American Fortune Life

"These guys are really difficult."

In the office, Andy frowned, put the cigar in his hand into the slot on the crystal ashtray, took a sip of coffee, and muttered in a low voice while looking at the documents in his hand.

During the morning, he had discussions with representatives of several investment companies with investment intentions. At present, it seems that Google and Sequoia Capital have both made a 20% increase in the company's valuation, which is 6 billion U.S. dollars. to invest in valuations.

This is undoubtedly very sincere, but the appetites of these two companies are not small. Needless to say, Google will never consider less than 20% of the shares, and Sequoia Capital also hopes to get 10% of the shares.

Although he sent money to himself, Andy is very cautious about the red line of shareholding ratio. Although refinancing can be used to dilute the shares, but in the same way, his shares will also decrease accordingly. For his own shares He had to think clearly about the risks brought by less than 50%.

Moreover, Google's subscription method will be carried out in the form of cash plus Google stock, and the other party is thinking of tying him to the Google chariot.

However, it would be a good time to replace Google’s stock price with the current stock price. After all, Google’s stock price has plummeted by 30% at this time, and it is on the verge of falling out of the $100 billion market value list with $101.5 billion.

Similar to Google's misery, Apple, which still cannot escape the shrinking market value despite launching a new mobile phone, stepped on the red line of the 100 billion list with US$100.6 billion.

In the general environment of economic crisis, if there are more investors who like prudent and down-to-earth companies, it means that there are fewer investors who like fashion and avant-garde. Google, which has just launched a new browser and mobile phone, and Apple, which has just launched a new mobile phone, certainly belong to the latter case.

"Boss, the idea of ​​Google annexing Liberty City definitely exists, and it will choose to eat it slowly, there is no doubt about it, but this is not a big problem.

First of all, boss, you are not short of money. Don’t worry that the subsequent rounds of financing will dilute too many shares. We can also redistribute the proportion of shares through subsequent financing, and extract shares from the other party by increasing the company’s equity incentive plan. There are many of these methods, not to worry about.

Boss, what we should consider at the moment is whether Liberty City can face the two-sided competition of Google with Android system and Apple with IOS system at the same time?

Incorporating Google and uniting against Apple is the best solution for the rapid development and growth of Liberty City.

Although antitrust has a certain deterrent effect on Google and Apple, there are ways to avoid it. They all have very rich experience and methods for how to monopolize. If they really want to embark on the road of antitrust litigation, it will be a lose-lose.

Capital seeks profit. After all, we are here to make money, not to spend money to fight lawsuits. . . "

Andy listened to the words of Alvetrie, the chief think tank in the video connection, and couldn't help but nodded slightly. To be honest, the reason why Andy was worried about gains and losses was mainly because he was used to eating alone, and he had some instinctive rejection of the shareholding system. accurate.

But the reason why a company wants to raise funds to introduce shareholders is not only for the little money, but also for needs such as contacts, allies, market development, and making up for shortcomings. And Google's help for the future development of Liberty City, Andy is It couldn't be more clear.

If Liberty City does not want to be kicked out of the market and slowly decline, the most important thing to do is to incorporate Google at all costs and make Google its own.

"As for investment companies like Sequoia, they exist to show the boss's interest-sharing attitude, and they can allocate 1% or 2% randomly.

In the past few days, Wall Street has paid close attention to Liberty City's financing plan. Many people have called to ask about the specific situation. This group of vampires changed their attitude from skepticism to optimism that the boss is finally willing to open the door to welcome capital. "

"hehe."

Andy just chuckled lightly, he didn't care much about the attitude of those people on Wall Street,

I am not at the stage where I just started to rise, and my right to speak is not much worse than them.

"That's how it is. Before that, let's sort out Liberty City first, and improve the contracts and funds with various companies..."

"clear."

After turning off the video, Andy squinted his eyes slightly, touched his chin, picked up the phone and called Michael Wright and the company's chief financial officer respectively.

Now that Liberty City will no longer be his own company, the cooperation with all the companies under it needs to be done in a business-like manner, and the funds he personally lent to the company also need to be repaid and completely separated.

"Humph!"

As soon as he entered the door, Andy was sneered by Emperor Sai's cold snort, ready to come forward for a hug and kiss.

