rebirth from small pockets

Chapter 495: Xiao Ma’s “little family spirit”

"Brother, stop making trouble, are you kidding me?"

"Your company just sold for 8 million, and you guys also split over 6 million, even if it's not the 5 million I mentioned. You can't just invest 500,000, right?"

Chen Li glared at Ma Xiaoteng. At this moment, he even suspected that Ma Xiaoteng was playing with him.

In his impression, Ma Xiaoteng is not a stingy person.

Especially as a reborn person, Chen Li's most intuitive impression of Brother Xiao Ma is probably that he is rich.

Although Brother Xiao Ma has sold Tengxun now, in his previous life, he was definitely one of the richest people in the country.

And unlike those digital wealth that only exist in the capital market, Tengxun, which he helms, is one of the most profitable companies in the country.

In the previous life, Fuji Xun, although its main business was still in the gaming industry, in fact, Fuji Xun was also investing in multiple industries at that time.

For example, in e-commerce, Tengxun built its own e-commerce platform at that time, but it was eventually split.

However, although I couldn't do it myself, I still had to have what I needed, so Tengxun directly invested in Liu Dong's Jingbei Mall and became the largest shareholder of Jingbei Mall.

It also includes multiple industries. Although Tencent did not participate directly, it also joined through holding shares or participating in investments.

It can be seen that Tengxun at that time can be said to be rich and wealthy!

When Chen Li was reading news on the Internet in his previous life, he would often see how much money Tengxun invested in what industry, how much money it spent to acquire which companies, etc.

So when Brother Ma stretched out a palm to him, Chen Li did not imagine it was fifty million, but actually restrained his subconscious reaction.

Of course, if it were 50 million, Brother Ma probably wouldn’t be able to afford it now.

Just before, Tengxun sold for eight million, and five million divided among several people was a very appropriate number, so Chen Li took it for granted that it was five million.

But~ Chen Li never expected that the palm that Brother Xiao Ma stretched out turned out to be half a million.

This is somewhat nonsense.

When Chen Li heard this number, he was very lucky that he was not drinking water at that time, otherwise he would have sprayed the guy opposite him all over.

You know, before the Five Tigers worked together with Tengxun, they all pooled 500,000 yuan to start a business. But now a few people are planning to start e-commerce, but the total investment is still 500,000 yuan.

"Ahem~ So what? It's like this."

Ma Xiaoteng coughed lightly, took a sip of tea and spoke again:

"Fifty thousand yuan is the initial capital. We plan to move the company to Yanjing, so we plan to use this money to prepare the company in advance."

"What about the follow-up~ If there is demand, we can still increase the investment amount."

"Besides, I know what you mean."

"Don't forget that Tengxun sold for eight million, but you have to know that for these eight million, we are all in debt."

"I'm better off. After all, I have the most shares and the most money."

"But after the few of them paid back the money they borrowed before, they actually didn't have much left."

"You have to give your family an account of the remaining money, right?"

"so."

Okay~ Actually, by this point, Chen Li had already understood.

Indeed, as Brother Xiaoma said, the price Tengxun was sold for was only 8 million, not 80 million.

Previously, when the five tigers founded Tengxun, the five people initially raised 500,000 yuan. At the beginning of this year, everyone raised another 1 million. Add in the extra money they made during this period and the money to repair holes. The total is estimated to be 100,000 yuan.

Six to seven hundred thousand.

This 16.7 million is considered the cost of Tengxun Company.

But the money didn't fall from the sky, it was raised by everyone.

It is said that the portion of the initial half million that belonged to Brother Ma was earned from his previous stock trading, and the portion invested by Lao Zhang was also earned from working at a well-known Internet company.

The other three people were basically the same. They earned some themselves, and they may have taken some from their families.

If the cost of Tengxun is only 500,000 yuan, then of course there is nothing to say.

But ~ the next one million was really raised by selling things.

Anyway, as far as Chen Li knew, the part of the money that Brother Xiao Ma paid was a loan from a bank.

This means that Brother Xiao Ma’s family has some connections. Otherwise, it would be extremely difficult for ordinary people to borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars in 1999.

