Chapter 256: Cooperation with Ao Guanhai
Entering April, Zhou Shi inevitably got busy, for example, the materials needed for earthquake relief, for Zhou Shi, who lacked training in this area since he was a child, it was simply a black eye. Moreover, large-scale material procurement should also have an appropriate proportion.
After the purchase list is listed, the next step is to place an order. With the intensification of the financial crisis, domestic and foreign trade enterprises are facing great difficulties. For such small batch orders, they can now produce on the fly as well. However, how to place orders to specific enterprises, how to do a good job in quality control and a series of retail procurement issues, Zhou Shi has never been in contact, fortunately, Huang Huainan is preparing for his Vipshop, after recruiting an elite in the industry as the vice president of the branch, Zhou Shi directly borrowed the vice president named Zhang Quan. Although the location of the shipment has not yet been determined, production has already begun. Zhou Shi was also ready to go to Rongcheng at any time to make the final preparations before the earthquake broke out.
Suzaku Fund also gradually closed last month's long orders and is ready to start the second short action, and their long orders are not profitable, and there are profits and losses. Galaxy Capital's main focus is on talent acquisition, and in less than a month, they have increased their headcount by nearly 30%. Among them, the five major investment banks have a lot more middle-level personnel.
It was also at this time that the Chinese elite organization Committee of 100 also found Lu He again and invited him to join this Chinese-American organization. This is a good thing, it can expand the network of Galaxy Capital, and Lu He happily went. Zhou Shi didn't go, the company recruited a lot of people, and the management of Galaxy Capital also had to make some adjustments, and Zhou Shi also needed to be more familiar with them.
The next day, Zhou Shi saw Lu He, who had mixed emotions on his face, sitting in the office.
"What's the matter, what did you do yesterday to be sorry for your sister-in-law?" Zhou Shi joked
"Yesterday I came across an investment opportunity. "Lu He
"Oh, they're pulling you to invest!Isn't that normal?" Zhou Shi
"I thought they were a very ideal organization," said Lu He
"It's not a contradiction, reality and ideals are always intertwined. "Zhou Shi
"Well, probably. ”
"What investment project?" Zhou Shi asked
"The Bank, a small and medium-sized bank that primarily targets the Chinese market: East West Bank"
"Are they going bankrupt or do they want to expand against the trend?" Zhou Shi
"It seems to be supplementing the capital adequacy ratio of banks. "Lu He
"What do you think, are we going to buy some banks to restructure ourselves, or are we looking for someone to work with? There are too many small banks that have gone bankrupt now, and this is also a rare opportunity. ”
"What do you think?"
"I don't have an idea, it's beyond my ability to run a bank, and I'm on your own. ”
Lu He didn't expect Zhou Shi to directly give up control of the bank, and he didn't react for a while. The bank was also a challenge for him.
"Wu Jianmin's ability to develop a small company into a current market value of nearly $2 billion is very good. "Lu He
"Wouldn't it be too small, will it be useful for our future development?"
"It's too big for us to have that control. "Lu He
"That's okay, you can do it yourself, I may have to return to China in a few days" Zhou Shi
"Returning to China, the financial market is changing rapidly, and if you don't have to, ...... if you don't have to," Lu He
"How can it be so exaggerated, the financial crisis is far from over, we just insist on shorting, make more and earn less, by the way, don't do gold for the time being. "Zhou Shi
"We make a lot of profits in the gold market, why give up?"
"Under the influence of the financial crisis, the vast majority of enterprises will face the dilemma of lack of money, how can they have so much spare money to buy gold. "Zhou Shi
"Then let's short gold?"
"The impact of the financial crisis has spread to the world, except for gold, no asset is safe, everyone doesn't know what to believe?" Zhou Shi is actually nonsense, he just remembers that it will take more than 1 year for the gold price to officially break through 1,000 US dollars.
"What's the matter with your return to China?" Lu He didn't continue to ask him about the topic of gold, the most important thing now is the target, there are too many choices, and there is no need to dwell on gold. What's more, he doesn't think it's normal for the price of gold to rise to $1,000.
A while ago, when the Suzaku Fund closed its position, crude oil and gold were basically closed, and crude oil was bought back near $100, and gold was also bought a little, but since Zhou Shi recalled that gold would have a long time of shock, there was no need to stare at him. After this profit, Zhou Shi owed Twitter Holdings the funds when he acquired the equity of YouTube, and Dai Furui had no reason to prevent Twitter Holdings from being cancelled. Things are also becoming clearer and clearer, and Dai Fury's exit is inevitable.
As for Zhou Shi's other target: Lehman Brothers, in March, Lehman Brothers announced that it would lay off 5,300 employees, and in April, Lehman Brothers confirmed that its three funds would go into liquidation. So Gregory also gave a big gift again, Zhou Shi's personal loan to Lehman and several other venture loan projects were packaged and sold to a small company that had just been established at a discount, and no one knew what Gregory got from it, or nothing.
After Zhou Shi and Lu He officially decided to support Aoguanhai, Galaxy Capital increased its penetration of IDCC. This time, Lu Peining got the news out of nowhere, knowing that Zhou Shi was about to regain control of Twitter, so he hurriedly ran over to offer his courtesy.
Under the influence of Zhou Shi, Aoguanhai and YouTube have been of great help to Aoguanhai in the past few months, especially with the explosion of Friends users, as well as the network payment services supporting Friends, as well as information intelligent push services, Aoguanhai's fan base in Friends has increased rapidly. As for why Friends.com helped Ao Guanhai, it was because Google also supported him. Oguanhai bought Google's keyword ads, but Google may have other considerations, most of the campaign information searched through Google is positive news for Oguanhai, and most of the other candidates are negative news. As a member of Google's camp, the support of the friend network for Ao Guanhai is not prominent, after all, Ao Guanhai has to pay.
Ao Guanhai also helped Ao Guanhai's big data service of Friends.com, although it was all some superficial data and there was not much analysis, but the data displayed in real time benefited Ao Guanhai's campaign team a lot.
After Twitter changes hands this time, Ao Guanhai is likely to get more help. It is not difficult to understand that Lu Peining came to the door at this time. Help is help, and the promise that Aoguanhai should give must be there.
"For Galaxy Capital to get involved in the semiconductor industry, it needs the support of President O'Guanhai. Zhou Shi did not hesitate and gave the conditions.
"If you are too sensitive, I am afraid that it will not work. Lu Peining did not agree directly, but wanted to learn more about it.
"It's not sensitive, it's just a semiconductor foundry. I am optimistic about the development of this industry, and if I want to acquire some enterprises, I need to get some help and commitment from President Ao Guanhai!"
"Can you be specific?"
"If we encounter obstruction from the local government, they want to help us say a few words. In addition, don't create obstacles for us to import advanced production equipment. "Zhou Shi
"If you can guarantee that this equipment will not be used for military purposes, I don't think there will be a problem. "Lu Penning
"Then I wish us a happy cooperation!"