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Chapter 198 Weibo goes public, market value skyrockets [Subscribe]

Time flies by.

February 2th is Lantern Festival.

Lao Li brought the Weibo creative team, including Manager Xu, and Xiong Xiaoge to ring the bell for the listing in Hong Kong Island.

The hundreds of millions of shares released this time represent 25% of Weibo.

After the process was completed, with the start of the Hong Kong stock market, the issue price of Weibo stock was more than twice that of Penguin's 3.7 Hong Kong dollars per share.

It was snapped up like crazy from the beginning!!
Lao Li rarely accepts media interviews.

But this listing day is different, the bell ringing ceremony will be held at a press conference.

Many reporters started interviewing him without waiting for him to speak.

"Mr. Li, Weibo Group's internal market capitalization is estimated to be HK$200 billion, but I've heard that countless large corporations are ready to make a move."

"Will Weibo's market capitalization break 300 billion today? If it does, it would mean a 300% surge in market capitalization."

"Mr. Li, your estimated wealth this year is probably higher than the second, third, and fourth richest people on the Forbes mainland China list combined."

"Will your assets exceed 50 billion US dollars?"

"Mr. Li, you're only 24 years old and already owning a multi-billion Hong Kong dollar business. What do you want to say the most right now? And to whom?"

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There are endless topics and questions.

From Xiong Xiaoge to Manager Xu and so on? They are all invisible minions.

Even Xiao Ma Ge, Yang Zhu Ge, Zhou Hongyi, Lei Jun and others who came to wait for the press conference and attend the celebration party were made transparent.

Li Wenyu has been to many roadshows.

He was able to handle such a situation with ease. He pointed to the reporter who asked him whether Weibo's market value would exceed 300 billion today.

Smiling, he said, "Weibo went public, and I was originally going to announce many future development plans at the press conference."

"It will be very helpful for investors who are optimistic about Weibo and want to buy shares, giving them more confidence."

"Since you asked, let me explain. Penguin's stock market capitalization was once inflated by over 10 billion yuan, and Weibo might also go down that path."

"I personally hope that shareholders have confidence in me and Weibo Group, but they don't need to be too blindly obedient."

The precedent is there, and we still have to wait and see how things develop after we successfully raise 5 billion yuan in financing.

It is estimated that it will take one or two months for Weibo’s market value to stabilize.

He had originally planned a press conference and intended to launch the Internet celebrity plan after Weibo went public.

With the help of the internet celebrity economy, a group of people and big Vs have become famous.

Then let this group of internet celebrities and big Vs make profits through the platform and fans.

This is no small matter.

If ordinary users really make money here, it will attract more and more people to flock in, which will be extremely beneficial to the in-depth exploration and development of the entire Weibo Group.

In addition to the package of internet celebrity plans, there is also investment development. For example, he is optimistic about Apple and Amazon, and will use the 5 billion raised to purchase some target stocks.

In the next few years, with the explosion of Apple mobile phones, the market value will definitely soar.

亚马逊也是从2005年的147亿美刀，升值到2010年600多亿刀，五年300%多净利润。

Of course, it is impossible for him to explain to major shareholders and ordinary investors why these investments have grown and prospered.

He will only give examples based on his past investment vision.

For example, when buying the pig farm, he copied Penguin's 11% stake and held it for a long time. He hoped that everyone would be optimistic about his investment vision and be able to make more money than losses from the financing.

The money raised from Weibo will also be used to purchase some real estate in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.

This is also investment development.

It's a clear sign that he bought a lot of residential houses and shops in Beijing, Shangyang and Shen, which means he is extremely optimistic about this industry.

It doesn’t matter how many people are reminded by this kind of clear sign to buy a house in advance.

Huanggua Li started buying land in major cities across the country as early as the 90s, but never cared about it.

Hoard the land for 10 to 20 years, and sell it when the price increases tenfold.

Cucumber is the most female.

All in all, Weibo Group's IPO press conference was still very successful.

No matter how many people understand the internet celebrity economy and mainland real estate investment.

At least Lao Li bought stocks himself and had the vision to make money from his investments? This is what exists in the memory of the Internet.

He made over a billion from the pig farm battle.

In just half a year, he became a major shareholder of Penguin, and his billion increased from 20 billion to more than billion!

This is the best stimulation.

A simple press conference and then a Q&A session with reporters.

After going through a set of procedures, we finally entered the celebration party.

Xiao Ma Ge smiled and raised his glass to celebrate in the free atmosphere, "Mr. Li, the planning and development you mentioned are so exciting that I want to get in on the action."

If the other party becomes a major shareholder of Penguin, he can also become a shareholder of Weibo.

You let me work for you, so I will make you an employee. That's reasonable.

Old Li laughed, "It's too late for you to say this now, isn't it?"

The red-shirted man raised his glass and said, "I've already arranged for people to buy goods outside, hoping to grab a few percentage points."

"I'm definitely confident that Mr. Li will invest with his vision."

