Rebirth of the Cyber ​​Hegemony

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Fighting until now, the assistant suggested Daisy said.

It's not that they don't have the capital, if the fight continues, Friends.com will make the most profit.

Instead, it is better to give up for the time being.

If you really want more shares, you can transfer them from other capitals.

Of course, it may be relatively troublesome.

But this trouble is better solved for the current competition with Microsoft.

"I know."

Daisy was a little helpless, looking at Steve: "Steve, you won this time."

Morgen is not one to throw in the towel easily.

But seeing Steve's determination, he understood the importance of Friends.com to Microsoft.

Why does Microsoft want to lead the investment in Friends.com?

On the one hand, he is really optimistic about Friends.com, and on the other hand, he also wants to buy insurance for himself.

But more importantly, Microsoft has always had ambitions to enter the Internet.

Look at Microsoft.

Although they monopolize the operating system, they are not an influential Internet company.

Even if they have the browser IE, at best they are just a software manufacturer.

Furthermore, even Internet Explorer is currently under threat.

Their IE browsers in China have been threatened by Universal Browser.

In North America, their IE browser was again threatened by Google Chrome.

To say that the one that really entered the Internet is their MSN.

But a pity.

MSN has been completely defeated in the Chinese market.

In the North American market, it only occupies a certain market share.

They're not the only instant messaging vendors out there.

In general, when it comes to the construction of the Internet, Microsoft is far behind the global Internet giants in this area.

If Microsoft leads the investment in Friends.com, perhaps in the future Friends.com and Microsoft can reach some chemical cooperation.

Although many people know that Friends.com is a subsidiary of Universal Technology, and Microsoft and Universal Technology are also competitors.

But this world is competition and cooperation, which is the main theme of the world.

No company can survive alone.

"Thank you."

Mogen gave up, Microsoft President Steve said gratefully.

Facing the magic root, although their Microsoft strength is also terrifying, if they continue to fight, they will pay a very high price.

Chapter 751: Making Global Financing History

Mogen gave up on the side, and in the end, Microsoft won the right to lead the investment in Youyou.com.

The so-called lead investment is to take the lead in investment.

According to the rules of Friends.com, the lead investor can get 10% of the shares.

Based on the valuation of Friends.com at US$570 billion, Microsoft will have to invest US$57 billion.

"Mr. Chen, we will sign a formal contract in three days."

Although $57 billion is not a lot, Steve did not hesitate.

If they dare to call out this price, then they can afford it.

Although only 57% of the shares were obtained for US$10 billion, it is considered a sky-high price.

"OK."

Chen Yu nodded.

He also knows why Microsoft would want to invest in Friends.com.

Although Microsoft looks strong on the surface, it is definitely not invincible.

If another operating system rises in the future, it will pose a huge threat to Microsoft.

After Microsoft led the investment, other capitals followed suit.

Mogen didn't grab the right to lead the investment, so they chose to follow up and took 5% of the shares.

Correspondingly, they will have to pay 28.5 billion US dollars of funds.

However, after the Demon Root, there was a subtle change in the entire conference room.

"Oops, other capital hesitated."

Wang Chang cried out secretly.

She saw the hesitation of the rest of the capital.

As for the reason, it is also very simple.

In the eyes of many capitals before, their valuation of Friends.com was about 400 billion.

Even if it is higher, $450 billion or $500 billion is acceptable.

However, once the battle between Microsoft and Mogen was overturned, it suddenly pushed Friends.com to a height of 570 billion US dollars.

This kind of valuation is of course what Friends.com likes to see the most, but for their capital, that may not be the case.

In other words, even if you only need 570 point of shares in the US$1 billion Friends Network, you have to spend US$5.7 million.

5.7 million US dollars, this is not a small amount.

Converted into RMB, it is about 50 billion RMB.

For many companies, their entire market size does not reach 5.7 million.

Even for some very potential companies, 5.7 million US dollars can also win 20-30% of the shares.

But here, you spend 50 billion yuan, but you can only account for 1 percent.

This makes those capitals seem hesitant.

However, although they hesitated, Microsoft dared to lead the investment, and it was impossible for them to give up.

