My rebirth is different

Chapter 802 The stock price soared
If we only talk about his career, Lu Qi has basically reached the top.

This is North America, which is the territory of foreigners. As a Chinese, he can reach the level of vice president in a company like Yahoo, and is in charge of the company's two pillar businesses.

This is already touching the ceiling!

Although Yahoo was also founded by Chinese, but at today's scale, it is no longer the founder alone can have the final say.

The entanglement of interests behind it is too complicated, it can also be said to be ****, the founder is just a representative symbol, and the real major shareholder is no longer him.

And even with Lu Qi's position, no matter how high his contribution to Yahoo is, he is not eligible for equity incentives.

So during these years at Yahoo, he didn't have much sense of belonging, but he was very grateful to the company's founder and CEO Mr. Yang for his appreciation and support.

Seriously, if Yahoo can give him enough equity, perhaps the scene where he and Cai Congxin met in a coffee shop today would not exist.

If the two meet again at that time, Lu Qi will receive Cai Congxin in the Yahoo headquarters office!

When he showed up in the cafe, it was enough to say something.

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"This year, Facebook is going to make a big splash in North America. How about it, Mr. Lu, are you interested in coming over to take charge of this company?" Cai Congxin stared into Lu Qi's eyes and said.

Lu Qi's heart skipped a beat, and this question was finally placed in front of him.

Although expected, but...

Still very difficult.

He lowered his head and stirred the coffee in front of him. There was no sugar or milk in the black coffee, and he didn't know what he was stirring.

Cai Congxin looked at Lu Qi and understood what he was thinking.

That's right, if you change yourself, you wouldn't dare to express your opinion casually when faced with this situation.

On the one hand is his old club who treats him well, but it's just not mean, and it can't be called a mountain of kindness.

On the other side is a more tempting new company, which may give yourself more, but... after all, there is still no promise.

"I understand that Mr. Lu may not be too confident about the future development of Facebook North America. It's too detailed. I can't explain it to Mr. Lu in detail. Let's just say something that can be said briefly.

First, Facebook North America is completely independent from the mainland headquarters, with independent shareholder relations, finance, personnel rights, and management rights.Moreover, strong European and American strategic partners will be introduced.Therefore, Mr. Lu need not worry about its development.

Second, for the position of CEO of Facebook North America, Mr. Fei directly named Mr. Lu, thinking that you can take on this burden.Mr. Lu may not be very familiar with the style of the Facebook company, so let me give you a simple example.When Mr. Fei recruited me to Facebook, he gave me an equity incentive that I couldn't get in other companies!
Boss Fei is a man, and after a long time with him, Boss Lu will understand that you don't have to think about anything when you work with him, just do your job well, and you don't have to worry about your salary or income.

What Fei always gives you will be beyond your imagination! "

Cai Congxin's heart-to-heart talk completely touched Lu Qi's heart.

Although Cai Congxin's words are relatively simple, there is a lot of information contained in it.

Facebook North America is independent and has introduced strong European and American strategic partners, which shows that Facebook has a clear understanding of how to develop here.

Moreover, the current shareholders of Facebook have a large structure and a long-term vision.

They understand that in other people's territory, if they want to be full, they must share the cake with others!
Although this point is very simple to say, but when it comes to actually doing it, few people can do it.

More people think, why should I let you in to pick peaches in a company that I worked hard for myself!
Of course, such a company can only overturn the cake in the end, and no one wants to eat it.

Appropriate exchange of interests and getting to know more powerful partners are always the key to the long-term development of an enterprise.

Facebook shareholders are sober and generous on this point.

This dispels Lu Qi's worries about whether Facebook's North American company can continue to develop. As for whether it can replicate Facebook's miracle in Dalu, that's another matter.

The second point Cai Congxin said is of course more critical to him!
In the final analysis, everyone is a wage earner, even if he achieves the position of "employee emperor", he is still just a high-level wage earner.

With my hard work, the company has grown and grown, so how much I can keep in my pocket is very important.

Mr. Cai also cited his own example, and after the listing of Facebook, the shareholder relationship can be found, and Mr. Cai's name is indeed in it.

The stock incentives he got in his hands are now worth hundreds of millions of dollars...

And I have worked hard in Yahoo for so many years, and my annual salary plus bonus is only a few million dollars a year!

To put it bluntly, Lu Qi does not think that he is inferior to Cai Congxin, and the status of the two of them in the industry, Lu Qi is far superior to Cai Congxin.

The age of the two people is also about the same, and the number of years of work is also similar.

