2025-12-30 06:27:36

Regarding a certain leading AI project's funding case, there is a popular saying that the investment was finalized in 10 days, but this overlooks the true complexity of large-scale financing decisions.

The stages of CDD (Due Diligence) and FDD (Financial Due Diligence) are often isolated and each takes more than 10 days of work. A major investment involves project initiation, risk control review, compliance verification, and each step must be validated step by step. It is impossible to make decisions on a whim.

The widely circulated "10 days" actually only refers to the time window at the moment of signing the agreement, and does not represent the entire incubation period of the deal. The architecture design, overseas M&A framework setup, and various legal and financial verifications were already underway in the early stages.

This reflects that many media reports lack basic industry knowledge of investment. Transaction decisions are often driven by deeper strategic considerations rather than sudden flashes of insight.

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MetaverseLandlord

· 2h ago

The media loves to create this "black swan" narrative—10 days of fundraising, how exciting— but anyone who has actually done deals knows it's all nonsense. CDD, FDD, compliance, architecture... after going through all that, you can't really move anything in less than three months. Making snap judgments? VCs aren't gamblers. Honestly, it’s just that the moment you sign, the media screenshots it. No one cares about the hard work in the early stages. That’s why I usually don’t trust press releases.

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OldLeekConfession

· 2h ago

Haha, another media-hyped "rapid funding" story, 10 days? Laughable. Due diligence alone can easily take half a month to drag out. Venture capitalists' due diligence is never a joke... it requires multiple layers of review, truly. In reality, everything was laid out early on, and in the end, it's just signing a document. This is completely different from getting it done in 10 days. The media really needs to brush up on investment fundamentals. Such reports mislead retail investors and are the most annoying. It's all just a routine; there's no sudden decision... everything was discussed and agreed upon at the dining table long ago.

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FortuneTeller42

· 2h ago

Is this kind of clickbait again? How much funding is raised in 10 days? It really makes me gasp at how outrageous it is. The media really should improve their basic understanding of investment and financing; they are creating anxiety every day. Treating signing as the whole story is truly a misrepresentation of the concept. CDD and FDD, either one taken out, wouldn't take just 10 days, not to mention compliance. So the issue isn't how fast the funding is raised; it's that the media fundamentally doesn't understand how they operate. It seems someone needs to write a popular science post to prevent misinformation from spreading back and forth. It's quite interesting—on the surface, 10 days, but behind the scenes, half a year. I wonder how many people truly understand.

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YieldWhisperer

· 2h ago

Ha, it's that same "10-day fundraising" story again... The media really needs to do some homework It's just a confusion of timelines; the days when the agreement was signed were exaggerated to represent the entire fundraising cycle, which is ridiculous CDD, FDD, compliance—any one of these can be dragged out for half a month, and it's hard to imagine someone really making a multi-million dollar funding decision on a whim? Honestly, the backend was prepared long ago; the due diligence and framework design were already underway, and the 10 days are just the final act on the surface This kind of lack of common sense is quite common in the media circle; those who haven't been involved in large-scale fundraising on the front lines are easily deceived by surface phenomena

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