Chapter 887: Uncle Ma is involved, and Mr. Ma is involved!
Huang Zhang's anger was completely understandable and acceptable. Anyone who was so straightforward and said that he wanted to buy his company was extremely unhappy.
What's more, a person as arrogant as Huang Zhang.
However, no matter how Huang Zhang performed, Tan Jincheng would not have any trouble in his heart. Over the years, he has experienced too many scenes like this.
In his more than ten years of entrepreneurial career, whether it is Flash, Orange or Weilai, he has experienced countless investments and acquisitions.
He had met Zhao Wu, the founder of Dexian Electronics, who happily sold the company, and only retained a little bit of shares as a souvenir to enjoy life.
I have also encountered founders like Wang Qinghua, who actively embraced and gave up control for the company's development but retained a large number of shares to seek to make the company bigger and stronger, and have certain ambitions.
There are also like Gaode founder Cheng Wu, who still stayed in the company and continued to work after being acquired, completely switching his role to the position of professional manager.
Similarly, there are people who directly refuse to even talk to you.
Huang Zhang did not get angry on the spot and "invited" himself out, which means there is still something to talk about in this matter, which is a good signal.
Seeing that Huang Zhang didn't have many other statements, Tan Jincheng seized the opportunity to start talking about the acquisition plan.
"Two solutions, one is like the Flash Group acquired Bafang Electric when it was the case. Mr. Huang can retain a large number of shares on the basis of giving up control, and the company can continue to be run by you. In addition to the business related to the automobile ecosystem, everything is as usual in Meizu."
"The other is to buy it as a whole by me like Gaode Map. Similarly, Mr. Huang and your family can also retain some of the shares. If Mr. Huang is willing, he can stay and continue to operate Meizu like Mr. Cheng. Let us make Meizu bigger and stronger together."
Huang Zhang nodded without too much verbal action.
As he has always regarded Xiaomi as a direct competitor, he naturally has a certain understanding of Tan Jincheng, an important partner in Rebs' business.
At a young age, he is very skilled in capital operation and is accustomed to rapidly expanding his industrial empire through capital means such as acquisitions and investments.
This is true whether it is the breakup and reunion between Flash and Good Brothers in the early stage, or some other investment acquisitions. There are three listed companies directly controlled by them, and there are also listed companies like Orange Live, which are major shareholders but do not operate specifically.
The most terrifying thing is that the cash flow he can move is so huge. Huang Zhang’s only gladness at the moment is that Meizu is not a listed company and has firmly grasped the control in his own hands.
But to be honest, according to the information Huang Zhang learned, the huge engine under Tan Jincheng's control is still quite generous in the capital market, and it provides good help to the companies that are invested or acquired.
If he can accept the transfer of control, then Tan Jincheng can indeed do the above two points.
I have to say that it is really hard to reject the entrepreneur he likes to meet such a wealthy and kind investor.
"After talking about the two plans, let me talk about what help I will provide to Meizu. First of all, Mr. Huang doesn't need to worry about the valuation. The two plans correspond to two different valuation methods, but I can guarantee that they are definitely not low."
"The second is that in terms of resources. Although we are not as powerful as Ali in terms of the Internet, the resources we should have will not be inferior to those provided by Ali. In addition, we can provide in-depth cooperation through offline channels."
Selling Meizu's mobile phones in Weilai's experience store and selling Weilai cars in Meizu's mobile phone store. The offline channels of both parties can complement each other.
In addition to technical accumulation, Meizu has 2,300 offline stores, most of which can be changed to Weilai experience stores, which is a very good addition to Weilai's offline channels.
Although Meizu was in decline in 2016, it still had a well-known mobile phone brand with 20 million sales. Users did not completely lose confidence in Meizu, and everything was still within the controllable range.
If it were two years later, these offline stores and online user resources were all gone, and at that time, there would be not many left besides the technical team.
In addition, Tan Jincheng was not bragging either. Although Ali was very powerful, her help to Meizu was actually very limited.
