20 years of restarting life

Chapter 2640 Turning the Impossible into Possible

After Zhao Changan was officially mentioned in the company's domestic GG communication group and the North American branch's Yahoo! pager communication email, Zhou Kexin immediately began to recruit and recruit people from the entire One Nano system.

According to the plan, after the company structure and main leaders of the North American head office are established, formal external recruitment will be carried out.

After completing these two parts, we will start the third part, which summarizes and integrates the affairs of the three North American branches of 1Nano.

Zhou Kexin wanted the company to be located in Gotham City, but Zhao Changan vetoed it, and eventually it was located in Seattle, a city that Zhou Kexin would never have thought of before.

Regarding the question she didn't understand, Zhao Changan only said two words: "Silicon Valley."

The ultimate goal is to integrate finance, smartphones, built-in games and other programs, and the most essential thing is to inject the most cutting-edge technological soul.

In the long run, the city of Waterloo is not suitable as a soil for the survival and development of a mobile phone software and hardware company. Seattle is the city where the BlackBerry mobile software R&D center will be relocated in the next step.

Zhou Kexin stayed in Gotham City for a few more days, and then decided to leave here with a few people poached from the Gotham City branch.

She will go to Los Angeles and Toronto to recruit a few more people, with the main target being Zeng Hao and Li Mei's team, and then she will go directly to Seattle to set up camp.

At this time, it was already July 7. Zhao Changan had been in North America for more than half a month and had left Toronto for twelve days.

During this period, Li Mei's team has raised 7.09% of BlackBerry's shares, officially disclosing that it has become BlackBerry's largest shareholder.

He just raised BlackBerry's funding to US$3.2, spent nearly 9.2 million RMB, and only had less than 1.1 million RMB in hand.

Including New Audio and Video's 3.68% holding, the total number of shares held by One Nano has reached 10.75%, with slightly more than 13.5 billion RMB of funds used.

However, the current general environment is that the stock prices of global Internet companies have plummeted to death, let alone the small and unknown company BlackBerry.

Moreover, the trader at the Toronto branch of 1Nano has used funds to launder BlackBerry twice. The Internet still has memories. At this time, no one was fooled, but investors continued to take the opportunity to sell and exchange shares.

In the early morning of July 7, Zhao Changan took a train to see off the five Zhou Kexins. After leaving the train station, he called two taxis and headed straight to the airport with large and small bags.

Zhao Changan and Zhou Kexin were sitting in the back row. At this time, the two of them were still in a state of sweetness. Especially for Zhou Kexin, she really understood how good it is to be a woman at this time, and she felt that she was becoming more and more fond of and obsessed with Zhao. Chang'an's domineering invasion.

Sitting in the car, thinking about not seeing his eldest brother for a long time, he held Zhao Changan's hand tightly and couldn't let go.

At this time, Zhao Changan's cell phone rang.

"Morning Dawn."

Feeling his hand being pinched gently, Zhao Changan couldn't help but want to laugh. There is no woman in the world who is not jealous, unless this woman doesn't love you.

"Mr. Zhao, Fairfax Financial has begun to reduce its holdings in RIM by about 0.3%. The stock price just now was US$3.45."

Regarding the restriction that 'the amount of shares that a major shareholder can sell every three months when reducing its holdings cannot exceed 1% of the issued shares of the same type or the average weekly trading volume within four weeks, whichever is greater, and it needs to be publicly disclosed in advance', it is aimed at Mike, There are restrictions on reduction of holdings by major original shareholders like Jim and Doug.

However, for companies such as Fairfax Financial (Fairfax Financial Holdings Co., Ltd.), which are purchased from the secondary market, there are no such harsh restrictions.

Obviously, due to the poor status of Nortel and BlackBerry, as well as the current weak global economy, Fairfax Financial's own business is also facing a huge funding gap.

Especially as an insurance company, when faced with claims, it must spend real money, otherwise once a large-scale overdue claim occurs, it will be a fatal blow to the company!

