Rebirth of science and technology academic master

Chapter 315: WeChat Listed

During New Year's Day, Qin Yuanqing and Jing Tian went to WeChat.

The option pool that was originally set is now about to be listed on WeChat, and it is time to implement it.

According to the original financing agreement, all shareholders officially transferred 10% of their shares to the option pool. Qin Yuanqing's shares were also reduced from the original 44.67% to 40.203%. Of course, the voting rights were still 62.735%. After all, they were transferred to the option pool. are shares and do not include voting rights.

Before listing, each employee of the company will receive corresponding stocks based on job level, length of service, etc. There is no doubt that this will be another round of Internet wealth creation movement.

After final confirmation, the total shares of WeChat Group reached 5 billion shares, and the option pool was 500 million shares. A total of 10 shares totaling 500 million shares were used to raise development funds, while Qin Yuanqing’s shares will be reduced to 36.1827%, and Jingtian’s share will be reduced to 36.1827%. to 6.7473%. According to the IPO agreement, Qin Yuanqing must reduce his shares to less than 20% within one year. The shares held by other shareholders have a lock-up period determined in accordance with the agreement, which is the shares in the option pool. If employees obtain them, they will also have to pay half a year after the listing. In order to cash out.

After handling the WeChat matter during New Year's Day, Qin Yuanqing no longer participated in WeChat matters, including road shows, bell ringing, etc. Qin Yuanqing had no intention of participating.

These matters will naturally be handled by WeChat's CEO and other management teams, and he does not need to worry about them.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, on February 1, 2016, China completely bid farewell to the era of seven military regions and entered the era of five theaters.

And this day is also a year that investors in WeChat Group and its companies have been thinking about for a long time.

As the news of the listing of WeChat Group has been hotly speculated on Wall Street these days, this topic has been the focus of the technology circle and Wall Street in the past half year, and it will be heated up every few days.

Because this time WeChat Group will set the largest financing amount in history, far exceeding Alibaba’s financing in 2014. That time Alibaba raised almost 22 billion U.S. dollars, and this time WeChat IPO transaction raised more than 35 billion U.S. dollars. Such a huge financing amount This will make WeChat Group’s financing one of the largest IPOs in history.

That is, at the time of the IPO valuation, WeChat's valuation reached US$350 billion!

During the previous roadshow, WeChat CEO Ma Xiaodong reported on WeChat’s situation. Global WeChat users exceeded 1 billion, with 800 million WeChat users in China and 200 million WeChat users in other regions. In 2015, WeChat e-mall was the second largest e-commerce platform in China, second only to Alibaba. In terms of cloud services, WeChat has become the second largest cloud computing service provider in the world, with revenue from cloud computing services reaching US$5 billion last year.

2015 was the year that WeChat turned a profit. On the basis that WeChat itself is free, it can still achieve profitability. The support for profitability lies in cloud computing, e-commerce, and advertising revenue. After six consecutive years of heavy investment, WeChat Group has built its own ecosystem with WeChat as the core, penetrating into all aspects of Chinese life. If it were not for the large-scale investment and construction of logistics, servers, data centers, etc. that are still burning money, WeChat Group’s profits The data will look even better.

But even so, the valuation of WeChat Group has exceeded US$350 billion.

The listing of WeChat Group this time can be called a capital feast.

In order to catch up with this feast, countless investors flocked to the official website of the New York Stock Exchange. Because there were so many people downloading and reading WeChat Group's listing documents, the website crashed due to excessive load.

This caused investors to criticize.

Qin Yuanqing did not go to the United States, but stayed at home and watched the live TV broadcast. CCTV 4 specially broadcast the live broadcast. You can see that the stock exchange is a hot scene, and every investment is going crazy.

It has to be said that the United States is indeed an expert in finance. It is indeed very mature in the stock and financial markets and has cultivated countless investors.

This kind of fanatical scene is very rare in China.

When it arrived at 10:00 North American time, the bell-ringing ceremony officially began.

Seven people, including Chen Zhiyuan, Ma Xiaodong, Son Zhengyi, employee representatives, and user representatives, pressed on the screen together.

"Dang! Dang! Dang!"

At the moment of touching the screen, the entire New York Stock Exchange sounded the sound of WeChat technology starting to ring the bell, and the emotions of the audience once again reached an unprecedented peak.

Countless people shouted the company's name together.

And at the moment when the sound of ringing the bell rang, countless colorful fireworks fell, flooding the entire venue.

Along with the continuous ringing of the bell, the whole place was still buzzing with excitement.

The moment the bell rings, it means that WeChat technology has passed the entrepreneurial stage and will enter a new era.

The moment the bell rang, the K-line charts and Arabic numerals began to change crazily on the screens of the New York Stock Exchange. The company's trading code was WX.

At the same time, countless small and medium-sized investors and stockholders were staring at the stock price of WeChat Technology. Thousands of small and medium-sized investors and stockholders immediately became anxious, fearing that they would not be able to buy or be late.

