Chapter 77 Investing in Leshi.com?

Listening to Qin Lan's introduction, Meng Bai's movements gradually slowed down and he fell into deep thought.

The film and television entertainment industry is a circle that is relatively close to capital. After all, film and television projects are "black boxes" one by one. Various capital operations, asset turnover, and financial games can be played happily under this layer of "packaging".

As a light-asset company, the money in Arclight Film's account is basically all working capital. From the perspective of capital appreciation, every second that this money is lying in the bank account is a loss.

Meng Bai naturally has the idea of ​​investing. According to the concept of "Investment Basics", he started with the field he is most familiar with and best at, so he invested in "Psychological Crime".

There is nothing wrong with investing in yourself!

Most of the funds were invested in the project, and the remaining money, in addition to maintaining the normal operation of the company, is about one million.

This money is not much, but it is not a small amount. Meng Bai has never known what to do with it.

He also wants to go to the stock market. After all, from the beginning of the year to now, the A-share market has been full of good news. Even the aunties who lined up to receive eggs at the gate of the community almost knew that the A-share market was experiencing a "bull market" that was rare in a decade.

It was just that although Meng Bai was jealous, he never took action. As he said before, he liked to plan before acting and hated to get involved in things that could not be controlled.

However, Qin Lan's news today made him see an opportunity.

Leshi.com has always been a "high-quality target" in the capital market

. As a "pioneer of artificial concepts", "PPT war god" and "excellent financial report painter", Boss Jia has maintained the rapid rise of Leshi's stock price in the past two years. If the news of mergers and acquisitions is true, then entering the market now can really be "waiting to count money".

But...

Qin Lan sensed Meng Bai's hesitation, sat up and asked: "Why? Do you think that investing in Leshi Pictures is not a good choice?"

Meng Bai woke up from his deep thoughts and shook his head: "No, I was thinking that this is indeed a good opportunity, but why haven't I heard about it during this period of time in Leshi?"

Qin Lan explained: "It's normal that you haven't heard of it. I also heard her mention it once when I went to see Weiwei last time. It seems that this 'merger and reorganization' is just an idea of ​​​​that boss Jia."

This is normal. After all, for a listed company like Leshi.com, major matters such as "merger and reorganization" cannot be made known to everyone at the beginning when they are not made public.

After briefly explaining the relationship to Qin Lan, he then said: "Even if there is no 'merger and reorganization', this investment is not a loss. After all, Leshi Pictures itself is also a high-quality asset..."

Speaking of this, Meng Bai paused and did not finish his words.

In fact, he did not have any objection to Leshi Pictures' additional share financing. His concerns came more from Leshi.com itself.

Yes, although it is a cooperative relationship with Leshi.com, although Leshi is now developing at its peak, and although the PPT layout of that boss Jia has almost expanded to Hollywood, Meng Bai always feels that something is not normal.

The most obvious problem is that Leshi.com has too many businesses. Internet, film and television, sports, finance, venture capital, physical manufacturing, red wine, and even recently they want to start making mobile phones.

Most of Leshi's businesses need to burn money. But unlike real Internet giants such as Penguin and Alibaba, Leshi.com does not have a real "blood-making machine".

So far, except for Leshi Pictures and Leshi Sports, which are a few businesses that can make normal profits, the rest are all burning investors' and shareholders' money to move forward.

If everything goes well, there will be no problem. But once you encounter a "black swan" or a "bear market", it is likely that this big ship will run aground.

However, these are just some personal guesses in Meng Bai's mind. He is now just a small producer of a small company, and these words will only be regarded as "worrying about nothing".

In fact, he sometimes felt that his thoughts were a bit redundant. So many professional investors and venture capital institutions did not think there was anything wrong with Leshi.com, so why was he, an outsider, still thinking about it?

Besides, with the current size and market value of Leshi.com, even if it was pure money burning, it would be enough to burn for two or three years. If there was anything wrong, that would be a matter for the future, but the opportunity to make money was right now.

Thinking of this, Meng Bai asked, "How much investment quota do you have here?"

"Our investment model of 'star shareholders' is like this. All investors who want to join in this round but do not have such a large amount of funds will set up an asset management company together, and then indirectly hold shares in Leshi.com through this company." Qin Lan explained, "According to the different wishes of each person, it is roughly divided into three levels of 10 million, 5 million and 3 million. I am in the 5 million level."

"Excuse me, how many people are there in your 'group' now?" Meng Bai asked.

Qin Lan thought for a moment and said, "Seven or eight, all of whom are friends who usually keep in touch with Weiwei."

She briefly introduced them. As far as she knew, the celebrities who co-invested included Su Mang, the president of "Harper's Bazaar", Chen Chichi, Li Chen, Ma Su, Ni Ni, etc., and basically all of them invested 5 million.

"No one invested 10 million?" Meng Bai asked curiously.

"Yes, but there is only one." Qin Lan smiled and said, "You must have heard of her."

"Who?"

"Liu Tao."

"Ah——" Meng Bai suddenly realized, it was Teacher Bai.

"In that case, then invest. Even if there is no 'reorganization', LeTV Pictures will not lose money with its current development. At most, we can transfer it out and realize it in cash after a year or half a year when the valuation has risen appropriately." Meng Bai said.

Qin Lan thought about it and felt that what he said made sense. In fact, she originally wanted to invest, and Meng Bai's words just strengthened her confidence.

"Well!"

Qin Lan raised her head and kissed Meng Bai, narrowing her eyes and smiling: "Although he is a 'little brother', he is still very reliable when he is serious."

"Little brother?" Meng Bai glanced at her with a smile, and pulled her in front of him: "It seems that you still don't understand the issue of 'size'."

"Ouch, it's itchy, stop it." Qin Lan twisted to avoid Meng Bai, and took advantage of the opponent's attack to say: "Wait a minute, if you stop now, sister will have a reward."

"What reward?"

Qin Lan panted and said, "I can give you two million of the five million financing quota, how about it?"

Meng Bai paused when he heard this, and then smiled bitterly, "Sister, you really think highly of me. I would like to invest, but I need that much money."

Qin Lan was surprised and said, "Weiwei told me that you got nearly ten million in profits from "Soul Ferry."

Meng Bai naturally couldn't say that Li Qin also got one-third of it, so he could only say vaguely, "It's just over nine million, plus the company's operations, taxes, and investment in new dramas, there's not much left now."

"Tsk, I didn't realize it before, you spend money much faster than you make money."

"Before, that was because you didn't have money. You should have known that you had money a long time ago."

"You're quite proud." Qin Lan rolled her eyes at him, then smiled bitterly and said, "To be honest, I don't have much money left, but I feel it would be a waste if I don't use the credit limit, so I thought of going with you."

Meng Bai had an expression that said, "You seem to think I'm easy to fool": "You, have no money?"

Qin Lan punched Meng Bai with his little fist: "How can I fool you? I invested in... invested in a few movies before, and they all lost money at the box office, so I really don't have much money now. The total amount of money on several cards is only a few million, and I can only take out two or three million for investment."

Meng Bai took a deep breath and gave Qin Lan a thumbs up.

Millions in the card, and then said that you "really have no money", you celebrities really have a set of strange standards for the concept of money.

(End of this chapter)