"In addition to the cooperation in specific business, it is also the Meizu listing issue that Mr. Huang is more concerned about. We can also help with this. We have rich listing experience both at home and abroad."
"Under normal operation, I think it will be available for listing in a few years."
"In addition to these, there is also a Meizu urgent issue that we can also help."
Speaking of this, Tan Jincheng stopped.
After a while, Tan Jincheng's speech was not fast, but Huang Zhang did not show any performance in the middle, but he just adjusted his state by drinking tea from time to time.
"Oh? An urgent issue?"
"Qualcomm, isn't Meizu's most urgent issue? I can help you solve this for Mr. Huang; you know, I still have some connections with the United States."
Huang Zhang's eyelids twitched, and his expression showed a hint of imperceptible embarrassment.
Although he doesn't want to admit it, breaking up with Qualcomm was indeed a major mistake in his decision-making. It can be said that this year Meizu's entire high-end series was ruined by his decision.
At present, the high-end chip market in the domestic mobile phone market is almost the world of Qualcomm. Although Samsung also produces high-end chips, Samsung is too stuck, and Xiaomi has suffered a huge loss on them.
Low-end MediaTek, high-end Qualcomm, Meizu, which has broken up with Qualcomm, can only be MediaTek, which has always had a good relationship, but this time it was severely posed by MediaTek.
MediaTek chips used in Meizu's high-end flagship models appeared on Redmi's thousand-yuan phone series, and this stab was so fierce.
It seems that Rebs stabbed him, but in fact it was MediaTek's first two ends. He wanted to be high-end but couldn't stand the temptation of the huge sales of the Redmi series, and directly sold Meizu completely.
"Let me say that, I can contact Wall Street's capital directly and let them come forward to mediate. This is not a big deal for Qualcomm."
In addition to the relationship between Red Shirt Capital, Juliang Engine and Qualcomm are both shareholders of Xiaomi, and they have many exchanges between the two parties. Otherwise, how could a model like Weilai Mobile phone that is not even a niche use Qualcomm's advanced chips?
Of course, Meizu can also work on Qualcomm by itself, but obviously, Tan Jincheng or Wall Street Capital is the middleman, and the price it takes is smaller and easier.
But at the same time, in Huang Zhang's view, this may not be a hint. The other party has a close connection with Wall Street Capital and Qualcomm. It can help but also make bad things.
As he thought about it, Huang Zhang's expression became a little entangled again.
I have to say that when he first faced this young man who was nearly 10 years younger than him, Huang Zhang felt unprecedented pressure. At this time, he regretted meeting directly. He had known that the team should have contacted him first.
Still don't understand enough.
Tan Jincheng didn't know what Huang Zhang was thinking. If he knew, he would definitely complain about his villain's intention. He had thought of stealing the shares of Meizu through capital means, but he would not do such a thing that would cut off the back of others.
The key is that this matter will not do him any benefit.
"Can you talk about Mr. Tan's valuation of Meizu?"
Huang Zhang was a little afraid and didn't want to continue talking about this issue. However, listen to the fact that this capital operation expert had a good valuation of Meizu. In October, Tianyin Holdings' investment pushed Meizu's valuation to more than 30 billion yuan.
But that was just an investment of RMB 200 million, and there was no convincing power in valuation. Although Tianyin Holdings has been established for a long time, it is not a big company in the investment industry. Their valuation system cannot be recognized by real capital.
To put it bluntly, in front of real capital tycoons, Tianyin Holdings is almost like a "retail investor".
"Always Huang wants to ask about the valuation of Tianyin Holdings' investment in October? You are taking advantage of this, but it's only 200 million yuan."
Tan Jincheng smiled and said, "According to the valuation of Ali's shares last year, you were 12.4 billion yuan, which is actually more reasonable."
Huang Zhang nodded and signaled Tan Jincheng to continue speaking.
"But, since I said that the valuation will give you a reasonable price, I will naturally not acquire it based on Ali's valuation last year."
