Coquettish Rebirth

Soon, the Sherlock Holmes Company of the United States sent Jia Hongjian back the information about Tesla’s acceptance of venture capital. After Eberhard and his friend Mark established Tesla in 2003, they conducted a round of investment. financing.In the process of this round of financing, a guy named Elon Musk invested 750 million US dollars in, and together with some other relatively small venture capital companies, gave Tesla the first round of investment.Then in the B round of financing in 2004, Musk led the investment in Tesla at a price of 1300 million US dollars, and then in 2006 he led the C round of investment with an investment amount of 4000 million US dollars!Then during the C round of financing, companies like JP Morgan have already joined in!And in the next month, because Tesla has already spent almost all of its money, it will conduct a D round of financing. It is expected to raise about 4500 million US dollars, and the total amount of financing will be raised to 1 million US dollars!

After seeing such news, Jia Hongjian was shocked!He saw the "acquaintance" all of a sudden!Jia Hongjian, Musk, knows about Musk. Isn’t this guy the same boss who also set up a space-x private rocket company in history?That's right, this guy still has a lot of money in his hand, and then invests everywhere!After investing in Tesla and making him the CEO of Tesla, he also established a space-x company outside, and is still researching his own rocket, preparing to start a private aerospace business by himself!This is really awesome!Of course, this guy is awesome and brought us a problem. Although they haven't made the so-called d-round investment yet, after the first three rounds, they have already spent 6000 million on Tesla. dollar up.As a venture capital company with such a big appetite, we now want to get all the equity from them.How much do we have to pay?

Seriously, it might be normal to spend 6 million, right?According to the general expectation of venture capital return, ten times is estimated to be a reasonable number they are willing to let go.After all, people have invested so much money in such a risky situation, and have waited for so many years, isn't it because the company launches a product that sells well, then goes public and then sells the stock for money?If Jia Hongjian remembers correctly, when Tesla went public in 2010.The stock price is $17 per share, and the overall market value is almost $20 billion!Look at this market value!If we can buy it for 6 million now, then it is already a big profit!That's right, we are reborn, and we know that Tesla can definitely make a name for itself, so we know that Tesla will definitely reach a market value of 20 billion U.S. dollars or even higher in the future.But other venture capitalists may not know it!

Although venture capital is in a similar "gambling" business, they rely on their eyesight to make money, and they can win more and lose less, but they are not reborn after all.Not necessarily 100% confident about Tesla, right?Especially now that the financial turmoil has started in the United States, and Tesla and their sports cars have not yet started to make. At such a time, the venture capital is betting!If Tesla wins, they will make a lot of money. If they lose, the 6000 million invested before will be in vain.But what if Jia Hongjian stood up at this time and said that he was willing to buy their shares at ten times the price they invested?In this way, it may not be as much as selling stocks when Tesla goes public.But the problem is such insurance!After selling for a few years now, 6000 million yuan has changed to 6 million US dollars. This rate of return is acceptable!There is no risk at all!Jia Hongjian considered it from the other party's point of view.I feel that if he is a venture capitalist, he might agree to it sincerely!After all, many real VCs are managers working in investment companies, and they don't use their own money to invest, so they also have to fight for performance.Although the rate of return on performance is definitely important, it is definitely important to have a few losses!So after making the decision, Jia Hongjian felt that it was really possible to get it done!

On the other hand, didn't Brother Musk also set up a space-x aerospace company?Generally speaking, this aerospace company must spend more money than Tesla?And this Musk is not some invincible rich man.It’s not someone who can take out hundreds of millions of dollars to burn for fun. He is just such a boss with a net worth of [-] million. The cash he can take out is estimated to be around [-] million, of which tens of millions are invested in Tesla. US dollars, and then you have to invest money in space-x.This dude estimates that the capital chain is tight enough, right?If we buy his shares, will he be able to concentrate on investing in space-x?Although it seems that Musk did not sell Tesla's shares at such a time in history, Tesla is not a company he created after all, he just came to invest, and now someone is willing to come and buy, it is estimated to persuade him Is it still possible to sell it?

