A few days later, Zhang Yida went to Bilibili Company and listened to Chen Rui list a number of terms such as 1, 2, 3, and 4, and agreed to all of them.
Xu Yi was very happy and glanced at Li Ni, saying, "Look, I guess you are right!"
"Mr. Zhang, are you sure you don't want to consider it?"
Even Chen Rui was a little surprised that the terms he proposed could not be said to be excessive, but ordinary major shareholders would not accept them.
“I will not forcefully change the status quo of Bilibili, but will only provide more resources to Bilibili.
In addition, I believe that under your leadership, B will be able to go further."
Hearing Zhang Yida's praise, several people were quite happy.
"I also have a small request, that is, I hope Station B will start live streaming e-commerce business."
Chen Rui asked: "Is it the live broadcast that Douyu just launched recently?"
"Yes." Zhang Yida nodded, "Douyu's live broadcast is a small attempt by my subsidiary Daya Media.
The results are very good, and for the live broadcast platform, it has another major revenue stream.”
"Well, since Mr. Zhang has spoken, let's give it a try at Station B!"
Chen Rui saw that Zhang Yida agreed so readily to all the terms, so he didn't worry too much about these little things.
"By the way, in addition to buying old shares, Ruixiang and DouYi will jointly invest US$200 million in Bilibili. Is there no problem with that?"
"No problem. Originally, we only planned to raise US$150 million in Series C financing. It would be the best if we can raise US$200 million."
Chen Rui doesn't seem to care at all about the dilution of his shares.
"Okay, let's contact the investors in Series A and B! Clear their shares first."
Then, Chen Rui invited several major venture capital institutions that invested in Bilibili.
In addition to Ruixiang, which holds 12% of the shares in Station B, other investment institutions also hold 40.1% of the shares in Station B.
The price offered by Ruixiang and DouShi is good, US$1 billion.
According to this valuation, investment institutions investing in Station B can obtain returns ranging from several times, and the investment time is only about one year. This rate of return is quite good, and major investment institutions have sold their shares in Station B one after another.
Ruixiang and DouShi each invested US$300.5 million, for a total of US$601 million, of which US$401 million was used to purchase old shares sold by major venture capital institutions, and US$200 million was used as an investment in Bilibili.
After the completion of a series of transactions, Ruixiang will hold 35.04% of the shares of Station B, Doushi will hold 25.04% of the shares of Station B, and the management will hold the other 39.92% of the shares.
In addition, Ruixiang will also jointly launch a US$200 million "cultural revitalization" fund with Station B.
Among them, Ruixiang invested US$198 million as an LP, and Bilibili invested US$2 million as a GP to manage the fund, focusing on domestic original animation, comics and other content and IP.
After settling a series of investments at Station B, Lin Zhenyang also took care of the matter of Colin Building.
Ruixiang won the Colin Building with a total construction area of 75,000 square meters at a unit price of 38,888 yuan per square meter and a total price of 2.9166 billion yuan.
To this end, Ruixiang also held a "housewarming ceremony."
In fact, there is no actual relocation at all. The employees still work in the same building, but the name of the building has been changed.
It turns out that the Colin Group's exterior logo was removed and replaced with a sharp cartoon elephant logo.
Zhang Yida suggested keeping a low profile, but investors must hold a housewarming ceremony and ask a circle of media reporters to help publicize it.
When ordinary people buy new houses at home, they have to treat guests to dinner. Ruixiang spent nearly 3 billion, but when it is time to show his strength, he still has to show off twice.
Therefore, Zhang Yida rarely put on a black suit today, with a corsage on his chest, and greeted various bigwigs in the decorated hall of the building.
All shareholders and investment institutions of Ruixiang have sent flower baskets. Counting those sent by various partners, there are hundreds of flower baskets placed at the entrance of the building. This is a bit embarrassing, and there is almost no place to put them.
The company of TMD's three former friends also sent flower baskets, but Huang Xin was the only one present.
Zhang Yida was somewhat helpless. Chen Wei and Zhang Ming began to drift away from him due to business competition.
There were quite a few reporters present today, and Zhang Yida accepted their interview in the hall.
"Mr. Zhang, as the first Ruixiang among the three RMD giants to own a headquarters building, does this mean that Ruixiang has begun to make full profits?"
This journalist friend’s question was quite interesting. Zhang Yida replied: “Except for mobile payment, Ruixiang’s other businesses have entered a profitable state.”
The next reporter asked: "While Magnesium Group and Didi are still burning huge amounts of money, Ruixiang has begun to buy buildings. Isn't Mr. Zhang a very high profit margin in the Internet finance industry?"
Zhang Yida shook his head and said: "The Internet financial industry is far from being as hugely profitable as the outside world imagines. On the contrary, our investment in financial technology research and development every year is sky-high.
Because in our minds, risk control always comes first!”
