"Swap shares?"

Corning's vice president was stunned for a moment, and he was a little confused by Zhou Fangyuan's words.

Originally, his idea was to exchange technology for shares, and of course he could feel the other party's desire to get this technology, so he was ready to take this opportunity to get more benefits for his company. As a result, when the words came to his lips, he was changed by the other party and made it a share for shares...... This made him a little undecided.

"Sorry, this, I need to discuss this with the above......"

After all, he is only a vice president, and when it comes to shares, he speaks directly to shareholders, and sometimes the president does not have the right to intervene, and he has no part to speak as a vice president.

As a result, the negotiation ended without a hitch.

Zhou Fangyuan directly lived in this small town of Kangning, and at the same time made a phone call to An Lin and asked her to send the company's negotiation team over.

When the two Internet companies accepted financing and shares, in order to obtain greater profits, Zhou Fangyuan asked An Lin to set up a negotiation team, the number of people is not much, only a dozen people, but they are all masters in this area, including some Chinese, who were transferred from China, Zhou Fangyuan has long wanted to get a business team of his own, and just took this opportunity to cultivate several negotiation talents.

The performance of this team is still good, the work style is rigorous and enthusiastic, speaking with facts, and using data to prove that the financing amount of the two network companies has been raised a lot, for which Zhou Fangyuan also specially gave each of them a lot of bonuses.

Now, the team is being used again, and they are in the small town of Corning the next day.

In the next day, the president of Corning Company showed up, after all, it had already involved the issue of the company's shares, and whether it was successful or not, he should have come forward with reason.

In the past, in fact, Corning underestimated Zhou Fangyuan, no matter what Zhou Fangyuan said, he is also the chairman of a group, and he has quite good resources, so he deserves Corning's attention, at least he has to be received by the president. As a result, only one vice president came, and the contempt was overflowing. Zhou Fangyuan was not angry, and there was no need to be angry about this kind of thing, but it was impossible to say that he had no idea in his heart, after all, the other party was underestimating him.

Now that the president of the other party has also appeared, the little dissatisfaction in his heart has also disappeared.

At the beginning of the negotiations, the two sides argued that Corning was reluctant to exchange shares for shares, and they felt that their shares were more valuable and there was no need to exchange shares with the two new companies.

But Zhou Fangyuan's people here also have good reasons, for example, Corning is now going downhill, for example, Corning's share price is decreasing, on the other hand, Facebook and Twitter, the value is soaring, and don't forget, there are other Internet companies in the stock market, using the increase in the stock price of other Internet companies as a standard, to measure the two new companies, compare the number of users, development speed, stock price appreciation curve, etc., and finally get the answer that the two Internet companies are far more potential than Corning.

Anyway, no one can convince anyone, and then try to convince the other party as much as possible, and finally find a balance that both parties can agree on.

In this process, Zhou Fangyuan didn't interject, and he couldn't interject, because these people spoke too fast.

Although his English is not bad, he is not a native language after all, and sometimes he can't keep up with the high speed of speech, not to mention that there are a lot of professional terms in it, Zhou Fangyuan really can't even interject.

However, he is not in a hurry, he knows that such a thing as a share exchange cannot be negotiated in a day or two, and now he is still the president of Corning, and then it should be Corning's shareholders, or even the chairman, and then it will be the decisive negotiation, not now.

Zhou Fangyuan was like a person who had nothing to do, it was obviously a matter related to himself, but he seemed more relaxed than anyone else, and began to wander around the small town of Kangning all day long. I bought some glassware I liked, picked up some souvenirs, and brought gifts for my family and close ones. Of course, ordinary things can't be used as gifts, especially now that the family has money, and my parents are also discussing going abroad to have a good time, so Zhou Fangyuan is not ready to buy souvenirs for his parents at all.

But some of the value, such as these glass products, are really very good-looking. But this place itself is not famous, and most people will not choose this place for tourism, so the things here have some commemorative value.

