Chapter 111: Equity swap, Series B financing
June 26.
At the exhibition center of the UPN TV network, Jin Shuguang Entertainment Group Chairman Zhu Ke and Amazon President Jeff Bezos formally signed an equity swap agreement under the witness of many American media.
Zhuke’s ICQ shares have dropped from 35% to 20%, and these 15% icq shares will be replaced with 8% of Amazon’s shares.
This equity swap does not involve cash transactions, but the value of the equity involved is no less than 40 million U.S. dollars.
Zhu Ke also became a shareholder of Amazon listed company!
Individual shareholding ratio, second only to Bezos, becoming Amazon's second largest individual shareholder;
The proportion of equity, the proportion of Amazon's individual shareholders and investment banks, ranked fourth, second only to Citibank and FedEx, and entered the Amazon board of directors and became a member of the standing shareholders.
After the contract was signed, it was naturally a question from a group of reporters.
"Hello, Mr. Bezos, I’m Kris Medaldo and I’m a reporter from The Wall Street Journal. I would like to ask you, for what reason, did you choose to replace ICQ with Mr. Wald? Shares?"
A female reporter in her 30s first asked her question.
The Wall Street Journal is one of the most well-known financial newspapers in the United States. It has a century-old history, and it is also famous even in the world;
The Wall Street Journal reporter Kris Medaldo who attended the signing of the agreement is not a general. Buffett, Soros, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and other financial and Internet bigwigs have all accepted her interviews.
"Ahem!"
Jeff Bezos stood confidently on the stage and said: "Reporter Chrissy, we have met for the second time. I can clearly tell you and tell all the media reporters that Amazon has become a shareholder. ICQ is naturally optimistic about the development of ICQ."
"At present, ICQ has become the largest instant messaging software in the United States and even in North America. Even in Europe, Asia, Australia and other places, the number of users is increasing day by day."
"In that case, why didn't I join in?"
"As we all know, Amazon Mall is the largest online book trading mall in North America. It has a huge amount of books. Every day, people from all over the United States buy their favorite books through our Amazon mall."
"Then why don't we allow people from all over the world to buy books through Amazon?"
The voice fell, and the audience suddenly boiled over.
Global strategy!
Yes, all the media reporters present at this moment understood Amazon's big appetite. It is going to become a global Internet giant company!
You must know that in the 1990s, whether it was the United States or other countries in the world, once a company was named a "multinational company", its stock price was naturally highly anticipated and its market value skyrocketed.
As soon as Bei's bald-headed speech is made, his stock on NASDAQ will surely soar a lot tomorrow.
"Baby has a bald head, and his mother is really a shrewd guy. No wonder Amazon's single shares are so expensive in the future." Zhu Ke's heart moved.
The value of Amazon's single stock will be called the most expensive batch of stocks in the world in the future.
The value of a single share is more than US$2,000;
Of course, its single share value is much more expensive than Microsoft and Apple.
As a result, investors are optimistic;
Secondly, the number of shares issued by it is only a few hundred million or more than a billion shares.
Unlike Microsoft’s continuous issuance of stocks, in 2020, the number of stocks issued by Microsoft will be tens of billions. In this way, the value of a single share will naturally be lower.
"Mr. Wald, I am a reporter from Bloomberg, and I also want to ask you a few questions." A reporter got up and asked.
"Naturally." Zhu Ke would naturally not refuse.
Answering reporters’ questions, this is a good time to pretend, did you see that Bezos was pretending just now? Zhuke naturally can't let Bei Bald head dance alone.
Who doesn’t know how?
What's more, the reporter who is asking questions now comes from Bloomberg, the world's largest financial information company.
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At this point, Zhu Ke's shareholding in icq has been reduced to 20%.
It looks like Zhu Ke was taken advantage of by Bei's bald head, but he got 8% of Amazon stock.
Even from the perspective of today, the development of ICQ is much stronger than the original time and space, but Zhu Ke still believes that Amazon will be more powerful in the future. Of course, even if ICQ can develop a bid to Facebook, it will not be as good as Amazon. After all, it is the only giant company in the world with a market value of more than $1.3 trillion.
Bezos has a stake in icq, which makes up for the disadvantages in the field of instant messaging and also gets the opportunity to develop Amazon globally.
Generally speaking, this time equity swap is profitable for both Zhuke and Bei Baldou.
a win-win!
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A few days have passed.
Icq's B round of financing has also officially opened.
In the need to quickly occupy the global market, icq needs more financial support and needs more strong allies to support, so the B round of financing is very urgent.
You must know that in just a few months, there have been capitals of many countries that have created their own instant messaging software with their own characteristics.
Icq of course cannot bear it!
Even if the president of icq, Visg, could bear it, Zhuke would not agree!
Of course, the remaining shareholders of icq, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, etc. will not agree with their stunts!
"Jeff~www.wuxiaspot.com~ I said you made a lot of money. Look, you just joined the icq board of directors and you are facing a Series B financing. Your 15% will definitely appreciate a lot. No, you have to compensate me. "Zuke said to Bei's bald head.
Hearing this, Bei Bald almost scolded Zhu Ke shamelessly on the spot.
"Zuke, don't even think about it, my advantage is not so good." Bei's bald head curled his lips.
"Hehe, you are really boring, I'm just talking." Zhu Ke turned his head aside.
That's right, in fact Zhuke calculated a bald head.
As the director of ICQ, Zhu Ke's natural way of ICQ wants to increase shares and raise funds, but Bei Bald doesn't know!
Bald head is now facing the issue of seeing his shares being diluted just after joining ICQ.
Of course, from a legal point of view, concealment is illegal!
However, Zhu Ke and Zhang Wei have avoided these risks in the contract long ago, and they have also indicated a lot in the supplementary agreement.
Therefore, Zhu Ke is not afraid of Bei's head turning his face!
Before the B round of financing is officially opened, this meeting is very important. Therefore, shareholder representatives from five companies including Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Sequoia Capital, News Corporation, and Hewlett-Packard Computer also attended the meeting.
The theme of the conference: Is it financing in the near future?
for or against?
The final answer is, of course, that most of the votes are yes!
Representatives of Microsoft, Goldman Sachs and others have come to raise funds several times. This will attract more allies and increase their own shareholding ratio in the process of additional investment.
is not money!
They really don’t lack that stuff!
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