"In today's world where major Internet companies are burning money to change markets, some Internet experts say that Ruixiang's behavior of buying a property is very cowardly. Mr. Zhang, what do you think of this?"
"I won't make any comments if you are a countryman or not. The purpose of buying a building to build your own headquarters is to improve the employees' sense of belonging.
Just like ordinary people, after earning money from working, they will buy a house in the city or build a house in their hometown.
I think this is a very common thing and the outside world does not need to read too much into it.”
…
"Our reporter reports for you: Recently, someone provided "Guo Tiao Loan" through an online lending platform between acquaintances. That is, when borrowing money, a nude photo of the borrower holding an ID card is used instead of a IOU.
When a default occurs and the loan is not repaid, the lender threatens to release naked photos and contact the borrower's parents to force the borrower to repay..."
Time came to June, and the Internet and TV stations began to blow up a Category 12 typhoon about the "Guotiao Incident".
This incident caused an uproar on the Internet.
College students have always been the pride of Chinese society. Even after the expansion of enrollment, college students are becoming less and less valuable, but in the eyes of the outside world, they are more than that!
In order to borrow thousands of dollars, a female college student used her photos as collateral to get a loan!
It has simply refreshed people's outlook. While everyone is scorning female college students for being shameless, some people are also turning their attention to online loans, which are becoming more and more popular in China.
Lending shell, as the place where the fruit strips took place, this platform was pulled out and whipped.
Wang Lu, CEO of Jiedianbei, walked into the office of Hu Gang, chairman of the company, with a solemn expression.
"Yo, come on!"
Hu Gang sneered twice and pointed to a large stack of newspapers on his desk, "Look at it! It's all your great achievements! Now, the Lending Bei platform has become popular all over the country and has become well-known throughout the country."
Wang Lu glanced at the newspapers on the table, which were full of shocking headlines.
"Female college students were involved in fruit loans and were expelled from school"
"Female college students are threatened by criminals. If you don't pay back the money, your naked photos will be published."
"Beware! There is a new type of illegal loan invading the campus"
…
Wang Lu sighed, "Mr. Hu, I have already checked it out. This matter really has nothing to do with us."
"Not big yet? If we can't solve this matter, we won't even have to drive the car anymore."
Hu Gang was also disgraced in the circle because of this incident. He is more or less a well-known rich man in China! If something like this happened, I really want to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
Wang Lu said: "This incident was caused by some vain and ignorant girls who used fruit strips as proof to make fruit loans.
They made private deals with some criminals, and then pretended to be normal customers to trade on Dianjiebao. They used a yin and yang contract to bypass Dianjiebao's supervision.
In fact, it was an illegal loan on a third-party platform. In the end, some girls failed to pay the money and their photos were leaked.
When we borrow money, we are taking the blame for them!
Mr. Hu, don’t worry, I have asked the platform to issue an announcement. In addition, the public relations department is also taking action.
We will definitely suppress this public opinion in the shortest possible time."
Hu Gang is now deeply aware of how muddy the waters of domestic Internet finance are. When Zhang Yida was unwilling to borrow money, did he know that there were many pitfalls?
"How many daily active users do we have now?" After Hu Gang finished getting angry, he began to worry about the bets that were about to expire on the platform.
"About 8 million." Wang Lu gritted his teeth and said the number. After saying this, he didn't dare to look at Hu Gang, whose face turned as dark as the bottom of a pot.
"The bet we signed is to reach 80 million daily active users, but now we only have 8 million daily active users. Do you think there is any hope of completing the bet?"
Wang Lu hesitated for a while, then shook his head.
Hu Gang's heart dropped. The Series A financing raised 2.5 billion. If the bet failed, in addition to repurchasing the 2.5 billion shares, investors would also be compensated 15% interest.
From last year to this year, Lending Bay invested billions of real money into it, which resulted in 8 million daily active users.
Oh, and there is also a nationally famous fruit bar!
Hu Gang's intestines are full of regrets now. Doesn't it mean that the Internet industry is just about burning money to gain scale?
I also burned my own money, but the scale has not increased.
“The 2.5 billion raised in Series A, how much is left now?”
"There are still 1.5 billion." Wang Lu replied.
"Don't burn this money yet. All promotional activities should be stopped for now."
Hu Gang is really panicking now. Including the 2 billion last year, a total of 3 billion has been spent on promotion.
It feels great to burn money, and the Qiandu search index once exceeded WeChat New Year red envelopes.
The post-money valuation of 52.5 billion even exceeds Goudong Financial’s 46.6 billion.
The glory has passed, and Hu Gang is now a little worried about riding a tiger.
"Ah?" Wang Lu was very surprised and reminded: "Mr. Hu, if we stop the promotion now, the previous 3 billion will be wasted."
"Stop it first!"
Hu Gang asked Wang Lu to go out first and dialed Zhang Yida's number.