Age of Dreams

"I don't agree with this approach."

Zuckerberg is worthy of being a hero of the generation, and he dared to reject Xiao Qi straightforwardly, "40% is too much, and it is impossible for me to take out so many shares. During the period of Facebook's development, I must ensure that it follows my rules. If you come from your own thinking, you will not take the wrong path. This is a matter of principle, and I will not compromise."

For Facebook, Zuckerberg must be an indispensable soul. Without him, Facebook will lose a lot of aggressiveness.

Although Zuckerberg is not without mistakes, he still leads Facebook all the way and is the most suitable CEO for Facebook.

In the field of social networking, Facebook is number one, and Zuckerberg also considers himself number one, and he will never bow to anyone.

"Even if you gave so many shares, you still have more than 40% of the voting rights, isn't that enough?" Xiao Qi laughed, "Do you want to be the second me?"

Xiao Qi's stinginess and selfishness in shares are well known all over the world.

Although the shares of DreamPad and DreamStars have been sold, Xiao Qi still owns 80% of the shares of DreamPad and 75% of the shares of DreamStars.

Shareholders have proposed many times to let Xiao Qi sell some more, and other investors also want to take this train of wealth, but Xiao Qi has never agreed.

Including DreamSnow and its components, whose annual sales have exceeded 300 billion U.S. dollars, many people are also asking, when Xiao Qi will sell 20 to 30% of DreamSnow's shares, just like arranging DreamPad and DreamStar .

According to the performance of DreamPad and DreamStar, DreamSnow brings investors a return of at least 30% a year, plus the value-added of its own brand, this is a huge fortune.

It's a pity that Xiao Qi never said anything about it, including several vice presidents of Fairy Company, and when they were interviewed, they didn't say that the company had any thoughts on this.

Therefore, Xiao Qi's brand of "stingy" and "selfish" cannot be removed.

Hearing Xiao Qi making fun of himself like this, Zuckerberg also laughed, "I'm not as capable as you, but I lack a sense of security, and I don't want my hard work to be ruined by others, so I still choose to believe in myself."

"But you can't sacrifice my wife's interests because of this." Xiao Qi shrugged, "If you have a better proposal, I will listen to it. If not, I am afraid that next year's IPO listing will be delayed by at least a few months gone."

When Zuckerberg saw Xiao Qi, he knew that today's negotiation would not be easy. Xiao Qi was much tougher than Tang Mingxiang, and he had the confidence to be tough.

He also didn't plan to give in a lot, but he still felt a little helpless when he heard Xiao Qi's threat.

Although he can, as the largest shareholder and decision maker, use his voting rights to force Tang Mingxiang to take out more shares, but in this way, he will completely tear himself apart with Tang Mingxiang. If she directly sues the Supreme Court, Mali Even if he can win this lawsuit, it will take at least three to five years because of the ability of the Austrian law firm.

If Facebook has been delayed for three to five years, then why do you want to be number one in the world?

Besides, things like the founders forcing investors have never been supported by the capital and financial circles. Everyone is likely to invest. If the founders are allowed to bully, what is the law?

Facebook will definitely become the target of public criticism, and life will not be so easy in the future.

Don't forget, Tang Mingxiang is the number one richest woman in the United States, and Xiao Qi is behind her. If she wholeheartedly embarrasses Facebook, Zuckerberg has nothing to do.

Therefore, it was impossible for him to fall out with Tang Mingxiang, so he repeatedly came to discuss with Tang Mingxiang, hoping that she would let go of her request.

Unexpectedly, it was Xiao Qi who came to negotiate today, and his attitude was much tougher than imagined. Zuckerberg knew that the conditions he had imagined before might not be feasible.

He needs to come up with more convincing conditions, otherwise there is no way to quickly reach a unified understanding, so as to complete the IPO process earlier.

The original IPO listing at the end of February seemed a bit hasty, but according to Goldman Sachs' survey, the timing of the listing in February next year is definitely the best time of the year. No one doubts their vision, so Zuckerberg had to Changed his strategy and prepared to go public at the end of February.

