Age of Dreams - Vol 2 Chapter 3114

When Xiao Qi returned to China, Facebook had been on the market for almost 20 days. (

In such a dozen trading days, Facebook has gone out of a very beautiful upward curve. It has reached 16 US dollars so far, and the highest has exceeded 18 US dollars. An increase of more than 30% is enough to make all shareholders happy.

Tang Mingxiang took out 10% of the shares and directly earned 1.2 billion U.S. dollars, and Zuckerberg even cashed out 1.5 billion U.S. dollars in one fell swoop because he took out 15% of the shares.

Of course, there are also heavier tax rates, investment income tax and profit tax, etc. Even if the most famous accounting company accounts for Zuckerberg, he will only have about $11.7 billion left.

This guy received such a large sum of money, of course, he did not want to be free. Recently, he even called Xiao Qi to ask when Uber’s second financing, which was discussed before, would be carried out.

At this time, Xiao Qicai understood that Zuckerberg was not only interested in the cloud server giant DreamDrive, but also the uber that has attracted attention.

I have to say that Zuckerberg’s sense of smell is quite sensitive.

Many people have only seen uber’s continuous exhibitions, and continue to be welcomed all over the world and occupy the market, but few people can see the defects of uber, and it needs to introduce more powerful people to share and increase The urgency of the power of the group.

Yes, Uber has undergone a lot of changes compared to the previous life, or a lot of reinforcement.

For example, Uber will actively coordinate with insurance companies to try to insure Uber’s drivers, vehicles and passengers to avoid accidents.

Although this is difficult and difficult, but Xiao Qi has personal connections in his hands. Citibank has shares in several insurance companies, so after raising some insurance premiums, all kinds of basic insurance can be covered.

Being able to get insurance means that the uber project is guaranteed to be safe, and passengers will feel relieved when they ride, and the management department does not need to worry about uber things like a thief.

Then Uber also announced that 1o% of its operating income will be invested in the construction of the city where Uber’s business is carried out, including road maintenance, sewer garden maintenance, etc., which allows the traffic management department to obtain substantial benefits , So as not to rudely drive Uber to extinction because of the money and the top money of the taxi smashed.

There are also some improvements in detail, which Xiao Qi summed up from the success and failure experience of Uber in the previous life. It can be said that from the beginning of its operation, Uber has been more perfect than the most perfect Uber in the previous life.

But the enhancement of these details does not mean that the main contradiction will be eliminated.

The main contradiction of uber is naturally the contradiction with the taxi industry.

No matter which country the taxi industry is in, there are high top fees and various fees, which puts a lot of pressure on taxi drivers.

After the emergence of uber, an online taxi-hailing software that has no barriers at all, the bigger the city, the more business taxi drivers were robbed of. Even in New York last Christmas, more than 80% of people directly took a taxi. , I chose uber. In this busiest time period, the taxi made almost no money.

Taxi do not make money, naturally it will affect the interests of many aspects.

The number of these people is also quite large, and their influence is not small.

It involves the money in their wallets and the money to support their family, not to mention Xiao Qi’s company, it is God’s company, and they dare to make a fuss.

Since Uber has grown stronger last year, there have been endless protests and tit-for-tat protests against Uber in various places. Taxi strikes have not happened once or twice, and there have even been many incidents of taxi drivers beating and beating Uber drivers.

Although these have not affected the overall situation of Uber, Xiao Qi knows that it is time to absorb more investors in order to increase Uber’s anti-risk ability and public relations capabilities.

Of course, not only is Zuckerberg the smart person, but there are also many Xiao Qi’s friends or famous fund managers who call or go to Uber’s headquarters in person to ask if there is any further financing plan, if so. , What time will it be.

Xiao Qi had already made up his mind before the Spring Festival this year. After the wives here have finished giving birth, Uber’s financing will start again.

Uber’s current valuation given by the outside world is as high as USD 5.5 billion by Morgan Stanley and USD 4.7 billion by Standard Chartered Bank. If the middle figure is taken, the market value of around USD 500 billion should be more accurate.

Compared with the average valuation of 3.5 billion in August last year, this valuation has increased by about 4o%, which is very high.

But Xiao Qi was not very satisfied.

