After Chen Linzhi hung up the phone, he thought about it seriously, and felt quite proud that he had walked out of the "novice village" and began to be qualified to be paid attention to.

The office is rented, all kinds of office supplies are not valuable, and the only ones that can be used as capital quotation are procurement channels and sales channels, except for employees who are gradually familiar with the business.

Chen Linzhi has always felt that such a trading company has no core competitiveness and cannot sell it for a large price, but from another point of view, it is a fact that he earned five or six million US dollars in profits in eight months, and it should be worth a little money.

In this way, the value of the company itself has been ignored by him before.

At first glance, he thought that his total worth might be more than he imagined, perhaps as high as 10 million US dollars, and he reached a small goal ahead of schedule, which made Chen Linzhi extremely surprised.

I thought to myself contentedly, sure enough, the choice is very important for the industry.

Taking advantage of the small number of people to lay out the foreign trade market, the low-priced goods in China were taken out and dumped, and a fortune was made in one fell swoop; up to now, the turnover of the San Francisco United Trading Company has exceeded 50 million US dollars, and the number of employees in the company is only more than 170 people.

It's a pity that as peers ease up, the difficulty of finding orders is increasing, and buyers are beginning to shop around, transitioning from a seller's market to a buyer's market, and profit margins have been declining.

From this point of view, it seems that it is also a good thing to cooperate with the "big leader" in Miss Yu's mouth, and you can cash out profits in time and transfer them to other markets.

Chen Linzhi was entangled.

I regret that I refused too neatly, only staring at the disadvantages and not seeing the benefits.

Since the other party is qualified to be the president of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, it is enough to show that there is a bit of strength, maybe the opportunity for the company to take another step forward is here, if the cake is bigger, even if it is only a part, it may earn more than now.

Chen Linzhi tried to consider the problem more holistically, considering whether he should take a break in time to focus on other businesses, even if he did not cooperate with the big leader, he could choose to bring in other shareholders.

I still remember that Anastasia once mentioned that the senior management of Wal-Mart Group intends to abandon the existing procurement model and replace it with "direct purchase + global procurement", which means that the orders purchased through third parties may be reduced, and once officially implemented, Wal-Mart's profit margin will increase, and their trading companies will be miserable.

Anyway.

Chen Linzhi was aroused by Yu Luoqi's proposal, and vaguely had the idea of retreating bravely in the rapids.

In San Francisco alone, dozens of peers, large and small, have emerged in the past two months, and many employees have been poached from under him, and some of the orders that are about to arrive have been snatched away, and the price advantage is no longer obvious......

The other side.

Yu Luoqi made an excuse to shirk the dinner.

However, the president of the San Francisco Chinese Chamber of Commerce, named Fan Yuanshan, had already told his youngest son in advance about helping to find a future and enter the current hot Chinese trade market.

It is difficult to mix in the United States, and the local Chinese who can make their business big are often both black and white.

The president of the Chamber of Commerce is nearly 60 years old, with tens of millions of personal assets, and he is also a high-level Hongmen.

His youngest son is called Fan Chen, Si Swenwen, who has good grades in school since he was a child, graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and is only twenty-four years old, and is at the age of great ambition.

From Lao Tzu's mouth, Fan Chen learned that he would give himself millions of dollars to do business, and went out to work hard, so he immediately couldn't sit still, and learned the name of Chen Linzhi's company, so he didn't say a word and ran to conduct a field investigation.

The news is lagging behind, Fan Chen has not heard about the cancellation of the dinner from his own Lao Tzu, and he really thinks that there is a chance to get involved and learn from Yu Luoqi of the White Gang to do transnational trade business.

When I came to the San Francisco Union Trading Company next to Union Square, I looked at everything in the company as an investor, including the office environment, the mental outlook of the employees, and so on.

It also pretends to be a routine between the customer and the front desk receptionist, asking how the performance is, what the boss's strength is, and so on.

The blonde receptionist has a confused personality, how can he guess Fan Chen's intention, for fear that he will say the wrong thing and cause the company to lose new orders, and he will be set out with a lot of news without effort, such as getting orders one after another recently, being so busy with delivery that he has been recruiting people, and business has gone to the East Coast.

After listening to this, Fan Chen suddenly had a general impression of this company, which seemed to be quite good, not just an empty shelf.

His family is close to the Yu family, he has known Yu Luoqi since he was a child, and he feels that since it is the company recommended by Yu Luoqi, he should really have some ability, and he has begun to fantasize about talking about cooperation with the company's shareholders and using the knowledge learned on paper in practice.

If you want to understand the prospects of a company, in addition to looking at the company's atmosphere, you must also know the ability of the decision-making level.

Fan Chen casually asked an employee where the boss was, and just picked Roger Sampras, who was lazy.

Roger drank his coffee and asked, "You have something to do with our boss, if you are not in the office, then you should be upstairs." ”

Seeing the words "Sales Director" written on the name plate, Fan Chen was not in a hurry to find the boss.

He sat down, fiddled with his tie, and told him with a dry cough, "My father is planning to buy this company, and I want to look at it before that, since you're the sales director, you're familiar with the whole company's business, right?"

“...... Of course, I came to work as a small company, and it has grown dramatically under my management. Chen, you're going to sell the company, why haven't I heard him talk about it?"

Roger has been having a good time lately, making money and getting commissions during the day, and at night there are constant drinking parties, and he is a little nervous when he suddenly learns that the company may be acquired.

It's a matter of jobs, every time there is a big move in the company, it often means adjustment, and he is worried that if he changes the boss, his good life will come to an end.

Fan Chenkong has theoretical experience, and the eldest brother and sister in the family help deal with the family business, and it is not his turn to intervene, so he pretends to be old at the moment and explains seriously: "At present, we have this intention, and we have not discussed it in detail, and we are in the investigation stage." What is the company's sales in the last two quarters, and what kind of profit can it reach?"

“...... I don't have the authority to tell you this, it's better to ask our boss in person, let's go, I'll take you to him. ”

Roger wanted to know if Chen Linzhi really planned to sell the company, and was worried that other companies would send people to be spies and fool himself into revealing trade secrets, so he got up and led the way himself.

I went to the office and looked, Chen Linzhi was not there.

Guessing that he might have gone upstairs to a new company, Roger introduced: "Our boss, Alan Chen, is the sole shareholder of this company, and recently started another private equity firm, and is a very interesting and intelligent person. ”

"Private equity?"

The scale of this company exceeded Fan Chen's expectations, and when he learned that he was still tossing the fund business, he wondered when such a number one person would appear in San Francisco, and he was full of searching for acquaintances surnamed Chen, and he had no clue at all.

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