I can become stronger by paying salaries. I have one billion employees!

Chapter 513 300 Billion US Dollars! Old Ma's Choice! Since we're going to fight, let's go all the way!

The following morning, at the headquarters building of Pinbei in Zhuxianzhuang Science and Technology Park.

Xiong Li, the general manager of the human resources department, and Zhang Junjie, the deputy general manager, booked all the meeting rooms and conference halls on the first and second floors, taking turns to explain the stock option exercise process, lock-up period regulations, and foreign exchange registration to employees from various departments.

Simply put, companies are prohibited from selling shares for six months after listing. After six months, they can legally reduce their holdings according to the rules of the New York Stock Exchange.

For the earliest employees who joined Pinbei, by then 50% of their shares had been unfrozen.

If you had 10,000 shares, half of that would be $200,000 based on the issue price.

Everyone had a bright smile on their face.

An undisguised excitement permeated the entire company!

Wang Zihao lay sprawled on the sofa, a straw between his teeth, and slurped down a mouthful of iced cola.

"Cool!"

It feels so good to be home!
Wang Zihao squinted, wishing he could take off his shoes and lie down on the sofa.

Chen Yansen sat casually in his boss's chair, reminding him with a look of disdain, "No taking off your shoes! Otherwise, I'll deduct three months' bonus."

"Brother Sen, my feet don't smell. Don't believe me? Smell them."

Wang Zihao grinned and took off his right shoe.

A faint fragrance wafted through the air!

Chen Yansen chuckled and then teased, "You spray perfume on your feet? That's pretty fancy."

"Hehe, my girlfriend washed my socks."

Wang Zihao raised an eyebrow and said smugly.

"Which girlfriend?" Chen Yansen asked in return.

"Brother Sen, can we talk about something?"

Upon hearing this, Wang Zihao's face fell. He quickly put on his shoes, plopped down on President Chen's desk, and pleaded with a grin.

"Tell me what you think," Chen Yansen leaned back, picked up his cola, and took a sip.

"When you see my girlfriend in the future, never tell her that I've been to Galaxy Star or that I've had seven girlfriends."

Wang Zihao said in a low voice.

"Are you serious this time?" Chen Yansen asked with a smile.

When Wang Zihao was in Xucheng, he always drove his BMW 750 around the school and the city.

He wasn't actively looking for a relationship, but he couldn't resist the fact that pretty girls kept throwing themselves at him.

"A young woman from Xijiang, a graduate of Nanjing University, is working as an operations management trainee at OFO. She's a bit silly, but she's really beautiful."

As Wang Zihao spoke, he excitedly took out his phone and started scrolling through the photo album.

A photo quickly popped up on the screen: the background was a street corner piled with shared bicycles, and a girl in an orange work uniform stood in front of the camera, her face rosy and her skin fair.

Sunlight fell on her slightly drooping eyelashes, and there was still some dust on the corner of her mouth, but her smile was brighter than the spring flowers around her.

Wang Zihao wasn't exaggerating; this girl's looks are at least an 88 out of 100.

"Bring it to me later to take a look," Chen Yansen glanced at it and then instructed.

Although Wang Zihao had become adept at entering and leaving shopping malls under his tutelage and had had several short-lived romances, his fundamental nature remained unchanged.

As a good friend, he naturally had to help check and inspect the goods.

As for Wang Zihao's claim that the other party was "stupid," Chen Yansen didn't believe it at all.

Being able to get into Nanjing University shows that she's not unintelligent; being able to connect with Wang Zihao shows that she has high emotional intelligence.

Whether she's a genuinely naive and innocent girl, or a cunning and manipulative woman pretending to be weak, President Chen will know the answer with one test.

Wang Zihao sat in his office for a while, then got up to say goodbye, patted his behind, and went to the Pinbei company across the street to meet Zhang Yifeng, Xiang Pengfei, and the others for dinner that evening.

at the same time.

Xunlei's WanKeCoin has seen another surge, soaring from 0.43 yuan to 1.94 yuan in just twenty days, an increase of nearly two hundred times.

Some people held on from the low price of 0.01 yuan all the way up to 1.94 yuan, while others chose to sell at the 0.43 yuan mark.

After all, at that time, that was already more than forty times the profit.

The entire market is in a state of frenzy!
Some people even took out online loans to buy WanKeCoins.

Even the price of the WanKe Cloud rose from its initial price of 399 yuan to nearly 5000 yuan.

Riding this wave of opportunity, Xunlei submitted its IPO application, planning to use its paid download business as the foundation and add innovative concepts related to blockchain technology to enter the capital market.

the other side.

Chen Yansen, Wang Zihao, and others ate at the Sky Garden until 11 p.m.

When he returned to Delta Park, he found Song Yuncheng lying on the sofa with the TV on, but she was fast asleep.

The phone was left aside.

Chen Yansen stepped forward, picked up the phone, and skillfully entered the unlock password.

The interface that appeared was a dialog box with myself.

The input box only contained the word "you". Clearly, Xiao Chengzi wanted to ask him when he was coming home, but she was afraid of bothering him, so she kept deleting and modifying the input box, and in the end, she didn't send the message.

Song Yuncheng saved his contact as 'Master'.

Chen Yansen felt a warmth in his heart, pulled her from the sofa into his arms, and then walked upstairs.

