mousepad-d2 Chapter 130
Chapter 130
"So, what can I do for you?" In the president's office that had just been renamed Eric & Lu Assets, Eric Weiss was standing comfortably in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows with a cup of steaming Italian coffee, overlooking the All living beings.Sunlight pours in through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows, and there are fine dust visible to the naked eye floating in the air.Eric Weiss, who admired the beautiful scenery enough, turned around, pointed to the busy employees in the office area, and said with a smile: "Look, this is the country that the two of us have conquered!"
Lu Chi: "..."
Eric Weiss laughed, walked behind the desk and sat down.The comfortable leather seat swayed slightly, Eric Weiss took a sip of coffee, and then said: "No matter what you want to do, if you need my help, I will definitely do my best."
"By the way, have you seen the newly renovated sign downstairs? How do you feel?"
"Very good." Lu Chi praised Eric Weiss' work efficiency, and said with a little emotion: "It's just that I didn't expect that your movements would be so fast."
"This is Wall Street!" Eric Weiss snapped his fingers very coolly: "The financial market, of course, must be resolved quickly."
"Of course the most important thing," Eric Weiss looked at Lu Chi, raised two index fingers in front of him, and said affectionately: "You deserve my careful attention."
Lu Chi again: "..."
There was a polite knock on the door, and David Smith, Eric's most valued chief analyst, pushed the door open.Noticing Lu Chi's indescribable expression, he explained with a smile: "Eric met a passionate and romantic female artist from country F at the charity auction last weekend..."
"The two of us are completely in love." Eric Weiss said passionately and exaggeratedly: "Oh, dear Lu, you can never imagine what a lovely person Sophie is. I found the meaning of my existence in my body... This is the perfect life!"
Lu Chi rubbed his arms calmly, while David Smith quietly threw a look at him, full of lovelessness.
Lu Chi understands this very well.So he directly interrupted Eric Weiss' chattering feelings about love, and said straight to the point: "I came here today to borrow money."
In order to successfully intercept the acquisition plan of the Hu Smith family, Lu Chi must ensure that they have sufficient funds in their hands.But the key point is that it is impossible for Lu Chi and the others to gather [-] million M gold in a short period of time without being able to scare the snake away.The only way is for Lu Chi to transfer funds from the company as a shareholder of Eric & Lu Assets.
However, Lu Chi did not want to involve Eric Weiss in their personal grievances with the Smith family.Therefore, Lu Chi absolutely cannot participate in the acquisition in the name of the fund.
So Lu Chisi thought about it and decided to borrow money from Eric Weiss in a private capacity. Although the essence is the same, but under the cloak of "personal relationship", at least it can leave Eric Weiss room for mediation.
Seeing this, David Smith was secretly relieved.The campus network and the Smith family are back and forth, and the fight is so fierce. As the chief analyst of Eric & Lu Assets, David naturally pays close attention to this.But public or private, he doesn't want Eric involved.Because that's clearly not in the company's interest.
Unlike his confidant and friend, Eric Weiss raised his eyebrows with great interest.He played with a pen, put on a posture of listening carefully, and said gracefully: "I would like to hear more about it."
Lu Chi smiled slightly, took out an acquisition case from his schoolbag, and handed it to Eric Weiss.
Eric Weiss took the document, flipped through a few pages, and the expression on his face immediately became solemn.He looked at Lu Chi with piercing eyes, looked at him for a while, and asked, "You really want to do this?"
Lu Chi nodded solemnly: "This is our decision."
"Then what you will face next will not only be the anger of Howard Smith, but the suppression and hostility of the entire Smith family." Eric Weiss frowned and sighed helplessly: "... last time In the confrontation, didn't the campus network gain the upper hand?"
Eric's implication is that Lu Chi doesn't need to be aggressive - after all, the other party is an old family with a long history, with extraordinary connections and background.If there is a real fire, no matter whether it is Lu Chi who has no background and only talent, or the campus network with an unstable foundation, it is impossible to win.
So in Eric's view, instead of fighting with the Smith family, Lu Chi might as well avoid his edge and develop himself.Just like an old saying in China: Ten years is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge.
Lu Chi smiled wryly, and said, "They hired headhunters to secretly contact the technical backbone of the campus network."
At the heart of the Smith family's plan to move from telecommunications to the Internet was technology support.As we all know, in the current M country, apart from those well-known and well-capitalized technology companies in the world, the technical personnel of the campus network are of the highest quality - relying on the talent support of Silicon Valley and Stanford University, as well as the talent of Lu Zhi, the founder of campus network programming. Charismatic personality, IT talents who want to enter the campus network are like crucian carp in a river.It even caused the explosion of the recruitment mailbox on the campus network.And these IT talents joined the technical department of the campus network after being screened layer by layer, and then trained and taught by Lu Chi personally, the technical personnel trained in the end are definitely the top in the world.
Therefore, once the Smith family completes the acquisition of the handheld computer manufacturer, they will definitely attack the mature technicians of the campus network—because they do not have the ability to train technicians, and it is impossible to find technicians from other large companies. In the end, the only unlucky one must be the campus network that has feud with the Smith family and is weak.
Lu Chi and the others will never sit back and watch this happen.
"Just yesterday, Matthew Locke bought 1000% of the shares of the campus network at a price of 10 million M gold." Not wanting to talk too much about the battle between the campus network and the Smith family, Lu Zhi changed the subject and said: " So, if you are willing to lend me money, Matthew Locke can be our guarantor."
The meaning of Lu Chi's words made Eric Weiss' eyes brighten, and he looked at Lu Chi with admiration: "It seems that you and Matthew have a very good relationship."
