Chapter 153: The Myth of Wealth (Part II)
Borrowing money to do business, and businessmen borrowing money, this is a matter of course.
Kyle returned to the U.S. with the financial and legal documents of Far East International Investment Co., Ltd., and borrowed $200 million from the bank to fully roll out the preliminary work.
By the time Lee and his entourage returned to New York, he had already negotiated a partnership with Columbia Records, and was lobbying the other four major record labels, as well as those independent musicians and small record labels, to put their music on the newly built e-website. In addition, he also made several versions of the iPod1 advertisement, just to let Li Jiaming, the advertising creative, see what needs to be improved.
Capable!
But Li Jiaming was not in the mood to care about these things, or even watch advertisements, unlike the last time they came to the roadshow, this time everyone was so nervous that they lost their minds, even Zhong Chaocheng, who had already had a mustard heart with them, stayed in Li Jiaming's room and played poker with them all night. No wonder everyone is so nervous that they can't sleep, but thanks to the crazy atmosphere on Wall Street, the stock price of China.com has soared by 25% in just one month, reaching an astonishing US dollar per share, and the market value has exceeded 4 billion US dollars. Goldman Sachs and Citigroup are not vegetarians, and China.com, which has not achieved profits, is so sought after, and Sohu, whose profit growth rate is amazing, will perform poorly?
How much money is related to their commission!
The issue price per share was raised from $30 to $40 per share to $56.67-$66.67 again, and the final IPO price was determined to be $68 per share the night before listing!
$68/share * $700 million
This means that this time the % stake is worth $1.7 billion, $100 million! With the strength of Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, it is also the time when the Internet economy is hot, attracting more than 6.8 billion US dollars to enter the market is a piece of cake.
What else does this mean? Li Jiaming's 15% of the shares sold in the name of 'Far East International' can cash out 1.02 billion!
Boss has $1.02 billion in cash, which means that the newly established HH company can soar, as although the book assets will definitely skyrocket, but this standard professional manager, still has regrets: "Ming, I bet that as long as you delay the listing for a month or two, the market value can be even higher!" ”
Perhaps, but the arrow is already on the string and has to be sent.
Excited, Li Jiaming and Lao Zhang did not have many regrets, but seized the time to memorize the speech lines before ringing the bell. Under this kind of emotional excitement, you have to face the camera again, and if you don't memorize these lines well, it is easy to be embarrassed. Although Jing Ma and Yang Ma will trim the camera, Li Jiaming and Lao Zhang don't want to make a fool of themselves in front of those Americans, which is too embarrassing.
Finally, at six o'clock, the group hurriedly ate some breakfast and immediately took the bus to the NASDAQ stock exchange. Li Jiaming, who was nervous, saw the huge national flag on the TV wall in front of the building, and the long guns and short cannons of the major media in front of the hall, and the whole person suddenly relaxed. Lao Tzu is a boy in the mountains, and he can struggle to get here to be beautiful, and it's enough, nervous fart!
There are so many mainstream media to support today, thanks to the name of Sohu, the world's first profitable Internet company, and Zeng Qiang's great help. In the past quarter, the real estate developers in Shencheng and Yangcheng have placed more than 67 million advertisements in Sohu, plus a group of friends from the eldest brother-in-law, and they have also smashed 41.08 million advertising expenses, Sohu's profits have been rising, and the financial statements have shown a beautiful almost straight growth curve, and the company's monthly profit in September alone has reached an astonishing amounting of about 8.8 million US dollars.
Such an astonishing speed of development, and it is an astonishing rate of profit growth, Internet companies will definitely soar in the eyes of their stocks, and no one can predict how far they can rise. How can such a company come to IPO in New York, as a mainstream media, not report it?
Rejoice! Life should be so happy!
Li Jiaming, who had relaxed, took his girlfriend's little hand and got out of the car, took a few photos with a group of celebrity friends in the morning light, and saw Yang Zhiyuan and them coming from a distance. 's second largest shareholder, and their investment has skyrocketed 34 times in two years, can they not come to the market today?
"Jiaming, be careful, behind Yang Zhiyuan is Sun Zhengyi."
Regardless of whether Zhong Chaocheng has a grudge against himself, based on this reminder alone, Li Jiaming also made a good relationship and whispered: "This person is actually very discerning, and forcibly investing in Yahoo is just a normal business behavior." This person also has the advantage of not arbitrarily interfering in the decision-making of investment targets, nor chasing short-term interests. If you want to start your own business, I think he's a good venture capitalist. ”
After whispering, Li Jiaming pulled Lao Zhang, who was waving at the camera of BTV (Peking TV reporter), and the two laughed and greeted him, hugging and greeting the company's second largest shareholder.
"Jiaming, congratulations!"
"Rejoice and rejoice!"
