Chapter 288: The Material Foundation Of The Asura Field, 287
In the end, Wang Heng and Lu Qi settled the investment matter.
Lu Qi used three million along with personal connections in the programmer circle to secure 7% shares in Anzhi Technology. However, since Wang Heng did not plan to seek more investment and the company did not plan to promote it externally, everything was simplified as much as possible.
Signing the contract, equity changes, fund transfers—these matters did not require involving others; the few people present handled them in the simplest mode.
In the days that followed, the company operated as usual. Wang Heng, Lu Qi, and Han Yixuan continued to be busy with their respective matters, while Shen Yexi continued slacking off in the company—of course, in his view, this was absolutely not slacking off, but searching for clues and piecing together the truth of the covert battle among the rich second generation heirs.
Until one day in mid-October, Shen Yexi received an email from fof founder Wei Kai.
After reading the email content, Assistant Shen immediately called Wang Heng.
“Hey, boss, someone wants to invest in fof!”
On the phone, Wang Heng’s voice sounded somewhat bewildered: “Someone? Which one?”
“Levi Capital, it seems…” Shen Yexi, while on the phone, had already looked up information on this investment institution on the computer. “It’s a professional venture capital institution with apparently strong strength!”
Wang Heng: “They want to invest in fof, right? Good, then discuss it with them.”
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A day later, in Anzhi Technology’s office, a video meeting began.
Wang Heng sat in front of the computer, facing the display screen, with a smile on his face: “Hello, President Du, I’m Wang Heng from Anzhi Technology.”
On the screen was a man around forty years old, with a full beard on his chin but a smooth bald head without a single hair. The wrinkles on his face carried a full sense of vicissitude, giving off a feeling of dominance and steadiness at first glance.
This person’s identity was general manager of Levi Capital, Du Zhengyang.
“President Wang is really young,” Du Zhengyang also had a smile on his face. “The young are formidable, the young are formidable. And I heard from Wei Kai that his idea to do shared bicycles was largely thanks to President Wang’s guidance?”
Wang Heng said indifferently: “I just casually mentioned some rough idea to him, it’s nothing.”
Du Zhengyang: “Genius is that 1% inspiration! For President Wang to think of it is already impressive!”
Wang Heng: “President Du overpraises. Moreover, shared bicycles are still in the startup stage, and Wei Kai has just started laying them out in universities in the Imperial Capital, yet you’ve already come knocking—this vision is truly remarkable…”
After some mutual flattery, Du Zhengyang got to the point.
“For the shared bicycle business, the most important thing in the early stage is to roll it out, ideally having bicycles appear in every corner of every school in the Imperial Capital. This requires enormous funds. From what I know, fof’s cash flow reserves are probably still quite limited, right?”
Wang Heng frankly admitted: “Yes, I only invested in the angel round, less than one million, to let them try it out in a few universities first. If there’s no problem, I’ll add more investment.”
Du Zhengyang nodded and probed: “But you already hold a lot of shares, right? If you add more investment, will Wei Kai and the others still have dominant position?”
Wang Heng pondered the other’s gaze and calmly replied: “So, in future investments, the share I participate in won’t be too large. I don’t plan to take Wei Kai’s dominant position.”
Hearing this reassuring answer, Du Zhengyang’s expression showed no change.
He invited: “Then does President Wang have time recently? We’re planning to invest in a Pre-A round, and the funds are already prepared.”
Wang Heng: “Starting soon?”
Du Zhengyang smiled: “The sooner the better, time waits for no one.”
Wang Heng: “Then I’ll fly to the Imperial Capital the day after tomorrow, see you then, President Du.”
After the video ended, Wang Heng looked at the assistant standing nearby and said: “Notify Lu Qi and Han Yixuan. We’ll depart the day after tomorrow; if they’re available, it’s best to go together.”
Shen Yexi respectfully nodded: “Understood, President Wang.”
Wang Heng opened the calendar on the computer, checked the date, and silently calculated.
In his memory, the bull market surge over the next two years should enter the peak period starting from the end of this year. The funds in the account available for buying stocks were about sixty million plus; he had been somewhat lazy in the past two months and hadn’t extracted more stock market information from the hamster… But no matter, he remembered that one major enterprise’s stock would start rising from the end of this year.
Huaxia South Vehicle was about to announce a merger with North Vehicle, with the major positive news attracting the attention of countless stockholders.
Before it rose, as long as he entered the market with tens of millions in hand, achieving several small goals within half a year would be a natural outcome.
Thinking of this, Wang Heng smiled from the heart.
At this moment, Shen Yexi finally couldn’t help asking: “President Wang, for this fof investment, do you plan to sell off part of the equity?”
Wang Heng subconsciously said: “Why sell? It’s too early to sell now; wait and see. Our company’s investment strategy is to play the long game for big fish.”
Either Alibaba or Penguin. He definitely wouldn’t exit early before handing fof over to them.
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The next morning in the meeting room, the four people from Anzhi Technology gathered again.
At this time, Levi Capital had already sent an investment intent document—this was not yet a formal investment intent letter, just outlining Levi Capital’s scale and nature, the evaluation of fof, and the expected investment amount.
Seeing the eight million figure, Han Yixuan and Lu Qi both fell silent.
Suddenly, Lu Qi asked: “If we don’t co-invest, the equity will be diluted, right?”
Wang Heng nodded: “Of course, so we’ll co-invest a portion.”
Lu Qi: “Is the money enough?”
Wang Heng: “Don’t we have the three million you brought? Using a portion for co-investment will be enough. Actually, a little dilution doesn’t matter; after all, as long as fof develops smoothly, there will definitely be multiple financing rounds in the future. We can’t always hold thirty percent equity; it will be diluted anyway.”
Han Yixuan couldn’t help murmuring: “Shared bicycles, can they really develop that smoothly…”
Wang Heng smiled: “I have great confidence in this project. Although profiting is quite difficult, earning buzz is easy, so it’s particularly convenient to attract big shot investment. In today’s cities, people’s demand for transportation is always unsatisfied. Especially in places without subway and with traffic jams, if you want to get through quickly, what can you do?”
Lu Qi stared at him and suddenly laughed: “Do you still remember the hoverboard I gave you? That works too; it’s just that I haven’t seen you using it recently…”
Wang Heng certainly remembered. When he received this gift back then, he was genuinely happy for two days. But his roommates’ reactions made him realize a problem. Riding such an expensive thing around campus every day was too conspicuous.
So after buying the new house, he had put that hoverboard there. He originally thought he could take it out for a spin from time to time, but as the asura field developed and his distance with the girls grew closer, it could only gather dust inside the house.
Wang Heng could only bitterly smile and explain: “It’s inconvenient to use while living in the dormitory, so I put it away.”
Han Yixuan secretly felt vigilant—turns out Lu Qi had given him such a gift too?
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