On the third Friday of January, an earth-shattering event happened in Xia's financial world.
Sea Lion Group suddenly disclosed information and reached an agreement with Yunmeng Group on the acquisition of Modern Bicycle's equity, acquiring all Modern Bicycle's shares from them at a price of 700 million yuan in soft sister coins. After the completion of the equity acquisition agreement, it reached a capital increase agreement with the start-up team of Modern Bicycle, and planned to inject 1 billion to 1.5 billion yuan into Modern Bicycle to help Modern Bicycle capture the domestic market and maintain its current leading position.
As soon as this news came out, it can be said that one stone caused thousands of waves.
First of all, the other three giants that have entered the shared bicycle track have announced a new round of capital increase plans, intending to put all the chips on the table and show their teeth at the new giants entering the game.
In addition to the shared bicycles controlled by the three giants, other small, medium and local shared bicycles have also launched new preferential activities. Everything is to prevent the sea lion group from opening their big mouths, biting off the meat that has been eaten in their mouths, and preparing for the winter.
The fighting has entered a fever pitch.
Nowadays, the entire shared bicycle track is full of hand-to-hand collisions. Led by the four giants of the domestic Internet in Xia, and surrounded by a mixed bag of good and bad minions, the country has entered an era of separatist rule from the initial pioneering era.
In particular, Sea Lion Group, which controls WeChat, is rumored to be planning to provide financial services for shared bicycles. This also means that Modern Bicycle, which has previously adopted a "conservative" strategy on deposit appreciation plans, will adopt a more radical strategy. .
For example, some funds are transferred from the securities market and entered into the small and micro loan field of WeChat's business. This part of the profit will undoubtedly become a new profit growth point for Modern Bicycle, and will also bring considerable performance growth to the financial business of Hiace Group.
After the news came out, Sea Lion Group's share price opened 5% higher that day and continued to rise. Obviously investors in the secondary market are confident in Hiace Group’s entry into the bike-sharing industry.
And under such a vast ray of light, compared with the Sea Lion Group who drew their swords and waved their troops forward, the departing figure of the Yunmeng Group looked a little bleak.
On a financial forum.
Just like the sun rises every day, the waiters come here every day to sign in and talk about the latest news in the financial world and what gossip has happened in the stock market recently.
Among them, the most gossip-worthy news is undoubtedly the fact that Hiace Group has invested in Modern Bicycle.
"It's too impatient to get off the bus so early."
"Yes, I heard that the chairman of Yunmeng Group is only in his early twenties?"
"Why are you in your early twenties? You're only 19 this year."
"No wonder, young people are used to making quick money and cannot settle down to make value investments."
"What do you know? You're just here to watch the fun! Think about it carefully. If the Yunmeng Group doesn't give up its equity, could the Sea Lion Group come in to carry the sedan for them? Wouldn't it be good to start a new one by yourself? Something like that Have they done enough?"
"So Yunmeng Group is still doing good things?"
"Otherwise? If you stay, you will be fighting alone. If you leave, at least you will be safe. Facing the three giants' combined efforts to encircle and suppress them is already difficult enough. If the sea lions also plan to enter the game, even the first one to eat the crab will be the last one. I can’t even get a share of the soup. Now that I’m leaving, I can bring in an ally for my old friend, so it’s not a debt.”
"Haha, there is no morality or right or wrong in business, it's just that the price is right."
On the one hand, people regret that Yunmeng Group chose to get off the bus early when the dawn just shines on the earth; on the other hand, they are envious of the gains that Yunmeng Group gained from this equity transfer.
In the first round of financing, they spent 20 million to acquire 50% of the shares of Modern Bicycle. Now, if Hiace Group wants to buy these shares from them, it will have to spend 700 million.
In just three months, this income has increased 35 times!
With such a high rate of return, even the stock gods have to bow down.
Regarding this sky-high acquisition, the person who has the most complicated feelings is undoubtedly WeChat department manager Wang Dalong. He met Hao Yun in Jiangcheng at that time, and he clearly felt that when he heard that he and two executives from Daimi and Longwei Group valued his company at 500 million, the young man The expression on his face is obviously moved!
Unfortunately…
Valuation is valuation, and none of the three of them is willing to actually spend 500 million to buy Yunmeng Group.
