"Oh! I did not expect all of you to keep up! "Boss Jia looked at the other four people and laughed.
Old Gerald, who was at the side, also laughed. He was afraid that Boss Jia's offer of 20 million USD would scare off all these people. Now, it seemed that Boss Jia would not get what he wanted.
"Mr. Jedal, you should smile now!" Boss Jia saw Old Gerald's smile and laughed happily. He then said calmly. "Do you believe that I can get rid of these four people in less than half an hour?!"
"What did you say?!" Before Old Gerald could say anything, Microsoft's representative stood up and questioned him.
"Nothing. You must be Microsoft's representative!" Boss Jia smiled and said. "30 million USD!"
"What did you say?" Microsoft's representative was shocked.
"I said I can offer 30 million USD in cash. If Microsoft is still willing to keep up, I will not buy 51 anymore. I will leave now and be killed by you!" Boss Jia laughed.
"30 million … you are crazy!" Microsoft's representative was speechless. Microsoft had given him an upper limit of 8 million USD. He had wanted to give up when Microsoft offered him 20 million USD.
Now, Microsoft is offering 30 million USD. This Daqian is crazy. Isn't it better to spend 30 million USD to develop a search engine?
"30 million USD is too much. This is not the real value of 51. Goodbye!" Microsoft's representative left immediately. Microsoft is only treating 51 as an investment project, and there is a fixed price for this project. If the project exceeds the fixed price, it will not be worth it.
So, Microsoft's representative left without hesitation. Of course, a few years later, this representative was fired by Microsoft.
"Seems like I have gotten rid of one!" Boss Jia laughed when he saw Microsoft's representative leaving.
"But we are not so easy to get rid of!" Yang Zhiyuan snorted. "I can exchange 10% of Yahoo's shares for 40 million USD!"
Well, Yang Zhiyuan was getting more and more skilled at selling shares for money.
"That won't be necessary!" Boss Jia smiled and said, "Mr. Yang, can we have a private chat?"
"It's useless even if I'm alone. I won't …" Yang Zhiyuan said proudly.
"As far as I know, the United States takes precedence …"
"Wait, let's talk outside!" Before Boss Jia could finish his words, Yang Zhiyuan pulled Boss Jia to a remote place and said nervously, "What do you want to say?"
"I have a friend in the US Priority Foundation. I happened to see an interesting financial statement from him. There are some things about NASDAQ and Mr. Ward from NASDAQ … and …" Feng Yu said.
"Stop talking!" Yang Zhiyuan's voice was trembling. "You don't have any evidence. No one will believe you!"
"Oh, I'm sorry, I made a copy of that document when that friend wasn't paying attention. Also, I specially asked a friend at the bank to get a copy of the transfer record. I believe you must be very familiar with it …"
"What do you want to do?!" Yang Zhiyuan was really scared!
"Nothing, I just want to see that Mr. Yang's technique is really brilliant. Obviously, it was a loss of 10 million USD, but the account book showed a profit of 1 million USD. I admire your ability and foundation. If my Daqian wants to be listed in the future, I really hope to learn from you!" Boss Jia smiled.
"Mr. Jia, you're joking. I actually …" Yang Zhiyuan was a little incoherent. Although the conditions for listing in Nasdaq were relatively relaxed, for an Internet company that was established less than a year ago to be listed, it needed to be profitable at least.
However, everyone knew that it was difficult for an internet company to make a profit these days. So, Yang Zhiyuan created some data and won the approval of Nasdaq.
But if these data were released, Yang Zhiyuan would not be able to get the company listed. He might even be directly locked up in jail.
"Mr. Yang, let me ask you. Are you from Hua Xia or Wanwan?" Boss Jia suddenly asked.
"I am … I …" Yang Zhiyuan hesitated, then said with a serious face, "I am from Hua Xia!"
"OK!" Boss Jia nodded, "We Hua Xia people don't cheat Hua Xia people. I won't cheat you, so don't cheat me!"
"I understand!" Yang Zhiyuan breathed a sigh of relief, then walked to the side of the crowd. He said with a somewhat hurried voice, "I'm sorry, there are still some things in the company. I have to go first. Let's meet again in the future!"
After that, Yang Zhiyuan left in a hurry. His speed was so fast that it made the others feel inexplicable. This person who just took out 10% of his shares to exchange for 51, why did he leave now as if he was running for his life?
Everyone looked deeply at Jia Yapeng, then Boss Jia walked to the Apple representative. However, before Boss Jia spoke, the Apple representative said directly, "Our company values 51 very much. I won't give it up easily. In addition, Mr. Jia, don't use some of your dirty tricks!"
It seemed that this was a tough nut to crack!
Several others sighed. Then the Apple representative's mobile phone rang, and he said in surprise, "Chairman, what can I do for you?"
The representative was excited. He usually did not have the chance to see the chairman. Now, the chairman of Apple actually called him personally. It was too damn magical.
"What … yes … I understand … I understand!" The Apple representative's expression was extremely shocked, then he could only accept his fate. In the end, he looked deeply at Jia Yapeng and left without saying anything.
"If these people know that 30% of Apple's shares are in my hands, I wonder what their expressions will be like!" Boss Jia laughed. In the past three years, Boss Jia had continuously invested 500 million dollars in the America First Foundation. The America First Foundation had not been idle either. They had been faithfully carrying out Boss Jia's orders, constantly buying Apple's shares at low prices.
Although the number of shares purchased each time was not large, after three years, the Daqian had already controlled 30% of Apple's shares. However, this number was difficult to increase.
Although 99.5% of Apple's shares were circulating, most of the circulating shares were controlled by large organizations. In fact, there were not many circulating shares in the market. The America First Foundation had only managed to hold 30% of Apple's shares after three years of continuous buying. It was very difficult to get more shares.
On the other hand, holding 30% of Apple's shares was basically the largest shareholder of Apple. No individual organization on the board of directors could surpass this number of shares. However, some organizations formed an alliance, and this alliance held 40% of Apple's shares. This alliance held more shares than the America First Foundation, but it was only by a little!
Fortunately, the America First Foundation had never shown any intention of taking over the control of the board of directors. It had always played the role of a pure investor, which made the foundation's position on the board of directors higher.
Everyone wanted to rope in the foundation, so naturally, the foundation's position would rise.
For example, Harry Potter only needed to tell the chairman that he was not optimistic about 51 Search. Instead of spending 30 million dollars to buy it, it was better to spend 3 million dollars to develop his own search engine. Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain to the shareholders.
The chairman considered Harry Potter's weight on the board of directors and agreed to give up. Anyway, it was just a random idea.
Therefore, the Apple representative, who was extremely lucky just now, left without saying a word.
In less than three minutes, the representatives of three companies left, let alone half an hour. Now, only Amazon's Bezos was left in the conference room.
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