Chapter 376 Oraz’s Understanding
"If the definition of new Dubai is luxury, then the definition of the new Lion City is precision." As the CEO of Alfa Technology and regarded as Samad's puppet, Oraz is popular in New York.
“Wall Street has never been so welcoming to a Malaysian,” read the front page of the New York Times.
Oraz held a project presentation meeting on the 102nd floor of the Empire State Building, a landmark building in New York, planning to introduce the new Lion City plan to global capital and raise sufficient funds.
Although China has been chasing Amerika in many aspects, New York is still the center of world finance for various reasons.
As perhaps the most imaginative project of the 21st century, the funds that need to be raised are naturally astronomical.
OpenAI has raised 6.6 billion, Guangjia Aerospace has raised 8 billion, and Alpha Technology’s New Lion City plan must raise at least 50 billion US dollars per year.
Alpha's plans are indeed huge, and the application of a large number of emerging technologies means extremely high costs.
“The New Lion City is jointly constructed by Lion City and Alpha. All profits from Alpha’s future synthetic sand technology will be invested in the New Lion City project, but we may still need funds to supplement the planned construction process of the New Lion City. part.
In the New Lion City, except for the residents, all the buildings are only for leasing and there is no concept of sale. In other words, all the buildings in the New Lion City are owned by Alpha and GIC.
Therefore, we need to raise funds from global investors. At present, we are only raising funds around possible funding gaps. For strategic investors, when there is a funding gap in the construction of the new Lion City, we will charge strategic investors according to their investment shares. Corresponding funds will be used to continue to promote the construction of the new Lion City. ”
In the final analysis, there is still not enough money. The Lion City’s annual expenditure is about 700 billion RMB. In terms of financial strength alone, the Lion City obviously cannot spend as much as the UAE without reason.
Even if they increase their budget by RMB 100 billion each year to invest in the construction of the new Lion City, Alpha Technology's synthetic sand has amazing potential prospects. It is almost a hard currency that can be sold as long as it is produced, but they still face the dilemma of insufficient initial funds.
The purpose of financing is to advance the progress of the overall project as quickly as possible.
Investors from all over the world here have only one thought in their minds, and that is that Amerikan and China are so funny that they actually want to share the cake with everyone.
I never thought there would be such an opportunity in the 21st century.
I thought that the Marshall Plan of the 20th century would not appear again in the 21st century, but in the 21st century, similar tactics were played out again.
However, after reading the construction plan of the new Lion City, Oraz and Chen Yuanguang had different interpretations. Oraz described it with precision.
This is difficult for the intended investors here to understand.
It’s a bit inappropriate to use precision to define a city. Precision has always been the right way to describe clocks.
"Mr. Oraz, I have no doubts about how the investment will be promoted, how the specific shares will be distributed, and how the post-investment income will be divided. I just don't understand what kind of new city you want to build.
Mere precision obviously cannot give us an intuitive understanding.
Because in my understanding, if all the properties and units in New Lion City are only for rent and not for sale, it means that every building needs to be funded by New Lion City, Alpha Technology and investors.
This is undoubtedly a huge amount of money, and now Alpha Technology wants to raise this money by selling shares, rather than through borrowing or other means.
Then the income from this investment is only the rental income of the new Lion City. What we want to invest in is the largest real estate project in the world in history. It will be dozens of times or even hundreds of times larger than the real estate development in China during its most prosperous years. times of real estate projects.
Then this involves many factors such as execution ability, cash flow abundance, property location and so on.
Taking into account the endorsement of Alpha Technology and Lion City, and the fact that the new Lion City is reclaiming land from the current location of Lion City, and is geographically capable of absorbing the entire population of Southeast Asia, these are not problems.
So what kind of city the new Lion City is is directly related to whether the future income of the project will be generous enough.
So I hope Mr. Oraz can make it clearer. ”
The Lion City has 5 million people filling its 700 square kilometers, while Hong Kong has 7 million people filling its 1,000 square kilometers. The two are equally crowded.
Therefore, it is difficult to lose money on property in these two places.
In addition, there are synthetic sand technology and Chinese construction companies to reduce costs. What investors care about is not the income or whether the cost can be recovered, but whether the specific income is 5 percentage points of profit or 10 percentage points.
