Chapter 126: The Pick-up Man
The novel turmoil can be regarded as being resolved under the school's high-pressure policy.
However, Zhuo Ziyuan knew that in a few months, after the winter vacation, the school would have to fight for the Internet turmoil.
Because Chengda has opened the legendary internal test at the end of September, the response is quite good, with sufficient funds, Chen Tianjiao has made a big deal of advertising on major portals, on the Internet, the legendary advertising can be described as overwhelming, as long as it is a person who is online, it can be said that it can not avoid the legendary advertisement.
The cool skill effect, the wonderful PK clips, are all recruited from the Hanbok, attracting a large number of game lovers, the internal test has only been carried out for two weeks, and it is entering the free public beta stage, and in just one week, the number of people online at the same time has reached 20,000.
For this number, Xu Ziqiang was very excited when he reported to Zhuo Ziyuan, and Zhuo Ziyuan was also very happy, he knew that during this period, the number of screen names in the country was estimated to be between 3,000 and 50 million, and there was one person in two or three thousand people who played Legends, which was only a week, and it would definitely increase significantly in the future.
Zhuo Ziyuan was also a game lover in his previous life, Zhuo Ziyuan clearly knew that ten years later, a game with millions of people online at the same time could already be called a very popular top game, and ten years later, the number of netizens in the country has been ten times or twenty times that of now.
Although Zhuo Ziyuan is a game lover, he has never played the legend, when the legend came out, he was a senior in high school, and he was also a good baby who only read sage books, and he didn't go to the Internet café at all, and he didn't have this economic condition. Later, there was a miracle MU, which was played in college, with the exquisiteness of the miracle picture, and then looking back at the legend, it can be said that it is miserable, and Zhuo Ziyuan can't raise any interest in it.
In Zhuo Ziyuan's heart, the only commendable thing about the legend is the hot-blooded PK system and it is the first real online game in China, but in the hearts of many people, the legend is an indelible memory of youth.
The good momentum of the legend made Zhuo Ziyuan happy, but Xu Ziqiang's report on the progress of U.S. stocks was not very smooth, and even made Zhuo Ziyuan a little worried.
What worries him is that Yiwang, Zhuo Ziyuan's most optimistic stock, he even planned to hold it for a long time, because in his previous life, Yiwang developed very well, although it is not a giant, but it is also considered to be at the upper middle level, and it has always been in Zhuo Ziyuan's sight.
In this life, I don't know if it is the butterfly effect of Zhuo Ziyuan, or it happened in the previous life, Yiwang was temporarily suspended by the NASDAQ, the time was early September, Xu Ziqiang only used half a month to acquire the market's outstanding shares, because the price is too low, the trading volume is not high, even if Xu Ziqiang sees that the stock price of Yiwang is very low, he does not hesitate to increase by 10% Received, as a result, in half a month, only less than 100,000 shares were collected, you know, there are 4.5 million shares in circulation of Yiwang, Zhuo Ziyuan originally thought, in this case, at least more than one million shares, or even more.
The average price of acquiring these stocks is less than 0.7 US dollars, which makes Zhuo Ziyuan feel really incredible, you must know that the issue price of Yiwang is 15.5 US dollars, and now there is only one-twentieth left, and those investors are estimated to be heartbroken.
However, now Zhuo Ziyuan is happy, fortunately, he doesn't receive much, if because of the butterfly effect of his rebirth, Yiwang goes bankrupt directly, then even if he loses, he only loses tens of thousands of dollars, which is not harmful.
After thinking about it, Zhuo Ziyuan still felt that since he was reborn, he had no contact with Yiwang at all, and his behavior did not have any intersection with Yiwang, so theoretically it should not have such a big impact.
So Zhuo Ziyuan began to search for all the reports related to Yiwang, and finally knew what was going on, the main reason was that Nasdaq thought that the financial statements of Yiwang in 2000 were falsely reported, and now it deliberately exaggerated the income, and the loss of returns has been artificially reduced a lot.
Yes, it is a loss, and many Internet companies at this stage are operating at a loss, which is why they are eager to go public, financing can solve the financial problems faced by the company, and before the outbreak of the Internet crisis, the more companies that lose money, the more they can often be favored by investors and stockholders.
Nasdaq, knowing that Easynet had misstated, had asked Easynet to provide correct financial statements again, but Easynet still did not file the statements.
So, in July, NASDAQ directly issued a written document of suspension warning, the meaning is very clear, if you don't provide correct financial statements, I will suspend your license, and your company can still operate?
As soon as this notice was issued, it directly caused the share price of Yiwang to plummet by 30%, which is also the reason why the stock price of Yiwang fell below 1 US dollar.
And the reason why it was not officially suspended until the beginning of September was that it was eager for the mediation of Ding Sanshi, the boss of Yiwang, but you didn't have any mediation, as long as you don't publish the correct statement, then don't think about the resumption of trading, and before the resumption of trading, Yiwang must also pay the fine required by the NASDAQ exchange, which is not a small amount.
