On the last day of their stay in San Francisco, Li Rui and Dalula went to the Twitter headquarters.

In name, this is a visit to Twitter by the R incubator, but in fact it is to spy on intelligence.

Li Rui vaguely remembered that in his previous life, Twitter had sought to be sold several times, but could never find a suitable buyer. In the end, he had to go public and create a modest wealth miracle.

Compared with the financial returns that acquiring Twitter can bring, Li Rui is more concerned about Twitter's strong control over the right to speak.

In this year's US election, Twitter has initially shown its influence on Internet public opinion. Housse is far ahead of Romney in terms of the number of topics, number of fans, and public opinion guidance on Facebook and Twitter, while Twitter

The results of many previous polls were also consistent with the final election results.

Some US experts predict that in the next general election four years from now, online public opinion represented by Facebook and Twitter will have a deeper impact on the intentions of young voting groups. If the two parties want to win in the general election,

To win, the network is a more important battleground.

Some people sneer at the predictions of experts, but Li Rui knows very well that the reason why Tang was able to win the election even though he was not favored by others in his previous life was that his many comments on Twitter played a very important role in winning the election.

After that, he still used Twitter as a speech channel and gained the reputation of "Twitter governing the country".

If you can directly or indirectly control Twitter, whether it is a financial investment or preparation for the election four years later, it will have extremely high strategic significance.

I heard that Dalula, the most popular R incubator spokesperson in Silicon Valley recently, came to visit Twitter, and Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, personally welcomed them in the conference room.

Jack Dorsey is thin and handsome, and he is considered an outstanding handsome guy among the many successful entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.

A few years ago, he founded Twitter with Evan Williams and Biz Stone, and sent out the first Twitter message in history: "itter (I just built Twitter)"

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At that time, Jack Dorsey probably did not expect that his entrepreneurial move would greatly affect the entire Internet's information dissemination channels and even change people's lifestyles.

In fact, the creation of ins is inextricably linked to Jack Dorsey. At that time, Systrom followed some of Dorsey’s suggestions and finally created ins.

From this perspective, Li Rui should actually thank Dorsey. Without Dorsey, there would be no huge return on Li Rui’s investment on Instagram.

After meeting Dorsey, the two sides talked happily. When talking about Twitter's financing needs, Dorsey said that Twitter was preparing to go public and was preparing to conduct a final round of financing before the listing, with a valuation of 8 billion yuan.

They are well-known predator companies in the venture capital industry, dst and Puxin Group.

Twitter expects to raise 600 million to 700 million yuan. It has already received a subscription commitment of 300 million yuan from dst and Puxin, and is seeking investors for the remaining 400 million yuan, or 5% of the shares.

Dalula was shocked when she heard this valuation.

Li Rui's total investment in R Incubator is only 500 million yuan, and the dozens of start-up companies he has invested in currently cost more than 50 million yuan in total.

As soon as Twitter raised funds, it required R incubator to use all the remaining funds, which was a bit difficult for Dalula to accept.

Even if Twitter is a social media giant with more than 100 million daily active users, is it really worth 8 billion yuan?

Thinking of this, Dalula couldn't help but glance at Li Rui to see his reaction, but found that instead of showing any surprise, Li Rui showed a strange expression.

That expression was almost exactly the same as the one Li Rui showed when he got Dalula completely last night. It was an expression of satisfaction when his wish was fulfilled!

It's natural for Li Rui to show this expression. He remembers quite clearly that the market value of Twitter after its listing reached more than 30 billion. If he made the move now, he would have to wait up to a year for this investment of 400 million yuan to become

Around 1.5 billion.

Although it is not as good as Li Rui's huge returns that stirred up troubles in the financial market, for normal investment, this is a very exciting rate of return.

Even if you just hold shares in Twitter without liquidating them, you can still use this investment to become a member of Twitter's board of directors and have an actual impact on Twitter.

Li Rui winked at Dalula.

Dalula understood what he meant and said to Dorsey: "R Incubator is very optimistic about Twitter's prospects. If possible, we are willing to become Twitter's partners."

"Really, that's great." Dorsey was very happy.

Currently, Twitter is making every effort to promote the listing process and is in urgent need of capital injection. Originally, this investment was prepared for a prince from a certain kingdom in the Middle East, but there was a slight problem with the prince's funds and he was unable to enter the country through normal channels. It has been delayed for two years.

It's been more than a month.

This kind of delay is unacceptable for Twitter, which is eager to go public.

Now that R Incubator is willing to take over this part of the shares, it can be regarded as solving Twitter's urgent need.

After this financing is completed, Twitter can officially start the listing process and submit application documents to the sec.

After both parties reach an investment intention, they will then enter the audit due diligence process, and a series of processes will probably be completed within a month.

Li Rui left all the follow-up matters to Dalula. He hurried back to Los Angeles. After handling a few things there, it was time to return to China to prepare for the next financial war against the island country!

The money spent on this visit to Magnesia must be earned back from the island country!

The day Li Rui returned to Los Angeles happened to be the day when the box office for the opening weekend of "The Hunger Games" was released.

219 million magnesium yuan!

This is a magical record created by "The Hunger Games" for eight full days from its premiere on November 11th to November 18th!

Last week's box office champion "Skyfall" ranked second, with a box office of 41.5 million yuan, only one-fifth of "The Hunger Games"!

From the third place "Lincoln", to the sixth place Oscar hit "Escape from Tehran", to the seventh place classic sequel "Taken 2", to the tenth place science fiction blockbuster "Cloud Atlas", the box office of all nine films

Added together, it’s barely half of “The Hunger Games”!

For this movie with a total investment of only 70 million yuan, the box office in the first week is enough to cover the cost, and every subsequent movie ticket will be profitable!

Lionsgate makes big money!

Li Rui made big profits!
Chapter completed!