"If you have an overall acquisition, I can give you a valuation of 25 billion yuan, which has doubled compared to last year. After all, your financial situation has improved a lot in the past year."
"As for 51% of the holdings, I can give 20 billion yuan."
As Shen Nanpeng said, Meizu's normal valuation is between 10 billion and 20 billion yuan, and 20 billion yuan is Meizu's highest valuation. No matter how much it is, it is indeed not worth it.
Of course, Tan Jincheng can give a certain premium if the overall acquisition is adopted, which itself is one of the unspoken rules of the capital market. The valuation of 25 billion yuan is the premium that Tan Jincheng gives to Meizu.
As for following up with the valuation of 30 billion yuan given by Tianyin Holdings, unless Huang Zhang does not keep any shares, and it cannot be proposed by him himself.
He is not short of money, but he doesn't want to spend money casually.
In addition, even if the acquisition is successful, it will take a long time to integrate Meizu. It is undeniable that Meizu has very high value, but it also has many problems. The first is that Huang Zhang is nepotism.
Important positions in the entire company are based on surnames. Even if you are a foreign employee who has been with him for many years and has excellent abilities, it will be very difficult to get promoted to an important position.
In the early years, when the workplace was relatively peaceful, core team employees such as Li Nan and Bai Yongxiang were able to follow Huang Zhang with enthusiasm without shares, but after capital intervention, it was difficult for these core employees to maintain a normal mind.
After all, who would reject higher incomes?
In fact, Tan Jincheng had already thought about it. If the acquisition was not successful, he would poach Li Nan, Bai Yongxiang and others, and set up a smartphone department within Weilai to wait for Lao Ma to contact HTC.
HTC can be successful, if you don’t succeed, just play slowly by yourself. Anyway, it’s still too late to say that time is still there. At present, the car computer system lieutenant still has a very big advantage.
Just poaching people, this boss Tan is good at it.
"A very reasonable valuation and very fair; let's do it, let me think about it first and discuss with the company's management team?"
Huang Zhang nodded and said that he knew the situation of Meizu better than anyone else. If he could give a valuation of 25 billion yuan in overall, it would definitely be considered rich and very kind. You should know that next year's flagship model has no chance yet.
To put it bluntly, Meilan is holding on. "Okay, I will stay in Zhucheng for three days, looking forward to waiting for Mr. Huang's reply."
"Mr. Tan has any other itinerary in Zhu City?"
At this time, Huang Zhang also relaxed and couldn't help asking curiously. As he knew, Tan Jincheng rushed over from the scene of the car show in Yangcheng.
Tan Jincheng nodded: "Yes, there are some other itineraries."
As a major city in the Pearl River Delta Economic Belt, Zhucheng City has many industrial chains such as smart manufacturing, home appliances, biomedicine, printing consumables and software technology.
There is also a very popular Zhushi Air Show.
Tan Jincheng's itinerary is very nervous, and he doesn't want people to know about the acquisition of Meizu for the time being, so as not to change.
"Actually, it's nothing. I'm just going to Kingsoft to inspect. Mr. Huang knows that our Orange Technology is currently being reorganized. I want to see Kingsoft's game industry and learn."
Before coming, he contacted Rebs and found an excuse to ask Rebs to help him contact his colleagues in Kingsoft to visit.
In fact, it is just to find a reason to stay in Zhushi.
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In addition, he also contacted Gree. The future Ms. Dong is more abstract, but it is still good now. Moreover, when CCTV's Person of the Year selection, Ms. Dong also helped Tan Jincheng.
Gree has also been developing photovoltaics, intelligent equipment (industrial robots) and other industries in 2016, and has also had some business cooperation with Tan Jincheng's industry.
"Okay, then let's contact you later. No matter what, I will give Mr. Tan an accurate reply."
Huang Zhang is undoubtedly with him. The restructuring of Orange Technology and the secondary IPO plan of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on the Internet are very popular. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange warmly welcomes the secondary listing report of Orange Technology, which has transformed into artificial intelligence.
