My Age of Investment

  Chapter 868 Suspicion

  Lin'an, Ari headquarters.

  Cai Congxin knocked on an office with three characters "Peach Blossom Island" and walked in.

  As far as the eye can see, bookshelves, calligraphy and painting, tea table...not like an office, but more like a study room with antique decorations.

  Slightly ruining the style of the room is the modern sofa under Jack Ma’s buttocks, and a bottle of camphor wood root carving tea table is placed in front of the sofa.

  Cai Congxin suggested to Ma Yun several times that it is more natural to replace the sofa with a wooden stool, but Ma Yun refuted him: this is a combination of Chinese and Western, pragmatism, and tea is more comfortable.

   "Jack, you are looking for me."

  Ma Yun nodded, greeted Cai Congxin to sit down on the opposite sofa, and then raised the teapot to make a cup of tea for the other party.

  Cai Congxin picked up a small tea cup, didn’t drink it, and sniffed it first, "Good tea, super Longjing, right?"

  Ma Yun chuckled, "Joseph, your tea-tasting skills are getting better and better!"

  Cai Congxin smiled lightly. He didn't like to drink tea before. He usually drank coffee, but after joining Ari, he also started to learn to drink tea and integrate into the group.

  Ma Yun got up, took a paper from the desk, and handed it to Cai Congxin.

  Receiving the file, Cai Congxin glanced up and asked in confusion, "Jingxi Mall, with an annual turnover of only 80 million, can be regarded as a small e-commerce company. Why, are you interested in this company?"

  Ma Yun smiled, "Do you think this company has any special features?"

  “In the self-operated model, the types of goods are all electronic and digital products, and I don’t see too many special places.”

  Ma Yun nodded slightly, "Yeah! I didn't see the special place, but some people think it is special, or it has potential."

  Tsai Congxin heard the cloud, and asked: "What's the matter?"

  Ma Yun sighed, "Xia Jingxing invested in this home appliance company."

Hearing the words, Cai Congxin frowned immediately, "What does he want to do? Long bet? Shouldn't it! Ari is like Qin Shihuang back then, sweeping Liuhe, he will soon pick the fruits of victory.

  At this juncture, why would he invest in another e-commerce company? Do you think the pattern of the e-commerce industry has not stabilized yet? Are there repetitions? "

  Ma Yun shook his head, "I also can't figure it out! Do you think it is because Ari acquired Word of Mouth and Xia Jingxing deliberately gave us eye drops?"

  "Not so much!"

  Cai Congxin shook his head violently, and said firmly, “No matter how young and eager Xia Jingxing is, he won’t make a joke with an investment of 700 million U.S. dollars.

  Furthermore, Dianping was invested by Envision Capital. Isn’t it Ahri?

  Our two invested companies compete with each other. Xia Jingxing has reasons to mediate, but there is no reason to blame one party. "

  Ma Yun nodded and said yes.

   "By the way, how did you know the news?" Cai Congxin asked.

Ma Yun said indifferently: "Xia Jingxing personally called me yesterday. He told me that Fuxing Industry Group would invest in an e-commerce website that specializes in electronic and electrical products and expand the sales channels of Fuxing Industry's products, so I don’t think too much. .

After    came down, I found someone to investigate Jingxi specially, and got the report in your hand. "

  Cai Congxin asked: "Fuxing Industry Group invested? Not Vision Capital?"

   "No!" Ma Yun shook his head.

   "Then what is your attitude?"

  Ma Yun smiled, "What attitude can I do? Not to mention the investment of Renaissance Industry, it is really the investment of Envision Capital, what can I say? People will call you to explain in person, it can be said to give you enough face."

   Cai Congxin looked thoughtful, and said after a moment: "I guess, this matter is not easy, Xia Jingxing must have deep meaning."

   "Yes! I think so too, so I asked you to count it together."

  Ma Yun has a serious expression. As a businessman with a keen sense of smell, Fuxing Industry's investment in Jingxi is full of doubts, and he has to think more about it.

