Chapter 96 Mobike Financing
On Friday, Lu Liang was invited to the Shangri-La Hotel to attend Mobike’s Series A financing reception.
Although the valuation is only 10 million US dollars, the pomp and circumstance is like a billion-dollar financing.
Just after entering the door, Lu Liang saw Li Bing and Shen Peng talking, and vaguely heard that they were talking about the new energy automobile industry.
He was curious, but did not rush up to intervene in the conversation. He casually picked up the Mobike financing plan book on the table and looked through it.
After a while, Li Bing ended the conversation with Shen Peng and walked up to Lu Liang with a smile on his face: "Mr. Lu, I have long admired you."
Although Lu Liang was not invited by him, he still counts. The half-master should say hello both emotionally and rationally.
And he was also curious about who Lu Liang was, who had made huge waves in the financial world in the past half month.
"Mr. Li, you are serious. Isn't that Mr. Shen Peng of Sequoia just now?" Lu Liang smiled, not too enthusiastically.
Having a net worth of one million is a hurdle, and 100 million is a bigger hurdle. However, the gap between 100 million and 10 billion is not as big as imagined.
Because people with wealth over 100 million have completed the accumulation of original capital, not to mention that they still have cash in hand.
Li Bing said with a smile: "We were just talking about the domestic new energy industry. Mr. Lu is also interested?"
"Have you heard that Momo wants to introduce Tesla to accelerate domestic new energy? The development of the industry.”
“Mr. Lu knows a lot about it.”
Li Bing was surprised that the introduction of Tesla in Shanghai was very unheard of, except for those who pay special attention to the industry. Otherwise little is known about it.
Lu Liang smiled: "I chatted with a friend last time and heard him talk about Mr. Li's Weilai Automobile."
"Mr. Lu, what do you think of this industry?"
Li Bing hopes that Lu Liang can give some unique insights from the perspective of a financial practitioner.
Lu Liang said softly: "Low carbon, environmental protection, and promoting the development of new energy can help our country achieve carbon neutrality as soon as possible."
Li Bing was stunned: "Mr. Lu, do you really think that new energy Will it be more environmentally friendly? ”
"Mr. Li, do you think what we say doesn't matter, as long as it sounds environmentally friendly."
Lu Liang smiled. New energy is not very environmentally friendly, but if you want to have business, you must first be high-end. Scream doctrine.
As strong as the United States, even if they want to start a war, they still have to take out a bottle of washing powder and shout that it is an extremely dangerous chemical.
Li Bing also laughed, changed the subject and asked: "Mr. Lu, why are you here today? Are you also interested in Mobike's financing?"
He finally figured it out, Lu Liang was kidding him. , I simply didn’t want to say more, so I didn’t ask for trouble.
"I'm a little interested, but I don't know if I can subscribe for more shares."
Lu Liang said, looking at where Shen Peng was. The other party seemed to know him, and he smiled slightly and raised his glass to say hello.
Lu Liang also raised his glass and responded with a smile. Li Bing said softly: "It's okay to follow the investment, but there should be no hope of leading the investment."
He paused and added: "Mr. Lu, Don’t get me wrong, because Sequoia is willing to sign legal terms with Mobike.”
Li Bing knew that Lu Liang was approached by Hu Weiwei, but he also knew that Lu Liang had invested in ofo and held 20% of the shares.
So he approached Shen Peng and promised that Sequoia would lead the investment before going public, but Sequoia could not invest in ofo.
Risk hedging is what every venture capital firm is most willing to do. If the first and second tier invest together, no one will lose if they win.
VCs are happy, but companies may not be happy.
Mobike is not a grassroots team like Ofo. With Li Bing standing behind him, he has bargaining power and is qualified to force venture capital investors.
So tell Sequoia bluntly, if you want to lead this round or subsequent rounds, you can, but you can only invest in my company, and you cannot invest in other shared bicycle companies.
Lu Liang frowned and looked at Hu Weiwei not far away. Hu Weiwei lowered her head in shame and did not dare to look at him.
