Wind Rises 2005

Chapter 426 Good News

The famous philosopher Hegel once said such a famous saying: The only lesson that human beings can learn from history is that human beings have not learned any lessons from history.

Just like the subprime mortgage crisis, although many experts and scholars in the economic field raised early warnings, they still did not attract global attention.

Just a few years after coming out of the economic crisis brought about by the bursting of the Internet bubble in 2001, the whole world seemed to be collectively blind again, turning a blind eye to all signs of the subprime mortgage crisis.

As a result, a mega-economic crisis from 2007 to 2011 took shape.

Because the subprime mortgage crisis was caused by the bursting of the real estate bubble in the United States, it must lag behind the feedback of the financial market.

This has led to this economic crisis like boiling frogs in warm water, and the whole world has sunk into it unknowingly.

Regarding this point, it can be seen from the fact that the U.S. stock market continued to rise for several months after Standard & Poor's lowered the subprime mortgage bond rating on July 2007, 7.

Moreover, U.S. stocks not only rose, but also climbed steadily. The Dow Jones index even hit a record high of 10 until October 11.

It can be seen that the understanding of the subprime mortgage crisis in countries around the world is not enough. People often only see the immediate danger, but they do not have enough expectations for the long-term impact.

After peaking on October 10, U.S. stocks began to suffer heavy losses.

Since then, various countries have introduced policies one after another, and the central banks of many countries have cooperated to alleviate the subprime debt crisis, but with little effect, and eventually spread completely, and all walks of life have suffered.

What followed was the global Great Depression and layoffs, and few people were spared.

Although Ma Liang is a reborn boss, he couldn't use the financial market to make a fortune during this subprime mortgage crisis. Who told him that he didn't work in finance in his previous life.

Even professionals may not be able to regard the financial market as their own cash machine.

Because although this catastrophic economic crisis has had a great impact, the financial market is still very unstable with ups and downs.

Moreover, most of the financial markets are zero-sum games, where someone makes money and someone else loses.

If you are thinking about taking advantage of the subprime mortgage crisis to make money, once the target is too big, there will definitely be bigger capital dealers coming to harvest you.

Except for some special days of force majeure, it is unrealistic to use the financial market to make money even for Ma Liang, who has been approved.

So small money can be earned, but don't count on big money.

Therefore, he didn't put too much thought on this, and he was more concerned about how to survive the winter.

First of all, I need to urge [Dajiang] to let Wang Tao get out the multi-rotor drone as soon as possible, so as to finalize the C round of financing as soon as possible, so as to have sufficient funds to survive the winter.

The same is true on Twitter, maybe he has to travel to the United States for this matter.

The second is to do a good job in capital planning, taking advantage of the subprime mortgage crisis in the past few years to pick up more leaks.

After all, the global economy is not easy in difficult times, and financial giants are all short of funds, let alone venture capital institutions.

It will be very difficult for start-up companies to raise funds in the next few years. It will be even more difficult for other start-ups.

So in the process, Ma Liang has the opportunity to buy shares in many unicorn companies, and the price will be quite cheap.

Among other things, Goudong can at least think about it.

After all, it was invested by Xu Xin alone. With his relationship with the venture capital queen, Goudong's next round of financing will definitely not be a big problem.

Ma Liang wrote and drew in his notebook, while planning funds, while thinking about missing opportunities.

Unknowingly, the time passed quickly, and the day passed quickly.

He originally wanted to ask Teacher Feng to go out for lunch, but it turned out that he had a boxed lunch together in the office.

The law firm has too much business recently, so much that Lin Fengyun even saves time for eating.

It was already dark at this moment, but the whole [Bai Mansion] was still brightly lit.Not only did no one leave work at [Juntong Law Firm], even [Gale Capital] did the same.

After all, the two big bosses didn't leave, so how dare the others leave early.

Ma Liang walked quickly to the office next door, looked at Lin Fengyun who was still busy and persuaded helplessly: "It's almost enough, how can there be such a reckless one?

The work is endless, let's continue tomorrow.If we don’t leave, none of the employees will dare to leave work.”

Although there is no such thing as 996 these days, Ma Liang does not want to squeeze the employees too much.

