Wall Street Legend

Chapter 151 Skype (23)

Miss Maxi said that she wanted to travel to New York. When she was free, the Paris Academy of Fine Arts had just started, and it was estimated that she would have to wait until April or May. Then she would bring the oil painting directly to Ye Dongqing.

It seemed that she had made a plan in advance, so Ye Dongqing stopped talking and told her that he would take time to accompany her and look around.

On March 19, the day before the war broke out, the price of oil fell back to US$26 a barrel, which was more than 20% higher than the price in September last year. However, considering that oil merchants were frantically trying to raise the price of oil, Ye Dongqing did not dare to continue to be bearish, so he bought some futures orders when he thought it was the right time, and filled up the amount of orders "borrowed" from the brokerage. Adding the handling fees, the total profit was as high as nearly 10%. Ninety million dollars!

For the next period of time, there was no idea of ​​short-term speculation, so Ye Dongqing sent two funds to Tencent and IDG Group respectively, and successfully obtained the shares. The remaining money was invested in Facebook for 20 million US dollars, and the rest was dispersed Kailai flows into the stock market.

It’s still the same old ones, Apple, Amazon, and Netflix. The amount of capital is not large now. After investing 60 million US dollars, there is not much left. The remaining cash is left in the company account for emergencies. After the profit news is announced to the public, Soon, the "New York Times" and "Wall Street Journal" reprinted and reported on it, which was a follow-up to the previous news and was used to attract readers' attention.

Many people already knew Ye Dongqing's name, and then a group of new people were added. This directly led to a sharp increase in the amount of funds raised by the Freshwater Fund. With capital support, investors became more confident that financial products would not appear after they expire. The problem of not being able to fulfill the contract can be considered a good thing.

It is said that when the employees of Golden Island Financial Management Company sell products recently, they will bring several newspapers with them. The chance of success has suddenly increased a lot, and their reputation has gradually spread, so Ye Dongqing decided to purchase advertising space on Facebook through Freshwater Fund. He switched his left hand to his right hand and spent six million US dollars on a two-week advertising campaign. While promoting the company, he also promoted himself.

He is trying to make tens of millions of young people realize that he is a cool person, which will be of great help to future business. Maybe the vast majority of Facebook users have no money to invest now, but they can in the future. After all, the majority of users are college students. Lord, a large number of them may become middle-class and high-yield people.

The only advertisements under discussion at present are Adidas. There are three advertising slots arranged in total. It would be a waste to leave them alone. He kept one for himself, and the remaining one took the initiative to contact Amazon and persuade Amazon CEO Mr. Jeff Bezos Purchased with money, friendly price... seven million dollars.

The other party knew that Ye Dongqing was optimistic about his company and was holding more and more shares. After understanding the user scale of Facebook, he settled on the price of US$7 million without much hesitation. In other words, Facebook had 10 million registered users. Already recently earned $17.5 million!

Compared with companies such as Google and Yahoo, Facebook's advertising target group is undoubtedly younger, which means it will be more effective. When the number of users continues to increase, advertising costs will only get higher and higher. Taking into account the user experience, in the future For a long time, Ye Dongqing only planned to arrange no more than five advertising spaces to keep the page simple and clean.

I took Zhao Liuli to visit the Museum of Natural History over the weekend, and I also had a phone call with Laura. She said that she was working for a friend and it seemed that she was not planning to return to the United States in the short term.

Through the conversation, I also learned something that surprised Ye Dongqing. Laura actually wanted to study at university in London and was preparing to apply to Cambridge or Oxford. University College London was also among her goals. If it was a relationship, Ye Dongqing definitely asked her to come back to accompany him, but they were not a couple, so there was no reason to say anything. He just expressed his blessing and asked her to call him if she had any difficulties.

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Bypassing the joint organization, a nearly crushing war is going on thousands of kilometers away from the United States.

Americans take to the streets to demonstrate at every turn, and this time is no exception. Wall Street has been calm about this, with several major indexes remaining stable and even showing a slow upward trend.

These have little to do with Ye Dongqing. He has completely ignored the rise and fall of oil prices. That thing is too exciting, and the risks are also astonishing. Without being sure, he does not plan to enter the market again to gamble on luck. If you want to find excitement, it is better to bring money with you. If you go to Las Vegas with millions of dollars, you can at least control your chances of winning or losing, and maybe you can have a chance encounter or something.

Twenty-eight million dollars.

Under Ye Dongqing's perseverance, Masayoshi Son, CEO of Japan's SoftBank Group, finally gave up and cheated him by raising the price to 28 million US dollars before choosing to give up. Those Estonians Agree to transfer all relevant technology patents at this price.

It was not too successful, but the result satisfied Ye Dongqing. On the last day of March, he rushed to Rome in person and took a small team to sign a contract with them. Worried about going back on his words, he agreed on a terrible hundred times liquidated damages, because they had previously Having repeatedly evaded U.S. official subpoenas does not give you high credibility, so you have to be careful when cooperating.

I was busy with things all day long, and the days passed by very quickly. I happened to be in Rome, so I didn’t want to stay for a few more days to walk around and see how it went.

I personally experienced the enthusiasm of Italian girls. I met a young girl in a bar, which made Ye Dongqing's back hurt for two or three days. Now it is more appropriate to say that he is a golden bachelor. It is just a casual marriage, fleeting, without any emotion. Very Western attitude towards life.

If anyone decides that they have to live together for a lifetime because of what happened, they will definitely be treated as a joke. Although they have a conservative life style, relatively speaking, they are only a minority, and Ye Dongqing is definitely not one of them.

The little story that happened in Rome stayed in Rome, which did not prevent him from having a little romance. After flying to Paris, he called Miss Mahi to tell her that he lived near the Eiffel Tower.

The company has recently recruited several capable professional managers through a headhunting company, and they have been placed in Tamsui Investment Group and Facebook Company respectively. Ye Dongqing feels that it is better for him not to get involved recently, so that he can see the real management capabilities of those guys. , it’s the 21st century, work can be solved remotely through computers and telephones, there is no need to stay in New York all the time.

Maxi was very surprised. She drove her BMW mini car to see him after class that day. She forgot to change clothes before going out. When they met, there was still paint on her jeans...