Hollywood Starts with Animation

Major investment banks and financial investment companies in the United States are naturally interested in ICQ. Of course, some multinational companies in Europe and Asia have also expressed their willingness to participate in ICQ's B round of financing.

The board, represented by CEO Vesger, is of course welcome.

The main purpose of Icq's financing this time is to win over powerful allies from the global market, so that ICQ can gain more support in countries other than North America.

You must know that those companies, although they are not as powerful as Microsoft and Goldman Sachs, are like snakes in their own countries and regions. They have great influence in the fields of economy and politics, and have their participation. , which can naturally make ICQ's globalization strategy develop more rapidly.

Microsoft: "Support share expansion!"

Goldman Sachs: "We also support share expansion!"

News Corp: "One question though is how many shares to take out this time."

Sequoia Capital: "No matter how the shares are diluted, we Sequoia Capital will follow the investment to ensure that our shares are not diluted."

HP: "On the issue of the B round of financing, we decided to make additional investment, hoping to have more icq equity."

Amazon: "Don't bully my new director, we decided to follow suit anyway."

Undoubtedly, representatives of the six major shareholders, including Microsoft, have all expressed the need to make additional investments to prevent the dilution of their shares.

Equal dilution?

Ha ha!

Of course, the representatives of the six major shareholders would not agree.

So what's the problem?

They do not want their shares to be diluted, so only the shares of Zucker and the ICQ founding team can be diluted.

The 6 major shareholders are all powerful parties. Wesger and others are weak and weak. Of course, they are the ones who have the most shares from this financing. However, Wisger and others, including Zucker, will receive a large amount of cash.

In the end, after several meetings, it was decided that icq will take out 30% of the shares.

......

June 30.

On this day, icq's B round of financing was officially completed.

The speed is astounding!

The main reason is the development speed of icq, which is very popular in the market. Investors from all over the world will spare no expense in order to obtain shares. Dell, Nintendo, Citi, French First Bank, European Philip Group and other giant companies have joined in one after another. Can you be happy?

In this round of financing, only Goldman Sachs and News Corp.'s original shareholders of icq have increased their shares, while the shareholding ratios of other shareholders have declined to varying degrees.

Microsoft, in the B round financing project, it is the most fierce, but the actual reality is that it gave up a part of the shares without hesitation.

This has raised the vigilance of multiple shareholder representatives.

Bei Guangtou said, "What is Microsoft doing?"

Zu Ke frowned and said, "Maybe Microsoft will exit. You know, Microsoft has a monopoly on computer system users around the world. Once they open their own instant messaging software, ICQ is likely to enter the end of Netscape."

"Um!"

Bei Guangtou nodded solemnly, "According to Microsoft's usual attitude, they must have this idea. It is a completely wrong decision to say that I invested in icq this time! Zucker, you bastard, I regret it."

Zucker said he would never give you a chance.

In the original time and space, shortly after the advent of icq, Microsoft noticed the cake in the field of instant messaging. They wanted to enter the market at the first time, but they were starting a browser war with Netscape, and they had no extra energy at all.

But!

The situation is different now!

Microsoft's IE browser, with its huge number of users and rogue means of forced installation, suppressed the living space of Netscape browser in one fell swoop.

It is only a matter of time before Microsoft wins this battle.

That is to say, once Microsoft achieves an overall victory, when they free up their hands, they are bound to enter the instant messaging market aggressively.

"In the original time and space, MSN instant messaging was born under this circumstance!"

"Microsoft's rogue means, just ask if you are afraid!"

Of course, ICQ, which now has many allies, is not as easy to bully as the original time and space. As for this war in the field of instant communication, who will win in the end, Zhu Ke, who is a traveler, cannot predict.

However, it's not Zucker's turn to worry!

12%!

This is the current shareholding ratio of Zucker in icq.

The shares have been diluted a lot, but the market value is still very valuable.

"If I wait until ICQ goes public, even if the shares are diluted again, my net worth will definitely skyrocket again because of the value of this part of the shares!" Zu Ke thought to himself.

Especially in the current stage when investors are crazy about the Internet!

Therefore, Zucker has great confidence.

In the late 1990s, global investors were crazy and blind when it came to Internet projects.

One after another "Internet company myths" continue to appear, stimulating investors again and again.

In 1996, Yahoo was officially listed on Nasdaq. In just a few years, its stock price has increased by an incredible 64 times, and its total market value has reached an astonishing $45 billion;

Amazon, the online bookstore founded by Jeff Bezos, has created another myth.

The company's stock was listed on the Nasdaq on May 15, 1997, and in the following year and a half, the company was basically not profitable, but by the end of 1998, its stock price had risen 230%, three A month later, it has risen by 400%, and the total market value has reached 40 billion US dollars!

crazy!

The market is totally crazy!

At this stage, even if you don't have a company office address, even if you don't invest a penny, as long as you have a more detailed high-concept plan for the Internet, you will definitely be able to get investment!

Of course, there is no shortage of scams.

Generally speaking, as long as it is an Internet company, the performance in the late 1990s is that the market value has skyrocketed.

"E-Toys Toys is the most famous representative among them!"

e toys, established in 1997, mainly sells various toys through its own website.

During the dotcom boom of 1999, the company's stock was listed on the Nasdaq. At the opening, the total market value reached 8 billion US dollars, which greatly exceeded the market value of 6 billion US dollars of the time-honored toy company R-Toys, which shocked the entire industry.

However!

In fact, the latter's operating performance is much higher than the former!

In 1998, the sales of the former was only 30 million US dollars, while the latter was as high as 11.2 billion US dollars, almost 400 times that of the former; at the same time, in terms of profitability, the former lost 28.6 million US dollars in 1998, while the latter was profitable $376 million.

The fundamentals of the two are so different!

Stock prices are upside down!

It just shows the extent to which the rationality of investors has been lacking in the Nasdaq market at this time.

"Go crazy!"

"The crazier it is, the more money I will make!"

"Whether it's ICQ's 12% stake, or my 2% stake in Yahoo, there will be countless benefits in this crazy feast."

"Of course, before the dotcom bubble hits, you have to get out."

Zucker kept thinking about it.

Of course, thinking about it is over. This is not a recent thing. Now Zucker's main busy thing is to deal with the Asian financial crisis.

opportunity!

An opportunity that can make Zucker's net worth skyrocket again!

" "The second is sent.