At this time, domestic Internet companies such as NetEase, Sina, and Sohu were speechless when they heard that Wujiang Group was about to raise funds for Weibo and Twitter.

Nima, now that it is the cold winter of the Internet, many investment companies are shy away from Internet companies.

Fortunately, investment companies are rushing to invest in Weibo and Twitter, which makes them Internet companies embarrassed.

It's really envious, jealous and hateful!

"Sanshi, do we want NetEase to do Weibo too? I studied the Weibo launched by Wujiang Group, and this special mother is really a genius idea!! If Weibo is done well, it will be able to control public opinion. At the same time, it is also a cash cow. As long as the ads are hung on each user's interface, the income is definitely higher than that of the portal! A senior executive of NetEase said to Ding Sanshi with some excitement.

Advertising revenue is linked to traffic, and the development model and user scale of Weibo are destined to be much higher than the traffic of the portal.

Moreover, Weibo can target different users to carry out precise advertising investment, such as travel bloggers, to place tourism-related advertisements; Food bloggers who run food-related ads......

NetEase is now mainly a web portal, and has not yet begun to get involved in games.

Weibo has just come out, and the difficulty of development is not high, if you enter this field now, it is not yet known who will die in the end, and NetEase may take a piece of the pie.

Ding Sanshi hesitated slightly, the Matthew effect in the Internet industry is very large, "the stronger the stronger, the weaker the weaker", if NetEase develops Weibo, it may be a bamboo basket in the end, and the losses will be heavy.

However, with such a good opportunity now, it would be a pity if NetEase did not strive for it, and NetEase's investors may also be dissatisfied.

After thinking for three minutes, Ding Sanshi said in a deep voice: "Okay, let's do Weibo too!" Mr. Xue, you organize programmers to work overtime and strive to develop the website in a week! ”

Xue Mingtian smiled: "Haha, okay, no problem!" ”

Website development is not difficult, for individual developers, it usually takes several months to develop a website, and if you have a team, it will be faster. If there is an existing website that can be imitated, then it will be even faster.

At this time, domestic Internet companies such as Sina and Sohu also started the idea of Weibo.

have organized people to start the road of plagiarism.

……

The world's major investment companies are more optimistic about Weibo and Twitter launched by Wujiang Group.

On the morning of September 4th, representatives of investment companies came to Wujiang Building.

A unique investment fair was held here.

Fu Xiaoyue took the stage and began to announce the development of Weibo and Twitter sites to everyone.

"So far, the number of Weibo users has exceeded 30 million, and the number of Twitter users has exceeded 50 million."

"Page views (PV), Weibo reached 600 million, Twitter reached 1.25 billion."

Listening to Fu Xiaoyue's introduction, the investors in the audience were shocked one by one.

These data are so explosive!

Weibo and Twitter are simply too popular!

Fu Xiaoyue didn't seem to see everyone's surprise, and continued: "Weibo and Twitter have both launched 'hot search lists', both of which are very popular with users. ”

Hearing this, many people in the audience couldn't help but feel the same way, and they also looked at the hot search list of Weibo or Twitter for the first time.

More and more people are getting news information from the hot search lists on Weibo or Twitter, instead of reading newspapers or landing on portals.

It is to be expected that when Weibo and Twitter rise, even the portals will decline.

In the future, in order to gain exposure, many celebrities will definitely try their best to hit the list, which doesn't cost money? Of course, I want to give money to Weibo and Twitter sites. Who can be on the list is not what the website says.

Fu Xiaoyue had finished her introduction at this time, she took a sip of water, stroked her hair with her right hand, and looked at the representatives of the major investment companies in the audience with a smile.

"Representatives of investment companies, please start your offer now, we will announce the list of bidders in half an hour!"

Fu Xiaoyue said goodbye and left the stage.

Suddenly, the atmosphere in the audience became serious and eerie, and everyone present was a competitor to each other.

Everyone wants to get the opportunity to invest in this one.

No one is going to ask what the valuation of the competitors is at this point.

