My Age of Investment

   Chapter 1142 Option Exit Channel

  September 13, in the morning, the weather was cloudy.

  Xia Jingxing arrived at San Francisco Airport by plane, and then transferred to Palo Alto by car.

   After arriving at a small white villa at the destination, he got out of the car and saw Christina and Xia Zerui who came to greet him.

Kristina seems to have been well-dressed today, her hair is pulled high in a bun, and she is wearing a short burgundy suspender skirt. A large expanse of snow-white plumpness is exposed on her chest, and her smooth and straight long legs are exposed in the air. Standing there, like a blooming delicate rose.

   The little guy who was held in his arms also seemed to have been deliberately dressed up by his mother today, and he was forced to open a business. He was wearing a solid-color cotton shirt, shorts, and a pair of mini children's sandals on his feet.

   Kristina gently put her son on the ground, then said something to him, and pointed at Xia Jingxing again.

   Soon, Xia Zerui, who received the instruction, wore a bright smile of innocence, strode out of the villa gate with two short legs, and ran towards Xia Jingxing who was standing beside the car.

   Seeing his innocent son, Xia Jingxing's heart was instantly softened, he stood there smiling and waited for the little guy to run over by himself.

   There wasn’t a long way to go, but the little guy stumbled and stumbled. He accidentally dropped a **** in the middle. Xia Jingxing was about to step forward to help him when he saw Kristina waved to him, so he had to give up.

   The little guy was very brave, got up from the ground without crying or making trouble, and continued to walk towards Xia Jing.

After    approached, he bit his fingers, raised his head and stared at Xia Jingxing with round eyes, as if he was wondering who this was.

   "Don't you know me again?"

  Xia Jingxing squatted down with a smile, lifted his son high, and after playing for a while, turned around and got into the car, holding out a bunch of bright red roses.

   He held his son in one hand and the flower in the other. After walking to Christina, he handed over the rose, "It seems that I picked the wrong flower, and it matches your outfit today."

   Kristina smiled, took the red rose in Xia Jingxing's hand, leaned over and took a light sniff, the whole person seemed extremely happy.

  Xia Jingxing knew that she liked flowers and plants, so she would prepare a bunch of flowers every time they met. Although it was very common that roses of different colors and varieties were tossed over and over, she just ate this one.

  Women like the sense of ritual, Xia Jingxing understands it best!

  Xia Jingxing held his son in one hand and Kristina's slender waist in the other, and the two walked into the room talking and laughing.

   As soon as Xia Jingxing entered the room, he saw the toys all over the floor, the good living room had become a mess, no need to think to know that it was the handwriting of the little guy.

   He put his son gently on the ground and started to play with the little guy.

   Seeing that Mr. Xia, who was majestic outside, came home and crawls on the ground with her son, Kristina couldn't help showing a smile on her face.

   At this moment, she suddenly remembered something and asked aloud: "I heard that you invested more than ten billion US dollars on Hong Kong Island to short the listed companies under the Lai family?"

   After hearing this, Xia Jingxing looked up at Kristina and said with a smile, "Is there a lot of reports from the US? Even you know?"

  Christina pursed her red lips and didn't answer. After a long while, she said, "You stay for a day, then fly back to Hong Kong Island tomorrow night. It's important, and come to see my son and me when you're done."

  Xia Jingxing's expression was a little stunned, he knew that Kristina must have misunderstood.

   Because he said last month that he was going to see her and his son.

  Maybe in Christina's view, she left her important job and came to the United States in order to keep her appointment.

   "No, I have already made arrangements, and the affairs of Hong Kong Island will be handled by myself."

   Kristina's beautiful eyes widened, her face looked particularly surprised, "On Hong Kong Island...the investment of more than 10 billion US dollars, you are so relieved to leave it to others to take care of it? Don't pay attention to it?"

  Xia Jingxing said with a smile: "The money has already been invested, so what are you staring at, just wait for the draw."

   Prize draw!

The adjective    made Kristina completely speechless, and even Xia Jingxing was a little unfamiliar to her.

   She never took the initiative to ask about Xia Jingxing's other businesses other than Facebook and YouTube. She only knew that Envision Capital's asset management scale had grown very large.

   But she never imagined that a huge investment of more than 10 billion US dollars would be handed over to her subordinates.

   Kristina guessed in her heart that the investment in New York may be more and more significant than this tens of billions of dollars.

   "Then are you going to New York in a few days?"

  Xia Jingxing didn't look up, and replied casually, "Yes, I'll go there, and I'll go back to Palo Alto when I'm done."

   This answer completely confirmed Kristina's guess, but she didn't continue to ask the bottom line.

  Xia Jingxing played with his son with toys for a while, feeling a little tired, and began to ask Christina about Facebook.

   "How has Jerry's performance been since he joined the company?"

  Christina smiled and said, "He works very hard and seems to want to get back what he has lost."

  Xia Jingxing nodded lightly, "That's good, he has found a new direction of struggle in life."

   Kristina suddenly laid her body on the sofa, and put her head close to Xia Jingxing who was sitting on the floor on the outer edge of the sofa, "I want to talk to you about something, and I want to hear your opinion!"

   Hearing this, Xia Jingxing turned his head and almost collided with the turbulent career line.

  After giving birth to a child, Kristina looked plump and full of looks like a young woman.

   Thinking that he hadn't made out with Christina for a long time, Xia Jingxing's heart suddenly became hot.

  Christina looked at her son who was sitting on the ground building blocks, or throwing blocks, and said, "Isn't Facebook's plan to go public this year stranded?

