Global monopoly of technology

The borrowing matter is so settled, Luo Sheng certainly has the funds to solve it. The offshore family trust fund now holds 16.75 million shares of Bluestar Technology Group, worth more than one billion US dollars, which can be sold for cash at any time. of.

However, he has other uses for this fund. He will definitely not use this money until he has to use it. Now he is steadily increasing its value.

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

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

In the second quarter, operating profit reached 753 million U.S. dollars, net profit was 427 million U.S. dollars, and net profit increased by 72.87% from the previous quarter, far exceeding the 12% of Wall Street analysts.

As of the day the financial report was released, Bluestar Technology Group’s free cash flow exceeded US$1.5 billion, equivalent to RMB 12.2 billion excluding exchange rate changes.

This fiscal quarter, Bluestar Technology Group’s net profit per diluted share reached US$0.39, which was better than the previous quarter’s US$0.23, slightly exceeding analyst expectations.

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

Google's earnings report has not yet been announced, but it is almost there.

Luo Sheng didn't care about this. The day after Bluestar Technology Group's second-quarter audited financial report was disclosed, he sold more than 17 million shares for another US$1.5 billion when the share reached US$86.43.

Currently, 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 stocks, except that during the IPO, he had a cash opportunity of no more than 1.1 billion US dollars to establish his contribution to the company. The stocks have a limited sale period.

After cashing out at the IPO stage, his stocks are restricted for sale for three months and three years. Within three months after the IPO, none of his shares will be tradable. After three months, 20% of his stocks will be tradable. , And three years later, the stocks in his hands will have no restriction period.

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

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

Calculated solely by holding the shares of Bluestar Technology, Luo Sheng's current worth has reached 28.2 billion U.S. dollars, and he is worth more than 30 billion U.S. dollars when he counts other assets he holds.

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

Luo Sheng cashed $1.5 billion into his family fund this time, and once again let Qin Weimu buy Bluestar Technology stocks through the operation of offshore trust funds, because he believes that the company's market value will continue to rise.

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

As the founder and head of the company, cashing out a huge amount of more than 1 billion US dollars, still need to explain to the outside world, and Luo Sheng's explanation to the outside world is to use for personal investment and optimize personal asset allocation.

When the company's development momentum is good, no one will care, as long as he doesn't sell like crazy, the market will not be questioned and nervous.

The outside world also thought of another super-rich, that is, the founder of Microsoft. Gates has also successively dumped his Microsoft stocks for other investments over the years.

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

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Entering August, during the period before the first product launch of the Blue Coast Company, Luo Sheng returned to the Bluestar Technology Group for the last time.

On the weekend of August 6th, 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 a major issue, and that was the next financing action.

The IPO financing of Bluestar Technology Group has not ended after the IPO, because it was agreed that the company’s IPO financing was split into three times.

Obviously, this is the launch of the second round of public offerings.

At 14:00 that day, Luo Sheng and the shareholders who attended the same round voted on this round of capital increase and share expansion, which raised 7.5 billion US dollars. Of course, the result was passed without suspense. Luo Sheng alone voted more than three-thirds. Two-majority voting rights, but the actual result is 100% passed. It is just a process that has already been agreed.

In this round of financing of 7.5 billion US dollars, Bluestar Technology Group sold 7.5% of the equity for this purpose. Although the financing amount was extremely high, it exceeded the 5.6 billion US dollars of the IPO initial public offering, but because the company’s stock price has risen nearly since the IPO It doubled, only a few additional shares were issued, and the proportion of equity in financing transfer was controlled within 10%.

With this huge sum of money, it means that the cash flow of Bluestar Technology will be extremely swollen to a terrifying amount of more than 9 billion US dollars. Luo Sheng wants to acquire Sun Computer Sun Company directly in cash without cross-holding with it. At the same time It can also reduce one share of equity with Wall Street.

After completing 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%

And this also means that Bluestar Technology Group’s stock has reached a new high, with the total market value exceeding the $100 billion mark for the first time in August, reaching $103.5 billion.