But who knew that when Jia Hongjian was thinking about how to "persuade" Musk, he suddenly received a call from the United States—a call from Jerry Yang! "Mr. Jia, I just received the news that Eberhard, the co-founder of Tesla, has resigned! Then Eberhard announced that he would sue Tesla and Musk!" "What? Say it again?" At that time, Jia Hong Gradually I was stunned, what does this mean?Why did this change suddenly happen? "Is the news confirmed?" He asked hastily. "Yes! All the major news agencies in the United States have received the news! Even n's news program has broadcast it!" Yang Zhiyuan hurriedly replied on the other end of the phone!

As soon as he heard this, Jia Hongjian's mind immediately turned rapidly, thinking about how such a sudden change in the situation would affect his plan, and even whether he could take advantage of the change in the situation! "In this way, please contact Eberhard as soon as possible and ask about the specific situation. Show more sympathy, and say that our company is shocked by this matter and cares about him very much. See if you can help him in some form. Help him, in short, get the inside story out first!" That's right!How such a situation will affect our plan, we must first understand what the inside story is like!I don't know what the inside story is. What kind of impact will it have if I think about it behind closed doors? Isn't that just a random decision?

Yang Zhiyuan immediately agreed, and after hanging up the phone, he asked someone to ask for Eberhard's phone number, but the call was always busy, probably because all kinds of news media were in a hurry to call and ask!This Yang Zhiyuan didn't dare to trust him, but hurriedly asked his friends who knew Eberhard to take him with him and ran to Eberhard's house.After arriving at Eberhard's home and expressing his intention and kindness to Eberhard, who was busy answering various calls, he really knew the inside story of the man's departure—at least he had a side story !So he found a free time, went outside the house and called Jia Hongjian, and reported to Jia Hongjian in Chinese that Eberhard couldn't understand, "President Jia, Eberhard Said that Musk kicked him out of the company, he was fired maliciously! Although he is still a co-founder, he has been kicked out of the board of directors, just like Jobs was kicked out of Apple...and with him 26 engineers were expelled together, and half of Tesla's engineers were fired!"

Whoa!Although the overall number of dismissals is not large, a total of 50% of the engineers were fired. This is definitely the rhythm of a major earthquake in the management of a large company!What's the situation?How could Eberhard be driven away like Jobs?Before Jia Hongjian asked, Yang Zhiyuan explained: "According to Eberhard's unilateral statement, he and 26 engineers had opinions on the leadership line of Musk, the CEO, and were fired as a result. He said that Musk maliciously modified the project process nodes in the company. Because of the pursuit of so-called perfect details, Tesla’s prototype car design was delayed, and the prototype car could not be finalized for a long time, causing the company’s money. It's like water, and it's still far away when the prototype car will come out. Tesla's internal financial situation is already in jeopardy, and Musk also deliberately kept the other investors on the board of directors from telling others about the company's financial situation critical……"

Hearing this, Jia Hongjian subconsciously felt that this was a great opportunity!Yes, great opportunity!Jia Hongjian doesn't know how Musk does things. How much contribution that person has made in space-x is another matter, but Jia Hongjian knows that Musk is actually hiding it from other people. Investors and shareholders of all kinds of venture capital don't tell people the financial status of the company, even if he is a major shareholder, he can't do so!This is the feeling of violating the interests of minority shareholders a bit!If the minority shareholders unite to sue the court, it is not impossible to overthrow Musk from the position of CEO and chairman!At that time, Musk will have empty shares but cannot vote!

Then add what Eberhard said that the company's internal funds are very tight, because the delay is too long and the capital chain is about to break, so under such a situation, if a guy like Musk steps down again, we Huaxia Hi-Tech will go to buy again, right? Let alone 6 million, maybe 1 million can be acquired?After all, if we don't buy it, the company has a certain chance of going bankrupt, right?In this way, won't we make a lot of money?Wouldn't we be able to seize the opportunity to make a big difference, invest 20 million at once, and then earn [-] billion in two or three years?If you are so unhappy, what can you do? (To be continued..)