Everyone was silent, thinking about how many numbers they should fill in in order to impress the Borderless Group.

Time passed little by little, and soon, everyone submitted their quotations to the staff of Wujiang Group.

Fu Xiaoyue and the others looked at the quotation, studied it for a while, and settled the result.

Weibo's investors must have state-owned enterprise investment companies, and finally selected China International Capital Corporation Limited, CITIC Group Co., Ltd., and China Investment Corporation, all of which are well-known, powerful and influential state-owned enterprises in China.

Twitter's investors are mainly European and American companies, and Vanguard Pilot, Goldman Sachs and Sequoia Capital were selected.

While the investment representatives were anxiously waiting, Fu Xiaoyue finally appeared.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please stay with the representatives of the investment companies whose names I read later, and the others can leave."

"The investment companies that have received investment in Weibo are: China International Capital Corporation Limited, CITIC Group Co., Ltd., and China Investment Corporation Limited."

"The investment companies that have received investment in Twitter are: Vanguard Pilot, Goldman Sachs, Sequoia Capital."

After Zhao Ye finished speaking, some people were happy and some were worried.

The representatives of those companies who were not read by name were depressed and regretted one by one, knowing that their prices should be a little higher.

At this point, the staff began to ask out those who did not win the bid.

Leave the representative of the winning company to continue the detailed discussion.

For the next hour or so, the investment companies discussed with each other how much they wanted to share.

Soon, Weibo's three investment companies had finalized the investment ratio.

The three state-owned investment companies hold the same shares, each holding 5% of the shares.

Weibo's post-investment valuation exceeded $5 billion, with each company contributing $250 million, raising a total of $750 million.

Twitter is more competitive.

After compromises between them, Vanguard Pilot, Goldman Sachs, and Sequoia Capital held 7%, 5%, and 3% of the shares respectively, and also took 15% of Twitter's shares.

Because Twitter has users all over the world, it has a higher market capitalization, with a post-investment valuation of more than $10 billion, raising a total of $1.5 billion.

In the first round of financing, Weibo and Twitter were able to raise so much money, which shows that investment companies are very optimistic about the development of Weibo and Twitter.

Seeing this, other Internet people can only be envious, jealous and hateful.

Weibo and Twitter not only have a first-mover advantage, but also backed by the parent company Wujiang Group, the possibility of website failure is almost zero, and this is why the Internet companies under the Wujiang Group are so sought after by investment companies, and the valuation is so high......

At 10 o'clock in the morning of the next day, Wujiang Group held a press conference to announce that Weibo and Twitter had officially completed Series A financing, receiving $750 million and $1.5 billion respectively.

As soon as the news came out, not only the media reporters at the scene were dumbfounded, but even the viewers who watched the live broadcast were dumbfounded.

"It's the Internet winter, how can Weibo and Twitter raise so much money, are the investment companies crazy?" The founder of a website exclaimed, in disbelief.

He has recently met with a lot of investors, but none of them are willing to invest in his website, and the excuses are almost the same, saying that the Internet is cold and the industry is sluggish, and our investment company does not plan to invest in Internet companies for the time being.

Grass mud horses, why are they all scrambling to invest in Weibo and Twitter!

Netease Ding Sanshi happened to be watching live TV, and his expression revealed a strong look of envy.

NetEase's stock price has now fallen to the bottom, financing is difficult, and at present, NetEase urgently needs to find new projects to increase its profit points.

"Since Wujiang Weibo is so popular, then ...... Investment companies that don't have the opportunity to invest in Weibo and Twitter may invest in NetEase, if NetEase also launches Weibo in the near future......"

Ding Sanshi muttered to himself.

Immediately, he immediately stood up and went to the NetEase Weibo project development team, intending to participate in the development of the website.

……

The successful financing of Weibo and Twitter means that these two websites have more backers, and Zhao Ye is relieved, not afraid that the website will be ordered to shut down by the government.

Next, Zhao Ye waited for the arrival of the 11th with a nervous heart.

Watching the days pass, it feels like a few days, but it is like a year.