But now, Cai Congxin has a net worth of several hundred million U.S. dollars and controls a listed company with a market value of more than 300 billion U.S. dollars.

As for myself, I still earn that salary and dividends every year. After all, the senior vice president is just a deputy, and I have to report to the president for instructions on many things.

Why did this situation arise?

This may be a personal opportunity!

Cai Congxin met Mr. Fei who admired him, and accepted Mr. Fei's kind invitation, so he achieved greater achievements than himself and gained more.

As for myself, I haven't encountered such a good opportunity yet.

But today the opportunity is in front of me, should I accept it...

In the end, Lu Qi didn't make any choice, he just said cautiously: "Thank you Mr. Cai for the invitation, can you give me a few days to think about it. And before I accept the invitation, I still want to go to Shanghai and Mr. Fei Let's meet and talk."

"Of course there is no problem! I will go to San Francisco to prepare for the North American company of Facebook. I hope Mr. Lu can consider it as soon as possible. Time waits for no one." Cai Congxin said straightforwardly.

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After Cai Congxin came to San Francisco, with the help of Brian, the president of the North American branch of Facebook Games, the company registration and office space purchase were carried out smoothly.

Facebook is now rich and powerful, and intends to develop here in the long run, of course it will not consider leasing the venue.

Directly purchased an office park larger than the North American branch of Facebook Games!

And it is very close to the Facebook game, Brothers can be regarded as a neighbor in North America again.

While he was busy here, Cai Congxin received a call from Lu Qi.

On the phone, Lu Qi expressed that he wanted to go to Shanghai to meet Mr. Fei, and asked him to make an appointment.

A smile appeared on Cai Congxin's face, he did not go in vain, Lu Qi was still moved.

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Lu Qi made a low-key visit to the magic city, and only stayed there for one day, but during that day, he and Yu Wenfei had a closed-door conversation for more than ten hours.

Even lunch and dinner are delivered to the office.

No one but Pearl knew what they were talking about.

But when Yu Wenfei's office door opened and Yu Wenfei personally sent Lu Qi out, they both had bright smiles on their faces.

The next day, Lu Qi returned to the United States.

Then, an open letter was issued on Yahoo's official website.

It was announced that Senior Executive Vice President Lu Qi had submitted his resignation due to personal reasons.The company has accepted and thanked him for his outstanding contributions in the past few years at Yahoo, wishing him smooth sailing in his future life...  

On the surface, everything seemed to be going well, but in fact Lu Qi's departure was carried out with a "non-compete agreement".

In order to prevent him from jumping to a competitor company, threatening the interests of Yahoo.

Then, the condition for letting him go is that Lu Qi must not engage in any search engine-related work within two years!

Good thing Facebook doesn't do a search engine...

On the official Facebook website, an announcement was also made immediately, welcoming Lu Qi.

And announced that Lu Qi will be the president of Facebook North America, responsible for all the business of the North America company!
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Immediately after the news was announced, Facebook's stock price rose sharply, and the increase exceeded that of the day!

Originally, the market value of Facebook had risen to about 350 billion US dollars these days, and after being stimulated by this good news, it rose again.

Then its market value has climbed to [-] billion US dollars!

If you only look at the domestic Internet industry, this is a well-deserved giant, enough to buy all other domestic Internet companies.

Of course, people may not sell it...

And after the market value of Facebook reaches this height, Yu Wenfei can also start his equity mortgage plan.

In the past few days, the fourth uncle has babbled several times. The employees of China Eastern Airlines Pearl Company are all looking forward to it, waiting for the legendary Feizong to inject capital...

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"Mr. Fei, the stock price of Facebook is now $270 per share, do you want to pledge 1000 million shares?"

Because the amount of equity pledge this time was a bit large, the director of the credit department of Citibank flew to Shanghai to discuss the business with Yu Wenfei.

In fact, this is a loan, which has a repayment period and interest, and has collateral. Of course, the bank is willing to do this business.

"Yes, Facebook's stock price is still rising, and it may be worth more in the future, so I hope you can give a sincere mortgage ratio." Yu Wenfei said leisurely.

1000 million shares, 270 US dollars per share, which is worth 27 billion US dollars!
Of course, it is impossible to get so many loans, and there will be discounts in the middle.

This is also the bank's consideration for risk control. What if your company's stock price plummets, so take these risks into consideration in advance.

Under normal circumstances, the loan amount is given at about [-]% of the market value of the pledged shares.

But Yu Wenfei said, I hope they can be more sincere, which means that the ratio should not be too low.

(End of this chapter)