Chapter 320: Ten Billion Income!
After careful consideration, Zhang Fan thinks that he is still honest to make movies and entertainment.
After all, I have been doing this for a long time and have experience, and there is also a golden finger. If you rashly snatch the right to operate Alibaba, not to mention that you can't grab it at all, and even if you do, you can't do it well.
Zhang Fan's real purpose is just for money.
"Mr. Ma, the reason why I invested in Alibaba is precisely because I am optimistic about the company's development prospects." After Zhang Fan made up his mind, he immediately laughed: "I believe that Alibaba will definitely become a world-class company under the leadership of Mr. Ma." ”
Mr. Ma smiled and nodded slightly, "Please rest assured, I will definitely run Alibaba into a world-class enterprise." At the same time, it will also allow all shareholders' rights and interests to be fully protected. ”
"I don't participate in the operation of the company." Zhang Fan said: "I will appoint an agent of the board of directors in the name of the fund. However, it is only an agent and does not express any opinion on the company's operation. And. ”
Speaking of this, Zhang Fan paused before continuing to speak, "I think Mr. Ma is the best choice for Alibaba, and only under the leadership of Mr. Ma will Alibaba really soar." Therefore, I am willing to sign an authorization contract with Mr. Ma to entrust the voting rights of my shares to Mr. Ma. ”
In a joint-stock company, stocks are everything. These shares represent not only money, but also their rights in the company.
Zhang Fan didn't think he knew how to run Alibaba, so he handed over the right to exercise his shares to Mr. Ma in the form of a contract. When the company votes, Mr. Ma can use his shareholding. In a joint-stock company, this is the greatest trust.
Sure enough, after hearing Zhang Fan's words, Mr. Ma stepped forward and stretched out his hand to Zhang Fan, "Happy cooperation." ”
Alibaba's listing on the NASDAQ is a big event in the business world, and no company from China has ever been so valued by Wall Street. Almost everyone thought that this company was bound to skyrocket. It has even become a super Internet enterprise that can be compared to Facebook or Amazon.
Regarding this statement, Zhang Fan just smiled. If these people knew that Alibaba would become a huge existence at the same level as Google, Microsoft, or even Apple in the future, it is estimated that everyone's jaws would drop!
In this hot atmosphere, when Mr. Ma rang the opening bell, Alibaba's stock price soared like a rocket!
Thanks to Mr. Ma's efforts, Alibaba's IPO price was US$68 per share. This is the upper limit of the previous pricing range, and this price means that this IPO listing transaction has set a record for the largest IPO listing in the world!
If you don't have enough strength as a guarantee, this approach is to seek your own death. However, if the strength is sufficient, this approach can maximize the benefits!
The underwriters for Alibaba's IPO are Citibank, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley. The names of these six companies alone are enough to make one's head spin. And their joint background for Alibaba also sends the most positive signal to the market.
On the first day of trading, Alibaba's stock price soared by as much as 38 percent, with a price of $93.89 per share. More than $22 billion was raised! And that's just the first day!
Mr. Ma is an English teacher and has an excellent talent for oral education. During the previous roadshow, with its excellent eloquence and Alibaba's outstanding performance, investors were already excited. This outcome is also inevitable.
Zhang Fan has long known that this company will skyrocket, which is an extremely rare opportunity to make money. It's just that in this IPO and share expansion, shareholders who hold shares will be diluted. In order to keep his equity, Zhang Fan had exhausted the funds he could mobilize to maintain his shares at 17%. Now if you want to buy it from the market again, you can't do it.
Although he can only watch it for the time being, Zhang Fan also made a lot of money because of it. The BABA stock opened in the morning at a price of $68 per share, giving it a market capitalization of more than $170 billion. And by the end of the evening, the price was 93 dollars, with a market capitalization of more than 240 billion dollars. This means that the 17 percent of the shares in Zhang Fan's hands have risen from $29 billion to $40.8 billion at the beginning!
In just one day, Zhang Fan made a huge amount of more than 10 billion US dollars. This is almost as much as the money he made by investing in futures for three months! Getting rich overnight in the stock market is just too exciting.
Mr. Zhang holds shares in Alibaba through a Bermuda-registered fund, and the money is not exposed on the surface. That is, it is impossible for Forbes or anything to count the money in his name. But Zhang Fan has indeed become a super-rich man worth tens of billions of dollars!
