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Chapter 380 Acquisition Completion
With the salary adjustment of directors and heads of various departments completed, there are only three vice presidents of the company left.

Xu Yan has been with the company for the longest time. As the chief financial officer and vice president, he is responsible for the company's finance and investment business.

Since joining the company, he has made great contributions to the company.Especially in terms of investment, the vision is very keen.Many potential start-up companies have been invested for the company.

Moreover, the financial work in charge of him was also handled very well.All kinds of financing, loans, and acquisitions are handled just right.

Lin Rui was very satisfied.

After thinking for a while, Lin Rui set his annual salary at 1000 million, and he was also the first executive in the company whose annual salary reached [-] million.

Vice President Xu Zhe, as a master in management, adjusted and improved the company structure during this period, polished the management team, assisted Lin Rui in handling various affairs of the company, and made great contributions to the company.

The company has recently expanded so fast, the number of employees has increased so much, and it can still be organized, calm and orderly, and all aspects are taken care of with gusto, and Xu Zhe has contributed a lot.

At present, his annual salary is 510 million, and Lin Rui added 300 million to him with a stroke of a pen, bringing his annual salary to 810 million.

Then came Liu Heng, another new vice president who joined the company not long ago.This executive with a technical background also performed extremely well.In many ways, he has put forward constructive opinions for the company, and the acquisition of WhatsApp is his proposal.

Lin Rui thought for a while, this person has just joined the company for two or three months, and his current annual salary is more than 600 million, which shouldn't be adjusted.

However, the people do have real materials and have made a lot of contributions to the company. The high salary is not a loss, and the annual salary is directly set at 800 million.

When the annual salaries of all the company's executives were fixed and the adjustments were preliminarily completed, Lin Rui also breathed a sigh of relief.

He will not ignore those who contribute to the development of the company.

Adjusting salary is only one of them. In the future, according to everyone's qualifications and contributions, a small part of shares will be taken out, an option pool will be set up, and an equity incentive plan will be launched.

Let everyone enjoy the dividends of the company's development.

Like Han Yunsong, Tan Yuanming, Shang Yansong... these company veterans, high-level executives who made great contributions in the early days of the company's entrepreneurship.Although the annual salary is not as high as that of a vice president, after the implementation of the future equity incentive plan, the share of options obtained may not be lower than that of these vice presidents.

After a lot of work, the salary increase was settled and sent to the finance department for filing.

This salary increase plan will be officially implemented on January [-] next year, and at the same time, the company will also start a salary increase plan for those outstanding employees.

When the news came out, the company was elated from the top to the bottom.

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About the Twin Stars Building under Cheung Kong Industries.

Weiyang Technology and Cheung Kong Industrial, one really wants to buy, and the other really wants to sell, both of them are very sincere.

In this case, the negotiations went smoothly.There are not many people in Los Angeles who have the strength to take over Changjiang Industrial, and there are not many properties in Los Angeles that meet the taste of Weiyang Technology.

One side did not have a lion to open its mouth, and one side did not take the opportunity to lower the price.

On October 25, after nearly 20 days of negotiations, the two parties finally reached an agreement.

Weiyang Technology took over the 17-square-meter Gemini Building from Cheung Kong Industrial at a price of 28 billion, and there is also an undeveloped commercial land of more than [-] acres next to it.

Thanks to this being Los Angeles, the average house price is only around [-]. Commercial buildings and office buildings are a bit more expensive, and the price is limited. The transaction price is around [-] to [-].

If it is placed in the imperial capital or magic capital, the price of 28 to [-] square meters, such a Gemini building with an area of ​​[-] square meters, plus more than [-] acres of commercial land, may cost tens of billions to take it down.

Thinking about the housing prices in these two places, it is really a bit scary.

In terms of funds, Weiyang Technology actually invested 13 million yuan, and the remaining [-] billion yuan was mortgaged by the bank with the property rights of the building.

Real estate and commercial land are now hard currencies in the market, basically without any twists and turns, and easily obtained a loan of 13 billion from CCB.

On the 25th, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles, Weiyang Technology and Changjiang Industrial jointly held a signing ceremony and a press conference.

At the press conference, Weiyang Technology announced on the spot that it would acquire Changjiang Industrial's well-known Gemini Tower in Los Angeles at a price of 17 billion, which caused quite a stir.

Soon this incident spread on the Internet, and now Weiyang Technology and Lin Rui are in the limelight on the Internet, instantly attracting countless attention.

