Chapter 237 Financing
“Hornbill has achieved unprecedented success in the global market in the past two weeks. It marks the successful application of artificial intelligence in the search engine field and will redefine the entire search engine market”< br>
Amina’s voice echoed throughout the venue. Many investors listened attentively, but none of them had any surprised expressions.
Since everyone chooses to come to Johor Bahru, which is not even a first-tier city in Malaysia, they come because of the potential of Alpha Technology and Hornbill.
For example, why Hornbill members allow different people to share, which is technically easy to prohibit, but Hornbill turns a blind eye to this behavior that obviously harms its interests, and even vaguely encourages it.
Investment institutions analyze that Hornbill's payment is just a threshold. They hope to implant in consumers the mentality that such services need to be charged, and actively leave loopholes in order to break through the circle as soon as possible and increase market share.
In Europe, Hornbill membership sharing has almost become a popular way of socializing. If you have a Hornbill membership, you will have many more friends who want to have sex for free.
The analysis materials produced internally by investment institutions are more complete than what Amina said, and the depth and coverage of thinking are also wider.
They even took into account Samad’s possible future business strategies.
So Amina’s introduction was a bit tasteless and tasteless.
"Our current total number of registered users has exceeded 10 million, and the number of paid users has exceeded 2 million."
When it comes to the data released by Alpha Technology itself, the elites here began to get serious.
The number of users and the proportion of paying users symbolizes potential. Considering that multiple people share accounts, the paying rate may be scary high.
Amina was the one giving the introduction in the morning, introducing the basic situation of Alpha Technology and the purpose of their round of financing. Two hours passed in the blink of an eye.
Alfa Technology prepared a buffet for the guests at the Renaissance Hotel at noon. This was a rare social occasion for everyone. To be honest, there has been a long time between the financial and technological circles of China and Amerikan. There is no interaction on this scale anymore.
Schnande naturally found Li Haide. Schnande is currently the president of Goldman Sachs Asia Pacific. The two knew each other when Li Haide was still working at JinkoSolar.
“As an old Chinese saying goes, money and silk can move people’s hearts, and the princess can also come out to support the company.
You must know that Amina is famous among the royal family members for not fighting for it. ." Schnander joked.
Li Haide was noncommittal: "This is not ordinary money."
Schnande lowered his voice: "You are right.
I even feel like we're here to attend Google's funeral early. "
Li Haide was a little surprised: "You are not optimistic about Google either? ”
“The fall of Google will be good for everyone.
Alfa Technology is obviously willing to share profits with everyone. Google fell and Alpha Technology rose. How much benefit can we get from this process?
Not to mention the income from investment, it is just the opportunities that arise in the process that drive the development of Malaysia’s upstream and downstream industrial chains.
There are plenty of opportunities. If Google falls, only Google’s shareholders will lose. If Alpha Technology rises, all participants in the chain will receive generous returns.
Wall Street will spare no effort to support Alpha Technologies. "Schnande has stayed in Xiangjiang for many years, and he has picked up all kinds of idioms at his fingertips.
"The only regret is that Alpha Technology is in Malaysia, and they are unwilling to move to Silicon Valley. Malaysia is still far away. China is too close. " There was a hint of regret in Schnand's tone.
" What's wrong in Malaysia? Isn't Malaysia a member of your free world?
Isn’t it also a constitutional monarchy? "After hearing this, Li Haide understood what Schnander meant. It was nothing more than that the federal power in the Asia-Pacific region was already shaky.
The originally obedient boys became difficult to arouse. The consequence of being bitten by a good dog was that everyone began to get ready to take action.
This is especially true for a country like Malaysia that is originally biased towards China.
So for Wall Street, they are a little worried about rebuilding a Google in Malaysia.
After all, tk can be a piece of meat on the chopping board in Amerikan, and Alpha Technology in Malaysia may also run the risk of being a human being.
“Does Guangjia Aerospace have any financing intentions? We internally really want to invest in you.
No matter what the conditions are, they can be negotiated. Schnand changed the topic, obviously not wanting to talk about such a dilemma.
Li Haide said: "It's better not to think about it. The original investors have to withdraw their shares, how can we let you in."
