Reborn Russia As An Oligarch

After returning to Moscow, it was already March.

Wang Ye did not go to Yanukovych's inauguration ceremony. His adoptive father led a team there.

First of all, as the "eldest brother" of Ermao, Da Mao must go over to support him at such an important moment and support the scene.

Because of the lockdown that night, many countries in Europe and the United States were particularly dissatisfied. Therefore, at the inauguration ceremony of the new president, no developed countries came to celebrate.

However, under the leadership of Mao, some leaders from Eastern European countries finally came, so that Yanukovych would not be embarrassed.

Secondly, my adoptive father also went to support Yanukovych, Yulia, and Natalia this time.

I just want to tell some people who are still dissatisfied with Yanukovych and the others that this government is supported by Mao, and if you are not convinced, you must endure it!

Wang Ye watched a clip of the ceremony on TV news.

Yanukovych in the news is full of youth and high spirits. Obviously this moment is the most glorious moment in his life. How many politicians have struggled all their lives and never had the chance to reach this "peak".

Likewise, his running mate Yulia is also very eye-catching.

The youngest female prime minister in the world, this gimmick is not small. In major European and American media, Yulia has even more news than Yanukovych.

There is no way, this is a gender advantage.

Of course, it's also because Yulia is beautiful.

She is young, beautiful, elegant, and knows how to dress herself up, so Yulia looks more like a wealthy lady than a politician.

Some media have already dubbed her "the most beautiful prime minister".

It's ridiculous to say that Uzbekistan is usually an inconspicuous country, and few people pay attention to it.

But this election campaign made the country famous all over the world.

First, the capital city of Kifu was under martial law. Massive arrests shocked European and American countries, and embassies in many countries raised protests and dissatisfaction.

This action made one person popular, and that was Natalia, the "most beautiful prosecutor"!

At the inauguration ceremony a few days later, the new Prime Minister Yulia stole the limelight from the new President Yanukovych and was called "the most beautiful Prime Minister".

This has also been jokingly called by netizens around the world, Uzbekistan produces beautiful women!

On the Chinese Internet, Natalia and Yulia are even called the "peerless twins"!

The two of them have gained many fans all over the world just by relying on their good looks. I think Yanukovych will be dumbfounded when he finds out.

I was supposed to be the protagonist, but how come I was upstaged by two women...

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Without any setbacks, Yulia's nomination for prime minister and Natalia's nomination for prosecutor general were both passed smoothly in the Verkhovna Rada.

After all, Natalia has not yet stepped down from her position as the "independent prosecutor". Anyone who dares to vote against will probably have to weigh whether they will be retaliated against by her...

Of course, under Guchma's many years of management, the Verkhovna Rada is actually just a decoration, completely incomparable to the Duma over there!

However, it is only in the past two years, especially after Wang Ye became deputy speaker, that the Duma began to slowly gain real power and influence. It was no different from the Verkhovna Rada of Ermao a few years ago.

After Yanukovych officially took office, under his promotion, the trial process of the "Senko treason case" was significantly accelerated.

In the face of a large amount of personal and material evidence, the pressure exerted by foreign media and embassies of various countries seems to be weak. Although the final trial has not yet been held, the Priority Section is definitely doomed this time.

For Wang Ye, the affairs in Wu Kingdom no longer require his attention in a short period of time, so he can just let the trio sort them out and stabilize them slowly.

Some things cannot be rushed and need to be worked on slowly.

It is estimated that it will take three to five years for Yanukovych and the three of them to truly and completely control the Uzbek political arena.

This is after Wang Ye and Guchima have laid the foundation for them...

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After entering 2005, except for Kifou's incident, Moscow was calm and nothing major happened.

However, various group companies under Wang Ye have begun to enter a stage of rapid development.

Wang Ye's time and energy have also begun to shift towards the business field, especially the Internet company he values ​​most at the moment, which is Facebook!

Wang Ye has long known the importance of Facebook.

It's just that he didn't attach so much importance to the company originally. He wanted Facebook to develop naturally and tried not to interfere.

But last time on the plane, through Nova, he seemed to have a new understanding of Facebook.

This thing seems to be more influential than I thought, and it is more popular among young people!

He decided at that time that it was urgent to speed up the development of Facebook, especially its expansion into European and American countries.

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Facebook is now one of the largest Internet companies in Russia. Especially after the expansion last summer, a large number of fresh graduates joined the company, bringing the total number of employees to more than 4,000.

This scale is no longer small!

In Russia as a whole, it is second only to YANDEX\u0026MAIL and RU companies.

There is no way, that is a company formed by the merger of the former Internet "boss" and "second son". Its business scope is complex. Portals, search engines, and e-mails are all the undisputed number one in the Russian Internet!

Now it has even begun to involve Internet instant messaging, e-commerce, etc. You can do anything.

Facebook is much simpler in comparison. It only has one business called "FACEBOOK", but it is also developing very rapidly and is widely loved by young people.

As the company expands, the original office space is no longer enough. Now Sergey is considering whether to build a company headquarters building...

The company is not short of money now. In addition to the starting capital provided by Wang Ye, the company has also experienced two rounds of financing in the past two years.

The latest round of financing has valued the company at US$5 billion!

Of course, Wang Ye followed up on all these two rounds of financing.

But he holds too many shares of Facebook, so he has diluted some of it, otherwise he would not be able to introduce new venture capital.

It is worth mentioning that Facebook has conducted two rounds of financing, and none of the money went to outsiders.

During the first round, Facebook’s valuation had reached $1 billion!

Wang Ye roped in Hovchenko and Abramovich to secure the financing amount.

After this financing, Facebook’s shares account for 60% of Wang Ye, 15% of Sergey, 12.5% ​​of Hovchenko, and 12.5% ​​of Abramovich!

