My Age of Investment

Not long after Xia Jingxing sat on the bed and meditated, Nicholas called.

As soon as he picked up the phone, there was a burst of hearty laughter, "Daren, where are you? Let's go, I'll take you to see the nightlife in Luxembourg."

"Uh...there will be business negotiations tomorrow?"

Subconsciously, Xia Jingxing wanted to refuse. After sitting on the plane for so long, he was really tired now and didn't want to go on a fuss.

"It's okay, just have two glasses of wine, which hotel are you in? I'll pick you up!"

Nicholas didn't seem to understand the polite refusal in Xia Jing's jargon at all, and insisted on calling Xia Jingxing, which seemed a bit stalking.

From what I usually understand, Nicholas is not such a blind person.

Xia Jingxing's heart moved, and he quickly realized the deep meaning, most likely he wanted to win him over.

Steven is making connections in private, maybe someone has already stabbed Nicholas.

No, it shouldn't be a coincidence that Nicholas called shortly after Steven left.

Drinking should be just a pretense, I guess I still want to talk to myself about the sale of Skype.

Xia Jingxing also did not expect that at this juncture, there were still so many secret fights.

In the final analysis, money is still touching!

So Xia Jingxing reported the name and room number of the hotel he was staying in, hung up the phone, and waited quietly in the room for Nicholas to arrive.

He didn't wait long, and after about ten minutes, Nicholas arrived.

As soon as he entered the room, Nicholas smiled and put his arms around Xia Jingxing's shoulders, "Come on, Darren, it's still early, go out and play."

Xia Jingxing waved his hand, "You don't need to play, you're sleepy to death. You must have something to do with me, just tell me!"

Nicholas, eyes flashing, pulled up a chair, sat down, and began to describe his differences with Defonget.

Xia Jingxing was sitting next to him, quietly being an audience.

After briefly telling the inside story, Nicholas also added: "Daren, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google have all entered or are preparing to enter the field of Internet telephony.

Skype's own user growth has also fallen into a certain predicament!

If it is possible to grab greater benefits, I will not decide to sell Skype now.

Did Steven reach out to you? Don't be fooled by him, he is a greedy guy who doesn't understand the actual business at all..."

Xia Jingxing listened to Nicholas' continuous talk for more than ten minutes without interjection. After the other party finished speaking, he gave the other party an affirmative answer.

"Don't worry, I'm always on your side. Whether you want to continue to operate Skyp or sell it, I will support you!"

Hearing this, Nicholas felt a little relieved when he saw Xia Jingxing's calm face.

He was afraid that Xia Jingxing, a super rich man, would be persuaded by Steven and join forces to wreak havoc.

Now that Xia Jingxing had finished expressing his position, Nicholas did not talk about this topic, and tentatively asked Xia Jingxing to go out for a drink. After being rejected, he did not force himself and left alone.

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the next day.

In the conference room of a high-end hotel in Luxembourg, various shareholders of Scape and people sent by eaby lined up on both sides of the long table, looking at each other and looking at each other.

Xia Jingxing paid more attention to the middle-aged man in his late forties sitting in the center of the opposite side - Pierre Omidyar, Iranian-American, founder and chairman of the board of eaby.

Omidyar had black hair and a bushy beard. Noticing that the Asian boy across from him was looking at him, he smiled at Xia Jingxing and nodded.

This was the first time Xia Jingxing met Omidyar. Facebook had chosen Amazon as a partner before, and eaby had formed an alliance with Dating.com and Juyou.com, and they were enemies rather than friends.

But one size counts, and now the other party is actively showing kindness, Xia Jingxing also nodded to the other party in a graceful manner, which can be regarded as a greeting.

"For this acquisition, eaby is willing to pay 1.3 billion US dollars in cash, plus 1.3 billion US dollars of eaby common stock. The 2.6 billion US dollars will be used as an upfront fee. Once the acquisition agreement is signed, the delivery can be officially started.

In addition, there will be a three-year performance bet in the next three years. If Scape can successfully complete the performance commitment, three years later, it can obtain an additional transaction payment worth up to 1.5 billion U.S. dollars. This money will be paid by cash or equity at the discretion of eaby .

The total transaction consideration totaled US$4.1 billion…”

A subordinate next to Omidyar broke the silence of the room and began to describe the transaction plan in detail.

Xia Jingxing smiled and listened quietly. Among the Internet companies that have risen in the past two years, looking around the world, apart from Facebook, Skype is the most popular.

After the other party's personnel finished the introduction, Nicholas swept to the surrounding shareholders, and said with a smile: "The specific transaction plan, the friend of eaby has already described it in detail, and everyone has already seen the detailed plan, here I am I won't go into details.

If there are no other questions, let's officially sign the agreement today! "

Just as Nicholas finished speaking, Steven suddenly said, "Slow down!"

All eyes were drawn to it!

Even Xia Jingxing was no exception!

He guessed that Nicholas must have found more than himself last night.

The other shareholders have no objections, so why did De Fengjie jump out and make a fuss.

"This transaction, I think there can be multiple options!"

Being watched by so many people, Steven was not nervous at all, and continued with a smile: "The initial payment is 2.6 billion US dollars, and the later payment is 1.5 billion US dollars, and there is still a span of three years in between.

I think that every shareholder has different demands. Some people want to get more cash, or get money earlier.

Of course, there are also people who are willing to wait, waiting for the moment when the result of the bet is announced.

I think that among our shareholders, we can make some special trading plans to meet the demands of different shareholders. "

Nicholas's eyes were bloodshot. Last night, he ran to many hotels and found shareholders one by one to chat.

De Fengjie, who thought he had stabilized the situation and was helpless, should have given up his unrealistic ideas.

But in the end, a heavy slap was slapped on his face.

Nicholas didn't want the eaby people to see the joke, suppressed the anger in his heart, and asked with a cold face: "Mr. Steven, what do you want to express?"

Steven kept a professional smirk, "It's nothing else, I just think the trading plan is too rigid, and it can be made more flexible."

After finishing speaking, Steven looked at the representatives of Beshang Ventures, Index Investment and other venture capital institutions on the left and right, and asked with a smile, "What do you think?"

"We think we can negotiate again!"

"Yes, shareholders have different demands!"

"Let's discuss it again!"

...

All the shareholders of Skype, except Xia Jingxing, expressed their opinions one after another.

Xia Jingxing looked at his nose with his mouth, and his heart with his nose, like a sculpture, motionless.

Seeing this, Nicholas immediately fell in love with him!

He contacted so many shareholders last night, but this one who promised to pay a lot of money didn't jump out at this time.

Omidyar, chairman of eaby, looked at the noisy opposite, and said very bluntly: "Everyone, eaby is only willing to pay US$2.6 billion to US$4.1 billion for this merger.

This is our final reserve price! "

Speaking of this, Omidyar gave Nicholas a sideways look, "If you want to use this low-level method to force eaby to pay a higher purchase price!

It can only be said that they made the wrong idea. I'm only waiting for two days, it's too late! "

After all, Omidyar got up, without delay, and left with eaby and his party.

Nicholas wanted to stay, but he didn't want to lose his momentum, so he could only watch eaby and his party leave.

After all the people from eaby had left, and only a group of shareholders of Scape remained in the meeting room, Nicholas' eyes became extremely sinister.

He looked at the instigator, Steven, and said coldly: "Now you have successfully disrupted the situation, are you satisfied?"

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