Since Ah Li delisted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, well-known mainland companies have become more accustomed to choosing to go overseas to stocks, and the shift in economic focus has also made the Hong Kong Stock Exchange's position a little embarrassing.
Since the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008, many mainland companies have been listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, but most of them are mainly finance, real estate and consumer industries.
Orange Technology's listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and Xiaomi Technology are under planning are a timely rain dominated by technology for the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
After leaving Huang Zhang's house, Tan Jincheng breathed a long sigh of relief.
Fortunately, Huang Zhang finished listening to him. He deduced it with Shen Nanpeng before. Huang Zhang, after eating the sweetness of capital, is no longer the same as Huang Zhang. It is difficult to accept losing control, but with the blessing of a series of benefits, he will definitely not refuse so easily.
In three days, Tan Jincheng, who appeared in public cameras and TV screens on the surface, took advantage of the auto show to inspect Kingsoft and Gree, which are related to its industries. He also met with the leaders of Zhuzhou City and said a lot of scenes before facing the media camera.
Tan Jincheng is now going to a prefecture-level city, and it is almost normal for the eldest and second brothers to meet each other. Even in the economically developed Zhuzhou City, even if Tan Jincheng does not show any investment intention.
However, Tan Jincheng privately expressed his interest in investing in Meizu with the two bigwigs, and also hinted that Meizu would continue to stay in Zhushi.
After Tan Jincheng showed this intention privately, Meizu welcomed the inspection of the city leaders, and Huang Zhang felt some pressure as he said.
"It's not easy to do, you can feel it too. Mr. Tan, who came from Wei, is full of momentum. If we refuse directly, I'm afraid it will be a while later."
Tan Jincheng only attended the dinner arranged by the city on the night after visiting Gree factory on the first day. As soon as they went to work the next day, they received a notice from the leaders coming to inspect.
Huang Zhang is also a well-known entrepreneur and is also a guest of honor when investing in a certain place, but he is still very distressed in the face of Tan Jincheng's pressure.
He didn't want to lose control, nor did he want to have an unhappy relationship with the city, and most importantly, he also wanted Tan Jincheng's investment.
I have to say that he really wanted to have a few bites of cakes that Tan Jincheng drew for him.
"What should we do? The shares must be sold. The valuation of 25 billion yuan is not low, but how much is the right amount to sell?"
It was still at Huang Zhang's house, but at this time Huang Zhang gathered all the management of Meizu and his relatives.
"We also need to look at Ah Li's attitude. They hold too many shares. If they transfer all their shares to Boss Tan, then should we just transfer less?"
Without external intervention, Ali's 28% stake and the signing of a non-interference agreement did not pose any threat to Meizu, but Tan Jincheng, who came out halfway, made Ali's attitude very critical.
"Ali is not short of money, and I heard that Boss Tan and Boss Ma of Ali are not very good. They have almost no communication, and some of them just fight each other."
It has to be said that Tan Jincheng's attitude towards Ali has always been "unfriendly", which is really confusing at some point. Huang Zhang and his relatives know that Ali's attitude is very critical, but they cannot make a correct judgment.
The relationship between these two is not very good, and Ah Li is also a good person. It doesn’t matter if they want to cause some trouble for Boss Tan?
Of course, they could not accurately judge Ali's attitude.
"Why, brother, please ask Mr. Ma what he means?"
The person who spoke was Huang Zhang's younger brother, who worked in the company's procurement department.
Huang Zhang had a tight brow, MD, it was indeed a headache to deal with capital, but the Meizu gathered now was in a turmoil. With the official intervention of capital, they could no longer be able to avoid being affected.
Although Huang Zhang could reject Tan Jincheng at once, and even find ways to repurchase or dilute Ali's shares, the consequences must be considered.
"I guess Mr. Huang will call you. Please help Uncle Ma be a villain at that time."
Huang Zhang was discussing, and Tan Jincheng was also taking action. After repeated deductions in the past two days, it felt that it was almost impossible for Huang Zhang to hand over the controlling stake directly.