Without a loan from a bank in advance, and only with the entrepreneur's own free money, there is actually not much that can be bought.

Jeon Ji-hyun was able to borrow more than 1 million to buy % of Penguin when it was first listed.

If Pony Ma wants to borrow money, he doesn't really need to mortgage his Penguin shares. There are plenty of bankers who want to befriend him.

Lei Jun also smiled brightly, "A toast to Mr. Li, (John Wick) is really good. I watched it three times with my wife. It was so exciting that my wife said she was almost a fan of Ms. Gao Yuanyuan."

Today is the fifteenth day since the release of John Wick: Chapter 11.

Box office? From the first to the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, the mainland box office took in 1.02 million yuan in seven days and seven nights.

This is the first blockbuster movie to break 100 million yuan in a single week since detailed records began in Chinese film history!

The overall result shocked people both at home and abroad.

There is no way around it. In addition to the quality of the film, the early dimensionality reduction attack is also closely related to the publicity and popularity.

The era of international celebrities such as Zhang Ziyi, Yan Zi, Liu Tao, and Guo Biting caused a huge storm on the Internet.

The several versions of their energetic songs and dances that they released one after another, after being promoted on the Weibo platform, were similar to the original short video in 2005 (a murder caused by a steamed bun).

It swept the Internet and even went overseas.

Huang Shengyi, Yao Xingtong and the others who brought their own food to shoot love songs in MVs, with their school uniforms and pure style, are still a gorgeous girl group.

One MV short video after another has become popular across East Asia and Southeast Asia simply by relying on the beauty economy.

Regardless of whether it looks good or not, whether the remade love song sounds good or not.

Big sister and little sister dancing?
Even in the era of short videos on Douyin, this thing is still loved by countless people!
Then there were the roadshows of Liu Shishi and Jiang Shuying, and even Blake Lively, Megan Fox and others were promoting the film heavily on Weibo.

This time the star team is on a roadshow.

It's almost like countless actresses, old, middle-aged and young, randomly raiding a city, regardless of whether it has anything to do with John Wick: Chapter 11.

The audience almost had stars to chase live!
Li Wenyu really gave Zhang Ziyi a piece of the pie, and she was the planned female supporting role in "The Wolf of Wall Street".

This kind of pie-sharing has stimulated countless people who have nothing to do with (John Wick) and have made them want to bring their own food to participate in the promotion.

It should be said that the current roadshows have been ruined by Lao Li.

Most serious roadshows involve the production team and director of a project running around behind the scenes. It started with Deng Xiaoping and a few other new idol superstars doing roadshows for movies they had nothing to do with.

All gone astray!
(Dying to Survive) was able to rake in over 8000 million in box office revenue in a single week during the summer holiday season.

As the time extends to the Spring Festival period, more theaters in mainland China have opened.

From (Crazy Stone) to (Perfect Stranger), both have 1300 million data points a day.

The reality and online promotion of (John Wick) is aimed at the small limit box office of 1500 million RMB every day.

It is said to be a small limit. The movies that are still in theaters, (Baby Project) (Raptors) (Black Mask 3), each took in a few million in box office in a week from the first to the seventh day of the Chinese New Year.

Theoretically, if John Wick had a 100% screening rate, it could have grossed around 1.2 million yuan in a single week.

Those three action blockbusters, each accumulating millions, couldn’t possibly be sold out!

Then from the 1.09th to the 2.11th of the first lunar month, (John Wick) accumulated 9800 million RMB, which is equivalent to 3 million RMB in the mainland, and more than million RMB in Hong Kong and Macau, which is equivalent to million RMB nationwide.

Three hundred million in two weeks!

Not only the Asian entertainment industry, but Hollywood was shocked again.

That shock is what's driving the Warner Bros. movies currently in production (The Hangover) and upcoming collaborations (Dallas Buyers Club).

There is also the possibility of reaching a cooperation (Slumdog Millionaire), who is more enthusiastic about negotiating cooperation each time.

Da Meiyu has made a great leap forward in the field of action actors!

After "You Are the Star", Li Jiaxin played the leading female role in "Extreme Escape Plan", which grossed 2.21 million yuan in mainland China after more than eight weeks of screening.

John Wick: Chapter 2.11 million in two weeks!
What's even more outrageous is that Escape Plan was released on January 2004, 1.

Lao Li knew that the sales exceeded 20 million in seven days in a single week, but compared with million a day years later, there were still many records to go, which the outside world didn't know.

Even Da Meiyuan started to get carried away.

However, she was very busy with her roadshows every day, and when she returned home in the evening, she would start talking about the exciting import and export trade, so she didn't have time to bloom.

That’s it.

I've been in a daze.

There were also many roadshows where many people asked Da Meiyuan in a naughty way, saying that she and Li Wenyu were a couple in the movie, but would she be able to do that in real life?

Da Meiyu has always stated that she is a fangirl of Sister Bingbing and it is impossible for her to stab her best friend in the back.

She is also a die-hard fan of Lao Li's books and movies. Pang Bing was watching them filming the kissing scene, and she felt super embarrassed.