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

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

Luo Sheng looked calm and simply said: "This bank's financial leverage is too high and the risk is too great. It's not appropriate."

Paul Watson and the others looked at each other and saw the other's doubts. What kind of reason is this for rejection?

What does it have to do with your Bluestar Technology?

However, Lehman was unable to come in after all, because Luo Sheng refused to agree, and even gave up the financing.

That was all right, and Lehman had to get out angrily.

Just kidding, Luo Sheng doesn't want to give Lehman a chance to breathe. Even if this kind of thing is delayed for an hour or two, there may be variables, and the result he wants is that the Lehman Brothers company must explode.

"Everyone, let's not talk about Lehman, okay, let's talk about the underwriters this time." Luo Sheng didn't want to be more entangled in this topic. These people are smarter than the other, and there will be nothing if they say more. Good thing.

Back to the subject soon.

The final result of the negotiation was that the underwriters of the financing were Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Citi, and Deutsche. Goldman Sachs did not appear on the list of underwriters.

You must know that Goldman Sachs has been a high-profile champion among Bluestar Technology since its early development to the market.

This is the result of the negotiation of profit distribution among the major capital consortiums on Wall Street. Only they know the internal news. Goldman Sachs is no longer on the list of underwriters because it is in the last round of financing, which is the third round of Bluestar Technology. The financing was exclusively contracted by Goldman Sachs Group.

Now is not the time to reveal the mystery, we have to wait half a year.

Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street capital groups will secretly prepare and operate in it. About 2007, the North American S&P index will include the Bluestar Technology Group. In terms of amount, the S&P 500 index is North America and the world. Among the funds, the index with the most reference basis.

Once the Bluestar Technology Group is included, many funds will automatically purchase Bluestar Technology’s shares in accordance with the ratio indicated by the S&P 500 Index. According to the usual practice of other stocks being included in the index, the company’s stock price will Soared by about 10-20%.

Judging from the scale of Bluestar Technology Group’s current market value of 100 billion yuan, the benefits here are not generally large. After receiving this news, speculators must make a time difference and arbitrage from it. There is a speculative transaction in hedge funds. The fund is called an event-driven fund.

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

Once next year's Standard & Poor's announces this news, Bluestar Technology will immediately raise the third US$4 billion in financing, exclusively contracted by Goldman Sachs.

The three rounds of IPO financing will reach a staggering amount of US$17 billion, and the total amount will only be diluted by less than 20% of the shares. There is no doubt that it will become the most successful listing in history.

And these cash will also allow Bluestar Technology to have sufficient financial resources to build a super data center, deploy cloud computing services, and have sufficient cash to survive the winter when the financial crisis breaks out in the future. It will compete with the technology giants of Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, and Apple. Can also occupy an advantageous position in the competition.

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When the time came to mid-August, some details about the second round of financing of Bluestar Technology were revealed, which immediately occupied the headlines of world news.

Major mainstream media at home and abroad are racing to report, and industry insiders are all about to see the amount of this round of financing.

"What the hell? The people on Wall Street are crazy, right? Raising 7.5 billion dollars and more than 600 billion soft sister coins. What the hell is this?"

"I can only say that this is really an exaggeration."

"It's worthy of being'L-BAT'. The value of this financing alone has already thrown away more than 95% of domestic Internet companies."

"This is a bit of a block."

"Bluestar Technology Niubi, never thought that there will be a domestic technology company that can stand in the ranks of the world's top, competing with giants such as Microsoft and Google, Niubi (Baoyin)——!!!"

"According to foreign news reports, the market value of Bluestar Technology Group has reached 103.75 billion U.S. dollars, equivalent to more than 830 billion soft sister coins, and it is my country's first technology company with a market value of over 100 billion U.S. dollars."

"In the future, if someone asks that there are Microsoft, Google, and IBM in North America, Samsung, LG in South Korea, Sony and Toshiba in Japan, what does our country have? Bluestar Technology, Huawei and the Blue Coast!"

"Google has been relatively declining recently. If Bluestar continues to follow this momentum, I am afraid it will soon surpass Google."

