Chapter 131 Times made them successful
In the evening, Yang Zhenyuan left with 2 million, leaving behind 40% of Douyin’s shares.
Lu Liang didn’t get off work and went to the trading room to take a look. Tesla’s current stock price was $211.
The hot market sentiment has subsided, and the rise and fall are not as sharp as in the past few days. The overall market trend is steady and upward.
Currently, he holds a total of 652,000 Tesla shares, with a cost price of US$153.52 and a profit of US$37.47 million.
The available funds in the account are 68.52 million US dollars. In another week, the target of 90% of the positions should be reached.
Lu Liang was in the office, absent-mindedly playing fantasy, and by the way, Panda started broadcasting, waiting for the early morning bell to ring.
Suddenly Xiao Wang's voice came from the earphones: "Are you playing with snakes? The baby is mating with a wild animal? Is this any different from throwing money into the water?"
Lu Liang was slightly absent-minded. , too lazy to pay attention to Xiao Wang, just took off the earphones and threw them aside to record the message he just heard.
[On November 10, 2017, Toutiao acquired Musical.ly for US$1 billion and merged with Douyin. 】
This message reveals at least three pieces of information.
The emergence of Douyin is inevitable.
But in another world, it belongs to Toutiao, and Toutiao belongs to ByteDance.
The valuation in two years will be far more than one billion US dollars, otherwise Musical.ly would not be acquired today and the merger of genuine and pirated versions would not be possible.
“Is this thing so valuable?”
Lu Liang couldn't help but mutter, and felt a little guilty. Maybe a unicorn was killed by him.
After all, Douyin, which does not belong to Byte, nor does Douyin belong to Zhang Yiming, will it still become a behemoth?
Yang Zhenyuan does not have Zhang Yiming’s five entrepreneurial experiences, nor does he have the support of ByteDance’s technical team.
Whether it will be able to spend billions of dollars to acquire Musical.ly in the future is still unknown.
Lu Liang thought about it for a long time and couldn't figure it out, so he simply stopped thinking about it. Even the guilt that had just arisen disappeared.
There is a saying that goes well, there is no Ma Yun, there is Zhang Yun, Zhao Yun, some products and some people are born to meet the times.
The times have made them,
not they have made the times.
Byte will definitely enter the short video field in the future, and even because Yang Zhenyuan comes out to go it alone, the time will be advanced.
Whether Yang Zhenyuan’s Douyin can outperform ByteDance’s ‘Douyin’ depends entirely on his own creation.
Lu Liang would only cheer for him silently, and at most, provide some appropriate funds at the appropriate time.
If it is not appropriate, he will jump out of the car and leave, or even promote the merger of pirated and pirated copies, and then buy the genuine ones.
After thinking about it, Lu Liang was in a happy mood. He returned to the computer, put on his headphones and heard Xiao Wang cursing: "You can't do this if you are impatient. There are so many people watching."
< br>Lu Liang had a dark face and a bad tone: "I'm hungry, bring me some late-night snacks to treat me to."
"You are my dad, I can just help you order a late-night snack, but I also have to specially Send it over?" Xiao Wang also got angry.
"Are you coming? I heard that Zhu Hu plans to come to the Magic City recently." Lu Liang said with a smile.
The shared bicycle market has developed so fast that 22 companies of the same type have emerged in the market in two months.
Red, yellow, blue and green bicycles fill the first-tier cities and are ready to develop in second-tier and third-tier cities.
The market is filled with smoke, various forces are on the stage one after another, and a new round of financing war is about to begin.
The last time he went to Beijing, Lu Liang promised Zhu Hu that he would sell his shares to him at a 20% premium during the B round of financing.
He came here recently just to talk about this matter.
Xiao Wang was silent and suddenly disconnected the microphone. Lu Liang was waiting for him in the office with a smile.
An hour later, Xiao Wang appeared at the door of the office angrily, carrying a barbecue in his hand.
"Young Master Wang, thank you for having to make a trip so late." Lu Liang responded with a smile, giving enough face and not going too far.
Wang Xiaocong stared, half of his anger gone, but still did not give a good look: "Zhu Hu, do you really want to come over?"
"Yes, I will introduce you to you then."
Lu Liang has barbecue in his left hand and beer in his right hand. There is also lyrical music echoing in the office: "Happiness is nothing more than this."
Wang Xiaocong asked again: "When will the Crown Princess come online?"
"I heard that it is still in the later stages. It is estimated that it will have to wait until the middle of next month, and no later than the end of next month."
Lu Liang didn't pay much attention to it, let alone the Crown Princess. Even after Zhang Tianai slept for one night, he didn't care much about it.
