Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2863 Leading by Example

In the next few days, Zhou Buqi was in New York.

First, let’s pay attention to Changyou’s business. Recently, Nasdaq sent a letter saying that Changyou’s board of directors lacks independence and hopes that it can be reorganized at a certain date to ensure the interests of small and medium-sized shareholders. Now Changyou's stock price has been growing rapidly, which can cover up many problems. Once future stock price growth stagnates, the existing board structure will be vulnerable to criticism and more independent directors will need to be introduced for supervision. The official recommendation is to introduce at least four independent directors, at least three of whom should be foreigners. .

The second thing is to act as an intermediary to help connect several domestic companies that want to be listed in the United States, and introduce them to some large capital institutions on Wall Street.

The third is to meet Pan Yiyi and his wife who just spent 2700 million US dollars to buy an Italian-style townhouse in New York.

Zhou Buqi and Lao Pan are also old acquaintances.

Lao Pan is Lao Zhang's good friend. After meeting him often and for a long time, they will naturally become familiar with each other.

It's just that Lao Pan is a strict henwife, and his wife has the final say even in the company. This makes it difficult for Lao Pan to be as free and happy as Zhou Buqi and Lao Zhang. Many times when he goes to KTV to sing songs, it's his wife. If you follow me together, you won't have a chance to be romantic and happy.

Many of today’s top Weibo Vs are top entrepreneurs, and Lao Pan is one of them.

However, unlike people like Liu Qiangdong and Li Guoqing, Lao Pan's Weibo focuses on social topics and is included in the ranks of "public knowledge". Especially as the instigator, he has attracted the attention of the whole people to the smog, and he is constantly provoking and Questioning official statements, with his influence as a well-known entrepreneur and top influencer, he quickly made this topic a household name and even became an international incident.

Then we encountered many commercial-level restrictions.

Lao Pan realized the crisis and began to prepare to run away. Last year, he spent US$7 million to buy 40% of the GM Building, one of Manhattan's landmark buildings. Recently, he spent a huge amount of money to buy a luxury home. He plans to settle down in the United States. .

SOHO is the leading real estate giant in China and one of the earliest large companies engaged in commercial real estate. But now times have changed. While other real estate developers are excitedly borrowing and leveraging to acquire land, Lao Pan is already selling off assets to pay off debts and is preparing to call it a day.

Zhou Buqi took Bao Shan with him and casually selected two not-so-large French oil paintings from the Salon period from his home in New York as souvenirs to visit him.

Lao Pan and his wife didn't know anything about oil paintings. They heard that it was a French oil painting from more than two hundred years ago. They thought it was worth tens of millions of dollars, so they didn't dare to accept it.

Xue Baoshan was embarrassed to deceive people, so she said honestly that there were too many oil paintings of this kind in the world and they were worthless.

The market value of these two paintings may only be $30.

Then everyone was happy.

When you go to your home as a guest, everyone becomes friends, and we build relationships over time. In addition, there are also business considerations.

Lao Pan wants to sell his property. The SOHO buildings in various places can be said to be the best office buildings in the country, especially in places like the capital and Shanghai. The locations are excellent. When I acquired the land ten years ago, no real estate developer could afford to go with SOHO. compete.

Ziweixing is interested in selecting a location in Shanghai to prepare the headquarters of "WeChat Finance".

This business is not only WeChat Finance, but the entire Ziweixing Internet financial business. Since it is a financial business, it must be high-end and classy, ​​and the location must have a certain landmark character. It is better to choose a SOHO building with a good location and buy it.

This is of course a suggestion based on what you want and what you want.

Mrs. Pan smiled and said, "If you want to buy it, the price must be a good deal!"

Zhou Buqi smiled, "It's easy to talk about the price, but the most important thing is to be fast. The company is preparing to use it. The Internet financial business is developing very fast now. When I confirm the news from Qualcomm, then Will you return to China and implement this matter then?”

"Okay, I won't delay your important event!"

Mrs. Pan is decisive and resolute.

Lao Pan was laughing and laughing. It was not his turn to make the final decision on such a major matter. He just paid attention to some details and said strangely: "I also saw the news. You seem to have some differences with Qualcomm?"

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Yes, Qualcomm sells chips. As a result, it has been using its monopoly position to engage in some forced bundling sales strategies, which has caused huge harm to the development of the mobile phone industry. Now half of the global mobile phone industry is domestic. , from the perspective of national interests, I will not allow Qualcomm to continue doing this.”

"Ouch! This is a big deal!" Lao Pan slapped his thigh with an exaggerated expression, "Be sentimental!"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "It should be done."

Lao Pan was a little silent, hesitating to speak, hesitating, "Um... are you... just... afraid..."

Zhou Buqi asked: "What's wrong?" Lao Pan said in a joking tone: "By the way, I also sold apples, did you know?"

"Apples?" Zhou Buqi vaguely remembered something, "You gave me apples before."

Lao Pan laughed and said: "Yes, those are the apples!"

"Why haven't you given it away in the past few years?"

"It's been entrusted to a fruit buyer, and I won't be involved."

"bad business?"

"What kind of business is this? It's from my hometown." Lao Pan looked as happy as if he had won the lottery with a smile on his face. His expression was very exaggerated, "I don't have any money anymore, so I just want to set an example and help my family." To get rich, let them all grow apples, and then I will help them sell them.”

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "This is a good thing!"

Lao Pan said: "Yes, it was good at first. Gradually, there were apple orchards everywhere in the village, and there were apple trees all over the mountains and plains. Later I went home one time and found that most of my ancestral graves had been bulldozed. , they planted apple trees, and then asked me to help them sell the apples.”

"Ha ha!"

Zhou Buqi also laughed.

"Ha ha!"

Lao Pan seemed to smile even more exaggeratedly.

……

Just like Zhou Buqi's guess.

As expected, there would be no results from Qualcomm, but out of courtesy, the CEO of the other party made a special phone call to Zhou Buqi to apologize, saying that the seven days were too tight and it was impossible to promote such a big thing.

I hope I can give him three months.

This is simply wishful thinking.

Zhou Buqi is preparing to return to China and explain clearly to the authorities the Tesla Gigafactory and Qualcomm's patent monopoly.

Qualcomm is very troublesome. Europe and the United States have been fighting against them for ten years and they can't do anything about it.

Since it is a tough nut to crack, Zhou Buqi doesn’t mind setting an example and setting an example for antitrust agencies around the world!

However, before leaving the field, he suddenly got a call from Zhou Shaoning, asking him to stay in New York and not move.

"what's up?"

"BlackBerry just changed its CEO."

"what?"

Zhou Buqi was a little touched.

You can feel that the changes in the mobile phone industry are really big. Qualcomm just changed its CEO, and then BlackBerry also changed its CEO.

Zhou Shaoning said: "He is Chinese."

"Oh?"

Zhou Buqi is very curious.

Zhou Shaoning said: "The first thing he did after coming to power was to visit you."