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For Zhou Buqi, there will be no big events in New York.

Special law firms and accounting firms are involved in some subsequent contractual arrangements, as well as financial audits for fund transfers, and Senior Sister Zhen Yu is here to check them.

However, someone was more anxious than him.

For example, the big investment bank Goldman Sachs.

As a partner for so many years, Goldman Sachs has a better understanding of Zhou Buqi’s plan. Ziweixing has just completed its listing, but it’s not over yet!

Next year, Ziweixing International will go on the market!

The scale of that IPO is very likely to be larger than that of Ziweixing! In another year, Asda Group will also be listed, which will be another capital feast.

Goldman Sachs wants to make arrangements in advance.

A very high-level team was sent to see Zhou Buqi, and even people from the "Sheng Family" were invited.

Companies here in the United States are basically named after their last names.

For example, Disney was founded by the Disney family; Ford, for example, was founded by the Ford Company; and Twentieth Century Fox, for example, was founded by the Fox family.

The same goes for Goldman Sachs, which was founded jointly by two families, one is the "Gao Family" and the other is the "Sheng Family".

However, wealth cannot last more than three generations.

A hundred years have passed, and Goldman Sachs has long ceased to belong to the Gao family and the Sheng family. The people of the Gao family have been completely eliminated and have all disappeared. The Sheng family also completely lost control of Goldman Sachs, leaving only one representative, who serves as a mascot-like director at Goldman Sachs, not even a partner.

This time, they also brought out the mascot.

It seems that he wants to use this mascot to tell Zhou Buqi that if the ancestors don't work hard, the descendants will be sad!

Although you are the richest man in the world, you still have to continue to struggle. If you become complacent now and cannot accumulate astonishing wealth, you may not be able to pass it on to two or three generations, and your family will be completely ruined by your descendants.

Zhou Buqi was really angry and helpless.

However, he has been on Wall Street for a long time, and he has seen too much. Among other things, the once-prominent Rockefeller family, Morgan family, and Lehman family have all become the fringes of the times, far away from the center of power on Wall Street.

This is pretty good.

After all, the wealth of these families is strong enough. Even if they are on the fringes, they are still members of the upper class and can live a luxurious life.

Zhou Buqi also has contacts in Japan.

The big chaebols in Japan who once controlled the country's economic lifeline are miserable. For example, Japan's largest chaebol, the Mitsubishi Zaibatsu, was founded by the Iwasaki family.

But where is the Iwasaki family now?

have no idea!

It has long since disappeared in the smoke of history. There may be a few branches still living in rural towns.

The Mitsui family of the Mitsui Zaibatsu is relatively good. It still exists and has a certain social influence. But now it can only engage in some marginalized custom industries and make money by selling the lust of Japanese women.

Naturally, Zhou Buqi was not too harsh on Goldman Sachs's group visit.

The listing of Ziweixing was a great success.

As the main underwriter, Goldman Sachs contributed a lot and helped with many connections. In particular, there was a New York congressman who initiated a bill to Nasdaq and the state assembly. Considering political factors, he said that Ziweixing should be banned from listing in the United States.

Goldman Sachs came forward and settled the matter easily.

Where there are opponents, there will be supporters.

This is why to develop the US market, it is necessary to go public in the US. Listing in the United States allows many people and institutions, especially Wall Street, to share in the capital feast.

With shared interests, they will support you and be strong enough to influence White House decisions. If you don't go public in the United States and still want to make big money in the United States, it will be difficult to have supporters. Everyone is an opponent, and they are all jealous of fat cats.

Many companies are not listed on the market and still go to the United States to make a lot of money, so they are easily targeted.

Not being listed means that the company's business and financial data are not disclosed. It is a black box operation. It is difficult to be supervised by the outside world and it is easy to secretly do things in the black box.

And he made a lot of money.

It is both a hidden danger and a source of envy.

