After divorce, I can hear the voice of the future

Chapter 131 The Times Made Them

In the evening, Yang Zhenyuan left with 200 million yuan and left behind 40% of Douyin's shares.

Lu Liang did not leave work and went to the trading room to take a look. Tesla's current stock price was $211.

The market's fiery sentiment has subsided, and the fluctuations are not as drastic as in the previous few days. The overall market trend is stable and upward.

Currently, he holds a total of 65.2 Tesla shares, with a cost price of US$153.52 and a profit of US$3747 million.

The account has $6852 million in available funds. In another week, the 90% position target should be reached.

Lu Liang was in the office, absentmindedly playing Fantasy TV, broadcasting on Panda TV, and waiting for the early morning bell to ring.

Suddenly, Xiao Wang's voice came from the headset: "Are you playing with the snake? The baby is playing with the wild one? Is this any different from throwing money into the water?"

Lu Liang was slightly distracted and didn't bother to pay attention to Xiao Wang. He took off his headphones and threw them aside, recording the message he had just heard.

[On November 2017, 11, Toutiao acquired Musical.ly for $10 billion and merged it with Douyin.]

This message reveals at least three pieces of information.

The emergence of Tik Tok is inevitable.

But in another world, it belongs to Toutiao, and Toutiao belongs to ByteDance.

The valuation two years later was far more than one billion US dollars, otherwise it would not have acquired Musical.ly today and facilitated the merger of genuine and pirated products.

“Is this thing so valuable?”

Lu Liang couldn't help but mutter, feeling a little guilty. Could it be that he had killed a unicorn?

After all, Douyin, which does not belong to ByteDance or Zhang Yiming, can 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 $1 billion to acquire Musical.ly in the future remains an unknown.

Lu Liang thought about it for a long time but 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, even if there was no Ma Yun, there would still be Zhang Yun and Zhao Yun; some products and some people are born out of response to the times.

It was the times that made them.

Rather than them making the era.

ByteDance will definitely enter the short video field in the future, and the timing may even be advanced because Yang Zhenyuan has decided to go it alone.

Whether Yang Zhenyuan's Douyin can outperform ByteDance's "Douyin" depends entirely on his own luck.

Lu Liang would only cheer him on silently, and at most provide some appropriate funds at the appropriate time.

If it is inappropriate, he will jump off the car and leave, or even facilitate the merger of pirated products and pirated pirated products, and then purchase the genuine products.

After figuring it out, Lu Liang was in high spirits. He returned to the computer and put on his headphones when he heard Xiao Wang cursing, "You can't do this even if you're impatient. There are so many people watching us."

Lu Liang had a dark face and said in a bad tone: "I'm hungry, bring me some midnight snacks."

"You're my father. It's ok for me to order a midnight snack for you, but I have to deliver it to you specially?" Xiao Wang also got angry.

"Will you come? I heard that Zhu Hu is planning to come to the Magic City recently." Lu Liang said with a smile.

The shared bicycle market has developed so rapidly that 22 similar companies have emerged in the market within two months.

Bicycles of various colors, red, yellow, blue and green, fill the first-tier cities and are ready to develop in the second- and third-tier cities.

The market is filled with smoke of war, various forces have appeared 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 over recently just to talk about this.

Xiao Wang remained silent and suddenly disconnected the call. Lu Liang was waiting for him in the office with a smile on his face.

An hour later, Xiao Wang appeared at the office door angrily with a barbecue in his hand.

"Mr. Wang, thank you for taking the trouble to make the trip so late at night." Lu Liang responded with a smile, giving him enough face without being too excessive.

Wang Xiaocong glared, his anger had subsided by half, but he still didn't look happy: "Zhu Hu, do you really want to come over?"

"Yes, I'll introduce you to someone then."

Lu Liang was holding a barbecue in his left hand and a beer in his right hand. Lyrical music was playing in the office: "Happiness is nothing more than this."

Wang Xiaocong asked again: "When will the Crown Princess come online?"

"I heard they are still in post-production. It will probably take until the middle of next month, or no later than the end of next month."

Lu Liang didn't pay much attention to it. Not to mention the Crown Princess, even Zhang Tianai, after sleeping with her for one night, he didn't care much about her.

Wang Xiaocong looked disdainful: "Everyone says I'm a scumbag, but in my opinion, you are the real scumbag. At least I treat every relationship sincerely."

