Chapter 544 AIA IPO Progress
Although Huawei's global revenue will grow significantly in the next few years, in addition to the expansion of its own competitive advantages, it will also benefit from the Prism Gate incident to a large extent. For the sake of their own security, European countries have made more choices about their network equipment. Even in the trade war between China and the United States, Western markets are not very willing to abandon Huawei, except for technical problems, the rest is security issues.
Zhou Shi did not expect much from the cooperation with Lenovo, and the company had a more international idea for its own benefit. If from the level of business management, it is really difficult to say that Lenovo has done something wrong, if in the 5G era, it is Huawei that dominates, and in the case of sound domestic laws, he will not be more merciful than Qualcomm if he collects the patent fees. As for the higher price of Lenovo computers in Huaxia and more lucrative profits, this is also a choice that leaders from sales personnel have no choice. If you don't, the company will not be profitable, and the company's market value and CEO position will not be guaranteed. If you really do this, you will also drink to quench your thirst and lose your brand credibility and reputation. If Lenovo increases the strategic position of the mobile communications division, it may be able to occupy a place in the era of smart phones. There is no problem in focusing on PC computers, after all, it has achieved the status of the world's No. 1 PC company. But if Lenovo increases its investment in cloud computing, or follows Dell's transformation, or heeds Zhou Shi's advice, acquires or takes a stake in Red Hat, and enters the hybrid cloud market, their future will certainly be brighter. It's a pity that there is no if in reality, Liu Lao is still immersed in the illusion brought about by the explosion of Lenovo's performance, thinking that there is more future in the PC market.
After communicating with Liu Lao a few times, Zhou Shi put down the matter here. Galaxy Capital acquired 35% of Micron's shares, became the largest shareholder, and began to make strategic adjustments to Micron, strategically tilting the two major fields of DRAM and NAND flash memory, and seeking the acquisition of Fuso Erbida. To this end, the support of capital in the international market demand, that is, to win over Zhao Weiguo of Ziguang and make a comeback in the storage market.
Zhou Shi and Hu Groupniu also had many exchanges and communications with Xie Shirong, former chairman of AIA, and Mark Tucker (Chinese name Du Jiaqi), the resigned CEO of Prudential Insurance. Nominally, it was naturally for the acquisition of AIA Huaxia. At this time, Shan Weijian, chairman of PAG Investment Group, Zhang Songqiao, chairman of the board of directors of Zhongyu Land Holdings Co., Ltd., and Guo Guangchang, chairman of Fuxing Group, each led the formation of a consortium, and a number of Hong Kong and Taiwan investors formed two consortiums. Preparing to bid for AIA, AIG and the U.S. Treasury Department were approached for this purpose. At the same time, Manulife Financial Group, Generali Insurance Group of Italy, etc., are eyeing AIA. It didn't take long for China Life Insurance and Cinda Asset Management to form a joint acquisition, and Ping An Insurance, China Development Bank, Hony Capital, Alibaba Group, etc. also participated in the feast. Hu and Modu International Trust Co., Ltd. (another shareholder of Modu Securities) also formed a consortium to participate in the acquisition.
The acquisition of a life insurance company with a market value of more than $30 billion and the fourth largest in the world has a lot of variables, and no one can grasp all the changes, and it is normal to have a plan A B C.
Looking at the things in his hands, he really couldn't play anymore. The ongoing Disney Marvel acquisition, the merger between Facebook and Friends, the merger of Milbond Securities, the acquisition of NetSuite, the transfer of Twitter shares, the Zynga financing case, the storage industry integration case, the listing case of Guoke Company, the cooperation case of Spreadtrum Huawei, and the acquisition of Avago that has not yet been mentioned here with a tacit relationship with him, etc., plus the current AIA acquisition case, even if the scale of the assistant secretary is expanded, he still feels powerless.
But when things got to this point, it was hard for him to back down. The speed of Zhou Shi's explosion was so fast that before the original formulator of the rules of the game could react, he completed the primitive accumulation and survived the tribulations of light or darkness again and again. Unfortunately, the unstable foundation is his hard wound, the relationship between politics and business at home and abroad is not strong, and the weak ability of its industries to resist risks is the key.
The growth of Internet companies has yet to be proven, and most of them do not have enough profitable features. Although the market capitalization is high, it is actually nothing. If there is a crisis, there may not be anyone or a company willing to buy it. The sudden emergence of high-tech companies, especially Guoke, is an accident. Including Zhou Shi did not realize that the current profit scale of the mobile phone industry is so large, why did Goldman Sachs give up suppressing Galaxy Capital after encountering the crisis? Sufficient cash flow will allow Galaxy Capital to deal with most of the crisis. The most effective way to suppress Guoke mobile phones is the patent issue, and Zhou Shi's operation is legal, at most, when everyone is not paying attention, he preemptively takes down Nortel Network and IDCC. Unless Canada and the United States can deny the legitimacy of this deal, but before the denial, Guoke mobile phones can still be sold normally. Delay the time to fight the patent lawsuit, and with the gradual development and growth of the fruit shell, it will eventually be over. At this time, Zhou Shi threw out the bait that had been prepared a long time ago, and under the benefits, there are still very few companies and people who are willing to lose hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars of hard-core Galaxy Capital and Guoke Mobile Phone.
If you can't suppress it, you will win it over, this is the rule of the game that history gives to smart people. Zhou Shi, who was liberated, naturally wanted to make the most of the rare relaxation period in the past few months. Who knows what will turn out after next year. Will there be suppression of Zhou Shi and Lu He at home and abroad?
"Why are you so rich and so busy?" asked Liu Feifei, who had been by Zhou Shi's side these days, curiously
"Maybe it's to see where my limits are! I want to know how far I can go, can I change the world?"
Some people say that you are the contemporary business god of Huaxia, and it is most likely that Huaxia can create two entrepreneurs in the world 500. "Liu Feifei
"Who knows? That's not what I'm after. "Zhou Shi
"Some people say that you are the Jobs of Huaxia, and some people say that you are the Buffett of Huaxia. Liu Feifei searched for all kinds of information on the Internet.
"Not yet, it's worse than them......" Zhou Shizhen felt that he was worse than them, most of his current achievements were obtained through advanced vision, once these advantages disappeared, what the future would be, he was not sure.
"No, I think you're better than all of them. And there are still decades to go, and sooner or later you will surpass theirs. "Liu Feifei
For the children of the plane, time can be surpassed. Zhou Shi surpassed the wealth created by the previous generation of rich people in a few years, which is a good proof of this. Besides, when heaven and earth come together, heroes are not free. It is difficult for him to be the eternal protagonist of this world.
(End of chapter)