Chapter 93: In a flash
Su Can had gained a great deal today, but he understood the gap between himself and Zhan Hua. As Zhan Hua had once said, they were not on the same level. Yet they had actually sat down face-to-face, and Su Can had managed to put Facebook's financing proposal into Zhan Hua's hands. That alone was incredible.
It had exceeded his expectations, but the conversation Old Master Xu, Xu Zheng, and his father, Su Licheng, had had with Zhan Hua at the Rongcheng Chamber of Commerce had unobtrusively planted the idea of auctioning off a dinner in Zhan Hua's mind.
With anyone else, Su Can would have had no reason to do this, because there was no telling whether they would actually do it. Even if the idea occurred to them, pressure from the media and public opinion would probably have discouraged most prominent Shanghai entrepreneurs from considering it.
But Zhan Hua was an investor himself, and the reach of his influence had already extended overseas. VC and PE investment were two entirely different concepts. Venture capital pursued large returns on small investments, turning one yuan into ten. That model meant that venture capital made its money through innovation and risk-taking.
In this respect, Zhan Hua had something of a venture capitalist's temperament. He had always favored innovation and risk. Something others might refuse to do was therefore a different matter with him. That was why Su Can had felt reasonably confident that Zhan Hua would borrow the Buffett lunch model. All he lacked was a channel through which to put the idea in his ear.
Su Can's plan had involved uncertainty and speculation, and naturally, the chances of failure had been high. If Zhan Hua had not reconsidered auctioning off a dinner, the entire chain