online video + mobile phone + electric vehicle" robbed Lao Jia of his "ecological counterattack";
Now I also met Zhang Zhao, the former CEO of LeTV Pictures.
Lin Fan felt that he was afraid that he would have to kill Lao Jia!
However, Lao Jia’s concept is not bad, otherwise he would not have become the first person in China to raise money through PPT.
Lao Jia's biggest problem is lack of funds and taking too big a step. If he had hundreds of billions in hand, Lin Fan speculated that everyone would still believe in the dream instead of "going out together".
After being stunned for a second or two, Lin Fan quickly came to his senses, smiled and shook hands with Zhang Zhao, "Hello, Mr. Zhang~"
Seeing that Lin Fan was such a courteous and virtuous corporal with no airs at all, Zhang Zhao gave up a lot of worries he had before coming.
It is said that when a young man becomes famous, he will become famous, but he did not see any arrogance in Lin Fan. Instead, he was easy-going and kind, which made people feel good about him.
Whether it's a pretense or real, it should all happen!
Lin Fan also had a good impression of Zhang Zhao. After Lao Jia left for the United States, the trees fell and the animals dispersed. Only this man stayed at his post at LeTV Pictures for several years and was called "LeTV's last night watchman."
He did not leave until the handover with Sunac was successfully completed, which shows a person's responsibility.
During this period, the other party did not even say a bad word about Lao Jia.
In fact, he is just a professional manager who holds a small portion of management stocks. He does not have to be stuck in the quagmire and can leave at any time. His friends also persuaded him to change platforms.
Whether he is reluctant to let go of the children he raised with his own hands, or he is trying to gain "personal credit" or "industry reputation", his character or wisdom can be seen.
His wife also worked for LeTV as the vice president. After the LeTV crisis broke out, he was forced to go to the theater chain to collect debts. She was looking for life and death. After going back and forth many times, she got a total of more than 20 million yuan.
Yuan accounts receivable.
Although this amount of money is only a drop in the bucket, it also adds a touch of human brilliance to LeTV, which was once rumored to be a huge scam. In China, there are still professional managers with integrity.
After exchanging a few pleasantries, Lin Fan invited Zhang Zhao and Chen Hong to sit down, and asked the waiting waiter to go to the tea table to make tea, wash the tea, and make two cups for the two of them.
“Great tea!”
As soon as the tea entered his throat, Zhang Zhao immediately praised it.
Lin Fan said with a smile: "Haha, this is a gift from Brother Chen. I just want to borrow flowers to offer to Buddha."
Zhang Zhao looked at Chen Hong again and praised him loudly. He even said that the tea was good and that was good. His analysis was very clear and logical. He was very good at being able to speak clearly and was good at communication.
After the conversation became more open and the atmosphere was heated up, Chen Hong looked at Lin Fan, smiled and said: "Mr. Zhang was introduced by a very reliable friend of mine. He graduated from Fudan University with a bachelor's degree in information science and a master's degree in philosophy.
Bachelor of Science.
In the early 1990s, he went to study abroad at New York University in the United States and received a master's degree in film production. During his studies, he also directed several films and won many awards.
After returning to China in 1996, he joined the Shanghai Film Group and directed the Sino-US co-production films "Space Hijacking", "Emotional Visa" and other films.
In 2000, he joined the Viewpoint Communication Company under the Information Office of the State Council and served as vice president. He was responsible for cooperating with more than a dozen television stations in the United States to produce and broadcast hundreds of hours of documentaries introducing contemporary China.
In 2003, at the invitation of Wang Changtian, he joined Enlight Media and has served as the art director until now..."
Because he was introduced by a friend, and Zhang Zhao happened to be visiting today, Lin Fan did not obtain the candidate's resume information in advance, so Chen Hong introduced him again.
Zhang Zhao quietly listened to Chen Hong introducing himself, smiling modestly from time to time.
"Mr. Zhang has very rich experience in the production and filming of movies and TV series, and he meets the conditions you put forward very well."
As soon as Chen Hong finished speaking, Lin Fan took over with a smile, "Yes, from state-owned enterprises to private enterprises, from the United States to China, after listening to your experience, Mr. Zhang, I am very admirable."
Zhang Zhao repeatedly expressed his humility, saying that he knew how much it weighed.
"Then let me get it straight. Lin Capital plans to set up a film and television copyright fund. Its work will be to acquire major film and television production companies. Film studios will hoard films and TV series that are gathering dust in their film libraries..."
Chen Hong glanced at Lin Fan and couldn't he describe it more nicely?
Zhang Zhaoren was very smart and understood immediately.
With a slight smile on his face, he adjusted the glasses on his nose, leaned forward and asked: "Mr.
Buy it at a low price and grab it.
Wait until the country begins to pay attention to film and television copyrights, and even introduces relevant copyright protection regulations, and then distribute and sell them at high prices?
Treat film and television copyrights as a financial product?"
Talking to smart people is simple, and everything is clear. Lin Fan nodded heavily, "Yes, that's what it means. You will be the person in charge of this fund and form a team to make large purchases across the country. What do you think?"
Zhang Zhao said slowly: "With all due respect, investing in copyright in China is quite risky.
Mr. Xia, you want to make money by hoarding copyrights. Not only will you occupy funds, but you also run the risk of losing money.
I don’t know how many times the competent authorities have mentioned the need to regulate copyrights and regulate the industry, but the noise has always been loud and the rain has been light, and the boots have not yet fallen to the ground.”
Chen Hong glanced at Lin Fan with a smile on his face. Did you see that? Senior people in the industry said so, do you still insist on going your own way?
"but!"
Zhang Zhao said with a smile: "I think Mr. Xia's idea is still a clever move. I heard that you have also invested in Tudou.com and you have YouTube abroad.
I guess making money is not your main purpose, it should be to make industrial layout, right?"
interesting!
Lin Fan raised his chin, signaling to continue.
Seeing Lin Fan's interested expression, Zhang Zhao guessed that he might have hit the point and began to explain his views on online videos and his predictions for the future of online videos.
“…Internetization of film and television may be a major trend in the future.
Including distribution, sales, etc., I think it is possible to transfer to the Internet."
After saying that, Zhang Zhao said with a smile: "As a family, I don't know whether it is right or not. I would like to ask Mr. Xia to correct me."
"That makes sense."
Lin Fan nodded and praised without hesitation: "In the domestic film and television industry, there are not many people who have your understanding."
"There are not many people who can realize like you, Mr. Zhang, that the copyright that is just a bargain now may be a big gold mine in the future!"
Zhang Zhao was also very good at talking, and he flattered Lin Fan again without showing any signs of it.
Chen Hong on the side watched this scene silently, speechless, so he was praised?
He was afraid that Lin Fan would be blinded, so he helped pick the thorn, "Mr. Zhang, didn't you just say that hoarding copyrights may lead to losses, and the competent authorities have been slow to introduce relevant laws and policies?"
Lin Fan was silent and wanted to see how Zhang Zhao would answer.
Zhang Zhao did not feel nervous and said calmly: "It depends on who will invest in the copyright layout. With Mr. Zhang's capital strength, it is affordable to occupy a small part of the funds and wait for several years or even longer.
Relative to the investment, once copyright begins to receive attention, the price will soar sharply, and the financial returns will be very considerable.
Of course, these are insignificant compared to establishing an online video company's position within the industry.