Chapter 1468 Stop Stimulating the Seniors

On April 3rd, Yuanfang officially issued invitation letters to the outside world.

Like last year, Weibo's C round of financing will take the form of a reception to invite major investment institutions to negotiate.

At the end of the B round of financing, Weibo was valued at US$3.12 billion.

The total amount of B-round financing is as high as 600 million US dollars, 4 billion yuan.

In order to open up the global market, this money was completely burned by Yuan Fang in almost 4 months!

Of course, the effect is immediate.

Burning nearly 1 billion yuan a month, even if Weibo is really useless, it can still have some effect.

Not to mention, Weibo is not bad at all, if it is really that bad, investment institutions are not stupid, and they will not let Yuan Fang burn money.

The financing, the outside world does not know the specifics.

However, some investment banks have obtained specific information. On Weibo, 40 million new shares have been added, with a plan to raise US$1 billion, and the price per share is US$25.

After adding 40 million new shares, the total share capital reached 300 million shares, and the value of Weibo after financing was as high as 7.5 billion US dollars.

That is to say, before that, Yuanfang valued Weibo at US$6.5 billion.

Naturally, major investment banks scoffed at this.

Li Dong, that bastard, is getting more and more daring to speak out now.

The financing was completed in November last year, and it was only April this year. It took only 5 months to complete the budget.

In 5 months, this guy dared to double Weibo. Do you really think their money is not money?

However, when they saw the new statistical data report on Weibo, many investment banks were also caught in a tangle. This time, can they really kill Li Dong?

As of April 1st, Weibo has 430 million registered users, 180 million monthly unique visitors, and more than 100 million daily active users, covering 105 countries and regions.

As for revenue, in the first quarter of 2009, Weibo revenue reached 50 million US dollars!

Of course, Weibo has not yet achieved profitability.

According to the average increase,

For the whole year of 2009, Weibo's revenue is likely to exceed US$250 million.

Reaching this data in 2009 is very rare.

Take Sina Weibo as an example in the previous life. Before the IPO, Sina’s revenue was only US$180 million, which is already 13 years of performance, and the loss was much more serious than that of Yuanfang.

Sina has also failed in the global market, and its data is not as good as the current Weibo.

Four years later, Yuanfang Weibo can achieve such a performance, which is not the same concept as Sina in the previous life.

At present, Weibo still has a lot of room for growth, and the market is not saturated, which is completely different from the previous life where Sina almost emptied its potential.

At least for now, regardless of influence, in terms of various statistics, both Facebook and Twitter are actually not as good as Yuanfang Weibo.

Based on these data, Li Dong called out a valuation of 6.5 billion US dollars before the last round of financing. It is really hard to say whether he can achieve his goal in the end.

If you don't accept it, someone may accept this valuation.

The last round of financing will be followed by an IPO. As long as Weibo does not have major problems before the IPO, it will be 100% profitable.

What's more, Li Dong's fame is getting bigger and bigger, and his Weibo fame is also growing.

Worldwide, he is synonymous with golden hands, and many investment banks are judging whether Weibo can reach tens of billions of dollars after it goes public?

As long as it can reach a market value of 10 billion US dollars, even if the listing dilutes a part of the equity, the current valuation after financing is 7.5 billion US dollars, and it will not lose money.

Tens of billions of dollars...

This threshold made some people hesitate.

If it fails to reach a market value of tens of billions of dollars, if the shares are diluted after listing, it will be an embarrassing situation, and it is very likely to lose money.

Of course, whether it can be achieved or not, this needs to be judged by each family.

As for the hundreds of billions of dollars and trillions of dollars that Li Dong personally shouted out, just listen to it. If you really want to take it seriously, you don’t know how to die if you are fooled by him.

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The financing reception is scheduled for April 6th.

At the same time, Ali also announced the news that Treasure will be held on the 8th, and a Treasure financing reception will be held in Lin'an.

Dibao financing is not the first case of domestic C2C platform financing.

As early as a few years ago, eBay raised money.

But the market at that time was completely different from what it is now, and the general environment was also completely different.

