"But... I believe Mr. Yang will not let me suffer." Zhou Dongsheng said with a smile, showing his fox tail.
Yang Luyu's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. Sure enough, there is no free lunch in this world. Angel investors are just evil capitalists. Bah!
At the same time, I couldn't help but secretly complain in my heart. It didn't cost any money, so I naturally wanted more. As for what I wanted... Yang Luyu naturally knew it well.
Although Yang Luyu really wanted to reject it outright, but... Zhou Dongsheng gave too much and it was too tempting. This cooperation opportunity really did not give him any room to refuse!
After all, if you want to stand out in the domestic market and seize the market from leading players such as Kuaishou and Miaopai, in addition to the "timing" that Zhou Dongsheng mentioned before...
The place and people are so favorable, so you have to put in more effort, otherwise, even if the time comes, the benefits will not be yours.
If you don’t leave your children, you can’t trap the wolf. At least so far, investor Zhou Dongsheng’s performance is remarkable. He not only gives money, but also gives Yang Luyu a lot of inspiration in starting a business...
The relationship between investors and startups is just like the relationship between workers and bosses. It is a process of two-way selection.
A migrant worker can fire his boss and find another job. After all, where in the world can’t he work?
The same is true for start-up companies. As long as the project is attractive enough, everyone in the world will benefit from it, so why worry about no one investing?
And if the cooperation is happy, it naturally means that in order to maintain the relationship, both parties will choose to continuously increase their investment to strengthen it. The workers will invest their time and contribute to the company, and the boss will give feedback in the form of promotions and salary increases...
In the same way, when it comes to investment, the same thing is true. Investors want entrepreneurial projects to bring them more returns, and entrepreneurs also hope that investors can provide more resource support...
Thinking of this, Yang Luyu made a decision in his heart and was ready to change from passive to active!
Yang Luyu showed a sincere smile on his face and said seriously: "I will always bear in mind the guidance and help Mr. Zhou has given me, so I decided to sincerely invite Mr. Zhou to become a strategic investor of our company. At the same time, I
I am personally willing to transfer another 5% of the company's shares to repay Mr. Zhou's continued support..."
Well, these words have the same meaning, but the effect expressed in another way is completely different.
I also had no money, so I could only exchange 5% of the shares for this strategic cooperation. I accepted it passively and unwillingly, but the effect was obviously mediocre.
And if Mr. Yang licks like this... ahem, with such a clever name, maybe it will have miraculous effects.
Moreover, with the name of this strategic investor, Zhou Dongsheng has been completely tied to this ship. Wouldn't it be wonderful for everyone to ride the wind and waves together?
After all, Yang Luyu still remembered Zhou Dongsheng's introduction to Pig Factory and the help of Pig Factory Cloud Music.
Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, the smile on Zhou Dongsheng's face became even brighter, "Hello strategic investor."
Compared with ordinary financial investment, which focuses on short-term gains and returns, strategic investment generally refers to the continuous investment of funds and resources over a long period of time, working with entrepreneurs to make the company bigger and stronger, focusing on value investment, and seeking long-term returns.
Of course, this is only a nominal difference. Since strategic investment takes a long time and carries huge risks, when encountering operational risks, there are many strategic investments that choose to withdraw capital and regret, and stop losses in a timely manner.
Compared with a little loss of reputation, real money is obviously more important.
However, this problem is not a problem at all for Zhou Dongsheng. The name of this strategic investor suits him just right.
In this way, he can point his fingers more legitimately and strive to make muse, a music short video software, into something he is familiar with.
For example, at that time, I can more naturally propose to change the name of muse, which is out of date and does not meet the needs of the domestic market, to... Douyin!
Follow other people's paths and leave others with nowhere to go!
"Now that Mr. Yang has talked about this, I will be disrespectful. I hope that we can work together in the future to make muse the number one music short video platform in China, oh no, the number one in the world!"
Anyway, the name should be blown out first, and whether it can be done or not is another matter. Isn't this the case with entrepreneurship? Compared with an entrepreneur who wants to acquire Apple, Zhou Dongsheng feels that saying "No. 1 in the country" is somewhat implicit.
, so I changed my name to “No. 1 in the world”.
After all, the title of the world's No. 1 music short video platform is much easier to achieve than the world's No. 1 social platform, and it is more reliable than acquiring Apple, right? (Funny)
"Okay! It's a deal!" Yang Luyu stood up and shook hands. They looked at each other and smiled. This was regarded as a verbal agreement.
As for the rest, Lu Sifang naturally has to go to the magic city again. After all, professional matters must be left to professionals to avoid any strange things in the contract.
"Currently, the crowd watching live broadcasts is also mainly young people, including the fan groups of these anchors, which are also mainly young groups. This is highly coincident with the user group targeted by our music short video platform!"
"Therefore, with this strategic cooperation, our muse short video will further expand in China and be even more powerful in accumulating young users. I can't wait to see the results."
After sitting down again, Yang Luyu couldn't hide his excitement and said excitedly.
According to the previous financing valuation, the value of 5% of the shares is approximately US$2.5 million, which is equivalent to more than 12 million yuan.
However, Yang Luyu was obviously unwilling to exchange shares for this strategic cooperation unless it was absolutely necessary.
After all, it is easy to exchange shares for money now, but it will not be easy to exchange money for shares later.
Fortunately, this 5% will not affect Yang Luyu's control of Wenxue Network.
What's more, these 5% shares are exchanged for time and development. If it can be done in a short period of time, muse can quickly open up in the domestic market and complete user accumulation.
At that time, Wenxue Network, which has domestic and overseas markets, will naturally be able to advance and attack, and retreat and defend. When it starts the next round of financing, its valuation will be directly in units of hundreds of millions, of course, it will still be US dollars.
The shopping mall is like a battlefield, and the principle of speed is also applicable to the road of entrepreneurship. Only by running faster than others can you survive to the end and become the winner who will leave your name in history.
"Of course, I have always firmly believed that Mr. Yang can create social miracles. My thoughts have never wavered..."
With a smile on his face, Zhou Dongsheng gave Mr. Yang a "chicken soup" with his backhand, but...why did these words sound familiar? He seemed to have said...
However, this is not important, as long as it works, look at how happy Yang Luyu is smiling!
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After receiving the call, Lu Sifang rushed to Shanghai with Dongsheng Investment's legal department and related personnel to sign a strategic cooperation contract with Wenxue Network.
Together with Yang Luyu's personal transfer of 5% of the shares, Zhou Dongsheng's holdings of Wenxue Network shares have increased to 35%, becoming the second largest shareholder besides Yang Luyu's founder team.
In addition, about 15% of the shares are in the hands of third-party capital such as Kingsoft Cheetah.
The rest is held by Yang Luyu’s founder team.
At the same time, Little Man Media and Yi Nian Media simultaneously announced a strategic partnership with Muse Short Video, a subsidiary of Wenxue Network.
This piece of news did not create much of a stir in the industry, but a large wave of publicity campaigns followed, breaking the calm.