This is related to how much cash flow they want to allocate.
Of course, the new Lion City is not completely risk-free. Its only risk is war. If a very large-scale war breaks out, the Lion City will definitely be doomed. There will be no eggs in the overturned nest, and the new Lion City will not survive either.
After Oraz gave a general introduction to the plan for the new Lion City, the well-informed financial industry executives present had somewhat similar ideas to Lin Jia.
Is there any first-tier city in the world that you haven't been to? To put it bluntly, your style is for robots. Can humans really accept it?
"Is this a bit too radical? People and gears are as seamlessly integrated into the city as a whole, but can humans really accept such a place?"
"Such a city is too depressing. It is a city built with reinforced concrete, light and shadow effects, and the architectural styles are the same. I don't doubt that it can be profitable, but its profit cycle may be far beyond our imagination."
"I'm just curious whether the Lion City will open a db license for the new Lion City. If so, then this kind of accuracy is a different concept."
Many people who had similar thoughts to this executive suddenly changed their expressions because they wanted to ask Oraz privately whether he had a DB license.
Yesterday Chen Yuanguang said that this is a replication of virtual reality in the real world. If there is a DB license, then if each building has a dedicated DB unit, the gold sales speed of this place will be unimaginable.
Everyone agrees that Alpha Technology is the real owner of the Lion City, so getting a db license is not a matter of Samad's words.
However, Oraz was very decisive in his refusal:
"Everyone, New Lion City is the city of the future. Making money will never be the first priority of New Lion City. New Lion City will not develop the DB industry now and will not develop in the future.
The construction goal of the new Lion City is to point the way for the future life model of mankind. It is obvious that the future life model of mankind cannot be composed of DB. ”
Oraz thought it would be a long negotiation, but it ended that day.
The Gulf sovereign funds from the Middle East will take whatever shares they promise. The size of the sovereign funds in the Middle East, measured in US dollars, is trillions of dollars, not one trillion, but trillions, which is almost the same as China's foreign exchange reserves.
After reading the construction plan of the new Lion City, they spoke without hesitation and said that you don’t need to talk about it anymore, we have everything covered.
The Middle East sovereign funds have only one requirement, which is that if the construction of the new Lion City cannot continue due to an accident, Alpha Technology needs to transfer the synthetic sand technology to them, which is equivalent to a risky investment.
What is used to protect the bottom line is not debt, but synthetic sand technology whose value cannot be measured in terms of money.
After the big dogs came out to take the blame, several more Americen capitals got involved, but the European capitals didn't even have a chance to get involved. The Norwegian sovereign fund, which was most interested in this project in the early negotiations, failed to enter. Next round.
To the outside world, it's just dazzling. News from the Lion City occupies the main page most of the time.
In international news broadcasts, the latest developments in the Lion City appear every now and then.
Bloggers who complain about current affairs are enjoying a lot of success thanks to this trend in the Lion City.
Lin Qinghua in the group was also dazzled by the fact that the Zhejiang Provincial Chamber of Commerce, a group of rich people, first rushed to transfer the money back to Xiangjiang after the management regulations were passed, and then considered transferring the money to the Lion City after it stabilized.
After the funds for the new Lion City project were secured and Oraz completed the contract signing at the Empire State Building as a representative of Alpha Technology, these rich people began to move their money to the Lion City slowly like ants moving.
Lin Qinghua didn't even have time to operate.
"I said, Lao Ma, are you really so optimistic about the Lion City?" Lin Qinghua asked.
Before, his rank was not high enough to call him brother-in-law, but now it is enough. Now even Lao Ma has to give him face. As long as there is a dinner in Hangzhou, he will call him whenever anything happens.
The two have known each other for at least fifteen years at the Zhejiang Provincial Chamber of Commerce. They have always been a bit like gentlemen, and it is not an exaggeration to say they are friends. topic.
People who are in the real estate business and those who are in the Internet business are not thinking in the same channel.
As a result, in the past two years, everyone has been able to talk a lot, even though Lao Ma once wanted to make a big deal and wanted to push Lin Qinghua into the background.
