Chapter 171 ICQ NASDAQ Listing
March 28.
Washington, Nasdaq Stock Exchange.
Today, three new stocks are about to be listed, namely ICQ, Ford Laurie Software, and Qusi Pharmaceutical. Among them, the ICQ company that currently has hundreds of millions of users worldwide is the most eye-catching.
As early as a few months ago, when ICQ announced its listing plan, it attracted the attention of hundreds of media and newspapers across the United States. Countless American investors were looking forward to it, hoping to witness the rise of another "Internet myth".
It is actually not that easy for a company to go public on Nasdaq!
It needs to meet many requirements.
For example: the number of shareholders holding shares must be higher than 300.
Of course, ICQ company is not satisfied with this necessary condition at the beginning of the period.
However, this is not a big deal.
For ICQ companies with more than 2,000 employees worldwide, internal employees can easily meet the minimum requirements of 300 shareholders by purchasing relevant equity shares.
The founding teams such as Weisger, and shareholders of the board of directors such as Juke, Amazon, Goldman Sachs, and News Group, took out a proportion of the shares to be used for the share quota of internal employees.
Zhuke's shares in ICQ have been diluted again, and are currently 11.2%.
Don't think it's too small. Zhu Ke, who holds 11.2% of the shares, is still a major shareholder of ICQ.
Today!
On this day when ICQ was listed on Nasdaq, major shareholders and representatives of ICQ's major shareholders and investment institutions came to the scene, and the bell of listing will be ringed at the time of 9:30.
"Zuke, I heard you are a director again and are you going to start filming a new film?"
Before 9:30, Bezos chatted with Zucker.
"Huh? You actually know!" Zhu Ke was stunned.
Upon hearing this, Bezos curled his lips and said, "Please, man. Have you not read the news these days? Are there any reports on major media and newspapers on the West Coast of America? "
"So that's it." Zhu Ke immediately understood.
In fact, Zucker still underestimated his current influence!
Who is Zhuke?
He is only 21 years old. In just three years, he started from scratch and worked hard to create a man from a media group, a super rich man with a net worth of over $1 billion. His subsidiary Wald Pictures has produced many good movies; UPN TV is also not bad. In addition to owning related copyrights such as "SpongeBob SquarePants" and "America's Got Talent", the recently launched WWE wrestling competition has also attracted the attention of a large number of viewers.
Young, rich, starting from scratch...
To be honest, Zhu Ke is now the top traffic among the rich!
Everything attracts those young people with dreams!
Let me ask, how can media reporters who have not been offline and have been morally honest give up Zhuke's top traffic?
"That's right!"
Zhu Ke said frankly: "I am different from other rich people. Some of them like to surround beautiful women, some like to show off their wealth, and some like to buy islands, villas, and luxury cars. These are their hobbies."
"oh?"
Bei Fangtou teased: "Your interest is to make movies? Then how do you explain that different women often appear around you?"
MMP !
"Control your own business, man. When you get divorced one day, I will open the bottle to celebrate for you for a long time." Zhuke, who was dark-faced, immediately issued the most vicious curse.
Bei Fangtou didn't take it seriously either.
However, he never expected that in one year in the future, when he really divorced, Zhuke did not break his promise and opened a bottle of red wine worth millions to celebrate in front of him.
......
"Hi, Juke. Today must be a big day!"
ICQ founder and chairman Weisger walked to Zhuke and immediately gave a bear hug.
"Yes, today is very important." Zhuke said disdainfully.
What to install?
At this moment, in the eyes of outsiders, Zhuke and Weisger are like-minded friends and good comrades who have created a great situation in IQ!
However!
The senior executives of the entire ICQ and the board of directors knew that Zhuke and Weisger had long been incompatible.
The two have had more than once quarrels over ICQ development model, unit management and diversification issues, and equity issues!
Major shareholders of Goldman Sachs, News Group, Sequoia Capital and other companies are also happy to see this.
When the company grows bigger, the more internal conflicts there will be, which is inevitable!
Of course, in front of outsiders, especially in front of media reporters, Zhuke and Weisger both strive to play the role of good brothers and good comrades.
Fake rich man!
"Congratulations, I believe ICQ will definitely create a miracle!" said the representative of the Nasdaq Exchange.
"Mr. Wald, Mr. Weisger, you created a wealth myth."
"you do not say!"
"What is Cisco? What is Microsoft? What is Amazon? Everything depends on ICQ!"
"That's! ICQ instant messaging software has hundreds of millions of users around the world. How many Internet companies can have this huge number?"
Other witnesses around them also gave compliments.
"Dong~~!"
At 9:30, when Nasdaq opened, Weisger, who is the chairman and founder of ICQ, acted as the chairman and founder of ICQ, and sounded the bell for listing on Nasdaq.
A piece of green floating!
(The green line of US stocks represents a lot of bulls and a little bears, representing growth.)
The issue price of Icq stock is $39, but it soared to $52 as soon as it opened!
It can be said that the rise is amazing!
Over the whole day, although ICQ stocks fluctuated, the overall uptrend was gratifying. The peak of the day was as high as US$109 and the closing time was US$92.
In just one day, the market value of ICQ reached US$6 billion!
Well, it is worth many times higher than the original time and space.
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The next day.
When Zucker appeared on the set of "The Tuner", he received a compliment.
"Mr. Wald, congratulations. Your investment is definitely a big profit."
Paul Walker said excitedly.
News that Zhuke invested only US$8 million in the ICQ project, including Angel Round, A Round, B Round, and B Round, has been exposed by reporters from many media.
Especially the Global Times!
The Global Times directly posted Zucker's investment myth on the front page, claiming: "Jucker Wald, the new leader of American corporate value investors!"
Suddenly, it caused an uproar.
You should know that the ICQ shares currently controlled by Zhuke are worth US$600 million to US$700 million! This wealth has exceeded many old family businesses that have been rooted in the United States for decades. Moreover, it is certain that this number will increase a lot in the next month.
For a moment, Zhuke once again made a big splash!
Countless young American men and women regard them as idols in life.
Zhu Ke was in a very good mood and immediately decided to expand his security team again.
Chapter completed!