Through what he learned, Zhuo Ziyuan judged that this should not have much to do with his own appearance, and his own contact with the Internet was only through Youdao Capital, and he had no contact at all before, although he invested in Penguin in March, but Penguin is a chat tool, and the portal of Yiwang is fundamentally two things of nature, and the current development of the Internet, the two are basically not related.
Moreover, after recalling it carefully, Zhuo Ziyuan remembered that in his previous life, he seemed to have seen an interview with Ding Sanshi, which mentioned that he almost sold Yiwang Company, and the time should be the time of the Internet crisis.
Zhuo Ziyuan deduced that the time when Ding Sanshi sold Yiwang should be the period when Yiwang was suspended, which can be regarded as the most difficult period for Yiwang.
After careful consideration, Zhuo Ziyuan felt that he could gamble, if the history did not change, then Yiwang would definitely be able to survive this difficulty, then now is the best time for him to take a stake in Yiwang, he can buy equity from the founding team, and he can also buy equity from the current shareholder investment company of Yiwang, and when Yiwang resumes trading, he can also buy shares from his own market, then he can obtain the largest proportion of shares at the lowest price.
So Zhuo Ziyuan called Xu Ziqiang and asked him to pay attention to whether there was a phenomenon in the market and whether there was any company interested in acquiring Yiwang as a whole.
Sure enough, in a week's time, Xu Ziqiang summarized the situation in the market, and the entrepreneurial team represented by Ding Sanshi did intend to want to sell the company, after all, the ultimate goal of anyone starting a business is for money, and in such a situation, it is the safest way to be able to put the shares in hand completely in cash, and there is already a company called Huaxing to talk to them about the overall acquisition, which is a newly established company and an e-commerce company.
Not only Ding Sanshi's founding team wants to sell their shares, but three of the capital institutions that invest in Yiwang are also looking for a chance to get rid of their hands, and they have made a fortune through listing, although the previous investment has had a lot of returns, but they still don't want the shares they keep to be worthless, that is, no matter how low the price is, it is stronger than a pile of waste paper.
This is Zhuo Ziyuan's opportunity, he did not hesitate to let Xu Ziqiang contact these three capital companies and take their shares as soon as possible, and also let Xu Ziqiang contact Ding Sanshi as soon as possible, revealing Youdao Capital's intention to invest in Yiwang.
Although Zhuo Ziyuan knew that Ding Sanshi did not sell Yiwang in the end, he was not afraid of 10,000, just in case. With the current stock price, the market value of Yiwang is more than 20 million.
Generally speaking, the overall purchase price should be increased by 10%~50% on the basis of the market value, but with the current situation of Yiwang, there may not be a price increase, and the buyer is already very good, and Yiwang has been in the stage of loss now, after the buyer acquires, it is necessary to invest a lot of money in advance to deal with the loss situation, and the profit point is not easy to find.
If the buyer uses these as reasons to lower the price, the money for the acquisition can still be pressed down, relatively, with the funds in Zhuo Ziyuan's hands, the acquisition is impossible, and he does not plan to operate himself after the acquisition, with Zhuo Ziyuan's current ability, he has no way to operate well, he only hopes to rely on these cattle, stand on their shoulders, and move forward together.
Therefore, Zhuo Ziyuan only wants to get a certain amount of equity at this time, eight million are smashed into it, at least 20% of the shares, talk a little better, maybe it can reach 30%, of course, Zhuo Ziyuan will not put all the money into Yiwang, after all, Yiwang he is ready to hold it for a long time, Zhuo Ziyuan also needs short-term benefits to enrich his source of funds, so the stock market must be entered.
Xu Ziqiang did not live up to Zhuo Ziyuan's expectations, the three investment institutions have a total of 5.8% of the equity, are willing to trade with Youdao Capital, the transaction price is only 10% higher than the market value before the suspension, you must know that before the suspension, the share price of Yiwang is only 0.64 US dollars, Zhuo Ziyuan only spent 1.25 million US dollars to obtain 5.8% of the equity, plus the previous stock market received, has exceeded 6%.
At the beginning of November, after reaching an agreement with three investment institutions, Zhuo Ziyuan took a day off from school, and took advantage of the weekend to kill with Xu Ziqiang to the headquarters of Yiwang, of course, Xu Ziqiang had already made an appointment with Ding Sanshi in advance.
and the treatment of going to the penguin is not much, but Ding Sanshi did not go to the airport to pick up Zhuo Ziyuan in person like Brother Xiaoma, his posture is relatively higher than Brother Xiaoma, after all, he is already the CEO of a listed company, and he also has an absolute advantage of more than 50% of the equity, which is a rather terrifying ratio, that is, Yiwang Company is completely Ding Sanshi's final say, and Brother Xiaoma is still a junior in the early stage of entrepreneurship.