"You are still young. If you don't change your ways sooner or later, you will die from this." Lu Liang kindly reminded him. Wang Xiaocong sneered and didn't take it seriously. He has a very good reputation in the industry, and his girlfriends are all nice and not clingy.

"Alas, I have nothing in common with you." Lu Liang called Lao Meng, and the few of them ate and drank until dawn.

……

That afternoon, Zhang Chen came to the company.

Charlotte's box office exceeded 11 billion, and the media predicted that the final box office may exceed 15 billion.

Although it failed to surpass Monster Hunt, Furious 7, and Avengers 2, it has already firmly entered the top five box office of the year.

Recently, investors have been waving their money and urging them to quickly start the next film project.

For a time, they became very popular, and as long as the movie was produced by Mahua, there was no shortage of investment.

But Zhang Chen still found Lu Liang as soon as possible, hoping that he could invest and provide a 30% investment share.

After all, when no one was investing, we just thought that as long as there was investment, it would be fine. But now there is no shortage of investors, so we just want investors with money and connections.

Zhang Chen had experienced the rigidity of Lu Liang's relationships.

Tang Caidie acted 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 2 of the following year.

Generally, box office dividends are paid in batches 3-6 months after the film's release, and it is common for it to be delayed for a whole year.

It was unprecedented to pay dividends on time before February 2st, because they also applied for an extension of the release date.

They hugged this thigh so comfortably.

"Mr. Zhang, please sit down for a while. Let me take a look."

Lu Liang looked at Charlotte's investment ratio. They only paid 6000 million out of the 645 million in publicity and promotion fees, bringing the total investment to 1145 million.

按照43%57%的标准，最后落到出品公司就是30%，他们占30%里面的25%。

Assuming the box office is 15 billion, after deducting all miscellaneous expenses, he should still have more than million in his account, which is a six-fold return rate. He is still quite satisfied with it.

When Lu Liang saw the next project, he couldn't help but frown. The black comedy "Mr. Donkey" looked like it was going to win an award.

He pondered for a moment, mainly considering that the cost was only half of Charlotte's, and 30% was only 300 million.

Charlotte made tens of millions of dollars, so she just waved her hand and agreed to invest in the film.

After all, Happy Twist has just entered the film industry and it is understandable that they have aspirations. After making money, they want to gain face.

Zhang Chen's heart rose to his throat when he saw Lu Liang frowning. He heaved a sigh of relief when he heard that Lu Liang was willing to invest in the film.

"Mr. Lu, you are busy. If you have nothing else, I will leave first." After a few pleasantries, he did not disturb Lu Liang from working.

Lu Liang had just seen Zhang Chen off and returned to the office. Before he could even sit down, Zhu Hu came over.

With great interest, he looked around the office environment and said, "Boss Lu, your environment looks better than the Jinsha River."

"It's because the capital has no river and is not close to the sea. That's what inland cities are like." Lu Liang responded with a smile. The capital is good, but he doesn't like it because the political culture is too strong.

Businessmen should be close to the government and stay away from politics, so he has always left these matters to Xiao Wang, or to be more precise, the Wang family.

"Ofo will raise funds in the middle of next month."

Zhu Hu sighed, feeling that this day had come a little too fast.

They had originally planned to raise funds again in January of next year to at least push the valuation to $100 million.

But as Alipay helped ofo open the traffic interface, Penguin directly invested in Mobike and opened the WeChat interface.

With the entry of two horses, a large amount of capital poured in, but the capital did not want to repeat the tragedy of the thousand-group war and planned to make a quick decision.

All shared bicycle companies are being whipped by capital, like a clockwork, expanding and expanding again.

In the past two months, almost 45 new vehicles have been put on the market every day, and the stock has reached vehicles.

Zhu Hu is not very clear about the data of other companies, but ofo has deployed as many as 10 units, and the daily usage has exceeded 70.

"The development of Internet companies is really changing with each passing day." Lu Liang was amazed. He didn't pay much attention to it, but ofo's scale has already increased fivefold.

Zhu Hu said softly, "Between 6000 million and 8000 million US dollars, that's probably the valuation for the B round of financing."

"Brother Hu, if you need anything, just tell me. I can do anything." Lu Liang smiled, very generous.

Taking the middle value of US$7000 million, after the B round, there is still a 16.2% stake worth US$1134 million.

Another 20% premium would be US$1360 million, equivalent to RMB 8654 million. For an investment of 100 million, the profit would be 86 times.

If you are still not satisfied, you will be struck by lightning.

(End of this chapter)