"That's not true. Yimin Wealth only deals with high-net-worth clients."
Zhang Yida smiled confidently, "These people don't care about these "melons" on the Internet, they only care about the rate of return on investment."
"Ha," Shen Beipeng said with a smile, "Maybe this is how rich people think! The poor watch the excitement online and are influenced by various public opinions; the rich are immobile and have their own judgment on things."
After the shareholders' meeting, the investors returned to the company and immediately issued the order to "block Huxiu.com" to all the Internet and technology companies they had invested in.
Xu Xiaoming directly posted a message to the WeChat group "Zhenke Investor Club" with hundreds of corporate CEOs:
“Recently, Huxiu.com has maliciously smeared and slandered companies invested by Zhenke Fund, Pate.com, Huinongdai... and Mr. Zhang Yida himself.
It has caused irreparable reputational damage and economic losses to real science enterprises and Mr. Zhang Yida.
The media should report news from a neutral and fair perspective. However, Huxiu.com acted as a swindler and its reports were seriously inaccurate...
Therefore, I call on all CEOs and invested companies in the group to boycott Huxiu.com and refuse any interviews and reports from them.
Let this bad media get out of the media circle and bring clarity to the self-media world."
When Xu Xiaoming's words were thrown into the group, they were like a depth bomb, blowing up many diving CEOs.
"Agree, boycott Huxiu.com!"
Chen Ou was a man of few words and was the first to speak out.
"Agree, let Huxiu.com get out of the media circle!"
"This unscrupulous media should have been shut down long ago!"
"Teacher Xu is domineering! Consider us the lucky one of the century!"
“Xiaohongshu supports it!”
"Lanting gathers support!"
“51 Talk supports!”
…
The crowd was excited, and hundreds of CEOs came out to express their opinions, saying that they would follow Teacher Xu’s call and resolutely boycott Huxiu.com.
No one who can start a business and become a CEO and receive investment from Zhenke Fund is a fool; they are all smart people with high IQ and EQ.
In the past few days, Zhang Yida and Huxiu.com have been at odds with each other, and Ahli has also been dragged into the water, causing a stir of public opinion on the Internet.
These CEOs all have good information and have already known about this matter.
Now Xu Xiaoming posted a message in the group to express his attitude and wanted to support Zhang Yida. Chen Ou and other successful entrepreneurs have also expressed their attitude. Of course they have to follow the trend.
In the investment circle, all venture capital institutions like to bring the CEOs of invested companies into a group, so that everyone can help each other, connect resources, and form a community of interests.
Under such circumstances, even if some people are not interested in Zhang Yida, or prefer Huxiu.com, they would not dare to stand up and sing the opposite, unless they want to renounce themselves from this group.
Zhang Yida, who has not appeared in the group for a long time, rarely came out to send a few words of thanks: Thank you all, thank you for your support!
As soon as Zhang Yida showed up, the group immediately became agitated.
Many CEOs have only received one to two million yuan or several million yuan in angel round investment from Zhenke Fund, and their companies are still very weak.
Normally I don’t have much chance to interact with Zhang Yida, a big boss, so now I have sent messages to say hello.
"Jingxunbo, Mr. Zhang is welcome to come to our company to guide our work when he is free."
"Come on, Mr. Zhang, I can't stand Ahri for a long time. We will support you to the end!"
"Huxiu.com does not want to get a report on our company and strongly supports Mr. Zhang!"
…
Many CEOs who had just joined the group and saw Zhang Yida bubbling in the group for the first time couldn't wait to express their loyalty.
If Zhenke Fund was a sect, Zhang Yida would be the well-deserved senior brother.
Well, the former senior brother was Chen Ou, but now he has been replaced by Zhang Yida.
They have only received angel investment from Zhenke Fund, and the CEO who joined the group not long ago is an outside disciple.
Now the outer disciples all want to show their face in front of the senior brother, and maybe they will need help from the senior brother in the future! For example, cooperation, investment, etc.
Zhang Yida expressed his thanks one by one, and rarely ended the chat in the group for more than ten minutes.
At the same time, venture capital institutions such as Blackshirt Capital and Qiming Venture Partners also issued instructions similar to the industry blocking orders issued by Zhenke Fund through WeChat groups or emails.
Huxiu.com became famous this time, and many CEOs who had never heard of their name before now knew about such a number one media outlet.
Huxiu.com has been operating for many years and has more or less good friends with several startup CEOs.
So, someone reported it to Huxiu.com.
"Mr. Li, this time you are on the hook. Dozens of venture capital institutions have asked the invested companies to ban you and stop cooperation with you.
The total number of these companies is probably thousands or even tens of thousands, and they are all start-up Internet and technology companies that have received financing.
This has almost become a general trend, you think about how to face it!"
When Li Min heard what his friend said, his heart tightened and he asked anxiously: "Isn't it possible? Is Zhang Yida so powerful? Do so many first-line venture capital investors listen to his words?"
The CEO who tipped off the news shook his head and smiled bitterly. What a stupid woman!
If you want to deal with Zhang Yida, you don't even have a clear understanding of the network and power behind him, so you just start "biting" people randomly?
Who gave you the courage? Be quiet?
Remembering that Li Min had done him a big favor a few years earlier and helped him discredit a competitor with media reports, he decided to give this "silly woman" a few words of advice.
"Do you know how much Blackshirt Capital invested in Zhang Yida? No less than US$1 billion!
This number has exceeded the total fund management scale of 95% of domestic venture capital institutions.
If you engage Zhang Yida, you are challenging most of the domestic first-tier venture capital institutions, led by Black Shirt Capital.
