Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 130 The New World's Richest Man

After finalizing the pre-IPO strategic investment plan with various strategic investors, Zhiyun Technology also held discussions with some domestic investment institutions.

The main purpose is to distribute certain benefits, tell a story, paint a big picture... in order to gain greater support.

In this round of domestic strategic investment negotiations, the person in charge of Blue Mountain Investment also listened to Xu Shenxue’s vision of the future smart city...

The man was stunned for a long time... and then left silently. Xu Shenxue’s boasting was too big... and it sounded too fake... but it also made people feel moved... It was very contradictory.

Then a few days later, another group of people came to represent Blue Mountain Investments and continued to listen to Xu Shenxue's story...

And who is Xu Shenxue? He never brags without thinking... He talks about smart city and transportation integration, driverless cars, drones, unmanned ships, landing on Mars, and breaking out of the solar system.

Then they talked about big data, cloud computing, super artificial intelligence and other things.

Moreover, Xu Shenxue also talked about intelligent manufacturing and the improvement of various electronic industry chains... The heartbeats of the people on the opposite side couldn't help but speed up!

Even though they were well-informed and had heard a lot of bragging, after listening to Xu Shenxue's bragging... they still felt that those who had boasted in front of them before were too timid...

Listen to how Xu Shenxue brags, he just puts it straight into science fiction... After listening to only half a sentence, you can draw a basic conclusion: it's so fucking fake...

But...it still sounds so exciting!

Then Xu Shenxue said that Zhiyun Technology will further increase investment, prepare to build several super-large intelligent manufacturing factories, and support related domestic industrial chains, striving to achieve 100% localization rate for mobile phones and other related consumer electronic products.

Then he said something about planning to set up a chip foundry and other semiconductor-related industries, and preparing to manufacture chips on his own to solve problems such as high chip costs and supply risks.

First he boasted about the future, and then he talked about the recent large-scale investment.

Finally, Blue Mountain Investments considered it over and over again for a long time and finally decided: follow it!

There is no way. Although everyone knows that Xu Shenxue is bragging...but his bragging is too good, and it seems to be true and false, as if it is really possible to come true...

And Xu Shenxue was not just bragging, he also showed his existing achievements... This man, in just one year, built Zhiyun Technology, which is valued at 150 billion US dollars!

Now he says, I'm going to move towards a higher goal, will you follow me?

Even if the goals that Xu Shenxue boasted about cannot be achieved, the existing business and its extended businesses alone are actually enough to maintain this huge market value.

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On November 26, Zhiyun Technology, which always likes to make big news, officially held a press conference and announced its plan to go public.

It also announced the introduction of multiple strategic investors before its IPO, with a valuation of up to 150 billion US dollars...a total financing of 12.3 billion US dollars.

When this news came out, not only the Chinese people, but the whole world was shocked...

Zhiyun Technology instantly made headlines in major media around the world!
The New York Times used Xu Shenxue's photo as the cover and published a headline with the title: "The Birth of the World's New Richest Man!"

The report details the development of Zhiyun Technology from its establishment to the launch of the C1 mobile phone, then to the launch of the S9 mobile phone, the C2 mobile phone, and the announcement of its entry into multiple industries and fields.
Then the super strong position of Zhiyun mobile phones in the mobile phone market was emphasized!

In the past October of September, in the global smartphone market, Zhiyun Mobile Phones occupied 09% of the market share with its S series and C series, surpassing Apple's % market share. As for other mobile phone manufacturers, they can only be listed as others!

In the entire mobile phone market, although the sales volume of Zhiyun mobile phones in October is estimated to be only about 5 million units, the sales volume of the entire mobile phone industry is estimated to have reached 100 million.

However, Zhiyun Technology has obtained more than 40% of the profits in the entire mobile phone market!

By the way, Fruit took away the remaining 30% of the profits, and the remaining 10% of the profits were divided up by a large number of other mobile phone manufacturers!

The market value of Apple has exceeded 200 billion US dollars and is still increasing rapidly... If only the mobile phone business is counted, the market value of Apple mobile phones is about 150 billion US dollars.

Through these simple data, we can simply and directly tell readers who don’t know the inside story why Zhiyun Technology is so valuable... Even with a valuation of 150 billion US dollars, there is still a group of super capitals going crazy for it!

Then the topic turned to Xu Shenxue personally... Although Zhiyun Technology did not disclose the detailed financing plan twice, the outside world was not very clear about how many shares were sold.

In addition, Zhiyun Technology has also carried out two non-public financing plans for domestic investment institutions.

Coupled with the secrecy of offshore companies, it is actually difficult for ordinary people to figure out how many shares Xu Shenxue actually holds in this company.

But it is still possible to guess that Xu Shenxue and his family hold at least 70% of Zhiyun Technology's shares... This is at least. According to such a simple calculation, the asset scale of Xu Shenxue and his family will reach an astonishing 105 billion US dollars!
He instantly surpassed a large number of so-called super-rich people and ascended the throne of the world's richest man!