By the time of the second round of financing, in the second half of last year, Facebook had become popular on the Russian Internet and became the most popular Internet company in 2004.

Facebook’s valuation has reached $5 billion!

At that time, many European and American venture capital companies were eyeing Facebook and wanted to invest in it, but they were all rejected by Wang Ye.

This time, he did not spend his own money, but instead brought over several large companies with state-owned assets background, such as Russian Federal Bank, Yukos Group, Gazprom, and SDIC.

Several companies spent a total of one billion US dollars and took 20% of Facebook's shares.

Facebook’s new shareholdings now include Wang Ye 45%, Sergey 15%, Hovchenko 10%, and Abramovich 10%. Several new companies that have entered the market hold a total of 20%.

It can be seen that in this round of financing, Wang Ye "suffered a loss". He gave up the largest share of shares, which was proportionally larger than the other three shareholders.

But this was also proposed by Wang Ye himself.

He holds too many shares, which is not necessary. Moreover, Sergey is the founder and CEO of the company, so he cannot hold too few shares, otherwise he will have no say in the future.

As for Hovchenko and Abramovich, they are both their own people, so it doesn’t matter if Wang Ye suffers a little loss.

After these two rounds of financing, Facebook has no worries at least in Russia, and it is impossible for anyone to mess with it.

After all, looking at Facebook’s shareholder list, no one should have any ideas...

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On the Russian Internet, Facebook has no competitors and has basically reached its current limit.

Therefore, from the second half of 2004, we began to actively go global and develop into the Asian, European and American markets. We established branches in Shanghai, Paris, and Silicon Valley respectively, aiming to develop the three major markets of China, the European Union, and the United States.

Unfortunately, the progress was not very smooth.

Especially in China, as soon as the business was launched, Sergey was surprised to find that more than ten competitors had appeared overnight!

Except for changing the name of the website, everything else is exactly the same as Facebook!

This made him feel quite speechless, but there is no such thing as piracy on the Internet unless others directly steal your code and website materials.

It would be quite troublesome to litigate this kind of Internet infringement lawsuit, and the relevant laws were not sound at the time.

It is common for everyone to copy each other.

The competition is who develops faster, has more users, and has higher daily, weekly, and monthly users!

In the Internet field, the big fish eats the small fish, and the winner takes all.

By the time the number one company in a segment has left the second and third largest companies far behind, then the second and third largest companies will almost have to go bankrupt.

Especially in fields such as network communications and Internet social networking, exclusivity is very strong!

Overseas business was not going well, and he was hesitant to build a headquarters building, so Sergey planned to find an opportunity to meet Mikhail and ask for his opinion.

As a result, before he had time to call Wang Ye's assistant to make an appointment, he received a notification from Wang Ye's office.

Wang Ye plans to hold a shareholder representative meeting of Facebook to discuss a major event!

Of course, before the shareholder representative meeting, Wang Ye asked Sergey to come to his office and the two of them discussed it first. This was also a sign of respect for Sergey, the founder of the company.

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When he arrived at Wang Ye's speaker's office, Sergey became a little cautious.

Although he is a technology geek like him and is now the CEO of a large company, with a net worth of hundreds of millions of dollars, he still feels a little constrained in a place like the Duma Building.

This is Sergey's first time coming to Wang Ye's Duma office.

He had known before that Wang Ye's status was extraordinary and that he was a real big shot, but he had no specific idea of ​​how extraordinary he was.

But after arriving at the Duma Building this time, in this solemn atmosphere, he suddenly realized how big the gap was between ordinary people like himself and people like Wang Ye.

This is not something that can be measured by net worth.

Because power is far more precious and powerful than money!

After being brought into Wang Ye's office by Nova, Wang Ye greeted him warmly and gave Sergey a strong hug.

He smiled heartily and said: "Sergey, welcome to my office. It's a bit shabby. It's not as good as the office of a CEO of a big company like you, haha."

If you only look at the decoration and area of ​​the office, Wang Ye's office cannot compare with many CEOs of large companies.

But look at the national flag next to Wang Ye’s desk, and look at the golden double-headed eagle national emblem hanging on the wall behind!

No one should pay attention to the size of the office and whether the decoration is luxurious...

When you walk into an office like this, you will feel a sense of pressure that will make you whisper even when you speak.

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After the two sat down, Nova brought the coffee and then exited, leaving Wang Ye and Sergey alone in the office.

Wang Ye said: "This time I convened a meeting with all shareholder representatives to consider a major event, which is to introduce new strategic investment partners!"

Sergey was surprised, because Facebook is not short of money now. The last round of financing was less than half a year ago, and there is still a large amount of cash lying there untouched in the company's account.

Isn't it too anxious to raise another round of financing now, and it will suffer a lot in terms of valuation!

After all, the company's overseas business has not done well in the past six months, so the valuation will not increase much compared to the previous round of financing.

He hesitated and said, "But... the company is not short of money."

Wang Ye smiled, "The company is indeed not short of money. This round of financing is actually not for money, but for strategic partners, with the purpose of attracting them to join Facebook!"

Have you ever thought about why Facebook’s overseas business development is not going very smoothly? "

Sergey blushed. He must be responsible for the setback in overseas business.

He didn’t explain too much for himself, but said frankly: “This is my problem. I consider overseas business expansion too simply, so Facebook’s localization in various countries is not good enough. In addition, competitors also have There are many, so overseas business development is relatively slow.

But please rest assured, Mr. Mikhail, I have taken this issue seriously and will focus on overseas branches this year. "

Wang Ye waved his hand and said nonchalantly:

"No, no, you don't need to blame yourself, in fact you have done a good job.

However, if you want Facebook to quickly occupy the market, this alone is not enough! "