When investing in Julu Records, Hanhai specially set up overseas accounts, so when the huge amount of US$5.5 million was withdrawn in Seattle, not much time was wasted.
After signing the contract, Li Qing successfully obtained 10% of Amazon shares in his name.
Of course, this share is fixed by a percentage, which is why Li Qing was willing to invest $110 per share when Amazon’s stock price was only $48.
Under normal circumstances, when financing, investors will value the company and then decide how much money to pay and how many shares to occupy.
In this case, the proportion of shares held by the original shareholders will decrease, but overall, the company's assets will increase.
For example, when Li Qing invested in Amazon this time, Amazon has a total of 500,000 original shares since its listing.
Among them, 51% of the original shares are owned by Bezos. According to the current market price, Bezos’ original shares with a face value of one yuan can be multiplied 48 times.
As a result, Bezos' net worth easily reached more than 12 million US dollars.
As for the other 49% of the original shares, they were diluted and issued and flowed into the secondary market. They are called tradable shares. Their value will change with the price limit of the stock. The current value is about more than 12 million US dollars.
According to the current exchange rate of RMB, it is equivalent to 100 million RMB.
This time, Li Qing holds 50,000 original shares, which is 10% of the original shares.
But after a period of time, if Amazon obtains financing again, it will depend on the company’s financing price at that time.
Assume that when the financing is raised, the company's valuation will be as high as $100 million.
The investor buys 20 million US dollars of shares, which means he will occupy 20% of the company's shares.
As a result, the shares held by the original shareholders will be diluted by 20%.
At this time, Li Qing's proportion of the company's shares will be repriced based on the new round of financing, from 10% to 8%.
As for the number of shares, it doesn't mean much.
As more and more financing comes in, Li Qing's 50,000 shares may become 500,000 shares, 5 million shares, or even 50 million shares.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, Li Qing only needs the number of shares determined after financing.
As a result, the company became larger and its capital increased by $20 million.
But Li Qing's shareholding ratio has become smaller, from 10% to 8%.
However, if we look at the contract signed by Li Qing and Bezos at this time, Li Qing's shares can be said to be 10% permanent. No matter how much financing Amazon introduces in the future, Li Qing's 10% shares will always be
It won't change.
Even if the share capital increases exponentially due to the addition of new financing, Li Qing's 10% shareholding will not be easily changed.
After signing the contract with Bezos, Li Qing once again rejected Amazon's enthusiastic invitation to visit the company building. Under the strange looks of Bezos and others, he boarded a plane to China that night.
"The Chinese people are really wealthy." Bezos looked at the newly added 5.5 million US dollars on the financial statements, his eyes showed unusual emotion, and at the same time, he shook his fist violently and said excitedly: "
Finally, we don’t have to tie our hands and feet anymore!”
Although the US$5.5 million from private equity is not worth mentioning to the huge Barnes & Noble bookstore chain, Bezos is confident that his company's stock price will increase by 30% to 50% in this round of price war.
% of the stock price.
That way, his worth will rise accordingly!
And the future of Amazon is more than just selling books?
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After Li Qing returned to the capital, he found that the media was exaggerating about "Harry Potter", and Fang Sihai, the editor-in-chief of Tang Dynasty Publishing House, came to Li Qing's office early in the morning to discuss "Harry Potter".
In the office, Fang Sihai laughed out loud when he saw Li Qing and grabbed Li Qing's hand excitedly: "Comrade Li Qing, in recent days there have been constant reports in China that you are holding a book signing event abroad, and even more so on CCTV.
The focus was on the video of you signing books at the Barnes & Noble bookstore chain. Those of us who watched it were really relieved. It is indeed a great blessing for China to have a famous writer like you at home and abroad..."
Li Qing smiled as he listened to Fang Sihai boasting about him. After chatting with him for a long time, he understood the purpose of his visit.
It turns out that due to enthusiastic media reports, the "Harry Potter" trend is now blowing in China, and this trend is also a Western style.
After seeing how popular Li Qing's works were in foreign countries, that proud sense of pride was deeply felt in every reader's heart. As a result, "Harry Potter" has become the favorite of many readers online and offline.
Among the anticipated works, Chinese translations have even appeared on the Internet. Although the original style of the story has changed due to the Chinese translation, it is still read with gusto by many readers, and people are urging updates on the Internet every day.
However, such a blatant translation is obviously illegal, and no one is willing to risk being sued to translate "Harry Potter", so many forums are begging for experts to translate the Chinese version of "Harry Potter".
Such a huge demand market was quickly noticed by major domestic publishing houses, so in the past few days, many publishing houses that boasted of their strength came to Hanhai to negotiate with Zhou Shuo about the Chinese publishing rights of "Harry Potter"
, but Mr. Zhou refuses to accept the offer and refuses to see guests.
Now, when the news of Li Qing's return to China came out, many people were excited to make an appointment with Li Qing. Because Tang Dynasty Publishing House is the largest publishing house in the country, and Fang Sihai is not an ordinary editor-in-chief, he was able to work with Li Qing.
When Qing just returned home, he met Li Qing.
After understanding the purpose of the other party's visit, Li Qing smiled and said: "Mr. Fang, I know your purpose of coming, but I don't have all the text translation copyrights of "Harry Potter"."
Fang Sihai was stunned: "Why do you say this?"
"Bloomsbury Publishing House will fully represent me in all matters related to this aspect."
Li Qing said: "When the first volume of 'Harry Potter' was published, I signed this contract with Bloomsbury Publishing House, and they gave me a 20% royalty share."
"20%? I, the Tang Dynasty, will give you 30%!" Fang Sihai became anxious.
Li Qing smiled half-heartedly: "Mr. Fang, I remember that the royalty rate for "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" I got in China was 31%."
"Then...then 31%!"
Fang Sihai quickly calmed down and said with a wry smile: "Comrade Li Qing, I know the cooperative relationship between you and Bloomsbury, but I know even more that with your character and the current situation of "Harry Potter"
With how popular it is overseas, you definitely have the initiative in this regard. It is absolutely easy to ask the other party for a Chinese text publishing copyright..."