In the end, Lin Qinghua was dragged into the water. Lin Qinghua also holds 15% of the shares in the driverless taxi company jointly established by Alibaba and Lingpao.
This company is pursuing ultra-low-price autonomous driving, lowering the cost of building a car to less than 100,000 yuan, and then creating the most comfortable autonomous driving experience at this price.
Leappao is responsible for building cars, Alibaba is responsible for technology research and development, and Lin Qinghua ostensibly invests money, but in fact it plays a role in helping them jump in the queue.
Because Light Armor Aerospace has reduced satellite launch costs to a very low level, new energy manufacturers have begun to launch optical satellite networks to improve end-to-end unmanned driving capabilities.
The demand for launches is strong, and a large number of new energy manufacturers are queuing up their launch needs, and Lin Qinghua can help them advance their launch needs.
Moreover, this new company did not start by building cars, but first by recycling and transforming online ride-hailing cars. It is difficult to reduce the cost of building a car to 100,000, but it is much simpler to transform online ride-hailing cars.
After the market for online ride-hailing drivers was squeezed by driverless cars, the eliminated Didi drivers had to find other jobs. Many chose to get rid of the online ride-hailing rides, and they specialized in collecting these online ride-hailing rides at ultra-low prices. Come back and then transform into a driverless taxi and run on the road.
After this behavior was exposed, people on the Internet were scolded, and Alibaba's marketing team did not explain it. They only did one thing, which was price comparison.
Let me tell you through comparison that if these online ride-hailing drivers sell their cars to second-hand car dealers, the price they can sell them for will only be lower than ours. We are already merciful enough.
Coupled with the water army's land-washing, after some operations, the target of the fire became car dealers who suppressed the price of second-hand online car-hailing services.
It’s not just the giants of China who always refuse to let go of any scraps, because China is too large and has too many people, so even a scrap multiplied by a huge number is a big piece of cake. Any creature defined as capital in the ecological chain will not give up food that can strengthen itself.
“It’s not that I’m optimistic, it’s global capital that is optimistic.
This time Oraz went to New York to promote the new Lion City plan led by Alpha Technology, and global capital paid for it, which meant that the forces behind everyone made a judgment and recognized the transfer of power in the Lion City to Alpha Technology.
If we look at Oraz's trip to New York from an abstract perspective, rather than saying that he is going to attract investment, it is better to say that he is going to be crowned on behalf of the actual controller of Alpha Technology and crowned the Lion City Crown. "Lao Ma said while drinking tea.
"In Chinese terms, it is called, before it was real but not famous, now it is real and famous. For a huge construction plan like the New Lion City, 300 square kilometers of land reclamation and urban construction, what is most needed?
What is most needed is a stable environment.
If someone wants to cause trouble to shake Alpha Technology's position, then these capitals will definitely not invest real money in it.
We don’t talk about Mao, we talk about Israel. Europe and the United States can support them. Which politician doesn’t openly say that we should support Israel?
But real money will not lie. When they started fighting, foreign investment plummeted. The reduction is even more exaggerated than cutting it in half. ”
According to the statistical caliber of RISEIsrael, a local think tank in Israel, foreign direct investment in the first quarter of 2020 dropped 56% from the previous quarter, which was even less than a quarter of the first quarter of 2023.
“Foreign investments will flee when Israel is in turmoil. If the Lion City is still in turmoil, the investment will never be negotiated so quickly.
So don’t worry, we only have a little money there, and the Middle East and America have a lot of money there. If they can go, we can naturally go too. "Lao Ma vowed.
What he regrets is that in the years when he did not participate in the actual management of Alibaba, Alibaba actually missed investment projects such as Alpha Technology, and was even missed by Tencent.
In their view, Tencent just picked up the slack. Although Alpha Technology has not been listed, its valuation is at least more than 500 billion US dollars. Even taking into account its control in the Lion City, the true value cannot be measured by money at all.
Looking back now, I just feel that Tencent has made a huge profit again.
“Our representatives also went to the Empire State Building. We wanted to invest in the New Lion City project but there was no way.
Your daughter and the others are still awesome, they are the earliest venture capital investors of Alpha Technology. ”
(End of chapter)