On July 29th, after the success of the Hong Kong roadshow, the Shanghai roadshow was also very popular.
There were many investors at the roadshow site.
The subscription started on the 29th, and in two hours, the subscription limit of 10 billion US dollars was again capped.
This speed was beyond everyone's expectations.
A company listed in Hong Kong had a subscription of 10 billion US dollars in two hours during a roadshow in the mainland. This had never happened before.
There were countless investors at the site, hoping that Tencent would open the subscription limit.
However, Tencent did not accept it. Instead, it announced that the international subscription plan would be opened on August 1st, and the public sale would also be available for subscription from that day onwards.
Tencent would not adjust the offering price, and the listing price was set at 50 Hong Kong dollars.
As soon as the news came out, it attracted everyone's attention. Some individual investors turned their attention to the Hong Kong stock market, ready to start subscribing.
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After the Shanghai roadshow ended, Li Dong did not stop.
Because at this time, the Weibo roadshow plan was officially confirmed.
The Weibo roadshow plan was more than that of Tencent. It was not only in Europe and the United States, but also in some Asian countries.
The first stop of the Weibo roadshow was set in New York, not far from Wall Street.
Two companies were listed in succession, and both had a market value of more than 10 billion US dollars. Even Wall Street did not dare to ignore such a company Far away, nor did they dare to despise a giant like Li Dong.
Before the Weibo roadshow began, some American media began to exclaim that the "oriental giant" was coming!
Li Dong had never been to the United States.
In 2006, he traveled around Europe, but he did not come to the United States.
This was Li Dong's first trip to the United States!
And this time, it was destined to be remembered by the world.
On August 1st, Li Dong's private plane arrived in New York.
On this day, Li Dong did not show up. He began to get used to the jet lag and prepare for the premiere on the 2nd.
On the 1st, Tencent opened the public sale and international subscription channels. Before the start of the Weibo premiere, investors from all over the world could not ignore Li Dong. Far away!
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On August 1st, two days after Li Dong's birthday, on the 1st …
Tencent opened the subscription channels worldwide, although Tencent still had several international roadshow plans that had not started.
However, this did not prevent the panic buying.
In the first hour, the number of international subscriptions reached 26 billion USD!
As for the public sale in Hong Kong, the total amount of financing was 15 billion Hong Kong dollars, which was full in the first hour. An hour later, the subscription funds reached 16 billion Hong Kong dollars.
The speed of the explosion attracted all the media to report on it.
When Li Dong arrived in New York, the Wall Street Journal ran a large article on the Tencent subscription boom.
The title was "Spring of the Internet?"
With a questioning tone, the Wall Street Journal didn't think they had survived the cold winter!
The 2008 financial crisis had not passed yet, and it was still affecting the entire world. A large number of companies were facing bankruptcy, and a large number of people were unemployed.
This was not the spring of the Internet, nor was it the recovery of the economy, but the spring of Li Dong!
The Giant Li of the East, with his personal achievements, made people ignore this economic winter.
Li Dong, who was only 24 years old, had become the richest man in the world with his personal charm and unique vision in a mysterious country like Hua Xia. His company was also ranked among the top 500 in the world.
Such an example had never happened before.
Even Bill Gates took 20 years to sit on the throne of the world's richest man at the age of 39.
What kind of charm and magic was it that allowed the Giant Li of the East to resist the terrible attack of the financial crisis and go against the tide at this moment?
The Wall Street Journal ran a large article on Li Dong's personal achievements, but it did not say much about other things.
Because, in the Wall Street Journal's view, the impact of all this did not come from the overall better environment, but from the changes brought by Li Dong himself.
When Li Dong arrived in New York and began to get jet-lagged, more than ten hours had passed since the subscription time.
As of now, including the 20 billion USD subscriptions in Hong Kong and Shanghai, the subscription funds for the Tencent international placement had reached 120 billion USD!
And the amount of international financing for Tencent plus the over-allotment was only 4.4 billion USD.
On the first day of full subscription, the international placement was oversubscribed by more than 27 times, which was rare for large-scale financing.
Tencent financing was not a small amount, and it was even the largest financing for technology stocks. But now, there were still many days before the end, and the subscription had exceeded 27 times. How many times would it exceed in the end?
This was the international placement. The public offering in Hong Kong was planned to raise 15 billion Hong Kong dollars. At this time, the frozen funds had exceeded 100 billion Hong Kong dollars.
Similarly, this was also the first day, and there was still a week of subscription period.
Before the end of the day, the subscription had reached nearly seven times.
The outside world was speculating about how much funds would be frozen after the resumption of Tencent.
In 2007, Ali created a miracle. The frozen funds for the public offering reached 450 billion Hong Kong dollars, which did not include the international portion.
At that time, Ali's public offering was oversubscribed by more than 250 times.
Tencent's scale was much larger, but it was obviously impossible to reach Ali's result. Once the Tencent's public offering reached 250 times the subscription, the funds entering the market would reach as high as 3,750 billion Hong Kong dollars.
It was obviously impossible to approach the 4 trillion Hong Kong dollars mark. The investors in Hong Kong were not that strong.
Now the outside world was guessing whether the frozen funds for the Tencent's public offering could surpass the 450 billion Hong Kong dollars of Ali and set a new record again.
Once it surpassed Ali, Tencent would not only be the king of frozen funds this year, but also the first in all these years.
Could it surpass it?
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Just when everyone was guessing, Tencent firmly told everyone that it could!
On the morning of August 2nd, there was still an hour before the Weibo promotion conference began.
At this time, Hua Xia had entered the night of August 2nd.
