Global Monopoly of Technology

"The slogan for launching WhatAPP in the future is the reliability and simplicity of the app, and don't do anything fancy. The goal is clear, don't get in the way of users."

Luo Sheng paused for a moment and said in an orderly manner: "The bad thing about Yahoo shopping is that they always put more advertisements and logos on the page, what does this have to do with users? Anyway, as a Yahoo user, I am using When the product was launched, it left a very bad impression, advertising can not solve the commercialization problem of everyone, and I think the service model is a pure model, the customer is the user, it is as simple as that.”

The new project was quickly arranged clearly, the core is focus, even if the product adds new functions, it is necessary to avoid making the product more complicated as much as possible.

Even if people want the desktop version and want a username, WhatAPP has to stick to the utility and simplicity of the app and the quality of service.

As for advertisements, games, and gimmicks, they will all create obstacles.

But what is interesting is that these elements that will hinder overseas can shine in China, because WeChat is just like this. When you open WeChat, there are all kinds of messy small programs in it.

Luo Sheng, of course, used WeChat in his last life, which is one of the indispensable applications in Internet life.

The content in WeChat has everything, all kinds of strange and fancy. For example, the circle of friends function, public account, possessing media attributes, etc.

Although many functions can make some users feel overwhelmed, the vast majority of users like it very much and feel that the functions are very rich.

Different regional markets have different user needs. Of course, users cannot be forced to choose. This is doomed to failure. Therefore, Bluestar Technology will launch products similar to WeChat in the future, so it must not follow the way of WhatAPP. This is also Luo Sheng is not afraid of other people in China To replicate this model in the mainland, sometimes too blind worship will overturn the car.

As for the domestic version, Luo Sheng is not in a hurry, because the growth of mobile Internet users has not yet officially started to explode. The real outbreak time was in 2012, when the knockoff smartphones and Huaqiangbei were brilliant.

It's early.

If it is launched too early, it will let others imitate the past first, and when the car rolls over, it will not be able to find the ground.

But at this time point, there is no shadow of WeChat. What time point is it now? In the first half of 2008, according to the timeline of the previous life, WeChat was launched around 2011.

In any case, Luo Sheng will definitely not let Xiao Ma get out WeChat first, otherwise the blue space will not be able to mix in the country.

Because WeChat is a real-name social product, Blue Space is very likely to be killed by WeChat, a social APP that is also a real-name system. As a result, Blue Space will die on the mobile Internet, just like when the PC dominated Renren in the previous life. In the same way, because I missed the mobile Internet, I was cut off by WeChat, and I was basically cold in the end.

After arranging the new project, Luo Sheng said, "The second thing I want to talk about in today's meeting is the issue of the company's external debt issuance."

Issuing debt?

The company's current capital chain is very abundant, and there are no negative assets and non-performing assets. Even the digital film copyright cooperation with major film companies and the acquisition of Marvel is a huge expense, and the economic winter is affected by the general environment. As a result, the revenue of Bluestar Technology dropped significantly.

But a few months later, Bluestar Technology Group's cash reserves are still at a high of 10 billion US dollars.

It went down before, but now it's up again.

I don't know why the money of Bluestar Technology Group, it is a rhythm that it can't be spent, and the company's asset scale is more and more spent.

Luo Sheng is better, and now he has to issue bonds to raise money, emmm...

Zhang Bowen felt an important piece of information very keenly. He didn't forget what Luo Sheng said at the beginning, that he was going to buy his own company.

In other words, Zhang Bowen realized that the world economy is not far from a complete collapse.

Luo Sheng said: "Well, I think Bluestar Technology Group has so far not had any debts, which is a very abnormal phenomenon, so it is necessary to be in debt, and if you don't owe some money, you will be exhausted. If you share, you will gather together. "

Everyone: "..."

Lao Zhang's heart moved, and he immediately looked at Luo Sheng: "Mr. Luo, since it has issued bonds, how many bonds does the company intend to issue? What is the interest rate?"

Luo Sheng pondered for a moment and said: "$8.5 billion, five-year term, interest rate 7.19%, rated 3A corporate bonds."

Everyone was surprised when they heard the data, 7.19%, even in the current economic winter, I am afraid that many institutions, especially financial institutions, will know about such bonds, and they will try their best to tighten their belts and squeeze how much money they can squeeze out. How much money to squeeze out to buy the bonds of Bluestar Technology.

You must know that the general investment and financial management is about 4, and the deposit in the bank is about 3%.

A very realistic and cruel problem is that banks are always willing to lend money to big companies that are never short of money. The reason is very simple. They are not afraid that the other party will not pay. Basically, it is a lucrative business.

On the contrary, no matter how good the economic environment is, the banking industry is reluctant to lend money to SMEs, especially startups. The reason is also very simple. If you go bankrupt, the bank will be unlucky with you, and the risk is too great.

Faced with these two scenarios, banks, especially commercial banks, can vote with their feet.

When everyone in the meeting saw Luo Sheng's expression and attitude, everyone knew that this matter was basically settled.

Don't come again when the opportunity is lost. Luo Sheng doesn't want to discuss too much with his subordinates on this matter, so as not to miss the opportunity.

