Wall Street Legend

Ye Dongqing has enough time and freedom to consider things that ordinary people don't often think about.

At different levels, his pursuits have also become different. He no longer has any worries about material matters, so he often thinks about what he should do next and what he should pursue.

Take the eight million mosquito nets donated to Africa. To him, it is only more than 20 million US dollars, but it may save the lives of hundreds or even thousands of African residents. In Ye Dongqing's view, this is It is a very meaningful thing. It is also very meaningful to donate Apple computers to China so that poor children in mountainous areas have the opportunity to study.

I didn't think charity was anything before, but now I realize that spending money to help others can really buy happiness.

Of course, it would also be a good thing to bring some good reputation. If Tamsui Investment Group were not currently burdened with too much debt, he felt that he would continue to help more people without delaying his own life and future.

After all, he is not the richest man in the world yet. One of his small goals is to get this dazzling title and keep it for a long time.

In addition, I also want to prove to myself that even hedging across banks can be successful.

No one puts pressure on Ye Dongqing. This is because he wants to gain a sense of accomplishment through hard work. Just like no one uses a gun to force others to climb Mount Everest as a joke for the rest of their lives, and no one forces anyone to climb the cliff with bare hands. He is also free. In fact, he can let time pass by and gain countless profits with his current investment. However, Ye Dongqing always feels that there is something missing in his previous life, and he has lost the passion when he first started his business.

After thinking about it, it was probably the charming unknown and sense of accomplishment that made him agree to Mr. McCord's suggestion to start a "second business"...

Unfortunately, long-term goals are easy to find, but it is difficult to find suitable short-term goals. For the next few hours, Ye Dongqing sat there, not going anywhere except the bathroom, and his mind was filled with a bunch of data and information. , so worried that I drank two cups of black coffee in a row.

I have a little idea, but it's not safe. I feel that it won't have much effect if I continue to mess around like this, so I can only forget it today.

He sighed deeply and muttered to himself: "It's really difficult for ordinary people to get rich."

Suddenly I remembered that I had just been busy collecting and sorting out information and forgot to write letters to those potential investors. Now I was too tired to think anymore, so I simply took off my clothes, changed into a pair of swimming trunks, and went to swim in the swimming pool at the door.

At around nine o'clock in the evening, Ye Dongqing walked back and forth more than ten times before taking a shower and going to the private theater to find a movie to watch. He suddenly admired those hedge fund managers who did not rely on inside information.

But if you think about it carefully, their chances of success don't seem to be very high. Most of the time they just make a small profit margin.

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The hedge fund department is preparing to start operations. Most of the core members are old employees of Tamsui Investment Group. The running-in period is not expected to be too long.

This can be regarded as Ye Dongqing’s personal little hobby. He plays with himself and can’t lose the really important business. Just after dinner the next morning, a stranger was welcomed to the island, a white man named John Stiller. The old man, he was looking at everything on this island through the car window with amazing eyes.

Before Ye Dongqing invested in Green Mountain Coffee, Mr. John Stiller was the major shareholder and founder of Green Mountain Coffee. In the first half of this year, Danshui Investment gave him an acquisition agreement that he could not refuse. Now the old man only holds With 6% of the shares, the other co-founder almost sold out his Green Mountain Coffee shares and went to travel around the world to enjoy his later years.

The sturdy adult stallion was ready. Ye Dongqing came to the door to greet him in person. The two of them rode horses and wandered around the island. After chatting about the company's recent development, they spoke directly like an ordinary American conversation. Get to the point.

"I think there are problems with the company's current development. In my opinion, focusing on the office market is far from enough. Green Mountain Coffee should enter more families. The current performance does not satisfy me."

Ye Dongqing's words sounded a bit like blame to Mr. John Stiller, but his tone was calm and there was even a smile on his face.

This left Mr. Stiller a little confused. Since Tamsui Investment Group became a shareholder, Green Mountain Coffee’s sales have increased significantly. In the third quarter, they increased by eight points compared with the same period last year. Management and operating costs have also been greatly reduced. I came here today originally to talk about advertising on Facebook, but now the old man suppressed his words and told: "We have tried to enter more families, but the market has almost been divided up, and it is difficult to continue To seize a piece of the pie, we can only use intensive advertising bombardment to make people willing to throw away their current coffee machines and buy our products instead.”

The current profit of Green Mountain Coffee last year was only more than 13 million U.S. dollars, and it is expected to increase to almost 20 million U.S. dollars this year.

In the past, this kind of achievement would make old Mr. Stiller very proud. After all, the income was much higher than that of ordinary small companies. But in front of Ye Dongqing, a perverted Chinese guy, he really didn't dare to say anything. Now he can do it. Kick yourself out as the founder.

"I can see your efforts, sir. The idea is quite good, but it is not enough. I think the potential of Green Mountain Coffee has been far underestimated.

The main reason why I came to you today is to talk to you about delisting Green Mountain Coffee from Nasdaq. Listing will only hinder its development and not help much, right? I will After delisting, I gave the company more financial support, including investing in the acquisition of Krieger, obtaining its K-cup and coffee machine production patents, and making full use of the Internet resources in my hands to promote the company. "

That's right, Ye Dongqing is planning to forcibly privatize and delist this cash cow company. Since a company can be listed, it can naturally be delisted after meeting certain conditions.

Unlike some bad companies that are forced to delist, the premise of privatization is often that the company's prospects are good, and the controlling shareholder believes that the current company's stock price is obviously undervalued, so the stock price is very cheap at this time, and it is profitable to buy back a large number of shares.

After privatization, Tamsui Investment Group can greatly reduce the loss of other shareholders sharing the company's profits, strengthen its control over Green Mountain Coffee, and is less restricted by investment institutions and regulatory agencies, and there is no longer any compulsory listing. Sexual information disclosure requirements also save a lot of information maintenance costs. There are many benefits and almost no disadvantages. The only shortcoming is that we must compensate scattered small shareholders and spend real money to buy back the stocks from them. The premium rate Probably more than 40 percent, or even 45 percent.

Old Stiller was obviously a little confused and almost fell off his horse. He asked Ye Dongqing blankly: "Privatization and delisting, are you sure this is the real idea?"

"Otherwise, could it be that I made you come all the way here just to joke with you?"

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