The next day, Zhao Yao left Jiangnan Group in a daze, taking a contract with him.
According to this contract, Jiangnan Group would inject one hundred million yuan into Zhao Yao's newly established company, acquiring 90% of its shares, with Zhao Yao retaining 10%.
However, to ensure Zhao Yao's motivation, the contract also stipulated that once the company went public, Jiangnan Group would return 10% of the shares to Zhao Yao for free.
If the company's future market value exceeded three billion yuan, another 10% of shares would be returned.
If the company's market value exceeded ten billion yuan, another 10% of shares would be returned.
If the company's market value could break through one hundred billion yuan, Jiangnan Group would return another 11%.
This meant that Zhao Yao could potentially end up with 51% of the company's shares, regaining absolute control of his own company. Such an investment agreement was rare in the entire industry.
After all, as a company's market value continuously increased, its stock would undoubtedly become more valuable. Investors should be seeking to acquire more shares, not returning equity to founders as stipulated in this agreement.
Therefore, such an agreement was considered an unprecedented and almost foolish contract in the entire investment industry. The Jiangnan Star plan, which Jiangnan Group would later implement, would exclusively use such investment agreements, creating an investment strategy never before seen in the industry.
Yet, it was precisely this kind of agreement that provided founders with unimaginable motivation.
Many unicorn companies encountered various problems after receiving massive investments from investors. Some of these problems were inevitable with the company's growth, while others were caused by the founders and the company's operators themselves.
The reason was simple: as investors acquired shares, a majority of the company's equity fell into the hands of investors. The company the founder started with would then drift further away from them, and they would gradually lose the ambition and drive to make the company bigger and stronger. After all, no matter how well they performed, they would be working for others, helping investors make money.
Thus, the primary goal for these founders in managing their companies was not to make them bigger and stronger, but simply to get them to the point of listing. Once the company was listed, it offered an opportunity to cash out and exit.
They would then leave with a large amount of cash obtained from the stock market, handing the company over to their subordinates or hired professional managers.
However, after such significant changes, it was highly unlikely that the company would be managed well. This was especially true for companies that granted stock options and distributed shares to a large number of employees during their startup phase. These employees would likely be thinking about how to quickly sell their shares, become millionaires or even billionaires, and then leave the company.
This was why many companies entered their peak moment upon listing and then entered a steady decline, with stock prices never surpassing their peak at listing. The reason was that all the talent had left, and it was a miracle for the company to remain profitable.
However, the contract orchestrated by Boss Huang could completely circumvent this problem. After listing, founders could still continuously get their shares back from investors, and the higher the market value, the more shares they would get back. This would inevitably drive all founders to diligently manage their companies even after listing, until they completely regained absolute controlling shares.
In this process, Jiangnan Group appeared to lose 41% of its shares, but in reality, as the company's market value reached one hundred billion yuan, Jiangnan Group made a net profit of tens of billions of yuan. This was the true wisdom of an investor.
Of course, this type of investment was a long-term investment, and it would take at least ten to twenty years to achieve significant profits. However, Boss Huang was not afraid of playing the long game; he was aiming for a century-old company.
Getting back to the main point, on the second day after Zhao Yao returned home, he received the one hundred million yuan investment fund. However, this investment fund could not be directly accessed by Zhao Yao; it was managed by a financial team dispatched by Jiangnan Group.
Zhao Yao had to complete the company's establishment before this one hundred million yuan investment fund would be transferred to the company's account, allowing Zhao Yao to use it freely.
However, all of Zhao Yao's fund usage records would be meticulously documented by the financial team. If any violation was discovered, Zhao Yao, who was Boss Huang's most promising student at one moment, would instantly become Boss Huang's nth executive sent to prison.
Zhao Yao immediately set about establishing the company, and on the other side, the strong support promised by Boss Huang arrived in the form of a complete management team.