In recent years, Dibao is still the first C2C platform that chooses financing.

And despite Li Dong’s obvious attack, Ketabao is the king in the C2C field, which no one can deny.

Even if Wanjia.com is online, the gap between it and Dibao is still a world of difference.

The outside world is interested in the valuation and financing of Dibao. In fact, Li Dong is more interested.

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plain.

Li Dong took the phone and yelled: "Don't hang up, I'll just ask you a few questions, if you hang up again, believe it or not, I'll come to your house to trouble you!"

He was also fed up with Ma Yun, that bastard, who hung up on him three times in a row!

Every time he opened his mouth, the other party started to hang up the phone, which made Li Dong so angry that he almost vomited blood!

Ma Yun on the opposite side said unhappily: "I'm really busy, just talk to me if you have something to say, or send me a text message, I don't have time to talk to you!"

Li Dong said angrily: "Do I have that time to text you?

Stop talking nonsense, I'll talk about business, don't gossip.

Let me ask you, how much money is planned to be raised and what is the valuation this time, it is not a secret, why hide it? "

Ma Yun said vigilantly: "What are you asking these for? Could it be that you are planning to make trouble for me?"

"I'm free, I just ask about the market.

My Yuanfang Mall seems to have lost money last time, and Wanjia.com only had 50 billion yuan.

If you dig out treasures all by yourself, or do C2C, it will be over soon.

My B2C performance will surpass yours. If your valuation is 20 billion, I will be more than 10 times yours.

So I inquired, lest I don't know how much I lost.

Xiao Ma was so reluctant last time, if any of you are willing to raise money, then I will kick him out and make him sloppy! "

Ma Yun smiled and said: "You can say this when I'm really finished. Besides, wasn't it Xiao Ma before? Now it's a pony. This is rich and powerful, but it's different."

Li Dong laughed and said: "Why do you care about these, old horses and small horses are not all the same.

Don't talk about it, tell me, how much do you plan to raise?

Let me remind you that there is too little financing, not enough to burn.

When Wanjia.com goes online in May, I plan to spend at least 10 billion on it.

If you can't keep up, you're in trouble.

But 10 billion, to put it bluntly, even if you blow the sky, you can't raise so much money. "

Ma Yun smiled lightly: "Why did you have such an illusion?

Our B2B business, in such a sluggish market, has a market value of more than 10 billion US dollars.

And our C2C plus Tmall two major businesses, do you think it is not as good as the B2B business?

If you sell at a loss, that is your business, and you can't blame others for being stupid.

Let alone this time, I am not planning to raise 10 billion dollars, but I plan to raise 1 billion U.S. dollars, which I think should be enough.

As for the valuation after financing, you can wait for the news yourself. "

As soon as he said this, Li Dong was annoyed and said: "Your maximum financing diluted 25% of the equity is the highest, so to speak, your valuation of Baobao is at least 3 billion US dollars, no, I guess it should be about 20%, In other words, it is more than 4 billion U.S. dollars, and it will reach 5 billion U.S. dollars after financing!

Let me go, you are a broken treasure, you dare to say 5 billion US dollars!

If this is really the case, then my Yuanfang Mall will have to double by 5 times no matter what!

Without 25 billion US dollars, I will lose a lot!

How much is 25 billion U.S. dollars, you can calculate it for me..."

"Hehe, let's just pay 250, whatever it is."

Ma Yun was too lazy to talk to him and hung up the phone directly.

However, what Li Dong said is not a lie, he does plan to pay a valuation of 5 billion U.S. dollars after financing.

Of course, the same sentence depends on whether the investment bank agrees or not.

As for Li Dong's claim that his Yuanfang Mall was losing money, if Treasure's financing goes well, then he is indeed losing money.

It is undeniable that B2C business is actually more valuable than C2C business.

The profit sources of the two are different, and the gap is also large.

But it also depends on the influence. The influence of Dibao is not limited to Huaxia now, and it is larger than Yuanfang Mall in terms of overall influence.

So the 10 times and 5 times that Li Dong said is very difficult to hold.

