After being an investment manager for 5 years, after leaving his job in this month, he had to have dinner with the CEO of the company he invested in, Xiaowolf, in fact, he wanted to find a way back for himself, but in order to be afraid of what the other party had in mind. So he especially proposed in advance: I have left my job, cooperated for so long, this dinner is as a friend.
This company of Dafeitou actually has a story. When he invested, the original is still the direction of artificial intelligence, although the concept is very good technical concept can also be, but has burned thousands, but even a prototype has not been made, just in 2017 encountered the blockchain fever, the little wolf led a group of people to quickly turn to the blockchain, as the investment manager's big flight, in this hanging famous university affiliated institutions to invest in the tens of millions of miles, have their own 3 million, at this time riding the tiger is difficult, had to follow the team's professional advice. Unfortunately, soon the blockchain bubble came and went in a hurry, and before it could have a ring, it began to diverge again. And the result of similar technology is the competition of customers and the competition of resources, and Dafei has always thrown all the resources that may be used, such as his classmates, friends, and leaders.
Although not much progress has been made, for the little wolf and the team, Dafei can also be regarded as an iron rod that has been sending charcoal in various snows. After 5 years of acquaintance and run-in, he felt that he and the project team he had invested in had a similar "Stockholm" feeling between kidnappers and hostages: including not limited to trust, righteousness, mutual affection, mutual resentment, fear of loving the table and scolding the mother and shaking hands again the next day. He felt that his feelings for his wife were not as deep as for this team.
He believed that little wolf felt the same way, after all, two big men talking about work at one o'clock in the morning, talking about coming out to drink and skewers was also considered a man's romance - although both of them had been followed by girlfriends and were also suspected of having any flowers.
Little Wolf received the invitation WeChat, replied to an old place, and then hurriedly added a sentence: Don't take Peng Zong.
Da Fei Le: I have already blocked those two goods.
Peng is always the boss of the joint organization that joins Da Fei in the little wolf, and is the kind that often appears on TV to show his tongue and bloom lotus. However, at that time, the two institutions invested in a total of 20 million points 5% of the share of shares, although the institution where Dafei was a chicken thief, but the money was still in place; and Pengzong, the thunder and rain were small, the money was not happy, after the signing of the original contract of 10 million, the agreement was to arrive within a week, and the result was that Pengzong grinded and took 2 years to give, in addition, he always wanted to be a layman outside the command of the insider, but also liked to pull people to chat in the middle of the night, talk about philosophy, talk about life, for which the invested technicians did not complain less behind their backs.
At the beginning of the project, the little wolf and the team need advanced and resources, Peng always had to drink a lot of wine to engage in team building known as link trust; when the project went forward, the team needed technical bulls and academic resources, Peng always pointed out on the side: Is your direction wrong? Is it psychologically necessary to strengthen? When the project finally had a bit of a breakthrough in technology, the team began to need customers, and Peng Zong's side came again: your core advantages still don't seem to be obvious, how do I feel that I can't impress customers, do you want to collectively go to the body, mind and soul practice...
Therefore, the little wolf endured for too long, and after a sum of money was recorded in the account, he directly blackmailed Peng Zong.
At that time, Da Fei listened, laughed and shouted: I can't help it, as a project company that is still looking for investment, it is not uncommon to directly block investors and shareholders.
The little wolf smiled: It was too annoying to take care of him.
As a result, Because Peng was blocked, he also consulted with Dafei and was ready to find some old alumni and old leaders to find Little Wolf and the entrepreneurial team to ask for an explanation. But this happened to be caught by Da Fei, so that he did not add to the chaos, and finally used two pounds of two pots with grilled skewers to pacify it. Peng Zong, who drank a lot, revealed the truth to Dafei: it is not that he does not want to give money, since 2018, all the invested projects have not exited, looking at the valuation is very good, as long as they go in, they will fall into the pit; but if they do not enter, there is no project, there is no chance to exit, and fundraising will be affected.
You say, I am a good investment company, if the project has no project, if it wants to make a profit, it is not profitable, and even the fundraising cannot be pushed - the projects are unreliable one by one, and even listen to me say a few words of literary lyricism? These entrepreneurs have become uncles?
Dafei deeply understands the dilemma of Pengzong, after all, his own institutional investment, in order to reduce the pressure, by the way, the investment manager into the project, every project, the investment manager must also follow the investment or joint investment: the reason is very simple, you see the project you have to bleed, always take other people's money to play otherwise sooner or later everyone will have to finish playing.
At the beginning, Dafei felt that the rules of this game were reasonable and acceptable, but in the past 5 years, although Dafei claimed to earn 3 million yuan a year, in fact, the money he earned was basically invested in the project, and he also fell into the dilemma of not investing in the project, and the chicken and egg were hit by the investment. For the first two years, he has always felt that the time for the project has not arrived, and then he feels that there is a problem with the selected project, and now in 2021, he finally understands completely: the good era of venture capital has passed, and the previous tide has passed.
In fact, he came to find Little Wolf to drink as a friend, and the core appeal was that the investment industry was not easy to mix, and to see if Little Wolf, a company that had at least survived, had a suitable position, and it was also a reality. After all, with the little wolf for 5 years, it is also a good idea to take care of each other, give up 3 million annual salary, with his financing experience and top school background as long as 500,000 will not be difficult for each other.
I didn't think that in the smoky fire grill next to Wudaokou, Da Fei waited for the little wolf to arrive at least 20 minutes, and the first sentence of the meeting: Sorry sorry, just held a meeting to lay off employees!
The small flame in Da Fei's heart immediately cooled, and he asked busily: What's wrong?
"The market environment is not good, can not afford to raise so many people, take advantage of the festival to quickly explain clearly so that they can prepare in advance." After that, the work of three people will be carried by two people. We are already very responsible for not cutting wages! ”
Hearing this, Da Fei's heart was cold, and he had to pretend that there was nothing wrong with the past, and at the same time secretly thought, tonight he had to turn over the circle of friends for more than half a year to see what kind of friend company he was looking for next.