MTL - Centennial Family, Rising From Hong Kong Island-Chapter 352

Soon, a middle-aged white man walked into Lid's office under the leadership of the secretary.

With a faint chuckle on his face, he stretched out his hand towards the lid: "Hello, Mr. Gates, I'm Hannover."

"Hello, Mr. Hanover."

The two first had a cordial greeting, and then Hannover began to enter the theme.

"Under this big storm, all the companies in the United States have a hard time! Many companies have gone bankrupt, and I heard that Microsoft's situation is not very good." Hannover laughed.

Lid naturally couldn't admit this matter, but said: "We are in a good situation at Microsoft."

Hannover shook his head gently and smiled: "Mr. Gates, the stock price can't be deceived."

"Believe me, I'm here to help you."

"Before this, I have conducted some investigations on you, and I have heard that Microsoft Corporation, and Mr. Gates, your personal financial situation is not very good."

Lid's expression didn't change, Hanover continued: "The bank won't give you too much time."

These are facts, the lids have to admit.

Saying that Microsoft's situation is very good is just a means of negotiation.

And the arrival of Hanover is a good thing for Microsoft.

"Mr. Hannover, let's talk about it, what is the purpose of your coming to Microsoft?" Lid asked.

"I'm here to solve your actual difficulties!"

"Acquisition of Microsoft stock?"

Hanover nodded of course.

Lid immediately shook his head firmly: "Impossible, Microsoft is my hard work, I will not sell it."

Hanover laughed.

"There's nothing that can't be sold, it's just how profitable it is."

"If I guessed correctly, what you discussed just now was how to sell the stocks in your hand to repay the loan and avoid bankruptcy."

"But embarrassingly, no one wants to take your stock."

"Except for me, of course!"

After listening to this, Li and several people were embarrassed. How did this guy know that they were talking about stocks just now.

Is there a traitor?

"What price are you going to buy?" Lid said softly.

Hannover held out two fingers: "Two percentage points above the current share price."

Two percent?

Lid thought he had heard it wrong.

Then instantly became angry, is this taking advantage of the fire?

"No 4 possible!"

"Microsoft is a great company, its value is just grossly undervalued, and it will rise again after the financial crisis is over."

Too low for the lid to accept.

When he repurchased shares from Fengyun Capital, he spent nearly 200 million for just 8.5%.

If he sells it at such a price, he will lose a lot.

Hannover was not angry, just shook his head gently: "Mr. Gates, you are right, Microsoft is an excellent Internet company."

"But in today's market, all Internet stocks have become junk stocks, and no one wants to buy Internet stocks."

"Microsoft's greatness exists only in the possibilities of the future, but it is more likely that it will fall on the way to the future.".

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"Falk, shit, **** vampire!"

"Everyone on Wall Street is a bunch of sons of bitches."

On this day, after Hannover left, there was a loud roar in Lid's office.

What had always looked like a gentleman's cover, now behaved like a mad gambler.

He really lost badly!

Just now, he has reached an acquisition agreement with an angel investment company.

Angel Ventures will acquire a 15% stake in Lid Private for $180 million!

In other words, the current valuation of Microsoft Corporation by Angel Ventures is $1.2 billion.

It is higher than the stock price of the current market, but it is far lower than the real value of Microsoft, and it cannot be compared with the market value of 2.5 billion before the stock market crash.

Before the stock market crash, Li Li repurchased 8.5% of the shares from Fengyun Capital at a price of 200 million US dollars.

Now it has to sell 15% for $12.8 billion.

This time and again, Lid not only lost 20 million US dollars, but also lost 6.5% of Microsoft's equity.

Assets have shrunk by half, and control over Microsoft has become weaker.

awful!

In addition, angel investors also bought 6.8% of the shares from Dave and other founding teams at the same price.

As a result, Angel Ventures has a 21.8% stake in Microsoft.

And this is just the beginning!

Also on this day, another major shareholder of Microsoft, Sequoia Capital headquarters also welcomed a guest.

"Ms. Stephen, hello!"

A white woman in her thirties sat across from the office of Toleff, the head of the investment department at Sequoia Capital.

She has long, wavy, long, blond hair, and is dressed in business attire. She has a good figure and is not as bloated as most white women in their thirties.

