The matter of borrowing is so decided, Luo Sheng certainly has the funds to solve it, and the offshore family trust fund now holds 1,675 shares of Bluestar Technology Group, worth more than a billion US dollars, which can be sold and cashed out at any time.

However, he has other uses for this fund, and he will definitely not touch this money when he has to use it, and now he is slowly increasing its value.

Time passed day by day, and on July 28, Bluestar Technology Group officially released its second-quarter audited financial report, which is one of the financial statements that Wall Street and investors are most concerned about.

According to the disclosed financial report, Bluestar Technology Group's total revenue in the second quarter of this year was US$2.468 billion, up 328.4% year-on-year from US$576 million in the same period last year, and an increase of 56.2% from US$1.58 billion in the previous quarter, and its strong performance once again exceeded the 5% proportion of Wall Street analysts.

In the second quarter, the operating profit reached $753 million and the net profit was $427 million, an increase of 72.87% from the previous quarter, far exceeding the 12% figure of Wall Street analysts.

As of the date of the earnings report, Bluestar Technology Group's free cash flow exceeded ¥1.5 billion, equivalent to ¥12.2 billion before foreign exchange rate changes.

Bluestar Technology Group's net income per diluted share was $0.39 in the fiscal quarter, better than the previous fiscal quarter's $0.23 and slightly beating analysts' expectations.

Affected by this, the stock price of Bluestar Technology Group rose nearly 8% in after-hours trading on the Nasdaq on the same day, which means that the wealth of Bluestar Technology Group's shareholders has increased by about $7 billion, and the company's total market value has reached a new high of $95.07 billion, with a gap of only $10 billion with Google.

Google's earnings report hasn't been released yet, but it's pretty much there.

Luo Sheng didn't care about this, and the day after the disclosure of Bluestar Technology's second-quarter audited financial report, he sold more than 17 million shares and cashed out another $1.5 billion when it reached $86.43 per share.

At present, he still holds 327.36 million shares of Bluestar Technology Group.

It is worth mentioning that most of the shares held by Luo Sheng are restricted shares, except for a cash opportunity of no more than $1.1 billion during the IPO listing period to build his contribution to the company, and the subsequent shares are subject to a limited sale period.

After the IPO stage, his shares are restricted for three months and three years, and within three months after the IPO is listed, not a single share of the shares in his hand can be circulated, and after three months, 20% of the shares he holds can be tradable, and after three years, there is no restriction period for the shares in his hands.

After entering July, Luo Sheng can obviously cash out up to 20% of his shares, that is, about 68.926 million shares can be circulated.

However, this time Luo Sheng only cashed out more than 17 million shares, which means that he personally reduced his holdings by 1.57%, and is still the largest shareholder of Bluestar Technology Group, holding 29.76% of the shares.

In terms of holding shares of Bluestar Technology alone, Luo Sheng's current worth has reached $28.2 billion, and counting other assets in his hands, his worth is undoubtedly more than $30 billion.

His personal wealth is second only to Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, and he is the richest person in the world with the fastest growth rate of personal wealth.

Luo Sheng cashed out $1.5 billion into his family fund this time, and once again asked Qin Weimu to buy all the shares of Bluestar Technology through the operation of an offshore trust fund, because he believed that the company's market value would continue to rise.

By the end of July, the offshore fund had held more than 31.58 million shares of Bluestar Technology stock.

As the founder and head of the company, he still has to explain to the outside world about the huge amount of more than $1 billion in cash, and Luo Sheng's explanation to the outside world is to use it for personal investment and optimize personal asset allocation.

In the case of the company's good development momentum, no one will care, as long as he does not sell like crazy, the market will not be suspicious and nervous.

And the outside world also thinks of another super-rich person, that is, the founder of Microsoft, Gates has also been selling his Microsoft shares for other investments over the years.

Obviously, most people in the outside world think that Luo Sheng is learning Gates's allocation of wealth.

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In August, before the first product launch of the Cote d'Azur, Luo Sheng returned to Bluestar Technology Group for the last time.

On the weekend of August 6, Bluestar Technology Group held a general meeting of shareholders today, and all the major shareholders of the company came to Sioux City.

The shareholders' meeting voted on one important issue, and that was about the next financing action.

Bluestar Technology Group's IPO financing action has not ended after the IPO, because it was previously agreed that the company's IPO financing action would be split into three times.

Obviously, this is the launch of the second round of public offering action.

At about 14 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, Luo Sheng and the shareholders who attended the same time voted on this round of capital increase and share expansion, raising 7.5 billion US dollars, and the result was of course passed without suspense, Luo Sheng voted more than two-thirds of the majority of votes, but the actual result was 100% passed, just go through a process, and it has already been agreed.