At this time, Goldman Sachs released new information that the public offering in Hong Kong had reached 280 billion Hong Kong dollars.
At this time, it was less than 48 hours before the opening of subscription.
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New York, United States.
Manhattan.
This was the financial center of the United States, Wall Street. It could even be said to be the financial center of the world.
This time, the first stop of the Weibo roadshow was held here, in Wall Street.
At this moment, Li Dong had arrived at the roadshow site.
However, he did not go out to communicate with the investors. Instead, he waited backstage.
He was waiting for the Tencent's public offering to exceed 300 billion Hong Kong dollars, and for the international allotment to exceed 200 billion US dollars!
As long as this figure was reached before the start of the Weibo roadshow, Li Dong would be able to do whatever he wanted.
When Wang Xin came in from outside, he saw Li Dong was still thinking, so he hurriedly said, "General Manager Li, the roadshow is about to start. There are already more than 200 investment managers on the site!"
On Wall Street, there were all kinds of investment plans and financing plans almost every day.
Here, a roadshow, especially for foreign companies, could reach more than 100 people, which was amazing.
There was still more than half an hour before the start of the Weibo roadshow, and now there were more than 200 people on Weibo.
300 people, representing 300 financial institutions or funds, were interested in investing in Weibo.
What about Weibo's IPO plan?
How many American depositary shares would Weibo sell in total?
Including the 10 million over-allotted shares, there were only 80 million shares in total. The pricing range was up to 40 US dollars per share, and the financing amount was up to 3.2 billion US dollars.
Compared with Tencent, Weibo's financing was less than half, and the issued share capital was less.
But more than 300 investment institutions came to the first stop. Wang Xin was almost sure that the allotment should be full on the first day.
In Hong Kong, Tencent subscribed for 10 billion US dollars on the first day. In New York and Wall Street, these investors were actually more generous.
Two companies went public at almost the same time and broke out at the same time. Wang Xin could not imagine how powerful Far away Technology would be after the success of this IPO.
The world's No. 1 Internet company?
Or, more powerful, the world's No. 1 company by market value!
Just as Wang Xin was thinking about this, Bai Su's cell phone rang. After listening to a few words, Bai Su said with joy, "General Manager Li, the subscription amount in Hong Kong has reached 300 billion Hong Kong dollars, and the subscription amount in the international allotment has reached 200 billion US dollars!"
"Good!"
Li Dong laughed and said loudly to the people around him, "Tencent has a good start, and Weibo will be the same!
After this, Far away Technology will be the most respected in the IT industry!
Everyone, we have been fooling our own people in China before. This time, let's fool these big noses!
The big noses are stupid and have a lot of money. If we fool them this time, the issue price must be raised. In Hong Kong, we have to consider the investors. In the United States, anyway, it is settled in US dollars. They won't react so much if we raise a few dollars.
In China, it will be dozens of yuan.
Once we raise 5 US dollars, we can raise 400 million US dollars, which is billions of yuan.
If this is a big success, not only will I make money, but you will also make a lot of money with me! "
"It will be a good start!"
"A good start!"
"…"
Everyone else was both excited and nervous at the moment. Almost everyone present held Tencent or Weibo shares.
This time, Tencent was destined to be a big success. If Weibo broke out again, it would be amazing.
A millionaire?
Can a millionaire be called a millionaire?
This time, both sides had a big success. Far away, there should be dozens of billionaires this year!
Other people were excited. Bai Su was excited at first, and then suddenly thought of something. Her face changed and she said, "General Manager Li, are you going to give a speech in Chinese?"
As soon as this came out, Wang Xin was also stunned. Everyone was stunned.
How could they forget such a big event!
Li Dong's English didn't seem to be very good. If he gave a speech on Wall Street in Chinese, the investors present would not understand more than one-tenth of it. But once there was an interpreter, the atmosphere would be different.
Seeing everyone looking at him, Li Dong grinned and said, "Why, am I so incompetent in your eyes? Is English or Chinese difficult to learn? I'm not a nationalistic youth. At this time, in order to make money from the big noses, in order to fool them, I have to learn it even if I don't know it. Don't worry, I've already prepared it. But none of you asked me if I would give a speech in Chinese or English. You didn't even prepare a speech for me. This kind of mistake is simply unforgivable! "
Everyone was speechless. They really ignored this point.
The key was that Li Dong had never used their speech scripts.
Even if they were prepared, when Li Dong went on stage, he still said what he should say. He never followed the speech script.
After so many times, now everyone forgot this.
If Bai Su hadn't just mentioned it, I'm afraid that when Li Dong went on stage, everyone would have remembered it.
Since this was mentioned, Wang Xin hurriedly said, "General Manager Li, after all, this is your first time to New York, and you may not know much about this place. Although Americans seem to have a big heart, they are actually very calculative. Especially in the field of investment, they look at the data very carefully. You can't be like domestic … "
He was afraid that Li Dong would brag when the time came, which would have the opposite effect.
But Li Dong interrupted angrily, "Do you think I don't know it as well as you? Don't forget, my wife is also studying here, and I already know what to pay attention to. What's more, it's not the first time I've dealt with the big noses in the past few years. This time, I won't fool them. The big noses likes to talk about dreams and the future. On this occasion, it's more reliable to talk about empty things than the truth. Alright, you don't have to accompany me here. Go do your own things. I'll get ready and go out later. "
"The speech script …"
"No, I've memorized it. I promise there will be no problem!"
"…"
Everyone wanted to say a few words, but when they thought that this was their own mistake, and a big mistake at that, they didn't say anything.
They actually forgot to prepare a speech for the big boss. Li Dong didn't make trouble for them, which was good for them.
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