Chapter 768: The birth of a billionaire on Amazon’s listing
After a year of preparation, Amazon was listed on Nasdaq and issued 3 million common shares at a price of US$18 per share.
On the morning of May 15th, at 9:10 a.m. Eastern Time, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, his wife and company CFO MacKenzie Bezos, and representatives of the company’s major investors A group of people came to Four Times Square, located next to Times Square in New York, where Nasdaq's trading center is located.
Although Nasdaq is an electronic securities trading market, it still has a trading center, but it does not have the various hardware facilities commonly found in general stock exchanges. Instead, it has a large photo studio , equipped with high-tech projection screens and reporters from major financial news TV stations in Europe and the United States are stationed to conduct real-time market reports.
At nine twenty minutes, Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos stepped onto the bell-ringing platform amidst applause, followed by the company's major investors.
Among reporters who have been wandering around the investment circle looking for news all year round, the names of these people are also well-known.
John Bogle, founder of Vanguard Investment, Alberg, founder of Madrona Venture Capital Group\Gu Chengru, President of BlackRock Group, Doyle
Almost all of Amazon's ten major shareholders were present.
But careful reporters discovered that according to Amazon’s disclosure on Nasdaq, one of the company’s top ten shareholders seems to be missing.
A Chinese name: Fang Minghua.
Founder Jerry Bezos became Amazon's largest shareholder with 42% of the shares, followed by Fang Minghua with 30%, which is much higher than several other investors.
In the shareholder prospectus, the man named Fang Minghua disclosed very little information. He only said that he was a Chinese citizen and there was no other explanation.
So he was called the "mysterious Eastern investor" by reporters.
I wanted to see him at the "bell-ringing" ceremony of today's listing, but I didn't expect that this mysterious man would still be there. Didn't show up.
At almost half past nine, Jeff Bezos started to "ring the bell" - in fact, Nasdaq does not have a hammer at all, only a button on the screen - and it is still a touch screen.
I saw Bezos pressing the button,
ringing the bell!
Color bars floated down, followed by a burst of cheers. At this time, the Nasdaq stock market opened, and everyone stared nervously at the big electronic screen.
Soon, the name of Nasdaq and the stock code, AMZN, appeared: $19! Slightly higher than the listing price of $18.
Warm applause erupted from both the stage and the audience.
This price is not very eye-catching among the many listed technology stocks. Even so, the bald man in front of him is worth as much as 170 million based on the number of shares he holds!
The Chinese man whose shares are ranked second is also worth as much as 136 million.
Two more billionaires were born, and one of them is still in China!
Fang Minghua knew the news a day later, and it was Li Li who called him to tell him.
Li Li has also been very busy recently, mainly due to work matters. She participated in an international comparative literature academic seminar held in New York, rushed back to San Francisco to attend classes, and was also responsible for the work of the translation team.
Although the work of Ashleypress has been handed over to Demi, she is still in charge of the translation team headed by professors from San Francisco State University.
The main purpose is to translate the literary works of some famous Chinese writers, which are now published by Ashleypress, but the translation work falls on the team she is responsible for.
At the same time, I have to go home and take care of my cute baby at home.
This afternoon, Li Li, Mr. and Mrs. Ge Haowen and two other professors discussed the translation work of "The Bronze Age", "The Golden Age" and "The Silver Age" written by Wang Xiaobo at the school - just recently Minghua The electronic version was just sent from China.
After the discussion was over, Li Li drove home in a hurry, and the first thing she did was hug her lovely daughter.
"Sister Zhang, where is Xinxin? Where is my mother?" Li Li didn't find her mother and daughter on the lawn outside or in the living room on the first floor, so she quickly asked the nanny.
"Mrs. Zhou and Xinxin are upstairs." The nanny said.
Li Li quickly went up to the second floor and opened her mother's bedroom door. No one!
Pushing open his bedroom door again,
Still no one!
She was a little anxious. When she opened the door to the study room, she discovered that her mother was looking at the computer attentively, and her daughter next to her was lying in the stroller and playing with her own feet.
"Mom, are you surfing the Internet?" Li Li asked and picked up her daughter. Only then did she realize that her daughter's diaper was soaked and it seemed that she had not changed it for a while.
"Mom, why don't you change Xinxin's diaper? You see it's soaked."
With a hint of complaint in her tone, Li Li quickly took out a brand new diaper from the bedroom next door and prepared it. Put it on for my daughter.
Zhou Xuemei seemed to wake up and turned around to look at her daughter with a look of shock.
"What's wrong? Mom? What did you see?" Li Li asked curiously while changing her daughter's diaper.
“The company called Amazon that you and Minghua invested in went public today.” Zhou Xuemei said.
"Yes, it was listed today. How was the stock performance?"
"The closing price was $23.5."
"It hasn't increased much. I remember the listing price was US$18, and it only increased by US$5.5." Li Li said.
"But if you Minghua owns 5.8 million shares of this company, that is 136 million U.S. dollars." Zhou Xuemei murmured.
"Well, that's that much, right?" Li Li said, picking up her daughter and kissing her little face.
"Oh my God. 136 million, which is equivalent to nearly 1.1 billion in RMB!" Zhou Xuemei's voice suddenly rose: "And Lili, didn't you say that you also invested 200,000 US dollars in the beginning? Now it is equivalent to 580,000 US dollars. shares, that is 13.6 million US dollars!"
Zhou Xuemei became excited. She looked at Li Li who was playing with the child and was startled: "Lili, you don't seem to have any idea at all! Excited? ”
"Excited, why aren't you excited?" Li Li continued to amuse the child in her arms without raising her head: "Oh, Xinxin, my father is a billionaire and my mother is a multimillionaire, baby, are you excited or not?" < br>
Looking at her daughter's calm look, Zhou Xuemei sighed softly.
Hey.
I am increasingly unable to understand my daughter and the world.
"Mom, why are you sighing?" Li Li seemed to know what her mother was thinking. She said: "Actually, it's nothing. I told you a long time ago that the profits in Minghua's stock account have been There are hundreds of millions, and it is still increasing, as well as his Ashleypress profits, royalties, etc., so I don’t feel much when I hear you talking about this today.”
"Does Tangtang know?"
"Of course I do. My cousin is the housekeeper and is much better at settling accounts than me. Yes, I want both Minghua and my cousin to talk about this."
Zhou Xuemei wanted to remind her something, but she took it back when the words reached her lips.
My daughter has been innocent since she was a child, and she is still like this now.
(End of this chapter)