Zhuo Ziyuan also doesn't understand very well, how the previous investment institutions would allow Ding Sanshi to hold such a large proportion of shares, many times, if the investment institutions are very optimistic about a company, they will even exclude the entire entrepreneurial team, let alone leave such a large proportion of equity, which can only show that the previous investment institutions are completely in the mentality of making a fortune and leaving. These Zhuo Zi are far from caring, he wishes that all the shareholders of Yiwang now would come to him to sell their shares.
Zhuo Ziyuan is still taking a flight on Friday night, to the hotel to rest, the next day, Yiwang sent a Mercedes-Benz business to pick them up to the headquarters of Yiwang, the headquarters building of Yiwang is also much more magnificent than Penguin, three floors, the overall glass window structure outside, the width is estimated to be more than 200 meters, it looks quite magnificent.
Although he did not pick up Zhuo Ziyuan in person, Ding Sanshi still led a team to greet Zhuo Ziyuan and his party of four at the door of the office building.
"Mr. Ding, I have admired my name for a long time, and when I see him today, it's worth the trip!" Zhuo Ziyuan stared at Ding Sanshi with his eyes, smiled and stretched out his hands.
Now Ding Sanshi is about thirty years old, slightly chubby, with a pair of glasses, relatively small eyes, and narrows into a slit when he laughs, a typical scholarly temperament.
When Zhuo Ziyuan looked at Ding Sanshi, Ding Sanshi was also looking at Zhuo Ziyuan, and saw Zhuo Ziyuan with a harmless smile on his face, looking very handsome, young, sunny and calm, this is Ding Sanshi's summary.
"Awards, awards, Zhuo Dong is really young and promising. Ding Sanshi also stretched out his hands to hold Zhuo Ziyuan's hands.
Zhuo Ziyuan's current external identity is the director of Youdao Capital, Xu Ziqiang After the penguin incident, Zhuo Ziyuan changed his title to deputy director, of course, the business card is printed as the director of Youdao Investment Department, the reason why a sub-word is added, it is completely Zhuo Ziyuan in order to give him a certain amount of space in the future, don't do anything big in the future, but there is no change in the position, of course, in fact, the reward of money is the most important, these Zhuo Ziyuan will naturally not forget, at the end of the year, the same will be rewarded.
"Where, I'm just making a fuss, unlike Mr. Ding, who already manages a listed company, and an investment company like ours must rely on the support of capable people like Mr. Ding, so that we can go on smoothly." Zhuo Ziyuan said modestly.
"Zhuo Dong laughed, if there was no capital company with such vision and ability as Youdao, we would not be able to become bigger, do you say? "People respect me for a foot, I respect people for a foot, and Ding Sanshi also embodies traditional virtues.
"Then we are mutually beneficial, Mr. Ding, you say yes. Zhuo Ziyuan already said pointedly.
"Yes, yes, what Zhuo Dong said is so right, we are mutually beneficial and support each other, haha. Ding Sanshi and Zhuo Ziyuan glanced at each other and laughed together.
The people around also laughed together, and the bosses of both sides talked happily, a good start.
To say that in the easy network, the most anxious to realize the shares, is not Ding Sanshi, the CEO, but those entrepreneurial partners and senior management team, they all have a certain proportion of shares, the purpose of these people in addition to the glory of the management of listed companies, the biggest expectation is the dividends brought after the listing, originally counting on the listing, after the one-year lock-up, at least part of the shares can be transferred, so that their lives are more superior, but as a result, after the listing, the company's stock price continued to fall, and as soon as the lock-up period passed, the stock price has fallen to the point of less than 1 US knife, which is such a stock price, no one cares, and it continues to fall, and the company has been in a state of loss, which makes many executives have other thoughts, if it weren't for the shares in their hands and let them have a trace of illusion, it is estimated that half of these executives chose to leave.
So the whole team is thinking about finding a pick-up man, only those ordinary employees who do not have shares are still working diligently, that's the case, some sales positions have also left one-fifth, and now it is not an exaggeration to say that Yiwang is in a depression.
Finally, I waited for a company with acquisition intentions, Huaxing, but the other party did not say that the premium acquisition, the parity acquisition is still under negotiation, and the stock price before the suspension is only 0.64 US dollars, and the market value is only 20 million. This is also where Ding Sanshi is distressed, he doesn't feel that the company he worked so hard to build is worth such a small amount of money, excluding the issued tradable shares and the shares held by capital institutions, the whole team can only get 12 million. Although the company has tens of millions of dollars in cash on its books, they can't move the money, and if they really file for bankruptcy, then the money is only enough to repay the loan and pay the shareholders, and it is estimated that the amount that can be obtained is not 12 million. The unlucky ones are the shareholders who bought Yiwang shares at the beginning. Therefore, now the negotiations with Huaxing are almost in a state of collapse, and the other party is fishing for them like this.