Love? I'm reborn and I just want to get rewards

Chapter 311: Billions of Dollars

Zuo Zongcai and Su Huai winked at each other: "Ms. Wang really wants to wear that dress~~~"

Su Huai looked back at Xiao Gu. She was still the most beautiful girl in the crowd in her horse-faced skirt, which was better than any evening gown or princess dress.

But he was still puzzled: "If you want to wear it, just discuss it with Xiao Gu, why are you looking for me?"

Zuo Zongcai spread his hands and said, "Xiao Gu disagreed. Ms. Wang asked Mr. Gu to do your job, and Mr. Gu gave the task to me. Do you understand now?"

Huh?
Su Huai understood it immediately.

The essence of the problem is that Gu Tongshu once again had to take the initiative to surrender to Su Huai.

Gou Huai perked up and asked the key question: "How heavy a knife can Lao Gu withstand this time?"

Zuo Zongcai stopped acting and gave a wicked laugh: "At least it can't be cheaper than my building, right?"

"Oh my god! Really?"

Gou Huaile was very successful. He could save about 2000 million yuan in total rent for Changqing Building every year.

The total amount that Zuo Zongcai paid for the five-year lease may be up to 5 million yuan. If he can get the same amount of money from Lao Gu, then the cash flow for the investment in Panda will almost be sufficient.

"What can Lao Gu do?"

Zuo Zongcai smiled meaningfully and said, "Ms. Wang is a very good person. She is always reasonable and considerate to others. However, Mr. Gu always feels indebted to her, and she is particularly persistent now... Do you understand what I mean?"

"I don't understand." Su Huai laughed strangely, "But I know what to do~~~"

"Smart!" Zuo Zongcai gave a thumbs up and also laughed.

Gu Tongshu, ah, Gu Tongshu, is there anything good about you?

A daughter-in-law and a general assistant, both of them turned their arms away at this time, where can you run?
Of course, Wang Lezhi's original intention should be to create an opportunity to help Su Huai and Gu Tongshu ease the conflict. However, when President Gu gave the task to Zuo Zongcai, who had just been severely ripped off, the matter was not that simple...

Su Huai understood this very deeply and correctly, so he asked decisively: "Brother, can you give me some advice? What should I want?"

"Bah! You have to call me uncle, you little brat!"

Zuo Zongcai cursed with a smile, and immediately began to give suggestions with great interest.

"This time, you can't just look at what you lack, but also what he has. It would be best if it was a special resource that would hurt him but not break his bones. When he takes it out, he can comfort himself by saying, 'This thing is not worth much money,' but in fact, it is equivalent to saving two or three hundred million in your hands..."

"High, it is high!"

Su Huai was flattering him sincerely. This guy was really bad. He was indeed a good friend of Gu Tongshu.
"So what does he have?"

"That's a lot."

Zuo Zongcai replied leisurely: "For example, Wanda Commercial Management's shares, do you want them?"

Su Huai did not hesitate for a second and shook his head decisively: "No."

"what?"

Zuo Zongcai clapped his hands in astonishment, "Not bad, not bad. You are still very sober and rational. It seems that I underestimated you..."

After a pause, he continued, "We can't give you that thing either. The money is secondary. The main thing is that this is a strategic asset related to the core and influence of the Gu family. We won't sell it even if you want to buy it at a fair price."

Here, Zuo Zongcai used the word "we".

Friends who often have dinner with the director must be able to hear that this is a reminder that is not particularly subtle, meaning - I can play with you as long as it does not affect the overall situation, but once it comes to serious business, Gu Tongshu and I are still one, do you understand?
Of course Su Huai understood, but he just curled his lips secretly and smiled.

It seems like no one wants to be a Wanda shareholder...

Now is the time when Wanda’s stock price and valuation are at their highest. If you buy their core assets, you will only lose money, not make any profit.

Xiao Wang has been quiet since then, and even his own daughter's child support has to be paid by his family after a big incident. Isn't it because he is not well-off?
Su Huai is not in a hurry to blackmail Xiao Wang now. Having a panda is enough for him.

"So, what are non-core assets? Please give me some pointers!"

Zuo Zongcai felt Su Hai's sense of propriety and was very satisfied, so he began to "backstab" Gu Tongshu.

"He has a bunch of amazing collections in his manor in Jinling. Are you interested?"

"not interested."

Su Huai knew that he was not yet at the stage where he could collect things, but he was still very curious: "What exactly are they?"

Zuo Zongcai was very excited and said, "There are so many, including glass-type imperial green jadeite from old mines in Myanmar, a complete set of huanghuali and red sandalwood furniture, unique paintings and calligraphy by ancient great poets and painters, aged Maotai wine, old tree tea, gold bars and official kiln porcelain from the Republic of China..."

"Wow! He really collected a lot..." Su Huai couldn't help but be amazed.

"Of course not!" Zuo Zongcai was very angry when he mentioned it. "He has so many things, worth billions of dollars in collections, but he wouldn't even give me a teapot if I asked for it..."

Su Huai immediately became alert: "What do you want?"

"Hmm? What's your attitude?"

Zuo Zongcai laughed angrily: "It's not yours!"

