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Chapter 3033 When you do good deeds, you must leave a name

Zhou Buqi personally holds 21.12 billion shares of Ziweixing International, and based on the current share price of US$25.86, the total value reaches US$546 billion.

There is no doubt that this has become an important reporting topic for major financial media around the world.

  Many international charities have been asking for donations through letters, emails, and public speeches, saying that you are so young and have so much money, don’t you think it’s too much? There are still many people in Africa who can’t get enough food, and there are still many refugees in the Middle East!

Especially the refugee issue, which has become one of the hottest topics in the world since the Arab Spring.

As Europe moves increasingly left, it has begun to frantically absorb refugees from the Middle East and Arab regions. After arriving in Europe, most of these people do not produce anything and do not do any work. They have to rely on funding and social welfare from all sides for their support.

  Many people are actively calling for help, saying, "Boss Zhou, you are so rich, shouldn't you help them?"

Zhou Buqi completely turned a blind eye to these external arguments.

He has no social media accounts.

Don't get involved in the argument at all.

However, this charity must still be charity. It is not only about social atmosphere, social responsibility, or personal image and external reputation, but mainly a driving force from the heart.

People are all made of flesh and blood. Many times when you see many disadvantaged groups in society, you really want to help them from the bottom of your heart.

Of course, refugees who commit crimes and black lives are not valuable.

Zhou Buqi puts his main charity focus on China, and some of his sporadic donations abroad are more for social needs. The largest charity project he is currently involved in is a project he initiated in China to care for hearing-impaired children and teenagers.

This is a big project.

It is not easy to advance.

We need to establish connections with hospitals across the country and build a national public welfare charity network. Otherwise, there are too many children who need funding, and they are all concentrated in one city or a few hospitals, and it is impossible to arrange them. In order to do this well, Meng Houkun served as the chairman of the project and coordinated the official relationship, while Ji Zian was the vice chairman, and he is now the daily manager of the charity fund.

At present, we have established cooperative relationships with 7 hospitals in 19 cities in China.

A total of more than 6200 hearing-impaired children have been sponsored.

The total investment has exceeded 9 million yuan, and this is only in the early stages. This amount of money is not enough to cover the expenses of 6200 hearing-impaired children.

And this is just the beginning, a drop in the bucket.

To make this happen, we need a larger team, at least several hundred people who are professionally engaged in this kind of public welfare. We cannot adopt the volunteer model of three days of fishing and two days of drying the net, we must be full-time.

The salary for this part will not be too small.

In addition, Zhou Buqi is unwilling to raise donations from the public, which can easily arouse jealousy.

If all the kind-hearted people in the country donated their money to Boss Zhou, other charitable associations would not be able to get the money and would spread rumors and slander you everywhere. Jet Li's "One Foundation" bypassed the middlemen, directly attracted donations from several wealthy people and had a public fundraising channel, and was condemned by everyone in public opinion.

It’s better to pay for it yourself.

In this IPO, Ziweixing International issued a total of 10.4 billion shares and raised US$233 billion.

Among them, there are 6.2 million new shares and 4.2 million old shares.

Among the 4.2 million new shares cashed out, 3 million shares came from Ziweixing.

After completing this cash-out, Ziweixing's shareholding was reduced to 21 billion shares, raising US$67 billion, or US$53 billion after tax.

This sum of money is not an urgent need for Ziweixing to develop its own business.

It is mainly used for charity.

  Invest it in the Ziweixing Charity Fund, and forget about anything else, just start the project of caring for hearing-impaired children!

To promote it domestically, there are public service advertisements and public welfare promotion projects on Toutiao, Weibo and WeChat. That is to put some free public service advertisements and public welfare promotions in some places that originally belong to commercial advertisements to fulfill some social responsibilities.

Don't advertise to outsiders yet.

Now let’s publicize our own charity first!

  Do good things and leave your name behind!

The higher the visibility, the greater the influence. It would be best if it could be known to everyone. This would allow more families with hearing-impaired children in difficult circumstances to understand that there is such a channel for assistance in society, and to actively seek help.

In fact, there are many non-governmental charity organizations and official charity projects in China, such as the cochlear implant charity, which provides tens of thousands of charity cochlear implants to people in need every year, but most people in need don’t even know about it because the information gap is a difficult obstacle to overcome.