Fortunately, Weiyang Technology already has a lot of big money. Although 17 billion is not a lot, it will not surprise people too much.

Even so, there are still countless netizen Aitlin Rui...

Naturally, he ignored it, and casually sent a picture of the Gemini Tower, then closed the browser, and went on to deal with other things.

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On this day, Lin Rui was looking at a capital increase plan, mainly for those small and medium-sized start-up companies that Weiyang Technology had invested in.

For those who perform well and show their potential, they will further increase capital and share as appropriate.

As for the poor performers, several companies have already gone bankrupt.So far, Weiyang Technology has made seven or eight investments in vain. With the development, it is unknown how many more will follow.

This is actually quite normal. Investment is all about probability.If you don't open for three years, but after opening for three years, a successful family will be rewarded several times, tens of times, or even hundreds of times.

Looking at the first company, it is "Chang Wan Technology", which is a game company invested by Weiyang Technology, and it is also Weiyang Technology's first shot.

From then on, the system began to issue investment tasks, and Weiyang Technology also started the investment mode.

At that time, Weiyang Technology invested 300 million yuan, accounting for 40.00% of the shares of Changwan Technology.With this funding, Changwan Technology finally got rid of the fate of bankruptcy.

After experiencing this turmoil, the company has also learned a lesson, has become more cautious, and is no longer radical in all aspects.

In the past year, Changwan Technology has developed steadily, and its scale has doubled.Several web games developed have achieved good results on Weiyang Technology's crowd games platform.

Although the mobile game is still not profitable, it has been able to recover the cost.

In general, it didn't show any amazing potential, but it developed very smoothly.

Among the start-up companies invested by Weiyang Technology in Los Angeles, Changwan Technology has already performed relatively well.

This time, the other party took out 20.00% of the shares and raised 3000 million based on a valuation of 600 million.

As the first company invested by Weiyang Technology, it is a bit commemorative. Lin Rui has no opinion on valuation and continued investment.

Moreover, after this financing, Weiyang Technology holds more than half of the equity and has reached a controlling position.

Then there is a self-media company "Feiyue Media". Weiyang Technology invested 300 million last year, accounting for 40.00% of the shares of Feiyue Media.

At that time, I mainly took a fancy to the media attributes of this company. There were many self-media accounts under my name, and I could be a younger brother who waved the flag and shouted.

Unexpectedly, after this company got the financing from Weiyang Technology, with the funds and the endorsement of Weiyang Technology as a major shareholder, it suddenly became even more powerful.

In the past year, not only has the size of the company doubled several times, but the self-media accounts it operates have ushered in explosive growth, and they have considerable influence in the domestic self-media industry.

In the recent period, Weiyang Technology has controlled online public opinion so well, and this company has contributed a lot.

This time, Feiyue Media took out 20.00% of Wu's shares, raised 500 million yuan, and the company's overall valuation reached 6000 million yuan.

After this financing, although according to the agreement, the management rights still belong to the entrepreneurial team, Weiyang Technology has already obtained a controlling stake.

Then there is a dating website, which operates a dating software for men and women called "Yuema", which competes with Momo.

In January of this year, Weiyang Technology invested 1000 million, accounting for 40.00% of the company's shares.

After such a long time, "Yuema" has developed tens of millions of users.Although the 1000 million financing was carefully calculated, it is almost burned out now.

Because it is located in Los Angeles, which is not as good as a first-tier city, it rarely receives the attention of venture capitalists.Coupled with the fact that Momo has firmly occupied the first place in the industry, "Yuema" has not received much attention from capital.

This time the other party intends to take out 15.00% of the shares, raising 400 million yuan, with a valuation of 6000 million yuan.

Thinking about the popularity of the mobile Internet now, and it will usher in an explosion in the future, Lin Rui still agrees with this valuation.

Then scroll down, it is a start-up company called Anzhi Technology, mainly engaged in technical forums and download websites based on the Android system.

In January of this year, Weiyang Technology invested 800 million, accounting for 40.00% of the shares of Anzhi Technology.

With the financing from Weiyang Technology, Anzhi Technology has developed well during this period. The app store has more than 800 million users, and the professional forum based on the Android system has also gathered a large number of IT talents.

This time the company intends to take out 20.00% of the shares and raise another 1000 million, with an overall valuation of 5000 million.Moreover, an agreement has to be signed to maintain the founding team's control over the company. Lin Rui naturally has no objection. After the financing, Weiyang Technology has already taken control.

