Chapter 560: Valuation
Line and Kakao Talk are preparing to merge, and the president of the new company will be Kim Beom-so, a Korean entrepreneur. Such news has set off some waves on both sides of the Bohai Bay.
In fact, although there are few countries in the region of China, Japan and South Korea, the combined population and GDP of the three countries exceed that of the European Union and the United States, and it is only because of political reasons that the free trade zone is difficult to promote.
The three East Asian countries have social stability, good economic performance, no law and order problems, no rift racial contradictions in the United States, no big demonstrations in Europe at every turn, and scientific studies have shown that the average IQ of the East Asian population is indeed the highest in the world.
Another point is that the people educated by Confucian culture are indeed peaceful and industrious, which is naturally the best for economic construction.
For Wen Xiaoguang, although Weituo can't integrate all three application software, it can actually be regarded as covering the markets of China, Japan and South Korea.
For Mr. Kim, who is about to move from Seoul to Tokyo and has his sights set on ASEAN countries, mobile chat apps have never been just about chatting, but in South Korea, he has integrated Kakaotalk into a platform that sells high-margin services such as games and virtual items like coupons and stickers.
This coincides with Line's current strategy.
For those investors who have already expanded slightly, they have already given eighteen likes to Wen Xiaoguang's actions in their hearts, and for investors who are going to invest in Wen Xiaoguang, they have to add some more money or take a little less shares.
In any case, in 2012, Micro Tuo Technology will enter a faster growth than expected.
Unless the integration of Line and kakaotalk fails, this is also a possibility.
Therefore, Wen Xiaoguang personally took command and sent Li Yidan to be responsible for all kinds of details.
And when he was still in the gentleness of Hokkaido's daughter town, he didn't expect that Weituo's overseas strategy would blow up domestic public opinion.
In comparison, the Japanese are more depressed, the only consolation is that the headquarters of the new company is in Japan, providing employment opportunities for the people, Koreans feel that the boss is a compatriot, although he is a small shareholder but also a shareholder, and the Chinese are happy, thinking that Wen Xiaoguang actually makes foreigner's money, cattle.
In addition, Lu Qin, Chen Xian'er and other investors and investment institutions called Wen Xiaoguang's mobile phone one by one, at such an important moment, you are not in Beijin?
So he's going back.
Although Wen Liushu was reluctant, he was willing to send him away.
She was happy to be able to say that he would like to marry her, but apparently 2012 was not a good year to get married, and even if the two did live in the same room, with the popularity of the hot founder right now, how many nights would he sleep at home? How many meals to eat at home?
With this intention, it is enough to comfort the soul.
But for Wen Xiaoguang, he didn't say this for comfort, he was serious, because he liked it, and because he was suitable, because she would definitely be an excellent virtuous helper.
North Gold.
There is a restless atmosphere hovering over the headquarters of Weituo Technology, and the handsome guys in the company have brought them good news in the past few days, the success of overseas strategies, and the integration of the Japanese and Korean markets have caused the valuation of Weituo to rise sharply.
After the merger, the new company will have 30 million users, and Jin Fanxiu will no longer have to worry about financial problems, which is the handiwork of large companies.
First of all, NHN's Miss Kim Yuqiao is naturally more sure of the $100 million investment mentioned earlier before the good news.
At the same time, the headquarters will also increase support for Kim Beom-so, the current penetration rate of LINE is only 20% of the total population of Japan and South Korea, and it must expand as soon as possible and move south to Taiwan, Thailand and other places.
According to Internet rumors, the valuation of Weituo has exceeded 20 billion US dollars, and it has properly become the fourth largest Internet company after BAT.
In fact, in 2012, the two head giant companies could not be compared with companies like Google and Microsoft in the United States in terms of market value.
At the point in time that Wen Xiaoguang is now, the combined market value of all listed Internet companies in China is less than that of Google - its market value was about $180 billion that year, which is equivalent to five Ahri and four Tencent.
It can be seen that the achievements of Wen Xiaoguang and his micro-extension technology are quite dazzling in China, and they are also one of the few companies - when investors evaluate their market value, they consider not only the mainland market, but also Japan and South Korea.
If we talk about Wen Xiaoguang's personal worth, because he had abundant funds when he started his business, although he himself has been working hard to reduce his shares, asked other founders to invest more money in the early stage, and also carried out A round of financing, introduced multiple shareholders, reorganized the company structure, and established a board of directors, but in the end, Wen Xiaoguang still owns 50.1% of the equity and is the absolute majority shareholder.
This is the advantage of 'bringing capital into the group', avoiding begging for money everywhere like a grandson, and when there is nothing to sell when there is nothing to sell, you can only sell stocks like waste paper. I still remember that when he first competed with the goose factory, although his peers supported him more, but the real willingness to give money was less, it was Wen Xiaoguang who slapped the table and lost his temper and invested his personal funds into the company, and asked every shareholder to sign to accept equity dilution, otherwise he would get out.
If it weren't for that once, how could WeChat, which was founded with only a few million yuan at the beginning, survive under the coercion of the goose factory? Even if it survived and sought funds, it would have been asked to take at least 30 percent of the shares.
or accept Ma Yun's olive branch, and finally be assimilated into Ahri's system and become a tool for e-commerce services and diversion.
If this valuation is used, Wen Xiaoguang's personal worth will exceed $10 billion, which is a bit sensational, because it was on the Forbes list at the end of 2012 that Zong Qinghou's boss reached the top with $10 billion.
Wen Xiaoguang was a little exaggerated.
At the first press conference after returning home, he responded in front of the microphone.
"There is no objective standard answer to the matter of valuation, the media writes 20 billion, the standard for getting this figure is very rough, in fact, in real investment, we have to consider many factors, not simply compare with other companies or look forward to the future can be determined. ”
"Moreover, some people think that there are so many micro-extension values, and some people don't think so, so it's hard to say. As for how much I personally own, I don't really care, I have to ask to know the exact number, so I can't talk nonsense now. ”
Before the listing, the company's shareholders' equity was not announced to the public, and the outside world was probably speculating, because Weituo had not carried out the 'bloody' action of exchanging equity for funds in the company born in 98 and 99, so they all believed that Wen Xiaoguang's personal shareholding should be extremely high.
This is a correct estimate, but they don't know the exact number.
"As for the word richest man, it makes no sense to me, because whether it is or not, my work and life will not change. ”
This press conference was also pressed by Li Wenbo, there have been too many reports about the company recently, and there are many chaos, if you want to find someone to settle this matter, Wen Xiaoguang will naturally bear the brunt, and this will also have a picture of a long gun and a short gun in front of him.
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