The storm of the domestic home appliance price war finally began to stop. Both manufacturers and channel dealers were very tacitly choosing to increase the price appropriately.
During such a period, everyone began to consolidate the achievements of the expansion in the past few months, and no one was willing to be the pioneer.
Xu Xinrong, who is far away in the United States, finally finalized the first round of financing after more than half a month of negotiations with American investment banks, with a valuation of US$560 million. IQ Company took out 30% of its shares, including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and the No. 100 million yuan respectively.
Citi, Boston Bank and Mellon Bank each take 6% of the shares.
This $168 million is to enter the IQ company account, not Li Yuhang's personal account. With this fund, IQ will continue to expand rapidly. In addition to continuing to develop IQ functions, it will enter the game business.
At the same time, the Japanese company in Tokyo is also entering the first round of financing. On the one hand, several other major Japanese consortiums want to intervene. On the other hand, after seeing the company's broad prospects, the Yasuda family wanted to compress the US company.
The shares of the Japanese company also suppress Li Yuhang's shares in the company.
Li Yuhang naturally doesn't care about this, and he never wants to become the absolute controlling shareholder of this Internet company and raise funds by financing. Anyway, he set up this company mainly to make money.
Of course, the IQ companies in the United States will not stop expanding. Canada, South America, Australia, and Western Europe are all negotiating with local powerful companies to establish a joint venture and prepare to launch IQ.
Financing belongs to financing, but the company's control is completely in the hands of Xu Xinrong. These investment banks only enjoy dividend rights and have no decision-making power.
As for these investment banks' mention of the second financing within half a year, and the major investment banks have limited investment rights, Xu Xinrong agreed after asking Li Yuhang for instructions.
Xu Xinrong is quite clear about the abacus of these investment banks. She estimated that the listing speed of icq may be faster than Yahoo. The other party's company was one year and three months from its establishment to its listing. I guess it would not take icq for a year, so how many times would it be
Large investment banks promote listing.
icq is currently sweeping the US Internet chat software market. What is now limiting the growth of icq users is not the publicity of icq, but the number of netizens in the United States.
If the mobile phone functions were not too single at present, Xu Xinrong would have asked the company to develop the IQ mobile version. Once this is achieved, IQ users will usher in explosive growth.
In the office of the General Manager of IQQ in San Jose, Xu Xinrong said to Li Yujia who came in: "Boss Li asked us to build an IQ game platform and try to contact Blizzard Company. It is best to acquire it. If you can't acquire it, you can poach people and form our own game company
, Tomorrow you will go to Blizzard Headquarters with me."
Xu Xinrong understands the importance of this game platform proposed by Li Yuhang? Once icq builds this platform? With the huge number of users of icq, icq will soon become a big dealer in the game industry.
In this era, games are just a few people fighting against the local area network? It is impossible to fight the entire network on one platform? The purpose of establishing the icq game platform is to allow gamers around the world to fight the entire network through the icq game platform.
Sometimes Xu Xinrong thinks it is really necessary to take Li Yuhang to the laboratory for research? Why does such a person with extremely poor high school grades know so much? You should know that Li Yuhang, a rural child? From the time he was born to the time he graduated from high school?
But let alone know about the Internet, but this person seems to be born to know how these industries should develop.
That note Li Yuhang gave her? She deeply understands the hugeness of the Internet industry? She also knows what kind of huge Internet group will be formed if Li Yuhang's plan is implemented.
Through one link and one development, icq will form a complete ecosystem closed loop, making it difficult for peers to compete with it.
Li Yujia knew that Xu Xinrong took her there this time, mainly because she was asked to follow her and learn how to deal with other companies and how to conduct business negotiations? These experiences were all needed after she returned to China.
"Sister Xinrong, is Blizzard Company popular in the past two years? We want to acquire it but it is unlikely that the other party will not sell this gold mine easily."
Xu Xinrong naturally read the information of Blizzard Company? But she didn't force it. It's best to acquire it? It doesn't matter if it can't be acquired.
The most important thing for icq is to build a game platform? In addition, it is the game in the hands of Blizzard Company? Only by reaching cooperation with the other party can I become the name of icq game platform.
In addition to these large-scale battle games, Xu Xinrong is also asking the newly formed game development department to develop chess and card games such as Texas Hold'em. This aspect is relatively easy and simple, and Americans also like to play it.
Now, in addition to large-scale online player battle games, Xu Xinrong has asked the president of the game operation department to discuss the copyright of stand-alone game PC with world-renowned game companies to enrich the IQ game platform.
Sometimes Xu Xinrong is very helpless about her boss, which gives the senior executives of the Jianan Group the feeling that Li Yuhang has been grabbing time and forcing them to run fast. An industry has just happened, and a new business is coming.
It will let an industry stop and rest for a while.
Fortunately, the senior executives of the Jianan Group are generally very young, and have good mental strength and physical strength in all aspects. Otherwise, they might be exhausted to death at this job.
icq The United States is going to establish a game development company, and there will also be icq Japanese companies in Japan to form a game company, and there will also be Xinhang Investment Company in South Korea to acquire or form a game company in the past. She doesn't have to worry about it on the mainland, waiting for Li Yujia there.
Be responsible after you go back.
She had no jobs with her salary two years ago, and wanted to have something to do. Now she missed the easy job she had in the past two years.
Fortunately, there are currently no important investment activities for major investment companies, otherwise she would have to be divided into two halves.
I no longer think about the hatefulness of the capitalist and I don’t understand the hard work of the employees at all.
Xu Xinrong said: "This time we were not talking about acquisitions in the past, but cooperation, especially the two popular games they currently have. We should get them as much as possible so that our gaming platform can get a good start. Let's take a look.
Is there any talent worth winning over? Our ultimate goal is to develop games ourselves and develop games that can be popular."
During this period, Li Yujia also realized Xu Xinrong's work style and learned a lot.
Many times, when achieving the goal, you don’t have to acquire the other party. As long as you poach those talents, the company will lose value.
As for poaching people, in Xu Xinrong's words, there are no talents that cannot be invited. If there are, the price given is not enough.
At present, many of the backbone employees of IQ Company have been poached from other companies, and the same is true for the person in charge of the game development department.
In the business world, everything is a benefit, and talking about feelings does not exist. Employees are also behavioral interests. Don’t think that empty feelings can allow employees to stay in the company. These employees did not change jobs before. First, the employees are still quite satisfied.
Second, the price given by other companies is not enough and it is not worth his job change.
It’s just that the employees cannot be retained. Only by letting them see the real benefits can they work hard in the company.
Li Yuhang did a pretty good job in this regard. The salary of these management and technical staff is increasing year by year. Moreover, this year, the listing of the Jianan Supermarket Group was distributed to senior management and management shares, which also won the hearts of a large number of talents and guaranteed the Jianan Group.
There will be no large-scale job-change incidents in management.