Chapter 634 Capital Increase in Woaw
Specifically, it was not Barron who solved Woaw’s funding problem, but IC Capital managed by Ivanta...
In the beginning, IC Capital combined DoubleClick and After YouTube was sold to Woaw, Woa once held more than 800 million shares w stock, accounting for nearly 17% of Woaw's total share capital...
After that, as Woaw's stock price continued to rise, it rose from US$7 per share to US$7.5 per share, and finally even reached the highest level At that time, it once exceeded 8 US dollars per share...
Woaw's market value was once close to 40 billion US dollars!
During this process, IC Capital began to reduce its holdings of Woaw shares on the grounds of additional investment in Android companies and related acquisitions - their holdings in Woaw were reduced from 812 million shares to about 600 million shares, reducing their holdings by more than 600 million shares. 200 million Woaw shares.
Correspondingly, because Woaw’s stock price was in an upward trend, IC Capital received nearly US$1.5 billion in cash.
This time, Woaw Technology will issue new shares to IC Capital at a price of US$6 per share. The number of additional shares is 250 million. Woaw received US$1.5 billion in funding from IC Capital.
Yes, Woaw Technology’s stock price has fallen below $6. Compared with the highest point of Woaw’s stock price last year, it has fallen by more than 25%!
After this Woaw private placement of shares, Woaw's total share capital has increased to 5.05 billion shares, and IC Capital will hold approximately 850 million Woaw shares, accounting for 16.83% of its total share capital.
This time Woaw is issuing additional shares to raise funds to get through this difficult period. As for the target of the additional issuance is IC Capital, it is also because under the same conditions, other investors in Woaw have no intention to participate...
After all, it is obvious that the impact of the subprime mortgage crisis is far from over, and the overall economic situation None of it is good. Investors in Woaw, such as Sequoia Capital, Blackstone Fund and Goldman Sachs Group, even in the second quarter of this year, could not help but sell some Woaw stocks to raise funds...
< br>So this time, IC Capital was the only one who responded positively to Woaw’s additional stock issuance.
As for why Barron chose IC Capital to undertake Woaw's additional stock issuance instead of DS Group...
It is also because North America is already one of Woaw's most important markets. DS Holdings itself has a relatively high shareholding ratio in Woaw. As IC Capital of American Capital, it is a good idea for American Capital to obtain additional issuance of Woaw and thus increase its shareholding in this emerging Internet giant. The most acceptable.
He doesn't want to have some trouble in the future when conservative sentiment in the United States takes over. Woaw will encounter some trouble because of DS Capital's large shareholding in it - don't look at the fact that Britain is also one of the Five Eyes Alliance, but the United States For allies, it is not without precautions.
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“By the way, how’s Twitter doing now?”
After leaving Woaw and returning to their home in Mountain View, Barron asked casually .
"Oh, I wanted to tell you, but I forgot before..."
Ivanta said with a smile on his face:
“At my suggestion, Twitter also launched a mobile APP in the first half of this year, and it performed very well after it went online. In order to speed up their development, last month We have just received Series B financing..."
Twitter can be said to be a very important media platform in the future. For example, in Barron's previous life, Musk, the "richest man" at the time, wanted to obtain this platform. Roll 4 4 billion US dollars, bought it and renamed it , when Jianguo was still in office, the relevant senior management of Twitter had already obeyed the Donkey Party's orders and pushed news that was beneficial to the American sect to users...
Even when Jianguo was still in office, he directly banned his account... …
The politics behind America’s so-called “lighthouse” are also particularly dark.
This is why Musk will directly declare that he "cannot commit suicide" after acquiring Twitter, so as to avoid being shot eight times in the back or to the head one day because he offends certain forces. Six shots...what was ultimately ruled a suicide occurred. But now, the situation is different...
Just last month, IC Capital invested an additional US$10 million in Twitter, thus increasing its holdings in Twitter. shares, increased from 25% to 35%, becoming Twitter's largest shareholder.
After continuing to invest in the future, if Twitter can still develop now, then Ivanta will probably have a huge say in their tendencies.
Speaking of which, the public security in Mountain View is very good. After all, it is located in the Silicon Valley area, where technology companies are concentrated and there are many emerging wealthy people. Naturally, they attach great importance to their own safety.
The villa where Barron and Ivanta live is located in the most upscale community in Mountain View - the police force here, it is no exaggeration to say, can occupy three thirds of the entire Mountain View. There are more than one.
After all, according to the logic of commercial society, if you pay the most taxes, you will have the corresponding police force to protect you. This is very reasonable, isn't it?
Although their villa is not large compared to other manors in Barron, what is rare is that it has a huge garden.
And along the garden wall, there are surveillance cameras, and there will be more than a dozen bodyguards on one side of the house to guard the safety of the place at all times when Barron moves in.
In the hall of the villa, the fire in the fireplace illuminates the entire space, making the room warm as spring.
This makes people feel the coldness that has begun to spread in Silicon Valley in November.
At this time, Ivanta was only wearing a silk suspender skirt, which showed off her curves, especially her slender legs, which were like works of art.
After all, Ivanta is over 180cm tall and once worked as a model - it can be said that her height is already a bit high among models, but not just anyone can hold it... …
The firelight reflected on the wall from one side of Ivan Tower, and her silhouette with her long hair coiled up and down... rose and fell with a certain rhythm.
"Baby, you are awesome..."
Hearing Barron's heartfelt praise, Ivanta raised her head, her eyes full of tenderness and... spring, hearing Barron's increasingly urgent words. Breathing, she was very satisfied.
When Ivanta stood up and sat on Barron's lap, the young and handsome Duke looked at him with a half-smile:
"Madam, you are very proactive today. Like a knight..."
"Really? Let's see if I can control this wild horse..."
Looking down at Barron, Ivanta frowned slightly under the attraction of their eyes, and then bit her lip. Gradually, her brows relaxed...
"Oh~MyGod ..."
"I prefer you to call me Dad...baby"
(End of this chapter)