In the past few days, Zhao Ye couldn't help but hesitate to short the stock market of country M, the airlines of country M and the insurance companies, after the 11th, the stock market of country M, the airlines of country M and the insurance companies will inevitably collapse!

But afterwards, if it is found out that he shorted airlines and insurance companies, how to explain this, will he feel that he has known about the attack in advance, so he will re-bet on it?

Forget it, I still don't make this money.

Zhao Ye shook his head, feeling quite a pity.

In my memory, there were institutions that used to short the airlines and insurance companies of country M beforehand. On September 6, 7 and 10, a large number of mystery investors bought 4,744 United Airlines and 4,516 United Airlines in Country M futures market, which is 20 times the usual purchase volume.

Zhao Ye couldn't help but pay attention to the dynamics of the futures market in country M at all times.

In the next few days, just like in the previous life, a large number of mysterious investors were suddenly frantically shorting Air M......

The emergence of this situation made Zhao Ye more and more convinced that the inertia of history has not changed, and although the butterfly effect exists, what should happen will still happen.

However, the incident happened in country M, Zhao Ye did not have the kindness to remind him, not to mention whether people believe it or not, just this matter is beneficial to China, Zhao Ye will not talk much.

……

Finally the day came.

It was more than 8 o'clock in the morning.

As Zhao Ye expected, NYue sounded an earth-shattering, loud explosion.

At this moment, the whole world was stunned!

Someone took the photo as soon as possible and posted it on Twitter.

Twitter was also the first to push this message to all users.

"Oh my God, this can't be true, can it?! Pray God forbid, the people inside the building will be safe! ”

"Oh God, this is just crazy, it's the worst day in decades in country M!! We must find out who did it, and we people of country M will never spare it! A netizen from country M commented angrily.

At this time, many people in country M were both angry and panicked.

If there is one, there are two.

What if something happens to you?

Just ask if you're afraid?

Bang!!!!!

After an interval of more than twenty minutes, another plane came.

It was also a horrific act.

For a while, the Internet was boiling, and panic spread rapidly!

"Here we go again, oh my God, how can this be ???!" Some of those who witnessed the scene trembled with horror and fear.

The surroundings of the scene had become extremely chaotic at this time, and countless people rushed outside, for fear that they would suffer an unwarranted disaster.

By this time, traffic in the city had been paralyzed, communication networks had collapsed, and most mobile phones were useless, except for iPhones and BlackBerrys.

Many people can only use computers to communicate with the outside world, but this is quite troublesome......

Netizens in other countries reacted differently from netizens in country M.

Although it was a big surprise, the sympathy was relatively small.

What is happening in country M today can only be regarded as a child compared to the wars it inflicts on other countries.

Therefore, some people even gloat.

"Well done, well done, look at country M is still crazy, someone will always teach him a lesson!"

"Although I am sympathetic, but I am very relieved, continue to come a few more times, I want to watch the fireworks~"

Chinese netizens are also not a big deal to eat melons.

"Damn, who is so bold, tiger-mouthed, awesome!"

"Country M is making a fool of itself now, the world's first military power, being made like this, it's a slap in the face, it's too shameless!"

"Country M may retaliate, and there should be a good show to watch next."

“……”

At this time, the stock market of country M fell in response, especially the stock price of airlines directly collapsed.

At this time, the whole United States is panicking, and no one dares to take a plane.

Bang!!!!!

It didn't take long for another visit, this time to turn the target to the military's buildings.

Good guy, as soon as this news came out, everyone was stunned, such a provocation against country M, I am really not afraid of death.

"This organization is so fierce, I'm so convinced, awesome, I'm afraid I can't find a few people in the world who are so bold!"

"The United States should have exploded by now, provoking country M one after another, and making country M show off in front of the whole world!"

"I think it's the result of being too arrogant, if you don't get into trouble everywhere, how can you provoke other people's revenge?"

"yes, that makes sense, I agree. Isn't it good to coexist peacefully, what kind of hegemony is engaged, and in the end it is not to get into trouble. ”

“……”

(End of chapter)