Light Armor Aerospace can even receive orders from Blue Origin. It is a rare bridge between you and us. "
"Of course, everyone can see the potential of Light Armor Aerospace. Light Armor Aerospace's cost control capabilities are no less than SpaceX, and even the labor costs are lower than SpaceX.
Including the prospects of light-armor spaceflight and the goals to be achieved, they are all easier than SpaceX. ”
Going to Mars is more difficult than space mining.
Although both are higher branches on the existing technology tree, going to Mars is an extension of moon landing, and space mining is an extension of existing C-class asteroid mining.
But obviously the span to Mars is even greater.
What the outside world doesn’t know is that Chen Yuanguang’s goal is to achieve profitability through space mining, not just as simple as space mining. A positive cycle of profitability is more difficult than going to Mars.
The limited difficulty of space mining is based on the premise that it is just a scientific research activity regardless of cost.
The conversation between Schnander and Li Haide was full of probing meaning. Goldman Sachs is originally a representative of Jewish capital, and Light Armor Aerospace is in a sense a technology giant that resists Jewish capital. What Schnander proposed implies whether the two parties It means you can make peace.
“What conditions does Guangjia Aerospace plan to offer for Alpha Technology’s financing this time?” Schnander asked curiously.
“We can provide some artificial intelligence help to Alpha Technology. As you know, Wright is a top scientist and he also has a unique understanding of artificial intelligence.
We have been working on artificial intelligence recently. The breakthrough in the field of intelligence is no less than that of Hornbill.
I believe that as long as Samad is willing to talk to Wright, he will definitely choose us. "Li Haide thought it was a lie anyway, so he would die.
Schnander was obviously frightened. Google had fallen by 30%. If what the other party said was true and Chen Yuanguang had achieved a breakthrough in the field of artificial intelligence, then who knows how many Nasdaq technology companies would collapse, and with it, The entire index collapsed.
"What breakthrough?"
Information is gold, Schnande even wanted to pry Li Haide's head open to see what breakthrough it was.
Li Haide said: "This is a business secret.
I can only tell you that our Guangjia Aerospace is bound to win this round of financing." It is obvious that companies with the idea that they are bound to win Guangjia Aerospace is not the only one. Li Haide's imperative to win is just a smoke bomb. Some companies are not determined to win.
Baidu is a typical example.
Because at the end of the morning’s introduction, Amina made it clear that in this round of financing, the financing targets need to be able to provide help at the market level, and Hornbill’s goal is the global market.
This sentence is telling Baidu that they will not give up the Chinese market.
If Hornbill enters the Chinese market openly, what else will Baidu do?
Therefore, for Baidu, winning is an inevitable choice. If not, Baidu will be ruthlessly eliminated by the times.
“Everyone, our internal valuation of Alpha Technology in this round of financing is US$50 billion. This round is expected to raise US$5 billion in funds to expand data centers and expand market share.< br>
You can tell us your planned investment share, the proportion of shares you hope to obtain, and what compliance assistance you can provide to Alpha Technology’s global development industry.
For example, Hornbill will not lobby the White House. Will be blocked from Amerikan, for example, it can prevent Yanjing from banning Hornbill.
The more detailed it is, the better.
Help in other aspects can also be written. Our selection of financing targets is a very subjective process. We need to choose partners who can truly help Alpha Technology’s future global strategy.
So hopefully we can become fellow travelers in the future soon.
We will finally give you a clear answer based on the help you can provide and the amount of funds raised. You need to send me your investment intention by email before five o'clock tomorrow afternoon. If you want to reply It will be given to you within this week. "
Amina felt a little excited in her blood. Is this what it feels like to be all-powerful?
"Haifeng, what do you think? "After returning to the hotel, Robin seemed very anxious because there were too many people coming and he was not sure that he could grab this project among so many competitors.
Baidu has not won since 2016, and even Robin loses his confidence.
He doesn’t think Baidu’s luck will get better this time.
“A valuation of 50 billion, considering that Hornbill has 5 billion Nvidia computing resources.
In addition, they just spent more than one billion US dollars to buy it from GDS not long ago A brand new data center data center, and Hornbill, this price is not too surprising
This price is on the high side of the reasonable valuation range according to our internal evaluation.
