Chapter 158 Guo Shouyun's Asset Planning

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"Boss, Mr. Sachs has arrived!"

Piret Lee, who was unaware of the strange atmosphere in the room, pushed the door open and entered.

"Let him go to the living room, and I'll be right over!"

Guo Shouyun hurriedly said.

"Yes!"

After he turned around and went out, Guo Shouyun got up, "Wendy, you can go down with me too!"

The words fell, and without looking at the beautiful woman's face, Guo Shouyun hurriedly walked out. It was only when he stepped out of the door and turned his back to Wendy Solo that he sighed to himself. He's not stupid, Wendy Solo feels his affection for him. However, it can only be said that the two are fated to be incompatible, if he hadn't been emotionally attached to Molly first, maybe Wendy, who is gentle and generous, has a noble temperament, and is also beautiful and moving, is a very good lifelong partner. But it's a pity that Wendy's wariness of him at the beginning made the two miss this marriage.

As for the idea of including this beauty who has affection for him into the harem like Molly Bevan, and the idea of empress and daughter Ying working together to fly, Guo Shouyun certainly had it. But it's just a thought. Modern times are not ancient after all, and he can't get past that level in his heart. In addition, the other party's family background will never allow it.

Guo Shouyun, who was churning in his mind, seemed to feel the resentful eyes behind him, as well as the heavy sigh, and almost subconsciously accelerated his pace. Hurriedly walked down from the second floor.

"Boss!"

Seeing Guo Shouyun, David Sachs, who was sitting on the sofa, hurriedly stood up.

After Guo Shouyun, who calmed down his thoughts, walked over, he waved his hand at the other party, "Sit down and say!"

"Yes!"

"Is the accommodation arranged?"

"Arranged and right at the Beverly Hotel not far from here. ”

Guo Shouyun nodded, "Everything in the company is okay?"

"Very smooth!" David Sachs's face showed a ray of excitement, and then quickly took out a document from his briefcase and handed it to Guo Shouyun, "This is the balance sheet of PayPal for two thousand years, and user data!"

"5.3 million, growing so fast?" Guo Shouyun was surprised after seeing the curve of user growth.

"Since the introduction of the concept of 'account security period', our registered users have been growing explosively. This is especially true after entering the checkout platforms of LinkedIn, Yahoo, AOL and Netflix. ”

Guo Shouyun nodded, "In addition to the above four, do we have any other enterprise users now?"

"Yes, in two months, we have successfully reached cooperation with 37 companies in the San Francisco area. The biggest of them is Starbucks!"

"That's good news, but what about Amazon and eBay?"

"It's still talking, but Amazon wants our stake and eBay wants to buy us, so...!" David Sachs shook his head. Knowing that Guo Shouyun values PayPal, he understands that most of the cooperation with Amazon and eBay is going to fail.

Guo Shouyun raised his eyebrows, "Bezos and Meg Whitman are very shrewd... Forget it, the negotiations with them are temporarily suspended, and I will figure out a way later. ”

"Yes!"

After getting along for more than half a year, Guo Shouyun's endless ideas and methods, as well as the explosive growth of PayPal, have completely convinced David Sachs.

"147,000 transactions, $398 million in transaction volume, $10.23 million in revenue, $4.57 million in net profit! An average monthly increase of 47%!" Guo Shouyun smiled, "Take this data to the NASDAQ, and we can also mix a market value of five or six hundred million US dollars!"

"I believe that in two years, PayPal's valuation will be ten times what it is now!"

After glancing at him, Guo Shouyun smiled and nodded.

"Of course, ten times is not a satisfactory number!" After a pause, Guo Shouyun changed the subject.

"David, do you think there is a problem with the development of PayPal now?"

"Boss, I don't really understand what you mean. David Sachs frowned.

"In other words, what does PayPal's business need to adjust right now?"

"Adjustment?" After thinking for a moment, David Sachs shook his head, "Now that PayPal is doing well and the business is growing rapidly, I don't feel that there is anything to adjust." ”

It's not surprising that the vast majority of people don't see potential danger in good times. And Guo Shouyun has the experience of his previous life, and combined with the current situation, it is easy to find some things that others have not paid attention to.

"I'm going to shrink the content of my PayPal Life page!

"Shrink the scope of business, why?" David Sachs blurted out.