The biggest possibility is that through multi-party cooperation, Huang Zhang made Tan Jincheng the largest shareholder, and his shareholding ratio should be around 33%. Huang Zhang used a slight disadvantage as the second shareholder and controlled the Meizu's board of directors.
Afterwards, the other party may control Meizu step by step by joining forces with other shareholders, so Tan Jincheng may become a "financial investor" like Ali.
"You kid, you have the benefits. I'll treat the evil guys, right? But I didn't expect your kid to come to the door so quickly. Do you want to fight a time difference?"
Lao Ma is abroad now and is also amused and crying when he receives a call from Tan Jincheng.
According to Tan Jincheng's intention, he would acquire at least 25% of Meizu's shares in Ali's hands at an overall valuation of 25 billion yuan, but he hopes that Lao Ma would interfere with Huang Zhang's judgment in words, making Huang Zhang mistakenly think that Ali does not agree with Tan Jincheng's intervention.
Of course, he doesn't have to say this himself, just find someone who can decide.
ruthless! Too cruel!
Lao Ma had experienced an equity dispute with Yahoo back then. How could he not understand how ruthless Tan Jincheng's move was? Needless to say, he must have contacted some other shareholders who could win over the years. Although his holdings were not high in recent years, many times it may be that the small shareholders changed their pattern.
Lao Ma could immediately reflect which companies could be sold. As financial investors, Haitong Kaiyuan and Shanghai Stock Exchange Hitton are the most likely to win, and they may have already won them.
Their shareholdings total 2.655%. Based on their transfer of 25%, that is to say, Tan Jincheng has obtained 27.655% of Meizu's shareholdings.
According to this trend, as long as Tan Jincheng gets 11.16% of the shares from Huang Zhang, he can become the largest shareholder with a slight advantage.
Of course, according to Lao Ma’s understanding of Tan Jincheng, Tan Jincheng will definitely not allow it. Either they transfer more, or Huang Zhang transfer more, or both.
I have to say that this trick really caught Huang Zhang off guard.
"For this reason, please help me this time, and my nephew will definitely be rewarded if you follow up."
Tan Jincheng really wanted to have a time difference, which made Huang Zhang not have time to react. His meeting with Lao Ma was private, and it was not photographed by the media after the Wuzhen Internet Conference.
In the middle, he also went to the Yangcheng Auto Show to make a few crazy words and made a lot of popularity. After coming to Zhucheng City, he visited Kingsoft and Gree in a high-profile manner. By the way, he also contacted the local area and made some hints.
Good guy, God of Wealth comes to invest, but the industry has not been transferred yet, so where will it be unhappy? As for Huang Zhang's attitude, how could the city not know about Meizu's situation, it's just a helping hand.
This series of things happened within four days. Tan Jincheng wanted to fight a blitzkrieg and interfere with the other party's judgment through various sources of information.
Like Huang Zhang, Tan Jincheng's series of operations also depend on Ali's attitude.
It is not a big problem for Ali to transfer shares, but the difficulty is that Lao Ma is willing to cooperate with them.
"MD, who dares to recognize you as your eldest nephew? I am convinced by your kid. If I ask me to do things, I will be Uncle Ma, and if I use it, I will be Mr. Ma."
Tan Jincheng admitted openly that Lao Ma was not good at yin and yang.
"Okay, although you are not kind, you are still very credible. It is worth it to get a promise from you. I'll call the lower one to arrange it."
Meizu is dispensable to Ali. In Lao Ma's opinion, Tan Jincheng's promise is obviously much more important than Huang Zhang.
What's more, this can be considered a breath for myself last year.
"Okay, then I'll trouble Uncle Ma."
After hanging up the phone, Tan Jincheng also breathed a sigh of relief. Everything should be prepared, and the next step was to wait for the other party to take action.
The so-called courtesy first and then military force has clearly expressed his willingness to seek control to Huang Zhang. If the other party trades normally, there is naturally nothing to say, but if the other party has some other plans, he is not a good person.
(This chapter ends)