Successful Prediction

The result was that Lei Jun didn't take the bait. You want me to be a guarantor? I don't just want to do guarantee business, especially after knowing the bottom line of Chen Yuanguang and the other two. How could I only earn the meager guarantee fee from such an easy business?

Any internet company, after growing in scale, will get involved in financial services. Many second-tier internet companies' financial services are even better than their main business. For example, 360 Finance's revenue and profit surpassed 360 itself as early as 2019.

Xiaomi's financial services are even more massive. While other internet companies were still doing traffic-driven personal loan business, Xiaomi Finance, under Xiaomi, had already started aggressively acquiring licenses. These licenses covered various fields including third-party payment, banking, insurance, financing guarantees, and commercial factoring.

Xiaomi Finance operates in all aspects, doing any financial business that makes money.

Lei Jun's idea was to get the loan directly from Xinwang Bank, with Tiantian Technology acting as the guarantor. In addition, they wanted a portion of the investment share. The package deal proposed by Lei Jun hoped to achieve a return of over twenty percent.

Xiaomi's financial services are all under the company Tiantian Technology, including Tiantian Bank, the second virtual bank established by Tiantian in Hong Kong. If Tiantian Bank didn't have the authority to operate in the mainland, Lei Jun would have even wanted to go directly through Tiantian for the bank.

Lin Jia didn't want to waste time. Twenty points was twenty points. Instead of haggling with Lei Jun over a few points of profit, it was better to finalize the matter as soon as possible. The two sides roughly agreed on the terms within two days.

The bigger the deal, the faster it's negotiated. The smaller the deal, the more likely both sides are to be petty, because in big deals, the boss can make the decision directly and won't be too concerned about the gains and losses in a single battle.

For example, China's undertaking of Indonesia's Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway, a project with a total investment of 5.5 billion US dollars, was decided within a week.

Lin Jia, having been influenced by this environment, felt the same way. It would be a huge loss if Goose Factory refused the deal because of the gains and losses of these few points.

Finally, Lin Jia's film and television investment company obtained a 250 million loan from Xinwang Bank at a fixed capital cost of over 20%.

Then, the transaction with Goose Factory was successfully completed.

"Fortunately, the only thing Jenny did right was not to package and sell the subsequent IP of Kuala Lumpur Affairs. The priority for subsequent IP adaptation is still in our hands.

This is a blessing in disguise." Mark thought as he read his subordinate's summary report on the matter.

"How do you know I didn't deliberately leave it for them?" Chen Yuanguang asked Lin Jia why the subsequent copyright wasn't bought this time, and Lin Jia replied as such.

Chen Yuanguang was puzzled: "Why deliberately leave it for them? The success of Kuala Lumpur Affairs 2 is almost a sure thing. The value of this series' IP should rise accordingly."

Lin Jia said: "This is called 'besieging three sides and leaving one open' in military strategy. Goose Factory's traffic and energy are huge. We have room for cooperation no matter what we do in the future, so there's no need to completely offend them.

Moreover, if we take over all of Kuala Lumpur Affairs at once this time, they might leave some unfilled pits. Once the movie's release during the New Year's slot is delayed, we will be the ones who suffer the loss.

By leaving the subsequent IP development to them, we give them hope. The higher the box office this time, the higher the value of the IP in their hands will be, and they will even help us with promotion.

There's also a very important point: the IP value of Kuala Lumpur Affairs is built on you, especially after this nationwide event. This point is becoming increasingly clear. Goose Factory won't fail to understand this principle, and it will be easy for us to negotiate a higher investment share in the future."

After Lin Jia meticulously helped Chen Yuanguang sort out the pros and cons, Chen Yuanguang gained a new understanding of Lin Jia's business acumen. Before, he knew that the other party's family was rich, but this wealth was only an emotional understanding and a material perception.

In fact, there wasn't much sense of ability. Everyone was in school together, taking public electives. You were better at research and analysis, and I was better at data analysis. Chen Yuanguang felt there was no essential difference.

Including going out to play and in daily life, Lin Jia was particularly concerned about things like the table turnover rate of others' stores, store models, and payback periods. He often talked about this with Chen Yuanguang during meals, and Chen Yuanguang always felt that Lin Jia was just talking theory.

Only after these two business negotiations and operations did Chen Yuanguang realize that the other party's business ability and intuition were very strong. To have such a strong intuition at such a young age could only be due to innate influence, not acquired experience.

Moreover, if someone started from scratch through hard work, it would take many years to understand the principle that profit cannot be completely consumed and that sufficient profit must be left for upstream and downstream.

This is like Japan registering all the patents in the hydrogen energy field, causing the largest production and consumption countries, China and America, to simply not play with them.

Japan is like someone who wants to eat up all the profit, leading others to simply not play with you. No matter how many patents you have, it's useless.

From a macro perspective, America's establishment of the global economic order also relies on being willing to share profits with these younger brothers. Its actual control over Europe for so many years is also fed out bit by bit through the Marshall Plan.

The Gates Foundation's recruitment of Chen Yuanguang with an annual salary of millions of dollars has come to an end. The entire incident has once again refreshed netizens' understanding of how amazing Chen Yuanguang is. Chief Scientist, this title sounds very impressive.

The salary indeed matches the title of Chief. Netizens couldn't help but sigh that the lives of talented people are like having cheats enabled.

As for the transaction with Goose Factory, it was kept under wraps and not widely publicized.

Moreover, even after the movie was released, the production company listed remained Goose Factory. Only the investment returns were transferred; the production company itself did not change.

Meanwhile, as the year drew to a close, winter arrived. The speed of virus transmission increases in winter, and so does the rate of mutation. Different types of strains were emerging in various regions.

"Light, I sent you the sequencing results for the Alpha strain discovered in England in September. All the mutation points were within your model's predictions.

The sequencing results for the new Beta strain that appeared in South Africa are also out, and the mutation points are also within your predicted range.

Pfizer and Bayer have both fully initiated clinical trials for the broad-spectrum vaccine based on your research findings. They are very confident in the broad-spectrum vaccine." Levitt sounded very excited on the phone. The Beta strain discovered in South Africa had once again validated the model, giving him hope for the end of the virus.

For them, contributing to humanity could be considered a high-level need. The dopamine secretion that comes from fulfilling this need is incomparable to anything else.

Furthermore, the virus's prevalence had caused too many older colleagues around Levitt to suffer greatly.

He himself was also getting old. If the virus continued to spread, he didn't believe he could withstand the state of Long COVID.