If you are building a club in the city, the hardware investment will not be too high. The solution to the venue problem of most clubs is no different from that of a bathing center. It is to rent it and then renovate it. As long as you have an awesome design and decoration team, you can You can achieve whatever effect you want.
However, for Li Mu, the idea of a supercar club, the hardware investment was lost.
Li Mu and Chen Ze roughly calculated that the total investment for a Formula 3 standard track is no less than 120 million, but this has included the entire racing track from the track, seats, and other direct supporting facilities. Including it, because it is Formula Three standard, the construction of the entire track will take about a year.
As for the supporting hardware of the club, I am afraid that the funds required will be higher. At least it must be built according to a high-end comprehensive hotel. Because the service targets are members of the club, the scale can be appropriately smaller, but the overall specifications must be high, so initially After calculation, the overall investment in this area should basically not be less than 100 million. Of course, if the land can be obtained very cheaply, the related investment can be reduced appropriately.
House prices in Shunyi are now very low. The price of a community near the airport is only more than 2,000 yuan per square meter, so it seems that the land price should not be much more expensive.
Li Mu doesn't have enough cash on hand. The total funds from legitimate sources are only more than 10 million. Although there are still several million in income from plug-ins, they are still in another account and have not been taken out. If he wants to start a business with Chen Ze For a project that requires an investment of at least 200 million, takes one to two years to complete, and does not know when it will be profitable, Li Mu's financial pressure is still very high.
Although there is no one-time investment of more than 200 million, at least half of the cost must be spent in the first half of the year, which is 100 million! If he holds 10% of the shares, it's okay to just follow along. If Chen Ze wants to hold more shares, he can't afford it. Although he has shares in companies such as Makino Technology and Yiting Technology, they are now growing extremely fast. In the rising development period, if you cash out your shares now, you will lose too much.
Chen Ze also has some understanding of Li Mu's current situation. Although Li Mu's business is booming, he doesn't have much money on hand. The largest sum he cashed out was about 10 million from Xu Jiaming during the Series B financing of Makino Technology. To do this For large projects, cash on hand can be very difficult.
As for Chen Ze, he hopes that Li Mu can hold a larger share in this project, at least 40%, for no other reason than that he is not confident in his own management ability, but is very optimistic about Li Mu's. , only if Li Mu holds enough shares in the future CSC can he ensure that he puts this project in a more important position and operates it carefully.
So, Chen Ze said to Li Mu: "If this project is launched, I will provide all the initial start-up funds. The shares will be divided into 40 and 60, and I will be 60 and you will be 4. We will allocate the capital according to the actual amount of investment, but you don't need to do it in the early stage." Just invest money and wait until you have enough money to pursue the investment, or simply wait for the club to make profits in the future and deduct it from the profits you should distribute."
Chen Ze focused all the financial pressure on himself, which was a very, very generous treatment for Li Mu.
Having said this, Li Mu couldn't refuse, so he agreed and said: "You will provide me with the initial start-up capital first. In the second half of this year, I have plans to reduce my holdings in Yiting Technology. By then, I should be able to make a large sum of money." Funds will be added when the time comes.”
When Chen Ze saw that Li Mu had agreed to his invitation, he immediately smiled and said: "Okay! This is all a small matter. Let's get started quickly. I'll go back and register a company, and then look for connections in the city to see if I can Link the racing track to municipal projects of sports events and stadiums. If possible, we can get certain support from the government in terms of policies, land and subsequent operations."
Li Mu nodded and said: "This is very important. Starting from this year, the city government will definitely have to keep meeting with the Domestic Olympic Committee on the issue of Olympic venues. It is definitely imperative to build a large number of sports venues and facilities in Yanjing. If the government wants to In the long run, they will definitely start to study the operation of venues after the Olympics. If they can pay attention to this issue in advance, they may take this opportunity to introduce a series of subsidy policies for state-owned and private sports venues."
In Li Mu’s impression, the full flowering of the sports field in China will have to wait until 2014, because the leaders of that period attached great importance to sports-related work. However, this does not mean that the current government does not pay enough attention to sports. After the successful bid for the Olympic Games in 2001 , sports-related issues have already attracted the attention of the national and local governments. Once the whole people pay attention to sports, even private stadiums can benefit greatly from it.
Chen Ze said: "I will communicate as soon as possible, and then we will take time to visit the area near the airport and study the site selection issue. The construction period of this project is too long, and we cannot delay it! I can't wait now!" "
Li Mu asked him with a smile: "I think you can't wait to find Du Fei and use this project to lure her back to China, right?"
