Chapter 382： Sky-high financing

In William Chen's previous life, Walmart Group acquired it for $3.5 billion, and continued to acquire other e-commerce startups. At first, they hoped to use this to develop their e-commerce business, but in the end, only You need to know that because their e-commerce department has been losing money and eventually had to cut and sell it, you can know that their e-commerce development is not going well.

Of course, it was also because it was many years later when they were cornered by Amazon and made up their minds to develop e-commerce. At that time, they had lost the best opportunity. If they can decisively devote a lot of resources to e-commerce, buy Zoom, and support them vigorously, then the result is unknown.

It's just that as a traditional retail company, Wal-Mart Group has its own path of dependence. At this time, although Amazon is putting some pressure on them, it has not yet gained the upper hand. Therefore, in the end, Wal-Mart Group is still discouraged from William Chen's offer, which is difficult to accept.

Therefore, this time the negotiation with Lee Scott ended with Walmart Group abandoning the acquisition of Zoom. Now the market value of Walmart Group is about 185 billion US dollars. If the Zoom company is really valued at 50 billion US dollars for the acquisition, this It means that they are going to issue more than 20% of the total share capital in the future to acquire Zoom, which will cause great changes to the shareholder composition of Wal-Mart Group. This is probably what Lee Scott hesitated and gave up. an important reason.

In this case, William Chen also gave up the acquisition of the Wal-Mart Group. It may be that they will not realize the importance of developing e-commerce again until Amazon pushes the Wal-Mart Group into the corner again, but at that time, Zoom's The valuation is probably even more difficult for them to accept.

And at that time, it was not only Amazon that pushed them into the corner, but also a Zoom company.

Remember, it is to deal with the financing of Groupon, and Groupon and Amazon are a little impatient. After all, they have plans to IPO, and they continue to delay. If the American market changes, it will be very unfavorable for listing. Now, at this time, the concept of group buying is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people all over the world and is extremely popular. Everyone is looking forward to the birth of the first share of group buying.

William Chen is also looking forward to it. I wonder what changes will be made to Groupon after introducing Amazon as a shareholder? With the help of Amazon, Groupon was able to successfully transform and compete head-to-head with Zoom; or did Amazon step into the pit of Groupon and be dragged down by it, and finally let William Chen buy into Groupon?

So, after William Chen and Rick Walton had a unified understanding, the progress of negotiations with Amazon was accelerated.

In the end, before William Chen left the United States, the final result was that Amazon would invest $2.5 billion at a post-investment valuation of $25 billion and hold a 10% stake in Groupon.

After Amazon's participation in the financing, the shares held by Zoom and Meta Investment were diluted to 36% and 18%, respectively.

Amazon will buy 20% of Zoom and 10% of Meta Investments for $5 billion and $2.5 billion in cash, respectively.

In this way, after the financing, Groupon's shareholding ratio is 36% of Andrew's management team, 40% of Amazon, 16% of Zoom, and 8% of Meta investment company.

At the same time, Groupon received $2.5 billion in funding to continue to expand its scale; Zoom received $5 billion in cash, which will be used to expand in the global market; Meta Investments received $2.5 billion in cash.

Initially, Zoom invested a total of $80 million in two installments, and eventually got back $5 billion, and still retained a 16% stake in Groupon.

Meta Investments, which invested $100 million, now has $2.5 billion back and retains an 8% stake in Groupon.

It can be said that their investment has paid off handsomely.

Andrew, on the other hand, balanced Groupon's shareholding structure and made his team's control of the company more secure. Groupon also received $2.5 billion in funding, which can continue to develop rapidly and strive for a higher valuation for the IPO.

As for Amazon, it paid $10 billion to drive away most of Groupon's competitors and consolidated their lead in e-commerce. The total market capitalization of the company increased by $3.75 billion.

It can be said that it seems that Groupon's financing this time has achieved multiple wins, and everyone has a bright future.

I just don't know what the evaluation will be when I look back on this a few years later.

After completing the work of Groupon, William Chen was ready to go to China. It is now July 10th, which is very close to the World Swimming Championships in Magic Capital. He is also preparing to do some adaptive training in advance.

At this time, Angelina had left Los Angeles and went to France. She had a manor in Provence and was going to give birth there.

Just when William Chen was about to leave the United States, he received a call. Then, he temporarily changed the destination of the private jet and landed in New York.

Here, William Chen met Jessica and confirmed that she was really pregnant this time.

Earlier, Ivanta told William Chen that before she was pregnant Jessica had an oolong. At that time, because of the delayed period, she thought she was pregnant.

Then, after passing through the maiden voyage of the Future with William Chen, Jessica's period did not arrive on time again. This time, she thought that it was the previous reason that caused the delay, so she didn't take it to heart at first.

After a period of time, her period still did not come, and she began to have symptoms of retching and nausea, so she hurriedly bought test strips. When the results showed that she was pregnant, for the sake of insurance, she contacted William Chen and arranged by him. A reliable doctor checked her out.

The results of the final examination showed that Jessica was nearly two months pregnant.

At this moment, William Chen suddenly realized that another lottery for the gift of Guanyin was here. He initially thought it was the twins pregnant with Anjilina, but he was pleasantly surprised. The other one was that Jessica had a child...

Knowing the result, Jessica was very happy. As for William Chen, uh, he's already very skilled. Anyway, he's watching one, and he's watching both. After consulting Jessica, William Chen plans to arrange for her to be delivered in France as well.

In this way, it was time to go to France, so that both her and Angelina could be taken care of. It happened that the two of them had a relatively close date, so next, William Chen took Jessica and flew to Provence, France. , bought a manor not far from Angelina's place, and arranged professional servants, bodyguards and medical teams to place Jessica there.

Well, before Musk teased himself and showed off that he had five children, now William Chen will soon catch up with him. More importantly, these five children were born to him by five women...