Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 2066 Fundraising
That night, Duan Yun, Li Yun and David Thomas had dinner together in the restaurant of the hotel to discuss the company's next plan.

"... Regarding our company's acquisition of Amazon, it has been approved by the U.S. Department of Commerce. This is also the first Chinese company to acquire an American high-tech company, but they also put forward some additional conditions..." At the dinner table, David Thomas first said He reported some of his recent work to Duan Yun, then took out a business card from his pocket, handed it to Duan Yun, and said: "This is the business card of Latif, the chairman of the New York Political Action Committee. I am very interested in entering the U.S. market, and I am willing to provide some paid consultation and services. If it is a general commercial consultation, a consulting fee of 20 to 30 US dollars is required. They will arrange a special person to handle this matter. If the boss is willing to pay $50 or more, then the agency will also arrange for the grantee to meet with you..."

"Ah." Hearing this, Duan Yun took the business card, glanced at it and said, "Which party does this organization belong to?"

Obviously, the so-called political action committee is an organization that raises political donations for the president and members of Congress. In a capitalist country like the United States, politics and money are closely related. Game, if ordinary companies want to gain policy support, they can use political donations to gain support from the American political arena. This is a legal and fully open game rule in the United States, and the list David Thomas provided himself this time is actually Above all, I hope that Duan Yun can gain more support in the American political arena.

As a Chinese company, it is not an easy task to open a branch in the United States and establish a long-term foothold. If you are not familiar with the rules of the political game here, you want to be in the United States.It is almost impossible for the market to make a big difference.

The former Duanyun intends to buy shares or acquire Amazon. If it is a domestic company in the United States, there is nothing wrong with doing so. As long as the founder of Amazon is willing to sell shares or transfer the company, then everything can be completed smoothly. But as a Chinese-funded company, I want to acquire American technology companies need to face a lot of approvals, and if the approval officials are not friendly to China, then Duan Yun's plan to acquire Amazon will be shelved indefinitely.

The acquisition of Amazon.com is a very important plan for Duan Yun to enter the US market. He has prepared 850 million US dollars for this, because the current Amazon company has only just been established for three months, and the online platform has just been established. Mainly selling books, the balance of income and expenditure was barely achieved.

If you were any other company, you would never be interested in a small start-up company like Amazon, which has just been established, but Duan Yun knows that Amazon will grow into the world's largest e-commerce giant in the future, with an annual profit of more than [-] million yuan. Billion US dollars, the total market value can also reach the top [-] in the world.

Duan Yun’s initial appetite was a little bit bigger. He wanted to buy the company directly and let Jeff Bezos work for him, but after thinking about it, he didn’t do it. There are not many fixed assets, and his e-commerce network is not really mature and perfect. It just has a rudimentary business, and the revenue is pitiful. So if we buy this company now, if Bezos still has his own If he is unwilling to work for Duan Yun because of his ambition, then this company may not be able to achieve the scale that Duan Yun wants in the future.

So Duan Yun’s idea is to invest in shares and acquire about 40% of Amazon’s shares. In this way, on the one hand, it can bring huge amounts of money to Amazon, and on the other hand, Bezos will also fully manage his own company, so that he will not lose motivation. , this is the best way to achieve the best of both worlds.

And in fact, Duan Yun had already arranged for Li Yun to contact him last month. Duan Yun was going to pay 300 million US dollars to buy 40% of Amazon's shares. % of the shares, the two parties have reached a preliminary agreement. This time when Duan Yun comes to the United States, he will meet with Bezos and sign a formal shareholding contract.

In fact, for Bezos, 450 million US dollars is definitely a huge sum of money. When he offered this price, he did not expect that this Chinese company called Tianyin Group would agree. You know, Amazon a few months ago When it was first established, Bezos invested a total of less than 4 U.S. dollars, and even some employees were recruited by him, and their salaries were very low. Now, someone paid 450 million U.S. dollars to buy 35% of his shares. For Bezos, it was like winning the lottery.

But like all entrepreneurs, although Amazon’s scale is small now, Bezos has a very ambitious business plan. With Duan Yun’s huge capital investment, for the current Bedos, it is undoubtedly a timely help. , which greatly accelerated his business plan, gave him the money to hire more and better employees, and build a stronger business network at the same time.

The reason why Duan Yun offered such a high share price is actually to promote the development of Amazon as soon as possible. Otherwise, at the current valuation of Amazon, it may be less than 100 million US dollars.

In addition, for Duan Yun, his business plan in the United States must be conservative and prudent. At the same time, he must make a long-term layout, step by step, move steadily, and avoid unnecessary crises.

"This institution is currently shared by both parties, and you can freely choose your donation target." David Thomas glanced at Duan Yun, and then said: "Currently, the Republican Party is in power. Judging from the current situation, the chances of President Clinton being re-elected are very high." Great, we should strongly support the strength of the Republican Party."

"Just as you said." Duan Yun replied bluntly, only to hear him continue: "This time I plan to spend 200 million US dollars, 150 million will be used to pay the Republican Party, and the other 50 US dollars will be used to fund the Democratic Party. The specific matters are handled by you, and I hope that our company can have a fair and just business environment in the United States in the future."

As the saying goes, eggs should not be put in one basket. The capitalists and rich people in the United States are basically hedging their bets, but the political party in power will get more funding, and the opposition party will get less funding, that's all.

At present, the President of the United States is Clinton. During Clinton’s administration, he was still very friendly to China, including members of his party, and some of them were relatively pro-China. Therefore, Duan Yun’s donation to the Republican Party this time can also help him in the future in the United States. Investing brings certain benefits.

(End of this chapter)