Chapter 634: Capital Increase for Woaw

Specifically, it is not Barron who solves Woaw's funding problem, but IC Capital managed by Ivanta...

After IC Capital sold DoubleClick and YouTube to Woaw, it once held more than 800 million Woaw shares, accounting for nearly 17% of Woaw's total share capital...

After that, as Woaw's stock price continued to rise, it rose from US$7 per share, then to US$7.5 per share, and finally even reached its highest level, exceeding US$8 per share...

Woaw's market value was once close to US$40 billion!

During this process, IC Capital began to reduce its holdings of Woaw shares on the grounds of additional investment in Android companies and related acquisitions - their holdings in Woaw were reduced from 812 million shares to about 600 million shares, reducing their holdings by more than 600 million shares. 200 million Woaw shares.

Correspondingly, because Woaw's stock price was in an upward trend, IC Capital received nearly US$1.5 billion in cash.

This time, Woaw Technology will issue 250 million additional shares to IC Capital at a price of $6 per share. Woaw will receive $1.5 billion in funding from IC Capital.

Yes, Woaw Technology’s stock price has fallen below $6. Compared with the highest point of Woaw’s stock price last year, it has fallen by more than 25%!

In this way, after this Woaw private placement of shares, Woaw's total share capital has increased to 5.05 billion shares, and IC Capital will hold approximately 850 million Woaw shares, accounting for 16.83% of its total share capital.

This time Woaw is issuing additional shares to raise funds to get through this difficult period. As for the target of the additional issuance is IC Capital, it is also because under the same conditions, other investors in Woaw have no intention to participate...

After all, it is obvious that the impact of the subprime mortgage crisis is far from over. The entire economic situation is not good. Woaw’s investors, such as Sequoia Capital, Blackstone Fund and Goldman Sachs Group, even endured losses in the second quarter of this year. I couldn't help but sell some Woaw stocks to raise funds...

Therefore, IC Capital was the only company that responded positively to Woaw's additional issuance of shares this time.

As for why Barron chose IC Capital to undertake Woaw's additional stock issuance instead of DS Group...

It is also because North America is already one of the most important markets for Woaw, and DS Holdings itself has a relatively high shareholding ratio in Woaw. As IC Capital of American Capital, it will obtain the additional issuance of Woaw, thereby increasing its stake in this Internet company. Shareholdings in emerging giants are the easiest for the United States to accept.

He doesn't want to have some trouble in the future when conservative sentiment in the United States takes over. Woaw will encounter some trouble because of DS Capital's large shareholding in it - don't look at the fact that Britain is also one of the Five Eyes Alliance, but the United States For allies, it is not without precautions.

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"By the way, how's Twitter doing now?"

Barron asked casually after leaving Woaw and returning to their home in Mountain View.

"Oh, I wanted to tell you, but I forgot before..."

Ivanta said with a smile on her face:

"At my suggestion, Twitter also launched a mobile APP in the first half of this year. It performed very well after it was launched. In order to speed up their development, they just raised Series B financing last month..."

Twitter can be said to be a very important media platform in the future. For example, in Barron's previous life, Musk, the "richest man" at the time, spent US$44 billion to buy this platform and renamed it X...

In the original time and space, it can be said that before being acquired by Musk, Twitter was controlled by the Donkey Party. For example, when Jianguo was campaigning against the United States, and when Jianguo was still in office, the relevant top executives of Twitter had already taken orders from the Donkey Party and directed their actions to the Donkey Party. Users push messages that are beneficial to Meixi Zong...

Even when Jianguo was still serving as the commander-in-chief, he was directly banned...

The politics behind America’s so-called “lighthouse” are also particularly dark.

This is why after Musk acquired Twitter, he directly stated that it was "impossible to commit suicide" to prevent him from being shot eight times in the back or six times in the head one day because he offended certain forces... What was determined to be suicide occurred.

But now, the situation is different...

Just last month, IC Capital invested an additional $10 million in Twitter, increasing its stake in Twitter from 25% to 35%, becoming Twitter's largest shareholder.

After continuing to invest in the future, if Twitter can still develop now, then Ivanta will probably have a huge say in their tendencies.

Speaking of which, the public security in Mountain View is very good. After all, it is located in the Silicon Valley area, where technology companies are concentrated and there are many emerging wealthy people. Naturally, they attach great importance to their own safety.

The villa where Barron and Ivanta live is located in the most upscale community in Mountain View City - the police force here, it is no exaggeration to say, can occupy more than one-third of the entire Mountain View City.

After all, according to the logic of commercial society, if you pay the most taxes, you will have the corresponding police force to protect you. This is very reasonable, isn't it?

Although their villa is not large compared to other manor houses in Barron, what is rare is that it has a huge garden.

And along the garden wall, there are surveillance cameras, and there will be more than a dozen bodyguards on one side of the house to guard the safety of the place at all times when Barron moves in.

In the hall of the villa, the fire in the fireplace illuminates the entire space, making the room warm as spring.

This makes people feel nothing like the coldness that has begun to spread in Silicon Valley in November.

At this time, Ivanta was only wearing a silk suspender skirt, which showed off her curves, especially her slender legs, which were like works of art.

After all, Ivanta is over 180cm tall and once worked as a model - it can be said that her height is already a bit tall among models, but not just anyone can hold it...

The firelight reflected on the wall from one side of Ivanta. Her silhouette with her long hair coiled up and down... rose and fell with a certain rhythm.

"Baby, you are awesome..."

Hearing Barron's heartfelt praise, Ivanta raised her head, her eyes full of tenderness and... spring. She was very satisfied when she heard Barron's increasingly rapid breathing.

When Ivanta stood up and sat on Barron's lap, the young and handsome Duke looked at him with a half-smile:

"Madam, you are very proactive today, like a knight..."

"Really? Let's see if I can control this wild horse..."

Looking down at Barron, Ivanta frowned slightly under the attraction of their eyes, and then bit her lip. Gradually, her brows relaxed...

"Oh~My God..."

"I prefer you to call me Dad...baby."