Chapter 35

Netscape listed, because the controlling party is Nicholas group company, and Nicholas group company is not a listed company, did not disclose its shareholders to the outside world! Therefore, the outside world does not know that Henry is the boss behind Netscape!

But not this time. Henry is the major shareholder of Cisco. Before the company goes public, it must be clearly stated in the prospectus.

At this moment, Henry is famous!

After Apple jobs, Microsoft Bill Gates, Dell, Michael Dell and Oracle CEO Ellison, Henry is the most powerful young billionaire who has never studied in college!!!

At this moment, the media "riot", sent countless elite soldiers to encircle and intercept Henry!

At this moment, Henry is really depressed. Can he live a quiet life?

"Refuse, refuse all interviews!!"

Henry, hiding in his office, exclaimed angrily! Miss helen kindly made Henry a cup of coffee. For her craftsmanship and the taste of coffee, Henry began to get used to it. When he drank other people's coffee, he always felt that he couldn't get used to it.

Today's Helen Wheeler is not the same as before, but more and more graceful, and more and more white-collar female temperament!

Tall, wearing a white shirt, black tights, looks very sexy!

"The chairman, the media reporters are blocked at the door of the company, and they can't drive away..." Helen said helplessly.

Henry is now in the headquarters of Cisco. It's a week since Cisco's IPO. Its share price has exceeded $70 and its market value has exceeded $7 billion! Today, Cisco will hold a major board meeting. Therefore, Henry had to risk being harassed by reporters to come to the company!

The money raised by Cisco after its listing will generally be invested for the second time, because the money is the money after the sale of shareholders' shares, so it is the money of shareholders, not the company's. Under normal circumstances, they would make secondary investment, but Henry didn't know whether Sequoia Capital would follow or not. However, many representatives of big companies came to the board meeting, including Citibank, Morgan bank, KPCB venture capital fund, IDG technology venture capital fund, Goldman Sachs Group and so on!

These banks and venture capital funds are very optimistic about Cisco. After Cisco went public, they all bought some Cisco shares more or less. They have the right to attend this meeting, and at the same time, they are obviously very interested in the second investment of Cisco, otherwise they would not have come.

Ford Brooke, a representative of Sequoia Capital, also attended the meeting later!

The meeting was presided over by CEO John chambers. He gave a speech after Cisco went public and his ambition for the future. The real drama will start soon!

"This board meeting will make a second investment in Cisco, and shareholders who have the will can participate in it!" John Chambers said, "well, first of all, according to Cisco's current share price, the total market value is as high as $7 billion. Chairman Henry Williams will make a secondary investment of 90% of his stock market capital, that is $850 million. As for how much you want to invest, we can discuss it together! "

Henry originally held 67.5% shares in Cisco. Cisco listed and issued 20% shares, of which 13.5% was used to get 945 million US dollars. Henry invested another 850 million US dollars, leaving more than 90 million US dollars!

At this time, Ford Brooke of Sequoia Capital said: "Sequoia Capital will not make secondary investment!"

Sequoia Capital has its own small 99. They think that the market value of Cisco has reached its peak, and there is little room to rise. It is not cost-effective to invest again. Instead of spending so much money to invest in Cisco, it's better to invest in 3Com to get more shares than Cisco. Once 3Com is listed, Sequoia Capital can make a big profit!

However, no one thought that Cisco's market value in the future will be as high as US $500 billion or US $600 billion, Sequoia Capital will regret to die at that time!!!

This time, Sequoia Capital will not make secondary investment, and its shares will definitely be diluted a lot!

They are one of the founders of the company. They hope the company will develop better and better!

The meeting lasted a long time, from nine o'clock in the morning to three o'clock in the afternoon.

Henry can not agree with other venture capital institutions to invest heavily in Cisco and share shares, so he must grasp a degree. Therefore, the coordination of major investors and reasonable distribution of shares has become one of the key tasks of this meeting!

After the meeting, Henry's shareholding reached about 63.5%, the possacks 10.5%, the company's management 4.5%, Citibank and Morgan bank 2.5%, Goldman Sachs, IDG, KPCB each 2%, while Sequoia Capital Shares diluted to 3.8%, the remaining shares are held by many other small shareholders! Cisco got 1.32 billion US dollars through the second investment!

Ask Cisco how to deal with so much money? Very simple, just three words, "acquisition"!

Cisco won't repay the bank money for the time being, and Citibank and Morgan bank won't press for debt at all. The longer Cisco delays, the better, and the more interest it can get!

The bank is a monster organization, the more money you have, the more it likes to give you loans! If you don't have money, it won't lend it to you!

In order to expand the scale of Cisco performance, it is necessary to recommend Cisco products before users access the Internet!

If Cisco also does Internet access services, then when users access the Internet, Cisco can immediately recommend its own products, which is a perfect match!

At the same time, in order to crack down on AOL's Internet access service, Cisco's involvement in Internet access service is of great strategic significance!

It's different from AOL's petty, but also rent other people's network channel!

If you want to do it, you can do a big one!!!

Acquisition of network backbone network appears to be bull force!!!

Henry announced Cisco's plan to acquire the backbone network before the end of the meeting. Everyone raised their hands and praised it, but Ford Brooke was the only one with a bitter smile: isn't Cisco forcing AOL to die by doing so? Other people don't know about Henry. Can he not? Nicholas group and Isearch are all under his name

Now it's time to unite with Cisco to kill AOL. Ford Brooke is dying!

Nima, don't take such a bully!

Ford Brooke rushed back to Sequoia Capital, immediately reported the news to the board of directors, and also told Steve case.

However, AOL has no choice but to buy the backbone network of Cisco. They have nothing left to do, hoping Sequoia Capital can snipe it. But the sniping is completely contrary to Sequoia Capital's development strategy. They are venture capital companies, not technology companies. They snipe Cisco, and then buy a network backbone network. It's just thankless! Moreover, Sequoia Capital does not have so much money.

Although Sequoia Capital is powerful, it has invested a lot of enterprises, so it may not have a lot of money on hand. Unless it sells shares or borrows money, it has no money to buy the backbone network at all!

"On January 10, 1989, Cisco formally submitted its acquisition request to MCI company!"

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