Su Huai continued to tease him: "It's only a matter of time. You should stop worrying about things that you shouldn't worry about~~~"

"Depend on!"

Lao Zuo raised his middle finger. It was rare for him to be rude, but Su Huai was worth it.

After finishing his nonsense, he continued to explain to Su Huai what unimportant but rare things Lao Gu had.

Only Zuo Zongcai could come up with such detailed information. No one else could do it.

However, with his level of skill, it was impossible for him to fail to grasp the right measure in revealing information, and what he actually brought out and talked about with Su Huai were all irrelevant things.

However, even after half an hour of talking about these things, we still couldn't finish, and the total value is roughly estimated to be more than 10 billion.

What is the concept of 10 billion?
In Tik Tok, these are just per capita figures. Any female guest on a dating show is considered to be from a billionaire family in the eyes of netizens.

In reality, Xingyu, which has the Internet's top dancer Pei Shuyu, the top female clothing anchor Zhang Dayi, and a total of over 2 anchors, has an external valuation of less than 20 billion, and Su Huai's theoretical net worth is only a few hundred million.

Therefore, those odds and ends that Gu Tongshu had were enough to buy Su Huai 20 times.

But...sooner or later it will be mine!
Gou Huai clenched his fist, three parts like a human and seven parts like a dog.

When talking about a certain point, Gou Huai's ears suddenly twitched: "Huh? You only have a small share of Byte?!"

"Well, it seems to be around 4 percent."

Zuo Zongcai was quite puzzled: "Is there anything special about ByteDance? Their two major products, Toutiao, focus on vulgarity, and Jokes, focus on vulgarity, and their upper limit is just like that. Mr. Gu invested that money in Zhang Yiming in his personal capacity. We, Gu's, did not participate in the D round, and we have no plans to continue to participate in the future..."

Good guy, I am really a good guy!

Gu Tongshu, you are a foxy spirit with thick eyebrows and big eyes. How could you despise ByteDance so much? !
If that's the case, then I'm thinking about it...

Su Huai licked his lips and asked expectantly, "How much did Lao Gu spend when he invested? How much is it worth now?"

"I think it was several million when I invested, right?"

Zuo Zongcai tried hard to recall, but was still unsure: "I don't remember the exact time, but it was very early. Now, ByteDance seems to be about to complete its D round of financing. Perhaps the valuation can reach 700 to 800 million?"

It’s 110 million!
Have fun!

And it’s just ten days later, on December 12th!
Su Huai rubbed his temples, started to organize his memory, and extracted all the relevant information.

Sequoia Capital China and CCB International invested a total of US$10 billion, accounting for 9% of the shares. After the D round, ByteDance's valuation reached US$110 billion.

If Lao Gu does not follow the investment, his 4.something percent will be diluted by at least one-tenth. It depends on how the deal is negotiated.

Compared with the trillion-dollar valuation of Taole in later generations, it was obviously nothing. But Su Huai felt distressed when he thought about it, because that was my dowry!
Holding onto a glimmer of hope, he asked, "Why not follow suit? Since Sequoia is optimistic about it, Gu shouldn't be short of that little money, right?"

“Why follow the investment?”

Zuo Zongcai looked at him with a strange look, as if he was mocking the child's naivety.

"Last year, the year before last, and the year before last, when Zhang Yiming was reminded by the competent department of the capital, I was the one who contacted Mr. Gu on his behalf. I know ByteDance's style too well.

That joke is mainly a vulgar joke. It has been online for more than four years but has less than 600 million monthly active users. Considering the policy risks, there is a high probability that something will go wrong once its monthly active users exceed 1000 million. Why should we continue to support their gambling behavior?
Toutiao does have some value, but its upper limit is just that. National conditions are different. We can’t compare it with Twitter or Facebook, right? "

Su Huai was stunned. He never expected that Zuo Zongcai and Gu Tongshu gave up on the investment because of this consideration.

If they don't have a forward-looking vision, then they are really awesome.

There is no problem in judging product risks, it is very accurate.

It is true that Neihan Duanzi soon fell after its rapid expansion. The reasons are complicated, but the essence is very simple - there was a problem with its foundation.

The bigger the platform, the more it should focus on value orientation. You can be coquettish, vulgar, and materialistic and show off your wealth in private, but you cannot publicize it, because teenagers and even young children can only imitate and do not know how to distinguish.

By the same token, it won't affect adults at all if they watch welfare girls on the Internet, but if teenagers always watch that kind of stuff, big problems will arise.

Zuo Zongcai's views on jokes are not extreme, and his understanding of society is obviously much deeper than that of a technical guy like Zhang Yiming.

In fact, Zhang Yiming later reflected deeply on it, and the entire text of "Apology and Reflection" was written quite sincerely. Since that day, the overall atmosphere of Douyin has been cleared up, making it the cleanest platform on the entire Internet.

Dance hosts can live well anywhere except on Douyin. Wang Yumeng and others are lifted every time they dance.

Wang Quanhongxing and Ni Haishan, who showed off their wealth, Da Lan and Hai Cucumber, who cut leeks, and Qu Qu, who instigated women to fish, were all banned.

