For others, fixed assets may be a good investment direction.

Gold no longer has the attribute of anti-inflation, its importance has plummeted, and high-end real estate in popular areas can resist some inflation, such as New York, London, Paris and other core areas, housing prices have been rising with currency inflation, and the increase is similar to the yield of government bonds, which is comparable to the stock dividends of old listed companies, and the market is quite mature.

But for Ye Dongqing, he has too many goals to invest in, and the main goal of trying to build the Cobra Building is purely to satisfy his personal interests, and the second is to use it as a corporate headquarters to meet office needs.

You can't just make money and don't spend money, living like Mr. Paul Getty, an oil tycoon, has become a joke in the minds of Americans, Ye Dongqing is living the way he likes and is committed to pursuing everything he wants, and the Cobra Mansion is more like a gift to himself to celebrate his entry into the 10 billion dollar club, or did it at the age of 20.

Napoleon used the Arc de Triomphe to praise his achievements, the Rockefeller Center was closely tied to the Rockefeller family, and he also wanted to have a mansion of his own, so that people would think of their achievements whenever they saw it in the future.

Mr. Mike Becker does not know this, even he thinks that the total price is too high, and in the end he will probably have to cut a whole piece of land into two or three pieces, and then sell it to the outside world or build an apartment by a company he manages, today's negotiation is not very likely to succeed, thinking that Ye Dongqing, like other company owners, is reluctant to spend so much money to build skyscrapers, because the price is too high, it is better to buy the Chrysler Building, or one of the buildings in Rockefeller Center, which is more affordable.

Hearing Ye Dongqing mention the financial management business, he subconsciously thought that this young Chinese rich man wanted to let him reinvest the money he earned from selling land to him, and he was a little moved, but out of risk considerations, he was decisively rejected by Mr. Becker.

Like other older generations in their early fifties, Mr. Becker lacks the sense of adventure and has not kept up with the pace of the times, believing that the dot-com bubble crisis of 2000 was enough to say that the Internet industry is unreliable.

This negative impression affected his judgment, so he told Ye Dongqing: "I know you can give a very good rate of return, but our Wonado Real Estate Company still has some debts that have not been paid off, and the debts of the bank are not a big problem, if you really decide to buy it, I will use the money to pay off the bank loan, and the rest of the money will be used for the development of the company." ”

Tamsui Investment Group really no longer raises funds from outside the world, unless Ye Dongqing feels that it is necessary, after listening to the other party, he thought about it a little, and then understood that it might be a misunderstanding, shook his head and said with a smile: "I do have plans to buy it, the only thing that bothers me now is the price, I can give up to 1.8 billion US dollars, cash, and it can be credited to your company's account at any time after the contract is transferred."

If not, then I can only forget it, I do business so simply, maybe I will consider building near the new World Trade Tower, or it may be built in Midtown near the East River, you should know that this is a very generous offer, which is 80 million US dollars higher than the 1.72 billion US dollar offer given to you by the Blackstone Group a few months ago, this is my sincerity. ”

“...... It's really higher than their offer, but you may not know that the final offer from Blackstone was $1.78 billion, and many companies value our land, and since the shareholders decided not to sell it to them at that time, it would be useless to pay an extra $20 million, and the reserve price is $2 billion. ”

I don't know what Mr. Mike Becker thinks, but the latter sentence is very crisp, and it doesn't even mean to take the initiative to reduce the price.

Those who say that Americans don't like bargaining, they must not have really lived in the United States, and they can bargain when they go to ordinary shopping malls to buy things, and when Ye Dongqing went to Boeing to buy a plane, they reduced the decoration cost by a full 10 million US dollars, which is similar to other businesses, which also requires continuous competition and testing between the two sides.

He wanted to buy the land very strongly, depending on how much the shareholders of Wonado Real Estate wanted to sell the land, from what they learned, in 1996 they only paid 800 million US dollars to get the land, covering the old building has not been developed, last year after the demolition of the old building, there was a rumor of sale.

After more than seven years of making a billion US dollars, Ye Dongqing felt that the price was already very good, and he took the initiative to mention: "But the Blackstone Group is trading with you in the form of buildings and cash, and I am all in cash, two buildings in the lower city, it is not easy to sell and cash out, maybe you should ask the other shareholders of your company before making a decision, sir." ”

"Okay, please wait for me for a while, I'll go out and make a phone call first, I myself want to facilitate this cooperation, but after all, it's not all my company, maybe I can lower the price slightly, but you have to know that 1.8 billion dollars is definitely not possible. ”

Mr. Becker took a precautionary shot, took the mobile phone handed by the secretary and left the conference room......

Compared with other company leaders, Ye Dongqing's peace of mind is that he has no other shareholders at present, avoids many disputes over decision-making and rights, and can rest assured that the company will develop in the direction he wants. Some time ago, it was Apple, Tamsui Investment Group, Facebook, etc., which have had the final say since their creation.

Many large companies, in the end, were not crushed by competitors, but died in the long-term infighting between you and me, there are countless similar examples, he did not have the idle mind to seize power with others, so from the beginning he never thought of dividing too much power to others, he did not have money before, and now there is no reason to cultivate opponents by himself.

In the case of Vonado Real Estate, which is negotiating with him, Mr. Becker is obviously not in charge, and there are so many shareholders behind him, and there are different ideas, which will lead to confusion in decision-making, and the decision supported by the majority of shareholders is not necessarily the right one.

Yang Zhiyuan, the founder of Yahoo, said to Ye Dongqing more than once that he regretted that he did not acquire the Google crawler project created by the two apprentices, when the two of them only hoped to sell a mere $1 million, and the former CEO of Yahoo directly refused, too blind and arrogant, and there was an opportunity to acquire the year before last, but the talks collapsed again, and they cultivated a strong competitor.

During the negotiations, Yang Zhiyuan planned to bid $4 billion, but unfortunately other shareholders did not agree, and after several rounds of financing and listing to dilute his shares, his voice was not high, and there was a sense of marginalization......