Chapter 70 Sensation to the entire Internet
Chapter 70 Sensation to the entire Internet
After many reporters sat down one after another and set up their cameras, the host said, "Welcome all reporters to our Zhiyun Technology press conference. Now, please welcome the CEO of Zhiyun Technology Co., Ltd., Mr. Xu Shenxue!"
After listening to this, Xu Shenxue half stood up and nodded slightly to the people around him, then sat down and said, "Thank you all journalists for taking the trouble to come to our press conference. I am very happy to share two pieces of news with you!"
"First, after many rounds of talks, Zhiyun Technology and multiple investors have reached a financing agreement. The A round is valued at US$1.2 billion, with a total of US$180 million raised. The funds will mainly be used for the mass production plan of Zhiyun mobile phones and the research and development of subsequent models!"
"Here, on behalf of the Zhiyun Technology team, I would like to express my gratitude to Red Letter Fund and other investors for their recognition!"
As he spoke, Xu Shenxue nodded slightly to several investor representatives sitting next to him.
As soon as these words came out, the reporters below were immediately excited... Even though there had been rumors since last night that Zhiyun Technology had completed its A round and had raised a huge amount of money.
But when I actually heard the news, I was still shocked!
It’s only been a short time. The mobile phone launch conference was just yesterday, and the financing was successfully completed today?
And the amount is so huge.
Some financial journalists who are familiar with financing couldn't help but make an estimate. Now the A round is valued at 1.2 billion US dollars. By the time of the B round, wouldn't it be tens of billions of dollars?
And for the C round, wouldn’t it be aiming for hundreds of billions of dollars?
Oh my goodness, am I about to witness the rise of a super unicorn?
At this time, the representative of Red Letter Fund, the lead investor, also took the microphone and began to talk about the significance of this round of financing and his confidence in Zhiyun Technology.
"It is said that investment is based on people. This time, we also invested in Mr. Xu as a person. We saw the future of smartphones in him!"
“I believe that under the leadership of Mr. Xu, Zhiyun Technology will be able to continuously bring better product experience to consumers and create a new era of smart life.”
Then several other investment representatives followed suit.
Of course, what I said here is not random talk, but is to continue to build momentum for Zhiyun Technology!
The announcement of a financing plan is part of the launch and sales of a mobile phone. The huge financing plan was used to stir up heated discussions and then shift people's attention to Zhiyun phones.
In addition to enhancing the mid-to-high-end brand image of Zhiyun mobile phones, it also increases people's curiosity and encourages them to place orders.
Because the smartphones developed by a high-tech company with a valuation of more than 8 billion yuan are completely different in style from those developed by ordinary mobile phone manufacturers.
When people see that your company has received such a huge amount of financing only a few months after its establishment, they will subconsciously regard your company as a high-tech enterprise... Even if people don't believe in their own vision, they will believe in the vision of capital.
A mobile phone made by a company with a market value of nearly 10 billion yuan must have great and unique advantages.
Coupled with the title of the first smartphone in China and some other advantages, these combined forces influence people's purchasing sentiment and ultimately complete order conversion.
This is why we held a financing press conference right after our product launch yesterday!
What we want is the publicity effect after double superposition.
After the investment representatives finished boasting, Xu Shenxue took over the microphone and continued, "As everyone knows, our C1 phone was officially released yesterday, and pre-sales started at o'clock last night!"
"Thanks to the strong support of our users, we have achieved pre-sale results that far exceeded our expectations. By 8 a.m., in just eight hours, we received a total of 35,572 pre-sale orders on multiple online platforms, with a pre-sale amount of more than 100 million yuan!"
This result is naturally false, because it is a pre-sale on multiple platforms and the pre-sale data is not announced to the public. Therefore, the actual pre-sale amount can only be known after Zhiyun Technology itself compiles the data.
For publicity purposes, this data was classified as highly confidential. Only Xu Shenxue and Ji Chenghe, who was responsible for the final data statistics, knew that the actual number was more than 15,000 units.
