Chapter 126 The Chase of Capital
Just sent off Goldman Sachs, Su Wen had just been working in the office for a while, and received a call from Wu Xiaoguang informing him that someone from IDG was here!
IDG is a well-known international data group in the United States, and their purpose of this trip is the same as Goldman Sachs, hoping to take a stake in WeChat, but their valuation of Weixin is a little higher than Goldman Sachs, but it is only $90 million. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Su Wen couldn't accept this price no matter what, and in the end, he naturally couldn't get along and broke up unhappily.
After sending away the people from IDG, Su Wen thought that he would be able to work with peace of mind, but in fact, this is far from the end.
By the next day, Citibank, one of the four major investment banks, also came to the door.
In the next few days, several investment institutions also heard the news and ran to the micro-news company.
Su Wen has become the busiest person these days, in addition to receiving these investment institutions and banks, Su Wen also has to negotiate with these capitalists.
However, although he contacted six or seven investment institutions and banks, none of them were satisfied with the valuation of Weixin.
The highest sincerity to Weixin is Citibank, which has come three times. The valuation is also the highest Citibank has ever given, at $160 million.
However, this is still a big gap between Su Wen's expectations, and in the end, he naturally did not negotiate.
WeChat, which has attracted so many visits from investment institutions and banks, has naturally attracted the attention of the media.
In the past few days, the media reports, Weixin has occupied most of the page, today is the front page headline that Weixin and Goldman Sachs are in contact, and tomorrow it will be replaced by the front page headline that Weixin is contacting Citi, basically without duplication.
In the cold winter of the Internet, when the market was depressed and wailing, Weixin became the object of the crazy pursuit of capital, which surprised many people.
During this period, some industry insiders who specialize in analyzing data have conducted a survey on the market share of various competitors in the field of instant messaging based on the data of QQ disclosed by Jiangzhou Daily.
Among them, QQ dominates with a market share of 92%.
Of the remaining 8 percent, UC has a 3 percent share of the market, Wangyi has a 2 percent share, and 3 percent of the market share is divided by the remaining competitors.
As soon as this survey report came out, it gave people a more intuitive understanding of the strength of QQ.
There are even quite a few people who assert that QQ is not far from the day when it will dominate the instant messaging field.
A few happy and a few worried, with the pursuit of micro-news in the capital market, and the increasingly strong QQ, several opponents in the field of instant messaging, but life is becoming more and more difficult.
With the release of the financial statements for the third quarter of this year, the loss of the net billion reached more than 12 million US dollars, and the stock price, which had already fallen very low, fell even further, and was close to the critical point of one dollar.
Wangyi is actually quite embarrassing among the three major portals, Sohu is the first portal, Sina is the first news consulting, and Wangyi is ranked third in embarrassment both in terms of portal and news, and the main source of income is advertising, which is naturally not as good as Sina and Sohu.
The online game developed by Tianxia Technology will not be released until at least January next year.
In the field of instant messaging, the bubble was killed by QQ and abandoned his armor.
The only thing that makes him more pleased is that Monternet, which cooperates with Mobile, has improved a little, but it is only a little better, and there is still a long way to go before Wangyi can turn losses into profits.
Yanjing Fourth Ring Road International Building Office Building,
Sina's Chairman's Office.
Wang Zhi asked anxiously at the assistant who was standing opposite him. "Did that thing develop?"
The assistant standing opposite Wang Zhi replied. "It's been developed, it's just..."
Wang Zhi asked nervously. "Just what?"
Wang Zhi's assistant replied. "It's just that this thing needs at least 50k to 100k internet speeds to be stable. ”
Wang Zhi groaned and arranged. "Next year, the broadband speed will accelerate a lot, and many areas can reach this network speed, so let Langma be ready to go online first. ”
Yanjing MIH Branch.
In the past few days, I have been hearing from the outside world that Weixin is in contact with investors, which makes Wang Dawei anxious like an ant on a hot pot.
Investing in Weixin was the first thing they MIH discovered, and they originally planned to dry Weixin for a period of time before continuing to negotiate with them, hoping that Weixin would reduce its valuation at that time.
However, as Weixin has won the favor of so many investment institutions and banks, MIH's wishful thinking has completely failed.
However, Wang Dawei is more and more optimistic about WeChat.
The investment institutions that have always been high on weekdays can put down their bodies and take the initiative to come to the door, which is nothing more than that they see the potential from WeChat, a kind of potential to follow!
Otherwise, these capitalists would not have been so idle and swarming to find their door.
Wang Dawei sensed from the last contact with Su Wen that the micro-message aspect was holding the mentality of being able to melt or not. It's good to be able to raise funds, but I can get by without it.
And this somewhat arrogant attitude is the most unfavorable for negotiations.
Wang Dawei can only wait anxiously at this time, this kind of investment project involving a large amount of money is not something he can decide, nor can anyone decide, and the board of directors of MIH Group needs to meet to discuss and vote before it can be carried out.
Time was spent waiting, Wang Dawei finally waited for the news he expected, and the CEO of MIH Group would personally come to participate in the negotiations!