Well, there's no democracy here, in short, I'll let it go!

As long as you see it, it's the right shot.

Zhang Bowen immediately made a memo about this, and he was already thinking about the implementation issue.

Luo Sheng added: "This is a stupid act of sending money to outsiders. It's better for everyone to think so, hehe..."

After laughing, Luo Sheng continued: "This 8.5 billion US dollars, and then 3 billion US dollars from the company's book funds, a total of 11.5 billion US dollars, our goal is to buy back about 10% of Bluestar Technology Group's stock, Too many words will definitely not work, and Wall Street is not a vegetarian, and it is very likely that other institutions will follow us.”

Under normal circumstances, the company will cancel the repurchased shares after the stock repurchase is completed, but Luo Sheng's decision is not to do so, but to keep the repurchased shares as "treasury shares", which are still issued shares, but do not participate in the calculation and distribution of earnings per share.

These repurchased "treasury shares" are retained for future use, issuing convertible bonds, employee benefit plans, etc., or selling them when funds are needed.

Therefore, from a long-term perspective, today's decision to issue bonds of 8.5 billion US dollars with an interest rate of 7.19% seems to have paid a great price, but as long as the stock appreciates significantly in the near future, it can be completed by repurchasing the stock in a few years. A small part of the liquidation can make up for the expenses here, and most of them are real income.

Strictly speaking, this is no different from a white wolf with empty gloves, which means that it basically paid no price, and then repurchased about 10% of its shares. In the future, Bluestar Technology Group will continue to issue bonds. The interest rate required by the bond can be diluted by the first repurchase of the stock.

In this way, the result is that this little money is getting more and more, and the debt is getting richer and richer. If the company is in urgent need of funds in the future, it can rely on selling treasury stocks or something to make ends meet.

But is it really that simple? If everyone thinks this way, it can only be said that they underestimate Luo Sheng.

Under the suggestion of Qin Weimu, a personal staff member, Luo Sheng accepted her suggestion, so this is just his starting style. The real purpose is to sell the repurchased shares to himself at a premium of the current market value. offshore trust funds.

You must know that Luo Sheng now holds more than 45 billion US dollars at any time. It is stupid for such a large amount of funds to not operate.

And if you think that this is the end, it is still too young, and it can only be said that Qin Weimu is a woman who is full of tricks in the operation of financial capital, and everything is legal.

It is no exaggeration to say that with Qin Weimu as a wise helper, Luo Sheng's personal assets have easily doubled or doubled, and of course her own assets have also doubled.

The repurchase of shares was finalized at the meeting, and the meeting was over. Luo Sheng didn't stay in Bluestar Technology Group for too long. After half an hour of work here, he started the research of Bluestar.

At present, Côte d'Azur has three major plans. While consolidating the existing business operations, its R\u0026D department is stepping up the research and development of the next-generation Azure mobile phone.

The second plan is the research and development of the open source operating system WOS, which is used to deal with the competition of Google's Android system in the open source ecosystem. Luo Sheng absolutely does not choose between closed-loop ecology and open-source ecology.

The third plan is the development of game consoles, which was only recently established. This will be the second-largest hardware business of Côte d’Azur. Its significance is by no means as simple as a game console on the surface. It will repeat the path of Sony’s failure. , the goal is to point at Intel and overturn its dominance.

Competing with Intel from the PC battlefield, even if Luo Sheng can win, he will have to peel off his skin and fight against the strongest of others. This is not brave, but stupid.

Sony's thinking is right. It intends to open up the situation from the game console, with a solid strategic fulcrum, and then seek the next offensive route. The game console is Sony's home ground, but Intel is not the absolute overlord here. It is the most easy to pick over the strategic policy of the toothpaste factory.

Luo Sheng decided to do this. Although he was also a new player in the game console field, at least he avoided the opponent's toughest side and attacked the opponent's relatively weak point.

Accumulating small victories into big victories will ultimately lead to overall victories. The ideas of great men are still unfavorable in market competition.

In addition, another thing Luo Sheng is very concerned about is the supercomputer in the science and technology complex building, which can be done by giving Dawning Technology about three months.

With the passage of time, on June 22, Bluestar Technology Group officially disclosed the news that it plans to issue corporate bonds with a face value of up to 8.5 billion US dollars.

Once the news was disclosed, the industry was shocked, and it was immediately targeted by major financial institutions on Wall Street.

All of a sudden, the capitals of all parties rose up and rushed to run, one after another.

However, this is as high as 8.5 billion U.S. dollars, or about 58 billion yuan of corporate bonds. Most of the denominations can only be issued overseas.

Without him, Luo Sheng needs 8.5 billion US dollars, not 58 billion soft sister coins. In the end, he still needs to exchange foreign currency. There is no doubt that when the economy is good, he may not be able to exchange so much. The current environmental foundation is even more It is definitely less than $8.5 billion in foreign exchange.

That can only be done overseas.

And when this kind of benefit appears, Goldman Sachs is never absent, and it is the one who moves the fastest.

In less than two hours after the news was disclosed, Paul Watson made a direct private call from the other side of the ocean to Luo Sheng's mobile phone. This is the embodiment of the advantages of human resources, and the expression is unpretentious.

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