America's Road to Fame

Chapter 383 Sky-high Financing
In William Chen’s previous life, Wal-Mart Group acquired Jet.com for US$35 billion, and continued to acquire some other e-commerce start-up companies. At the beginning, they also hoped to use this to develop their e-commerce business, but the result Well, you only need to know that because their e-commerce department has been losing money, and they have to cut and sell it, you can know that their e-commerce development path is not smooth.

Of course, it was also because many years had passed by the time they were cornered by Amazon and made up their minds to develop e-commerce, and the best opportunity had been lost at that time.If they can now decisively shift a lot of resources to e-commerce, buy Zoom, and vigorously support it, then the result is unknown.

It’s just that, as a traditional retail company, Wal-Mart Group has its own path of dependence. At this time, Amazon has put some pressure on them, but it has not yet gained the upper hand. Therefore, Wal-Mart Group is still hesitant to accept William Chen’s offer in the end.

Therefore, the negotiation with Lee Scott this time finally ended with Wal-Mart Group giving up on the acquisition of Zoom. Now Wal-Mart Group’s market value is around 1850 billion U.S. dollars. It means that they will issue more than 500% of the total share capital in the future to acquire Zoom, which will cause great changes to the shareholder composition of Wal-Mart Group. This is probably what Lee Scott hesitated to give up. A very important reason.

That being the case, William Chen also gave up the acquisition of Wal-Mart Group. Maybe they will not realize the importance of developing e-commerce again until Amazon pushes Wal-Mart Group into a corner again, but at that time, Zoom’s Valuation, I am afraid it is even more difficult for them to accept.

And at that time, it was not only Amazon that pushed them into a corner, but also Zoom.

Write it down, it’s time to deal with Groupon’s financing, and Groupon and Amazon can’t wait. After all, they already have an IPO plan, and if they continue to delay, if the American market changes, it will be very unfavorable for the listing. Yes, this is the time when the concept of group buying is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people all over the world, and everyone is looking forward to the birth of the first share of group buying.

William Chen is also looking forward to it. I don't know what changes Groupon will have after introducing Amazon as a shareholder?In the end, with the help of Amazon, Groupon was able to transform smoothly, thus competing head-on with Zoom; or did Amazon step into the deep pit of Groupon and be dragged down by it, and finally let William Chen buy Groupon?
Therefore, after Chen William and Rick Walton unified their understanding, the progress of negotiations with Amazon was accelerated.

In the end, before William Chen left the United States, the final result was that Amazon would inject $250 billion at a post-money valuation of $25 billion and hold a 10% stake in Groupon.

After Amazon participated in the financing this time, the shares held by Zoom and Meta Investment were diluted to 36% and 18%, respectively.

Amazon will purchase a 50% stake in Zoom and a 25% stake in Meta Investment for $20 billion and $10 billion in cash, respectively.

In this way, after the financing, Groupon's shareholding ratio is 36% for Andrew's management team, 40% for Amazon, 16% for Zoom, and 8% for Meta Investment Company.

At the same time, Groupon received US$25 billion in funds to continue to expand; Zoom received US$50 billion in cash, which will be used for expansion in the global market; Meta Investment received US$25 billion in cash.

Initially, Zoom invested a total of US$8000 million in two rounds (A round of financing invested US$4000 million and got 40% of the shares, and the B round of financing continued to take out US$4000 million, keeping the proportion of shares unchanged), and finally got back US$50 billion , and still retains a 16% stake in Groupon.

Meta Ventures invested $1 million and now gets back $25 billion and retains an 8% stake in Groupon.

It can be said that their investment has achieved rich returns.

And Andrew balanced the equity structure of Groupon to make their team's control over the company more secure. Groupon also received 25 billion US dollars in funds, which can continue to develop rapidly and work hard for a higher valuation for the IPO.

As for Amazon, it paid $100 billion to drive away most of Groupon's competitors and consolidate their leading edge in the field of e-commerce. On the day of completing the investment in Groupon, Amazon's stock price rose by 5%. Its total market capitalization increased by $37.5 billion.

It can be said that it seems that Groupon's financing this time has achieved a win-win situation, and everyone has a bright future.

I just don't know what the evaluation will be when I look back on this matter a few years later.

After completing the Groupon business, William Chen is ready to go to Huaguo. It is now July 7th, which is very close to the World Swimming Championships in Shanghai. He is also planning to go for some adaptive training in advance.

At this time, Angelina had already left Los Angeles and went to France. She had a manor in Provence and was going to give birth there.

Just when William Chen was about to leave the United States, he received a call. Then, he temporarily changed the destination of his private jet and landed in New York.

Here, William Chen met Jessica and confirmed that she was really pregnant this time.

Earlier, before Ivanta told Chen William that she was pregnant, Jessica had an oolong. At that time, because her period was delayed, she thought she was pregnant.

Then, after going through the maiden voyage of the Future with Chen William, Jessica did not arrive on time again during her period. This time she thought it was the previous reason that caused the delay, so she didn't take it seriously at first.

After a period of time, her period still did not come, and she began to experience retching and nausea symptoms, so she hurriedly bought a test strip, and when the result showed that she was pregnant, she contacted William Chen to be on the safe side, and he arranged Get a reliable doctor to examine her.

The results of the final examination showed that Jessica was nearly two months pregnant.

At this moment, William Chen suddenly realized that another lottery for giving away Guanyin was here. At first, he thought it was Angelina who was pregnant with twins, but a surprise came. The other one was that Jessica had a baby...

Knowing the result, Jessica was very happy.As for Chen Weilian, uh, he is already very proficient. Anyway, he also watched one and two. After consulting Jessica, Chen Weilian planned to arrange her to go to France to wait for delivery.

This happened to be a good time to go to France, so that both her and Angelina could be taken care of. It happened that her date was relatively close, so William Chen took Jessica together and flew to Provence, France first. , bought a manor there not far from Angelina's place, and then arranged professional servants, bodyguards, and a medical team to place Jessica there.

Well, before Musk even teased himself, showing off that he has 5 children, now William Chen is about to catch up with him, and more importantly, these five children were born to him by five women...

(End of this chapter)