America's Road to Fame

Chapter 319 Financing and Listing

But at present, except for outstanding special talents, William or Erica can directly confirm that they can live in Atlanta Island and have the right of residence, and most people cannot directly complete this step.

They need to obtain a work visa first, which allows them to stay in Atlanta for one year. After one year, if they want to move in, according to the score, qualified people can obtain Atlanta residency.

This is because there are no residents in Atlanta, so the occupancy requirements have been relaxed. If the construction here is almost completed, the concept of temporary residence rights will be added. Work visas will also be divided into several levels. The length of stay in Atlanta can vary, from three months to two years.

It is necessary to obtain temporary resident rights, that is, the green card of Atlanta, and then move in based on the score after three to five years.

At present, the various systems in Atlanta have not been fully established, so the advantages of Atlanta's residency rights are still unclear. When it develops and various systems are established, at that time, it is estimated that there will be great competition for moving in.

There are not many people who have officially joined the residency rights of Atlanta Island, including William Chen, mainly some people who took over the government including Erica and Alicia, and the Southern Cross security guards including Roger. some of the top executives of the company.

Because the Southern Cross Security Company is a private security organization in Atlanta, it is not necessary for all employees to join the Atlanta residency.

In addition to TC Engineering and Construction, TC Asset Management is also preparing to enter Atlanta. They plan to build a building on Atlanta Island. This building will not be too high and will be divided into two parts: a hotel and an office building.

During this period of time, there were quite a few guests going to Atlanta, mainly for the bidding of various projects, but now the conditions in Atlanta are too poor, and the most basic accommodation cannot be solved, and apart from accommodation, personal hygiene It is also a problem, so now on the wharf of Atlanta Island, the most common thing to see every day is the mobile prefabricated house and mobile toilet brought by the ship.

Many people from neighboring countries were also hired to clean up the excrement from the mobile prefabricated houses, and then buried them in the paved soil, which can be regarded as increasing the fertility of the soil.

Therefore, if these basic conditions are not well established, it will never be so easy for Atlanta to enter the fast lane of development. It will take at least a year until the stage of rapid construction and development there. Most of the current infrastructure can be completed. It's time for results.

Before that, Chen William still had to think more about how to make money. These infrastructure constructions were too expensive. The main reason was that he had his own plan. In order not to repeat the construction in the future, many projects hoped to be completed in one step.

Just like the sea-crossing bridge, the Love International Airport, and the nuclear power plant, not to mention the Atlanta Island at this time, it is far beyond the capacity of Palu before, so in the tendering of these projects Sometimes, there is no lack of voices of doubt, thinking that Atlanta is too optimistic about its own development, and it is completely killing chickens with a bull's knife.

After confirming these things in Shanghai, and staying with Ivanta for a few days, William Chen went to Yanjing.

Li Ying, the CEO of Future Investment Company, is currently in Yanjing. She has a few things to come here to deal with during this time.

The first is Xiaomi’s refinancing. At the time of the initial investment, William Chen’s Huaxia Future Capital, with an investment of 1000 million US dollars and a post-investment valuation of 4000 million US dollars, obtained the Lei Jun Entrepreneurship, which was not yet called Xiaomi at that time. 25% stake in the mobile phone project.

It has been more than half a year now, due to the birth of HOLA in this world, the arrival of the mobile social APP was announced earlier, and William Chen also established HOLA Huaguo with Alibaba in Huaguo to promote HOLA in Greater China APP, so Lei Jun’s Xiaomi company did not enter this field hastily, but watched HOLA and the later Penguin WeChat fight each other.

The earliest mobile social APP in Huaguo in the previous life - Michat, did not appear in this world. After the establishment of Xiaomi Company, Lei Jun's main energy was placed on the MIUI system and smartphones that localized the Android system. The manufacture came up.

So far, the development of MIUI has made very good progress, and smartphones have a relatively satisfactory solution, and are ready to start looking for suppliers for final mass production.

So at this time, Lei Jun decided to start financing again to raise funds for mass production of smartphones, so that Xiaomi mobile phones will come out next year.

Since William Chen specially added anti-dilution clauses for shares during the seed round of financing, so in Xiaomi’s financing this time, Huaxia Future Capital, a future investment company, was able to follow suit to ensure that the 25% of the shares he held were not is diluted.

However, Li Ying's main purpose this time is that through observing and researching during this period of time, her view of Xiaomi has changed. Keep the shares from being diluted, but take the initiative to come to Yanjing, hoping to have a good talk with Lei Jun, and strive to obtain a higher share in this financing.

The second thing is that Youku.com is preparing to go to the US stock market for an IPO.

At present, the two top players in Huaguo's online video field are Youku and Tudou. Before that, William Chen invested in Youku after making a choice. Huaxia Future Capital invested 1 million US dollars and got 20% of Youku's shares.

After that, thanks to the resources of the Meta Group behind Huaxia Future Capital in Hollywood and Huaxia film and television circles, Youku developed more smoothly and has a tendency to surpass Tudou.com.

Now, after the impact of the subprime mortgage crisis, the US stock market has shown signs of recovery starting from the second half of the year, especially after September.In particular, the Chinese concept stocks, including Net Arts, Zhalang and other stocks, have a very good upward momentum, so the founder of Youku has the idea of ​​​​going to the United States for an IPO.

The reason why you want to conduct an IPO at this time is that in addition to financing, the more important thing is that Youku hopes to win the title of the world's first online video platform listed on the US stock market, which can make Youku's global influence reach Dingfeng.

After all, at this time, YouTube, the world's most well-known online video platform, has no plans to go public after being acquired by Google at a sky-high price.

If it's just for financing, even if you don't go to the US stock market, with the strength of the investors behind Youku, you can continue to support its capital needs, especially Huaxia Future Capital, which is behind William Chen. Will be put in his eyes.

However, in addition to Youku, their competitor Tudou is also preparing to hit the US stock IPO, and if all goes well, it should be listed earlier than Youku.

Youku is also very anxious about this. Since William Chen is Youku's major shareholder, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup are the underwriters for Youku's US stock IPO this time, so Youku also contacted Li Ying, hoping that she can Do yourself a favor and get to market faster.

William Chen knew that there was no need to worry about Youku, because Wang Wei, the founder of Tudou, divorced his host wife at the end of 2007. At that time, Tudou, which had gone through several rounds of financing, did not have too many shares in Wang Wei’s hands. Therefore, he was worried that his ex-wife would take away the shares, so he directly used cash to divide the property with her.

I know that the valuations of such Internet companies are all from one moment to another. From 2007 to the present, Tudou.com has gone through a few rounds of financing, and the valuation is no longer what it used to be. Therefore, when preparing to go public, if The other party knows the current valuation of Tudou.com, so they will definitely not let it go. Just like in the previous life, Wang Wei's ex-wife sued him to the court, and then the shares of the main company listed on Tudou.com were frozen by the court due to disputes. Tudou can only miss the opportunity to go public.

In the end, Youku.com will overtake in a corner and win the title of the first video stock listed on the US stock market, thus developing rapidly.After Wang Wei borrowed 700 million yuan to reconcile with his ex-wife, he went public again half a year later. At that time, the situation in the US stock market was completely different. bigger and bigger.

Therefore, even if the world has changed, and Wang Wei's ex-wife did not take the initiative to confront him in court, she can be asked to stand up after being "reminded", after all, for the sake of profit.

(End of this chapter)