the great gatsby

Chapter 432 The Forgotten Champion, The Newly Rising Dynasty Company!

Chapter 432 The Forgotten Champion, The Newly Rising Dynasty Company!

Iguodala admires Gatsby's vision very much. A person who can invest twice with unique vision and thus become a billionaire is worthy of his trust.

"Gatsby, listen to you, do what you say, I plan to invest 500 million US dollars, and I can continue to invest in the future, you can just give the shares as you see it." Iguodala laughed.

Gatsby shook his head: "Andre, you don't have to vote so much."

Iguodala was stunned: "Are you afraid that I will take more shares?"

Gatsby smiled and shook his head: "No, I have other plans. I want to attract most of our team to invest together. Some of them will go bankrupt as soon as they retire because they don't know how to manage money. There are guys who just get fired because they don't fit the needs of the team, and they're my brothers, and I want to take them with me, even if what happens next, they'll have something to go with them."

Iguodala showed a look of surprise on his face: "... Gatsby, you surprised me. No one would do this before. In the eyes of many people, everyone is just colleagues, but you think of them so much. You are a true leader!"

Gatsby still shook his head: "Andre, I just regard you as brothers. I don't want some people to be in the sky one day while others fall into the dust. As a brother, I can naturally help them. Why don't I lend a hand?" .”

Iguodala nodded: "Listen to you, what do you think should be arranged?"

Gatsby said: "I will talk to them. It is better to volunteer for this matter. After all, if they want to join, they will have to spend real money. In business, no one can guarantee a guaranteed profit. dont you agree?"

Iguodala said with a smile: "If there is a stable business, I will invest all my wealth."

"How about this, I provide ideas, invest 600 US dollars, accounting for 40%, you invest 300 million, accounting for 30%, set aside 30% for others, of course, these shares will be diluted in the subsequent financing, when the time comes It’s up to you to choose whether to take it out and sell it or continue to hold it.” Gatsby said.

"This is not very good, I will vote a little more, let's vote 400 million, or get 30%." Iguodala said.

Gatsby shook his head: "That's it, Andre, you gave up a lot for the team, you deserve respect!"

Iguodala smiled brightly.

After training the next day, Gatsby gathered everyone in the meeting room, including the coaching staff. Gatsby told everyone that he wanted to set up a company to start a business, and asked if anyone would like to invest in it. For example, Thompson, Bogut and Gatsby’s hardcore players, Green and Jeremy Lin hesitated and decided to buy shares, and Nick Young and other fringe players were quite hesitant, but remembering that Gatsby is a billionaire, I shouldn't lie to them, so I claimed some, but not many.

Unexpectedly, Coach D'Antoni was most interested in it. He knew how capable Gatsby's disciple was, so he simply claimed 10% of the shares and invested 100 million US dollars. , can be regarded as supporting Gatsby.

In their view, this is to support Gatsby. They have seen too many investment failure cases, and they dare not expect that this investment will succeed, just treat it as a nightclub splurge.

Now that the fundraising was successfully completed, Gatsby immediately organized personnel to implement the implementation. Long Xiaoman recommended an alumnus. This alumni is a top student of the New York University Business School. He is a Chinese student named Lin Han. He works as an assistant to the chairman of a technology company in Silicon Valley. , This time I was recommended by Long Xiaoman to run this project. I heard that Gatsby led the organization, so I came to interview immediately. Gatsby interviewed Lin Han, who is in his 30s, and he is indeed very talented. Gatsby After deciding to appoint Lin Han as the company's CEO, Long Xiaoman found a brother from the law school and an accountant to form a team to organize the company's structure.

Lin Han is indeed a shrewd and capable business elite. After listening to Gatsby's idea, he gave a very detailed development plan a week later. After Gatsby read it, he recalled the development process of Mobike and ofo. There are too many supplementary things, but I still give two suggestions: "Lin Han, I have two requirements. One is that the company must establish a sense of competition from the very beginning. Once our products come out, it will not exceed two months. There will definitely be people who follow suit. You should know what to do in the future. After all, you are a professional. Secondly, no matter how you compete, don’t forget our fundamentals, better quality and better user experience. That's our foundation!"

After making these two requests, Gatsby let it go, Li Wanyu and Long Xiaoman were watching over the subsequent supervision matters, and he continued to go back to the team to train and play games.

Because everyone invests in the company together, there is a sense of shared interests. It feels that everyone is in the same trench, and the strangeness is much less, and the atmosphere in the Knicks locker room is even better.

The time has entered December, and Gatsby played amazing data in November. Although the record can only be said to be mediocre, the outstanding data still made him the best player of the month in the Eastern Conference.

Entering December, the Knicks feel better and better. It may also be the reason for the schedule. The number of wins is increasing. By the end of December, the Knicks ranked fourth, but the progress of the Knicks was overshadowed by the performance of the Heat. Well, the Heat hit a wave of 12 consecutive victories, which shocked the entire league, but no one noticed that the Knicks also had a 23-game winning streak in December.

The chemical reaction of the Knicks is getting better and better, the tacit understanding between the players is getting better, and the progress of the new players is also visible to the naked eye. Leonard's three-point shooting rate is improving, Thompson's ball handling is also improving, and Green's three-point shooting rate is also improving. The points have also become more reliable, the 33% shooting rate is no longer able to be missed, Harris' body has become stronger, and various offensive skills and defenses have also become complete.

All of this has been slowly perfected during the season, but no experts have praised the Knicks for this. Their eyes have been attracted by the Heat's momentum and the Lakers' Hollywood blockbusters, but they gave the Knicks, the two-time champion, Forget it, in their view, the Knicks have already declined, have fallen out of the first group, and the current victory is nothing more than a dying struggle. When it comes to the playoffs, the Knicks are a softie!

At the end of December, the preparations for the shared bicycles had been completed, and the Knicks named the company Dynasty, which means—dynasty!

Relying on the wishes of everyone in the Knicks, Dynasty shared bicycles were launched on New Year's Day in 2013. The first batch of shared bicycles were placed at New York University, which is the alma mater of Lin Han and Long Xiaoman. The leaders of New York University are very committed to supporting students. Entrepreneurship is also very supportive, and they are allowed to vigorously promote it at New York University. Shared bicycles have become popular as soon as they came out. Students find it so convenient. Sometimes they have to go out, but the distance is too short. It is too far to walk there and too far to drive there. Congestion, with shared bicycles, these are not problems.

So shared bicycles became popular and spread like a virus!

(End of this chapter)