My Age of Investment

Seeing Xia Jingxing's questioning, Nicholas explained everything in detail.

"Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, almost every Internet giant named in the United States has approached us, but the price offered by eaby is the most sincere!"

Nicholas' team had a good impression of Xia Jingxing as an investor.

The attitude of giving money is straightforward, and he never meddles in the company management indiscriminately.

In addition, Facebook and Youtube have also advertised Skyp, and they are strategic partners in the true sense.

"Oh, by the way, among the Silicon Valley giants, you are the only one who hasn't contacted us at Facebook!"

Nicholas glanced at Xia Jingxing, and said with a smile, "It's not officially signed yet, and there's still time, do you want to think about it?"

Xia Jingxing waved his hands and smiled, "I have long since stopped meddling in Facebook's affairs, and just become a financial shareholder, and I don't know the specifics.

What's more, we can't afford it! Skyp is so expensive, only those giants can afford it. "

Nicholas shook his head and laughed, obviously he didn't believe Xia Jingxing's words.

Skype's valuation is not cheap, but it is far from Facebook, which is valued at tens of billions of dollars.

From the bottom of his heart, he does not reject Facebook's acquisition of Scape, because he can't spend so much cash, and he doesn't dislike Facebook's issuance of new shares.

After all, everyone knows that Facebook is a golden mountain with unlimited potential.

But from Xia Jingxing's tone, it seems that he has no interest in Skype at all.

Nicholas didn't force it anymore, and talked to Xia Jingxing about other topics.

It's not that Xia Jingxing has not considered the issue of letting Facebook acquire Skype, which can not only enter the instant messaging field, but also increase the company's valuation.

But in the long run, the gains outweigh the losses.

The difficulty of making a profit for Skype is a problem. The most important thing is that mergers and acquisitions need to dilute a lot of shares, which is far worse than making it yourself.

After reveling with the six founders of SKAP for a while, Xia Jingxing was invited to sing a song, bid farewell to the six people, found a hotel nearby, and stayed with Yabo and others.

Xia Jingxing just had dinner in the room,

The doorbell rang.

Xia Jing walked to the door, looked outside through the cat's eyes, and saw an acquaintance leading a somewhat strange middle-aged Caucasian man.

After opening the door a crack, Xia Jingxing asked, "Howard, what's the matter?"

"Daren, we have something to talk to you about!"

Xia Jingxing opened the door and greeted the two of them to enter the house.

"Hi Darren, I'm Steven Jurvitsen, founding partner of DFJ."

Accompanying Howard into the room was a forty-year-old white man with meticulously combed hair and a well-dressed high-end suit.

Xia Jingxing shook hands with the other party, "Steven, nice to meet you."

This is DFJ's second-in-command and the person who founded DFJ with Draper. He is the real boss.

Howard, that is, the partner of DFJ who invested in Skyp with Xia Jingxing at the beginning, can only be regarded as a senior wage earner.

Xia Jingxing called the two of them to sit down in the room, sat on the bed by himself, and asked, "You two are visiting late at night, what's the matter?"

"Daren, although DFJ had some disagreements with you in the past, we have also invested in Tesla, and we have also jointly invested in Scape, so we can be regarded as very happy partners."

Steven didn't answer Xia Jingxing's question directly, but opened his mouth to make friends.

Xia Jingxing had a faint smile on his face. He wasn't very familiar with Steven, but he had heard some gossip about him. He liked playing female entrepreneurs the most. If he wanted to get investment, he had to have fun with him.

Later, the boat was turned over and the matter was publicly exposed by the female entrepreneur on Facebook. She lost her face and even made De Fengjie suffer criticism.

There are many such things in China, not to mention the European and American capital circles.

The investment decision-making power is in the hands of the big bosses of venture capital institutions, and the rights given to them by investors are used by them to swipe bills, get kickbacks, and play with women.

Money has been made, women have also played, the return rate of the fund is low, the company is not good, just change to another company and continue to cheat.

Xia Jingxing has no moral obsession, so it's none of his business how Steven messes up, now he only cares about the purpose of the other party's late-night visit.

Nodded, followed the other party's words and said: "Yes, DFJ is a good partner."

Xia Jingxing smiled, "Now, my partner, please tell me, is there any good project you want to cooperate with me?"