  Why not Vision Capital Investment? Renaissance Industry, a group just formed, invests abroad so soon?

   "Will it be Mingxiu plank road, dark Chen Cang?"

  Cai Congxin helped the glasses with a serious expression and said: “Vision Capital invests in companies with a very high proportion of shares, and the outside world has always suspected that some companies may be annexed.

  Especially Xia Jingxing is not yet an investor who focuses on the VC industry. Hainei.com has developed very fast, which is very shocking! "

  Ma Yun's eyes flashed, and then he said: "We thought of going together!

  Xia Jingxing is not a pure VC investor, he has his own Internet company.

  Hainainet has a huge number of users. If you cooperate with this Jingxi, won’t the latter have traffic? "

  Cai Congxin has a stern expression and murmured: "At that time, we will buy Jingxi again. Social and e-commerce will become one."

  Ma Yun nodded slightly, he also had concerns in this regard.

  Cai Congxin took a breath. So, Jingxi might become Ari’s rival?

  It is obvious that he has already invested a large sum of money as Ari, what motivation does Xia Jingxing have to go out and start an e-commerce business on his own?

  Cai Congxin expressed his thoughts.

   "Because of profit!"

  Ma Yun said coldly, “The fruit of e-commerce has become more and more mature, and everyone looks at it.

  Excellent, eBay fell, and Penguin emerged again and launched a Paipai.com.

  Hainai.com's position in the SNS industry has gradually stabilized, and it will definitely look for a monetization model. "

   "But Envision Capital has invested 700 million US dollars in us after all!"

  Cai Congxin frowned. He felt that things were complicated and the lines inside were messy.

  Ma Yun said calmly: "Think about it, when did Envision Capital invest in Ari?"

   "2005, just over a year."

Ma Yun nodded, "Yes, just over a year, and in such a short period of time, Xia Jingxing extended his career to China, acquired Hainei.com (Xiaonei.com), invested in Internet start-ups, and pieced together a revival industry. The group, spanning the Internet, investment, industrial manufacturing and other three fields, what a huge industrial empire.

  This is enough to see that Xia Jingxing is very ambitious, or simply a bit more ambitious. "

  Ma Yunqi took a sip of tea, and then went on to say: "At that time, his career focus was still in the United States, and he had no domestic foundation. Investing in Ari is a way to explore!

  Now his career focus has slowly turned back to China, and the industrial empire is getting bigger and bigger.

  We have every reason to believe that he wants to dominate the Chinese Internet! "

   "Dominate the Chinese Internet?"

  Cai Congxin’s face is constantly changing, "He still has investment companies and industrial manufacturing groups, so many industrial layouts, are you afraid to burst your stomach?"

  Ma Yun chuckled, “Become famous when young, invincible, never tasted failure, and ambitious is very normal.”

   Cai Congxin was silent for a moment, nodding his head: "If your speculation is true, we must prepare early."

  Ma Yun nodded, "Yes, it must be admitted that his capital strength is very strong. If he enters e-commerce, it will be a serious threat to us. However, Ari is not a muddlehead."

  Cai Congxin pursed his lips for a few seconds, and then said: "If he wants to enter the e-commerce, we have to eliminate internal instability as soon as possible."

   "You said that 23% of the shares?"

  Cai Congxin nodded, “Yes, we plan to list B2B business operations this year. Once successful, Envision Capital will taste the fruits of victory and capital strength will rise to the next level.

  It would be disgusting if he took the money earned by Ari and hit us again. "

  Ma Yun pondered for a moment, "You are right, you can't be a rival in any case!"

  "But Envision Capital is not a small company. I heard that the LP behind it has gathered the upper class, university funds, and retirement funds in the United States. It is impossible for us to force Envision Capital to expel."

  Ma Yun sighed, “I’m just worried about this. Unless they take the initiative to withdraw, it will be difficult to force them to withdraw.”

  Cai Congxin thought for a while, suddenly his eyes lit up, "I have an idea!"

"tell me the story."

  (End of this chapter)