Chapter 579

Hangzhou, Taobao headquarters.

"Mr. Sun, e-commerce competition is fierce, Taobao is in urgent need of capital turnover, I hope to start the third round of financing as soon as possible!" It's Ma Yun, the chairman and CEO of taobao.com. On his left, there is a short, bald man in his 40s and 50s. He's no one else. It's sun Zhengyi, the chairman of Softbank!

Sun Zhengyi laughed and said, "don't worry, Softbank is mobilizing funds and will be in place soon!"

As soon as the voice dropped, his cell phone suddenly rang.

"Sorry, I'll take the phone first!"

Sun Zhengyi picked up the phone and went to one side to answer it.

"Chairman, the big deal is not good!"

Sun Zhengyi frowned and said, "what's the matter?"

"30 minutes ago, someone sold a large number of Softbank shares, and also a large number of short Softbank shares, which led to a sharp drop of 300 yen in Softbank's share price, which could not help causing panic selling of shareholders, just like an avalanche!"!!! Chairman, it seems that someone wants to punish us in the stock market. If we don't stop it, I'm afraid Softbank's share price will fall even worse! "

At present, with the increase of grain price and ore price, the competitiveness of Japanese enterprises in the world is not as good as before, and they are blocked by Henry Williams, which leads to a very low economic environment in Japan! The Softbank companies in this life are far from Henry's previous life. Good Internet companies are all founded by Henry himself. Although Softbank casts its net everywhere and invests in many Internet companies, those companies can't give Softbank a great return. On the contrary, many companies make Softbank lose money. So far, Softbank is heavily in debt, reaching $10 billion. At this time, Softbank's stock price plummeted, hit very seriously!

Sun Zhengyi's face became gloomy.

"Raise money as soon as possible and stabilize the stock price," he said

"Yes

After hanging up the phone, sun Zhengyi steps heavily and walks to Ma Yun.

"Mr. Ma, Softbank has suffered unexpected changes. Some people are selling and shorting Softbank's shares in the stock market. The investors are panicking. Softbank has to raise a lot of money to pull up its share price. I'm afraid it can't finance Taobao anymore!"

After sun Zhengyi said this, Ma Yun's face changed.

At the critical moment when Taobao's capital chain breaks at any time, Softbank actually gives up financing, while the competition in China's e-commerce market is so fierce that Taobao may be submerged in this red sea immediately!

"I'm sorry, Mr. Ma. You have to figure out your own way to raise funds. I have to go back to Japan now!"

Sun Zhengyi said, no matter how ugly Ma Yun's face was, he turned and left directly.

After sun Zhengyi walked out of the door, people around Ma Yun said angrily: "if the Japanese are really unreliable, at this critical moment of financing, they actually say that if they don't finance, they won't finance!"

"No way, Taobao is just one of his investment projects, Softbank is the core industry. Taobao is broken, he still has Dangdang

"Softbank still has no absolute confidence in Taobao. Otherwise, if it invests in Taobao, why should it invest in Dangdang to cultivate a competitor?"

Ma Yun looked up at everyone and said in a deep voice: "well, don't say these are useless. The priority now is to find new investors immediately! "

"Well!"

……

Sun Zhengyi flew back to Tokyo that day, and then rushed to Softbank headquarters.

"Have you found out who is targeting our Softbank?" Sun Zhengyi walked into the conference room where he was having a meeting and immediately asked.

"Yes, it's Henry Williams. All his Softbank shares have been sold into the stock market!" The director in charge of the stock market immediately replied.

In that year, Henry took a stake in Softbank, holding 25% of the shares. Later, after repeated financing, the shares have been diluted to about 5%. Although he is still one of the major shareholders of software, he has no voice. This time, Henry simply threw the stock, causing panic among shareholders, and then took the opportunity to short Softbank to earn a sum of money! At the same time, it can stop Softbank from investing in Taobao!

"It's him Sun Zhengyi was surprised to hear Henry's name.

"Yes, chairman, it's Henry Williams who shortens Softbank stock in most cases! So Softbank is in big trouble! "

At this time, the Minister of Finance said: "yes, there is a lot of trouble. The stock price has plummeted, resulting in heavy losses for the major shareholders of Softbank. They are very dissatisfied now, ask the company to pull up the share price as soon as possible! But we only raised two billion dollars in total! "

"Are banks reluctant to lend?" Sun Zhengyi asked with a frown.

"In the current situation, few banks are willing to lend to us!" The Minister of Finance shook his head and sighed.

"Then sell the company's non core industries to prepare the funds!" Sun Zhengyi said painfully.

"Yes

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Gongqin palace, Beijing.

"Sire, there's news from Japan that Softbank is selling off non core industries!" Villette laughed.

"Ha ha, let's go down one after another and make people short more in the stock market!" Henry's mouth rose slightly and said with a smile, "doesn't Softbank want to raise the share price? It depends on who has more money! When Softbank can't hold on, send someone to buy the shares of Taobao held by Softbank! "

"Yes, your majesty!"

Ma Yun is worried about financing at this time. Taobao has a 9% market share in China's e-commerce market. Many venture capital institutions are still optimistic about Taobao, but the valuation of Taobao is very high. If we invest now, we will not only have a very high share, but also have a low rate of return and high risk. Venture capital institutions usually favor start-ups and do angel investment. In this way, the investment is small and the return is large. Even if the investment fails, it will not lose much. As long as one of the 10 start-ups succeeds, it will also make a profit. If a unicorn company with a market value of 1 billion US dollars is born, the venture capital company will make a lot of money!!!

Therefore, with the current scale and situation of Taobao, it is difficult for Ma Yun to find financing. What's more, Taobao's major shareholders are in great trouble, which casts an unpredictable shadow on Taobao!

Ma Yun first went to IDG capital, Sequoia Capital and DCM capital, because these three venture capital companies are all shareholders of Taobao, and they are most likely to continue to invest in Taobao. The three venture capital companies were originally prepared to follow the investment, but Softbank suddenly decided not to raise funds, and it was still difficult for the mud Bodhisattva to cross the river. In this case, the three venture capital companies did not dare to take too much risk and hesitated to invest in Taobao. If you don't invest in Taobao, your previous investment will be wasted

As soon as Ma Yun left, Henri's men came back.