   Today's financial market is very unstable, and investors have no opinion, and they also hope for a better listing time.

   But in private, employees seem to have some complaints, complaining that after the company suspends the listing plan, they have no financial freedom, and they cannot even improve their lives. "

Xia Jingxing lay back gently, skillfully rested his head on Kristina's soft chest, and said in his mouth, "What's there to complain about, now I'm going to go public, first with a stock price break, then with share price halved.

   In addition to financial freedom and life improvement, I see that many people’s options will be voided.

  You arrange a few professionals to popularize the knowledge of options to the employees, day by day, as if they have never seen the world. "

   Kristina felt the tickling on her chest and pinched Xia Jingxing's ear with her hand, which finally stopped.

   She continued: "You have planes, luxury houses, and luxury cars, but many early employees are still renting.

  We have been in business for six full years. Our employees thought we would usher in a huge victory this year, but they suddenly announced that we would not be listed. How disappointed you must be in their hearts.

   This kind of emotion, I can actually understand, after all, what is the purpose of starting a business, not to improve material conditions, is it really to change the world?

   Even if you want to change the world, you must first change yourself and improve your family conditions.

   There is no bread or milk, talk about poetry and distance! "

  Xia Jingxing sat up straight, then turned to look at Kristina face to face, and gave her a thumbs up, "Seeing problems is getting more and more mature, it deserves praise."

  Christina said angrily: "I'm going to tell you something serious, the employees' emotions need to be appeased."

   "Let them wait another year and restart the listing plan next year!"

  Christina shook her head gently, "This reason has been used many times, and now the employees are getting harder and harder to fool.

   A little dissatisfied, people jumped to Google, Wisdom Fruit to get genuine listed company options, or were dug into startups as co-founders and executives. "

  Xia Jingxing frowned, "This is an unavoidable talent flow!"

   "What kind of talent flow is this? It's called the resignation wave. This month, I have received six resignation applications from employees at the E7 and M3 levels."

  Xia Jingxing was a little surprised. The Facebook E sequence was for engineers and technical research, and the M sequence was for management. The former had only nine ranks, and the latter had only five ranks.

   Today’s Facebook, M5 has only two people, Christina and Yang Jieyuan, and M4 is a CXO-level executive.

   Therefore, E7 and M3 can be regarded as the middle and high-level and important backbone of the enterprise.

   If employees of this level change jobs too much, Facebook will suffer a great loss.

   "Then this problem is a bit serious and needs to be resolved as soon as possible."

  Christina nodded lightly, "Yeah, so I'll discuss it with you."

  Xia Jingxing heard the overtone and asked, "Do you already have a specific plan?"

   Kristina smiled and said, "It's not me, it's Yuri Milner!

   He came up with a plan that looked very good. DST came forward to acquire Facebook's employee options, allowing employees to complete an exit and cash out before the listing. "

   A strange smile appeared on Xia Jingxing's face, "I thought it was an amazing plan, but this is what happened?"

  Christina smiled: "This plan is actually quite good, it can quickly calm people's hearts.

   In addition, Milner also said that without setting an acquisition limit, employees can cash out as many options as they want, which is very generous! "

   "Generous? I think the Russians want to take the opportunity to absorb Facebook's equity!"

   Kristina smiled, "I know that, but isn't there any other better option at this stage?"

   "Who said no? You forgot what I do? Envision Capital can completely contract this business! Fertilizer water does not flow to outsiders!"

   A smile appeared on the corner of Xia Jingxing's mouth, does this mean that he has cut off the road of the future Russian venture capital tycoon?

The rise of DST in the venture capital industry in the previous life is inseparable from the great success of investing in Facebook. The bald man Yuri obtained 10% of the Facebook shares through various means including the acquisition of employee options, which he earned for the LP. It is full of pots, and it also paves the way for the next development of DST, and started a signboard.

   "Of course I know that Envision Capital has the ability to take these employee options, but isn't it too cost-effective? The current Facebook valuation is not cheap."

  Xia Jingxing smiled lightly, "I don't need to buy it with my own money, so I don't need to worry about other people's money!"

"Oh well!"

   Kristina nodded lightly, and then she said: "Oh, and the employee option pool has completely bottomed out. It may be necessary for all shareholders to dilute some of their equity and inject them into the option pool."

  Xia Jingxing spread out his hands, "It's totally fine, anyway, I'm not alone in diluting it!

   You used this method well. While opening the option exit channel, the option pool was issued at the same time, which made employees see hope all at once. Who would want to change jobs? "

  Christina smiled lightly, "I just caught up, it's not the method I came up with."

  Xia Jingxing didn't completely believe what he said, because Facebook has developed rapidly under Christina's control over the years, even faster than Xiao Mazi's Facebook in the same period of his previous life, so he hardly bothered.

   If it didn’t happen to catch up with this wave of financial crisis, the company could completely hit the market.

   Of course, it’s okay to delay the listing for a year. The scale of revenue, profit and user volume can be infinitely close to Facebook, which was only listed in 2012 in the previous life.

   But, then again, the establishment of Facebook in this life was more than a year earlier than in the previous life.

   Moreover, Xiaomazi's Facebook was built to catch up with Friendster and MySpace, and their Facebook was established earlier than these two websites, and they developed along the way.

After    thinking, Xia Jingxing secretly made up his mind that it was time for the development of Facebook to enter a new chapter.

   Thank you Liang Xiao for your 20,000 coin reward, I owe you three shifts in total, let me pay it back slowly.

   (end of this chapter)