Force me to be reborn, right?

Chapter 485: Ten billion? That’s too small!

In the office of Tiancheng Capital, Wen Hua felt that he was being openly ridiculed by senior industry leaders.

Is Wang Zeng being humorous?
He can certainly be considered humorous.

In addition, it also indirectly highlights Cheng Zhu's style.

But for capital, there must be a real purpose behind it.

For example, hype!

"If you're late for one minute, you'll get an extra 100 million!"

What shocking words, what a great gimmick!

It would be strange if a title like this didn't attract attention.

The full force of the atmosphere is overwhelming.

How confident do you have to be to say something like this?
From a normal financing perspective, a company like Youcha that raised 50 million yuan, led by the country's top venture capital firm, Red Mountain Capital, and with a valuation of an astonishing billion yuan, is already considered explosive news.

However, everyone knows that grapefruit tea is very popular and profitable. Although this number is slightly higher than expected, it is not enough to make everyone drop their jaws.

What's more, for ordinary people, what they like to see more are interesting things.

Bringing out Wen Hua’s previous arrogance and “whipping his corpse” has instantly become a hot topic!

The intensity and scope of marketing will increase exponentially!

Everyone knows that this is the kind of stuff that everyone likes to watch!
When the capital circle and peers saw Youcha’s financing, they were shocked, awesome!
Ordinary people: Okay, okay, I know you are awesome, but what does it have to do with me?

But if you say, "If you're one minute late, you'll get an extra 100 million," then I'll have to sit in the front row and watch!

"Can anyone tell me what this melon is?"

"Why haven't I heard of this rumor that Wang Zeng mentioned before?"

"There's such a thing? Where's the class representative? Where is the class representative? Hurry up and stand up and answer the questions!"

"Let's not talk too much, let's go for the big one! The big one will stand up and answer!"

This incident was initially mainly circulated in the venture capital circle and was widely known among various venture capital institutions.

But with the strong investment from Prin Capital, this topic came to an end.

Everyone's thoughts changed from "Is this kid so arrogant?" to "Yue Dongyi actually thinks highly of him!".

But now, after all this trouble, the incident can no longer be concealed.

Although Wang once said "this news is not authentic" during the interview, I was late on purpose, as Mr. Cheng refused to let me invest another 200 million yuan.

But netizens are so good at digging!
When we traced the source, we found quite a few so-called "reliable news".

"According to reliable sources, this story was spread by Tiancheng Capital itself. It was told to its peers as a joke at the time, and they also told everyone to avoid the Youme Tea project. This founder is really crazy."

Overall, the timing of the hype is actually very clever!
The second round of financing was so successful that it was indeed a slap in the face of Tiancheng Capital.

But this is not the most superficial.

The reason why this incident was not hyped on a large scale during the first round of financing was because Cheng Zhu had not yet revealed his identity as a QQ tycoon!
The king of marketing knows very well that now that he has this additional identity, he naturally has more capital to go crazy!
After all, at that stage, netizens only knew Cheng Zhu as the founder of an internet-famous milk tea brand.

His career is still in its infancy.

So, if such a person says "If you are late for one minute, you will get an extra 100 million", he will be ridiculed by everyone.

It's so funny. It's obvious that your brand is short of money and needs financing to continue to develop, but you are still so arrogant?

Even if the project is a good one, you still have to put on a good attitude. Who do you think you are?
You know, before Yue Dongyi invested money in Youcha, no one had ever thought that a milk tea brand could have a financing of over 100 million yuan. That was unprecedented!
But if the person sitting here is a QQ tycoon, the number one in the domestic QQ field, then you are just a vice president of Tiancheng Capital, not even a managing director, but just a senior worker, your identities and status are not equal.

The person with equal status and position to Cheng Zhu should be the partner of Tiancheng Capital, and the managing director is not even on the same level.

Wen Hua just watched a bunch of netizens discussing it.

"Speaking of which, Cheng Zhu is not short of money, so why does he need to raise funds?"

"Brother, sometimes financing is more than just about money. You see, many big guys are raising funds for new projects. They also have money of their own!"

"Youcha cooperates with high-end shopping malls. In fact, before financing, if I were the shopping mall, I would seriously consider entering the high-end shopping malls for milk tea, even if your QQ industry is very successful. But if there is venture capital investment, then, will the view of this project be different? This means that professionals are optimistic, so it will be easier to negotiate with the shopping mall."

Some of the statements here actually make sense.

There is no precedent for milk tea to enter high-end shopping malls, and the malls will think it is lowering the grade. Even if you are very successful in Starlight City, it is just an exception.

Your status as a QQ tycoon doesn't add any points to your milk tea business.

But if there is a venture capital institution to endorse it, things will change all of a sudden.

Investing 100 million yuan in yourself across the industry and receiving 100 million yuan from a well-known venture capital institution are completely different in nature.

With the support of this kind of popularity across the entire network, Youcha and Cheng Zhu once again became the hot searches on Weibo!

The weather at the end of May was clearly getting hotter, but when Wen Hua held the phone, he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave and his whole body was cold!

The returned overseas student suddenly thought of an idiom.

"Killing kills the heart, killing kills the heart!"

As the saying goes: Business is like a battlefield.

