At this gathering, Yu Dehua and the others did not stop calling. They were all calling to wish them a happy new year, and they picked up the calls very frequently.
The phone that Li He placed in Ding Shiping's hand did not ring at all.
He suddenly felt that he might be the most idle one, or rather, the one who had the least sense of presence.
During Pan Youlin's call, he inadvertently heard Softbank's name. When Pan Youlin ended the call, Li He asked, "A Japanese company?"
"Yes, a Japanese software company. It was established quite early and relied on Hadoson's monopoly sales contract to become the number one software company in Japan. Actually, in the early days, it was mainly game software. Now, it's the biggest agent in Japan for America's NetWay, Cisco, and Apple. "Pan Youlin did not know why Li He would pay attention to such a small company.
Li He asked, "Why did he look for you?"
He really could not figure out why Pan Youlin would have dealings with Sun Softbank.
Pan Youlin smiled and said, "He was introduced by Cisco, which is also one of the companies we have invested in. As everyone knows, we invest more than a billion USD in Silicon Valley every year. In the venture capital industry, we are still quite famous. He's currently looking for financing, so naturally, he would look for us and submit a financing proposal to us. He's very ambitious and wants to go public on NASDAQ. "
Li He asked, "Has he done it?"
Pan Youlin shook his head. "Softbank's turnover is close to 200 million USD. Logically speaking, it's not a small amount, but it still lacks core products. The so-called software development is not worth paying attention to. The only advantage they have is in agency. Currently, they have basically monopolized 70% of the domestic software sales in Japan. However, I still have to talk to him personally before I can make a conclusion. "
Li He smiled and said, "Monopolizing is already their biggest advantage. What other advantages do they need? No matter what industry it is, even if it's an inconspicuous industry, someone who can monopolize it for ten years is a very impressive person. "
Pan Youlin knew that Li He rarely paid attention to the company's specific business. At that moment, he could not help but ask curiously, "Mr. Li, what do you mean?"
Li He did not answer directly and only asked, "When do we talk?"
"The appointed time is next week. At that time, we will be working. He will come to Hong Kong personally." Pan Youlin was still a little puzzled.
Li He said with a smile, "When he comes, I'll go and meet him."
"Then I'll bring him to you." Pan Youlin didn't have time to be surprised and quickly replied. He knew Li He's net worth too well. At least in the business world, there was no one worthy of Li He's hospitality, and this Japanese guy was even less worthy.
Yu Dehua and the others were also curious that this Japanese man could actually attract Li He's interest. One must know that Li He had always been a person who did not care about business, let alone personally meeting a customer. This was simply an unprecedented record.
"Then bring it to Shi O. I'll be fishing in the south when I'm free." Li He didn't worship Sun Softin, but he was curious about the Internet's biggest gambler.
He couldn't deny that Sun Softin was an amazing person. Since SoftBank was founded in 1981, it focused on capital investment and operations, and created a large number of successful venture capital investment cases.
Sun Softin started in the telecommunications industry, then the Internet, and invested real money in more than 4,000 companies in dozens of industries around the world, single-handedly creating a huge financial group.
The tentacles of his investments extended to more than 4,000 companies in dozens of industries, including computer software, network hardware, portals, financial securities, telecommunications, and dozens of other industries. Among them, there were 1,000 Internet companies.
From Facebook, Sprint to Yahoo, from China's Dang Dang, Didi Chuxing, and Alibaba, to India's Inmobi and Paytm, there were legends of this person.
Li He didn't care about his achievements in the Internet industry, but he was curious about how he managed to buy the controlling stake of Sprint with 22 billion USD, and how he swallowed up ARM with a mere 2.3 billion USD.
One was a world-famous telecommunications giant in the United States, and the other was the world's largest IP licensing company located in the UK.
Sprint was the third largest wireless company in the United States, competing with the leading companies Verizon and AT in the telecommunications market.
And ARM was a very low-profile company, and it was difficult for ordinary consumers to see its true colors. But in the smart terminal industry, ARM was famous. It was the IP licensing company behind world-class chip giants such as Apple, Qualcomm, MediaTek, and Freescale.
After Sun Softin acquired it, every phone chip belonged to the Japanese.
Of course, Seunida could also be said to belong to them.
Sun Softin was of Korean descent.
As for the two companies in front of him, they were still small fries.
As Li He thought about it, he suddenly smiled, very happily. He almost forgot about these two companies.
"I'll arrange it as soon as possible, Mr. Li. Mr. Li? " After Pan Youlin replied, he saw that Li He didn't respond, but was instead laughing in a daze, so he had to remind him.
"Oh, it's okay." Li He inadvertently wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth.
Pan Youlin continued, "There's one more thing I want to tell you. Gerhard spoke to me on the phone yesterday."
"Who's Gerhard?" Li He couldn't remember the name at the moment.
"The general manager of Delta Air Lines." Pan Youlin had to remind him again.
"Oh, oh, it's them. The other one is called something Beissef?" Li He almost forgot that he had an airline company under his name, even though it only had three passenger planes that were close to being phased out.
"Beissef."
"Yes, Beissef. Russian names are quite tongue-twisting. What about them?"
Pan Youlin smiled. "They opened a flight route from Moscow to Lvov in Ukraine. It's been in operation for three months. From the looks of it, it's going well."
Li He lit a cigarette and asked, "How much did they lose?"
A new airline company burned the most money when there was a lack of passengers. It was impossible for them not to lose money.
Pan Youlin smiled. "The previous 10 million USD was spent in the early stages. In June, I transferred another 10 million through Delta Bank, and another 2 million in September. This time, Gerhard directly asked for 50 million to buy two old Li-2 and An-24 passenger airliners. "
Li He asked, "Do you think it's possible to make a profit?"
"Jiang Baojian went to see it himself. Most of the technicians and pilots are retired from the Air Force, so the flight safety can be guaranteed. However, in terms of marketing, they might still lack a leader. But Jiang Baojian also said that as long as they don't go bankrupt, it's a profit." Pan Youlin smiled. "I think the aviation market is promising. In the future, we might be able to open a flight route from Moscow to Hong Kong or even Shenzhen."
"Allocate 200 million. At least buy Tu-154s and Il-86s. " Li He was moved by Pan Youlin's last sentence. If he had his own plane in Hong Kong, it would be much more convenient. "Tell them that if they do well, directly exchange them for Boeing's passenger planes."
He suddenly remembered something and said to De Hua, "Help me buy a yacht with a cabin. It's best if it's big and easy to control."
The two speedboats were already occupied by Li Zhaokun. Without fishing tools, he naturally had to buy a new one. However, since he was going to buy a new one, he had to buy a good one. At least it had to have a cabin to rest in. Sometimes, he couldn't stand the sun on the sea.
Just as Yu Dehua was about to agree, Xiao Quan suddenly said, "There's no need to trouble Mr. Yu with such a small matter. I'll handle it."
Yu Dehua said, "Then I'll leave it to you."
"Mr. Yu, Mr. Li, don't worry. I'll definitely send the yacht over tomorrow." Xiao Quan had secretly made up his mind. If the yacht company wanted to reserve it, he would send his new yacht over.
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