However, there is a gap of two or three times.

In other words, in Ma Yun's eyes, Yuanfang Mall is still established with a valuation of about 12 billion US dollars.

However, the cooperation between Teng Xun and Yuanfang is not just about capital exchanges.

Teng Xun also paid other prices, and the last time it was not counted as financing, Teng Xun's 4 billion cash was taken away by Li Dong personally, which is also the difference.

The price Teng Xun gave was actually not too low, and Li Dong didn't really lose money, it's just that this guy has always had a dark heart, and he felt that he had lost money.

Regardless of what Ma Yun thought, Li Dong called Ma Huateng after calling Ma Yun.

As soon as the phone call was made, Li Dong said angrily: "Ma Yun said that Treasure is worth 10 billion US dollars!

Pony, how much you take advantage of me!

He is 10 billion US dollars, I am worth 50 billion US dollars no matter what, 300 billion is up!

As a result, you took away my 30 billion profit by adding 4 billion in one pat..."

"roll!"

Ma Hua was so angry that he almost vomited blood, sir, are you panicking?

I've never seen anyone more shameless than Li Dong!

300 billion, do you know the concept?

Are you really burnt out?

Teng Xun has been listed for several years, and now the total market value is less than 20 billion US dollars.

In the end, Li Dong was fine, he just opened his mouth and shut his mouth, just a few Teng Xun, making it as if the whole world belongs to them, so it is worth as much as you say?

Let alone 300 billion yuan, Ma Huateng felt that he had lost the previous 50 billion yuan.

He wanted to ignore this guy, but when he turned his head and thought about it, Ma Huateng suddenly smiled and said: "Let's not talk about this, I checked your WeChat two days ago, isn't this thing too crude?

Don't tell me that this is what you have always placed high hopes on and vowed to beat me on the mobile terminal?

If this is the case, I will be very disappointed, Li Dong, you should stop blowing a few words in the future.

Otherwise, it will be ugly if you can't take back the big words you blow out in the future. "

"WeChat?"

Li Dong asked suspiciously, "What WeChat?"

Ma Huateng frowned slightly and said, "Is it interesting to pretend to be with me?"

"No, I'm serious, what WeChat?"

Li Dong said in a tone full of doubts: "I really don't know, you also know that Yuanfang is now very large, and the Internet industry is only an insignificant part of our group.

Not to mention the following business, I hardly ask.

What is WeChat you are talking about?

New business?

Or did you make a mistake, referring to Weibo? "

Now it's Ma Huateng's turn to be suspicious. The appearance of WeChat is actually somewhat unreasonable.

Yuanfang hardly cares about it, and after three days, the download volume is less than 50,000.

According to this progress, after a month, it will be amazing to lose 500,000 users.

For an average enterprise, having 500,000 users is definitely a remarkable achievement.

But for a company like Yuanfang with a large user base, a piece of software with 500,000 users is really not a big deal.

Could it be that it is really just a casual work of Yuanfang Technology?

Ma Huateng was suspicious, but hummed: "Just keep pretending, I don't believe you don't know!"

"What's wrong, what should I pretend?

I, Li Dong, do things aboveboard, do I need to pretend to be with you?

Forget it, you and I stand at different angles, and your status is also different. What I see, you can't see, and what I don't pay attention to, maybe in your opinion, it will be extremely important.

Just like the last time the traffic policy was implemented, you only thought of your own software, but I thought of the whole industry and the whole society.

This is the gap, the fundamental gap!

When one day you have the opportunity to stand in my position, stand in my position, you will understand what it means to stand high and look far away.

Of course, you may not have this opportunity.

When I kill the old horse, you will not be far away.

I usually speak directly when I have something to say. I am a straightforward person, as you all know.

Between us, there will be a battle sooner or later, there is no need to hide it, it is meaningless.

I even said at the meeting of distant executives before that when we go to war, I will have two choices. If I lose, I will package and sell my business to you. , the key is the starting price you draw.

If you win, there is nothing to be happy about.

Winning or losing in a single field doesn't matter to me.