Chen Ze immediately said: "Isn't this your idea? I think it's very reliable. I'll go talk to her when the land selection is settled."
Li Mu nodded: "Okay, your honesty makes me speechless..."
Chen Ze said: "I am responsible for supporting matters such as money, land, and approval documents. You can carefully plan the development direction and planning of our club + track + professional racing team."
Li Mu agreed and kept thinking about the feasibility of his plan in his mind. There were so many supercar clubs in the previous life, but they seemed to be just an organization that showed off their wealth and party. They often showed off various sports cars and luxurious lives on Weibo. But no one has really focused on sports cars, and no one has even really driven sports cars on the track.
In developed countries, most owners of modified cars and sports cars regularly participate in an event called "Track Day". As the name suggests, this event means taking a day to experience car racing on a professional track that is open to the outside world. The real charm is also a kind of car culture. However, in China, modified cars cannot be driven on the road, supercars and lack of professional racing venues, so sports cars only form a culture of showing off wealth and nothing else.
In the future, if I work with Chen Ze, CSC, I will become the first supercar club in China with its own professional track. If I can popularize the concept of "track day" to future supercar owners in the country, it will also change the situation. As for the negative impression left by supercar owners on ordinary people, Li Mu is not worried about whether "track day" will be accepted in China. In his view, any habits and culture need to be guided and cultivated. Once guided, It's reasonable, anything has the potential to become popular.
Thinking about it this way, Li Mu suddenly felt that engaging in this CSC was also a very meaningful thing.
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The conversation was almost over, and both of them were very happy and drank a 750ml bottle of whiskey.
In the meantime, Fatty Wang thought that the two of them had almost finished talking about business, so he ran over with a bottle of XO from his collection. At the same time, he also brought a diamond membership card for Li Mu. The card number was V003. Fatty Wang said, this He had been keeping the card for Li Mu, waiting to give it to him personally when Li Mu came over.
As one of the shareholders, Li Mu happily accepted this membership card. With this card, it means that he has his own box in Sugar Club, and he can bring his friends over to play at any time. As for consumption, he can just swipe his membership card. You can enjoy a 30% discount on the price, and you don’t have to pay cash. The accounts will be recorded in the name of the shareholders, and they will be deducted when dividends are distributed.
Fatty Wang's careful consideration for these shareholders made Li Mu's eyes shine. Although Fatty has not received higher education, his vision of the market is somewhat insufficient, and he has a strong sense of philistine, he has a very good grasp of people's hearts. Well, he knows how to cater to people's psychology, and he is definitely a good player in the service industry.
Li Mu even thought that when CSC was launched in the future and he was hired to specialize in member services, he would be able to do a very good job.
Fatty Wang came over, and the three of them inevitably drank a little more. When Li Mu came out of the Sugar Club after the show, he was already feeling top-heavy, but his thinking was still clear and agile. Li Mu did not expect that as soon as he returned to Yanjing, he would take on such a heavy and large project for himself, so that his whole body suddenly started to feel busy. There were many things to do in three months, YY's closed beta + launch , the closed beta + launch of "Miracle MU", the former is the core of Makino Technology's future, and the latter is Li Mu's gold mine in 2002 and 2003, both are very important.
In contrast, Taobao's plan can only be postponed temporarily. Li Mu has been communicating with Fang Xudong via email in the United States. Fang Xudong told Li Mu in a recent email that he had submitted his resignation application to Google and currently has the The project is being prepared for handover, but due to the large amount of technical development work involved, the entire handover process will take at least a month, and Google will definitely not release anyone until all handovers are completed.
Li Mu calculated that if Fang Xudong could return to China in mid-April, he would be very happy, and he might not have to go until May.
However, Fang Xudong said in the email that his work has been allocated to other colleagues by his superiors, so he now has enough energy to take over some development work remotely in advance.
This made Li Mu overjoyed. He planned to hand over Taobao's entire transaction system and display ranking logic to Fang Xudong to build an e-commerce website. The front-end, back-end, and UI are not big things. The most important thing is that the hard technology is the load-bearing architecture. There can be no glitches or errors when transacting or paying for ten thousand people, and there can be no errors when transacting or paying for one million people. In the future, when the e-commerce spring comes and tens of millions of people rush to buy at an event, the transaction system must also be able to withstand this. The importance of the work is too great. It would be basically impossible for Li Mu to do it by himself. He does not have the strength.
(End of chapter)