When it comes to selling Nortel and BlackBerry stocks, Fairfax Financial wisely chose BlackBerry.

The reason given by Fairfax Financial executives is also very simple. Nortel's sales in the second quarter were US$46 billion, and it is still one of the three giants in the world's fiber optic and communications fields. Its stock price has fallen to US$120 from the highest of US$9 last year.

There is technology and sales, and the stock price is surprisingly low. As long as it survives this trough, the stock price will immediately rise.

On the other hand, BlackBerry's sales in the second quarter were less than 3 million U.S. dollars, and its stock price has dropped from its peak of 23 U.S. dollars to the current 3 U.S. dollars. It is also a poorly managed small and micro enterprise, and it obviously still has huge room for decline.

Moreover, in the mobile phone and PAD industries, they are all unconventional and unconventional. Compared with giants such as Nokia, Motorola, and IBM, they are not even worthy of carrying shoes.

He has a bad temper. Not only is there no time to launch new products, but he has repeatedly rejected the olive branch of One Nano from China.

There is also a good thing here, that is, not only is BlackBerry's stock price now pretty good, but there is also a fool named Yinan who is stubborn and unwilling to give up, supporting its stock price.

Then they won't worry about the stock price being too low due to market crashes, and they will suffer losses even if they cash out and leave the market. So Fairfax Financial put out about $500 million worth of shares to test the waters.

"Eat them all and see if they follow up. Contact me at any time."

After Zhao Changan talked with Jin Chenxiao on the phone, he said to Zhou Kexin: "Fairfax Financial is anxious. This should be just the beginning. Their financial statements for the first and second quarters have suffered losses that are unbearable to watch. They are cutting off their financial statements just like Nortel did." It’s an investment and business of little value. You can go to New Audio and Video now, 0.5, and let Qin Xiaolu handle it later.”

This sentence was very cryptic, but Zhou Kexin understood it. It was a 3.68 times leveraged mortgage loan for the 0.5% shares of BlackBerry held by New Audio and Video.

RIM's 3.68% stake is now worth about 5 million, and a total of 7.5 million can be obtained.

The current stock price of BlackBerry is about US$3.45, which means that as long as the stock price does not break through the US$1.15 line, it will not be forced to liquidate.

When the stock market opens in Black September, maybe BlackBerry's shares will dip a bit. Of course, maybe BlackBerry's reputation has soared by then, and it can be used as an anti-risk layer just in case, with a difference of more than 2 US dollars. , can also carry out effective resistance.

After all, the impact on the communications industry is limited.

As for the Toronto branch of One Nano, Zhao Changan is prepared to increase the low leverage by no more than 0.3 times, which will eventually replace approximately 3 million in funds.

Including the current funds of the Toronto branch, the total is just over 11 billion.

This is equivalent to the current planned funding of One Nano for BlackBerry, which has reached 25 billion RMB.

It is expected that the final shareholding proportion will be 16%-20%.

Together with the 14% held by Mike and Doug, as well as the reduction of Fairfax Financial's shareholding, we can firmly control BlackBerry.

"Haha~"

Zhao Changan laughed heartily and happily.

'Is it easy to get a controlling stake in BlackBerry? '

Qi Xiu.

'I believe we can do it! '

Zhao Changan.

'With your mouth that doesn't even have a beard? '

Qi Xiu.

'Going to Toronto to set up an office, what are you doing? '

Jin Chenxiao.

'RIM. '

Zhao Changan.

'Mr. Zhao, are you kidding? Do you know what the market value of RIM is? Mr. Zhao, stop feeding me chicken soup. Do you like feeding me chicken soup? I've been stuffed by you for a long time, and my stomach is full of chicken soup for the soul! '

Jin Chenxiao.

At this moment, since Zhao Changan started his delusion and plan to overestimate his capabilities last year, after such a long period of various actions, today he finally saw the rich fruits that seemed to be within reach.

How could he be unhappy and laugh heartily.

(End of this chapter)