Wang Xiaocong looked contemptuous: "Everyone says I am a scumbag, but in my opinion, you are the real scumbag. At least I treat every relationship with sincerity."
"You are still young, if If you don't change things soon, you will die sooner or later." Lu Liang reminded him kindly. Wang Xiaocong sneered and disagreed. He had a very good reputation in the industry, and his girlfriends were always nice and not clingy.
“Alas, I have nothing in common with you.” Lu Liang called Lao Meng, and they ate and drank until dawn.
……
That afternoon, Zhang Chen came to the company.
Charlotte’s box office exceeded 1.1 billion, and the media predicted that the final box office may exceed 1.5 billion.
Although it cannot surpass Monster Hunt, 7 and 2, it has firmly entered the top five at the box office of the year.
In recent times, investors have been waving banknotes, urging them to quickly develop the next movie.
For a time, they became very popular. As long as it was a movie produced by Mahua, there was no shortage of investment.
But Zhang Chen approached Lu Liang immediately, hoping that he could invest and provide 30% of the investment share.
After all, when no one was investing, I thought it would be fine as long as there was investment. But now that there is no shortage of investors, I just want investors with money and connections.
Zhang Chen has already experienced Lu Liang’s tough relationship.
Tang Caidi stepped in on behalf of Lu Liang and directly helped them get the 43% in principle, and the theater chain also promised to settle the dividends before February 1 of the next year.
Generally, box office dividends will be distributed in batches 3-6 months after the release, and sometimes it is common for the movie to be delayed for a full year.
Before February 1st, the dividends were distributed on time and on time, which was simply unprecedented, because they also applied for a postponement of the release.
This thigh, they held it so comfortably.
"Mr. Zhang, please sit down for a while and let me take a look."
Lu Liang looked at Charlotte's investment ratio and found that of the 60 million publicity fee, they only paid 645 million, the investment came to 11.45 million.
According to the standard of 43% and 57%, the production company finally falls to 30%, and they account for 25% of the 30%.
Assuming a box office of 1.5 billion, after deducting the zero and zero total, there should be more than 70 million in the account, a six-fold return, which he is quite satisfied with.
When Lu Liang saw the next project, he couldn't help but frown. The black humor comedy "Donkey Gets Water" looks like it is running to win an award.
He pondered for a moment, mainly considering that the cost was only half of Charlotte's, 30% was only 3 million.
Charlotte made tens of millions, so she agreed to the bidding with a wave of her hand.
After all, it is understandable that Happy Mahua is new to the film industry and has pursuits. After making money, she wants to earn face.
Seeing Lu Liang frown, Zhang Chen's heart was in his throat. He was relieved when he heard that Lu Liang was willing to bid.
"Mr. Lu, you are busy. If nothing happens, I will leave first." After a few words of greeting, he stopped disturbing Lu Liang's work.
Just after sending Zhang Chen off, Lu Liang returned to the office. Before his buttocks got hot, Zhu Hu came over.
Looking at the office environment with great interest: "Mr. Lu, your environment looks better than the Jinsha River."
"Who makes the capital city without a river, not close to the sea, inland The city is like that." Lu Liang responded with a smile. The capital was nice, but he didn't like it because the political culture was too strong.
Businessmen should stay close to the government and stay away from politics. In this regard, he has always left it to Xiao Wang, or to be precise, the Wang family.
“Ofo will raise funds in the middle of next month.”
Zhu Hu sighed, feeling that this day came a bit too quickly.
They originally planned to raise capital again in January next year, pushing the valuation to at least US$100 million.
But as Alipay helped ofo open a traffic interface, Penguin directly invested in Mobike and opened a WeChat interface.
The two horses entered the market, and a large amount of capital poured in. However, the capital did not want to repeat the tragedy of the battle of thousands of regiments, and planned to make a quick decision.
All bike-sharing companies have been whipped by capital, like clockwork, expanding and expanding.
In the past two months, almost 3,000 new vehicles have been added to the market every day, and the stock has reached 450,000.
Zhu Hu is not sure about other data, but the number of ofo launched is as high as 100,000, and the number of daily uses exceeds 700,000.
“The development of Internet companies is really changing with each passing day.” Lu Liang was stunned. He didn’t pay much attention to it, but the scale of ofo had already increased five times.
Zhu Hu said softly: "Between 60 million and 80 million US dollars, which is probably the valuation of Series B financing."
"Brother Hu, if you need it, just say it, I can do it." Lu Liang smiled very generously.
Taking the median value of US$70 million, after the B round, there is still 16.2% of the shares, worth US$11.34 million.
Another 20% premium would be US$13.6 million, equivalent to RMB 86.54 million. With an investment of 1 million, the profit would be 86 times.
If you are not satisfied, you should be struck by lightning.
(End of this chapter)