It's just acting anyway.

Although he refused to admit it, Pang Bing also supported his best friend Yuanyuan on Weibo.

The outside world is calm.

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On the afternoon of June 2th.

At the close of Hong Kong stocks, the market value of Time Weibo was HK$268 billion.

Although the market value did not surge by 50% in a single day, its size has already exceeded that of Penguin.

When Lao Li arrived at a big hotel in Pengcheng by car, he was sighing that the trading week would end the day after tomorrow afternoon.

It was so easy for Weibo to break HK$300 billion.

Zhalang Weibo went public in 2014, with a market capitalization of only HK$319 billion on the first day. It did not reach over HK$2016 billion until 880.

Is this an era ahead of time?

It can only be said that Lao Li's version of Weibo has snatched up too many users in East Asia and Southeast Asia in advance, leaving no opportunity for Twitter to develop.

The larger the market share of a regional leader, the greater its development prospects, and the greater the stock market's confidence in Weibo.

And his status as the founder is also the biggest good news to stimulate the market value.

It took three years to get the makeshift team listed, and they also had other large platforms in their hands, with financing valuations of 800 million or 1 billion US dollars.

A super genius founder like him? Not to mention ordinary shareholders.

Even capital like Zhou Hongyi is buying up the goods. Doesn’t this mean they have high hopes for him?
Old money in Hong Kong and Macau is also buying up stocks.

Lao Li began to suspect that the price would easily break through 300 billion, or even reach the inflated 400 billion, and might not fall in the short term.

In a big hotel in Shenzhen, Da Meiyu, Pang Bing and Li Jiaxin, who had just returned to the hotel after finishing their roadshow, all came over excitedly to ask about each other's well-being.

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Another new day.

Li Wenyu and Da Meiyu went downstairs together. When they were having breakfast in the buffet restaurant, they saw Xiao Yang and Robert, a foreigner from Columbia, coming to greet them.

Robert hurriedly greeted him, "Lee, we at Columbia are responsible for the Omega Cinema Line, and we can offer a buyout of $1200 million to Gao (John Wick)."

"We just need Gao to follow us on the roadshow."

"Lee, Jet Li's hero was only bought out for $1500 million. Zhou's Kung Fu was also bought out for a similar amount."

"But those are the accumulation of half a lifetime of hard work by Li and Zhou. $1200 million is very sincere."

At this stage, (John Wick) has only been released in China and South Korea.

There is no such thing in other places in East Asia and Southeast Asia, including Miou.

We have to wait until the box office is strong enough before we can increase the price.

During the period when Hollywood was the most confident and domineering and did not mind scheduling many theaters for Chinese-language blockbusters to be released, Chinese-language blockbusters also performed well.

The best example of this is that the movie "Hero" has grossed 14 billion RMB worldwide in a world without his influence.

Li Wenyu shook his head, "Gao won't go to Omi for a publicity roadshow."

Robert, "..."

The foreigner was confused for several seconds before he lit a cigar speechlessly. "Shit, those damn capitals."

"Without the high-profile roadshow, we can only give John Wick: Chapter 600 million to buy out the theatrical distribution."

This price is not low either.

This is the first time that Gao Yuanyuan plays the leading female role. She is definitely the number one female character, not the female villain in Extreme Professional, nor the supporting role in The Beekeeper.

This is also thanks to Gao Yuanyuan's participation in several consecutive beauty pageants, which made her popular in the European and American Internet world, and countless European and American audiences are familiar with her.

In China and South Korea, the box office of John Wick really exploded.

China has grossed 3 million in two weeks, and South Korea has accumulated 7700 million Hong Kong dollars. This is when Jeon Ji-hyun just returned and started her roadshow in South Korea.

She had been running around China for the past ten days.

She just set off again after two days of rest. With Jeon Chi-hsien's T0-level influence in Peninsula, she started off with a bang, contributing more than 3300 million Hong Kong dollars to the box office in two days, compared to only 12 million in the previous 4300 days.

Xiaoquan has been running in South Korea for a month. It is certain that he will break 2 million in one place in South Korea, and there is also a possibility that he will reach 3 million.

The final record of "Extreme Job" in South Korea was 3.68 million Hong Kong dollars, with millions of viewers.

After thinking for a moment, Lao Li smiled and extended his hand, "Happy cooperation."

Warner Bros. also made an offer, but it was not as good as Columbia.

This is the first blockbuster film belonging to the American actress. We need at least the second one before we can expect higher sales in Europe and the United States.

Shi Guang is now unable to collect debts from Omi Cinemas on his own and avoid being cheated.

This kind of outright sale is also fine.

Robert chatted for a few more minutes and was so excited that he was about to fly to Beijing to sign the contract.

Da Meiyuan then muttered quietly, "Is the first film going to surpass the global box office of (The Shallows)? Over 7 million RMB? This is going to break Sister Bingbing's record."

Old Li, “…”

There are so many crazy off-field factors involved.

(End of this chapter)