It would be more normal for the US$5 billion raised in this round to be used to expand data centers and expand market share. This purpose is a conspiracy, and it is taking the path of relying on product power to crush the past.
To be honest, it is a huge threat to Baidu. Hornbill is a Malaysian company, not an American company. Unlike Google, they will have data concerns and restrictions from Washington, which will make them Data cannot be provided to China for review.
Hornbill does not have any concerns in this regard, which leads to their inevitable entry into the Chinese market.
To be honest, if there is no universal access function, then I think Baidu can rely on habits to compete with Hornbill. However, with the universal access function, it will be difficult for Baidu to compete with Hornbill.
We all know that Baidu is no longer comparable to mobile apps such as Xiaohongshu and WeChat public accounts in searching for specific content. If there is a search engine that integrates the content of all mobile apps, it will be for us. A real dimensionality reduction blow. ”
Wang Haifeng tried to say that Robin accepted Hornbill's pricing, but Robin interrupted: "Haifeng, I understand everything you said. What I want to ask is what conditions we should set.
And if Hornbill enters China in the future, How will Baidu turn around in the domestic market?”
Wang Haifeng pondered for a moment and then said: “If we give a 20% premium on the US$50 billion valuation, we will give you 70 billion, and we will shoot out all the bullets in this round. .
Equivalent to 7 billion, to obtain 10% of the shares.
The conditions offered are that we have a very close cooperative relationship with the Chinese government and we can help Hornbill enter China. domestic market.
At the same time, Baidu has a long history in China and a deep user base. Hornbill can rely on Baidu to quickly expand its market scale without starting from scratch.
I think these are the ones.
As for the future, Baidu will accelerate its transformation towards autonomous driving. Only this direction can support Baidu's market value of hundreds of billions.
Or commercial aerospace, but in commercial aerospace, it is difficult for us to compete with the light armor system. Boss Chen’s dominance in this area is too strong. If we enter, there is a high probability that we can only do something for the light armor system. Downstream supporting business.
These businesses are not enough to maintain Baidu’s size. ”
After hearing what Wang Haifeng said, Robin pinched his brows and said, "Let's do it like this. Prepare it and show it to me after you write the letter of intent.
In addition, we have to start another round of layoffs after we go back. If we don’t take advantage of Hornbill this round, our strategic direction cannot fail again.
Haifeng, is there really no way for us to replicate Hornbill’s global connectivity function?”
Wang Haifeng smiled bitterly and said: "Even if we can copy it, we can't be as good as Hornbill in terms of user experience.
You also heard what they said this morning, the number of users exceeds 10 million, and the number of paying users exceeds 200 Millions, the peak number of simultaneous online services of Hornbill must exceed one million. At this level, they can provide millisecond-level response services.
Without understanding how the underlying algorithm is designed, we will definitely not be able to do it. ”
What Wang Haifeng didn’t finish was, if I had this ability, would I still be at Baidu? I would have jumped out and started my own business.
In the past, there was no shortage of ideas and no shortage of entrepreneurial ideas in China. There is no shortage of funds, but there is no shortage of technology, only qualified entrepreneurs. Nowadays, China's entrepreneurship has no shortage of funds, ideas, and entrepreneurs. It only lacks technology owners with real market. When starting a business, you never have to worry about lack of funds.
“Mr. Samad, I looked carefully and found that investment institutions in various countries are very sincere. Have you thought about it?
If they haven't thought about it yet, I can tell them to wait. "Amina's attitude is very respectful, this is the power of wealth.
She knows that after completing this round of fundraising, the relationship between her and Samad will be interchanged, and she will completely lose the relationship between them. Initiative.
Malaysia can care about the life and death of its own entrepreneurs, but it will never dare to disregard the interests of global capital.
But Amina does not care, after all, the valuation is 50 billion. Enterprises and financial institutions did not bat an eyelid. None of them valued Alpha Technology at less than US$50 billion.
Even if her 30% stake was diluted, her net worth would have exceeded. 10 billion US dollars, Amina has completely surrendered to the power of money
Instructions came from the other end of the phone: "BlackRock, JPMorgan Chase, SoftBank, Temasek, Goose Factory and Guangjia Aerospace."
(End of Chapter)