Brother Ma, am I right?

I'm different from you, you're a full-fledged fool, scaring yourself all day long, is it worth it?

I can tell by your tone of voice, you've been staring at me recently, I'm afraid you can't even sleep well. "

Li Dong said with a smile: "It's really unnecessary, if I really want to do something to you, it will definitely be a drudgery, and the news that I want to do you is overwhelming.

If you are really unwilling and worried, then you can take the initiative to trouble me.

I want to do it every day and worry about this and that, I'm afraid I won't be able to explain it to the shareholders, and I won't be able to explain it to the shareholders. Are you tired?

I really don't pay much attention to this. I made PP for the convenience of shopping in the mall.

But now after all, I have invested a lot, and I am really going to be defeated by you. If you make some money for me, it is very likely that I will sell it to you directly.

To tell you the truth, I sold all the shares in Dongxing Entertainment.

If I really want to do something on this, do you think I will give up Dongxing Entertainment?

Now I just feel that I have been involved in too many industries, and I am a little bit powerless, but I am still a little bit reluctant.

If you can really help me make up my mind, or make it big, or give up, then I have to thank you. "

What Li Dong said made Ma Huateng frown even more.

Now Li Dong is getting deeper and deeper.

He couldn't tell whether what Li Dong said was serious or not. He could tell a little bit before. There was still a difference in tone when he was joking and not joking.

Now, hearing this, he can't feel the truth at all.

Taking a breath slightly, Ma Huateng said in a deep voice, "Are you serious about what you said?"

"Of course, how about it, think about it, you take the initiative to attack me, so I have a reason to start a war with you?"

"You don't have to test me!"

Ma Huateng said lightly: "The aggressive method doesn't work for me, if I think the timing is right, I'll trouble you, if the timing isn't right, then I'll continue to wait.

Since you made it clear, I will say it too.

Huaxia does not need two leading companies with completely overlapping functions, especially in the Internet field.

There will be a dispute between us, and that will happen sooner or later.

If you really want to give up, that's the best. If you want to sell your business in a package, I'm happy to accept it peacefully. The price will never be low! "

"Hehe, you think too much, no matter whether you win or lose, I have to try.

If I really win, I'll make a fortune, don't you think so?

It is not so difficult to pick up ready-made bargains from me, Li Dong. "

"I knew you wouldn't give up!"

At this time, Ma Huateng finally found something, and said after finishing speaking: "I'm dead, I'll wait for you to fight!"

"Wait for me to fight? I'm afraid you will cry then!"

Li Dong chuckled, but the other party did not hang up the phone, obviously Ma Huateng was still waiting for him to finish speaking.

Li Dong saw that his attitude was better than that of the old horse, and said: "At the end, I will add a word, find a way to get more shares in the mall under your own name.

In this way, even if Teng Xun is finished, you, a rich man, will not be able to escape.

I have enough loyalty to you. If you are interested at that time, Teng Xun is finished, and you can come to work in a distant place. "

"The same is for you!"

This time Ma Huateng didn't wait any longer and hung up the phone directly.

Li Dong shook his head while holding the phone, "I don't know when these seniors in the industry are so ignorant of respect.

Every time I call me, I hang up with a bang, no wonder they keep going back. "

Shen Qian, who was taking a walk in the yard, saw his expression of emotion, and couldn't help but be speechless: "If you don't irritate people, they will treat you like this?"

This guy has nothing to do every day. If he insists on stimulating them, it will make you look good.

"How did I provoke them?"

Li Dong said aggrievedly: "I didn't say anything, and even arranged for them a way out, am I worthy of them?

As a result, no one appreciated it!

If I kill them all, these people will have to beg for food!

Forget it, let’s not talk about this, tomorrow is Qingming, go back to the grave with me... I just don’t know if pregnant women can go, I have to ask my parents..."

Number 4 is Qingming, and Li Dong is now the head of the old Li family.

If he's too busy, it's okay if he doesn't go back. It just so happens that he's only busy on the 6th this time, so he has to go back and have a look no matter what happens in Qingming.