Zhang Yida owns 10 unicorns. Through continuous financing, he has turned these venture capital institutions into a community of interests.
Your family has just received Series B financing from a venture capital media. It’s not easy to deal with you.
Okay, that’s all I’ve said, you can take care of yourself!”
The beeping sound of the phone hanging up brought Li Min, who was in a daze, back to reality.
Li Min felt very bitter in her heart. She only dared to do this because of Pang Lei's instructions.
When she thought about it, with Ah Li and Leech Golden Clothes supporting her, what could Zhang Yida do to her?
As a result, Zhang Yida showed energy far beyond her imagination. In addition, the performances of Ah Li and Pang Lei also disappointed her.
The assistant walked into Li Min's office and whispered: "Mr. Li, many companies have sent emails asking to terminate cooperation with us."
"How many are there?"
The assistant was like an eggplant beaten by frost, and said listlessly: "Currently, more than 50 companies have requested to terminate cooperation, and the number is still rising.
More than a dozen companies that were in talks for cooperation also clearly rejected our cooperation, saying... and saying..."
Looking at the stuttering assistant, Li Min frowned and said, "What else can you say?"
"They also said that we are Ahri's dogs and are not worthy of being media people!"
Li Min's eyebrows were raised. He wanted to get angry but endured it. Finally, he said coldly: "Even if they want to be dogs, Ahri still doesn't like them!"
The assistant frowned and said nothing. Although what he said was true, not every cat or dog was eligible to receive investment from Ahri or Leech Financial Services.
But Mr. Li’s words are a bit too harsh, isn’t it? Is it still a very honorable thing for us to be dogs together?
Li Min saw the assistant frowning and rarely explained to her: "Although what I said sounds ugly, it is the reality.
How many people want to rely on Ali but can't? Think about it for yourself, how many more resources have we gained since we received investment from Leech Financial?
Companies that were previously unwilling to be interviewed by us have changed their attitudes and moved their offices from private residences to spacious and bright 5A Grade A office buildings..."
"Okay, go get busy!" Li Min waved her hand and asked the assistant to go out first.
The assistant nodded slightly to Li Min and left the office.
Looking at the dejected editorial team in the office area, whispering among each other, the assistant sighed in his heart, his heart was almost broken, and he didn't know if the company could survive this crisis.
…
"Yida, I heard that you were hacked by Huxiu.com?" Ren Yu asked with a smile on the phone.
"Yes, we Penguin people were bullied by Ahri. Do you Penguins have to seek justice?"
Ren Yu laughed and said, "That's why I called you. Justice has been served. The WeChat official account of Huxiu.com has been blocked for violating the official account management regulations."
"Well done, this kind of scourge should have been blocked long ago, otherwise why not just keep it for the New Year?"
Ren Yu added: "Don't worry, Penguin will support you to the end this time. Ahri has gone too far, even a small chess piece of Huxiu.com dares to be so arrogant.
Penguin has been too low-key in recent years and has been regarded as a soft persimmon."
Zhang Yida did not expect that Penguin would support him so much. He probably suffered a loss of face. Moreover, Penguin also has shares in several of his companies, so he certainly cannot sit back and watch his own interests be harmed.
After hanging up Ren Yu's call, Zhang Yida chatted with Liu Chengcheng, the chairman of 36 Krypton.
"Ren Yu's phone number, Penguin has blocked Huxiu's official account. Old Liu, you have lost another heavyweight opponent."
Liu Chengcheng smiled bitterly, "Brother, now is not the time to talk about this. Ahri has sent us a lawyer's letter! How should we respond?"
Zhang Yida looked at Liu Chengcheng, who was only a few years older than him, and felt very emotional.
In his previous life, he was one of the 36 students in the first batch of Hupan University, a classmate of the currency guru Sun Yuchen, and a disciple of Jack Ma. In this life, he actually came to the point of going to court with Ahri.
Of course, all this starts with Ruixiang’s lead investment of US$368 million in early 2015.
36Kr was founded in 2010. Its founder Liu Chengcheng was still a senior at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications at the time.
Liu Chengcheng was originally a self-media person. After receiving an angel round investment of 1 million yuan from Wang Xiao, one of the Seven Thousand Musketeers and his fellow schoolmate, Liu Chengcheng slowly began to expand his diversified business.
Today, 36Kr has been upgraded to a group company and has three major subsidiaries: 36Kr Media, a new business media, Kr Space, a co-working office space, and WhaleZhun, a primary market financial data provider.
And at the end of last year, it completed a D round of financing worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Ruixiang also participated in the investment, increasing its shareholding ratio from 8% to 10%, making it one of the top shareholders of 36 Krypton.
History turned a corner at the beginning of 2015. After receiving Series C investment from Ruixiang, 36Kr became a member of the Ruixiang Group.
In view of the bad relationship between Ruixiang and Leech Financial, Liu Chengcheng did not go to Hupan University, so he did not become Jack Ma's disciple, and 36 Krypton did not make Leech Financial the company's largest shareholder like in his previous life.
"What are you afraid of? Let's cross him!"
Zhang Yida teased Liu Chengcheng. The two were not much different in age, so they joked more casually.
"Hey, I knew it would be bad if the article "Chinese Internet Entrepreneurs in the Shadow of Giants" was published!"
Zhang Yida smiled and said: "You knew you were going to suffer, but you still sent it out?"
"Brother, I was fighting for you!" Liu Chengcheng said angrily.
“I don’t know if Ahri will use what you did against Huxiu on 36 Krypton.
Mr. Da, Brother Da, you must support us to the end this time!"