"First, our current strength is limited, rather than catering, travel, leisure, entertainment, etc., it is better to specialize in one first. When we expand the specialized content, have enough registered users and transaction quotas, and then dabble in other content, the negotiation with the merchant will be much simpler, and we will be confident enough to get more order shares. Second, the United States is big and the world is bigger. There are many businesses that can be connected to the internet. If we start with a wide range of knowledge, we may give opportunities to those who come after with stronger capital. Shopping malls are like battlefields, 'it is better to cut off one finger than to hurt ten fingers'. ”

Guo Shouyun's words are not difficult to understand, and David Sachs is also a smart person. After a moment of silence, "Then do we want to give up the company we negotiated before?"

"Don't give up. The PayPal life page is divided into categories, making several entrances such as catering, movies, leisure and entertainment, hotel accommodation, etc. We embed our partner companies by category. It's just that we don't do outreach in other categories except catering. But if someone comes to us and comes to work with us, then we are happy to accept it. ”

"Got it!"

"Are the New York and Chicago branches up and running?"

"It's already started, but there are no results yet!"

"It's understandable that time is too short. However, after the end of the year, we will lay the foundation in both markets. Moreover, in the second half of the year, the two markets of Houston and Boston will be built. Within three years, it will occupy 50% of the online food ordering market in the United States. ”

David Sachs nodded excitedly.

Later, the two talked about some details of PayPal's development and future development plans, and Guo Shouyun took him around the manor, and after making an appointment to meet tomorrow, he sent David Sachs away.

As soon as he returned to his room, Wendy held a large stack of papers in front of him.

"This is your personal financial documents for the last year, as well as the financial statements of other companies. ”

"Oh my God, Wendy, didn't you prepare a detailed list? I can't read all these documents in two days!"

Guo Shouyun's funny and exaggerated expression made Wendy laugh, and she pouted before taking out a folder from her back.

"Well, I knew you'd ask. ”

"Hehe, you still know me!" Guo Shouyun took it and smiled.

"Then you don't know how to be nice to others!"

Guo Shouyun could only pretend not to hear this.

After seeing him flip through the information, Wendy looked at him with complicated eyes, and slowly turned around and walked out.

And after hearing the footsteps go away, Guo Shouyun breathed a sigh of relief. It is said that women are the most complex animals in the world, but so are men. I knew it was impossible, but I couldn't make up my mind!

"It seems that it is really like what people say: men are animals who think with their lower bodies!" After laughing at himself, Guo Shouyun opened the document, sorted out his thoughts and slowly looked at it.

These documents record all his financial income from gambling to the present, as well as the detailed financial balance sheets of each company this year. With this information, he knew how much money he had made this year. And then where does the money go and how much value is generated.

From the perspective of personal income, it is mainly divided into two parts: First, the gambling income at the beginning of May last year was 265 million US dollars. Second, I wrote it myself, plus 14 sets written by others, and the publication of 22 volumes and peripheral copyright income was 280 million US dollars.

In an effort to lower his personal income tax, he donated half of the $545 million, or $272.5 million, to two charitable foundations he controlled: the Kwok Charitable Foundation and the Bruce Charitable Foundation. The remaining half of the funds, after experiencing complex and complicated tax avoidance projects in investment, medical and other aspects, still pay 30%, about 81.75 million US dollars of personal income tax.

In other words, after deducting taxes, there are still about 460 million US dollars of funds belonging to Guo Shouyun and the funds controlled by him.

There are three main personal loans and bonds: $80 million from Citibank, $350 million in ABS asset-backed securities for "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", "Fifty Shades of Grey", "National Treasure", and $120 million in loans from ****.

Then, a total of $1.01 billion in personal income plus loans gave birth to the Kwok Business Group engaged in retail, agriculture and animal husbandry, Internet companies LinkedIn, Google, Tencent, NetEase and PayPal, Matrix Holdings Group engaged in leisure and entertainment, Phoenix and Hanhua engaged in financial investment, and Ruby Technology engaged in chip research and development.

Because all companies are not publicly listed, it is difficult to assess the specific value. However, even after deducting the loan, Guo Shouyun's results after a year of hard work are extremely amazing.

Looking at this balance sheet of its own, satisfaction is a matter of course. However, how to plan in the future is also testing his wisdom and pattern.

After thinking for a while, he put a cross on the Kwok Business Group, Matrix Holdings, and Phoenix, and then drew an arrow to connect to the name of the 'Kwok Family Wealth Trust'.

Of these three companies that he decided not to go public, he transferred all his shares to a trust fund that only he or his designated descendants of the bloodline could inherit.

Then he transferred the shares of LinkedIn and Google, two companies that would definitely go public, to two charitable foundations controlled by him. In this way, when the two are listed, he can also avoid the high capital gains tax and personal income tax. As for PayPal, we will wait and see if it is not listed.

