Chapter 506 Sale of Business Meeting
Since the Ministry of Justice announced that it would conduct an anti-monopoly investigation into Future Group, many forces have contacted Xu Qing to buy the business from Xu Qing that may be spun off.
Xu Qing asked Eben to sort out these forces that were interested in buying the business, and their assets should reach $5 billion.
There are very few individuals with a net worth of more than $5 billion, but there are many forces with assets of more than $5 billion.
After Eben sorted it out, he found that there were more than 60 forces on the list.
Most of the American powers, but also other countries.
Xu Qing invited these people to have a meeting together in two days.
Although Xu Qing did not say what the theme of the meeting was, these people who received the invitation all guessed the theme of the meeting.
Immediately they were excited, the development potential of the Future Group is great, look at Xu Qing's current net worth mainly from the Future Group, you can know how powerful the Future Group is.
These people are thinking about how to get as much Future Group business as possible.
There must be a lot of people invited to this meeting, and they may need to bid like the auction.
All the forces that received the invitation agreed to attend the meeting.
Xu Qing was not surprised that all the forces agreed, after all, the Future Group was very attractive.
At this meeting, Xu Qing will indeed sell some businesses, not only some businesses of the Future Group, but also other group companies.
The antitrust investigation is a very good opportunity for him.
Xu Qing can take the opportunity to slowly move his huge net worth into the background.
Now his net worth is too dazzling, 3 times that of Bill Gates, who is second on the world's richest list.
In the more than 10 years since the launch of the Forbes Global Rich List, this has not been the case.
Even before the launch of the rich list, people did not think that this situation had ever happened.
The wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it.
Although Xu Qing's tree has grown to a very tall and thick level.
But it's not rough enough to let him go in a storm, it's not enough.
Xu Qing needs to find a way to survive the storm before it comes.
On the surface, the net worth has shrunk, and the company under control has shrunk, and this is the security method.
What's more, the business that Xu Qing is about to sell will depreciate greatly in the Internet bubble, and this depreciation will take a long time, and it will not recover its current value in 5 or 6 years.
Xu Qing can take advantage of the great depreciation of these businesses to acquire, spend less money, and be easy to acquire, which is really beautiful.
Xu Qing is now selling some of the Future Group's businesses, and the sale price will be very high, and when the dot-com bubble is acquired, the purchase price may be only one-third of the current sale price.
Of course, at the time of acquisition, Xu Qing will acquire through some agency companies, and Xu Qing will not appear in person again.
Although it is impossible to hide from the big forces, they will all know that the real controller behind these agency companies is Xu Qing.
But at least on the surface, the company controlled by Xu Qing is not as terrifying as it is now, and his net worth is not so terrifying.
There are many things that can fool the people.
In fact, even if there is no antitrust investigation, Xu Qing plans to sell some of the company's business this year and next.
Sell now at a high price and buy at a low price in the future.
The venue of the conference was the large conference hall of Future Group, and Xu Qing received all participants at the door.
There are some forces that Xu Qing has dealt with before, and there are some that have not.
However, whether or not he has dealt with it, Xu Qing made a depressed look.
Although Xu Qing looks at these forces, it is like looking at a fortune boy, but on the bright side, Xu Qing wants to sell the business of his most important company, which is his hard work, how can he be in a good mood.
You have to be in a bad mood, very depressed.
These people can see that Xu Qing is in a bad mood, although they are in a happy mood now.
How can they not be happy that the Future Group, which they have been coveting for a long time, finally has the opportunity to get their hands on it.
The mood has to be happy, happy.
But they have to take into account the mood on their faces, if Xu Qing thinks that they are gloating, and they don't sell their business to them in the meeting later, they will be in pain.
These people all said to Xu Qing, it is unfortunate that your company has encountered an antitrust investigation, and we have also called on the Department of Justice not to investigate, which is very detrimental to the business development of the United States.
But they don't pay attention, and we can only help you.
What they really think in their hearts is that thanks to the Department of Justice's antitrust investigation into Future Group, you are now the people I love the most.
Xu Qing looked at the hypocritical expressions of these people, and there was no anger in his heart at all, he also knew what these people really thought, it was a normal idea.
If Microsoft is investigated by the antitrust one day, Xu Qing will also be very happy.
Speaking of which, Xu Qing is also hypocritical now, obviously happy in his heart, but pretending to be depressed.
Everyone is an actor, don't say anyone.
The top 10 consortia in the United States have all come, and these consortia have been in contact with Xu Qing for a long time and expressed the idea of acquiring Future Group.
However, Xu Qing's attitude was very tough at that time and resolutely disagreed with the acquisition.
They just gave up, not really giving up, and it wasn't that they couldn't do anything about Xu Qing.
If they really deal with Xu Qing, they will definitely be able to deal with it, but the price they pay is a bit big, which makes them hesitate.
Although they are the top 10 largest conglomerates in the United States, they are not so good as to take whomever they want.
At that time, Xu Qing's net worth was already more than 10 billion US dollars, which was not a small amount, and it was terrifying to resist.
They give up because they are waiting for a better opportunity, and the antitrust investigation is a good opportunity.
They know that the Future Group will continue to grow, and sooner or later it will meet the antitrust standards.
The Ministry of Justice's anti-monopoly investigation of Future Group is behind the scenes.
Xu Qing is a smart person, and the Ministry of Justice will not strongly resist the anti-monopoly investigation of Future Group, and is likely to sell some businesses.
At this time, they can take advantage of the void and make acquisitions above board, without paying too much price, perfectly.
When Xu Qing saw the people of the top ten consortiums, he didn't have any special reactions like everyone else.
Xu Qing knows what forces are behind this anti-monopoly investigation, but he will not question these forces.
Promoting an anti-monopoly investigation of a company can be said to be a normal business method.
Microsoft has never stopped being investigated by anti-monopoly because there have always been forces pushing to achieve the goal of cracking down on Microsoft.
It's just that the forces behind Microsoft are too strong, and every antitrust investigation has no effect.
The forces behind Xu Qing are much weaker than Microsoft's, and these people only gently pushed to get the Ministry of Justice to conduct an antitrust investigation into Future Group.
This is also normal, don't look at the current valuation of Future Group more than Microsoft's market capitalization.
But when it comes to the two companies, which one is most likely to fail, it must be Future Group.
Microsoft's indos system is too buggy, and it is a real unified computer operating system.
It is almost as long as there is a computer, and it is inseparable from the terrible degree of the indos system.