Chapter 340: Microsoft Strikes

The caller's name on the mobile phone screen made Sakamoto Kiyoshi instantly retract the unhappiness on his face, and pressed the call button with a puzzled expression.

"Well, it's me, what?"

"Sakamoto-kun, there is something important, I want to tell you, is it convenient for you?" On the phone, the voice of Kagawa, the head of Sakamoto Kiyoshi's investment company, came.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who heard this, realized that there must be something very important about Kagawa's phone call this time.

"yes, I see. You wait a minute. Kiyoshi Sakamoto hung up the phone.

He didn't want Uncle Ishida to know that he also had an investment company under him.

Uncle Ishida, who is already in full charge of his acting career, doesn't need to let him know more, the more concentrated his power is, the easier it will be exposed.

After all, it's not wise to put all your eggs in one basket.

Just when Kiyoshi Sakamoto was thinking about how to get rid of Uncle Ishida, at this moment, Uncle Ishida, who was sitting in the cab, saw Kiyoshi Sakamoto pick up the phone through the rearview mirror, and asked curiously, "Kiyoshi, who is it?"

Sakamoto's face didn't change color, he first smiled lightly, and then lied without a red face and a heartbeat, "Well, it's Ka-chan... ”

"Oh... Hearing Sakamoto Kiyoshi's answer, Uncle Ishida also looked at Sakamoto Kiyoshi with an ambiguous expression, deliberately delayed the end note, and replied.

After Kiyoshi Sakamoto smiled "shyly" with his uncle, he looked out the window and found that the car was now driving near Harajuku.

At this time, he had an idea, and a way came to his mind that he could get rid of Uncle Ishida as the "driver".

"By the way, uncle, where have we been?" asked Kiyoshi Sakamoto.

"Well, I'll see... It's almost Takeshita, what's wrong?" Uncle Ishida replied after looking around.

"Oh, that's right, Ka-chan just called me and asked me to buy something for her, it just so happens that this kind of thing should be available in Harajuku, so why don't you park the car at Takeshita Street, and I'll go down and buy it for her." Kiyoshi Sakamoto said with a smile.

"Oh, that's it, OK. ”

With the old driver of Ishida, the nanny car stopped at the entrance of Takeshita-dori Street, the street of young people in Harajuku.

Even on Mondays, Takeshita Street is still crowded.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who was in the car, looked at the dense crowd and couldn't help sighing.

"It's the favorite place for young people, and there are so many people!"

"Of course, this is a young man's street... Uncle Ishida replied, and then, as if he had thought of something, he turned his head and looked at Kiyoshi Sakamoto with a worried expression, "But are you really going to get out of the car to buy something for Yui-chan?

Kiyoshi Sakamoto is not an ordinary person, and the days of swaggering around the streets are long gone.

"Uh... Also, why don't you go buy it for me?" Sakamoto Kiyoshi's plan finally came to an end.

"Huh, is it okay? I don't know how to mix things between you little couples, right? . . Uncle Ishida asked a little surprised.

As one of Sakamoto Kiyoshi's closest people, Uncle Ishida has long seen the ambiguous relationship between Sakamoto Kiyoshi and Aragaki Yui from various clues, so when he usually teases Sakamoto Kiyoshi, Uncle Ishida will use the word "little couple" to represent the two...

Kiyoshi Sakamoto is also used to it.

"It's okay, she just wants me to help buy something to eat, it's the muffins at the XX store, you just go over and buy it." ”

The pancakes at this house are delicious, and Yui Aragaki accidentally talked about them when she was chatting with Kiyoshi Sakamoto before.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto is good at everything, and his memory is also super strong, even a sentence that Aragaki Yui said inadvertently, I remember it firmly.

At this time, it came in handy.

"Oh, I see, OK, then let me, Ojisan, help you little couple run errands... Before Uncle Ishida got out of the car, he also teased Kiyoshi Sakamoto.

"Well, thank you, uncle!"

Fortunately, nanny cars are generally one-way mirrors, that is, you can't see the inside from the outside, but you can see the outside from the inside.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto watched through the car window as Uncle Ishida walked into the crowd and slowly disappeared.

Only then did he pick up the phone he had put aside again, press the call button, and dial back.

"Sakamoto-kun?" Kagawa's voice came again on the phone.

"Well, it's me, let's talk about it now. Kiyoshi Sakamoto said.