The big deal is to recruit a few more people, and it's not that they can't afford it.If one day the name of a black-hearted capitalist comes out, as a reborn boss, he can't afford to lose this person.

As soon as he said this, the little assistant He Xiaoyou saw little stars in his eyes.

"Understood, you go downstairs and wait for me first, I will come as soon as I finish this document." Lin Fengyun glanced at the innocent new assistant, and then reluctantly agreed.

So Ma Liang went downstairs in advance and waited in the car. It took about ten minutes to see Lin Fengyun hurried over and sat in the passenger seat.

There was no outsider present at the moment, so he jokingly said: "My friends are selling my face to lose the business. There is really no need to work so hard. It's okay to delay for a few days."

Originally, Ma Liang could have asked the law firm to reject the business of these related accounts, instead of making Teacher Feng work so hard.

But at the thought of making the law firm's income rise by leaps and bounds, he held back.

Who made this confidante of myself too strong, so I don't want to take the initiative to stuff money.

Ma Liang said several times that he would buy a luxury house for Lin Fengyun, but he just refused to agree, and there was nothing he could do to make up for it.

So it's good for the law firm to do more business, at least Barrister Lin can earn more money with his professional labor.

Because of this, he could only harden his heart and watch his sister work hard.

"It's not for your sake, otherwise I wouldn't be bothered to take so much business." Lin Fengyun replied angrily.

She didn't know what the little lover was thinking, and she was always moved by how sensible she was.

Ma Liang immediately comforted him: "Yes, yes, it's all my fault. Please allow me to treat Lin Lu to a big meal tonight, and express my apologies!"

"Hmph, even if you know how to love others." Lin Fengyun was very satisfied with his lover's attitude, but still responded arrogantly.

The two drove straight to the nearby Hengshan Road bar street, found a clean French restaurant and walked in.

Regardless of the small size of the restaurant, it is absolutely fine.

They listened to the French chanson jazz music sung by the resident singer while enjoying a French candlelight dinner, and the romantic atmosphere was filled instantly.

It's just that the cost of this meal is also expensive, and most people can't bear it.

Ma Liang was chatting with Teacher Feng at one end, and Jennifer Graves at the other end called him from across the ocean.

"Boss, there's good news from Stanford University, how do you reward me?" The blonde and blue-eyed CEO started her daily molesting of the boss again.

Ma Liang asked with a headache: "What good news? Tell me first, let's listen!"

"I contacted a Chinese associate professor in the Department of Computer Science through a friend. After reading your sister's information, he is very willing to be her recommender and mentor.

With the recommendation of this associate professor and the relationship I have established before, it is basically a sure thing. "Jennifer quickly claimed credit.

Ma Liang was also very happy when he heard the words: "That's great, I owe you a favor this time!"

"Then I have to seriously think about it, how can I ask you to pay back the boss, or let's go on a romantic date, hehehe." Jennifer took the opportunity to tease him again.

Sitting opposite Lin Fengyun, Ma Liang didn't dare to joke casually, and hurriedly said: "Let's do this first, remember to send me the information later!
What's the matter, wait until I go to the United States to talk about it."

Before he finished speaking, he hung up the phone in a hurry, for fear that Jennifer's rambunctious hoof would make something wrong again.

"Why, are you going to America again?" Lin Fengyun asked hastily.

Ma Liang nodded helplessly, wanting to fool around casually: "Yes, there is some investment business over there, I need to go over and talk about it."

It's not entirely a lie, he did have a few big leaks to pick up recently.

"How long?" Lin Fengyun asked again with concern, "Do you want me to go with you?"

Ma Liang turned pale with fright, and hurriedly dissuaded him, "No need, I'll be back in a few months at most."

"One month? Is it that long?" Lin Fengyun lost her composure immediately, "Let's go, let's go home!"

Ma Liang was puzzled and said, "Why, don't you want to eat?"

"You have to go for a month, so what else do you eat?" Lin Fengyun gave him a very seductive wink, the teasing meaning was self-evident.

Not to mention how dignified and virtuous this teacher, who is from a water town in the south, has a gentle temperament, it is rare for him to be so proactive.

Suddenly at this moment, Ma Liang panicked!
What's wrong?

Is this trying to squeeze him dry before leaving?

(End of this chapter)