Steven didn't expect Xia Jingxing to be so impatient, he was indeed a young man, he couldn't hold back his temper, and smiled lightly, "Actually, it doesn't mean anything else, I hope you, Darren, can stand by our side and prevent the sale of Skype!"

"Why?"

Xia Jingxing felt that Steven's request was sudden and somewhat confusing. eaby is going to spend more than two billion dollars to acquire Skype, this guy actually wants to stop the sale, what the hell is he doing?

Steven's face was calm, "Daren, don't get excited, please listen to my explanation."

Xia Jingxing was not in a hurry to express his opinion, guessing that Steven was not a fool, and there must be a deep meaning in what he said, so he raised his hand, signaling for the other party to continue talking, he wanted to see what kind of medicine the other party was selling in his gourd.

"We believe that Skype's potential is far from being maxed out!"

Speaking of this, Steven's eyes became sharper. He looked at Xia Jingxing and said, "It's like someone wants to buy Facebook now. Will you sell it?"

Xia Jingxing understood the other party's purpose, but he still felt that Skyp's potential had not been fully tapped, so it was not worthwhile to sell it at this time.

"It's useless to tell me these things. I only hold 8% of Scape shares, and it won't play a decisive role."

What Xia Jingxing said was also true, the voting rights corresponding to his shareholding did not play much role in the overall situation.

Steven waved his hand, "Daren, you are wrong, besides you, we also contacted several shareholders such as Beauchamp Ventures, Index Ventures, and Red Tree Ventures tonight.

As long as everyone works together and the voice of opposition is too loud, Nicholas and several other founders should be able to take back their lives. "

Steven's eyes were shining brightly, and he looked at Xia Jingxing expectantly.

Xia Jingxing asked with a smile: "Then how much do you think Skyp's valuation can increase in the future?"

"At least tens of billions of dollars, this is an extremely huge industry, competing with traditional telecom companies..."

Steven danced and danced, describing the bright future to Xia Jingxing vividly.

Xia Jingxing shook his head, "I don't want to participate, it's too much uncontrollable."

"Daren!"

Steven's face became serious, "Are you satisfied with just earning the money in front of you?

I know that you are a very ambitious entrepreneur and you are not short of money. Let us work together and work together to make a big deal that breaks the historical return record. "

Xia Jingxing shook his head, "I didn't think so long-term, I'm already very satisfied with the present reward."

Facing the young man in front of him who is not good at oil and salt, Steven is also a little helpless. No matter how he paints the cake, the other party just doesn't bite the hook.

Difficult!

"Then how about this, let's take out a leveraged buyout of Skype! I know that Vision Capital also has a PE fund, and the scale is not low. It should be more than two billion dollars?"

Steven said in a persuasive manner, "It doesn't take too much money, just a small part of the funds, and then find a syndicate to pledge equity loans, and issue junk bonds for the rest, we can easily take down Skype.

Darren, if you want to be CEO, we at DFJ will support you to the end! "

Xia Jingxing looked at the foreigner, how many dishes are there, and they drink like this?

"LBO?"

Xia Jingxing smiled, "Can Skype's cash flow cover the interest that needs to be paid in the future? Don't lie to me, I still understand PE investment."

Steven was a little embarrassed, and hurried to make amends: "Daren, what I said was just a plan. Selling Scape now is like selling a golden chicken that lays eggs. In the future, we will harvest a lot less eggs."

"You keep the eggs and sell them yourself! I'm not interested! It's getting late, go to bed early!"

Xia Jingxing didn't want to go around in circles with the other party anymore, so he directly issued an order to evict the guest.

Seeing this, Steven didn't have the cheek to continue to stay, and left without saying a word with a cold face.

Howard and Xia Jingxing had a good relationship, he just walked behind without saying a word, nodded slightly to Xia Jingxing, and made a sorry expression.

After closing the door, Xia Jingxing sat on the bed and fell into deep thought.

After a few more years, Microsoft can offer nearly four times the purchase price of eaby.

But in the past few years, with such a large sum of money, can't I create returns that far exceed four times?

In fact, Steven didn't have any good intentions. He probably found out from somewhere that Vision Capital had obtained a loan of 1.5 billion US dollars.

It's really messed up, and the most unlucky one is Vision Capital, and DFJ's risk is much lower.

There are so many social routines!

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