Rebirth of Hong Kong's tycoons, shorting Eagle Sauce

Schmidt's head was buzzing.

He never expected that his right-hand man who had worked with him for three years would mention resignation.

"Byers, don't you want to wait for another two years? Believe me, ASML will shock the whole world in less than two years."

It has to be admitted that Schmidt is a very charismatic leader.

At that moment, Byers really wanted to agree to wait a little longer.

"No, sir, I'm sorry, I really want to leave. I'm sure that as long as Philips controls ASML, I will always get the treatment I deserve."

This sentence touched Schmidt so much that he even thought about changing his employer.

"Well, ASML is sorry for you. I hope to see you in this industry in the future."

Perhaps it was selfishness that Schmidt didn't even sign a supplementary non-compete agreement with Byers when he left.

Byers, who walked out of ASML with a cardboard box, breathed a sigh of relief.

An hour after he left, Schmidt began to regret it, because there were several more resignation letters on his desk.

Not only the members of Byers' team, but also the members of the other two project teams.

Feeling something was wrong, Schmidt called the legal and human resources departments and asked those who wanted to leave to sign a non-compete agreement.

But this did not stop the wave of employees leaving. Some indignant employees even ridiculed him:

"President, given ASML's situation, can it still pay so much non-compete money?"

Signing a non-compete agreement requires the payment of compensation corresponding to the salary within the restricted years.

For important positions, compensation must be paid in excess.

If the compensation is not paid in place, or even one cent is paid less, this non-compete agreement is just a piece of waste paper.

This employee successfully hit Schmidt's sore spot.

ASML is on the verge of bankruptcy. If it recruits new people, even the compensation for non-compete employees cannot be paid normally!

ASML has entered a vicious circle.

Recruiting employees costs more money, and R&D cannot continue without recruiting employees.

If new products cannot be developed, the company will have no money.

Just when Schmidt was suffering every minute and every second, he even thought about running away.

Cayman Capital sent a letter:

"Mr. Schmidt, we are interested in investing in your company and hope we can arrange a time for a meeting."

Schmidt almost jumped up with excitement. He was still a little worried about whether to bypass Philips and talk to Cayman Capital.

When he thought of Philips's disregard for ASML and its attitude of letting it fend for itself, he was furious.

He bought a plane ticket overnight and came to Cayman Capital's headquarters in the United States.

The building bought by Cayman Capital on Wall Street was towering, and Schmidt had a more objective understanding of this potential major shareholder.

Schmidt's initiative puzzled Robert.

This guy seemed to want to sell ASML at a low price, which made Robert a little confused.

Fortunately, his assistant whispered to remind him that ASML's latest situation was very worrying.

He was shocked. Could it be that there were other companies eyeing the engraving machine track, but they were just poaching.

The negotiations went very smoothly, and Schmidt promised Rupert.

He would persuade Philips and ASM to sell all their shares at a price of US$20 million respectively.

Let Cayman Capital become the only shareholder of ASML.

"Schmidt, don't worry, as long as this share transaction is completed, Cayman will invest at least US$30 million in research and development funds every year until ASML's new products are launched."

When Philips' senior executives learned that someone wanted to buy ASML, they almost cried with joy, because finally a big group was going to take over this broken company that was constantly burning money.

Given ASML's poor current situation, even if it continues to invest money in it, it is still unknown whether it can make a profit in the future.

It is better to resell it while it is still useful and stop the loss in time.

So their business representatives rushed to Wall Street without stopping, fearing that they would go too late and Robert would regret it.

On the other hand, SAM was also very happy to sell its shares to Cayman Capital.

When ASML was established, they invested a huge amount of US$2.1 million. After a few years, they kept pouring money into it, but ASML did not show any signs of profit.

Now someone is willing to help them stop the loss, of course they are very happy.

They also sent people to Wall Street to sign the equity transfer agreement without stopping.

Wang Lei, who was on his way to Kyoto, was stunned when he heard the news.

ASML, the famous king of lithography machines in later generations, was easily taken down by him?

If only he knew how explosive this small broken factory would be in the future.

Owning 85%lithography machine market, with a net profit of 4 billion euros a year, and sales of up to 10 billion euros.

If you are not happy with the Han people in the future, you can directly start sanctions and strangle them.

If Samsung wants to make chips, it must first get his consent.

Qiu Mingxiang also brought him good news. A total of 12 experts are willing to move their families to Hong Kong City and join Peninsula Technology!

Upon hearing this, Wang Lei was happy. If the Americans still want to block Longguo’s channels for purchasing lithography machines in the future.

But there will be a joke to watch.

Maybe the research and development speed of Peninsula is faster than ASML, and then it may be possible to reverse sanctions.

Sorry, Eagle sauce, our lithography machines are not for sale.

What do you want to buy? I have some leftovers. I will sell them to you at twice the market price. Do you want it?

TSMC, Samsung Electronics?

It doesn’t exist. The most famous one in the future must be Hong Kong Peninsula!