And the glass products here are really good-looking, and those who have been here know that they are glass crafts in the real sense, so he bought some, and then specially asked the figures to pack them carefully and prepare to take them back when they return to China.

On the other hand, negotiations continue.

Sure enough, as Zhou Fangyuan expected, within two days, Corning's shareholders appeared.

It's not that the president can't do it, but the president is also said to be moved.

Why did the previous vice president want to trade technology for shares? After all, isn't there a certain consensus among the company's top management?

Although Corning believes in patient capital, today's society is turbulent and ever-changing, and every day is different from yesterday. The comprehensive rise of the Internet is already the trend of the times, and even fools can see it. As for Corning, although it is not as unbearable as the negotiating team said, it is also an indisputable fact that they have not developed themselves.

Since the first industrial revolution, human science and technology have been rapidly improving, but now, it seems to have fallen into a bottleneck.

Technology is slowing down, and the world-changing inventions are dwindling, and Corning is certainly at the forefront of materials, but like Gorilla Glass, it won't be useful until the right carrier is found. It's not that just because glass gets better and stronger, it necessarily works. There is also a cost issue to be considered, the glass used on the mobile phone must be more expensive than the glass used by ordinary people, and it is more than a little bit more expensive. The market certainly can't afford to use any of these high-priced glasses on a large scale, and the public can't afford them.

It is destined that similar glass or similar new materials can only be used in more high-value fields, but how can there be so many suitable fields, but Corning's own research and development work cannot be stopped. Therefore, similar inventions are stored more and more in their material library.

This brings us to the issue of patents.

As mentioned earlier, in order to avoid the trouble of patents, Zhou Fangyuan wanted to buy related technologies from Corning.

In fact, even internationally, patents are only protected for a maximum of 20 to 25 years, and Gorilla Glass has been sealed for more than 30 years. The issue of patents and patent protection periods will not be explained, in short, if Corning really applied for a patent, Zhou Fangyuan would now be much more convenient and could use this technology at will. But the problem is that Corning didn't apply for patent protection at that time, that is, Gorilla Glass, at this time, there were no patents.

So can it be said that Zhou Fangyuan can use this technology casually, or preemptively register a patent?

Yes, but not either.

After all, the patent application is to see who comes first, and the faster the application, the sooner the application is successful, then it will naturally be able to obtain the ownership of the patent, and it is not uncommon to preemptively register the patent.

But if in the general field, of course, this is no problem, but here, Zhou Fangyuan is much more cautious, why? Mainly because of the problem of the mobile phone.

As we all know, mobile phones are a very, very important communication tool, and as early as the beginning of the invention of collection, the monitoring of mobile phones has been included in the list of countries.

Mobile phones are even more of a top priority.

This is still an ordinary mobile phone, if it is a smart phone? Not only does it have the functions of communication and text messages, but also has the ability to surf the Internet and communicate on the Internet.

Now that Zhou Fangyuan is making smart phones, and he is about to succeed, his Yuanfang Technology will inevitably become one of the world's major mobile phone providers in the future, and there will inevitably be a large number of users in the world who use his mobile phones. So you don't have to think about it to know that your mobile phone will inevitably be within the key monitoring scope of some countries. What would happen if Corning suddenly broke the news that the patent had been preemptively registered by Corning at that time?

Sometimes the interests of the state do not need to be considered by the individual, especially for some countries, they can force the investigation of distant technology on the grounds of national security and other reasons.

The arms can't reach the thighs, and no matter how powerful a company is, it's impossible to fight against a country.

Zhou Fangyuan had no intention of surrendering, and it was impossible for him to turn his elbow outward to follow the orders of others. But to be honest, these are hidden dangers, and once they break out, they are already beyond his control.

After all, some people's eating looks ugly, and in the next ten years, with the gradual growth of Huaxia, it will be more and more displayed.

Zhou Fangyuan was reluctant to leave the other party with such a handle.