He is still quite optimistic about this company.The app store can be regarded as a relatively good traffic portal, which can help companies promote various software.

There are also many professional IT talents in professional forums, which can expand the company's influence and attract talents to join.

Then Lin Rui looked at another seven or eight start-up companies, all of which had invested in the past and had relatively promising development potential and prospects.

Just after reviewing these companies, the system suddenly came out.

System: The user has completed the task of investing in 120 start-up companies within one year, and will be rewarded with [-] hours of focus time.

Lin Rui was stunned when he saw the system prompt, and then remembered: Today the company will sign an investment agreement with Zhihu and Berry Berry to formally invest in these two start-up companies.

Although he did not attend the signing ceremony, it seems that the investment has been formally concluded now.

With the addition of these two start-up companies, Lin Rui's task of investing in [-] start-up companies within a year has finally been completed.

Of course, the rewards are also great. Every time the company invests in a company, the system will reward eight hours of focus time.

After completing the investment tasks of 120 companies, the system even rewarded [-] hours of concentration time at one time.

Let him suddenly enrich the extremely scarce time to concentrate.

As soon as I thought of this, another piece of news surfaced.

System: The pace of investment has already started, how can it stop, in the next three years, invest in [-] start-up companies.

For each investment, the system will reward seven hours of focus time.After one hundred investment tasks are completed, the system will reward [-] hours of concentration time at one time.

Lin Rui was a little surprised when he saw the system task, but also felt that it was as expected.

From the initial request to invest in ten start-up companies, to thirty, and then to one hundred this time.It seems that the system made him run wild all the way on the road of investment maniac.

But thinking about the future return rate and the concentration time rewarded by the system, Lin Rui can only say "really fragrant"!
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With the passage of time, on the 28th, Weiyang Technology finally reached an agreement with the founder team of WhatsApp and Sequoia Capital.

Weiyang Technology invested [-] million U.S. dollars to acquire WhatsApp wholly. From then on, WhatsApp will operate independently as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Weiyang Technology.

All the founders of WhatsApp will stay on and continue to be responsible for the overseas operations of WhatsApp.

For the domestic market, the headquarters of Weiyang Technology will set up a separate department to carry out localized improvements and operate independently on the basis of WhatsApp.

However, it still maintains interconnection with foreign versions, and can send messages, voice and video.On the whole, it is still the same social software, but the domestic version is more localized.

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However, the signing of the acquisition agreement does not mean that the acquisition has been completed, and then it needs to be reviewed and approved by some departments in the United States.

Although Goldman Sachs has guaranteed the ticket in this regard, Lin Rui still dare not neglect it. It is better not to make this matter public before the acquisition is completely reached.So as not to cause extra problems, to be interfered by others, and to cause some kind of oolong.

However, his worries are a bit superfluous. Facebook, the largest social software abroad, is busy going public recently, and a small start-up company like WhatsApp does not attract his attention at all.

The same is true for Tencent. Now its eyes are on the domestic one-third of an acre of land, and it doesn't care much about foreign markets.

Subsequently, Weiyang Technology acquired WhatsApp. This acquisition, which should have caused a storm in China, was carried out very low-key at the request of Weiyang Technology, and the outside world did not even notice it.

However, the preparations for Weiyang Technology did not fall behind.

In China, a high-level development team with rich experience in social software development has already been formed.

Half a month ago, I began to study various mobile social software at home and abroad, including KaKao in South Korea, QQ, WeChat in China...including the newly acquired WhatsApp.

The localization scheme of WhatsApp has been researched and discussed for a long time.

Roughly based on WhatsApp, referring to South Korea's KaKao and Tencent's WeChat, while maintaining a beautiful and concise framework, try to meet the tastes of Chinese people.

As for the name of the domestic version of WhatsApp, it is directly called WeChat.Simple, direct, easy to remember, and conducive to promotion.

It is conceivable that when Weiyang Technology released WeChat, Tencent was stunned and domestic public opinion boiled.

The WeChat that was just released will instantly become popular all over the Internet under this popularity, and the number of users will skyrocket in a short period of time!
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On the other hand, with the acquisition reached, although it has not yet passed the review of the US government, the source code of WhatsApp has been obtained.

The domestic development team has started localization development based on the WhatsApp source code.

With WhatsApp as a base and planning in advance, the work in this area is not complicated.In more than a week, all the development and testing work can be completed.

When the procedures in the United States are completed, Lin Rui will give domestic netizens a big surprise.

(End of this chapter)