The anchors who made scripts to incite consumption were restricted, and the PK anchors lost a lot of hair...

If Su Huai were to say, it's pretty good. A public platform should look like a public platform. Those who like to have fun can go somewhere else. The cleaner the Douyin used by the elderly and children at home, the better.

However, from the perspective of investors, Gu Tongshu and Zuo Zongcai, who cannot see the development of TikTok, have reason to be pessimistic about ByteDance.

Su Huai didn't intend to persuade them to run into the venue, he just thought that if you don't like it, you can give it to me...

Can Gu Tongshu give it to me?

Not now, it’s too damn expensive.

A few 4% of the shares after dilution is worth 20 million yuan, more than billion RMB. How dare you ask for that?
But Su Huai can take a small detour.

"What do you think..." Su Huai asked thoughtfully, "How about letting Uncle Gu enter the market in advance to hold Xingyu shares?"

Zuo Zongcai was completely confused.

"Ah? What's your train of thought? Instead of extorting money, you're giving it away?"

After thinking for a while, he suddenly changed his tone: "It's not impossible to ask for a higher price... What is the valuation you plan to set and how much shares do you plan to give? If it's similar, I'm willing to enter the market early."

"Now, it's difficult for us to unify the valuation of Xingyu."

Su Huai spread his hands and sighed half-truthfully.

"Based on the current net income, it is reasonable for me to set Xingyu's valuation at 100 billion, but I am afraid that the outside world may not agree..."

"What a beautiful thought."

左宗材只是冷笑，张口道出一个数字：“你们公司12月的净收入快到1个亿了吧？一年12亿，市场普遍按照年收入的10到30倍去估值，你怎么不估到300亿呢？！”

The main problem of Xingyu is that most of the income is contributed by Yu Ji and Zhang Dayi, but one is rewarding and the other is selling goods, which is not stable enough from the traditional perspective.

But Su Huai did not give up: "I don't want cash? I can give him 20% by exchanging Byte shares and Xingyu shares..."

"what!"

Zuo Zongcai laughed angrily: "Do you think he will agree?"

"I think so."

Su Huai seemed unusually calm, with a cunning wisdom flashing in his eyes.

"Because I can do this - let Xiao Gu set up a company of her own, and Lao Gu will use the shares of ByteDance and several other technology innovation companies to invest. Then I will use 20% of Xingyu's personal shares to exchange with Xiao Gu, and her company will become the majority shareholder of Xingyu, and I will take the 4% of ByteDance shares..."

"Hiss...you are really not a human..."

Zuo Zongcai took a sip of the cold noodles and was shocked.

This method is really feasible. Gu Jiuyue will definitely not reject Su Huai, and will even be happy to run Xingyu with him.

But he didn't understand: "Why do you have to keep your eyes on ByteDance's shares? You don't even have a seat on the board of directors, is it that important?"

“Because I can’t get the shares of Kuaishou!”

Su Huai spread his hands and started to deceive people half-truthfully.

"Xigua, Huoshan, Duanzi, Douyin, Kuaishou, Bili, Meipai, Miaopai, Tingxun Video... There are so many video apps that are highly related to live streaming. Xingyu's layout needs one as a base, but I can't afford it myself. I can only invest in existing ones! What can I do? I have a headache, okay?"

Zuo Zongcai believed it.

Or it could be described as, he couldn't find any flaws in this confession.

It’s not that he is not smart enough, but that normal people can only follow the current logic.

"Hey, your style of thinking ahead is really suitable for starting a business. I am more and more optimistic about you. You should really build your own live broadcast website and video platform as soon as possible. It's too passive to keep doing downstream business. Sooner or later, you will be played by others."

"So, help?"

Faced with Su Huai's expectant eyes, Zuo Zongcai agreed without much thought.

Because of the detour Su Huai took - replacing it through Gu Jiuyue.

"Help! We must help!"

Zuo Zongcai burst into laughter again, looking like a bad guy from head to toe.

"I really want to see Gu Tongshu's reaction. He finally built a company for his baby as a dowry, but in the end he just sold his leaky little cotton-padded jacket to you for free. Wouldn't he be unable to eat for half a month? Hahahaha!"

After laughing wildly for a while, he suddenly tilted his head and locked his eyes with Su Huai, saying his last few words meaningfully.

"But Xiao Su, you must remember one thing - you can make money from this business, but you can't regard everything you earn as your own ability and vision.

You, can you understand what I mean?"

Of course Su Huai understood.

You can play and make noises as you like with your family members, but when the day comes when you become strangers, the more you earn now, the more you will owe.

This is not a fair trade that is done willingly, but the little puppy is taking advantage of Gu Jiuyue's feelings to fleece Old Gu.

He can only hold his nose and bear it now, but the accounts are still pending.

The day when Xiao Gu and Su Huai fell out was the time to collect the debt.

But Su Huai didn't feel the pressure, because he could give Gu Jiuyue much more than just a little money...

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In recent times, there is a high probability that there will be a lot of cutting back and forth, eating up the shorts and then the longs.

Wall Street is damn ready, and any impromptu trades should not be made.

(End of this chapter)