"We are friends." Lu Chi said, and took out a letter of guarantee written by Matthew Locke from his schoolbag.
Eric Weiss took the letter of guarantee and tore off the envelope without opening it.
Then, he crossed his hands, put them on the desk, stared straight at Lu Zhi with his deep eyes, and said in a very sincere tone: "In fact, we are also friends."
Eric Weiss blinked at Lu Chi: "Friends should help each other."
As Eric Weiss said, he reached out and pressed the intercom button on the phone, and ordered the female secretary sitting outside the door: "Let the accountant write a check for [-] million gold and go to my private account."
"Okay, boss."
A few minutes later, a sexy female secretary with blonde hair and blue eyes walked into the office.Hand over a check for [-] million gold to Eric Weiss.
Eric Weiss handed the check to Lu Chi, pondered for a moment, and still couldn't help asking: "Are you really sure that you did this on impulse?"
"I'm sure."
"OK!" Eric Weiss propped his temples with his hands, and was very troubled for a while.Then, he pulled his tie, stood up from the chair, and said very firmly: "Then do this."
"The money matter is easy to solve." He said, picked up the mobile phone on the table, and found out the number of an old friend: "I think the top priority is that you need an experienced negotiator."
Sitting on a chair, Lu Chi looked at his partner who had a completely different attitude and acted without procrastination, and said in surprise: "Eric, you don't need to do this to—"
"We are partners." Eric Weiss raised a hand, interrupted Lu Chi's words, and said with a clear attitude: "I need to ensure that my favor can be maximized after I send it out. Besides, I also see That old guy has been upset for a long time."
"Come on, buddy." Eric Weiss picked up his suit jacket, walked around the table to Lu Chi, reached out and patted Lu Chi on the shoulder: "Time is limited, and every second counts. You don't want to waste it with us When it's time for unnecessary politeness, is there any substantive progress on the Smith family side?"
When Lu Chi heard the words, he had no choice but to say: "Eric, thank you."
David Smith, who had been watching coldly, shook his head. He could only watch the backs of the two leaving in a hurry, and tried to comfort himself: "Fortunately, this is Eric's personal behavior."
Half an hour later, Eric Weiss took Lu Chi and his acquisition case to find Eric Weiss' good friend, Redman Scott, the most difficult negotiator in country M.
"Are you the financial genius who made Wall Street so prosperous?" Redman Scott looked at the oriental boy sitting in front of him, and there was a hint of obscurity in his eyes: "I am willing to serve you."
The author has something to say:
I saw a little angel below the article who thinks that 1000 million 10% of the shares is too much, so here is a list of statistics for everyone——
When Apple was looking for investment for the first time after its establishment, because of lack of money, Jobs even planned to exchange one-third of the shares for an investment of 5 US dollars. Later, he found Markkula and exchanged 25 US dollars for 26% of the shares.
When Google was conducting its A round of financing, KPCB and Sequoia Capital each injected $125 million and acquired 10% of the shares.
Facebook's first angel investment of 50 US dollars, 10% of the shares.Later, in the A round of financing, Axel invested 1270 million US dollars, and the company was valued at 1 million US dollars.That was already in 2005.
Therefore, the treatment given by Lu Chi to Matthew Locke here is basically in line with the market conditions at that time.In addition, there are many restrictions on shares (considering the shareholding ratio of the three people held by Lu, the 10% that Matthew Locke gets basically has no rights other than dividends, and the contract also states that the three people held by Lu have priority to repurchase rights, that is to say, the shares can only be held by Matthew Locke himself, and cannot be sold at all).In other words, the three of Lu Zhi gave the shares to Matthew Locke, basically in exchange for favors.Let Matthew Locke have something to say on the family side, and it is also a strategic investment to win over the Locke family.
Another point is that Little Angel Meng, like Lazy Ba, has experienced the explosion of Internet news for more than ten years, and knows the prospects of the campus network.But in the "now" of 2002, no one, including Lu Chi, knew about this prospect.We can only make estimates based on the market value at that time.Therefore, it is impossible for the three of Lu Chi to set the price to the "common sense price" of later generations, because if they do that, the meaning of making friends with Matthew Locke and the Locke family will be gone.Even offend people.
Then there is the issue of non-dilutable shares. It is impossible for Lu Chi and the others to give this level.In fact, among the three shareholders of Campus.com, only Lu holds non-dilutable shares.That's because Lu Chi is the true and only technical founder of the campus network, plus the relationship between the three.Matthew Locke obviously didn't reach this level either technically or emotionally.So his share is 1000% of 10 million US dollars.In this case, if there is follow-up financing or if the campus network wants to go public, Matthew Rock will either give up the shares to be diluted, or make additional investments to retain the shares.In fact, if converted according to the exchange rate, Matthew Locke can be said to be the shareholder who invested the most capital but has the least shares among all shareholders of the campus network.Based on the above, it is not appropriate to change this data.Because the Locke family will obviously value the campus network according to Wall Street's thinking.Considering the overall status of the global Internet in 2002, the number of people online and inflation around the world, the figure of 1000% of US$10 million is reasonable.Based on this figure, once the market value of the campus network skyrockets in the future, Matthew Locke will increase his gratitude to the three of Lu Chi by one point, because everyone knows that there is no need for Lu Chi and others to sell the shares of the campus network, and this 10% was originally owned by Lu Zhisan. Friendship price given by people.Therefore, every time the value of the campus network skyrockets, everyone's friendship will become deeper.This is the real purpose of Yue Bin and others to send out the shares.
The above is basically these _(:з)∠)_