Wall Street Legend

  Chapter 259 A critical year

  These official agencies hold various meetings from time to time, as if to show their presence.

  Ye Dongqing and his company are well-known, and they receive various invitations every day. If he attends all meetings in person, he will never have time for himself throughout the year.

I don’t like to deal with those people, and it’s very difficult to chat with them. Relying on my youth, I can do things more willfully. I postpone all the meetings that can be postponed. The super rich also cannot avoid being exposed to these sophistication. With the expansion of fame, Ye Dongqing will have to learn to be more tactful one day in the future, but he hopes to delay this time for a few years until he has had enough fun.

  Knowing that Mr. McCord was not there, Ye Dongqing asked Miss Elizabeth Madoff to go back first, while he continued to deal with the matter at hand.

I went to Huaxia some time ago, and had dinner and met with some representatives of the local Internet companies. By the way, I talked about whether there is any opportunity to do business together. Now that the time has come, some good progress has been made. Ye Dongqing has established a special All the members of a working team in China are business talents who have just immigrated to the United States in the past ten years and were hired by him in the United States, which means that they are more familiar with the environment in China and can easily carry out their work.

This is indeed the case. They report the work progress directly to Ye Dongqing and are independent from Danshui Investment Group. Their main job right now is to represent Ye Dongqing to find business opportunities there and contact those smart people who have succeeded or have entrepreneurial ideas. In order to achieve the goal of getting involved in China's Internet industry, which was laid out early in this era.

For example, Mr. Zhang of Sohu, he plans to pass a plan to issue some new shares in the NASDAQ market, and obtain financing from Ye Dongqing with a total amount of about 70 million US dollars, which has not yet been approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission. However, if it is successful, Tamsui Group will directly hold about 26% of Sohu's shares. In addition, the plan that Boss Zhang and he mentioned last time to jointly create a new mobile phone brand is still under discussion. If there is no accident, it is likely to become a reality. At least Ye Dongqing is fine. The idea is good. If Boss Zhang can provide part of the funds as promised, the cooperation project may be finalized next month.

For the mobile phone industry, from upstream production and R&D and manufacturers of supporting parts to downstream production and sales, the industry scale of the entire market was already quite large in 2004. Promoting the rise of the software consumer market, this piece of cake will inevitably become bigger. This is the big gold nugget that Ye Dongqing has coveted for a long time. Since there is no shortage of funds on hand, it is unreasonable to find talents to help him manage the company well. Just to miss it like this, his appetite is quite big.

In addition, this group of people also represented Ye Dongqing and Danshui Investment Group, and met with Jack Ma from Alibaba Group in private. What Ye Dongqing meant was that he was willing to pay a large sum of money to Alibaba The group raised a total of 200 million U.S. dollars, and only 30% of the shares, which is equivalent to raising Alibaba's valuation by a large amount on the current basis, about 20%, since the establishment of Taobao. , and after the initial success, the company has indeed become more valuable, which is quite attractive to venture capital institutions.

According to the information obtained by Ye Dongqing, eBay also extended an olive branch to Jack Ma last month, willing to pay the Alibaba Group as a whole at a valuation of about 480 million US dollars in cash plus shares. Acquisition, but the progress of this transaction did not seem to be smooth, so he asked his people to come up with a more attractive financing plan.

As promised to Boni when investing in Tencent Group, he is also willing to hand over the management power to Jack Ma. There is something to talk about.

As I said before, some companies have recovered from the impact of the Internet bubble burst crisis and took the lead in expanding globally. The big fish are frantically chasing the small fish, trying to strengthen themselves through mergers and financing. Ye Dongqing He also took the initiative to enter this struggle. He is a shareholder of Amazon, so he is not afraid of being hated by eBay people at all, and he will do whatever is beneficial to him.

   Previously, his appetite was too small, but now he plans to invest one billion US dollars in venture capital in China's Internet industry. If he can get the opportunity to finance Huawei, this number may double or triple.

It can be said that 2004 is a relatively critical year. Danshui Investment Group has money, looks around the world, and there is no shortage of investment opportunities. Ye Dongqing always has an inexplicable feeling that her future strength mainly depends on how much she can invest this year. It is a company with great potential. When other people react and concentrate their capital in the Internet industry again, it will definitely be much harder for him to invest, and the cost will be even higher.

Ye Dongqing needs to make up his own mind on these investment matters. The people under him are only responsible for negotiating an agreement that is more beneficial to him as much as possible. The decision is all in his hands. If you think it’s not bad, just pass it, and then continue to go down the process. Some projects have unknown prospects, so let’s put them on hold for now. For example, Huicong.com, they opened their mouths and wanted Ye Dongqing to raise 100 million U.S. dollars. After reading the plan Pass it without even thinking about it, and help local officials sell agricultural products. How much money can this make?

After reading too many documents, I became dizzy after a while, got up and made myself a cup of black tea, sat down again, called old Bernard Madoff, and asked him about the funds from Rolex, regardless of the old man How much interest Nader promised to Rolex, anyway, Danshui Investment Group will give the old Bernard an annualized interest rate of 9%.

The amount of the commission is his own business, and has nothing to do with Ye Dongqing. He just wants to know when the funds will be in place. This is related to the investment plan in the short term. There are indeed a lot of places to spend money recently. Just buying The underlying shares of the warrants cost the Danshui Investment Group more than three billion U.S. dollars in cash.

  There are always things waiting for Ye Dongqing to deal with. It was already past seven o'clock in the evening when he was almost done. It wasn't until Maxi came to him and invited him to have dinner together that he packed up his things and left the office...

  (end of this chapter)