After talking with Sun Tao for a long time, Li Dong gave some advice and gave some suggestions. It was not until noon that the two of them ended the topic.

When I went out, I happened to meet Zhang Xiaolong who was about to come to report on his work.

Seeing that Li Dong and Sun Tao had already gone out, Zhang Xiaolong couldn't help but say, "Then I'll come here again in the afternoon."

"No, let's eat and chat, it's for WeChat?"

Zhang Xiaolong nodded and said, "It's about WeChat. We have updated the new version in the account, and the new version has imported the pp friend function.

There is pp drainage, and the effect is very good.

However, because there is no large-scale publicity and promotion, many people actually don’t know about this software.

Nearly 5 days have passed since then, and the number of downloads has reached 00,000.

You should know that the account has started to import the PP friend system, and the result is like this..."

Zhang Xiaolong couldn't continue to say anything. After importing the PP friends, there were less than 00,000 users. This is so embarrassing!

In my previous life, when MiTalk was launched, Xiaomi had almost no foundation.

But even so, MiTao has accumulated millions of users in less than three months.

When Teng Xun launched WeChat, he did not use the power of QQ in the early stage, but operated it alone. He also accumulated four to five million users within three months.

When WeChat uses the power of QQ, the number of users will soon be more than 15 million in time!

And that was the end of 10 years and the beginning of 11 years.

At that point in the previous life, the development of the mobile terminal was not much different from that of the present.

However, now that WeChat has launched, it even borrowed the power of PP as soon as possible. In 5 days, it only has 00,000 users.

According to this progress, it is very likely that the data will not exceed 2 million in the first month.

Can the base of 2 million really defeat Teng Xun strongly?

Zhang Xiaolong was worried, but Li Dong smiled and said, "Many people don't know this software at all now. In addition, many people are new to smart phones, and they don't know what smart phones can do.

I'll give them some time to adapt, and you don't know about chat software yet?

It’s okay to have few people in the early stage, but you really want your software to be useful later. One passes to ten, ten passes to hundreds of people. It is very likely that millions of users will be more likely to be more than a day.

Snowball, don't worry.

Today is 00,000, tomorrow is 500,000, and the day after tomorrow is one million.

Take your time, no matter how fast Teng Xun is, I don’t believe they can launch the product in ten days, even if it’s half a month, is that fast enough, right?

In half a month, our users reached 1 million, and I think it’s still not a big problem.

It will accumulate until the end of the month, and in one month, it will definitely be fine.

Next month, we will start to explode. As long as the users increase by tens of millions, Teng Xun will be dead no matter how hard he goes."

Li Dong said while walking, and after that, he looked at Zhang Xiaolong and said, "You have become a little impatient recently. Is it too much pressure for you?"

Zhang Xiaolong let out a sigh of relief and nodded, "It's a bit. To be honest, working with you is more stressful than working with Pon."

Li Dong smiled and said, "It's good if you get used to it. Actually, I don't want to put pressure on you. It's because your psychological quality is not up to standard.

You have to learn this from Mr. Yuan.

Look at him, although he was yelling about pressure, he actually did his own thing and did his own things, and didn't know how comfortable he was in his life.

I am too lazy to care about these things. As long as he doesn't delay things, he can do whatever he wants.

The freedom I give you is actually quite large.

After completing the task I gave you, I won’t care no matter how hard you do.

You have heard of the premise and completed the task.

If you can’t complete the task, then you will be honest and bear the pressure, which is inevitable.”

The people next to them laughed, but they felt much more relaxed.

...

April 6th.

Weibo round financing reception.

Although Yuanfang held a financing reception this time, it was not as large as last time. Last time, he invited many off-site people, including some entrepreneurs.

This time, different rounds of financing, whether it is Li Dong or the investment bank, actually hope to keep it confidential on a larger scale.

This is the last round of financing on Weibo. After this round of financing is over, Weibo's valuation will affect the market after listing.

Investment banks invest in Weibo and Yuanfang invest in Weibo are all trying to make money and maximize profits.

So even though Li Dong had called out a valuation of 7.5 billion US dollars, few people came out to refute it.

Even if this goal was not achieved on the spot and the financing of 1 billion US dollars was announced afterwards, no one would have come forward to say that he could not raise so much money.

This is also a consensus in the industry and is related to everyone's stakeholders, so the participants will not expose it.

The real fooling people are some laymen and small investors.

...

The financing reception was held very low-key, which was completely different from Li Dong's high-profile announcement to raise 1 billion US dollars.

However, there were a few participants this time.

Big and Big Moto, Goldman Sachs, IDC, Credit Suisse, SoftBank... These internationally renowned investment banks have participated.

In China, Bank of China, CICC, CITIC, China Development Bank, Boyu Capital... a large number of local institutions with deep backgrounds and strong capital have also participated.

On the day of the cocktail party, no one except those from afar and those from investment banks were invited.

It was said to be a cocktail party, but in fact, everyone gathered together and started negotiations as soon as they entered the venue.

...

The outside world knows almost nothing about how to talk about Weibo's round of financing and how it works.

The next night, on April 7, Yuanfang released Weibo financing information.

Weibo round of financing, a total of US$1 billion!

With China Development Bank, some local capital institutions of CICC and several world-renowned investors, they raised a total of US$1 billion in financing, accounting for 1.% of the total share capital.

Yuanfang still maintains its position as a major shareholder. After the round of financing, Yuanfang Holdings Group held 4.67% of the shares.

Weibo executives and employees, plus some executives from far away, hold a total of .% of the shares.

It is equivalent to the Yuanfang side, and it still holds 8% of the shares.

After three rounds of financing, Yuanfang can still hold 8% of the equity, which is no longer a low point.

China Development Bank, CICC, Bank of China, Baidu... these local companies have a total shareholding ratio of 1%, which is a very subtle number.

Of course, most people don't care too much.

In fact, Internet companies can hold shares above 0%, and there will be almost no problem. Even if Li Dong does not introduce state-owned assets, he does not have to worry about the dominance of Weibo.

What's more, the current grand occasion on Weibo has a lot to do with Li Dong personally.

Investment banks are not stupid, they all come to make money.

If Li Dong is really going to be kicked out, even if Weibo goes public, it will not meet their expectations.

After going public, if Li Dong is kicked away, then wait for the stock price to plummet. There is still no benefit. This kind of unhealthy thing is not something that ordinary people will not do if they are not stupid.

Yuanfang not only announced the news, but also briefly revealed the purpose of the financing of US$1 billion.

This money is mainly used to build global channels.

Today, Weibo has entered many countries and regions, but there are still many places that have not been covered.

Whether it is promotion or traffic diversion, a large amount of capital is required.

In addition, Weibo will continue to invest heavily in China.

According to Li Dong's words, it means that he will burn all 1 billion US dollars within half a year, and spend more than 1 billion yuan on Weibo every month.

After spending the money, it’s time to go public on Weibo!

...

As soon as the news came out, people who were paying attention at home and abroad were shocked.

Really raised $1 billion?

If it is true, it means that after Weibo raised funds, the valuation has reached as high as US$7.5 billion!

According to the exchange rate at this time, it is converted into RMB and there is also 50 billion RMB!

Yuanfang Holdings' holdings is actually Li Dong's personal holdings. At this time, the value of Li Dong's personal holdings was nearly 18 billion yuan.

For a moment, many people's eyes turned green with envy.

How many benefits did Li Dong get when he used a Weibo account?
To be continued...