Hu Weiwei also just learned that Sequoia is willing to sign legal terms with Mobike to obtain the right to lead the subsequent rounds of investment. Although she really hoped to recruit Luliang to join the team and increase her voice in the company, Sequoia was willing to only support Mobai, so she couldn't find any reason to refuse.
After all, Sequoia’s single operation of Mobai will be beneficial in both the short term and the long term.
The dispute between her and Li Bing for the right to speak should not affect the future development of the company, so she could only apologize to Lu Liang.
Li Bing said softly: "Mr. Lu, don't blame Mr. Hu. She is just too young and has no experience. I am here to say sorry to you on her behalf."
"Mr. Li's words are strong. It's just that I don’t know something.”
"Mr. Lu, tell me."
"You took such good care of Mobai, why don't you take care of it yourself?"
Lu Liang was confused. If he knew that Li Bing was so controlling, He will not intervene in the dispute between Hu and Li.
"Manpower is sometimes scarce. Although I am optimistic about shared bicycles, the market is too small after all."
Li Bing paused and looked very serious: "Mr. Lu, new energy vehicles are the future trend."
Hu Weiwei’s proud Mobike, in his view, is just a pawn in the new energy market.
He is very optimistic about the new energy automobile industry, but the road ahead is bleak and he has to work hard. Only relying on him and Bitauto, he is not sure whether he can wait until dawn.
He doesn’t care about Mobike, but he has a strong desire to control. He just wants to use Mobike’s financing to get acquainted with various capital tycoons, thereby paving the way for Weilai.
"It is a national policy to complete industrial upgrading, reduce dependence on a single energy source, and intervene in the situation in the Middle East. The new energy industry has great potential."
Although Tianxing is declining, who doesn't know that it only took Lu Liang half a year to make his fortune? Within a year and a half, he might become a tycoon and one of Li Bing's targets.
Lu Liang fell into deep thought, and Li Bing took advantage of the victory to pursue: "Mr. Lu, now the old and new forces have entered the scene. In the north there is Li Xiang of Autohome, in the south there is He Xiaopeng of GAC, and the boss of LeTV Jia, not to mention from the Mr. Wang of BYD, who has been developing new energy since the beginning, is so optimistic about an industry, even if it is not The trend will also become a new trend.”
Lu Liang thought for a while and said with a smile: “Mr. Li, today is Mobike’s financing conference. Let’s have a good chat about this matter sometime. Chat.”
Li Bing, Li Xiang, and He Xiaopeng, one relies on Bitauto, one relies on Autohome, and the other relies on the BAIC team.
He plans to copy Panda's operation. After all, if a layman wants to join, he must pay some tuition fees and make some friends.
"Okay, Mr. Lu, you can do it yourself. It seems that a friend is coming over. I will greet him."
Lu Liang nodded, followed Li Bing's gaze, and saw Xiaomi's Lei Jun, with a valuation of tens of millions of dollars in financing, obviously could not attract him. It was probably Li Bing who pulled him over to help Mobai stand up.
"I'm afraid it's not appropriate to call me Rebus. I should call him Refit."
Lu Liang found a corner to rest and quietly looked at Lei Jun surrounded by flowers and stars. .
Since contacting venture capital, he has learned that Lei Jun's reputation in this field is even better than that of Zhu Hu and Shen Peng.
Before he founded Xiaomi, he was already a very famous angel investor in China.
As time went by, big names gathered, and Hu Weiwei also took the stage to talk about the financing plan and announce the share.
Lu Liang raised his hand to call Wen Chao and whispered in his ear: "Go and subscribe for as much as you can."
Through this cocktail party, he got to know Li Bing , understand his intention, and you have actually achieved your goal.
Mobike’s financing share is not important. It can’t lead the investment anyway.
Lu Liang was very open-minded, but Hu Weiwei and Li Bing didn't think so, so they still gave him a 3% share.
Finally, Sequoia led this round with 5%, followed by Tianxing with 3%, Chenyang and Jingfeng each with 1%.
Lei Jun just stopped by to cheer up his good friend and left after showing up.
Very late, very late, there are still two chapters.
(End of this chapter)