NOVEL NEXT Chapter 461: Don't Make Her Angry
Actually, for someone like Liu Dongqiang, who operates at this level of business, a fifteen percent return might not be too tempting. However, Zhou Yuwen is promising a guaranteed 15% return, a statement probably only he would dare to make. Other private equity firms might earn a lot, but they also have their losses. Not to mention, it's 2014 now, and everything looks great. But what about five or ten years down the road?
Who would dare say they're guaranteed to not lose money then?
Zhou Yuwen is confident enough.
It's just that in the present age, everyone is overly optimistic about the future economy. Liu Dongqiang appreciates Zhou Yuwen's recent impressive performance in the stock market, but when Zhou Yuwen actually proposes starting a private equity fund, Liu Dongqiang just laughs it off, feeling 15% profit is too low. In fact, according to Liu Dongqiang, he might as well suggest, "Why don't you just invest directly in our Jingdong?"
Currently, Jingdong has set up numerous warehouses across the country, and our future goal is.....
Perhaps due to the influence of alcohol, Liu Dongqiang's words meander off.
Zhou Yuwen reiterates his guarantee of 15%, feeling confident about achieving 30% given the recent economic conditions.
"So, brother, can I ask which industries you're more optimistic about?"
"Speaking of industries, we all know it's nothing more than e-commerce, semiconductors, real estate, then renewable energy, AI, these sectors are all blue oceans right now. I'm sure you, Brother Dong, can see it too. But when it comes to actual investment, it's not about rushing into an industry just because you like it. It's about choosing the best within the good."
Take for example NVIDIA, not well-known now, and as of 2014, it's still a developing small company. Even though it's still in its growth phase, it's not something Zhou Yuwen can easily play with. His total assets are just around 100 million US Dollars.
But NVIDIA's current market value has already exceeded 10 billion and is being supported by numerous capital interests. For Zhou Yuwen to enter NVIDIA alone is indeed challenging. The only possibility is to gather some capable businessmen to carve out a share of this big pie.
In ten years, you should know that NVIDIA's market value would be 3.3 trillion US Dollars.
That is the real big pie.
Of course, Zhou Yuwen would only discuss with Liu Dongqiang which industry has potential but would never pinpoint to a specific sector. For instance, while talking about the currently popular new energy vehicles abroad, Zhou Yuwen predicts that new energy vehicles will definitely become a trend in the future.
The simple reasoning being, most of the oil car market is dominated by foreign countries. It's virtually impossible for the domestic market to rely on oil cars. To sell their products, they must pioneer a new market, and new energy vehicles perfectly meet this domestic demand.
This is something Liu Dongqiang hasn't considered. After listening to Zhou Yuwen, he couldn't help but nod frequently.
He has seen a lot of news about new energy vehicles abroad and knows a foreign businessman named Musk is always involved in them, but he truly didn't think that these things could become popular domestically in the future.
It's not that Liu Dongqiang is slow-witted, but rather new energy is still a concept five years out. Liu Dongqiang is currently preoccupied with the Internet and O2O, so how could he pay attention to new energy?
As Jingdong and Penguin strengthen their collaboration, Jingdong is integrating with WeChat directly, then doing things like the Baitiao financial service. This path seems so bright that it causes Liu Dongqiang to overlook other moneymaking avenues.
It wasn't until he chatted casually with Zhou Yuwen that he heard him mention this.
Only then did Liu Dongqiang realize that there might actually be money to be made here.
This Zhou Yuwen truly has something special.
Zhou Yuwen sticks to his claim of wanting to start a private equity fund, asserting that a 15% guaranteed return is no problem.
Liu Dongqiang laughs, saying, "Brother, I just came over this time to invite you for a meal and get to know each other. How about you let me think it over?"
"Besides, private equity isn't something that can be done just like that. The two of us certainly can't pull it off by ourselves. Someday, I'll get a few more people together, and we can all gather. It'll be on me."
Having said this much, Zhou Yuwen didn't press the matter further.
However, Zhou Yuwen's earlier remarks left a strong impression on Zhang Tianze. Perhaps being by Liu Dongqiang's side she was mostly familiar with e-commerce and 020 information, but Zhou Yuwen's mention of new energy today gave her a new perspective.
Moreover, Zhou Yuwen's manner of speaking was indeed different from Liu Dongqiang's. The young man and the middle-aged man had their differences. At the age of 19, Zhou Yuwen's conversation and thinking were in no way inferior to Liu Dongqiang, even subtly guiding Liu Dongqiang's pace during their discussion—though it was Liu Dongqiang who didn't wish to discuss financial investment knowledge with Zhou Yuwen.
In Zhang Tianze's eyes, Zhou Yuwen always had a sort of halo.
She viewed Zhou Yuwen as a genius, having established a 60 million domestic company and speculated in stocks abroad. So whatever Zhou Yuwen said, Zhang Tianze always found it right.
Being a woman who inherently gravitates towards strength, after witnessing this scene tonight, her fondness uncontrollably grew.
After dinner, Liu Dongqiang had his driver take them back. This time, Zhang Tianze also returned to school with the car as Liu Dongqiang had a video conference scheduled shortly.
While heading back to school, Su Qing couldn't help but curiously ask Zhang Tianze, "It's rare for Brother Dong to come by, shouldn't you be with him?"