All of a sudden, a group of capital representatives called the headquarters one after another.

"Head, Friends.com's valuation has exceeded our expectations."

"What is their valuation now?"

"Microsoft offered 570 billion and won the lead investment right."

"A valuation of 570 billion, Microsoft can really report it."

"Do you still need to invest?"

"Wait, let me think..."

This is what most companies think.

Although these capitals are rich, they will not spend a penny indiscriminately.

"Mr. Chen, can we ask you a question?"

After thinking about it for a while, and receiving the instruction from above, the representative of Blackstone Capital suddenly asked.

"of course can."

"I want to ask about the current profitability of Youyou."

In fact, a group of capitals understand Friends.com.

If they want to invest in this website, they have already investigated this website clearly.

Although Friends.com currently has a very large number of IP visits, it does not make money.

Of course, it doesn't really matter.

A whole bunch of growing businesses don't make money when they start out.

Now is not the time to pick peaches.

Regarding this point, Wang Chang, the CEO of Friends.com, also wrote in the financing prospectus.

All capitals are recognized.

But at this time, the representative of Blackstone Capital mentioned it again, obviously wanting to hear a more accurate answer from Chen Yu.

Everyone knows that it is Chen Yu who really controls Friends.com.

"Actually, this question is not a problem. Everyone has a clearer answer than me. But since the representative of Blackstone asked about it, I will say it. Friends.com has not considered profit at the moment. The reason why it did not consider it is for friends. The expansion of the Internet. The representative of Blackstone may be more concerned about the potential of the friend network in the future... But I think it is difficult for me to say clearly about this question. If you really want an answer, you might as well ask about the history of Microsoft. Mr. Difu, of course, and Google..."

Chen Yu responded with a smile.

Microsoft and Mogen have already followed up, and it doesn't matter whether other capitals hesitate or not.

The combined scale of the two has brought Chen Yurong nearly 100 billion US dollars.

Even if they don't follow suit, the money is enough.

However, in order to completely bind a series of global capital to Moments, Chen Yu still answered.

This answer is not really an answer.

Because Chen Yu did not directly answer the questions raised by Blackstone Capital.

But although Chen Yu didn't respond positively, Chen Yu's answer made Blackstone Capital make up its mind.

"Mr. Chen, we follow the stock for 5 points."

"Welcome Blackstone Capital to become a shareholder of Youyou."

Chen Yu expressed his gratitude.

"Mr. Chen, we also have a question."

Probably inspired by Blackstone Capital, at this time, the representative of Berkshire also asked a question.

"Excuse me."

"I don't know much about the Internet, and I don't know what a social network is. We came here because we saw the potential of Friends.com in the future. But, Mr. Chen, can you tell us what a social network is?"

Berkshire is the investment company founded by Buffett.

It is also one of the most influential investment companies in the world.

"In fact, we have talked about what a social network is before. Maybe everyone thinks it is vague, so I will explain it here. The so-called social network, in my understanding, is the real world."

"real world?"

"Mr. Chen, isn't the Internet virtual? Why is it the real world?"

"In your eyes, what you see may be a virtual world. For example, our website is an invisible network. Our series of applications on the Internet can only be seen but not touched. It is not a real thing. , he is all virtual data. But behind these data, there are extremely real people. Without human participation, the Internet is a dead network. Without human participation, social networks will cease to exist. Our friends The reason why the Internet is developing so fast is that our social network further realizes the virtual nature of the Internet. We let everyone feel a more real, more vivid, and more social site. Here, I It can be said that in the next five years, your social circle in our friend network will be your future friend circle in the real world..."

This answer made everyone on the scene applaud unanimously.

This is one of the most perfect explanations of social networking they have ever heard.

This explanation not only vividly explained to everyone what social network is, but also further explained the importance and future potential of social network to everyone.

Why are they here?

Didn't you just see the potential of Friends Network?

What Chen Yu said is to further amplify this potential.

It turns out that in their eyes, Friends.com is a product that will stand side by side with Internet giants such as Yahoo and Google in the future.

But from Chen Yu's mouth, they found that Friends.com will definitely surpass Yahoo and Google in the future.