Chapter 269: No One is Missing
On May 23, 2011, the eyes of the global capital market were focused on NASDAQ, Silicon Valley in California, and Facebook headquarters.
Zuckerberg, who is dressed in black casual clothes, still looks a little shy, and these people around him are also mainly casual clothes, and it seems that everyone does not seem to pay that much attention to the Facebook listing. At least I didn't see anyone in suits and leather shoes, and everyone was preparing for Facebook listing with a relatively relaxed attitude.
The Facebook headquarters is full of employees, and everyone is waiting for such a moment!
Zuckerberg rang the Nasdaq's opening bell remotely, and as far away as the eastern United States, many people gathered in Times Square to take pictures on the big screen. At Facebook headquarters, Zuckerberg high-fived with Facebook executives and investors, and Facebook went public!
Zuckerberg's profile picture appears on the big screen on the Nasdaq, and there is also a remote live stream here, all eyes on it, because it is likely to surpass what Google calls the largest tech IPO in history.
Facebook opened at $42.05, higher than the issue price of $38, an increase of nearly 11 percent! Facebook's market capitalization also exceeded $111 billion in one fell swoop, becoming the world's top 10 technology companies in the global technology field after Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Google and other companies!
Many people feel that Facebook's stock is too high-priced, and compared to Facebook's current market capitalization and revenue, this also makes many people feel that Facebook's valuation is too high. But even if some people are fighting a war of words, there is no denying the success of Facebook.
This is also a myth of wealth creation, Zuckerberg is naturally the most dazzling, according to the opening price, Zuckerberg is worth more than 20 billion US dollars, which is the world's top 20 or so richest people!
Facebook executives have skyrocketed, with executives such as Chief Operating Officer Cheryl Sandberg, Chief Financial Officer David Ebsmann, and Vice Presidents generally worth close to $100 million.
The most rewarding ones are naturally Facebook's investors, especially the investors and investment institutions who entered Facebook in the early days, all of whom have reaped nearly 1,000 times the return!
As the second largest shareholder of Facebook, Zhu Jiarun is said to have invested $500,000 in Facebook at the beginning, but now the shares in her hands are worth more than $15 billion! Although many people do not know that after the first investment, Zhu Jiarun has made several capital injections and investments, but many people only see the amount of her first investment and the unimaginable gains she has reaped now!
Crazy, Facebook's listing is indeed a crazy myth of wealth creation, and many people still have lingering fears about the dot-com bubble. But again, many people have seen the current capital recovery.
Cashing out, almost all investors and shareholders on Facebook are cashing out.
Facebook's founders and shareholders began a frenzy of reductions and sell-offs, with Zuckerberg cashing out more than $1 billion, and shareholders including Goldman Sachs, Accel, DST, Microsoft, and Tiger Fund in the United States each reducing their holdings, basically cashing out hundreds of millions of dollars.
Zhang Xian also did not hesitate to cash out, although Facebook opened very well after listing, but Zhang Xian did not hesitate, his risk succeeded, in the overall unfavorable situation of the market, the spare money in the hands of institutional investors is an invisible pressure, must find an outlet for release, create a good result of stock returns, Facebook stocks are naturally a good choice.
So this IPO, which is known as the most unmissable IPO in the past decade, has brought huge benefits to Zhang Xian.
Compared with other shareholders who sold at 8 percent or 9 percent, Zhang Xian's risky 10 percent sold 30 million shares, and his income also exceeded $1 billion, making a lot of money.
Everyone is celebrating, and everyone is witnessing a crazy myth of wealth making.
But everyone also saw the ruthlessness of the stock market, and the success of the opening price made Facebook the largest tech IPO in history, only to fall all the way. At the end of the day, Facebook's offer was only slightly higher than the issue price, and it was worth $111 billion at the opening and just over $100 billion at the close!
No, this is Facebook, it should be very successful, its stock can't be so sluggish, although it is considered successful, but it depends on who compares to. This is Facebook, how can stocks perform so badly!
But what happened even more unexpectedly, on the second day of Facebook's listing, without the full support of the underwriters, Facebook's stock fell by more than 10%, and Facebook's current market value suddenly shrank to just over $90 billion!
