“。。。 That's the way it is, what do you think? But there's not much time left. ”

In the bright and spacious conference room of the Vivendi Group, CEO Jean Renault recounted the conversation with Andy Smith, and all the board members present had different expressions.

"Is he threatening?" asked a meticulous old man with sparse silver hair, frowning coldly.

"It's not a threat, it's that whether we agree to the deal or not, he'll use this opportunity to hit GE, and if we don't agree, he'll take us with him." The other director said with a faint look at the other party.

"$200 million is a lot of floating... ”

"If the stock price continues to fall, we lose even more. ”

"We can inform GE and join forces to fight back... ”

"Joke, they can't protect themselves, how to fight back, I agreed to make a deal with the other party, who will not get along with cash now, anyway, we have long wanted to sell those shares, stay in our hands and continue to lose money?"

"I don't agree, that's $200 million, and if he really wants to get that 20 percent of the shares, then close the deal at the previous price of $4.4 billion." ”

The directors in the conference room talked about it word by word, and Renault, who was sitting in the first seat, looked at all this with a calm and indifferent face, and he had long been accustomed to this.

Since Vivendi went from being a water company to a monster company now known for buying demolitionists, there has been no peace in the boardroom, and the directors have been fed more and more greedy by successes and huge profits, and often the greedy people will become more and more stingy, and it has become commonplace to turn their faces for the sake of a little profit.

"Jean, what about your opinion?"

This group of people saw that the quarrel was fruitless, and finally threw the problem back to Jean Renault, after all, the CEO's ability is very good, and he saved Vivendi from the brink of overextension and disintegration, and the work done in the past six years is also obvious to all, and his prestige in the company is still great.

"We didn't agree to Andy Smith's offer of 4.4 billion yuan, but we hoped to get a bigger offer from General Electric, which hoped to maximize its own interests by controlling 100% of NBCUniversal to occupy an absolute advantage in the merger negotiations.

But, ladies and gentlemen, these plans are based on the premise that Andy Smith is committed to NBCUniversal's plans for the acquisition.

Now he's telling us that he's not playing, that we won't get anything from GE, and that he's going to retaliate because he's upset, and the problem is that he's going to get revenge.

What is certain is that Andy Smith does have great ambitions for NBCUniversal, and it can be seen from the fact that he did not give up this 20% stake in our hands, if we don't sell to him, have you ever thought about what he will do to us after he hits GE and forces GE, which is already on the edge of the cliff, to complete the merger?

What did we do when we spun off Universal Pictures and chose to merge with NBC? Do we continue to come out every year and shout that we want to sell our shares, and then receive all kinds of unreliable offers, and continue to hold on to these small dividends?"

Let Renault have a serious expression on his face, and ask a few questions in a row, so that all the board members present are silent, to be honest, this 20% of the shares can really be said to be very chicken for Vivendi, and the benefits cannot be taken, but NBCUniversal's poor profitability every year will also lead to their Vivendi's stock price falling, which is definitely a pit 13.

"Andy Smith is not a good boy, and you have more or less heard of his notoriety in the Gaia branch of London Street, do you think he will let go of the opportunity to short our stock?

I don't know if any of you have ever seen him, but he gives me the impression that he is young, and he has maturity that does not match his age, he is determined, he has unabashed ambition, and more importantly, he has the strength to achieve his ambitions.

Who in this room, including me, has the courage to eat $40 billion in gold under such a financial storm?

If such a crazy person were to take advantage of the situation to suppress our stock price, how much do you think we would lose?"

The conference room became silent, and Renault was also a little helpless, it was not that he raised the morale of others to destroy his prestige, the words he said were also questions he asked himself, and he found that if it was himself, he would not let go of this opportunity to cut the flesh on the other party.

What a hell of a good borrower!

In the usual economic situation, this threat is a joke at all, but now, it is the fatal threat of his meow, under the panic mood, there will definitely be a stampede tragedy without the power to fight back, regardless of whether the news is true or false, first throw away the stock and then say, it will be miserable if you run slowly... It's so unreasonable and irrational.

"Jean, you mean to promise to make a deal with him?"

"That's right, everyone, don't forget, there are some problems that have been held on by the US and French regulators, and I want to completely end the investigation troubles in the US through this transaction, in fact, we should have ended the tail left in 2000 a long time ago!"

Let Renault's words make the faces of the board members change slightly, and become ugly and abnormal, each of them knows that Vivendi's blind expansion at the beginning led to a loss of more than 20 billion euros that was condemned by the whole country, and the crisis of the government's investigation, and at the same time they also covered up a lot of losses, and have been held on by regulators in the United States and France.

"I'm going to meet with Andy Smith again to negotiate the price, and guys, actually, we can also use this opportunity to do some buybacks... ”

AS SOON AS RENAULT'S WORDS FELL, THE EYES OF EVERYONE WHO WERE STILL A LITTLE UNWILLING SUDDENLY LIT UP, AND EVERYONE PRESENT WAS A CUNNING OLD FOX LIKE A GHOST, SO NATURALLY THEY WERE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND IT AT ONE POINT, AND THEY ECHOED IT, AND A SATISFIED EXPRESSION APPEARED ON EVERYONE'S FACES.

Looking at the faces of the directors, Renault felt tired for a while, these goods are really cheap and will not change at all, for shearing sheep in the secondary market, their group of people is the most slippery.

"Okay, then thank you two goddesses, for giving me this opportunity, I'll go over and pick you up right away, see you later. ”

Andy smiled and shook his head, looked at the time on his watch, picked up his phone, and called his little secretary of Amex.

"Osteria Francescana restaurant, three people, about three hours to... Andy explained to the phone while getting dressed with the help of the assistant, and after hanging up the phone, he said to the assistant: "You can eat by yourself at noon, and if you are bored, go shopping." By the way, inform the crew that they are ready to take off... ”

The little assistant looked at the big demon king who was leaving quickly helplessly, two old women, I really don't know why the big demon king is so interested.

Naturally, she didn't understand Andy's thoughts, in her youth, everyone had their own dream goddess. Each of their appearances has a unique aura that makes people's hearts beat faster and their expressions are overwhelmed.

In his previous life, he could only live in fantasy, and the distance was out of reach. In this life, although their faces have passed their peak when they meet, their respective circumstances have also undergone earth-shaking changes, and they are no longer out of reach, and they can kiss Fangze and even give what they want. The thrill and conquest of YU that makes people's blood rush is undoubtedly something that everyone can't resist.