Chapter 121 Do you need funds?
When the Woaw website's competition for Cambridge University girls came to an end in late October, the number of registered women on the website had exceeded 10,000.
In more than 40 days, there were only more than 10,000 registered people. It seems that the development of the Woaw website is not fast.
But what you need to know is that the Woaw website currently only accepts students from the University of Cambridge for registration, and if the number of full-time students at the University of Cambridge is less than 20,000 at this time, then this number is very rare, more than half of the students. All Cambridge University students have registered on the Woaw website, and these are all registered users with real names!
And from another data, we can also see the influence of the Woaw website at this time. According to statistics, since the Woaw website was launched, the number of users who visited the Woaw website as tourists has exceeded 5 million.
Well, another piece of data is that the population of England at this time did not exceed 60 million people.
After completing this competition of beautiful students, Woaw will begin to expand the scope of registration and open registration channels for other British college students.
At present, the Woaw website has contacted the student unions of Oxford University, Imperial College London, University College London and other schools, and is preparing to recruit paid part-time students from each school to be responsible for reviewing the registered users of the school.
Through the open registration process at the University of Cambridge, the Woaw website has slowly figured out a registration process for "students of this school".
When registering, students need to select their department grade, and users of the same grade can expel them by voting when they find that a "stranger" has joined the department.
Only when a dispute arises do the website reviewers need to intervene and make a ruling.
This greatly reduces the workload of website reviewers and improves the efficiency of user registration and opening.
Woaw Technology expects to open registration to basically all universities in the UK before New Year's Day next year, which will definitely usher in an explosive period of website development.
Similarly, in order to attract students to join, after this beauty competition for Cambridge University, there will be another round of beauty competition for universities across the UK. Those who can get the final top ten will receive rewards of different amounts.
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"Daisy, I heard that you hit Sid and made him return to France with a broken heart, is that right?"
Back in London, Barron came to the DS Capital office in Lloyds Building. When he met Daisy, he joked.
"When Sid returned to London a while ago, he came to see me. Barron, you know, he is still the same. This time he came to me with flowers to express his love..."
"Then you scolded him away? When he called me, he felt like crying..."
Hearing Barron's words, Daisy shook her head:
"Although what you said is not accurate, it is almost the same. I don't want to go on like this. Sid needs to mature and understand that when a lady rejects the other party, she is not playing hard to get, but really does not want to be disturbed. , I think it’s good for both of us.”
Sid was once Barron's former college roommate, and they had a good relationship. It was through him that he contacted Daisy.
After all, in college, although Barron had a good relationship with Daisy, Daisy had not started using mobile phones when they were in school, so only Sid, who had been "following" her, knew Daisy's subsequent number. .
I have to say that Sid is indeed very perseverant. I wonder if he has ever heard of the Chinese saying "A martyr girl is afraid of stalking a man", which is why he pursues Daisy so firmly.
But at this time, it seemed that Daisy had no interest in him at all.
This kind of matter itself is their own private matter, and Barron will not ask too much.
Obviously, Daisy didn't want to say more about this, so she instead said:
"NetArt's stock performance has been outstanding recently. After my analysis, I believe it will rise even more rapidly in the future."
Indeed, by late October, NetEase's stock price had risen by more than 125% compared to when they bought it!
It's a pity that the size of this stock is too small. Their previous purchase of 3 million pounds of stock already accounted for 14.3% of its shares, and they really can't buy more.
"In addition, Amazon's performance is also good. According to our holding cost, it has increased by nearly 50%. It has not been affected by the decline of technology stocks again during this period."
Yes, it was during this period that the Nasdaq fell again, hitting a five-year low.
Barron's knew that this would also be the lowest stock index for a long time in the future. It was also during this period that DS Capital filled its position with US stocks and bought the technology stocks that had been previously determined.
This includes Netflix.
On October 9, Netflix's stock price fell below $5. You know, when they went public at the end of May, the issue price was $15!
Now its stock price has fallen directly to less than a fraction of the issue price.
It was also at this time that DS Capital began to buy Netflix shares.
As of now, they already hold 2.586 million shares of Netflix, with a holding cost of $5.8 per share.
Well, it's not that they don't want to buy more, the main reason is that the current position is close to 10% of Netflix's total share capital... Compared to its current market value, the current position is relatively high, and those who are willing to sell Almost all the tradable stocks have been bought. If you buy them again, it is equivalent to being a market maker, purely to drive up the stock price.
It only cost 10 million pounds, and Barron was really speechless.
Barron also knows that there is still a long time before Netflix explodes. He is just taking advantage of the plummeting stock price of Netflix to eat some of it. These stocks are destined to be held for a long time. .
"You can send someone to contact Netflix and ask Mr. Hastings if his company needs funds. We can provide him with part of the funds. Well, he only needs to issue a part of the additional shares to us. "
Since it was difficult to buy Netflix shares from the secondary market, Barron came up with the idea of financing Netflix directly and obtaining additional shares from them.
Speaking of which, within the same investment company, within DS Capital, the responsibilities of Daisy and Amber Sheehan are somewhat different.
Daisy is in charge of the securities investment department. If it involves investment in company shares, then this department is mainly focused on buying stocks in the secondary market.
However, Netflix is a listed company, so if it directly participates in their financing and obtains private placement of shares, it will also be done by Daisy's securities investment department.
The industrial investment department that Amber Sheehan is responsible for has two main branches - DS Industrial Investment Company (DSIIC) and DS Asset Management Company (DSAMC).
The former is aimed at equity investment in start-ups and other unlisted companies; while the latter is mainly aimed at investment in real estate and wholly-owned companies.
"Okay, I will contact the other party on the phone first... We had contact with the other party before when we increased our holdings of their stocks."
According to the regulations of the US stock market, when an institution purchases circulating stocks in the secondary market and reaches 5% or an integral multiple thereof, it needs to "raise a sign" to explain its intentions.
Therefore, whether it was buying NetEase shares or Netflix shares before, DS Capital has made public disclosures, indicating that it is only making normal financial investments and has no purpose of acquiring companies or seeking control.
Through previous investments, Barron's judgment has been highly recognized by Daisy - after all, facts have proven that his judgment has always been very correct.
So after he specifically mentioned things about Netflix, which showed that he was quite optimistic about Netflix, Daisy secretly remembered it in her heart and prepared to contact Netflix in the United States to inquire about them. Is there a need for funds?