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Netizens who eat melon on the Internet are also hotly discussing. Similar topics are being discussed on Weibo and Tieba forums.

Before the rise of Bluestar Technology, no one had ever dared to think that there could be a domestic technology company on a par with North American technology giants like Microsoft, Google, Apple or Dell.

Bluestar Technology has accomplished this incredible achievement and has become the pride of countless people. Luo Sheng has become an idol worshipped by countless young people, especially a group of young entrepreneurs who regard it as life. The guiding light, the goal of struggle.

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

His achievements are undoubtedly affecting an entire generation.

The overall situation of financing has been determined. This time there are more than 600 subscribers, and Luo Sheng did not pay much attention. Zhang Bowen is dealing with the specific details of financing. The subscribers are mainly the choice of the four major underwriters.

To the media's surprise, Goldman Sachs, which has always been a high-profile supporter, was not included in the list of underwriters this time. It also caused a lot of media speculation for a while.

However, it is clear that the specific reasons for this are impossible for the outside world to know why Goldman Sachs is absent within half a year.

The total financing amount of 7.5 billion US dollars is undoubtedly an astronomical figure. The interest generated every day is a huge sum of money, and it is impossible for this money to enter the Bluestar Technology Group’s account in a short period of time. Time, it will be fully credited around the end of this year.

Many people in China can't figure out why Bluestar Technology Group has to raise such a huge sum of money when it is so rich. Most people think it is completely unnecessary. Bluestar Technology already has more than one billion US dollars in cash flow, and its performance is extremely eye-catching. Now revenue in one quarter has exceeded $2.4 billion.

If they knew Luo Sheng’s strategic layout, they would not think so. Just building a super data center on a global scale would be an astronomical investment. This financing fund is his plan to acquire Sun Microsystems and Duo. Used after the financial crisis.

It’s best to be able to acquire Sun Microsystems. If you can’t acquire it, that’s all you can do. The money can’t lie still. Of course, it’s a cloud computing service sector.

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

After entering mid-September, the Cote d'Azur company, which has been immersed for more than three years, no longer keeps a low profile. 1.5 billion, which is approximately US$180 million, has been allocated a publicity budget and began to warm up globally.

Time hurriedly passed, and September 27th finally came, the day of the first product launch of the Cote d'Azur.

On the same day, the invited media and industry insiders came one after another. The carefully constructed conference venue can accommodate more than one thousand two hundred people. The total number of people invited this time is about one thousand, including two hundred. Many media, including dozens of mainstream media from abroad.

By about 8:30, the layout of the front stage was basically proper. Luo Sheng was in front of the stage. In front of the seats was a giant screen. On the right side of the stage was a workbench with a candy bar. Products from this conference.

It will be used for demonstration, and the interface of the mobile phone can also be synchronized to the giant screen.

As time passed, the venue was officially opened around nine o'clock. Some media professionals and industry practitioners who had arrived early also entered the conference site.

The lineup of the first product launch of the Blue Coast company is not super luxurious, but it is not small. After all, the person hosting the launch is Luo Sheng, who is known as the "Internet giant" in the industry.

This time he went from the Internet to the hardware field of consumer electronics, and the outside world is also very curious whether he can create another miracle.

However, most western media came here with the mentality of preparing to watch Luo Sheng’s jokes, because they really want to see this happen. Luo Sheng was too successful. If he could fail once, it would definitely be a hit news. , And the West is more like it.

As time passed, the media reporters who came to the scene looked like long guns and short guns, one after another adjusting the equipment, focusing the lens on the stage in front, and many people in the industry took a seat and sat down with their lap Open a notebook dedicated to work.

The venue was a bit noisy, and the people who had already arrived at the venue were whispering and discussing with each other. Some people in the European and American industry have a calm expression on their faces.

In their eyes, Luo Sheng and Côte d’Azur entered the consumer electronics industry as purely novices. They acknowledged Luo Sheng’s strength in the Internet industry, but this does not mean that he can also have strong strength in consumer mobile terminals .

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

The discussion at the scene also disappeared.

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