He would rather take precautions and buy Corning's technology completely, even if there is no patent problem now, he can even preemptively register the patent, but as long as Corning has the development technology and use rights of this glass in his hands one day, they can take a bite of Zhou Fangyuan. Even if they don't take advantage of themselves, so what? Some countries themselves don't reason with you.

And even if this bite is bitten, it may not actually be able to take any advantage, but if the toad doesn't bite people, it still responds to people, of course Zhou Fangyuan doesn't want to see such a situation.

That's why he insisted on buying Corning's technology and getting it fully licensed, and then applying for his own patent, or waiting for Corning to apply for a patent...... Anyway, it's all good, when the time comes, you have dual technology, and no one wants to bite yourself from this aspect, not to mention, the value of Corning's own existence is still very huge. As the world's leading materials manufacturer, Corning's past achievements are not to mention its previous achievements, but the technology it has now is a great asset. Many technologies may seem useless now, but as intelligence becomes more and more common, more and more new materials will emerge, so Corning's future is still promising.

In fact, Corning, the original plane, will soon be rejuvenated after a few years of sluggishness.

After all, with a relatively long history and a huge amount of technical reserves, such a company, whether it is strength or value, is very, very high, in fact, its value cannot be measured simply by the stock price.

And Zhou Fangyuan is not too greedy at the moment, he only needs to invest in shares, which is a stepping stone.

As long as he can knock on the door, he has a way to open the door a little bit wider, but the difficulty is in the matter of knocking.

After all, with the previous situation, you have no reason and motive, and it is really difficult to buy its shares, unless it is acquired at a high premium, but the problem is that the funds in Zhou Fangyuan's hands are not sufficient, and it is better to save some if you can save it. Therefore, it is more in line with Zhou Fangyuan's interests to use such a method to buy shares.

The negotiation lasted for ten days, and Zhou Fangyuan's team racked their brains, starting from all aspects, weakening the other party's will to resist little by little.

Negotiations were finally reached, and Zhou Fangyuan controlled the two websites of Facebook and Twitter, which are owned by AL Investment Company, and took out 7% and 10% of the shares respectively, which are worth almost tens of millions in total, in exchange for 10% of Corning's shares. Corning is a big guy, and in terms of stock price, there is no doubt that it is more than the two companies combined, but these two companies have more potential and are more promising. Corning, on the other hand, because of the stagnation and even some regression in recent years, the company is actually a little worried, otherwise it would not be like today.

Exchange of shares, the exchange of shares in the past theoretically belonged to the two Internet companies, and all shareholders had a share. However, through Zhou Fangyuan's operation, this part of the shares finally fell into his pocket, and he successfully became one of the shareholders of Corning.

If this is not the end, he also used the funds in his hand to expand his shares, and finally reached the level of 12%, 12%, although it is not the largest individual shareholder, but it is not a small shareholder. After becoming a shareholder, he immediately initiated a general meeting of shareholders to discuss the issue of authorizing the manufacture of aluminum-silicon tempered glass to Beitong Glass Factory. Although some shareholders raised objections, the proposal was eventually approved. Of course, there is a certain fee to be paid for the Beitong Glass Factory, but this is not a problem. Immediately afterwards, Beitong Glass Factory also came to take out their own research progress and research documents, and finally the two sides negotiated and jointly applied for a patent, and the patent belonged to both parties.

At this point, this matter is over, Zhou Fangyuan was already November when he returned to China, and he stayed in the United States for nearly a month, just to solve the problem of mobile phone screen glass. The result, of course, is gratifying, he now owns a stake in Corning, and on Corning's side, he also has a share of the shares of the two Internet companies exchanged, although it is very small, but it still has. This kind of exchange is actually very cunning, but it doesn't matter, anyway, this thing is very complicated, and Zhou Fangyuan also paid a certain price to reach it. However, the result is good, and the Beitong Glass Factory has obtained more perfect technology, and it can freely produce mobile phone screens.

Now we are waiting for the advent of the Far Traveler I1 mobile phone, once the mobile phone comes out, it will inevitably cause a frenzy at that time, and Zhou Fangyuan is looking forward to it.

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