The greatest injustice is information injustice.

Many people can clearly get help, but due to information gaps, they have no idea that there are people or organizations that can help them. As a result, many donations have been allocated but no ordinary people claim them, so they have to be absorbed internally.

Therefore, in Europe and the United States, it is mainly celebrity charity and star charity, which must be operated by relying on the halo of celebrities. This can not only raise more donations, but also have greater popularity to penetrate the information gap and let more people know.

During the period after Ziweixing International went public, Ji Zian remained in the United States.

Mainly, I want to meet with the famous cochlear implant manufacturer, American Leading Bionics, and hope that they can build a factory in China to produce, and then directly sell and purchase, hoping to significantly reduce the purchase cost of imported cochlear implants. A cochlear implant costs 4.2 US dollars, which is more than 30 yuan in China, which is really too expensive.

If the two parties reach a cooperation, all imported cochlear implants used by the "Purple Star Charity Foundation" in the future will be the leading bionic ones in the United States.

  The condition is that the price must be kept below 2 US dollars!

Imported cochlear implants are much better than domestic ones, especially the implanted cochlear implants (the ones that are placed in the brain through surgery). You need to be very careful. If you are a grown-up teenager, you can use cheaper domestic cochlear implants, but for some infants and young children, it is better to use imported cochlear implants from international brands.

If American Bionics disagrees, that’s okay. There are several big international cochlear implant companies and we can try them one by one.

There is a demand for tens of millions of cochlear implants in China.

The Ziweixing Charity Foundation will work in this field for a long time in the future, and will spend tens of billions or even hundreds of billions on the purchase of cochlear implants... Zhou Buqi has long said that he will donate all of his personal shares in Ziweixing, and they will definitely be donated to the Ziweixing Charity Foundation.

With such a large market, there will always be import cochlear implant giants that will be tempted.

  The price must be reduced!

Once the cooperation is established, Cochlear will have the opportunity to further cooperate with Ziweixing in the field of artificial intelligence.

Zhou Buqi did not act with Ji Zian, he wanted to finalize the acquisition of LinkedIn.

After defeating Microsoft and Google with skills under the table, subsequent games on the table seemed easy.

As previously speculated, Facebook and Salesforce are completely uncompetitive.

On June 6, Microsoft announced that it would withdraw from the bidding.

On June 6, Google also contacted LinkedIn and withdrew from the negotiations.

In July, the Internet market, which had been sluggish for half a year, finally picked up again, and the stock prices of major Internet companies began to rise sharply. This naturally included LinkedIn, and once the stock price rises, it means an increase in transaction costs.

On July 7, Reid Hoffman happily told Zhou Buqi that things were almost done!

Facebook has also withdrawn!

As for Salesforce…

Can be ignored.

On July 7, Zhou Buqi, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, other executives and lawyers from both parties, and bankers from investment banks Qatalyst Partners and Morgan Stanley participated in the entire negotiation process and determined the core framework of the transaction.

The price has not yet been finalized.

But the transaction intention has been confirmed!

The next day, LinkedIn founder and chairman Reid Hoffman met with Ziweixing International founder and chairman Zhou Buqi. Although the meeting had been planned before the acquisition negotiations, the two sides "discussed the potential benefits that a merger could bring to each other from a business perspective."

  It's settled!

On July 7, the two companies finally sat down and signed an exclusive agreement under the witness of a third party. Zhou Buqi and Hoffman both publicly expressed their support for the merger of the two companies!

This transaction is officially announced!

The public announcement period has begun!

At this time, Ziweixing International's market value has reached 2436 billion US dollars, making it the world's second largest Internet giant, only one step away from Google; LinkedIn's market value has also increased by more than 20%, reaching 128 billion US dollars.

Hollywood's summer season is coming to an end.

  Zhou Buqi took advantage of the social advantages of Vanity Fair and invited Reid Hoffman to attend the celebration ceremony of "Avengers 2" to celebrate the film's global box office exceeding 20 billion US dollars!

This is a Hollywood event worth writing about.

It is an official event jointly organized by Universal Pictures and Marvel Studios, attended by many celebrities and beauties.