The importance of the Empire State Building in Su Mu's mind can only be ranked third.

The first is to develop the Firefly Company, the second is to develop the Penguin Company, and the second is to try to use the Empire State Building to make a sum of money for yourself in the short term, winning or losing is still uncertain for the time being, and the more you are prepared, the more likely you are to win.

As for the fun shopping supermarket, today's Carrefour and Wal-Mart are two companies, the market continues to expand globally, the business is getting bigger and bigger, and the stock value is also rising all the way.

Su Mu has invested a lot of energy in the operation of Qugou supermarket, but it is a pity that when it first started, Wal-Mart and other companies have matured and entered the road of crazy expansion, and now Qugou has just accumulated enough capital to try to repeat the old path taken by Wal-Mart in the early 80s.

He still intends to hold some of the shares of Qugou, but he no longer cares as much as before, on the one hand, because the market competition is too fierce, and on the other hand, because he has found a more suitable path for his own development - the IT industry!

The time to market has been confirmed, and there will be more than three months to wait.

Just four days ago, the European Carrefour Company unexpectedly extended an olive branch to Su Mu, hoping to buy his shares for $250 million.

Approaching the listing, but encountering such a thing, the quotation is higher than the expected market value, it is difficult to say how the listing situation is, but if you promise to sell the shares, the money will be your own, Su Mu is a little cautious.

So, after a brief contact with lawyer Thompson, they took the car to find Senna on Wall Street, and the two briefly exchanged ideas with each other on the phone, and now they plan to talk about it in person.

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Knowing where his company was, the front desk also knew Su Mu, and when he was led into Mr. Senna's office, the old man with mature masculine charm was smoking.

Seeing Sumu, Senna asked, "Try the top cigars wrapped in the smooth thighs of the Cuban girls?"

Su Mu was lured by Li Ping'an and tried the taste of smoking a cigar.

There are only a few things that men can do together, and he has learned to smoke cigars, but he has no addiction to smoking, mainly for socializing.

After reaching out to take it, he took a lighter and lit it, the smell of smoke was stronger than that of his previous attempt, he choked and coughed twice, and said in his mouth: "Don't think about it so beautifully, it's more likely to be an aunt, or an old Cuban man with missing teeth, I don't understand why someone likes to smoke this, there are a lot of papers on the dangers of smoking, this is simply suicide." ”

“…… You're so boring, you've wasted a good cigar on me, no matter what you say, anyway, I'm just a pretty girl with a sexy and hot body rolling it out.

Trade was still banned on both sides after the Cuban Missile Crisis, and a box of tweeds that cost me more than $600 and smoking a cigar made me feel relaxed, going back to the days when I was a teenager and smoking in the school toilet with my friends, and the top rich people like you on the Forbes rich list would not understand the distress of us ordinary people. ”

Hearing Mr. Senna's self-comfort and sarcasm, Su Mu sat down and took a puff of his cigar, probably in his mouth, and then spit it out, crossed Erlang's legs and replied: "People look at the list, only look at the first twenty in the ranking, who will notice me, if you are an ordinary person, then how many extraordinary people are there in the world, Blake said that you made a lot of money by investing in stocks, which stock?"

"As far as you recommended to me, Microsoft spent nearly 20 million, and it is still in your hands, and you don't have the ability to make money, so you can only keep up with you, since I bought it, it has risen by six points, and remember to notify me when you are ready to sell. ”

Senna spoke in a happy tone, he didn't like to speculate in stocks before, and he had been on Wall Street for a long time, and he had seen a lot of scenes of these financial predators harvesting small stockholders, and felt that the risk was too high.

Last time, I accompanied Su Mu to take out a loan, and witnessed the frenzy of those bankers facing Microsoft stocks, so I was moved, and I followed the formation of a small company and invested some money.

Microsoft's stock rose again and again, Su Mu smiled calmly, shook his head and said: "Then it is estimated that it will take ten or twenty years before you can receive a call from me, the market value is not dozens of times higher than now, I will not sell it anyway, I will only buy more."

I knew I could use the money to make Penguin grow faster, but I invested in Microsoft, and you should know how optimistic I am about it. ”

Senna shrugged his shoulders indifferently and told tentatively: "It seems that I should empty the shares of Fun Buy, and instead buy Microsoft shares, you don't think that the market value of Fun Buys can increase dozens of times." ”

"I'm here today to talk to you about this. ”

Talking to the point, Su Mu put the cigar next to the ashtray and let it go out automatically, "Carrefour and Wal-Mart have been more competitive recently, and now Carrefour is at a disadvantage and is trying to grow itself rapidly through mergers."

The scale of our company is not large, but there are more than 70 stores, which is not small, and I have increased my quotation by 10 to 20 percent on the basis of their quotation, and I will get a one-time payment after the acquisition. The disadvantage is that Carrefour only wants to acquire the whole company, and the shareholding ratio accounts for at least 70 percent, maybe our previous preparations for the listing will be in vain, and maybe we will go public ourselves, and the shares in our hands will be more valuable. ”

"But it may not be worth much, not up to Carrefour's offer, if you are sure to use this money to invest, make more money, of course, it is better to get the cash directly, otherwise the process of cash will be very long. ”

"So what do you think?"

"I, Lyon, I think it's better to agree to sell, I'm not optimistic about overseas business, Wal-Mart can successfully gain a foothold in the United Kingdom, Canada and other countries, it doesn't mean that we can also succeed. ”

Su Mu also means this, directly getting more than 200 million, which can make the hand more abundant, further expand Penguin, and at the same time put aside the supermarket business and concentrate on the development of personal computers and Internet virtual industries.

This money, combined with the money available for loans, may allow Penguin to reach the heights of Apple now, get rid of the name of "assembly factory", start developing its own technology, and if lucky, even swallow up existing computer manufacturing companies, such as ...... Apple is on the rise!

Su Mu still remembers that before there was no business in 1984, Apple's ambitious market value rose again and again, occupying the vast majority of the market in the personal computer field.

Only a few years have passed, and now Apple has become a headless fly, unable to find a way out, still occupying 12% of the market share, but it is decreasing year by year, and the market value is only about $2 billion, and investors have lost patience with it.

Su Mu needs the talents, patents and fame of this company, and if there is a chance to swallow an elephant and join this company, he will naturally welcome it with his hands held high.

Penguin brand promotion effect is not ideal, the global market share is pitifully low, acquisition or merger under the dominant advantage, are good choices, but unfortunately the scale is too small now, the merger will only steal the chicken and not lose the rice, and be swallowed by others with the belt bones, because the strength is not enough.

Speaking of Apple, Su Mu is still puzzled or puzzled, in the news he learned, Apple is obviously a giant high-tech enterprise with a market value that dominates the world, but now it does not show that it can develop even a little, but it is declining, the product is mainly in the low-end market, it is said that a mobile laptop will be launched, but from the description he learned, it is clear that it will not sell too well, the product name is called "Macintosh-Portable", which will be released this year.

Silicon Valley has not heard of Jobs, Su Mu knows that he has set up his own company to develop operating systems, and acquired a 3D animation production company called "Pixar Animation Studio", there is not much news about Jobs, Su Mu is just a rich loser, no longer pay much attention to him.

In general, he was inclined to be bought by Carrefour, so he did not explicitly refuse a few days ago, only said that he wanted to think about it for a few days, and hesitated to tell Mr. Senna: "Let's hold a shareholders' meeting and ask the opinions of the other two major shareholders, I have the same idea as you, and I plan to sell directly to recoup the funds." ”

Senna instantly smiled: "That's fine, you have more decision-making power than all of us combined, but that's right, at least take a formality......"