The only downside is probably the slight freckles on her face.

She is the CEO of Stephen's Fund!

Very young and very unfamiliar to Wall Street! !

It was the first time that the head of the project department of Sequoia Capital heard the name of the Stephen Fund.

After Tolloff had someone do some research, it turned out that the company had been registered two years ago.

It is just a small investment company that has not done much in the past two years.

There are thousands of such obscure investment companies in the United States.

Big VCs like Sequoia Capital generally don't look at them.

And it must also be noted that this woman named Stephen is only the legal representative and CEO of the Stephen Fund.

But the fund's shareholders are other people, three other equally obscure small VCs.

Seeing this, Toleff understood.

This Stephen VC is just someone else's glove.

The same is true for the three financial companies. This kind of thing is too normal on Wall Street, with cross-shareholding and hiding the real behind-the-scenes shareholders.

It doesn't make much sense to check further, because there will definitely be some offshore companies.

That would get even more clueless.

Therefore, Toleff did not intend to take care of that much.

Now the financial crisis has not passed, Sequoia Capital is also terrible, and there are endless things to do every day.

He just doesn't have the heart to care about an ordinary VC!

"Mr. Toleff, I'm here today to talk about some cooperation with Sequoia Capital on behalf of Stephen Fund." Stephen said, his voice was somewhat neutral.

"Is there anything you need help with? Sequoia Capital is happy to help." Toleff chuckled.

Stephen nodded slightly: "This stock market crash is terrible, and Sequoia has lost a lot this month."

Toleff interrupted her: "This is a normal loss, no one could have expected this stock market crash, right? We Sequoia are trying our best to save it, and the company's situation will improve soon."

Stephen chuckled: "I understand, but if there is a financial help, Sequoia can have an easier life, right?"

"what do you want?"

Toleff didn't intend to go around the corner either. The cooperation between the two financial companies, apart from investment transfer and equity trading, rarely involved anything else.

"I personally am more optimistic about the Internet industry. Although Internet stocks have become junk stocks in the stock market, who knows that it will not rise again in the future?"

"I want to take a gamble that Sequoia Capital should have a lot of shares in Internet companies," Stephen said.

"Internet? You actually want to buy Internet stocks." Toleff was a little surprised.

Sequoia Capital is a large Wall Street venture capital firm with strong assets and numerous clients.

The Internet industry is naturally their investment scope.

"Which companies do you want stock in?"

"Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe, Intel, Apple, Qualcomm, Cisco..."

Stephen mentioned a series of company names, all of which are relatively well-known Internet companies.

Before the stock market crash, the stocks of these companies were chased by everyone, and the stock prices rose like a rocket.

But after the stock market crash, Internet companies without real assets became a pile of stinky shit, and no one was willing to take over.

But now I never thought of a Stephen Fund.

There has never been a shortage of smart people in the world.

"To be honest, I myself am very optimistic about the future of the Internet industry. I once thought that Internet technology was another leap in the development of human industry."

"Although in this stock market crash, stocks in the Internet industry fell the most."

"But I still firmly believe in my point of view." Toleff said confidently, but then he shook his head helplessly and said with a sigh:

"Unfortunately, I am the head of Sequoia Capital's investment department, and I am responsible for my clients."

Sequoia Capital is a large investment company with a large scale, which means there are many internal ideas.

Their most important principle is to be responsible for their customers.

Of course, there are many things that pit customers.

Toleff certainly believes in the broad prospects of the Internet industry, but unfortunately, as a professional investment company, what they want is not the future, but the present.

How to avoid customer losses and create greater benefits is what they have to do.

Selling Internet stocks, they may lose a lot of income in the future, but they can overcome many difficulties at present.

So, it's easy to make a choice.

Toleff nodded lightly: "Ms. Stephen, I think we can talk further.".

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"Crash~"

"Crash~"

"Crash~"

In the Greater Bay Area of ​​Hong Kong Island, a series of gunshots rang out in a private leisure area.

This club covers an area of ​​about two hectares. It has no signs and is not open to outsiders. It is a private place.

Developed by Butterfly Bay Real Estate Company, it belongs to Galaxy Group.

It was later converted into a gun club.

The most important thing is that this club does not use game guns, but can use live ammunition.