Chapter 133: SoftBank Intervenes
The first Rolls-Royce Phantom on the streets of New York was delivered to Ye Dongqing today.
He is not the only customer, but the advantage of calling early and the order number in front of the order, some customers have higher requirements, hoping to customize all according to their own requirements, and the production cycle is so extended.
There are many rich people in Manhattan, there is no shortage of rich people in this area, and all kinds of luxury cars around the world can be seen on the streets.
As the world's top sedan built by BMW after the acquisition of Rolls-Royce in the past few years, there are almost no flaws in both the exterior and the interior.
If you want to say the only shortcoming, it is estimated that the interior style is too mature, and it is not suitable for Ye Dongqing's age, if there is no girl standing next to her when you get off the car, it is easy to be regarded as a driver by others, wearing a suit, just a hat and white gloves.
The car has not yet been licensed, and I drove back and forth on Fifth Avenue twice, and encountered many policemen on the way, but they deliberately ignored the license plate, for fear that if they were not careful, they would provoke a certain rich man with good hands and eyes, and then they would not be able to eat and walk around.
Ye Dongqing's cash flow and book wealth have added up to make him barely cross the billionaire threshold, and this time, with the explosion of wealth caused by the rise in crude oil prices, he has successfully made a lot of money, and unfortunately most of the profits belong to Edward Jr.
As a "financial advisor", he can only get a small part of the profits, at least for now, others took out a large amount of cash for Ye Dongqing to invest, how could he not ask for more, how much he can take depends on his own ability, the more he earns, the more he gets.
For an investor like Little Edward, no matter how much it is, it will not make Ye Dongqing feel troubled, and it is a good thing to be able to make money......
Miss Laura's sentence was coming to an end, and she couldn't afford to ask for trouble at this time, so she could only calculate the distance, and when she felt that it was almost over, she turned around and went back.
"Very good car, I wanted to hire a driver some time ago, and I will call the headhunter to help find a suitable person later, do you want to drive this car?" Ye Dongqing asked.
For a girl of Laura's age, the allure of a supercar is undoubtedly greater, performance, workmanship, technical content or anything can be ignored, appearance is the key, shaking her head and telling: "Forget it, my driving skills are so bad, I can't figure out why it sells so expensive, it's not as good as your previous car." ”
“...... The Mercedes-Benz big G is also very good, two styles of car, this one is more suitable for business talks, or sitting in the back seat when traveling long distances. ”
Ye Dongqing felt that there was no need to waste saliva on the topic of cars with a girl, parked the car on the side of the road, opened the door, and sat in the back seat to experience it, it felt like sitting on his own sofa, which was soft and wide, and took out an umbrella and opened it to see, the workmanship was very good, but the price far exceeded the actual value, more like a gimmick.
It's not too late to get a new license plate when I have time, so I go upstairs and go home with Laura, feed the fish in the two tanks, and open the valve to replace some of the water by the way.
There is a housekeeper named Susan, who has recently become Ye Dongqing's new employee, she has a few people under her, who are responsible for cleaning, and by the way, she also hired a Chinese chef who helps cook full-time, which can not only make authentic Hunan dishes, but also grill exquisite steaks, and helped fry a few sun eggs in the morning, and there is no trace of being burned on the surface, and the craftsmanship is very good.
The whole quality of life has improved a lot, and as soon as she got home, Susan helped make a pot of black tea, put it on Ye Dongqing's desk, and asked what she wanted to eat tonight.
It's only three o'clock in the afternoon, and it's time to prepare the ingredients for dinner.
All crude oil futures orders have been sold, Ye Dongqing has almost no pressure, whether it is Facebook or Freshwater Fund Company, with the current liquidity and investment model, there will be no big mess, unless the book value of those warrants falls sharply.
Combined with the arrival of the NASDAQ Internet sector recovery period, it is almost impossible to fall too much in the next period of time, the NASDAQ index almost bottomed out at the 1,000-point mark in the second half of last year, and now it has climbed to nearly 1,200 points, unlike crude oil futures short-term windfall profits, investing in them is a long-term war, and is ready to hold stocks for more than 10 or 15 years.
Ye Dongqing has not had much clue about when to short crude oil futures and how much to invest in short crude oil futures, and he has to judge it in combination with the next international oil price trend and the trend of Washington, and the cooperation with Tencent has been finalized, just waiting for his funds to arrive, Boni Ma recently called twice and told him that he had given up the acquisition of Sohu, which is good news.