After several people hugged one by one, Li Jiaming forcibly took Yang Zhiyuan to give benefits to celebrity friends, and joked: "Mr. Sun, don't follow, he is the light of the Chinese, and he can make those celebrities shine!" ”
"Let's go together, Miss Zhao is my idol, I have to go for autographs and group photos!"
This Korean-Japanese ghost also watches "Huanzhu Gege"?
"Of course, when I went back to South Korea to visit relatives last year, I was just watching Miss Zhao's TV series? It's really good, much better than the TV series of the Republic of Korea! ”
Perhaps, it is a divine drama, in the entire Greater Chinese cultural circle, there is no country that audiences do not like to watch, and even scared the three major Korean TV stations to implement the 'Chinese TV drama banning order' for this TV series." Objectively speaking, the later 'International Chapter' has a very high self-boasting component, and it really doesn't have the influence of 'Little Swallow' in the hearts of ordinary fans in other Asian countries and regions, otherwise Zhao Wei would not have been able to turn over every time he got into trouble. Just because she is a cash cow and can sell her TV series and movies to Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asian countries, no one will have trouble with money.
It's far away, talking and laughing, Mr. Qin and they have also arrived, Lenovo's investment is worth it, and they have earned 2250% of the income in two years, and they have sold out the backlog of servers. With two years of catching up time, their server performance has finally begun to catch up with IBM, and they no longer have to rely on national policy protection.
As soon as these bigwigs arrived, a group of shareholders and company executives took a group photo in front of the hall, and this time there was no share of the exposed stars, only Zhao Wei was surrounded by these billionaires and super-rich in the middle, who made her boyfriend capable, didn't he? Then the eight guests who rang the bell took a group photo with the shareholders, and the six ordinary netizens were so excited that their smiles were stiff, and they had to be reminded by Li Jiaming to smile naturally.
Sohu is so good that he actually invited ordinary netizens to ring the bell!
Seeing that the six randomly selected netizens were so excited, Zhang Zhaoyang, who was standing in the back row, suddenly had no regrets. Respecting these ordinary netizens will bring Sohu a huge social reputation, and even if there are other portals that challenge Sohu in the future, those thousands of netizens will still have their hearts set on Sohu.
After the two 'eggplants' were finished, Lao Zhang, who had figured it out, hurriedly made a gesture to Sun Weigang, and pulled Li Jiaming, Sun Weigang, and a few of their good English partners to act as translators for six ordinary netizens, so as not to let the reporters next to him misunderstand that they were the company's senior executives and blatantly violate the SEC's 'silence period' ban.
Seeing Lao Zhang's gesture, Sun Weigang, who cooperated with the tacit understanding, immediately came back to his senses, hurriedly took his mobile phone and walked away, called and ordered Chen to join them, immediately put the information of the six netizens on the Internet, and immediately promote the company's image. The company's listing marks success, but the social reputation has to be established bit by bit, and respecting and valuing ordinary netizens is Sohu's social reputation!
At half past eight, the doors of the NASDAQ exchange finally opened, and the exchange staff in suits and leather shoes welcomed everyone into the hall. Some staff in the hall are already preparing for the opening of the market, and the staff of the exchange have also hurriedly set up camera equipment, with the entire trading hall and the red vests chatting in the hall in the background. The foreigners were half a step slower, and the front desk of the temporary studio had been occupied by the Beijing TV station, which was the fastest in hand, and the reporters who were one step behind hurriedly put the microphone with the station logo over.
With the shout of 'Action' from the exchange staff, Deng Hao, who had already cultivated to a thicker skin than the city wall, stood in front of the camera and thanked Sohu colleagues for their efforts in ......Chinese, which made his investment receive a rich return; Li Jiaming thanked Goldman Sachs and Citi for their help and NASDAQ in standard New York English, and thanked Nasdaq for their help.
Finally, Lao Zhang introduced the eight members who were about to ring the bell in Chinese, "Sohu's success is not so much our success as the success of netizens, who sent us to NASDAQ with their mouse."
Thank you, netizens!
Sohu will continue to serve you wholeheartedly and provide timely and objective news reporting ....... Here, we would also like to thank Kyle, the president of (Huaguo), who ran the first online advertisement in our Sohu and allowed us to find the right profit model!
The last one, who is also the representative of our friend, Miss Zhao Wei. In the most difficult time, we in Sohu could not even afford to eat a good meal, and twenty-one people could only eat the cheapest box lunch. It's our friends, it's Weiwei, Datou, Xinru, Zhang Heng, etc., who often buy us roast duck, supper, and even instant noodles! ”
As soon as the camera turned, several celebrities and six ordinary netizens who became popular with "Huanzhu Gege" hurriedly showed their most beautiful smiles and waved excitedly at the camera.