Bill Gates, the boss of Microsoft and the former richest man in the world, has only 40 billion US dollars in assets...

This is ridiculous...

A young man, who started his business only one year ago, has made a fortune of 100 billion US dollars? More than twice the wealth of the Microsoft boss?
This is even more absurd than a fairy tale!
But... this is the fact, the fact that is in front of countless people.

If you can create a company that can rival Apple within a year, and be on par with Apple in the high-end field, and surpass a large number of traditional mobile phone manufacturers in the mid-range field to monopolize the market, you can also become worth hundreds of billions of US dollars!

The foreign countries were bombarded with news about Zhiyun Technology and Xu Shenxue for several days in a row... before it gradually calmed down. After all, for people in most countries, Zhiyun Technology is a foreign company and Xu Shenxue is a foreigner. They are only shocked and curious for a while, and it is impossible to pay attention to them for a long time.

But it is still very popular in the country!
Many people, especially various media wanted to interview Xu Shenxue... but they were all rejected by Xu Shenxue!

He doesn't want to personally do any publicity and marketing, and there is no need to live under the spotlight.

Of course, there were some people who foolishly wanted to block the door for interviews, but they were clearly not used to how to deal with a super-rich person...

The security department of Zhiyun Technology simply threw the people out... Some of those who sneaked in were directly assigned to lawyers and detained on suspicion of stealing commercial secrets.

When Xu Shenxue travels, he also travels with multiple cars and more than a dozen security personnel...

Even the vehicle has been urgently upgraded to a bulletproof car.

Xu Shenxue didn't sell the car himself, but a European investor was worried that Xu Shenxue might have an accident and die, which would affect the company's operations...

There are many stupid but courageous people these days. Seeing the world's richest man hanging around in front of them, they might not be able to resist and kidnap him.

So the European investor said that he happened to have shares in Mercedes-Benz and a board seat, and then asked Mercedes-Benz to airlift a bulletproof car to Xu Shenxue for use.

Xu Shenxue's life now belongs not only to him, but also to a large number of investors...

Other investors are more worried about Xu Shenxue's safety than Xu Shenxue himself.

It doesn't matter if you die, but it's a big deal if I lose my money...

As a result, Xu Shenxue began to live a daily life of traveling with more than a dozen security personnel and driving a bulletproof car.

To be honest, I’m a little bit not used to it!
But it's not a big problem. Xu Shenxue doesn't go shopping, bars, or KTVs, and he doesn't eat barbecue at roadside stalls... He basically rests at home, works at the company, and occasionally eats at the Yunhai restaurant next door...

It is a very simple and pure life with three points and one line. It is actually very difficult for outsiders, even those so-called powerful reporters, to meet Xu Shenxue.

Amid the lively discussions in the outside world, Xu Shenxue reached a cash-out plan with various strategic investors in a low-key manner and cashed out 5 billion US dollars by transferring part of Zhiyun Technology's shares.

With this sum of money, Xu Shenxue immediately acquired or took control of more than a dozen overseas companies that he had previously set his sights on, and asked these companies to set up R&D centers and production plants in China to carry out comprehensive technology transfer.

The 'Semiconductor Backup Plan' has officially started!
In order to maintain confidentiality, Xu Shenxue's investment was carried out through very complex financial operations involving multiple offshore companies. He then acquired or controlled shares in the capacity of an overseas company, and then established a research and development center and set up a factory in China on the grounds that the research and development costs and production costs in China were low.

On the surface, these are all very purely foreign-funded enterprises, and the sources of funds involve many countries around the world.

These are not companies like the lithography machine manufacturing that attract a lot of attention, but rather upstream equipment and material companies, so few people pay attention to them.

Even Zhiyun Technology didn't know that its boss had raised billions of dollars to launch the so-called semiconductor backup plan!
After the initial plan was successful, Xu Shenxue breathed a sigh of relief and continued to research and search for suitable targets!
If there are any in the country, we will acquire them and then support their development.

If there is nothing in China, try to find a ready-made one abroad. If you can acquire it, then acquire it. If you can’t acquire it, then try to purchase the technology. If that doesn’t work, then look for commercial spies, their former engineers, retired workers, etc. In short, everything is for these most basic technologies.

Of course, these can only deal with technologies that are not highly concerned. Those that are highly concerned, such as the system integration of lithography machines and several core key subsystems, are difficult to obtain through these tricky methods.

So what to do?
What else can I do? Do it myself!

When the outside world knew nothing about it, at the end of December, somewhere in Shenzhen, a company controlled by an offshore company and with a purely foreign-funded background, Gulf Electronics Co., Ltd., was quietly established...

This is a company specializing in lithography machine system integration, similar in nature to Nikon and ASML of the Netherlands.

(End of this chapter)