In this round of financing of 7.5 billion US dollars, Bluestar Technology Group sold 7.5% of the equity, although the financing amount is super high, but it is more than the IPO initial public offering of 5.6 billion US dollars, but because the company's stock price has nearly doubled compared with the IPO, only a small number of additional shares have been issued, and the proportion of equity transferred by financing is controlled within 10%.

With this huge amount of money, it means that Bluestar Technology's cash flow will be extremely inflated to a terrifying amount of more than $9 billion, and Luo Sheng wants to buy Sun Computer Company directly in cash without cross-holding with it, and at the same time, it can also reduce the share of equity with Wall Street.

After the completion of this round of financing, the equity of the two co-founders of Bluestar Technology Group has also been relatively diluted.

Luo Sheng holds 27.53% of the shares

This also means that Bluestar Technology Group's stock has reached a new high, with a total market capitalization of $100 billion for the first time in August, reaching $103.5 billion.

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After the shareholders' meeting, the financing was confirmed, and Luo Sheng held a closed-door meeting with the heads of the five major investment banks in a conference room of the company.

"Mr. Luo Sheng, I'm very curious why you rejected Lehman Investment Bank?" At this moment, Paul Watson in the conference room asked with interest.

Luo Sheng looked calm and said simply: "The financial leverage of this bank is too high and the risk is too great. Inappropriate. ”

Paul Watson and the others looked at each other, and they all saw each other's doubts, which reason for refusal?

What does it have to do with Bluestar Technology?

However, Lehman failed to come in after all, because Luo Sheng did not agree to live or die, and even preferred to give up this financing.

That was no problem, and Lehman had no choice but to go out of the game in anger.

Just kidding, Luo Sheng didn't want to give Lehman a chance to breathe, this kind of thing could be varied even if it dragged on for an hour or two, and the result he wanted was that the Lehman Brothers company had to explode.

"Guys, let's not talk about Lehman, let's talk about the underwriters this time." Luo Sheng didn't want to dwell on this topic more, these people were more shrewd than the other, and it would definitely not be good to talk too much.

Soon back to business.

The final result of the negotiation was that the underwriters of the financing were Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, and Deutsche Investment Bank, and Goldman Sachs Group did not appear in the list of underwriters.

You must know that before this, since the early development of Bluestar Technology to its listing, Goldman Sachs has been the one who has been high-profile in it.

This is the result of the negotiation of the distribution of interests between the major capital consortia on Wall Street, only they know the inside information, Goldman Sachs is no longer in the list of underwriters this time because in the last round of financing, that is, the third financing of Bluestar Technology is exclusively contracted by Goldman Sachs Group.

Now is not the time to reveal the mystery, it will take half a year.

Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street capital groups will secretly prepare for the operation, around 2007, the North American S&P index will include Bluestar Technology Group, in terms of amount, the S&P 500 index is the most reference index in North America and the world.

Once Bluestar Technology Group is included, many funds will automatically buy Bluestar Technology shares in accordance with the proportion indicated by the S&P 500 index, and according to the usual practice of other stocks being included in the index, the company's stock price will rise by about 10~20%.

Judging from the current market value of Bluestar Technology Group, the interests in it are not ordinarily large, and speculators must make a time difference after getting the news to arbitrage from it, and there is a special speculative trading fund in hedge funds, called event-driven funds.

Obviously, this is also extremely beneficial to Bluestar Technology itself, and preparations have begun now, and Luo Sheng has already planned and actively prepared to take advantage of this favorable opportunity to complete the third financing.

As soon as S&P next year announced the news, Bluestar Technology immediately raised $4 billion for the third time, which was exclusively contracted by Goldman Sachs.

The three IPO splits would raise a staggering $17 billion, and the total would add up to less than 20% dilution of the shares, making it undoubtedly the most successful IPO ever.

This cash will also give Bluestar Technology sufficient financial resources to build super data centers, deploy cloud computing services and have abundant cash to survive the winter in the event of a future financial crisis, and can also occupy an advantageous position in the competition with technology giants such as Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and Apple.

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In mid-August, some details of Bluestar Technology's second round of financing were revealed, and it immediately occupied the headlines of the world's news.

Major mainstream media at home and abroad are competing to report, and people in the industry are all about to bulge out when they see the amount of this round of financing.

"What the hell? The Wall Street guys are crazy, aren't they? What the hell is this that raised 7.5 billion US dollars and more than 600 billion soft girl coins? ”

"All I can say is that this is really a bit exaggerated."

"It's worthy of 'L-BAT', the value of this financing amount alone has thrown off more than 95% of domestic Internet companies."

"This one is a bit of a stump."

"Bluestar Technology Bull Pen, never thought that there would be a domestic technology company that could stand in the ranks of the world's top and compete with giants such as Microsoft and Google, and the Bull Pen (broken sound) ——!!"

