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The major investment banks and financial investment companies in the United States are naturally interested in ICQ. Of course, some multinational companies in Europe and Asia have also expressed that they will participate in ICQ's B round of financing.

Of course, the board of directors represented by CEO Visger welcomes it.

The main purpose of Icq's financing is to attract powerful allies from the global market, so that ICQ can gain more support in countries outside North America.

You must know that although those companies are not as powerful as Microsoft and Goldman Sachs, they are in their own countries and regions, but they have a huge presence in the economic, political and other fields, and they have their participation. Naturally, ICQ's globalization strategy can develop more rapidly.

Microsoft: "Support for share expansion!"

Goldman Sachs: "We also support share expansion!"

News Corp: "But there is a problem, that is, how many shares to take out this time."

Sequoia Capital: "No matter how the shares are diluted, we Sequoia Capital will follow suit to ensure that our shares are not diluted."

HP: "On the issue of the B round of financing, we have decided to make additional investments. Hope Xi has more equity in icq."

Amazon: "Don't bully me, this new director. Anyway, we decided to follow suit."

There is no doubt that representatives of the six major shareholders, including Microsoft, all expressed the need to make additional investments to prevent dilution of shares.

Dilute proportionally?

Ha ha!

Of course, representatives of the six major shareholders would not agree.

So what's the problem?

They don't want their shares to be diluted, so the shares of Zhu Ke and the founding team of ICQ will be diluted.

The six major shareholders are all powerful parties, and Weisge and others are weak. Of course, they are the ones who have the largest share of the financing.However, Wisig and others, including Zhuke, will receive a large amount of cash.

Finally, after several meetings, it was decided that icq will take out 30% of the shares.

.......

June 30.

On this day, icq's Series B financing was officially completed.

The speed is simply staggering!

The main reason is the development speed of icq, which is very popular in the market. In order to obtain shares, investment representatives from all over the world are simply spending their money.Big companies such as Dell, Nintendo, Citi, French First Bank, European Philip Group, etc., have joined in one after another. Can it be unpleasant?

In this round of financing, the original shareholders of icq, only Goldman Sachs and News Corporation held shares, rose a little, and the shareholding ratios of other shareholders have declined to varying degrees.

Microsoft, in the B-round financing project, it is the most fierce clamor, but the actual reality is that it gave up part of the shares without hesitation.

This has increased the vigilance of multi-party shareholder representatives.

Bei bald head said: "What is Microsoft going to do?"

Zhu Ke frowned and said: "Maybe Microsoft is going to exit. You know, Microsoft has a monopoly on computer system users around the world. Once they start their instant messaging software, ICQ is likely to fall into Netscape's end."

"Ok!"

Bei's bald head nodded solemnly, "According to Microsoft's usual eating habits, they must have this idea, so it is completely wrong to say that I have invested in icq this time! Zhuke, you bastard, I regret it."

Zhu Ke said that he will never give you a chance.

In the original time and space, shortly after the advent of icq, Microsoft noticed the cake in the field of instant messaging. They wanted to enter the field immediately, but they were starting a browser war with Netscape, and there was no extra energy at all.

but!

The situation is different now!

Microsoft's IE browser, with its huge number of users and rogue means of forced installation, suppressed the survival of Netscape in one fell swoop.It is only a matter of time before Microsoft won this battle.

In other words, once Microsoft has achieved a full victory, when they vacate their hands, they will inevitably enter the instant messaging market.

"In the original time and space, MSN instant messaging was born under this situation!"

"Microsoft's rogue methods, just ask if you are afraid!"

Of course, the current ICQ with multiple allies is not as easy to bully as the original time and space. As for the war in the field of instant messaging, who will win in the end, Zhuke, as the traverser, cannot predict.

However, it is not Zhuke's turn to worry about it!

12%!

This is the current shareholding ratio of Zhu Ke in icq company.

The shares have been diluted a lot, but the market value is still very valuable.

"If I wait until ICQ is listed, even if the shares are diluted again, my net worth will surely skyrocket again because of the value of these shares!" Zhu Ke thought.

Especially in the current stage of crazy pursuit of the Internet by investors!

Therefore, Zhu Ke has great confidence.

In the late 1990s, global investors were crazy and blind in Internet projects.

The continuous emergence of "Internet company myths" has stimulated investors time and time again.

In 1996, Yahoo Inc. was officially listed on the Nasdaq. In just a few years, its stock price increased by an incredible 64 times, and its total market value reached an astonishing US$45 billion;

The online bookstore Amazon founded by Jeff Bezos has created another myth.

The company’s stock was listed on the Nasdaq on May 15, 1997. In the following year and a half, the company basically did not make any profits, but by the end of 1998, its stock price rose by 230%. Months later, it has risen by 400%, and the total market value has reached 40 billion US dollars!

crazy!

The market is completely crazy!

At this stage, even if you don't have a company office address, even if you don't invest a penny, as long as you have a more detailed Internet high-concept plan, you can definitely get the investment!

Of course, there is no shortage of money scams.

Generally speaking, as long as it is an Internet company, its market value has skyrocketed in the late 1990s.

"E TOYS toy is one of the most famous representatives!"

eTois, established in 1997, is mainly engaged in the sale of various toys through its own website.

During the Internet boom in 1999, the company's stock was listed on the Nasdaq.The total market value reached 8 billion U.S. dollars as soon as it opened, which greatly exceeded the 6 billion U.S. dollar market value of the time-honored toy company R-Toys, which shocked the entire industry.

however!

In fact, the latter’s operating performance is much higher than the former!

In 1998, the former’s sales were only a mere 30 million U.S. dollars, while the latter was as high as 11.2 billion U.S. dollars, which was almost 400 times that of the former. At the same time, in terms of profitability, the former had a loss of 28.6 million U.S. dollars in 1998, while the latter was profitable. 376 million US dollars.

The fundamental difference between the two is so great!

The stock price is showing an upside-down trend!

It just shows how the rationality of investors in the Nasdaq market at this time has been missing.

"Crazy!"

"The crazier I am, the more I will make!"

"Whether it is the 12% of ICQ's shares or the 2% of Yahoo's shares that I hold, there will be countless gains in this crazy feast."

"Of course, before the dot-com bubble, we must get out and leave."

Zhuke kept thinking about it.

Of course, it is over after thinking about it. This is not a recent event. Zhu Ke's main busy task now is to deal with the Asian financial crisis.

opportunity!

An opportunity to make Zhu Ke's wealth soar again!

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