novelraw Chapter 314 Wechat Listing
Chapter 314 Wechat Listing
Chapter 314 Wechat Listing
Chapter 315 Wechat Is Listed
During New Year's Day, Qin Yuanqing and Jing Tian went to WeChat.
The option pool set at the beginning, now that WeChat is going to be listed, it is time to fulfill it.
According to the original financing agreement, the shareholders of all parties officially transferred 10% of their shares to the option pool, and Qin Yuanqing's shares were also reduced from the original 44.67% to 40.203%. Of course, the voting rights are still 62.735%. Shares, not voting rights.
Before going public, each employee of the company will receive corresponding stocks according to their job grade and length of service. There is no doubt that this will be another round of Internet wealth creation.
After the final confirmation, the total shares of WeChat Group amounted to 50 billion shares, and the option pool was 5 million shares. A total of 10 shares of 5 million shares were used to raise development funds, while Qin Yuanqing's shares will be reduced to 36.1827%, and Jing Tian will be reduced. to 6.7473%.According to the IPO agreement, Qin Yuanqing must reduce the shares in his hands to less than 20% within one year, and the shares held by other shareholders have a lock-up period determined according to the agreement, that is, the shares in the option pool. Employees who have obtained them will also be granted half a year after listing. In order to cash out.
During the New Year's Day, Qin Yuanqing did not participate in the WeChat affairs after dealing with the WeChat affairs, including road shows, ringing the bell, etc. Qin Yuanqing did not plan to participate.
These matters are naturally handled by the management team such as the CEO of WeChat, and he does not need to worry about them.
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it came to February 2016, 2. Huaxia completely bid farewell to the era of the seven major military regions and entered the era of the five major military regions.
And this day is also a year that the investors of WeChat Group and its companies have been thinking about for a long time.
With the news of WeChat Group's listing being heated up by Wall Street these days, this topic has almost been the focus of the technology circle and Wall Street in the past half a year, and it will be heated up every few days.
Because this time WeChat Group will record the largest financing amount in history, far surpassing Ali’s financing in 2014, when Ali raised almost 220 billion U.S. dollars, and this time WeChat’s IPO transaction raised more than 350 billion U.S. dollars, such a huge amount of financing It will make WeChat Group's financing one of the largest IPOs in history.
That is, when the IPO was valued, the valuation of WeChat reached 3500 billion U.S. dollars!
During the previous road show, Ma Xiaodong, the CEO of WeChat, reported the relevant situation of WeChat. Global WeChat users exceeded 10 billion users, China’s WeChat users reached 8 million, and other regions’ WeChat users reached 2 million. In 2015, WeChat E-Mall was the second largest e-commerce platform in China, second only to Alibaba.In terms of cloud services, WeChat has become the second largest cloud computing service provider in the world, with a revenue of US$50 billion in cloud computing services last year.
In 2015, WeChat turned losses into profits, and on the basis of free WeChat itself, it was able to achieve profitability. The profit support lies in cloud computing, e-commerce, and advertising revenue.After six consecutive years of large-scale investment, WeChat Group has built its own ecosystem with WeChat as the core, which has penetrated into all aspects of Chinese life. If it were not for the large-scale investment in logistics, servers, and data centers that are still burning money, the profitability of WeChat Group would The data will look even better.
But even so, the valuation of WeChat Group has exceeded 3500 billion US dollars.
The listing of WeChat Group this time can be called a capital feast.
In order to catch up with this feast, countless investors flocked to the official website of the New York Stock Exchange, because too many people downloaded and read the listing documents of WeChat Group, which caused the website to crash due to excessive load.
This led to investors scolding.
Qin Yuanqing didn't go to the United States, but stayed at home and watched the live TV broadcast. CCTV [-] specially broadcasted the live broadcast. You can see the stock exchange is full of excitement. Every investment is crazy.
It has to be said that the United States is worthy of being an expert in finance. It is indeed very mature in the stock financial market and has also cultivated countless investors.
This kind of fanatical scene is very rare in China.
When it was 10:00 North American time, the bell-ringing ceremony officially began.
Seven people, including Chen Zhiyuan, Ma Xiaodong, Sun Zhengyi, employee representatives, and user representatives, pressed on the screen together.
"Clang! Clang! Clang!"
At the moment of touching the screen, the entire New York Stock Exchange sounded the sound of WeChat technology ringing the bell, and the emotions of the audience once again reached an unprecedented peak.
Countless people shouted out the name of the company together.
And at the moment when the sound of the bell rang, countless colorful fireworks fell, flooding the audience.
Accompanied by the continuous ringing of the bell, the boiling sound of the audience continued for a long time.
The moment the bell is rung, it means that WeChat’s technological start-up stage has passed, and it will enter a new era.
The moment the bell rang, K-line charts and Arabic numerals began to fluctuate wildly on the big screens of the New York Stock Exchange. The company's trading code was WX.
At the same time, countless small and medium-sized investors and stockholders are staring at the stock price of WeChat Technology. Thousands of small and medium-sized investors and stockholders immediately become anxious, fearing that they will not be able to buy it or be late.
