the great gatsby

Chapter 431 Are you ready to become a billionaire?

As the team gradually gets on the right track, Gatsby has to fulfill his promise. Iguodala has always wanted to do business with Gatsby, and Gatsby also has some ideas that he wants to practice.

Gatsby invited Iguodala to his home for dinner. After drinking and eating, Gatsby and Iguodala smoked a cigar and chatted.

"Andre, don't you want to invest in some business with me? I want to try out my idea now. Are you interested?" Gatsby said with a smile.

"Really? I've been looking forward to it for a long time, can you tell me what you think?" Iguodala was overjoyed.

Gatsby laughed and said, "It's not interesting to just invest. If the investment goes out, we have nothing to do. This time I want to end by myself and create a company by myself."

Iguodala's eyes lit up: "Interesting, it's really not interesting to just invest, but it's very interesting to start a business by yourself, let's talk about it."

"Hmm..." Gatsby sorted out his thoughts. "Andre, you know Uber, what is its core idea?"

Iguodala thought for a moment: "...share?"

Gatsby snapped his fingers and said with a smile: "Sharing is the essence of the Internet age. Uber makes use of idle cars to do more sharing, thus making Uber a company worth tens of billions of dollars. What I want to do is similar to this. My idea is to solve the problem of the last mile of the city.

In the city, no matter how well-developed the bus or high-speed rail is, there is always a distance that cannot be reached by these means of transportation in the end, and this is where our business opportunities lie. What I want to do is share bicycles, how about it? "

"Shared bicycles? How to achieve sharing? Isn't there now?"

"The kind of public bicycle you are talking about is a public bicycle with a pile. It is too inconvenient and must be parked at a designated place. Sometimes I ride a bicycle. It is only two kilometers to the destination. I find a bicycle and run for one kilometer. Then I park the bicycle. What's the use of running another mile?

What I want to do is to make a sharing APP. Use a smart lock on the bicycle and use the APP to unlock it. There will be a positioning device on the bicycle to locate the vehicle and calculate the mileage. The bicycle can be detected wherever it is. Just park and go, very convenient! "Gatsby explained to Iguodala.

Iguodala turned his head to think, and the more he thought about it, the more excited he became: "This is a golden idea, maybe it can really be done!"

Gatsby smiled and said, "Then do it?"

"Do it! Life is so boring, how can we survive without finding something to do. So what are we going to do?" Iguodala laughed.

Gatsby considered it for a while: "First of all, determine the share between the two of us. You should have professional business management personnel under your command?"

Iguodala smiled: "Of course, I didn't take care of those investments myself."

"Well, that's it. When the time comes, people from both of us will negotiate together. The share will be calculated according to the investment amount. The more you invest, the more you get. If you have 1000 million US dollars in the early stage, it will be almost the same. Then we will find a CEO to manage it. We will send Finance and lawyers can be supervised in the past, and technical personnel and business personnel can be recruited by the CEO. They are professionals who know how to do it, and I will provide them with ideas. At that time, we need to advertise for enterprises. , should be up soon."

Iguodala said with a smile: "Actually, we still use our mouths and others do it!"

Gatsby laughed a little: "It's impossible for us to really do it ourselves. Our main business is still playing basketball! But we have a lot to do, and we still have to provide the early ideas."

Gatsby is still very optimistic about the prospects of shared bicycles. This is an outlet, and the technical content is actually not high. Of course, the threshold is not high. As soon as shared bicycles come out, people will soon follow suit. Make it bigger from the beginning, and then quickly increase the value of financing, and resell it at the peak, which is another successful investment.

Of course, Gatsby will not follow the model of ofo. What he wants to follow is the Mobike model. From the very beginning, he will pay attention to quality, make steady progress step by step, and rely on sufficient funds to build a good company. surviving businesses.

"Andre, since we are cooperating, let me make it clear to you that this shared bicycle is a water-testing venture. Because of its own defects, it will not become a high-quality enterprise like Uber. I want to share it with him. When it reaches its peak, I hope you will let it go decisively at that time, don't be confused by its prosperity, we still have a lot of things to do." Gatsby said solemnly.

Iguodala is also a little dignified: "You mean, its potential is not as good as it looks?"

Gatsby nodded: "Actually, it's a very good project, but once we get in, countless competitions will force us to move forward. At that time, dozens of companies will fight in it, and the entire industry will be ruined because of it. , we can go to the end, but it is not cost-effective.

There is too much money to be burned in the early stage. Even I will not put too much money in it. We will continue to raise funds from the beginning of its formation to promote its valuation and try to keep the money in hand. Shares are convenient to cash out at the peak time. This is the best way to operate. "

Iguodala nodded: "I understand. The project is good, but competition makes it unprofitable. It eventually becomes a conceptual thing. It can attract investment, but it is very difficult to rely on it to make money." Difficult, it can only be profited by means of capital operation, isn’t it?”

NBA players are not all stupid people, not to mention Iguodala. Iguodala is a successful businessman himself, and he is doing very well in business. Of course, there is no way to compare with Gates. Gates Bi's business scale is considered the first among NBA players.

Gatsby nodded.

Iguodala thought for a moment: "How much do you think it will be worth when it grows bigger?"

Gatsby smiled and shook his head: "It's hard to say, but at least 100 billion US dollars should be no problem."

Iguodala choked: "So powerful?"

Gatsby smiled and said, "It may be much more powerful than you think, Andre, are you ready to become a billionaire?"

Does Iguodala have a net worth of 1 million yuan?

Now he is definitely not. He is not a star like Kobe. He does not have a big advertising contract. He relies more on salary. His big contract is the 08-year 76 million dollar contract signed with the 6ers in 8000, after deducting the tax burden. Wait, it is estimated that half of the money in hand is not enough, and the money has to be used to buy a house and living expenses. Even if Iguodala is a person who is good at financial management, he will not have more than [-] million assets on hand.

Now that Gatsby told him that the business to be done was worth more than tens of billions, wouldn't it mean that his net worth would be at least one billion by then?
(End of this chapter)