Perfection of Rebirth

Chapter 609 The First Step into Space

Jiang Hui's reply seemed a bit strange.

When no one was looking at SpaceX, Elon Musk struggled with how to convince investors to accept his valuation.

But when it comes to Jiang Hui, who is very optimistic about SpaceX, and even asks to increase the valuation in proportion to the increase in the transferred shares, it is even more tangled.

Really painful and happy!

In fact, Elon Musk's original idea was to sell [-]% of the shares and obtain financing of [-] million US dollars.

But judging from recent contacts with various investors, this idea is obviously unlikely.

"I choose to sell 1.2% of the shares and get [-] million US dollars in financing."

After thinking about it for another ten minutes, Elon Musk finally made a decision.

SpaceX is destined to carry out follow-up financing. If half of the shares are sold for the first time, it will be really hard to say what the company will have the final say in the future.

Although Musk can restrain major shareholders through voting rights of shares, etc., so that the company will not lose control.

However, after all, there is no effect of directly holding a majority of shares.

"Happy cooperation, I am waiting for you to use the rocket to seize the moment to send to the moon."

Jiang Hui stood up and hugged Elon Musk.

"Jiang, I won't let you regret investing in SpaceX."

After discussing the general direction, the details are for the people below to worry about.

In the next few days, Jiang Hui went to Twitter and Potato for a while.

Speaking of which, it was the first time for me as a big boss to come to these two companies.

As a Twitter with more than 3000 million users in the United States and other countries, it currently has more than 800 employees in the United States.

With the popularity of Gphones, Twitter's load rate on smartphones has reached a terrifying 95%.

Basically, it is understandable that every time Guanghui sells a Gphone, it adds a user to Twitter.

In order to participate in Twitter’s financing, some people on Wall Street have given Twitter a valuation of more than 50 billion US dollars, and this data changes every month!
Of course, it has been changing upwards!
Potato of the same size is now the darling of Silicon Valley, especially after receiving financing from Google, it is a proper unicorn company.

As American netizens have developed the habit of paying online, potato is now in the United States, and almost half of its users are paid VIP users.

Among the more than 6000 million users around the world, the monthly membership fee alone is close to 2 million US dollars in income.

After all, an ordinary VIP account only costs US$5 a month, which is really not expensive for Laomei.

Even Gold Members, who pay as much as $19.99 a month, have more than 300 million people.

The current potato, if it is not conducive to the large-scale purchase of various film and television copyrights, can completely achieve profitability.

However, Jiang Hui is not short of that little money now. Apart from making a little profit on the book for better listing in the future, all other income is used to purchase film and television copyrights and data center construction.

In Tianchao, the construction of the data center is generally promoted by Guanghui Data as the main body, and other companies in the group generally do not directly participate.

However, considering the particularity of overseas, the data center is generally built by Guanghui Data and its brother companies.

After all, overseas brother companies understand local needs and considerations better than Guanghui Data.

While Jiang Hui was inspecting Twitter and potato, the news that Guanghui Group invested 1.2 million US dollars in the name of Twitter to invest in SpaceX also spread in Silicon Valley.

……

A VC party.

"Clark, have you heard? Elon Musk has raised funds."

"Huh? SpaceX just failed to launch, and someone rushed in?".

"Yes, it is said that it was obtained at a valuation of up to 4 million US dollars."

"Which company led the investment?".

"Twitter".

"Twitter?".

"Yes, you didn't think of that?"

"As far as I know, Twitter itself is considering financing, where does the money come from for investment?".

"Don't forget, behind Twitter is Guanghui Group, the largest Internet company in China, but it's not short of such a little money."

"I was still thinking about hanging Elon Musk and asking him to take the initiative to lower the price, but I didn't expect to be caught first."

……

SpaceX internal MSN group.

"I heard that Elon has already negotiated financing, and the funds will arrive in a few days."

"No need to hear about it, this matter has almost been settled, 1.2 million US dollars will arrive in the door this week."

"Now we don't have to worry about insufficient funds, at least enough for us to launch four or five more rockets."

"You crow mouth, can't you expect us to succeed next time? It's like we have to fail several times."

"That is, it has failed twice. If it fails again, it is estimated that there will be fewer people who are optimistic about our company."

……

Just when Twitter's funds were officially transferred to SpaceX, Elon Musk updated his message on Twitter: Warmly welcome Twitter to be the second largest shareholder of SpaceX, and hope our space dream will come true soon.

Twitter also posted a message on its official Twitter: As big as the heart is, the stage will be as big. Twitter, dreams will not stop at the Internet, but stop at the earth. We will enter the sea of ​​stars with SpaceX!
After the release of these two pieces of information, it quickly aroused gossip among the people who eat melons.

"What's the situation? How did Twitter hook up with Elon Musk?".

"Isn't it rumored that Twitter will conduct a round of financing at a valuation of more than 50 billion US dollars recently? Has the financing been completed?".

"Don't stay in the Internet industry and go to build rockets. The boss of Twitter is really the same as Elon Musk."

"Speaking of upstairs, do you know who the boss of Twitter is?".

"Nonsense, Twitter's family history has long been stripped away, isn't it Jiang from the Celestial Dynasty?"

"Didn't SpaceX make rockets? Rocket technology should be related to missile technology, right? Isn't this a disguised form of exporting missile technology to China?".

"Upstairs, you think too much. SpaceX, a private enterprise with few employees, can design a rocket? Didn't you see that it has failed two consecutive launches?".

"Speaking of which, China's missile technology is not bad, so there should be no need to use such an obvious way to acquire technology."

"I want to say, Twitter is a fool with a lot of money, right? SpaceX, an obviously hopeless company, also invests?".

……

All kinds of comments and forwarding made SpaceX, an independent company, enter the field of vision of the American people on a large scale for the first time.

In the past, because SpaceX did not succeed in doing anything, and there was no big news, ordinary Americans really did not know that such a company existed.

Only at the end of 2008, when SpaceX successfully launched its own rocket, did it start to become famous and embark on the development path of opening and hanging.

After finishing the acquisition of SpaceX and having a few days of meetings with the management of Twitter and potato, Jiang Hui's second trip to the United States came to an end.

(End of this chapter)