WeChat issued at US$70 per share and opened at US$79. It sold 5 million yuan and raised US$350 billion. The scale of financing exceeded Alibaba’s 2014 IPO of US$220 billion, creating the largest IPO in history.
Even through the TV, Qin Yuanqing could feel the excitement of the stock market. On the live TV, you can see that the numbers climbed wildly after the opening of the trading.
"Ahhhh~~~" Jing Tian shouted excitedly on the sofa. The listing of WeChat means that after the lifting of the ban period, the shares in her hands can be exchanged for money.
"Keep your voice down, the child is still sleeping, what's there to be happy about!" Qin Yuanqing hurriedly grabbed his wife, what's so exciting about it, the ban will be lifted after a year.
"Aren't you excited? You are worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and you are going to become the richest man in the world!" Jing Tian blushed with excitement.
"Money is just a bunch of numbers, why get so excited!" Qin Yuan curled his lips calmly.
When money reaches a certain level, money is not money, but a bunch of numbers.
He can't spend the patent licensing fees for automobile engine technology alone every year. The money he spends on himself is estimated to be hundreds of thousands a year. So much he has to worry about donating.
Looking at Qin Yuanqing with a calm and indifferent face, the young lady suddenly felt so boring. Obviously having so much wealth is an exciting thing, but now it feels like water.
Qin Yuanqing originally thought that he would be very excited, but when the WeChat Group was officially listed today and set records one by one, Qin Yuanqing found that he was not that excited, perhaps because from the very beginning, he did not think that WeChat was It belongs to his own business, which is just a trivial sideline.
And in fact, he didn't spend much energy on WeChat. He just developed WeChat at the beginning and occasionally developed a few programs in the past few years. As for the rest, it was basically the joint efforts of the management and employees of WeChat.
WeChat has been developing at a high speed in recent years. Now the number of employees of WeChat Group has exceeded 5, and the number of branch offices has exceeded 7.There are more than a thousand companies holding or participating in shares, and they are involved in film and television entertainment, content creation, short video, video website, e-commerce, social networking and other fields, forming a complete ecosystem.
But Qin Yuanqing just set the strategy at the beginning, and he didn't pay attention to it later. The management and all the staff have contributed to today's achievements. It is their concerted efforts that make WeChat what it is today.It is also true that before the listing, Qin Yuanqing fulfilled his promise, making the option pool a huge fortune.
In recent years, many talents have joined WeChat Group, not because of the high wages of WeChat Group, but because of the option pool.
Sometimes Qin Yuanqing feels that it is also good to let employees share the dividends of development, which can effectively give full play to the enthusiasm of employees' wages and have a bright future.
After turning off the TV, Qin Yuanqing stopped paying attention to the live TV broadcast, but tonight is destined to be a sleepless night in China. In North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, China and other places, countless people are focusing on the North American stock market.
Numerous stockholders are frantically grabbing WeChat stocks. According to them, if you buy it, you will earn it!
With this enthusiasm, WeChat's stock is also rising. At the end of the day, the closing price has risen to 90.3 US dollars, a surge of 29%.
"WeChat went public, soared 29%, and its market value reached 4515 billion US dollars! The richest man in China, the richest man in Asia, and the richest man in the world have officially changed hands!" - "Sina Finance"
"WeChat Group successfully went public in the United States, with an initial public offering of US$350 billion, the largest IPO record in history!" —— "Science and Technology Daily"
"Mankind's first 1633.65-billion-dollar billionaire was born! Qin Yuanqing became the first [-]-billion-dollar man with a personal net worth of [-] billion U.S. dollars, fully explaining that knowledge is wealth!" - "NetEase Finance"
"The largest wealth creation campaign in history, [-] millionaires were born under WeChat in one day!" - "Huaqing Online"
"At the age of 26, he started a side job in his spare time and achieved a fortune of US$1633.65 billion!" - "Tencent Net"
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The major media have carried out reports one after another, and the content of the reports is concentrated on WeChat Group, focusing on Qin Yuanqing. The stock price of WeChat Group rose by 29% after the first day of trading, and its market value reached 4515 billion U.S. dollars, surpassing Huaxia Petroleum and becoming Huaxia's market capitalization The highest company has also become the second-highest market value among Internet technology companies. The highest market value is nothing but Apple, which enjoys huge dividends in the smartphone era. Apple's market value is as high as 7418 billion US dollars.
But there is no doubt that WeChat Group and Qin Yuanqing are the biggest winners of this listing. It is different from when Ali Group was listed. At that time, aliens did not hold many shares in Ali Group, so although their net worth rose sharply, they did not enter the market. Top ten richest people in the world.
But WeChat is different. Qin Yuanqing is the major shareholder, holding more than 36% of the shares. Immediately, Qin Yuanqing's personal wealth soared to a jaw-dropping level, exceeding US$1633 billion in wealth.
Converted into RMB, there are 9635 billion yuan, which is close to one trillion yuan!
(End of this chapter)