Tao Liangchen
Chapter 695 Child of the Wind
Its founder, after leaving Lamborghini's automobile R&D department a few years ago, created this supercar company positioned higher than Lamborghini out of passion for extreme supercars.
In the R&D and production process, they purchase all the top-notch materials and equipment, free from the constraints of sales and revenue profits, just to produce the most top-notch supercars.
Precisely because of this, it is sought after by many supercar enthusiasts. With a "wind son" ZondaC12, it has made a name for itself in the circle.
However.
To date, the number of supercars produced by Pagani is still only a single digit.
The first product, "wind son," was only released last year. Only five were produced, and only three eventually entered the market. Even with a price tag as high as $320,000, it still lost a lot of money. Earning a little money is not enough to support the employees, let alone use the profits to support the next expansion plan.
The Pagani full-payment pre-sale event that Nangong Tian and Jiang Yu encountered a few days ago was precisely the company's struggle to extract money from customers, thereby continuing the company's life. In fact, the funds were about to run out.
This time, they joined hands to help Su Yehao finance 5 million euros to Pagani and successfully obtained 49% of the shares, becoming a major shareholder in one fell swoop, with more shares than the founder. The negotiation process was very smooth, and both sides were happy.
As the price of rushing to sign the contract, Nangong Tian took the lead in giving up the decision-making power and still let the current management team operate it.
On the one hand, she felt that Hao would not have time to manage it and would not care too much about this small business.
On the other hand, in order to deliver the contract to Su Yehao in time for his birthday today, she was too lazy to argue too much, anyway, the price was not expensive.
Speaking of the money in Nangong Tian's account, it came too easily.
She hardly managed it herself.
Sometimes she found that the money was transferred away, and soon it was multiplied several times or dozens of times before returning to her account, all of which were managed by Su Yehao for her.
It is easy to make money, and of course, she doesn't feel bad when spending it.
As long as her beloved Hao is happy, in the little girl's opinion, even if she smashes all these hundreds of millions, it doesn't matter.
After all, it is genuine love, which is essentially different from those girls who cling to the rich because of their worship of money. Usually, buying bags and clothes doesn't cost much, and eating, drinking, living, and traveling are even less worth mentioning.
With the family conditions there, the little girl was raised richly by Madam Nangong since she was a child, and she doesn't care too much about these, especially after Su Yehao entered the top of the Forbes Global Rich List, it has already numbed her.
Pagani doesn't make money in the first place.
It has been on the verge of bankruptcy for a long time. High-end supercars sound very cool, but the high R&D costs and prices severely limit the company's development.
Looking at the world, the only supercar companies that have successfully made money are Ferrari and Lamborghini, whose situation has just improved. Without exception, the supercar businesses of companies including McLaren, Aston Martin, and Porsche are all losing money.
It's not deliberately selling miserably to say that they lose money on every car they sell.
It is because these companies lose money badly, and they often can't sell them for a high price. Only large car companies like to use their brand influence to enhance their high-end image in terms of technology and positioning.
For example, a couple of years ago, Su Yehao remembered that Volkswagen's subsidiary Audi acquired Lamborghini for only 110 million US dollars.
At that time, he was thinking that these companies were so cheap that he could afford them, so he was deeply impressed.
And Pagani's influence and reputation are obviously not big enough to make those car manufacturers take action. It would be strange if the financial situation was healthy. It mainly relies on the founder's own money to support it.
Suddenly having an extra supercar company under his name, this gift made Su Yehao even happier than the eighty-plus-jin golden Kirin ornament and the yellow-ground blue-and-white floral dragon-patterned celestial sphere vase.
He reached out and hugged the little girl, leaned over and kissed her. Of course, he didn't let go of Jiang Yu, who was standing aside.
Jiang Yu disgustedly wiped the saliva on her face, saying in her mouth: "Drink more water in the morning, it's good for your health, the saliva is all stringy! By the way, the truck transporting the supercar has been waiting outside for almost two hours, let's go and pick up your new car now, I want to go for a drive!"
Nangong Tian took the opportunity to joke and said, "There are only two seats, Hao will drive, I'll sit in the passenger seat, Jiang Yu, you squat on the roof, or curl up in the trunk."
"???"
Jiang Yu was instantly amused, imagining that scene, no matter how she thought about it, she felt it was so funny. She retorted, "You're the one squatting on the roof, a sudden brake will let you experience the feeling of flying."
Su Yehao was a little confused and asked them, "Besides the shares of this company, did you also buy me a car? Pagani, right, now that I am a shareholder of the car company, I can't support the enemy anymore."
"Yes, that Pagani Zonda that was used as an exhibition car. Originally, they didn't plan to sell it, but they agreed because of my financing. It was sold at the original price of 320,000 US dollars."
Nangong Tian smiled:
"In this way, Pagani will have no exhibition car, so the resourceful me asked people to contact the second-hand shop in Beverly. I heard that the bald boss who sent you the bottle originally planned to keep the car for himself, but now he sold it to me for 530,000 US dollars, and I will lend it to Pagani for external display."
"... Went around in a big circle, then why didn't you just buy that second-hand car?"
"Of course, I have to buy a new one for the gift for you, and it will take a long time to ship it from Los Angeles."
After listening, Su Yehao instantly understood, thoughtfully nodded, and said: "Doesn't this mean that there are only a few limited editions in total, and our family has won two at once? Cars like this should appreciate in value, just like my limited edition McLaren."
"Yes, let's go out to pick up the car. The driver is probably getting impatient. Bring your wallet and give a few hundred dollars tip later..."
...
Picked up the new car.
Drove around the yard twice, quickly got the hang of it, and took the girls out for a drive separately.
Drove to the Shek O Country Club not far away, and then returned home.
Germany seems to have highways with no speed limit. This place in Hong Kong can't run at all. It's just to enjoy the sound.
Life is too precious. Even if there is a chance to race, Su Yehao will not take the risk. It is not worth it to have an accident in order to experience the stimulation of hormone secretion.
When he returned home again, he found that there were companies that cooperated with him to send gifts. Leibos, who was far away in Si Jiucheng, also asked someone to send a persimmon picture of Qi Baishi, meaning "everything goes well."
It's really hard for them to remember Su Yehao's birthday. Seeing so many mainland executives sending messages, Su Yehao strongly suspected that there was a work group among these people to contact each other.
Let the housekeeper send these gifts to the small castle for collection. The eighty-plus-jin, that is, more than forty kilograms of golden Kirin ornaments, took three bodyguards to carefully lift away.
After calculating the price per gram, this golden Kirin is worth about 4 million RMB just for the materials, excluding the labor costs. Considering that the Bank of China itself sells gold bars, the price of the raw materials is estimated to be relatively low.
It seems like a large sum of money, but in fact, Su Yehao can just give some orders, which is enough for the bank to earn the money back.
Ordinary entrepreneurs will not easily repay the principal after taking out a loan, and repaying the loan with a loan is the king.
This means that a loan order can allow the bank to earn money for several or even decades. The importance of large customers is clear at a glance.
This is probably the root cause of why Jin Chengxian and the others came to celebrate his birthday so early, and each one of them was more exaggerated than the other...