When he sells shares in his company, he never makes his own decisions based on others’ estimates.

For example, the previous dreampad and dreamstars are like this.

In particular, the sale of shares in appsToRe caught everyone’s expectations. It was sold at a price that was almost twice the market valuation.

As everyone knows, Apple and Samsung did not hesitate to buy 5% each, and they were not satisfied that they could only buy so few shares.

Even when the shares of appsToRe were sold for the second time, the price was still ridiculously high, but they didn’t frown. They only hated Xiao Qi selling less, and didn’t think the price was expensive.

So everyone is now saying that the shares of Xiao Qi’s company are really difficult to estimate. The estimates given by several major investment banks are just a reference and cannot be counted.

But in the final analysis, the law of the market is that as long as someone is willing to buy, then the price is reasonable.

Prior to this, Xiao Qi discussed with Uber’s CEO Liberty, and he also understood the urgency of various investors.

Therefore, Xiao Qi directly announced his decision a few days after returning to China.

Uber will launch the second round of financing. The estimated financing price is the overall market value of 600 million US dollars, and the sold shares will be 2o%.

After inquiring about ITOCHU Corporation and the Steinbrina family, as well as the company’s management, and confirmed that they will not cash out in this round, 2o% of the shares will be sold directly from the shares in Xiao Qi’s hands.

Through Mingxiang Holdings and Qicai Investment, Xiao Qi holds a total of 74% of Uber’s shares. Among the remaining shares, the second largest shareholder ITOCHU Corporation holds 15% of the shares and the third largest shareholder, the Steinbrina family, holds 6% of the shares. , And then the engineer team and marketing elites each jointly hold 2% of the shares, and CEO Liberty holds 1% of the shares.

Now Xiao Qi has allocated 2o% to investors, and only 54% of the shares are left in his hands.

Although it is a good thing to be able to participate in the wealth feast of uber, this number has made many investors a little bit muttered. Is it that Xiao Qi is not optimistic about uber, so he wants to leave?

As a result, Xiao Qi gave the news in time. This time the shares were sold, he considered reducing the voting rights of this part of the shares at the shareholders meeting. It was about 1 share equal to 0.5 shares of voting rights, and the extra Voting rights will be concentrated on Xiao Qi’s shares.

And in the future, all the diluted shares of Xiao Qi will take such measures, so as to maintain Xiao Qi’s absolute control over Uber.

Such a statement naturally gave a group of investment companies and funds peace of mind, and thus actively started the overt and secret competition.

As for the inconsistency between the market value estimates given by Xiao Qi and the estimates of major investment banks, it is a blessing as long as it can be bought.

Everyone is not a fool. Uber has already started to make initial profits. If it is fully developed, billions of dollars in profits a year can be expected.

The most important thing is not this huge financial benefit, but uber’s control of the global taxi market, which is a great right.

To put it simply, after Uber has occupied the global ride-hailing market, how can its advertising benefits be calculated? How does it count its ability to control major car companies?

After careful calculation, it has the advantage of earning power that is by no means inferior to it, even more powerful than this simple earning power.

Therefore, from the very beginning, hundreds of fund companies, angel investors, financial institutions, investment banks, private wealthy representatives, etc., came to apply for Xiao Qi.

Except for a very small number of people ~www.mtlnovel.com~ who can directly contact Xiao Qi, most of them only follow the procedures.

Although I don’t know how much shares can be obtained, it is still possible to get shares after applying, and there is no way to get shares without applying.

But they are also very smart. Apart from officially submitting an application to purchase shares to Xiao Qi, they also find someone to intercede with Xiao Qi from various aspects.

If 3% doesn’t work, then 1%, 1% doesn’t work, at least o.5%, right?

Fortunately, Xiao Qi had changed his personal mobile phone number long ago. Which one of his previous personal mobile phones was given to the little beauty secretaries or bodyguards together with his work mobile phone, so that he rejected most of the talk.

But there are also some partners and friends, but they are not calling for others, but for themselves wanting to buy shares of uber, which seems a bit troublesome.

In the last two days, Xiao Qi has been receiving calls almost every other time. This made him wonder, is it necessary to quickly settle things down so that they can get rid of these troubles? (To be continued.) 8