In fact, among those super-rich people worth tens of billions of dollars, which one of them will really only have those assets released by Forbes? It's just that it's not exposed. Bill Gates has been the top of the Forbes rich list for many years, but does he really only have a stake in Microsoft?
Not to mention these entrepreneurs, those who are not included in the Forbes list. Like those oil princes in the Middle East, which one is not a rich flowing oil in the true sense? Their wealth is even so great that there is no way to count it.
Like the shareholders of all listed companies, Zhang Fan's shares in Alibaba are limited. It is not allowed to be sold for at least some time in the future, in order to protect the interests of retail investors.
Zhang Fan didn't care about this at all. If you don't know about the future, Zhang Fan may really choose to sell stocks and make a lot of money. After all, just on the first day of listing, Alibaba's market value directly surpassed Facebook and Facebook to become the world's second largest Internet company after Google and the world's largest e-commerce company.
This company will even be able to break through the market value of 500 billion US dollars in the future, second only to Apple, Google, and Microsoft to become the world's top super enterprises. In this case, Zhang Fanxiu will sell his shares only if he is amused. Now the situation is that there is no place to buy!
As for the cost or something, it is no longer a problem for Zhang Fan. With these shares in his hands, he will get the highest level of treatment no matter how much he goes to any bank to apply for a loan. Even if Zhang Fan now wants to borrow tens of billions of dollars from Citibank to buy Disney, it is not a non-negotiable matter.
With money in hand, Zhang Fan can finally start executing his plan to buy Disney.
At this time, Disney did not buy Marvel, Pixar, ILM and Lucasfilm. Its market capitalization has already shrunk significantly compared to the rest of the world. In addition, Zhang Fan's continuous resistance to excellent works led to a decline in income and even a loss of capital, and the market value at this time was about 40 billion US dollars.
If it was just about money, Mr. Zhang's mortgage from a bank with his shares in Alibaba would have been enough to buy the company. But the acquisition is not so simple. When you want to buy, it depends on whether people are willing to sell it!
If Zhang Fan still had a headache about this matter before, then he already had full confidence at this time. The reason is that Disney's top executives have privately invested the company's money in the futures market without going through a shareholders' meeting. Not only invested in the futures market, but even suffered a big loss in the futures market and took a ride on Disney's shares! If this matter is exposed, those high-level shareholders will not just lose money and be laid off, it is inevitable that they will go to jail after a lawsuit!
And in Zhang Fan's view, this matter is the breakthrough for him to become Disney!
Disney Headquarters, Convention Center.
"Why a board meeting all of a sudden?" The room was already filled with a large number of Disney executives and shareholders, all wondering why the board of directors was being held at this non-festive time. What's going on again?
"The foundation that had bought our stake in Citibank was suddenly notified that an emergency board meeting was going to be held. It is said that there is something important to discuss. The chairman of the board of directors looked at the room with a fine Havana cigar in his hand, and looked at the people in the room with a calm face, "I don't know what they want to do, but they have the right." ”
Mr. Zhang held 17.8 percent of Disney's shares, a stake sufficient to give him the right to call for an emergency board meeting. And the reason why he convened an emergency board of directors was to take the first step towards the annexation of Disney!
"Why haven't you come yet?" As time went on, more and more people began to complain. After all, in the eyes of the rich, their own time is precious. I don't know what kind of things are waiting here, and no one feels comfortable in my heart. It's just that, after all, this is an important shareholder who holds more than 10% of the shares, and even if he is dissatisfied, he can only endure it temporarily. Even the chairman of the board of directors.
Throughout the conference room, people began to light cigarettes or cigars, and the room was filled with smoke as if it was a meeting of the immortals.
Among the company's top executives and shareholders, Crawn was the only one who was uneasy. He has always had a feeling that the fund that bought the shares they mortgaged to Citibank is likely to have something to do with Zhang Fan!
Despite this doubt in his heart, Clone knew that no one believed what he said. Or rather, they don't want to believe it. These people are still dreaming of using various ways to deduct money from the company in the past two years to buy back the shares they have mortgaged.
In Crown's view, Disney's stake is very important for those who have a heart. Only those who have the heart will buy it. If people spent so much money to buy shares, how could they buy them back to you? Isn't this dreaming? [.]