This team consisted of three people: a secretary specialist from Jiangnan Group's Secretariat, a market specialist from Jiangnan Group, and a public relations specialist from Jiangnan Group.
This was Boss Huang's first wave of assistance to Zhao Yao. Although this assistance was not monetary but rather three individuals, their roles far surpassed any monetary value.
This was because all three had worked at Jiangnan Group for over three years and were individuals with exceptionally high work reputations and capabilities within the group.
The secretary specialist was proficient in the operational processes of the entire company and could help Zhao Yao establish a reasonable company structure and refine the company's management systems in the fastest and most comprehensive manner.
The market specialist was not for sales but to help the company investigate the market, propose market planning, and develop market strategies to help the company quickly capture and establish a foothold in the market.
The public relations specialist was responsible for handling the company's external relationships, including those with relevant government departments, using their extensive network to help the company resolve many administrative issues, and managing various emergencies to help the company navigate reputational crises.
In essence, these three individuals were the "lucky mascots" for any new company. With them, a complete company could be established immediately, something countless entrepreneurs could only dream of.
Under normal circumstances, entrepreneurs would have to spend at least a year or more training themselves to become professional secretary, market, and public relations specialists, mastering all the skills of these three individuals to ensure the company's long-term operation and further development.
As for recruiting such talents, it was not impossible, but without a company scale of tens of millions, such talents would disdain to join.
However, with Jiangnan Group's assignment, these individuals eagerly came on board. The company promised them that their salaries and benefits would remain the same, their employment contracts would still be with Jiangnan Group, and they would continue to receive their salaries from Jiangnan Group. They were still employees of Jiangnan Group, merely assigned to assist in the development of the new company.
Furthermore, if they successfully helped the startup company go public, Jiangnan Group would gift each of them 2% of the company's equity. Considering that a successfully listed company would have a market value of at least several hundred million, 2% equity would be worth millions.
Therefore, all three individuals came with great enthusiasm.
Then, the public relations specialist completed all the company's approval and establishment work in less than three days, successfully creating the brand-new company.
Zhao Yao ultimately named this company "Wan Wu Da Co., Ltd.," meaning "all things can be delivered."
During these three days, Zhao Yao himself was not idle. He began to seriously consider the "route error" and the need for minor adjustments that Boss Huang had mentioned.
He meticulously recalled all the effort he had put in over the past month at school, and then took out his pen to crunch the numbers repeatedly, eventually arriving at a conclusion that he himself was unsure of.
He realized that while an order for campus delivery might allow a two-person enterprise to become profitable, for a comprehensive large-scale company spread across the country, campus delivery orders were merely a drop in the bucket.
Zhao Yao had to expand his target audience, extending campus delivery to urban delivery, making the entire city his target customer base to sustain the company's development.
However, since only schools had canteens, focusing the main business on delivering meals from canteens was not feasible. Therefore, the main business had to expand from delivering meals from school canteens to delivering meals from restaurants across the entire city, which meant the food delivery business.
As Zhao Yao meticulously outlined his plan, a completely new business structure and landscape emerged. However, with the expansion of the structure, Zhao Yao also understood that simply distributing flyers was insufficient and would not meet the company's developmental needs.
Even adding computer and internet orders would not be enough. There had to be a more convenient method, a tool that would allow users to think about what they wanted to eat, immediately see all the food establishments around them, and then choose a dish that would whet their appetite to order delivery.
Currently, the computer seemed to be that tool. However, computers were not convenient enough, and a person couldn't carry a computer around with them at all times, let alone one connected to the internet.
Therefore, the small computing device he had used before reappeared in Zhao Yao's mind.
"I can satisfy all the help you need!" Zhao Yao recalled Huang He's words in his mind, and then he dialed Boss Huang's number, stating his request, "That micro-computer equipment in the Optoelectronics Research Center, the one that Jiangnan Group plans to sell to the market in the future, similar to Apple and Android's PT, right?"