Back To 1995

   Chapter 682

  After Christmas in Houston, before Song Yang returned to San Jose, he donated funds to many municipal institutions in Houston, as well as schools, hospitals, and charitable foundations, as usual.

In particular, Adrian's campaign office, the Bruno Family Foundation, has undertaken all of Adrian's campaign funds for the position of governor of Texas. Double-click, ICQ, Alcatel Mobile, and Inter-American Telecom will all serve Adrian. Raising the flag, let Adrian run for governor this time, absolutely huge.

   The day before Song Yang left Houston, Chuck Rhodes, who was pushed by Adrian to run for the new mayor of Houston, met Song Yang in a low-key manner.

  Chuck Rhodes is still taciturn, but when facing Song Yang, the boss of the Houston Prosecutor's Office still expressed his support for the Bruno family.

In addition, Chuck Rhodes quietly assured Song Yang that he would let Song Yang complete the acquisition of the Houston Rockets within the year, and would also transfer Houston's largest water plant, several farms and other companies to Bruno family.

   This made Song Yang a little surprised. Chuck Rhodes obviously knew that the Bruno family was buying and buying in Houston. Whether it was farms, land, water plants, power plants, hospitals, etc., the Bruno family would always come.

During Adrian’s time, he was a little bit shy about his actions. After all, as long as the managers of these industries did not commit suicide, they would generally not go bankrupt. family.

   But as the boss of the Prosecutor's Office, Chuck Rhodes must have some leverage on these companies, otherwise he would not be so sure that he could accomplish this.

Song Yang did not reject Chuck Rhodes's "name submission", Chuck Rhodes looked indifferent, but when he saw Chuck Rhodes's ambitious eyes, Song Yang knew that Chuck Rhodes Si is unwilling to stop at the current position, the same look has also appeared on Adrian, and he also wants to get Song Yang's support!

Sitting on the plane to San Jose, Song Yang remembered the meeting with Chuck Rhodes and shook his head. He was not afraid that Chuck Rhodes would ask for more, but he was afraid that he would have no desires. Buy a chance.

  In America, you have to pay a corresponding price for everything you get. The more Chuck Rhodes gets from Song Yang, the more he will pay in the future.

Song Yang wanted to make Houston the base camp of the Bruno family. As a retreat in America, there must be enough industries in Houston, such as farms, water plants, power plants, natural gas companies, etc. With these industries, there will be enough. The right to speak can affect more people!

   When Song Yang returned to San Jose, there were already people waiting there, being chased by the media, trying every means to interview Iger, the president of America Telecom, and James Crowe, the vice president, but they had already arrived in San Jose ahead of schedule.

   "Song!"

Iger's face was calm, while Crow was a little excited. He had the opportunity to witness the birth of a giant with hundreds of billions of dollars. Maybe he could get a good salary in it. For Crow, his career Career, resume will also become a bit better.

James Crow's former MFS Group, a telecommunications company with tens of billions of dollars, was acquired by WorldCom and moved to the Americas. Originally, he was going to add some obstacles to WorldCom, but now, maybe it will be. Give his career a second spring.

  Song Yang let the two sit down and made a cup of tea for them. Xie Qing, the president of Forita Antivirus Company, brought over the best tea from China.

  Xie Qing will return to China every year during the Spring Festival, and bring some local specialties back to San Jose.

On the Silicon Valley side, the current valuation of Fortis Antivirus is only a few billion dollars. It is not the first echelon of the Internet industry, but in Zhongguancun, Pengcheng and other places in China, Fortis is even a top Internet giant. As long as Xie Qing goes back, he is basically a big man in the domestic Internet industry.

After the Panda LCD was launched, the TV box of Fortinet also began to be sold. There are channels of ICNC TV, plus TV channels authorized by NBC, Comcast TV network, many TV channels, and the Saipan operating system. Fortinet TV boxes are selling quite well.

Although each TV box sold has to be distributed to NBC and Comcast, a licensing fee is still required, but the TV box still has the hope of becoming a cash cow of Fortis. Xie Qing's small life can be better. A bit more comfortable.

   "In the past two days, ICQ will start merger negotiations with America Telecom. Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch and other institutions will also participate in the negotiations to provide consulting, fundraising and other assistance for the merger!"

   Song Yang looked at Iger and said that ICQ's merger with America Telecom is the first step, and it must be done quickly and must not be delayed. Only after they merge can they free up their hands and start the subsequent negotiations.

When it comes to the merger of tens of billions of dollars, ICQ and America Telecom need to exchange equity, issue new shares and bonds, and need the help of Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street institutions. Otherwise, ICQ alone cannot handle these things. Of course, according to the rules, Goldman Sachs should also be given a "consulting fee". According to the scale of ICQ's merger with America Telecom, the consulting fee should be at least one or two billion dollars.

"I see!"

  Iger took a sip of tea and said, "The management of America Telecom will cooperate with President Irene!"

   Listening to Iger's words, Song Yang finally understood why he had been able to live under the hands of Disney Emperor Eisner for so long.

   "America Telecom was acquired, maybe not a bad thing!"

   Song Yang said to Iger, Iger's expression moved, and Crow, who was beside him, also looked at Song Yang, not knowing what Song Yang meant.

   "Americas Telecom is under heavy debt pressure now. The laying of broadband lines, mobile network signal towers, and electronic retail stores all require a lot of capital. Last year, American Telecom's profits were more than a quarter of which was repaying these debts!"

Last year, America Telecom made nearly 8 billion dollars, but it lost money and made a lot of money. It made more money and spent more, laying broadband lines, base stations, signal towers, mobile phone retail stores, research and development expenses, salaries, and debt repayments. Zero In the end, there are not many at all. If there are no other accidents, this situation will continue for a long time.

But this time, Song Yang is going to play a game of "transferring flowers and connecting trees", "After the merger of America Telecom is completed, all debts can be transferred to ICQ, and ICQ can issue bonds, funds, new shares, etc., for the projects of America Telecom. !"

Iger and James Crow were stunned when they heard Song Yang's words. Of course they understood what Song Yang meant, that is to transfer all the debts to ICQ, and then use ICQ's money to do the work of America Telecom. .

   Of course, this is not for ICQ to spend money, or to cut the leeks and issue new shares, bonds, etc. to the leeks, but ICQ almost took all the risks, and America Telecom was almost washed.

  Just like this, James Crow glanced at Song Yang suspiciously. If he didn't know that ICQ was also established by Song Yang, he would have doubted whether ICQ was picked up by Song Yang halfway.

Almost all the risks are borne by ICQ. If the merger makes a big profit, it's okay to say, but if it loses, the stock price will collapse one day. In addition to the huge debt, ICQ will never be able to eat and walk, but America Telecom can pat its **** and walk away. People, separated from ICQ, have no debts, and make a lot of money.

  Iger also had some doubts, but he didn't ask any further, just nodded in agreement with this set of "transferring flowers and trees".

  Song Yang took a sip of Tieguanyin, ICQ merged with America Telecom, and it would take a year or two to see who would take advantage.

It is not only to transfer flowers and trees to America Telecom, transfer debts to make America Telecom a high-quality industry, Song Yang will also start to cash out slowly from now on. It is impossible to cash out all of them. You can only boil the frog in warm water and cash out slowly. By next year, most of the ICQ equity in Song Yang's hands can be cashed out and transferred...

   Just after seeing Iger here, Bates, president of the Telephone and Telegraph Group over there, called to ask for guilt.

   "Song, I need a reasonable explanation, the Telephone and Telegraph Group is now the second largest shareholder of America Telecom!"

   (end of this chapter)