Fortunately, some preparations for asset liquidation, profit analysis, and financial statements began as early as July, and the world's top accounting firm was hired. Now if Goldman Sachs is confirmed to exclusively underwrite the issue, then the two With the joint efforts of all parties, it is absolutely a logical success.

"If Mr. Xiao disagrees with this method, I have another idea." Zuckerberg quickly made a decision, showing his back hand, "I will take 10%, and Miss Tang will take 16%." %, but the extra 2% on my side and the 3% on Ms. Tang’s side can be promised to be sold after three years. In this way, although we take out 38% in name, in fact it is only 33% now .”

He knew that Tang Mingxiang couldn't just let Tang Mingxiang give up the shares, and he must follow up, so he took the initiative to increase it by 2%.

Xiao Qi smiled, "I don't think this is good, you can see if this works...we will sign an agreement before the IPO, as long as it is a share in your hand, you will enjoy three times the voting power. In this way, you will get 15% and Xiangxiang’s 10% is also a very reasonable figure.”

"Three times the voting power?"

A light flashed in Zuckerberg's eyes. After pondering for a long time, he suddenly laughed, "Now I finally believe that you have no plans for Facebook."

As he spoke, Zuckerberg's face was filled with relief.

In fact, he has considered this issue before, but now 2 times the voting decision-making power is already very domineering. With 30% of the voting rights, when the equity has been completely dispersed, 30% of the voting decision-making power is absolutely unmatched by anyone.

Even if Tang Mingxiang still retains more than 20% of the shares, there is no way to compete.

Zuckerberg has no pursuit of money. In his past life and present life, even though he already has a net worth of more than 10 billion US dollars, he still lives in the apartment he rented for many years. It seems that he has not moved out in 2013.

On weekdays, his consumption is simpler. Except for going out for dinner with his wife, he basically has no time to spend money.

Therefore, more money and less money have nothing to do with Zuckerberg, but the control of Facebook is something he will never give up.

Since Xiao Qi made such a promise to him, Facebook will still belong to him in the future.

If that's the case, he can consider doing it according to the share transfer ratio Xiao Qi said.

"I'll go back and think about your proposal. Besides, is there any other good suggestion?" Zuckerberg looked at Xiao Qi and said, "Miss Tang will make a lot of money on Facebook in the future, the more Facebook's stock price can be raised, The better it is for her."

"How to operate it is up to you. Where do I have so many ideas?" Xiao Qi smiled, "I just want to ask, what do you plan to do with the money you have cashed out?"

Facebook's IPO was valued at US$120 billion, but when Goldman Sachs obtained 3%-5% of the reimbursed shares, the price was not 120 billion, but almost US$80 billion.

It is not a net profit of one-third. In fact, many procedures and processes of IPO listing are very complicated, and their expenses are also huge. The difference is almost to make up for their operating expenses, and then there is a slight surplus.

The remaining shares will all be placed on the stock market.

Even though about 30% of the shares will be thrown into the market, the U.S. stock market has a concentration of global financial capital. High-quality stocks like Facebook are absolutely easy to sell. They may soar more than 100% on the first day. 15%.

If it weren't for its valuation being too high, a 30% to 50% increase would be a joke.

In general, if Zuckerberg cashes out 15%, he can get at least 12 billion US dollars in cash-selling stocks needs to pay 15% capital gains tax to the federal government, while California still has 10% capital Profits tax is almost 25% loss.

Such a large amount of cash is certainly enough to do many things.

Zuckerberg nodded and said, "I have a strong interest in the cloud service market and the wireless network market, and most of this money may be invested in it. By the way, if your DreamDrive has financing plans, don't forget to tell I!"

"it is good!"

Xiao Qi smiled and agreed.

Zuckerberg's idea is not surprising. This guy is a person who wants to use network technology to change people's lives.

In his previous life, Xiao Qi heard in 2013 that Zuckerberg planned to allow residents of poor countries to use the free WIFI developed by Facebook, and these wireless signals will be directly transmitted and covered by satellites. The achievements made are not something that can be achieved with a little money.

Only a rich and ambitious person like Zuckerberg would do such a thing! (~^~)