If Xiao Ma is like this, the others probably won't be much better either.

Although the family background of this group of people should not be too bad, this was 1999 after all, and even a "little money" such as hundreds of thousands was not something that ordinary people could easily get away with.

In addition, in order to maintain the operation of Tengxun Company, these guys had already opened their mouths with their relatives and friends at home.

So to be honest, if all this million is spent, and Tengxun and OICQ still haven't made some improvements, although these guys may not end up too miserable, their lives will definitely not be easy either.

However, fortunately, a few people were still lucky. Even though they had just encountered a big crisis, they still managed to escape in a thrilling manner.

And the sale price of 8 million allows all the five members of Tengxun to have an explanation for their families.

Once you get these eight million, you will naturally pay back what you deserve and make up for what you need.

As for the remaining benefits, buy a car or a house. Then there is basically nothing left.

Of course, what we are talking about here are mainly the other three shareholders.

Ma Xiaoteng has the most shares and naturally gets the most money, so for him, the money left in his hand is not small.

As for Lao Zhang, there is no need to say anything about him, after all, he is not planning to participate in this new plan.

But the three of them, Lao Zeng, Lao Chen, and Lao Xu, spent a lot more money after paying off their previous debts.

This is actually understandable. After all, what’s the point of making money if you don’t consume it?

But as a result, they don't have much money to use to fund new projects.

Of course~ if a few people put it together, it must be more than 500,000.

Even Brother Ma himself can easily come up with half a million in cash now.

But since a few friends are doing business together, we can't think about it purely from a business perspective.

Why did Xiao Ma himself only take 47.5% of the shares in Tengxun before? Was it because he couldn’t afford more money? Of course not.

With Xiao Ma's family background, he should be able to come up with half a million even by himself.

But in that case, there may not necessarily be classmates or friends to do it with him.

After all, the gap between a partner and a wage earner is quite large.

Therefore, before Tengxun~Xiao Ma Ge only owned 47.5% of the shares, and there is no e-commerce platform established yet. It is estimated that Xiao Ma Ge’s shares will not be much.

Yes~ Chen Li estimates that Xiao Ma will own 51% of the shares, and the rest will naturally be reserved for other partners.

But then, new problems emerged.

It is impossible for others to come up with enough funds as easily as Brother Ma, so the total investment will naturally become smaller.

The initial total investment was only 500,000, but if the shares were diluted later due to financing or capital increase, that would be another matter.

To put it bluntly, these five hundred thousand are just to build a platform. As for the ownership of the platform behind, that is another matter.

but

"Brother Ma, please forgive me!"

"It seemed that it took you a while to set up Tengxun with half a million yuan."

"But... if you really want to get involved in e-commerce."

"I think"

Chen Li was hesitant to speak. He always felt that it was a bit awkward to say that the richest man in his previous life was too small.

But if he didn't say it, he would feel awkward.

Because if you want to build an e-commerce platform for 500,000 yuan, this is no longer a joke. This is simply a daydream.

Not to mention those super e-commerce platforms in the past that often cost tens of millions or even hundreds of millions or billions. Even in 1999, those domestic e-commerce websites could not only spend 500,000 yuan.

Being pried.

Even though the founding capital of Ahri in the previous life was only half a million, in fact, not long after Ahri was founded, Ma Xiaoyun used Cai Xinxin to attract an investment of US$5 million from Goldman Sachs.

But even the five million US dollars didn't last long.

Fortunately, the next year, it was Cai Jinxin who introduced Ma Xiaoyun to the person from SoftBank. It is said that Ma Xiaoyun chatted with the person for a few minutes and then got 20 million US dollars from the other person.

With the foundation of these 25 million US dollars, Ma Xiaoyun's Ali can break through the domestic e-commerce industry and finally gain the qualification to compete with eBay, which owns eBay BJ of the United States.

Okay~ Let’s not mention the confrontation between Ahri and eBay at that time. Let’s just talk about how much money Ahri spent before reaching this point.

Don't even talk about the exchange rate conversion of currency units, even if it is only 25 million Chinese coins. Compared with Brother Xiao Ma's 500,000, Chen Li simply doesn't know what to say.