In other words, Facebook has fallen below the issue price, so the Facebook listing has been plagued by a series of problems to bring up the old story, and everyone is now frantically attacking Facebook's executives and shareholders...... They are greedy, they are shameless, they are morally corrupt, Facebook has no potential......
Zhang Xianle hehe, he cashed out a lot and made a lot of money, and now that Facebook stock has fallen below the issue price, he has also made some money. There is nothing bad about this, although shorting can only earn a small amount, but no matter how small the mosquito leg is, it is also meat, not to mention this mosquito leg, that is, compared to the value of Facebook, this business Zhang Xian is making a lot of money!
As shareholders of Facebook, Zhang Xian and Zhu Jiarun have made a lot of money, and as shareholders of Dream Investment, shorting Facebook has another income. So Zhang Xian is quite happy, he really made a lot of money, successful trading, and he didn't lose the shares in his hand.
"Husband, our baby is really the richest man now, and our baby's worth is now more than 100 billion yuan!" Zhu Jiarun was triumphant, not bothered by Facebook's falling below the issue price at all, "Facebook's shares are more than 10 billion US dollars, plus most of Weibo's shares, Ali's small shareholders, the piecing together must be more than 15 billion US dollars, and the achievement of a billionaire has been achieved!"
Zhang Xian was also happy and very happy, "Yes, we don't expect 100 billion US dollars, but our worth is likely to rise in the future, and it is impossible to reach 50 billion, right?" Weibo's listing is another one, and the continued growth of Alibaba and Facebook is naturally the main one. Coupled with WeChat, which has great potential, the cinema chain we are now laying out, and other investments. ”
Zhu Jiarun smiled very happily, so happy that he screamed, "It's time to send it! We couldn't afford to buy a house before, but now we can buy a house wherever we want! Husband, come back quickly, I'll give you a celebration banquet!"
"Wait a minute, I'm going to see what happens to the team. Of course Zhang Xian wanted to go back, but after the Facebook listing was done, Zhang Xian was busy with the team's affairs, "My Warriors have forgotten, no matter how you say it, it is also a team worth hundreds of millions of dollars, which has not been asked." ”
Zhu Jiarun was happy, and immediately teased, "I took a look on the Internet, and it was the basketball forum you always go to." A lot of people say you're fooling around, that you've been successful in investing, but investing in a team is a failure. The Warriors didn't make the playoffs this year, and you sold your star player. Ellis played well, but he was sold, and the core you cultivated was tepid. ”
Zhang Xian was speechless, and said angrily, "There is no way, the transitional head coach is not hot enough." I've been looking for Brad Stevens for the past two days, his team has been doing really well this year, and now I'm looking for him as a manager, which is good. ”
"Wait a minute, you can help me find a list of this year's draft members, and I'll see if I know any. Zhu Jiarun smiled and said very distractedly, "If you're lucky, maybe you can find you a few superstars, and if you're unlucky, you can continue to support Curry." ”
Of course, the draft is important, the rookie contract salary is relatively low, which can squeeze a few years, and the rookie members play out and become stars, and it is not so easy to leave. So if the draft is successful, maybe the core lineup will be determined in ten years.
That's a good thing, but before that, Zhang Xian needs to choose a good manager.
It's true, this is the youngest head coach to reach the NCAA Finals in decades, and while Stevens doesn't necessarily want to challenge the NBA, he's going to be high. Although the pressure and salary of being a head coach in college are not necessarily less than that of NBA coaches, the NBA is the highest level of basketball league. And although Stevens did well at Butler University, he was not a top faculty member.
In fact, Zhang Xian is quite depressed, because the owner of his team is really a little unqualified, and the team does not make the playoffs, even if the team does not make the playoffs, in the past season, Zhang Xian, the boss, has only gone to the scene to watch the game a handful of times.
Zhang Xian did not attend the NBA lottery draw ceremony a few days ago, and was busy running a Facebook commercial performance at that time. So the Warriors' luck was mediocre, losing James' Cavaliers to win the jackpot and get the top pick with less than a three-percent chance.