But for publicity purposes, it must be exaggerated. Xu Shenxue used the same number of 1 units, and even added the whole number. Xu Shenxue continued, "More than pre-sale orders are C Pro orders!"
"Here, on behalf of all the staff of Zhiyun Technology, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the vast number of users who have purchased our mobile phones!"
"Your support is the source of motivation for our efforts!"
After Xu Shenxue announced the pre-sale results, the reporters in the audience were shocked again... Damn, this is even more shocking than the previous valuation of more than 8 billion and the financing amount of more than 1 billion.
In just eight hours in one night, the pre-sale sales volume reached more than 30,000 units?
What a terrifying number!
If this trend continues, won’t the pre-sale today exceed 100,000 units? Who knows, in a few days, there may be even more!
If it was a low-end phone, it would be fine; 100,000 phones is not a surprising thing.
Zhiyun mobile phone is not a low-end mobile phone, nor even a mid-range mobile phone, but a real high-end mobile phone. Its flagship C1 Pro is priced at 3799 yuan.
This price is considered high-end even among international mobile phone manufacturers.
what does this mean?
This means that under the siege of a group of international big-name mobile phone manufacturers, there is finally a mobile phone manufacturer that broke through the siege, breaking the dilemma that domestic mobile phones can only survive in the low- and mid-end markets, and entered the exclusive territory of foreign big-name mobile phone manufacturers: the high-end mobile phone market!
In eight hours, the pre-sale volume reached over 1 units, and even the most expensive C Pro had pre-sale volume of over units... the pre-sale amount exceeded million yuan.
This result exceeded everyone's imagination.
The reporters present had already anticipated that with today's valuation of nearly 10 billion and over 1 billion in financing, this young man Xu Shenxue would become a newly minted billionaire.
Add to that more than 30,000 pre-sale orders, and the pre-sale amount exceeds 100 million yuan.
What a sensation it will cause after these related news are reported!
The impact of this incident may even go beyond the mobile phone industry itself and the 3G communications industry. It may even become social news and spark widespread discussion among Chinese people.
Topics related to Zhiyun mobile phones are likely to become a traffic bomb after the beginning of the year, bombarding all media nerves online and offline and triggering discussions among the entire nation.
This is also the effect that Zhiyun Technology wants to achieve, otherwise it would not have to go through so much trouble, holding a financing press conference, releasing sales data, and even falsifying sales data... Even Xu Shenxue himself broke the low-key image of many contemporary wealthy people, and stood directly at the front desk, using the title of a young billionaire to promote his own products.
All of this is for greater influence and deeper penetration!
Finally, get more C1 phone sales!
After Xu Shenxue announced the relevant news, a group of reporters began to ask questions. Under the control of the host, Xu Shenxue answered more than ten questions, most of which revolved around the C1 mobile phone.
There are also some messy questions that were skipped. For example, some ignorant reporters asked Xu Shenxue whether he was a super rich second-generation and whether the money for starting a business was given by his family... Although this is something everyone in the circle knows, there is no need for you to bring it up.
So the reporter didn't even get the chance to ask questions.
Some people also asked Mr. Xu whether he was still unmarried at such a young age and what his requirements for his future partner were.
This kind of question can be answered. Xu Shenxue admits that he is unmarried, and he doesn't have any requirements for his future partner. As long as the three views are compatible, it's enough.
Or something like that, I value inner beauty, interesting soul, etc. more than anything else...
Ji Chenghe, who was accompanying Nong to the press conference, was having a hard time holding it in... Not to mention the three beautiful female secretaries in the general manager's office of Liuhe Investment, even your blind date, Mr. Xu, is a stunning beauty!
This would tell me that you only care about inner beauty…
No wonder you can be the boss, Mr. Xu, but I can only be an employee...
When it comes to being shameless, Mr. Xu, you are much better than me!
(End of this chapter)