"The investment firms that received investment from Twitter are: Vanguard, Goldman Sachs, and Sequoia Capital."
After Zhao Ye finished speaking, some people were happy while others were sad.
The representatives from the companies whose names weren't called were all dejected and full of regret. They wished they had offered higher prices if they had known things would turn out this way.
The staff then began asking those who had not won the bid to leave.
The winning company's representative remained to continue the detailed discussions.
Over the next hour or so, the various investment companies discussed with each other how many shares they wanted.
Soon, the three investment companies behind Weibo finalized their investment ratios.
The three state-owned investment companies each hold 5% of the shares.
Weibo's post-investment valuation exceeded $5 billion, with each company contributing $250 million, for a total of $750 million.
Twitter is quite competitive.
After compromises, Vanguard, Goldman Sachs, and Sequoia Capital each acquired a 7%, 5%, and 3% stake in Twitter, respectively, thus taking a 15% stake in the website.
Because Twitter has users all over the world, its market value is higher, with a post-money valuation exceeding $10 billion, having raised a total of $1.5 billion.
The fact that Weibo and Twitter were able to raise so much money in their first round of financing shows that investment companies are very optimistic about their development.
Other internet users, seeing this, could only feel envy, jealousy, and resentment.
Weibo and Twitter not only have a first-mover advantage, but are also backed by their parent company, Wujiang Group, making their failure virtually impossible. This explains why Wujiang Group's internet companies are so sought after by investment firms and command such high valuations...
At 10 a.m. the following morning, Wujiang Group held a press conference to announce that Weibo and Twitter had officially completed their Series A financing, raising $750 million and $1.5 billion respectively.
The news left not only the media reporters at the scene speechless, but also the viewers watching the live broadcast.
"They said it's supposed to be an internet winter, so how did Weibo and Twitter manage to raise so much money? Have the investment companies gone mad?" a website founder exclaimed, somewhat incredulous.
He has recently met with many investors, but none of them are willing to invest in his website. Their excuses are almost all the same: the internet winter, the industry downturn, and their investment company is not planning to invest in internet companies for the time being.
Holy crap, why is everyone rushing to invest in Weibo and Twitter?!
Ding Lei, CEO of NetEase, happened to be watching the live TV broadcast, and his expression revealed a deep sense of envy.
NetEase's stock price has now hit rock bottom, making it difficult to raise funds. Currently, NetEase urgently needs to find new projects to increase its profit sources.
"Since Weibo is so popular, then... those investment companies that didn't have the opportunity to invest in Weibo and Twitter might invest in NetEase, if NetEase launches a Weibo account soon..."
Ding Sanshi muttered to himself.
Immediately, he stood up and went to the NetEase Weibo project development team, intending to personally participate in the website development.
...
With Weibo and Twitter successfully securing funding, the two websites now have more powerful backers, which relieved Zhao Ye, as he no longer fears the websites being ordered to shut down by the government.
Next, Zhao Ye waited nervously for the 11th to arrive.
As the days passed, it felt like only a few days had gone by, yet it felt like an eternity.
In the past few days, Zhao Ye has been hesitating about whether to short the US stock market, US airlines, and insurance companies. After the 11th, the US stock market, US airlines, and insurance companies will inevitably collapse!
However, if it is later found out that he shorted airlines and insurance companies, how can he explain it? Will he think that he knew about the attack in advance, which is why he placed such a large bet?
Forget it, I'd rather not make that money.
Zhao Ye shook his head, feeling quite regretful.
As far as I can recall, some institutions had previously shorted US airlines and insurance companies beforehand. On September 6th, 7th, and 10th, a large number of mysterious investors bought 4,744 US United Airlines and 4,516 US Airways futures options in the US futures market, a purchase volume 20 times the usual amount.
Zhao Ye couldn't help but keep a close eye on the dynamics of the US futures market.
In the following days, just like in my previous life, a large number of mysterious investors suddenly began to frantically short-sell airlines from the United States...
This situation further convinced Zhao Ye that the inertia of history had not changed; although the butterfly effect existed, what was destined to happen would still happen.
However, since the incident occurred in the United States, Zhao Ye did not kindly offer any advice. Regardless of whether the other party believed him or not, the fact that the matter was beneficial to China meant that Zhao Ye would not say anything.
...
The day finally arrived.
Around 8 a.m.
Just as Zhao Ye had predicted, a deafening, earth-shattering explosion resounded through the area.
At that moment, the whole world was stunned!
Someone immediately took a picture and posted it on Twitter.
Twitter also pushed the message to all users immediately.
"Oh my god, can this really be true?! I pray to God that everyone inside the building will be safe!"
"Oh my God, this is absolutely insane! This is the worst day in the US in decades!!! We must find out who did this, and we Americans will not let them get away with it!" an angry US netizen commented.
At this moment, many people in the US were both angry and panicked.
If there is one, there will be two.
What if it happens to someone close to you?
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