Hangzhou, Taobao headquarters. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Mr. Sun, e-commerce competition is fierce, Taobao is currently in urgent need of capital turnover, I hope to start the third round of financing as soon as possible!" The speaker was Ma Yun, chairman and CEO of Taobao.com, and on his left hand sat a very short and bald man in his forties and fifties, he was none other than SoftBank Chairman Masayoshi Son!

Son Masayoshi smiled and said, "Don't worry, SoftBank is mobilizing funds, and it will be in place soon!"

As soon as he finished speaking, his mobile phone suddenly rang.

"Sorry, I'll answer the phone first!"

Son picked up the phone and stepped aside to answer it.

"Chairman, it's a big deal!!

Son Masayoshi frowned violently and said in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

"30 minutes ago, someone sold a large number of SoftBank shares, and also shorted SoftBank shares in large sums, which caused SoftBank's stock price to plummet by 300 yen, which could not help but cause panic selling among stockholders, like an avalanche!! Chairman, it seems that someone is going to rectify us in the stock market, if we don't stop it, I'm afraid SoftBank's stock price will fall even worse!!"

At present, the price of grain and ore is rising, and the international competitiveness of Japanese enterprises is not as good as before, and they have also been banned by Henry Williams, resulting in a very sluggish economic environment in Japan! The SoftBank Company in this life is far from Henry's previous life, and all the good Internet companies have been founded by Henry himself, and although SoftBank has cast a net everywhere and invested in many Internet companies, those companies have not been able to give SoftBank a great return, and many companies have made SoftBank lose money. So far, SoftBank has a debt of $10 billion. At this time, SoftBank's stock price plummeted, and the blow was very serious!

Son's face couldn't help but become gloomy.

He said: "Raise funds as soon as possible and stabilize the stock price!"

"Yes!"

After hanging up the phone, Son walked to Ma Yun's side with heavy steps.

"Mr. Ma, SoftBank Company has suffered a sudden accident, some people are frantically selling and shorting SoftBank shares in the stock market, shareholders are panicking, SoftBank has to raise a lot of funds to raise the stock price, I am afraid that it is no longer able to finance Taobao!"

As soon as Son Zhengyi finished speaking, Ma Yun's face changed.

At the critical moment when Taobao's capital chain was broken at any time, SoftBank actually gave up financing, and the competition in China's e-commerce market is so fierce that Taobao may immediately drown in this red sea!

"I'm sorry, Mr. Ma, you can only figure out the financing matter by yourself, I have to rush back to Japan now!"

After Sun Zhengyi finished speaking, no matter how ugly Ma Yun's face was, he turned around and left directly.

After Son Zhengyi walked out of the door, the people around Ma Yun said angrily: "The Japanese are really unreliable, at this critical moment of financing, they actually said that if they don't finance, they won't finance!"

"No way, Taobao is just one of his investment projects, and SoftBank is the core industry. Taobao has collapsed, and he still has Dangdang!"

"SoftBank still doesn't have absolute confidence in Taobao, otherwise it invested in Taobao, why would it invest in Dangdang and cultivate a competitor?!"

Ma Yun looked up at everyone and said in a deep voice: "Okay, don't talk about these useless things. Now it's imperative to find new investors right away!"

"Hmm!"

……

Son flew back to Tokyo that day, and then hurried to SoftBank's headquarters.

"Have you found out who is targeting us at SoftBank?" asked Son as he walked through the conference room where he was meeting.

"It's Henry Williams, and all his shares in SoftBank have been sold off in the stock market!" replied immediately.

At that time, Henry took a stake in SoftBank and held 25% of the shares, and later after many rounds of financing, the shares have been diluted to about 5%, although he is still one of the major shareholders of the software, but he has no right to speak. This time, Henry simply sold the stocks, causing panic among shareholders, and then took advantage of the trend to short SoftBank to make a fortune! At the same time, it can also stop SoftBank from investing in Taobao!

"It's him!" Son was surprised when he heard Henry's name.

"Yes, chairman, nine times out of ten, it is also Henry Williams who shorted SoftBank stock!

At this time, the finance minister said: "Yes, it is very troublesome, and the stock price has plummeted, causing SoftBank's major shareholders to suffer heavy losses." They're very upset and they're asking the company to raise the stock price as soon as possible! But we've only raised $2 billion in total!"

"Aren't banks willing to take out loans?" asked Son with a frown.

"In the current situation, few banks are willing to lend us money!" the Minister of Finance shook his head and sighed.

"Then sell the company's non-core properties to raise funds!" Son said bitterly.

"Yes!"

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Beijing, Prince Gong's Mansion.

"Your Majesty, there is news from Japan that SoftBank is selling off non-core industries!" said Villerett with a smile.

"Hehe, go down one after another, let people increase their shorting efforts in the stock market!" Henry's mouth rose slightly, and he chuckled, "Doesn't SoftBank want to pull up the stock price? Then it depends on who has more money! When SoftBank can't hold it anymore, he will send someone to buy the shares of Taobao held by SoftBank!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Ma Yun is worried about financing at this time, Taobao has a 9% market share in China's e-commerce market, many venture capital institutions are still more optimistic about Taobao, but Taobao's valuation is very high, and if you invest now, not only do you not account for a high share, but also have low yields and high risks. Venture capital institutions usually favor start-up companies and do angel investment, so that the investment is small, the return is large, even if the investment fails, it will not lose much, as long as one of the 10 start-ups succeeds, it will also make money. If a $1 billion unicorn is born, the VC firm will make a lot of money!!

Therefore, with the current scale and situation of Taobao, it is still difficult for Ma Yun to find financing. Moreover, the major shareholders of Taobao have encountered great difficulties, which has cast an unpredictable shadow on Taobao!

Jack Ma first went to IDG Capital, Sequoia Capital, and DCM Capital, because these three venture capital companies are shareholders of Taobao, and it is most likely that they will continue to invest in Taobao. These three venture capital companies were originally going to follow the investment, but SoftBank suddenly decided not to raise funds, and it was difficult for the mud bodhisattva to cross the river itself, in this case, the three venture capital companies did not dare to take too much risk and hesitated to invest in Taobao. If you don't invest in Taobao, then the previous investment will be in vain......

As soon as Ma Yun walked on the front foot, the people sent by Henry came on the back foot.

(To be continued.) )