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Chapter 3032 Boss Zhou is numb

He had to get up early the next day, and Zhou Buqi was out before five o'clock.

I have to go to the hotel to meet with the team of Ziweixing International and the team of the underwriter, do a final inspection, grasp the latest financial market and capital dynamics in the international market, and make sure that the technical equipment used for publicity is foolproof...

Depart from the hotel at 7:30.

At 8:00 am, enter the Nasdaq building.

Today's front desk is also dressed festively. Usually there is only one front desk, but today there are four, all wearing the same red Chinese-style cheongsam... It can be seen that Nasdaq's main purpose today is to serve the big customer Ziweixing International.

Now that you have entered Nasdaq, don’t be in a hurry.

Go to the second floor for breakfast.

The breakfast is very bad, much worse than that of the hotel, all cold dishes, but you have to eat it, it's a ritual.

Not only is it a ceremony, it's also a show, a traditional Nasdaq TV breakfast show.

During this process, Nasdaq Chairman Greifeld spoke, and Ziweixing International founder Zhou Buqi spoke. Then, Greifeld issued Zhou Buqi a listing certificate. The next step was to exchange gifts. In public, they were all very simple and cheap souvenirs.

Next, let’s get to the point.

  Go to the main venue for rehearsal!

Bell rehearsal!

In fact, there is no need for rehearsal, Zhou Buqi has been here many times. However, this is the process, and it must be done. After all, for most people, there may only be one chance to participate in the listing in their lifetime.

The rehearsal is over, watch the time.

Nasdaq's professional live broadcast team started working, just like filming a movie, the countdown of three, two, one... everything was broadcast live, and Nasdaq TV and some media organizations with copyrights could receive the relevant broadcast signals.

Zhou Buqi came to power.

This time, he was alone.

Ring the bell!

In fact, ringing the bell is just a ceremony. Only the New York Stock Exchange with a history of hundreds of years rings the bell. Nasdaq is technological. There is a button. Once pressed, it starts and Ziweixing International’s stocks are officially issued. Ringing the bell is just a performance before pressing the button.

When the bell was rung, the audience applauded.

The host was all smiles and asked all the teams to come on stage for a group photo. There were not only executives from Ziweixing International, but also their relatives and friends, as well as the four major underwriters involved in the IPO... The studio was not big and seemed a bit crowded.

Each team took turns to go on stage to take photos.

Zhou Buqi, who was the first to finish taking photos, walked out of Nasdaq and went to the outdoor Times Square to take photos with the senior management team of Ziweixing International and friends from the Ten Schools Entrepreneurship Alliance.

At this time, the big screen in Times Square had begun playing the live broadcast footage from the studio and various classic photos that had just been captured.

At this time, construction in Times Square has been stopped.

A lot of people gathered, all looking up at the big screen.

  This is undoubtedly an important moment to remember!

Wait until everything is done.

Once all the processes are completed, everyone can return to Nasdaq to see the stock price trend after the opening.

  how about it?

Will it succeed?

Did it open with a big rise and then fall below the opening price?

  The stock price screen on the second floor is in the employee office lobby. As soon as you go upstairs and hear the cheers and excitement of Nasdaq employees, you can basically tell that the deal has been done!

Zhou Buqi went over to take a look...

  Ho!

The stock price has reached $25.32!

Compared to the issue price of $22.42, it increased by 11.5%!

Ziweixing International's IPO adopts the "new stock + old stock" model. New stock financing brings new funds to Ziweixing International, and old stock cashing out completes the capital exit for some early investors and some important employees. There are 6.2 million new shares and 4.2 million old shares.

The total share capital reached 88.7 billion shares.

  Based on the current price of US$25.32, Ziweixing International’s real-time share price is US$2246 billion!

It easily surpassed Facebook, which has a market value of US$1928 billion, and became the second most valuable Internet company in the world, second only to Google, which has a market value of US$2400 billion.

The Internet industry has been somewhat cold over the past six months.

The main reason is that the market rose too sharply last year, and the market rebounded a bit, so the market value of major Internet companies has declined.

At its peak last year, Google's market value reached $3000 billion.

The market value of Ziweixing has also fallen back. It had broken through the $2000 billion market value mark, but now it has fallen back to $1640 billion. However, now that Ziweixing International is listed, this is different, and there will be a chain effect!

Because when the company was split, Ziweixing retained a large portion of the shares, and now Ziweixing still holds more than 28% of Ziweixing International’s shares.

Stimulated by the surge in Ziweixing International's share price, Ziweixing's share price also surged.

Guo Pengfei was watching the situation in real time and told Zhou Buqi that Ziweixing’s stock price had risen by 15%, and its market value had now reached 1900 billion US dollars...

Lu Qi was also very happy. He clenched his fist and said excitedly: "Many people put Ziweixing International and Facebook on the same level, thinking that they are two very similar Internet social giants. Even the founders are very similar. They are both young entrepreneurs who started their businesses in college. Now that we are listed, the capital market has given the biggest answer. Ziweixing International is the world's largest social giant!"

Zhou Buqi couldn't help but pour cold water on him, "Ziweixing International has a global market, but its market value is only 2200 billion US dollars. Ziweixing only serves the domestic market, but its market value is already 1800 billion US dollars. This shows that Ziweixing International is not good enough in many aspects, and needs to learn from the domestic team in all aspects!"

Lu Qi was in a good mood. This listing made him a fortune of 20 billion US dollars. He smiled and said, "It's not that Ziweixing International did a bad job, but that Ziweixing did too well. Isn't Google's market value only 2400 billion US dollars? Isn't Microsoft's market value only 2500 billion US dollars?"

Zhou Buqi looked up at the market and said calmly, "The Internet industry was a little quiet in the first half of the year, but it should explode in the second half. A market value of $2200 billion is nothing to be happy about. Last year, Ziweixing's market value was close to $2100 billion."

Lu Qi knew that this big boss had participated in too many IPOs and his mentality was a little "numb", so he whispered: "Everyone is very happy, don't dampen their excitement."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Who did I attack? Didn't I tell you this? If you don't tell me, who would know?"

Lu Qi laughed, "It's all about attitude. You should look happier. If you don't smile, no one else will dare to smile. This IPO can create more than 5000 millionaires for our company, calculated in US dollars!"

Zhou Buqi noticed that the stock price was still rising, and laughed: "If it keeps rising like this, it might soon surpass Google and become the world's largest Internet company. It's best not to surpass it, there's no need to be so conspicuous. For a few years, it's good to be the second."

Lu Qi smiled.

I don’t know what to say.

From what Boss Zhou said, it seems that surpassing Google is just a matter of a word or two. What is difficult for him is how to hide his strength and remain the world's second.

Is it so easy to surpass Google?

After looking at the market for a few minutes, Zhou Buqi lost interest.

The listing is over.

Now it's free time. We will have a celebration party in the evening and this matter will be concluded.

Zhou Buqi decided not to stay and affect the mood of those unsophisticated Americans, letting them continue to be crazy and excited. He called his friends from the Ten Schools Entrepreneurship Alliance and left Nasdaq together.

Let’s go visit the new houses purchased by Guo Pengfei, Meng Houkun and Ma Pingshan here.

Things are different now than they were then.

They all have families to bring with them.

Ma Pingshan's son is almost two years old. He is a mixed-race child and is very popular with everyone. Even Meng Houkun is not convinced and says that he must have two mixed-race children. He said fiercely: "By this time next year, Esda will probably be listed. Everyone should close the stalls and prepare to deal with some matters related to re-entering the university campus. By then, I will have to have more foreign girlfriends in school!"