October 28th.

The day of the Weibo financing reception.

In the past two days, ordinary people have not noticed it, but the upper class in Jiangbei is in a little surging.

Those who pay attention will find that in the past few days, some star-rated hotels have more foreigners, and people frequently visit these foreigners.

In the eyes of those who are interested, this is not a foreigner, but a financial backer.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of financing from Far East Weibo, many big-name figures have emerged at home and abroad investment banks and other financial institutions.

Especially the arrival of some well-known investment banks is even more touching.

Investment banks are not the same as venture capital.

The so-called PC/ve are all the abbreviations of venture capital companies, and they all belong to venture capital.

Investment banks and venture capital are only part of their business.

Investment banks include venture capital, but are not limited to venture capital. Investment banks are mainly engaged in securities issuance, underwriting, trading, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions.

Of course, they also engage in venture capital and financing.

However, the strength of investment banks is generally much stronger than that of venture capital companies, and it is much more well-known.

Like the five major investment banks in the United States, Goldman Sachs, Lehman, and Morgan Stanley...

The influence of these five companies is far greater than venture capital institutions such as Sequoia and Idg.

Lehman's bankruptcy triggered the global financial crisis, which is proof of it.

This time, Far East not only invited venture capital institutions, but also many investment banks, which also made people further see the strength of Far East.

Nowadays, it is not only the domestic business community that focuses on the distance.

If you can invite foreign investment banks from afar, it means that these foreign financial institutions have paid attention to the distance. Otherwise, even if you send an invitation letter, others will not pay attention to you.

It is actually understandable that we have gained attention and favor from afar.

In the Chinese business world, the most popular among foreign investors is Internet companies.

There is the number one Weibo account in China in the distance, with up to 200 million users!

The first-ranked b2c mall accounts for more than 80% of the Chinese market.

It ranks second, but it will soon be able to hit the number one Internet payment platform Wankatong!

There is also the instant messaging software pp chat software with the second largest user base, with 200 million users.

This is not considered the number one distribution platform, after all, the distribution platform is not as important as it will in the future.

It’s either first or second. Yuanfang Technology is simply an undeveloped gold mine, no, diamond mine!

Tencent has the first instant messaging software, and in 2008, it was just the instant messaging software QQ. At this time, Tencent did not have WeChat, and there was no game industry that made money.

In terms of single instant messaging, their stock price is now nearly $20 billion!

This is still the case with the average market this year, otherwise it will only be higher.

Yuanfang's pp is a little worse than QQ, but Yuanfang's pp is not just a business. PP video has made its mark recently due to the broadcast of several popular TV series and "Where Are We Going, Dad?"

The pp game business is developing very well now.

Fargo has successively launched the popular "Happy Farm" and "Dungeons and Warriors" nationwide, and acquired the parent company of "Cross Fire". Tencent is now in a state of cursing.

In addition, Yuanfang has borrowed the game platform and negotiated cooperation with several game companies including NetEase and Jiuyou, and obtained some of the game authorization.

At this time, the popular "Kart" and "Dance Team" can be played through the pp game hall.

Several game companies are certainly not fools, so they have to cooperate with the distant places.

But they have no choice. The game company has little problem running some online games, because online games have their own terminals.

Although the games such as "Jin Dance Team" also have computer terminals, it is difficult to promote.

It is also the norm in the industry to find a large gaming platform to cooperate with or cooperate with multiple platforms.

Yuanfang and Tencent fought over this matter several times, but they were eventually defeated by Yuanfang. Who made Li Dong willing to spend money?

As soon as several popular games were launched, the distant game industry completely surpassed Tencent and became the top three large-scale game platforms in China.

Many game manufacturers like to launch their games online in the PP game hall first.

The game is so famous that it is good for both sides. In addition, Li Dong is generous and has become prosperous for a while.

There is also the PP browser launched some time ago. Although the audience is currently average, because Yuanfang is willing to invest, it invests in building idc data centers and adding servers everywhere, and the web experience effect is much better than that of others.