"According to foreign news reports, the market value of Bluestar Technology Group has reached 103.75 billion US dollars, equivalent to more than 830 billion soft sister coins, and it is the first technology company in China with a market value of more than 100 billion US dollars."

"In the future, if someone asks if there are Microsoft, Google, and IBM in North America, and Samsung, LG, and Sony and Toshiba in South Korea, then what does our country have? There are Bluestar Technology, Huawei and Cote d'Azur! ”

"Google has been declining recently, and Bluestar Technology will soon surpass Google if it continues with this momentum."

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Melon-eating netizens on the Internet are also hotly discussed, and similar topics are being discussed on Weibo and Tieba forums.

Before the rise of Bluestar Technology, no one dared to think that there was a technology company in China that could be compared to North American tech giants such as Microsoft, Google, Apple or Dell.

Bluestar Technology has completed this achievement incredibly, and has become the pride of countless people, and Luo Sheng has become the idol of countless young people, especially a group of young entrepreneurs, who regard it as a guiding light in life and a goal to strive for.

To be able to create such a fabulous achievement in just a few years is definitely a story full of passion and inspiration.

His achievements are undoubtedly influencing an entire generation.

The overall situation of financing has been decided, this time there are more than 600 subscribers, Luo Sheng did not pay too much attention, Zhang Bowen is dealing with the specific rules of financing, and the subscribers are mainly the selection of the four major underwriters.

To the surprise of the media, Goldman Sachs Group, which has been high-profile and supportive, was not in the list of underwriters, which also caused a lot of media speculation for a while.

However, obviously, it is impossible for the outside world to know why Goldman Sachs is absent within half a year.

The entire $7.5 billion financing amount is undoubtedly an astronomical amount, and the interest generated every day alone is a huge amount of money, and this fund cannot enter the account of Bluestar Technology Group in a short period of time, and it will take a while to arrive at the end of this year.

Many people in China can't figure out why Bluestar Technology Group is so rich and has to finance such a huge amount of money, most people feel that it is completely unnecessary, Bluestar Technology has a cash flow of more than one billion US dollars, and the performance is extremely eye-catching, and now the revenue of a quarter has exceeded 2.4 billion US dollars.

If they knew Luo Sheng's strategic layout, they wouldn't have thought so, just building a super data center around the world is an astronomical investment, and this financing money is intended to be used to acquire Sun Computer Sun Microsystems and weather the financial crisis.

It is best to be able to acquire Sun Microsystems, and if you can't acquire it, it can only be like this, and this money can't lie still, so of course, it will be used to lay out the cloud computing service sector.

As long as the money is in your pocket, how to use it to adapt is how to adapt.

After entering mid-September, the Cote d'Azur company, which has been immersed for more than three years, is no longer low-key, and the 1.5 billion is about 180 million US dollars in the publicity budget allocated and began to warm up on a global scale.

Time flies, and September 27 finally arrives, the day of the first product launch on the Côte d'Azur.

On the same day, the invited media and industry insiders rushed to the venue, which can accommodate more than 1,200 people, and the total number of people invited this time is about 1,000 people, including more than 200 media, including dozens of mainstream media from abroad.

At about half past eight, the layout in front of the stage is basically in place, Luo Sheng is in front of the stage, in front of the seat is a huge screen, on the right side of the stage is a workbench, placed a straight board machine, which is the product of this press conference.

It will be used to demonstrate that the interface of the phone can also be synchronized to the giant screen.

Time passed minute by minute, and the venue was officially opened at about nine o'clock, and some media professionals and industry practitioners who came early also entered the press conference.

The first product launch conference of the Cote d'Azur company, its lineup is not super luxurious, but it will not be small, after all, the person who presided over the press conference is Luo Sheng, who is known as the "Internet giant" in the industry.

This time, he crossed over from the Internet to the hardware field of consumer electronics, and the outside world was also very curious about whether he could create another miracle.

However, most of the Western media came with the mentality of being ready to see Luo Sheng's jokes, because they really wanted to see this kind of thing happen, Luo Sheng was so successful, if he could fail once, it would definitely be a very clickable news, and the West would like to hear it even more.

Time passed minute by minute, and the media reporters who came to the scene were like looking at long guns and short guns, debugging the equipment one after another, focusing the camera on the stage in front of them, and many people in the industry sat down one after another, with a work-specific notebook on their laps and opened it.

The venue was a little noisy, and the people who had already arrived were whispering and discussing with each other, and some people in the industry in Europe and the United States had a calm look on their faces.

In their eyes, Luo Sheng and the Cote d'Azur entered the consumer electronics industry, purely a novice, they recognized Luo Sheng's strength in the Internet industry, but this does not mean that he can cross over to consumer mobile terminal devices can also have strong strength.

At around 9:40, the lights went out, the audience seating area was dim, and most of the light sources were focused on the stage in front of them.

The chatter at the scene also disappeared.

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