Entertainment: I just want to be the boss behind the scenes

Chapter 77 Investing in Leshi.com?
Listening to Qin Lan's introduction, Meng Bai's hands gradually slowed down and he fell into deep thought.

The film, television and entertainment industry is considered to be a circle that is relatively close to capital. After all, film and television projects are just "black boxes" one by one. Various capital operations, asset turnover, and financial games can be played happily under this layer of "packaging."

As an asset-light company, Arclight Films' money is basically all liquid funds. From the perspective of capital appreciation, every second that this money sits in the bank account is a loss.

Meng Bai naturally also had ideas about investing. According to the concept of "Introduction to Investment Basics", he started from the field he was most familiar with and best at, so he invested in "Psychological Crime".

There is nothing wrong with investing in yourself!

Most of the funds were invested in the project, and the remaining money was about one million yuan in addition to maintaining the normal operation of the company.

This amount of money is not a lot, but not a little either. Meng Bai has never known what to do with it.

He also wanted to go to the stock market. After all, there have been many good news about the A-share market since the beginning of the year. Even the aunties queuing up at the gate of the community to get eggs are almost aware that the A-share market is experiencing a "bull market" that is rare in a decade.

Although Meng Bai was jealous, he never took action. As he said before, he liked to plan before taking action and hated to get involved in things that he couldn't control.

However, Qin Lan's news today gave him an opportunity.

Leshi.com has always been a "high-quality target" in the capital market. As a "pioneer in artificial concepts", "PPT god of war" and "excellent financial report painter", Boss Jia has maintained the rapid rise of Leshi's stock price in the past two years.

If the news of mergers and acquisitions and restructuring is true, then if you enter the market now, you can just "sit back and count the money."

only……

Qin Lan sensed Meng Bai's hesitation, sat up and asked, "Why? Don't you think investing in Leshi Pictures is a good choice?"

Meng Bai woke up from his deep thoughts and shook his head when he heard this: "No, I was thinking that this is indeed a good opportunity, but why haven't I heard about it during this period of time in Leshi?"

Qin Lan explained, "It's normal that you haven't heard of it. I just happened to hear her mention it once when I went to see Wei Wei last time. It seems that this 'merger and reorganization' is just an idea of Boss Jia."

This is normal. After all, for a listed company like Leshi.com, major matters such as "mergers and acquisitions and restructuring" cannot be made known to everyone from the beginning when they are not made public.

After briefly explaining the relationship to Qin Lan, he then said, "Even if there is no 'merger and reorganization' or something like that, this investment is not a loss. After all, Leshi Pictures itself is a high-quality asset..."

Having said this, Meng Bai paused and did not finish his words.

In fact, he had no objection to the share increase financing of Leshi Pictures. His concerns came more from Leshi.com itself.

Yes, although he had a cooperative relationship with Leshi.com, although Leshi was now developing at its peak, and although the PPT layout of that boss Jia was almost expanding to Hollywood, Meng Bai always felt that something was not quite right.

The most obvious problem is that Leshi.com has too many businesses, including the Internet, film and television, sports, finance, venture capital, physical manufacturing, red wine, and even recently it wants to start making mobile phones.

Most of Leshi's businesses require burning money. But unlike real Internet giants such as Penguin and Alibaba, Leshi does not have a real "blood-making machine".

So far, except for the few profitable businesses such as Leshi Pictures and Leshi Sports, the rest are all burning investors' and shareholders' money to move forward.

If everything goes well, then there will be no problem. But once a "black swan" or a "bear market" occurs, it is likely that the ship will run aground.

However, these are just some personal guesses in Meng Bai's mind. He is now just a small producer in a small company, and these words will only be regarded as "worrying about nothing".

In fact, he sometimes felt that his thoughts were a bit redundant. So many professional investors and venture capital institutions didn't think there was anything wrong with Leshi.com, so why was he, an outsider, still thinking about all kinds of things?

Besides, with the current size and market value of Leshi.com, even if it is pure money burning, it will be enough to burn for two or three years. If there is something wrong, that will be a matter for the future, but the opportunity to make money is right now.

Thinking of this, Meng Bai asked: "How much investment quota do you have here?"

"The investment model of our 'star shareholders' is like this. All investors who want to join in this round but do not have that much capital will set up an asset management company together, and then indirectly hold shares in Leshi.com through this company." Qin Lan explained: "According to each person's wishes, it is roughly divided into three levels of 1000 million, 500 million and 300 million. I am in the million level." "Excuse me, how many people are there in your 'group organization' now?" Meng Bai said.

Qin Lan thought for a moment and said, "About seven or eight. They are all friends who usually contact Weiwei more often."

She gave a brief introduction. As far as we know, the celebrities who co-invested include the president of "Harper's Bazaar" Su Mang, Chen Chichi, Li Chen, Ma Su, Ni Ni, etc., and basically all of them invested 5 million.

"No one wants to invest 10 million?" Meng Bai asked curiously.

"Yes, but only one." Qin Lan smiled and said, "You must have heard of her."

"Who?"

"Liu Tao."

"Ah——" Meng Bai suddenly realized, it's Teacher Bai.

"In that case, let's invest. Even without 'restructuring', LeTV Pictures won't lose money with its current development. At most, if the valuation rises appropriately in a year or half a year, we can transfer it out and cash it out." Meng Bai said.

Qin Lan thought about it and felt that what he said made sense. In fact, she had originally wanted to apply, and Meng Bai's words just strengthened her confidence.

"Well!"

Qin Lan raised her head and kissed Meng Bai, then smiled with narrowed eyes: "Although he is a 'little brother', he is still very reliable when he is serious."

"Little brother?" Meng Bai glanced at her with a half-smile, and pulled her in front of him: "It seems that you still don't understand the issue of 'size'."

"Ouch, it's itchy, stop it." Qin Lan twisted to avoid Meng Bai, and took advantage of the gap in the opponent's attack to say: "Wait a minute, stop now, sister has a reward."

"What reward?"

Qin Lan panted and said, "I can give you two million of the five million financing amount, how about that?"

Meng Bai paused after hearing this, then smiled bitterly and said, "Sister, you really think highly of me. I would like to invest, but I need that much money."

Qin Lan was surprised and said, "Weiwei told me that you got nearly 10 million yuan in profits from Soul Ferry."

Meng Bai naturally couldn't say that there was still one-third of Li Qin's money left, so he could only vaguely say, "It's just over 9 million. Add in the company's operations, taxes, and investment in new dramas, and there's not much left now."

"Tsk, I didn't realize it before, you spend money much faster than you make it."

"That was because they had no money before. You would have known it long ago if they had money."

"You're quite proud." Qin Lan rolled her eyes at him, then smiled bitterly and said, "To be honest, I don't have much money left, but I feel like it would be a waste if I don't use the money, so I thought of going with you."

Meng Bai had an expression that said, "You seem to think I'm easy to cheat." "You, have no money?"

Qin Lan punched Meng Bai with her fist and said, "How can I lie to you? I invested in a few movies before, but they all lost money at the box office, so I don't have much money now. The sum of my cards is only a few million, and I can only take out two or three million for investment."

Meng Bai took a deep breath and gave Qin Lan a thumbs up.

There are millions in the card, and then you say you "really have no money". It turns out that you celebrities have a peculiar concept of money.

(End of this chapter)