In the eyes of the outside world, sooner or later we will seize other people's market.

This is the complex of the Far PP. In terms of strength, it is no worse than Tencent QQ.

Even if it is not worth $20 billion, it will be stable if it is listed at a discount and 10 billion US dollars.

I won’t talk about the other items, they are all at the level of 10 billion US dollars.

The entire Yuanfang Technology and Weibo listing may not be able to break through the 50 billion US dollars mark.

When it comes to such a large-scale industry, investment banks can't help but be moved, that is inevitable.

Not to mention them, even the domestic Internet companies are eager to get a hand in it. Li Dong holds several good cards in his hand.

Unfortunately, this guy has been accustomed to eating alone. This time he finally smelled the fishy smell. He received the invitation letter, unless there was a real difficulty, almost everything would have arrived.

...

The financing reception was held at Tianhu Hotel this time.

Although Tianhu is known as a five-star rating, it can only be considered a five-star rating.

The entire Pingchuan, which is currently the one who truly meets the international five-star standard, is Hilton.

Hilton has the largest banquet hall in the city, and it is also a foreign industry, so it is more suitable for holding financing receptions here.

The reception starts at 7 p.m.

The entrance of the building in the distance.

Li Dong, Yuan Chengdao, Liu Hong, and Wang Xin shared a car.

In the car, Wang Xinhui reported: "There are many institutions coming this time. Let's talk about investment banks first. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in the United States have both arrived.

Someone from Solomon Mebang, a subsidiary of Citi, also came.

In addition, there are also three companies under Swiss Bank UBS, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse.

Although we did not invite Nomura Securities in Japan, there were people. I took my own initiative and sent them an invitation letter, after all..."

Wang Xin didn't continue to say that financing was boundless.

He knew that Li Dong didn't like to cooperate with investment banks and venture capital in the island country, but now that they are still world-renowned investment banks, if they really don't accept them, they will appear narrow-minded.

He did not tell Li Dong, but reported to Liu Hong and Yuan Chengdao, and both agreed to send a replacement invitation letter.

Even if Li Dong was dissatisfied, they accepted it.

Fortunately, Li Dong didn't say anything, and nodded slightly and said, "It doesn't matter. There are many investment banks coming, but not many more.

These are all world-renowned investment banks, and venture capital institutions?”

"In terms of venture capital, Sequoia and IDC headquarters are among the top venture capital institutions in the world.

In addition, SoftBank has also come.

These are all foreign institutions, and many of them have come to China this time.

In terms of investment banking, China Merchants Securities, CICC, Bank of China, Guoxin, and Haitong are all here.

In terms of venture capital, Lenovo Investment, Today’s Capital… and Xihua Investment have also come.”

"Xihua Investment?"

Li Dong felt a little familiar, and Yuan Chengdao said dryly: "Mr. Chen's mother's company."

Li Dong suddenly remembered and said with a funny look: "I said it feels familiar. I thought it was West China Securities, but I didn't expect it was from Mr. Chen."

All of them laughed.

Liu Hong continued: "In addition to these investment banks and VCs, we also invited many colleagues.

Mr. Li from Baidu led the team. The two Mr. Ma said they couldn't come if they had something to do, but Mr. Cao from Sina led the team.

In addition, it is Jiangbei. We have invited many companies to accompany them, most of them will come.

By the way, Mr. Xu said he came here too, and hopes you can attract some investment for him..."

"Breaking stuff!"

Li Dong said angrily: "He thought foreigners also like to follow him to speculate on land? Besides, the real estate market is so bad now, who would invest in him?

Hasn't he been collecting equity all the time?

Why do you think about attracting investment?”

Liu Hong smiled and said nothing, but Yuan Chengdao smiled and said, "I'm afraid it's a joke, but it's not ruled out that Mr. Xu has this idea, maybe it's to prepare for listing."
To be continued...