However, for Sohu, the news is too bad, the stock price fell again, as high as ten percent, just a few days after being stimulated by the good news, it formed a bearish, which has nothing to do with Ye Dongqing, he doesn't care about this company at all, and he doesn't have any plans to invest.
Sitting at the desk and looking through the information, my eyes went around and returned to Facebook, how to develop it in the near future It is the focus that must be considered, other business problems are not big, and I can spare more energy to expand the scale of Facebook's users.
Now that you have the money to continue to advertise and promote, the key to consider is whether it is worth it, the user base has increased, if you can grow up spontaneously, there is no need to invest too much money, he is ready to wait and see for a period of time, to see the next ten days and a half months of new user increment before making a decision.
No one else can help him with these things, as the only founder and shareholder, Ye Dongqing can only think of his own ideas.
In the case of Skype, its main founders were contacted through intermediaries, and the agents helped convey the idea of the acquisition in person, and at first negotiated a price of $12 million, but after a few hours, the asking price was quickly raised to $20 million because of an additional competitor.
Sandwiched between Skype and Ye Dongqing, the name of the competitor is Masayoshi Son, a well-known speculative businessman who has a company called "Software Banking Group", as one of the most powerful angel investors at present, with a personal net worth of more than $2 billion, and at the same time serves as an important shareholder of Yahoo, Cisco and other companies, and is also a major shareholder of Alibaba Group.
Some time ago, the founders of Skype went around peddling products that they were about to complete their development, and the news naturally spread to the ears of many well-intentioned people.
In the future, calls will be possible through the Internet, but anyone who takes a slightly longer term can see how broad the market prospects of this technology are.
It is a good technology for communication operators, even if they buy it and throw it away, and never put it into the market, it can also be of great help to these businessmen, so as to ensure that the communication charging business is not affected in a short time.
Ye Dongqing is also eager to get it, and by integrating this technology with Facebook, there is no need to worry about competitors appearing, even if it is just for calling, users will willingly use it.
There is a saying called "know the needs of users, half of the success of entrepreneurship; to meet the needs of users, entrepreneurship is 100% successful", today to get a large amount of money, feel that can not continue to wait, want to let the other party reduce the price too much is estimated to be unlikely, than how much to spend, should be more worried about whether they can buy.
I called ManpowerGroup and told them that I had agreed to the other party's offer and that they must sign the contract as soon as possible.
I hesitated a little last time, and now I have to pay an extra price of eight million dollars, if it's only eight million dollars, then it's okay, I'm afraid that Son Masayoshi will also raise the price and fight for financial resources...... Ye Dongqing really can't fight the other party, mainly to see how strong the businessman Sun Zhengyi is determined to win Skype.
Within 30 million US dollars, Ye Dongqing can accept it, once this number is exceeded, it is better to form a team and spend time developing similar products, anyway, whether there is an instant call function or not, Facebook is a good product, far from the point of life and death.
Hold a pen and write and draw on paper.
Don't look at Ye Dongqing's only so much money now, when it comes to ambition, it is estimated that Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, is not as ambitious as him.
The creation of Facebook is only the first step, Ye Dongqing hopes to build an Internet empire around it, following this sharing platform, the development plan of the video sharing platform will also be put on the agenda, the popular Youtube has not yet appeared, and several other Internet companies with amazing ability to attract money have not appeared, under the premise of financial resources, whether it is their own development or waiting for acquisition, it is profitable......
Zhao Liuli hasn't started school yet, recently she has been busy learning music at the same time, but also constantly making up for the academic gap between her peers, there are more than a dozen history, society, and literature books on the desk, and she will read by herself without Ye Dongqing saying more.
The meaning of reading is to let people know more, understand the history we have experienced, the world we live in, and then cultivate the correct three views, like reading is a good habit, do not seek to become experts and scholars, just have a general understanding.
That night was considered a celebration, Ye Dongqing took two girls, one older and one younger, out to the mall, buying some spring clothes, shoes and hats, daily necessities and so on, until the car was almost unable to put down, and then watched a movie and went home.
The next day, the management structure of the Golden Island Wealth Management Company was too fragmented, and some management personnel needed to be reappointed to carry out marketing work in various untouched state capitals, and Carneke had just rented an office in Los Angeles and hired more than a dozen temporary employees to help promote wealth management products.
It is still very early to form a climate, although it can bring sufficient cash flow to the freshwater fund, and the daily personnel expenses are also quite large, and the prerequisite for the maintenance of this model is that the freshwater fund can always make money......