"Do not touch me!"

"Ahem..." Andy coughed a few times in embarrassment, looking at Charlize with a displeased face, he could only roll his eyes, "Oh, my little angel, have you ever thought about your father?"

Seeing Andy looking like a rascal, he picked up little Laura on the sofa and began to tease him. Hearing little Laura’s happy giggles, Charlize’s mood was really mixed. She thought she could face it calmly and gracefully from beginning to end. , Now it seems that true feelings are always selfish.

Looking at Andy's doting smile and thinking of his romantic nature, Charlize felt helpless again. Let alone her real girlfriend, even a real girlfriend might not be able to stop her from hunting around.

Damn it, forget it, out of sight, out of mind. . . Who let me choose a bastard, and he was sleeping out of love.

While Charlize was convincing herself and Andy was playing with little Laura, the little assistant in a black OL skirt came over with a few pieces of paper in his hand.

"Boss, the fax from New York is the Gaia ECIS Department..."

"Oh?" Andy stretched out his finger to let little Laura hold it, and then took the fax sent by Gaia's competitive intelligence department with great interest and read it.

"Xie Te, all I saw this morning were beasts in clothes and scum. Well, compared to them, I'm really a good person!"

The more he looked at Andy's face, the darker he was. He hurriedly took away the fingers held by little Laura, and then stood up and sat aside, frowning and cursing.

"Don't swear." Charlize gave Andy an angry look, and then motioned for the nanny to take little Laura to play aside. Seeing the ugly expression on Andy's face, she couldn't help asking curiously: "What information, let you Have the illusion that you are a good person?"

The black-faced Andy's mouth twitched and raised his head to look at the emperor, opened his mouth, and finally said with a wry smile: "Forget it, you'd better stop watching, I'm afraid you will be stimulated..."

"Ha——" Charlize leaned forward, stretched out her hand and pulled the document from Andy's hand. Andy smiled wryly and shook his head, while the little assistant with the same ugly face hurriedly stopped him: "It's best not to read it."

Charlize ignored the two, but looked more curiously. The first page of the document was the personal information of Google CEO Eric Schmidt, but the more he looked back, Charlize looked up at Andy from time to time, and then Sneered again and again.

It turns out that this Eric is also a seductress. Although he is nearly sixty years old, he has mistresses from all walks of life, including public executives of his own company, female anchors, female producers, female pianists, etc. What is even more exaggerated is that he He also took these women on a yacht to go out to sea for a carnival.

"You're not doing any good. You have fewer numbers than him, so you just say you're a good person?" Charlize taunted Andy angrily.

Andy also laughed helplessly. After reading these materials, he realized that compared with these guys, he was really far behind.

"FXXK! This is disgusting! He should go to hell and should call the police immediately and have this brute arrested..."

Hearing Charlize's roar, Andy slapped his forehead fiercely, took the documents with a wry smile, saw his pretty face flushed, and glared at him with gnashed teeth, stretched out his hand and pulled her, letting her sit in his arms, Then he softly comforted: "Don't be stupid, it's not difficult to get these materials if you really need to investigate. They are still safe and sound, raising female slaves in captivity, there is no evidence."

"No evidence? Then how did you get these materials?" Charlize stared at Andy angrily, her eyes full of scrutiny.

"What kind of eyes do you have?" Andy rolled his eyes angrily, slapped Charlize's Buttocks hard, and complained: "I'm not a group of mutants, to be honest, I didn't expect red Shan's brother is a beast in clothes, Nima, it really disgusts me.

No, I asked Sequoia to come over with another partner. Hey, I have always thought that the collective loss of control of the lower half of the American financial circle was a joke. Now it seems that it is not an exaggeration at all, but it is beautifying. This is a group of animals. what!

I know what you're thinking, it's useless, if no one involved comes forward to testify, there's nothing they can do about it, but I will let people watch this matter, human trafficking is unforgivable.

You don't have to be angry, you must keep this matter a secret, and I will let someone handle it. "

"Okay, I believe you. You must not let this group of scumbags continue to get away with it. Damn it, they all deserve to go to hell!" Charlize said with eyes burning with anger, gnashing her teeth.