Chapter 297: A Wall Street Legend!
Li Zetian is now full of ambition, investing in Japanese real estate, and now he has acquired 20th Century Fox, Carl Zeiss, and Trumpf, and he is in a happy mood.
On this day, he went to Wells Fargo, which is one of his core businesses.
The major consortia have used banks to operate capital in order to control other companies, and Li Zetian certainly wants to follow suit. He came to borrow money from Sprint to buy GTE, the largest local telephone independent company in the United States.
After coming out of the Wells Fargo building, I saw a middle-aged man sitting on the stairs with a decadent face at the door, seeing that he was dressed very exquisitely, wearing a high-end black suit, with an extraordinary temperament, and he did not look like an ordinary person.
Originally, Li Zetian didn't plan to meddle in his own affairs. However, he glanced at the man and felt a little impressed, but he couldn't remember it clearly.
Li Zetian suddenly stopped, thinking that the gringo who could make a little impression may be a well-known figure in the future.
He thought for a moment, stepped forward, and asked, "Hello, sir, it's December now, it's cold, why are you sitting on the ground?"
When the man looked up and saw that the person talking to him was Li Zetian, he looked surprised, "Oh, hello, Chronos· Li!!!”
"Who are you? Why are you sitting on the ground?" asked Li Zetian again.
The man replied, "My name is Sandy Weir, and I was a former executive at American Express, and I was in charge of the plan to merge Bank of America...... It's a pity that it failed. I came to Wells Fargo for an interview today, and the interviewer felt that I was in a bad mental state and had not recovered from the previous failure, so I was asked to go home and rest for a while...... But I've been out of work for six months!"
Sandy Weir can be an executive in the Express Company, naturally there is no shortage of money, but he does not want to spend his life in silence, people can't live idle, they must do something meaningful!
Li Zetian recalled the name "Sandy Weir" in his heart, trying to let himself know who he was.
After thinking about it for a while, I was suddenly startled.
Could it be that Sandy Will is the legend of Wall Street, the founder of the Travelers Group, and the super-awesome financial king who later acquired Citibank?
Li Zetian was an orphan in his previous life, suffered from poverty, and when he grew up, he was very yearning for wealth, and he read many celebrity biographies, including "The Biography of Bill Gates", "The Biography of Steve Jobs", "Li Jiacheng", "The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie", "Jack Welch", "38 Letters Rockefeller Left to His Son", etc. Will's autobiography was also read a little, and the person in front of him was the founder of the Traveler Group, the king of capital, who finally made Citigroup dominate the entire financial world in an unprecedented way with his iron wrist.
Li Zetian couldn't help but think of a sentence said by General Electric CEO Jack Welch: "Sandy Weir is the kind of person who can make money with air, and his experience is as incredible as a myth!"
Talent, talent!
Li Zetian's eyes lit up, "Mr. Will, do you have time to have a cup of coffee with us now?"
Sandy Weir felt incredulous and hurriedly responded, "There's time!"
"Okay, then let's go to a nearby café and have a seat. ”
"Hmm. ”
It didn't take long for the two to arrive at Starbucks.
On the way, Li Zetian thought that Sandy Weir also had a proud protégé, Jamie Dimon, who was exiled from the company with him, this person is a genius in the financial world, no less than Sandy Wil. The two later parted ways, and Jamie Dimon became the new CEO of JPMorgan Chase, the world's most feared banker.
Again, eggs can't be put in one basket! Every consortium has multiple banks, and Li Zetian will not have only Wells Fargo. met Sandy Weir today, and Li Zetian couldn't help but think about Citibank.
Sitting down in an elegant position by the window, Li Zetian said slowly: "Mr. Sandy Weir, I plan to establish a life and property insurance company, I wonder if you are willing to come and help me?"
In the previous life, Traveler Company was originally a life and property insurance company, and later it expanded its business scope to investment banking, commercial credit, financing services and other fields through the acquisition of a U.S. investment bank, and Li Zetian also intends to take it step by step.
In addition, the insurance industry is very profitable, with thirty or forty insurance companies in the top 500 in the world, and they rank very highly. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is a world-renowned insurance and diversified investment group in the United States.
Insurance companies play a vital role in financial stability, and powerful insurance companies are too big to fail, and even the government does not dare to sit idly by, and even invest huge sums of money to save them, so as to avoid the huge chain reaction set off by the collapse of the company and cause more serious damage to the society as a whole!
Sandy Weir was very excited when he heard Li Zetian's invitation, his face turned red, he drank all the coffee in one gulp, and said: "In the face of Mr. · Li, I am afraid that there are very few people in the world who refuse your invitation! I am very willing to work under you!!"
Li Zetian smiled faintly on his face, but he was very happy in his heart.
"Sandy Weir, you will rest at home for the past two days, and I will send my secretary to contact you later to discuss the specific details of the formation of the umbrella insurance company, with you as the CEO. By the way, you are also an old man in the industry, do you have any talents that need to be recommended?" Li Zetian asked deliberately.
"Yes, his name is Jamie Dimon, and he's a financial genius!"
When Li Zetian heard this, the smile on his face became even stronger, "Very good, then let him come with you!"
"Hmm......" Sandy Weir nodded in response, not doubting him.
After leaving the café, Li Zetian called him for contact information.
In the café just now, Dongfang Yuqin couldn't say it directly, but now when she came to the car, Dongfang Yuqin frowned and asked, "Mr· Li, Sandy Weir was a failure at Amex and even kicked him out of the company, are you sure he can be the CEO of Umbrella Insurance?"
Li Zetian smiled, his laughter was full of confidence, "How do you say that there is a saying?'Failure is the mother of success', it is precisely because he has failed that he will succeed! I believe that he will not let me down! From the first time I met him, I felt that this person was not ordinary, and his eyes were full of stubbornness that did not admit defeat, and it was this stubbornness that made me think he could succeed!"
Li Zetian is serious nonsense.
Dongfang Yuqin nodded and didn't ask anymore, she actually believed in Li Zetian's vision very much, and it could even be said that she blindly believed in Li Zetian.
Li Zetian continued: "In the next period of time, your hard work will work with Sandy Weir to set up the umbrella insurance company. ”
"Okay. ”
"Driver, go to Sprint. ”
Finance is Dongfang Yuqin's major, and she has an MBA degree. Li Zetian is just a college dropout, although he has also taught himself finance, but he still doesn't understand anything too professional. There is a specialization in the art industry, and a person's energy is limited, and the superior only needs to learn to use people!