Facebook Is Valued At $50 Billion &Nbsp, Creating Internet Records.

Mark Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg) has just returned to the US after visiting Beijing.

In January 4th, Facebook received $500 million from Goldman Sachs and Russian investment company DST.

Internet analyst Xie Wen thinks this is equivalent to financing $1 billion 500 million.

"This may be the last round of financing before Facebook goes public."

Xie Wen believes that investors in this round of Facebook will not wait too long for the listing, either this year or next year.

Valued at $50 billion, Facebook created.

Zhou Hongyi, chairman of the Qihoo, regrets that "China does not have Facebook" and "reiterate" that China has no Facebook because the monopoly of network resources by large companies has squeezed the survival space of small companies.

In fact, almost in the wake of Facebook's success, China launched an Internet Web2.0 craze in 2004, with similar social networking sites springing up.

But six years later, the United States was born with a sky high price of Facebook, and China has no future followers.

In this regard, Xie Wen believes that China Internet Corporation's habit of plagiarism, less innovation, "not the world".

Facebook astronomical valuation

Is the $50 billion valuation risky for the latest investors in Facebook?

Xie Wen takes the comparison of Tencent of China, Tencent does not repeat user is more than 300 million (Note: registered user exceeds 1 billion, at the same time online user exceeds 100 million).

In January 6th, Goldman Sachs told a client document that Facebook had more than 600 million active users per month.

At present, the market value of Tencent exceeds HK $330 billion, which is about 43 billion US dollars. In such a simple comparison, where can Facebook's valuation go?

Lv Bowang, President of consulting, said that the more frightening thing is the growth rate.

In July 2010, Facebook has just announced that its active users will break through the 500 million mark.

According to foreign media reports, Goldman sent a 101 page private placement memorandum to customers from January 6th.

It shows that Facebook's revenue in 2009 was $777 million, and its profit was $200 million.

In the first 9 months of 2010, Facebook's net profit was $355 million, and its revenue was $1 billion 200 million.

Analysts expect that Facebook's revenue this year is expected to reach $2 billion.

Xie Wen said that four of Facebook users are overseas users. The growth rate is amazing. More than half of the users are users who hang on the Internet for a long time.

Data from comScore Inc, a market consultancy, show that Internet users in the world now spend more than Facebook on the website of Google every month.

Xie Wen said that the average value of US $50 billion is only $100 to each user, while Facebook's user data include: who you are, what you do, what you like and so on.

Advertisers can use these information to sell all kinds of products to these users, with precise positioning.

MarketWatch columnist Aranz said, "this goal is easy to achieve". If you want to get the annual return of 20%, Facebook must earn 10 billion dollars a year net income, that is, earn 20 dollars on each user, or earn 7.1 cents per user spent on the Internet every hour.

Xie Wen said that every round of Facebook entry was questioned, saying that the valuation was too high, but every round of investors made money, including Microsoft, including Li Jiacheng.

In October 2007, Microsoft acquired its Facebook1.6% stake, making it worth 15 billion US dollars, and the investment amount was about 240 million US dollars. Now Microsoft still holds 1.3% of its equity, worth 650 million US dollars.

Li Jiacheng, Hongkong's richest man, invested more than $100 million in Facebook in March 2008, with a 0.75% stake and is currently worth $375 million.

In 2009, DST invested $200 million to invest in Facebook, gaining 2% of the stock, and the current value is $1 billion.

In 2006, YAHOO's $1 billion offer for Facebook was rejected.

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American investors

Lv Bowang said: from the level of investors' enthusiasm, Americans know the popularity of Facebook.

In January 6th, Goldman Sachs announced its investment in Facebook for only three days, and the $1 billion special fund to invest in Facebook has been ordered.

According to foreign media reports, Goldman Sachs, an investor, said Goldman has received billions of dollars in subscription requests, and Goldman has decided to suspend its Facebook investment fund in January 5th.

At the same time, because of oversubscription, investors who have successfully subscribed may only get a small part of the subscription amount.

These investors signed a confidentiality agreement with Goldman Sachs and could not disclose the details according to the confidentiality agreement.

Lv Bowang said, ultimately, not all investors can successfully purchase.

Due to the huge demand, the subscription amount will not be accepted below 3 million dollars, and the final sale amount will be much less than the actual subscription amount. The successful subscription will not be sold until 2013.

Goldman Sachs has begun to make money, Lv Bowang said.

Goldman will charge 4% of the paction fees to investors and 5% of future earnings.

Xie Wen believes that Goldman Sachs can earn at least three dollars, the investment income after listing, the paction cost of this round of investment, and the future issue of underwriting the issue cost of Facebook public listing.

Lv Bowang believes that after this round of cooperation, Goldman Sachs secured the right to underwrite Facebook's initial public offering.

Why is there no Facebook in China?

In 2004, when Facebook was founded, the Web2.0 trend swept across China. But in the past six years, Facebook has not appeared in China. Some social networking sites with "China Facebook" can not be compared with the real Facebook.

In fact, the number legend of the other side of the ocean is not only Facebook, but also the companies that are constantly being promoted and valued, as well as Twitter, group buying website Groupon, business community website LinkedIn, etc.

Twitter was founded in 2006, two years later than Facebook.

In December 2010, Twitter received a valuation of $3 billion 700 million in the new round of financing.

The valuation of business social networking site LinkedIn and group buying website Groupon has gained a similar astonishing rise.

Groupon has rejected Google's total offer of $6 billion.

Across the oceans, these Chinese Internet faces.

Xie Wen believes that there are many reasons why China does not have Facebook.

First of all, Chinese companies will not innovate (including technological innovation, business model innovation), like plagiarism, an innovation, a group of people copied, the market is dispersed.

China has a huge market and can produce a certain scale of companies, such as billions of dollars or even tens of billions of dollars, but it is difficult to produce hundreds of billions of dollars of companies.

Even Baidu, Tencent and Alibaba have three billion dollar companies, which are quite "exceptions".

Secondly, China Internet Corporation is too "China".

This makes it difficult for foreign Internet Co to defeat local Internet Co in mainland China, but it also makes it difficult for China's Internet Co to go abroad.

Technical details are also a big problem.

Internet companies need to be at the forefront of technological change. Chinese companies do not have such an attempt, nor do they have such strength.

Xie Wen said: "the success of Facebook is the result of a series of technological innovations. Next, we will further develop e-mail system, virtual payment, social networking based new generation of search technology, artificial intelligence and data mining."