After such a division, in the United States, the remaining property in Guo Shouyun's name is the copyright he wrote, as well as four villas in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and London, with a total value of about $80 million. Of course, now these four mansions still owe 60 million loans to the bank, as well as 18 million bank interest for the next 30 years!

In Huaxia, all his investments are still in his name, which is also a helpless thing, and the inheritance tax and gift tax in the United States are outrageously high. 50% ratio, no one can stand it, and they will not let the US IRS be so exploitative, and can only use trust funds and charitable funds to avoid taxes.

If Huaxia also comes to this point in the future, there is no doubt that Guo Shouyun will do the same.

From afternoon to evening, almost all of the time passed in his sketching, sorting out and thinking about his future career.

Early the next morning, after putting on Wendy's carefully prepared clothes, and taking Pire Lee and Matthew Bloom to David Sachs, the group arrived in San Marino together.

It and Arcadia are the wealthy areas with the highest concentration of Chinese billionaires in Los Angeles. One has a tradition of gathering wealthy Chinese, and the other has high-quality public education resources. It is more in line with the tradition of large Chinese settlements and favoring school district housing.

"Boss, we're here!"

Matthew's words brought Guo Shouyun back to his senses from a casual conversation with David Sachs. After a brief look at the outside, the courtyard hidden in a green tree, he took out his mobile phone and found Cheng Tinghua's number and dialed it.

"Hey, Bruce, you're here?"

"Right outside your door!"

"Okay, I'll let the bodyguard open the door, and you guys can drive in directly!"

After answering, Guo Shouyun hung up the phone and explained to Pi Lei, who was driving, and after a short time, he saw the house next to him on the right side, with a partial relief pattern and a hollow black iron door slowly retreating to the side, giving way to a hardened road of about 3 meters.

Pire drove up the road and along the hardened road through the front garden, stopping at a small square in front of a three-story European-style villa.

Looking at the welcoming crowd coming out of the villa, Guo Shouyun greeted David Sachs, and the two pushed the car door together and walked down.

Cheng Tinghua has seen it many times, so he is naturally very familiar. What really caught Guo Shouyun's attention was Cheng Zhengchang, who was standing in the middle of the crowd, wearing a traditional Chinese short coat with a button, about sixty years old, but maintained like a middle-aged man.

The tycoon who single-handedly founded the famous Panda Fast Food is a well-known wealthy man in the Chinese American circle.

When Guo Shouyun was looking at the other party, Cheng Zhengchang was also looking at him. This was not well-known before, but in the past 2,000 years, it has risen rapidly, and it has become a rising star in the Chinese circle, and even in the whole United States.

Moreover, the other party rarely gives interviews and never makes any remarks in the media, but he has enough mystery to provoke prying eyes.

"Bruce, I've finally waited for you!"

As an acquaintance of both parties, Cheng Tinghua naturally has to act as an intermediary. Therefore, he consciously stood up early.

"I'm sorry, I should have visited sooner. But after a trip to Europe, something happened in the middle of the delay until now, and I hope that Mr. Cheng will not blame!" Guo Shouyun said apologetically in his tone.

"In the early days of the business, it is only natural that things are busy. Mr. Guo does not have to apologize. ”

Guo Shouyun's modesty made Cheng Zhengchang feel good.

"I'm here to introduce... This is my wife, Chen Bijun!"

Looking at the old woman in front of him wearing a pale cyan lady's suit, Guo Shouyun said respectfully: "Mrs. Chen, hello. ”

"Welcome Mr. Guo to our home!"

"This is my eldest son Cheng Tingzhang!"

Cheng Zhengchang pointed to the tall middle-aged man in a suit on his right, about thirty-four or five years old.

"Mr. Guo, I have heard Tinghua mention you for a long time, and now I see that you really live up to your name, you are a talented person with excellent appearance and talent!"

"I dare not be ashamed, Mr. Cheng is a talented business elite!"

After the two shook hands, they complimented each other.

"I won't introduce Tinghua. You are classmates, and I believe you have already known each other!"

"Of course, we are not only classmates, but also partners!" Guo Shouyun pointed to David beside him, "Mr. Cheng, everyone, this is David Sachs, the CEO of our PayPal company. ”

"Mr. Cheng, hello!" …

After he greeted the Cheng family one by one, everyone hugged each other and walked into the villa at the back. In the Chinese-style living room, Guo Shouyun and David Sachs were warmly entertained.

Because of the information that Guo Shouyun asked Cheng Tinghua to hand over before, they know each other about the topics they want to talk about today. After going through the foreshadowing, drinking a few cups of tea, and opening up the atmosphere of chatting, they looked at each other and entered the main topic together.