But regretting now seems meaningless. Wang Dalong also knows in his heart that even if he had that idea at the time and even wrote a report and submitted it to the board of directors, it would be absolutely impossible to get even one vote of approval.
Are you kidding me, spending 500 million to acquire a start-up company that has been established for less than a few months? Just because of a few popular games
Stop dreaming!
However, having said that, I still feel angry just thinking about it!
Gan!
It wasn't just Wang Dalong who was beating his chest and feeling regretful. Xu Qianshi, CEO of DaMi Entertainment, looked at the newspaper in his hand with complex emotions written all over his face.
The company that made the quotation to Yunmeng Group was not just a company from Sea Lion Group, and unlike Wang Dalong who rushed to find it, he had even reported it to the board of directors.
However, after all, the price was still 200 million yuan short of agreement, and then it was mixed up by Long Wei and Haishi, and finally the matter was settled.
"700 million in three months... It seems that there are many young people born after the New Year on the rich list this year." After smacking his lips, Xu Qianshi put down the newspaper in his hand with a look of reluctance.
DaMi Group has also investigated shared bicycle projects before, but in the end, considering that its own resource advantages were difficult to compete with those Internet giants, it finally simply adjusted its strategy and switched to hardware such as smart lock chips, while watching the gods fight on the track. I squatted beside him and took a sip of soup.
It is impossible not to be jealous.
However, what surprised Xu Qianshi was that just when countless capitals were envious of these bicycles to quickly conquer the city and gradually spread to second- and third-tier cities, Yunmeng Group actually chose to retreat.
Sold Modern for 700 million.
What others see is a 35-fold return, but from a capital perspective, this transaction must have been a loss.
Originally, she had a good relationship with Hao Yun, but Xu Qianshi couldn't figure it out after much thinking, so he simply called him after get off work and offered a compliment with a smile.
"Hey, Mr. Hao, congratulations! By this time next year, brother, I'm afraid I'll have to look up to your name on the rich list."
Hao Yun was a little embarrassed by this flattery.
Although he knew that Xu Qianshi, the old fox, probably had something to do with him, he still couldn't help but feel a little proud in his heart.
"Low-key, low-key, why is 700 million on the rich list... What you said is too exaggerated."
Xu Qianshi said jokingly with a smile.
"35 times in three months, but not 140 times in a year? It's easy to get on the rich list with 98 billion!"
Hao Yun: "..."
Why the hell didn’t you say 35 to the 4th power
Seeing that Hao Yun didn't speak, Xu Qianshi coughed slightly in embarrassment and continued.
"Brother Hao, let's be serious, may I ask a question?"
"what is the problem."
"Are you really going to give up on the bike sharing track?" Xu Qianshi said in disbelief, "If you are going to start a new business, you might as well consider our rice group. Although we can't help you much in terms of traffic, the hardware Here, it’s not a big problem to beat up a sea lion.”
As one of the giants in the Xiaguo electronics industry, although there is still some gap between DaMi Group and its friends such as Longwei Group, its hardware technology is more than sufficient compared with Internet companies.
Although they were just watching the excitement, if they were not jealous of the profits at all, that would be an overestimation of their integrity.
The so-called caution is nothing more than a discussion of whether it is worth it or not after weighing the risks and benefits. It is no exaggeration to say that with the successful example of Modern Bicycle in front of him, if Hao Yun plans to start a new business, just these four words Yunmeng Group are worthy of at least one billion in financing.
When Xu Qianshi said this, part of him was really curious about Yunmeng Group's reason for doing this, and part of him had a persuasive tone.
Are you really willing to give up like this
This is not only his own doubts, but also the soul torture sent by Da Mi to Yunmeng Group.
However, Hao Yun's reaction was beyond Xu Qianshi's expectations.
"So what if you give up, so what if you don't give up?" Youyou sighed, and Hao Yun on the other end of the phone leaned on the office chair and continued, "The money in the bank card account is money, what other valuations are there? The market value, in my opinion, is all false.”
Confused by this sentence, Xu Qianshi was stunned for a few seconds and couldn't help but ask.
"… What does it mean?"
"It means that I think it's almost time to leave."