Even top state-owned enterprises such as China Mobile, China National Petroleum Corporation, Sinopec, and China Unicom have gone public in the United States. In fact, the purpose is to develop the American market and expand their business to the United States.

If you don't go public in the United States and don't disclose data, people won't believe you at all.

Zhou Buqi now dominates Wall Street, Silicon Valley and Hollywood, and is firmly at the top of human resources and social resources. As long as Goldman Sachs doesn't make any mistakes, the next IPOs of Ziweixing International and Asda will definitely be the same. It will be handed over to Goldman Sachs to take control.

The other party was very satisfied.

However, after the meeting, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon invited Zhou Buqi to lunch.

Speaking of David Solomon, he is indeed a character.

Once upon a time, Salomon Brothers, founded by the Salomon family, was the top investment bank on Wall Street, on the same level as Citigroup, Morgan, and Lehman. At that time, Goldman Sachs was still a small company that could not be ranked.

It's a pity that it didn't manage well later.

The once giant Salomon Brothers collapsed and was merged by Citigroup.

The Solomon family, which was once famous for a while, also collapsed.

You can't be rich for more than three generations.

Collapse and scatter.

Unexpectedly, twenty years after the family collapsed, a small person from the Solomon family stood at the center of the stage because of his effective response to the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis!

He rose to power and became the president of Goldman Sachs.

This is the David Solomon in front of him.

It's a bit like the male protagonist of a down-and-out family in many fantasy novels, with the shadow of the family's revival and glory.

However, Wall Street is now seriously solidified. It is impossible for David Solomon to rebuild the glory of the Solomon family, but at least he and the people around him can return to the front line of Wall Street.

The two were dining at a nearby French restaurant.

Zhou Buqi ordered a bowl of fish soup.

David Solomon said with a smile: "In the past few days, a big event has occurred in the technology circle, which is no less sensational than the listing of Ziweixing."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Yes, Microsoft."

David Solomon said: "I really didn't expect that the capital market has been calling for Ballmer to step down for several years. So much so that in the past two years, he has made big moves in a row, and I thought he had survived. No. When I thought about it, news suddenly came out that he was retiring.”

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Steve Ballmer just announced publicly that he will retire! Next, he has to choose a suitable new leader for Microsoft who can lead Microsoft to regain its glory.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Maybe he was stimulated. Microsoft's current market value is 270 billion US dollars, and Google's market value has reached 320 billion US dollars. Ballmer is a good person, but he has one of his biggest weaknesses, which is that he cares too much about his competitors. In the past ten years or so, Microsoft has been suppressing Google in everything. Unexpectedly, Google’s stock price has risen strongly this year, and its market value is already 50 billion US dollars higher than Microsoft. This will definitely sting him deeply.”

David Solomon said: "Indeed, our analysis also takes this factor into consideration. It is understandable that Microsoft's market value is surpassed by Apple. After all, there is Steve Jobs, after all, Apple is Microsoft's teacher. But Google is a rising star, so short-lived It took longer than Microsoft, which must have shocked many Microsoft seniors.”

"Well, an era has passed." Zhou Buqi had already seen it. "If Microsoft does not change, Microsoft is likely to decline in a short period of time like many giant companies that have ever existed." Ballmer His choice was right, he is a good man, and in the face of power and Microsoft's vitality, he chose to give up power."

David Solomon asked: "Isn't it the Microsoft board of directors pushing?"

"Who can push it?" Zhou Buqi shook his head, "Bill Gates and Ballmer are close friends. As long as Ballmer is unwilling to leave, Bill Gates will definitely support him. If you want to replace Microsoft, just Ballmer can only choose to leave. After mastering such a great power and then choosing to let it go, Ballmer can be called a hero in the business world, even a tragic hero. Once many people have power, they are I would rather others die than let go."

David Solomon stared at him directly, the steak on the plate untouched, "Mr. Zhou, what do you think of this?"

"what?"

"The future of Microsoft."