"Of course~ I definitely know that five hundred thousand is definitely not enough for e-commerce."

"Actually, we have already learned this experience from our previous venture."

"Brother Aotian~ I won't hide it from you, do you know why I chose the e-commerce industry this time?"

"Besides the fact that I have learned about this information from Mr. Ma before, there is another biggest reason."

“That’s why e-commerce is very favored by venture investors!”

"As for Mr. Wang's 8848, do you know how much money they have raised so far?"

"I don't actually know the exact number, but my friend told me."

"This 8848 was approached by dozens of investment institutions shortly after its establishment."

"They come to the door, not they go to investment institutions."

"Look at them~Think about the time I went to those investment institutions before."

"Brother Aotian~ This is why we want to enter e-commerce!"

"So...we've figured it out!"

"Actually, it doesn't matter how much money we invest. When the time comes, we will just put up a shelf and wait for those investors to come to us."

"To tell you the truth~ I told people about this idea before, and an investor actually said that he was very interested in this project and asked me to make an appointment with him after I confirmed it!"

"What the hell~ I wanted to find that guy to get some investment for OICQ, but he just avoided seeing me at that time."

"so!"

Ma Xiaoteng became more and more excited as he spoke, not only because he said bad words, but also because this guy called Chen Li by his online name one after another.

This made Chen Li somewhat helpless, because his girlfriend was still beside him.

Chen Li usually doesn't think it's a big deal when someone calls him that online, but in real life, every time Ma Xiaoteng calls Chen Li by his online name, he feels a little inexplicable shame.

To be honest~ At this moment, Chen Li suddenly regretted giving himself the online name "Long Aotian".

When thinking about Long Aotian's popularity on the Internet in the future, Chen Li always felt that he would inevitably be ridiculed by people for this bad online name.

Of course, these small feelings of shame only account for a small part of Chen Li's current emotions.

He focused more on what Brother Ma was talking about.

It can be seen that this guy's plan to enter e-commerce is indeed not an idea that suddenly popped up on his forehead as he thought before.

Especially when this guy said that 8848 had received investment from multiple investment institutions, Chen Li didn't even know about this.

Of course ~ Chen Li knew that 8848, a platform that is considered the originator of domestic e-commerce, was eventually ruined by many capitals, so it seems to be a normal thing that 8848 has been favored by many capital investment institutions.

However, Chen Li didn’t know that in just one year, 8848 had received equity participation from 57 venture capital companies, raising more than US$60 million, which also made 8848’s valuation once exceed US$500 million.

And it was precisely because of the crazy input from so many institutions that paved the way for the collapse of 8848.

More and more investors came in, and 8848's equity was diluted more and more. Mr. Wang's shares were eventually diluted from the original 20% equity to almost nothing.

8848 If this is the case, then what will happen to Xiao Ma, who is now using the investment institution as a hen to lay eggs?

There is no need to think about this at all. Anyway, Chen Li doesn't think that Brother Xiao Ma can defeat those capital investment institutions.

Of course, if you just want to get a higher amount of money, Xiao Ma and others can do this. In fact, it is not impossible.

Because even if they are refinanced or diluted, the shares in their hands will definitely become more and more valuable.

The worst thing is to get out in time when the time comes. In this way, it can be regarded as grabbing the wool of investment institutions.

But those three melons and two dates may be considered a fortune to Xiao Ma and others who just sold Tengxun in 1999.

But for Chen Li, who now has quite a fortune, it really seems a bit useless.

Chen Xixi wants to invest in Xiao Ma’s e-commerce company because he values ​​the other person’s achievements in his previous life and the prospects of e-commerce.

If it was just to make a few bucks, why would Chen Li have to go through so much trouble?

Thinking of this, Chen Li looked at Brother Xiao Ma and shook his head. Then after thinking for a long time, Chen Li looked at Brother Xiao Ma and said:

"Uh~ Brother Xiaoma, let's do this!"

"I'll pay for the return ticket."

"You should go to the United States for investigation!"

(End of chapter)