Wind Rises 2005

Chapter 446

Hearing Ma Liang's astonishing words, Ivan, Jack and Biz were completely stunned.

Winter is coming!

It's not that they haven't heard this, and they have even heard it often recently.

There are quite a few economic analysts from major financial institutions and economists from all walks of life who have been pessimistic recently.

But in the same way, there are many experts who advocate that the rescue of the market can tide over the difficulties smoothly.

The two schools of thought argue endlessly, and each has countless supporters, even arguing about it on the Internet.

The media is naturally happy to see this, the more noisy they are, the better their newspapers and magazines will be sold.

As long as the east wind blows for a while, and the west wind blows for a while, the two views will become more and more heated, and the media will not be afraid that sales will not increase.

But this makes it difficult for the general public. Most people are stuck in the situation and can't see the truth clearly, and they don't know who to believe.

But no matter what, some industry data and statistics are hard-core economic indicators.

For example, manufacturing data, such as credit debt repayment data and bad debt data, these are real economic indicators.

As long as these indicators are solid, no matter how fiercely your stock market rises, it will be a castle in the sky, and it will collapse sooner or later.

Therefore, for his own benefit, Ma Liang did not hesitate to give a little spoiler, otherwise, when the subprime mortgage crisis continues to worsen, it will not be so easy to raise funds.

However, he will not disclose too many details, let alone mix a lot of his own subjective judgments.

Instead, they use some phenomena as an introduction, and let the three giants of Twitter come to their own conclusions on the sidelines. This kind of operation is not even a magic stick, but at most it helps to analyze clearly.

Ma Liang would not be so stupid as to tell them that one day the stock market will plummet, and one day the economy will collapse.

This kind of thing will only rot in his stomach forever. No one can tell the details, not even the closest people like Sister Jiang can share it.

The matter of rebirth is too mysterious, and you know what kind of trouble it will cause if you tell it.

"Marlon, are you just so pessimistic about the government's bailout?" Jack Dorsey confirmed to him again.

Ma Liang nodded, and replied with great certainty: "Yes, I doubt it deeply.

If this economic crisis is really so easy to solve, I think the politicians would have already blown it to the sky, why is there so much thunder and little rain.

Especially your cowboy boss just held a press conference in the past two days, promising that the government will adopt a package plan to save the subprime mortgage crisis, so I am even more pessimistic.

After all, if politicians can be believed, sows can climb trees.

There have been signs of this economic crisis since last year, and at the beginning of this year, various negative news continued to spread, until it broke out completely last month.

During the period, apart from the fact that the stock market was temporarily falsely prosperous due to the existence of bubbles, all walks of life did not see any real and substantial improvement.

Especially in the real estate industry in your country, the situation is getting worse and worse.

I believe that in the next few months, this trend will continue to worsen, and more negative news will come out.

So we must plan ahead and adjust our financing plan.

Regarding this, Twitter’s biggest competitors are much smarter and have adopted very aggressive response strategies.”

Ma Liang's reasonable common sense and logical analysis, coupled with his competitors' response strategies, immediately gave the Big Three of Twitter a hard time.

"What? Biggest competitor? You mean Facebook?" Ewan Williams exclaimed again.

Ma Liang didn't respond to him directly, but gave Jennifer a look.

After all, the competitor's gossip was obtained by this Wall Street elite, so it is more convincing to have the person involved tell it in person.

Jennifer heard the elegant meaning of Xian, and immediately said: "That's right, it's Facebook.

According to the news I got from some private channels, Facebook has opened the window for the C round of financing, and the financing period has been extended to more than half a year.

The total financing amount is not 2.5 million as I told you last time, but 5 million US dollars. "

As soon as she said this, the three giants of Twitter really panicked. What kind of concept is the financing of 5 million US dollars? It can almost be equivalent to a small technology giant.

If Facebook succeeds in financing and has a huge sum of US$5 million, wouldn't the best programmers in Silicon Valley be recruited by them in minutes?

The three giants of Twitter feel an unprecedented crisis at this time. After all, they are all entrepreneurial projects in the social field. Whoever has more money will have the last laugh.

"Jennifer, is your information accurate?" Biz Stone asked blankly.

Jennifer smiled slightly and replied confidently: "It's absolutely true, and Microsoft's investment of US$2.4 million has been finalized, and it should be announced soon.

For the remaining half of the financing amount, it is said that many investment institutions are very interested and are also in close negotiation.

The latest news is that a financing of 6000 million US dollars has been negotiated.

The name of the investment institution is Victoria Harbor Investment Fund, and the actual owner of this fund is BOSS's richest man, Li Ka-shing (Old Li Tou) from Xiangjiang. "

With this explanation, the Big Three of Twitter no longer have any doubts.

After all, there was no need for Jennifer to lie to them, and it would not take long for these words to be verified.

Now that the news is confirmed, it means that Facebook has indeed adjusted its financing strategy, and its Series C financing has become extremely aggressive.

What this means means that Zuckerberg also feels a huge crisis.

The amount of the C round of financing has soared from 2.5 million to 5 million, which is properly to raise funds to prepare for the winter!

You must know that if you directly raise so much money now, Xiao Zha will suffer a lot from the sale of shares.

As long as it lasts for a year and a half, you may only need to sell half of the shares in exchange for the remaining US$2.5 million in financing.

But Facebook really did this, which shows that Zuckerberg believes that financing will be very difficult in the next year or two, so difficult that he will get the money in advance even if he suffers losses.

If you have money, you have strength, and if you have strength, you can recruit troops and buy horses to do special things.

Only by rushing to the top of the industry and becoming the king of the social track can we survive the cold winter and win the final victory.

According to the trajectory of Ma Liang’s previous life, it was through this aggressive financing strategy that Facebook was able to burn money despite the economic crisis and achieved its ultimate success.

But things are different now. How could Ma Liang sit idly by and ignore it? Intervention is necessary.

"Marlon, Jennifer, what do we do?" Jack Dorsey asked nervously.

It really is this moment and that moment!
The world is changing so fast that most people can't react.

Originally, they were still immersed in the self-indulgence of the rapid development of Twitter in the past few months. Unexpectedly, the situation took a turn for the worse. The subprime mortgage crisis made the financing environment tense.

The Big Three of Twitter couldn't help but feel a little lucky. They followed Ma Liang's suggestion a few months ago, and quickly rushed up Twitter's operating data by a lot.

Otherwise, if it develops at its original pace, wouldn’t it be more difficult to raise funds now?

Ma Liang nodded, and replied calmly: "Don't panic, there is still time to start the A round of financing, and it will be completed before the end of the year.

However, we also need to adjust the follow-up financing plan, and the next round of financing must be advanced.

My preliminary estimate is to launch the B round of financing in March next year, and the financing amount is tentatively set at [-] million US dollars, and strive to achieve it within half a year. "

"What, three hundred million?" Ivan Williams shouted out as soon as he heard it.

(End of this chapter)