The lottery lottery went viral with the son of the Warriors owner, a fourteen-year-old who brought the Cavaliers the top pick!
And the reason why Curry, the unlucky kid, is not liked by Warriors fans now is very simple, this baby-faced guy looks relatively thin in the NBA league, and he is supported by the boss to perform tepidly in the core, and he is barely a guy who is at the top of the third line and touches the threshold of the second-tier star. The lottery was not popular enough, and the Warriors only had the tenth pick, neither high nor low, tepid.
Of course, this is not all the draft picks of the Warriors, the 10th place in the first round, and the 11th place in the second round;
Bob Myers knows exactly what he's going to do, and he's now the general manager of the Warriors, and he's got a lot of ability. The most important thing is the boss's trust, so he squeezed into the former manager Riley and became the general manager of the Warriors. Miles, who is in power, knows better that he has to coax his boss, a young investment genius, and this is the real boss of the team.
"I looked at this year's draft roster and our team needs some changes now. Zhang Xian leaned on the sofa casually, crossed Erlang's legs and said, "I need a young lineup and a long-term team building direction." So the draft is important, and Stephen has good ability, but he needs a good backcourt partner to help him close the holes in the defense. ”
Hearing Zhang Xian say this, Miles breathed a sigh of relief, "We think so too, we are now carefully studying the draft list and paying attention to the situation in the training camp." Now that we know our draft picks, we'll be inviting some players to try out in the coming days. ”
Although the vast majority of team owners will not interfere too much in the team's draft and so on, this is relatively speaking, the core and transaction of many teams require the nod of the boss, after all, the owner is the one who pays the salary.
Zhang Xian looked at the list drawn up by Myers, the list of players who could be selected by the Warriors...... Looking at the name and looking at the photo, Zhang Xian was slowly stunned. There is one person who must be chosen, because Zhu Jiarun is impressed, and it is Curry's best partner.
There is also a person with a robot-like face, who doesn't feel like he can't smile, and has a classic black ditch hairstyle......
A little impressed, but I can't guarantee it.
After chatting with Myers again, something unexpected happened: in the first season when Zhang Xian was the owner of the Golden State Warriors, the team really lost money. Many teams in the current NBA are losing money, and Zhang Xian did not call the Warriors a strong team all of a sudden, nor did he let the Warriors turn losses into profits...... Therefore, Zhang Xian is not omnipotent.
"Boss, have you heard of Kawhi Leonard?" Zhang Xian secretly called Zhu Jiarun, always feeling familiar, "It's the head of the black ditch, and it doesn't look like he can laugh." ”
Zhu Jiarun thought about it, turned on the computer and began to prepare for research, and also felt familiar, as if he had heard such a name. I watched a lot of games with Zhang Xian, and I also know that some domestic forums are translating and reprinting some draft reports in the United States.
"Little cutie!" Zhu Jiarun suddenly realized, and immediately said excitedly, "Husband, you must choose him!" What kind of young helper do you say he is, it seems that he also helped Duncan win the championship. ”
Zhang Xian was stunned for a moment, and asked excitedly, "Duncan can still win the championship?" Is there any mistake, my Pampas vultures are bald like that, and I have been saying that the Spurs are too old to move for so many years, and they can still win the championship?"
"It's him, if it weren't for the cutie, Duncan might be able to get an FMVP!"
Hearing Zhu Jiarun say this, Zhang Xian made a decisive decision, Kawhi Leonard must be selected, which is capable of beating Duncan, Ginobili and Parker to win the FMVP, and the strength is definitely good.
But no, the Warriors have a good draft pick right now, but they can only pick one, and Thompson must be selected, Curry's golden partner, and it is not a big problem to win the tenth pick. But this Kawhi Leonard, although many media and teams are not particularly optimistic, is also a position near the lottery show.
No, both, Thompson and Leonard, no one is missing!
That naturally means that Zhang Xian's Warriors are going to start trading, otherwise they will definitely not be able to take Leonard. It seems that the team's existing lineup is going to be dismantled again, and this is going to be completely younger.