Although he moved very gently, Song Yuncheng had always been insecure and a light sleeper. Before he even reached the second floor, Song Yuncheng slowly opened his eyes, looking completely dazed.

"Master, you're back?" Song Yuncheng asked instinctively.

"If you say such nonsense again, don't call me master. I don't have a disciple as stupid as you."

Chen Yansen rolled his eyes at her and said irritably.

"Oh, put me down, I'll go make you some hangover tea." Song Yuncheng pressed her face against Chen Yansen's chest and said softly.

"Stop messing around, take a shower and go to bed," Chen Yansen said.

“But I’ve already showered.” Song Yuncheng pouted, gesturing for him to look at her pajamas.

"The outside has been washed, but the inside hasn't been washed yet." Chen Yansen's lips curled up slightly, and a mischievous smile appeared in his eyes.

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The next day, Gao Weilin returned to Xucheng from Luzhou and immediately launched Kuaipao's Series C financing plan.

Although Pei Yi won the battles against Baidu and Ctrip, he didn't have much money left in his account.

In order to cope with the potential business competition that may follow, financing is imperative.

Today, KuaiRun has integrated food delivery, group buying, and grocery shopping businesses, with over 100,000 employees, a daily order volume of up to 24 million, and a daily turnover of over 600 million yuan.

Its business covers more than a dozen sub-categories, including food, leisure and entertainment, and travel, making it a behemoth in the local lifestyle sector.

Making good use of financing methods can not only increase company profits, but also expand relationship networks.

For typical startups seeking funding, the first step is to conduct an internal review to determine the amount, purpose, and expected valuation of the funding. They also need to prepare a core business plan, financial model, and business data package, and then review the equity structure.

Investment institutions will also conduct comprehensive due diligence on startups, including their business, finances, business qualifications, and labor compliance.

However, these procedures and rules do not apply to Kuai Pao at all.

As soon as the news of Senlian Capital opening its Series C financing broke, institutions such as Huazhong University of Science and Technology, GSR Ventures, Hillhouse Capital, and Tencent responded one after another, expressing their willingness to invest.

Liu Yiqing, Managing Director of Goldman Sachs Asia, also expressed a strong interest in investing in Gao Weilin.

Although Goldman Sachs missed out on the Series A and Series B funding rounds, given Kuaipao's market dominance and mature profit model, its future market capitalization will certainly not be less than $1000 billion.

Investing now may not yield high returns, but the absolute returns are quite considerable.

Ma Liyun was the most embarrassed. He knew that once Taodian and Dianping's market share touched Kuaipao's bottom line, there would be an unavoidable hard battle between Ali and Senlian Capital.

Currently, Senlian Capital is riding high, and Kuaipao's monopoly in the local life services sector is unbreakable.

If they really go head-to-head, it will most likely affect the group's cash flow, resulting in poor financial statements and thus hindering the subsequent listing plans.

Bad timing!

He was faced with only two choices:

First, abandon Ali's O2O strategy and continue to invest in Kuaidi Dache and Kuaidi Dache;

Second, they withdrew from participating in Kuaipao's Series C funding round.

Ma Liyun originally thought he had made his decision long ago, but when he learned that Goldman Sachs had valued Kuaipao at 300 billion US dollars, he hesitated.

Ali holds a 9.4% stake in Kuaipao, equivalent to 30 billion US dollars.

When Chen Yansen initially brought Ali and Tencent into the picture, he specifically signed a supplementary agreement: before Kuaipao went public, he was prohibited from transferring his Kuaipao shares.

This move can both increase the sunk costs for Ma Liyun and Ma Huateng and completely eliminate their thoughts of jumping ship halfway.

Ma Liyun thought it over and over but couldn't make up her mind.

Partnering with KuaiPu can alleviate Ali's traffic shortage in the short term; while fully developing TaoDianDian and Dianping paves the way for the group's long-term development.

In Ma Liyun's view, Ali can't rely on KuaiPao's high-frequency consumption scenarios to drive traffic to Tmall and Taobao forever. After all, no matter how good other people's products are, they are never as convenient as your own.

Ultimately, he was unwilling to accept it.

Why should I, who have worked so hard for more than a decade, be held back by a mere kid?

“I’ve eaten more salt than he’s eaten rice,” Ma Liyun murmured, his Adam’s apple bobbing.

In the end, he called Ji Gang over and bluntly told him to give up on Kuaipao's Series C funding.

After waiting for two days without receiving a call from Ma Liyun, Chen Yansen knew that Ma was determined to compete with Senlian Capital in the O2O field.

By using this juncture to open the Series C funding window for Kuaipao, he was simply trying to test Lao Ma.

Ma Liyun's choice perfectly illustrates a principle: in business, there are no permanent friends, only permanent interests.

Chen Yansen turned his gaze to the list of potential C-round financing candidates that had already been prepared, picked up a pen, crossed out Ali's name, and then informed Gao Weilin: "The C-round financing will be held three days in advance, on November 28th. Ali's side no longer needs to reserve any shares."

“Yes, boss, I understand,” Gao Weilin replied immediately.

"Since we're going to fight like this, then I'll fight to the bitter end." Chen Yansen pushed the list to the corner of the table, a cold glint in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)