Chapter 583: LinkedIn goes public

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“… Blog and email business, LinkedIn blog and email is currently the largest blog and email service provider outside Yahoo, with more than 30 million blog users. In the four years since its establishment, it has accumulated 178 million blogs of various types and sent 1.232 billion emails. ”

“… LinkedIn is currently the world's largest electronic document sharing platform, with 117 million professional documents from all walks of life, and is still growing at a rate of nearly 100,000 per month. At present, it has a total of 6.3 million VIP paying users. … LinkedIn Classroom is currently the world's largest online education platform, with a total of 123,000 educational videos of music, art, physics, chemistry and other majors, and 17,800 online teachers. At present, it has a total of 3.2 million VIP paying users. … LinkedIn Forum is currently the world's largest professional Q&A website, established four years ago, with a total of 16.3 million VIP paying users. ”

“… In 2003, LinkedIn achieved total revenue of $1.438 billion, an increase of 34.4% over the previous year. Among them, the main business income was US$1.22 billion, the net profit was US$313 million, an increase of 30.7% year-on-year, the current liabilities were US$83 million, and the structural liabilities were US$280 million, an increase of 11.3% year-on-year. In addition, in the context of the overall recovery of the Internet industry, LinkedIn is also developing rapidly, and we are confident that we will achieve positive growth of more than 20% in the next three years. It was based on this good news that it was oversubscribed more than 50 times during the LinkedIn IPO tour. ”

"As the chairman of LinkedIn, I want to say to all investors: thank you very much for your importance to LinkedIn, and I believe that the future growth of LinkedIn will definitely give you unimaginable returns." Thank you!!"

"Whoa...!!"

The prolonged applause rang out.

"Mr. Guo, I think LinkedIn will have a more brilliant future under your leadership!"

David Rubinstein, CEO of The Carlyle Group, walked over with a smile.

"Thank you!"

"Mr. Guo, it's almost time!"

In fact, there is no need for Hassan Winslow to remind him, Guo Shouyun also knows that the time to ring the bell has come.

"Everyone, miss me!"

After speaking, Guo Shouyun walked to the rostrum again with ruby and LinkedIn executives, accompanied by the continuous flashing lights, in the eyes of many envy, including Guo Shouyun, the veterans who grew up with LinkedIn all the way were also full of pride and excitement at this moment.

"Boss...!"

Hearing Tim George's reminder, Guo Shouyun didn't ring the bell immediately.

"Reach out!"

Looking at Guo Shouyun's flat palm, everyone was stunned for a moment, and then quickly understood.

“… Although I am the chairman of the company, LinkedIn is not my own credit for getting to where it is now. So at this special moment today, the glory is not for me alone. ”

Under the signal of his eyes, Tim George was the first to extend his palm, LinkedIn President David Belden was the second, and then all the company executives present reached out.

"Everybody's at my command! 1，2，3！… Bell bell!"

With the palm pressed, a fierce bell rang throughout the hall. Soon, the ribbons representing the festivities fell from the heights, and the champagne prepared in advance for the celebration was also served.

"$38.45, 1,000 shares!"

With the opening bell of the market, the first trade is made.

It didn't take long for Hassan Winslow to come over with a trade slip. Usually listed companies will keep the first transaction order as a souvenir, and Guo Shouyun also knows this rule.

"Mr. Guo, it seems that LinkedIn is very popular. In just a few minutes, the price has already exceeded $40. ”

After taking the transaction slip from the other party's table, "It's a bit unexpected for me, but it's a good thing for both of us, isn't it?"

On stock exchanges, the more companies with high-value stocks, the more influence they can get, and at the same time, they can get a greater share of profits from trading.

"Of course, it's a win-win between us!"

After a gesture, the two sides clinked glasses and took a sip of champagne.

Today's LinkedIn listing, Guo Shouyun is considered a landlord, so the on-site hospitality is naturally indispensable to him. Even if there is Tim George's share, those distinguished guests with extraordinary status and power also need him to greet them personally.

It wasn't until the party was done and everyone had lunch together that he had a moment to spare.

"What is the share price of LinkedIn?"

"$43.37!"

Guo Shouyun nodded, "Look at this trend, there is a chance to get close to $50 within three days!"

LinkedIn has a total share capital of $200 million, which means that it has a market capitalization of more than $10 billion.

"The company is ready to do a wave of publicity on the opportunity to go public. ”

"It's a good opportunity, you just have to discuss it. ”

Tim George hesitated for a moment, "Boss, in order to achieve the best results, I'm afraid you need to come forward in person." ”

"Me?"

"Because you rarely give interviews, the outside world is very curious about you and your life. Any news and magazine that covers your news will get good results. Just like Time Magazine some time ago, because of your interview, the sales of the current issue of the magazine increased by 1.3 times!" laughs Tim George.

"Listening to you say that, it's already planned?"

Tim George nodded, "The financial channel of C TV station of the matrix company plans to set up an economic talk show, similar to Fox TV's "Entrepreneurship America", which mainly invites senior executives of various companies to communicate with each other in combination with current economic hot spots. ”

"How did you get in touch with them?"

Although Matrix and Ruby are their own companies, they don't have much to do with each other.

"Mr. Morris of Matrix Company took the initiative to cooperate with me, and wanted to do an interview with me through the listing of LinkedIn as the launch of the program "Dialogue America". ”

Guo Shouyun nodded knowingly.

"This guy is secretive enough not to tell me about this kind of thing. ”

"Mr. Morris probably wants to tell you the results as well. ”

In fact, it's not that Buddy Morris doesn't say it, but this kind of thing that does not involve the company's future development strategy, he has the right to decide, and he doesn't need to report to Guo Shouyun. Moreover, he didn't want to ask about such trivial matters. Otherwise, more than a dozen companies, big and small things add up, and he won't have to do anything else for a day.

"I agreed to this, you can arrange it with Morris. ”

"Yes!"

After the two sides exchanged things about the Ruby Company, Tim George left.

"Boss, it's all arranged!"

Wang Jue walked over and said.

"Take out the bottle of Latour of '95. ”

"Yes!"

Looking at the afterglow of the sunset outside the window, Guo Shouyun's eyes had a touch of profundity. The arrival of this guest in the evening is quite interesting.

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