Although the knife does not draw blood, it is still cruel!

This series of hype on Youcha's part can be said to nail Wen Hua to the pillar of shame in the investment community.

The more popular Youcha becomes, the more embarrassed she will be. If Cheng Zhu is honest, he actually never considered Tiancheng Capital from the beginning.

The vice president of Tiancheng Capital was deliberately late and pretentious, but he would not take it too seriously.

But the premise is that the rumor of "one minute late will result in an additional 100 million" has not spread.

He didn't think that Wen Hua had any good intentions in deliberately making this matter known to everyone in the investment circle of Hangzhou.

So, I'm sorry.

Now you can only cooperate with us in hype.

It can only be a part of our grand marketing play.

Cheng Zhu, who is well aware of marketing tactics, knows very well that now he is just throwing out a gimmick for everyone to watch.

But this wave of popularity couldn’t last long.

Although something that is full of gimmicks can quickly become popular, you also have to continue to dig deeper.

So, he decided to give curious netizens an answer.

In fact, judging from the current form of online public opinion, everyone seems to believe that "being late for one minute will result in an additional 1 million yuan."

However, Cheng Zhu's idea was very simple: "Whether you believe it or not, I will come forward to answer it."

Once the real person gives the answer, won’t the traffic and popularity come back immediately?
Those who don't believe will come and take a look, and those who believe will also come to see if their guess is correct.

Therefore, Cheng Zhu accepted the interview with the reporter again.

At the request of the school leaders of the University of Science and Technology, Cheng Zhu decided to set the interview location at the gate of the University of Science and Technology.

Yes, he was standing in front of the four big words "Polytechnic University" and was photographed, giving the school a strong presence.

School leader: I feel comfortable.

"Student Cheng is very sensible."

"When I think about how he will only be a sophomore after the summer vacation, and I can still use him as a golden sign for three years, I will wake up laughing in my dreams at night."

"Isn't this guaranteed to be a postgraduate study?"

At this moment, at the gate of the University of Science and Technology, there were not only a large number of onlookers, but also many school leaders who came over specially.

As mentioned before, Cheng Zhu's slightly ruffian looks and unique temperament actually make him unpopular among faculty and staff.

Didn’t even our counselor think at the beginning that this person might be a troublemaker in the class?

As a result, wasn't she often contradicted by Cheng Zhu?

However, now when the school leaders saw him standing in front of the words "University of Science and Technology" and talking freely, they felt that he liked them more and more, and that the more they looked at him, the more they thought that this kid was rare.

“Many business geniuses are a bit wild.”

"It's really not good to be too conventional."

The three daughters of Cheng Zhu’s room 309 were also among the onlookers.

Dong Dong just felt that Brother Zhu was so handsome at this moment!

He wished he could imprint Cheng Zhu's calm yet intimidating look during the interview into his mind, then find an opportunity to imitate him secretly in front of the mirror, to lay a good foundation for himself when facing reporters in the future.

He felt that he would be just as handsome by then!
At this time, Chen Jieyu was actually standing aside as a counselor, accompanying Dean Zhang and others.

She looked at Cheng Zhu from afar, as if she was really just his counselor.

But deep down, she felt proud of it.

She could feel the vigor and vitality in him.

She would cheer loudly in her heart for all his achievements today.

During this interview, Cheng Zhu also reviewed the script with the interviewer.

Finally, the question came to the hot topic of the day.

"Mr. Cheng, there is a rumor on the Internet recently that you once said something like 'If you are one minute late, you will get an extra 1 million' before the first round of financing. Is this true?"

Upon hearing this, Cheng Zhu immediately smiled and waved his hands, saying, "I don't know why this matter has spread like this. There may be some connection here that I don't understand."

Let’s start with a trick called “there’s something else behind the words”.

Then, he began to speak in a very frank tone: "Before, a person from a venture capital institution was indeed one minute late for the appointment. However, the fundamental problem was that I was not satisfied with the amount they quoted. I expected to add another 100 million yuan to it."

The interviewer immediately asked: "Before this, no milk tea brand had ever received more than 1 million yuan in financing. Why did you have such a psychological expectation at the beginning?"

Cheng Zhu smiled and said, "Because the new business model we are following requires so much initial capital as support. We insist on using high-quality fresh fruits, which will burn a lot of money when building supply chains and cold chain logistics. In addition, we are a direct-operated model and do not charge franchise fees."

"My idea at the beginning was very simple. I knew that this was a brand-new model with both opportunities and risks. Either I would lose everything, or I would achieve a valuation of 10 billion within two years." He started making up stories again.

After all, I can't say that I'm a reborn person. I know that although this thing requires a crazy amount of money in the early stages, it will make a lot of money soon, right?

The interviewer was very understanding and immediately asked, "What do you think now, Mr. Cheng? Youcha's current valuation has reached 50 billion. Are you confident that it will reach a valuation of billion within two years?"

Upon hearing this, Cheng Zhu smiled slightly and began to exude a compelling aura.

“To reach a valuation of 10 billion, I just need to let nature take its course. But if I want to go even higher in two years, I still have to keep working hard.” He gave the camera a simple smile.

(ps: First update, asking for double monthly tickets at the beginning of the month, and there will be updates today.)
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