WeChat’s issue price per share was US$70 and the opening price was US$79. It sold 500 million yuan and raised US$35 billion. The financing scale exceeded Alibaba’s 2014 IPO of US$22 billion, creating the largest IPO in history.

Even through the TV, Qin Yuanqing could feel the excitement of the stock market. On the live TV broadcast, he could see the numbers rising crazily after the opening trading.

"Ah ah ah~~~" Jingtian shouted excitedly on the sofa. The listing of WeChat means that the shares in her hands can be converted into money after the ban is lifted.

"Keep your voice down, the child is still sleeping, what's so exciting about it!" Qin Yuanqing quickly grabbed his wife, what's so exciting about this, the ban will not be lifted until a year later.

"Aren't you excited? You are worth hundreds of billions of dollars and you are going to become the richest man in the world!" Jingtian's face turned red with excitement.

"Money is just a bunch of numbers, what's there to be excited about!" Qin Yuanqing curled his lips calmly.

When money reaches a certain level, money is no longer money, but a bunch of numbers.

He can't spend all the patent licensing fees on automobile engine technology every year. The money he spends on himself every year is estimated to be hundreds of thousands. He still has to travel, otherwise he won't spend much money. Sometimes money So many that he has to worry about donating.

Looking at Qin Yuanqing who looked calm and indifferent, the young lady suddenly felt so boring. It was obviously exciting to have so much wealth, but now she felt like water.

Qin Yuanqing originally thought he would be very excited, but when WeChat Group was officially listed today and set records one after another, Qin Yuanqing found that he was not that excited. Perhaps it was because subconsciously from the beginning, he did not think WeChat was Your own business is just a trivial side job.

And in fact, he didn't spend much energy on WeChat. He only developed WeChat at the beginning and occasionally developed a few programs in the past few years. As for the rest, it was basically the joint efforts of WeChat company management and employees.

WeChat has been developing at a rapid pace in recent years. Today, the number of employees of WeChat Group has exceeded 50,000, and including branches, the number exceeds 70,000. It holds holdings and shares in more than a thousand companies, and involves film and television entertainment, content creation, short videos, video websites, e-commerce, social networking and other fields, forming a complete ecosystem.

However, the strategy that Qin Yuanqing set at the beginning did not pay attention to it later. The management and all employees are indispensable for today's achievements. It is their concerted efforts that made WeChat what it is today. It is also true that before the listing, Qin Yuanqing fulfilled his promise, making the option pool a huge wealth.

In recent years, many talents have joined WeChat Group not because of the high salary of WeChat Group, but because of the option pool.

Sometimes Qin Yuanqing feels that it is also good to let employees share the dividends of development, which can effectively mobilize the enthusiasm of employees' wages and make them motivated.

Turning off the TV, Qin Yuanqing no longer paid attention to the live TV broadcast, but tonight was destined to be a sleepless night in China. Countless people in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, China and other places were focusing on the North American stock market.

Countless investors are frantically grabbing WeChat stocks. According to them, if you buy them, you will make money!

Amid this enthusiasm, WeChat's stock has also been rising. At the end of the day, the closing price has risen to 90.3 US dollars, a surge of 29%.

"WeChat went public, soaring 29%, with a market value of US$451.5 billion! The richest man in China, Asia, and the world has officially changed hands!" - "Sina Finance"

"WeChat Group successfully went public in the United States, with an initial public offering of US$35 billion, achieving the largest IPO record in history!" - "Science and Technology Daily"

"The first billionaire in mankind was born! Qin Yuanqing became the first billionaire in mankind with a personal net worth of $163.365 billion, fully explaining that knowledge is wealth!" - "NetEase Finance"

"The largest wealth creation movement in history, 70,000 millionaires were born under WeChat in one day!" - "Huaqing Online"

"At only 26 years old, his side business in his spare time has created a wealth myth of US$163.365 billion!" - "Tencent"

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Major media have reported one after another, and the reported content has focused on WeChat Group and Qin Yuanqing. After the opening of the first day of trading, WeChat Group’s stock price soared 29%, and its market value reached 451.5 billion U.S. dollars, surpassing China Petroleum and becoming China’s market capitalization The company with the highest market value has also become the second highest market value among Internet technology companies. The highest market value is none other than Apple, which enjoys huge dividends in the smartphone era. Apple's market value is as high as 741.8 billion US dollars.

But there is no doubt that WeChat Group and Qin Yuanqing are the biggest winners in this listing. It is different from when Alibaba Group went public. At that time, aliens did not hold many shares in Alibaba Group, so although their net worth increased sharply, they did not enter the market. The top ten richest people in the world.

But WeChat is different. Qin Yuanqing is the major shareholder, holding more than 36% of the shares. Qin Yuanqing's personal wealth suddenly rose sharply, reaching an astonishing level, exceeding 163.3 billion U.S. dollars.

Converted into RMB, there are 963.5 billion yuan, close to one trillion yuan!