"About Microsoft's readiness to acquire a stake in Facebook. Kagawa said in a calm tone, "At this time, I just attended the shareholders' meeting... ”

"Well, how much does Microsoft want?" replied Kiyoshi Sakamoto as he shifted his seat to lean more comfortably on his seat.

Just a week ago, while Kiyomasa Sakamoto was busy filming "Detective Galileo", Kagawa, who was far away in the United States, brought him an inside message.

One can be good news or bad news.

Microsoft is on the news, courting Facebook and preparing to buy part of Facebook's shares!

The impact of this incident is enormous.

Because Microsoft wants to acquire part of Facebook's shares, it means that Microsoft is very optimistic about Facebook's development prospects, so it will invest in Facebook.

In other words, the growth of Facebook has made the whole United States see how ambitious the prospects of this social software, which has only been established for three years.

Microsoft's investment is certainly a good thing for the development of Facebook, and it is a great thing.

However, on the other hand, it is a very bad thing for shareholders of shares, especially shareholders like Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who are well aware of Facebook's prospects and are reluctant to sell their shares.

Because, Microsoft's acquisition of Facebook's shares, no matter how much, means that among Facebook's major shareholders, someone will definitely sell some of their shares.

It is an unacceptable decision for every wise investor to sell the shares in his hands that have a high probability of future appreciation.

No one wants to be that person.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto too.

Therefore, the decision of the share sale must be made by the shareholders' meeting of the largest shareholder, founder Mark Zuckerberg.

It is also worth considering whether several shareholders will come up with some shares together, or all of them will be taken out by one shareholder.

However, Kiyoshi Sakamoto, as the second largest shareholder of Facebook, holds 15% of the shares, but he is not in the United States and cannot participate in this shareholders' meeting.

Therefore, he asked Kagawa, the president of TOP Investment Company, to attend this shareholders' meeting instead of him.

However, Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who originally thought that Microsoft would open his mouth widely, was confused by the number in Kagawa's mouth.

“1.6%。 ”

"Huh, that's it?" Kiyoshi Sakamoto was surprised.

"That's right, it's only 1.6%, but, you know, how much money was sold?" Kagawa also whetted Kiyoshi Sakamoto's appetite.

"Uh... 100 million?" Kiyoshi Sakamoto guessed.

"No, it's 240 million!" Kagawa said in a slightly excited tone.

"240 million?" Sakamoto muttered and repeated, and then, looking into Kagawa on the phone, he asked, "Uh, this, I don't understand much, 240 million is a lot?"

"Smack!"

Hearing Sakamoto Kiyoshi's words, Kagawa, who was far away in the American office, shook his body and almost dropped his phone to the ground.

Fortunately, he propped himself on the table and caught the mobile phone, however, that support was also transmitted to Kiyoshi Sakamoto in Japan through the mobile phone.

"Moxi Moxi, Kagawa, are you alright?" Sakamoto Kiyoshi also heard the sudden voice and asked suspiciously.

"It's okay, it's okay... For himself, a boss who has a good investment vision and is very vicious, but does not know much about economics and finance, Kagawa is also powerless to complain.

Tidying up his sleeves, Kagawa continued to explain to Kiyoshi Sakamoto, "240 million is already a lot, you know, you now own 15% of Facebook's shares, which means that if you sell all the shares in your hands now, it will bring you a net worth of more than 200 million US dollars!"

"You know, you only used only $1 million to get this 15% of the shares, and in three years, the value of the shares in your hands has increased by more than 2,000 times!!

"Oh, more than two thousand times ... "Kiyoshi Sakamoto doesn't have much idea about the money in his hands.

After all, he just needs to know that he is rich...

However, now, he only wants to know from whose hands the 1.5% stake will be taken out and given to Microsoft.

"By the way, where are you going to take out this 1.5%? It won't be for me to take it out, will it? If that's the case, that kid from Mark is too faceless!"

"Well, Mark should know that you definitely won't take it out, and no one among the other shareholders, big or small, wants to sell his shareholders, so, in the end, he took out 1.5% of his shares. Kagawa finally named the seller of the shares.

"Oh, yes, everyone knows that Facebook's future development prospects are good, and it is impossible to take the initiative to reduce their holdings at this time... ”

"No one who can sit in the Facebook shareholder meeting is going to be stupid... ”

After a few words of emotion, Sakamoto Kiyoshi first looked out the window, and only after not seeing Uncle Ishida's figure did he continue to ask.

"Well, I know about this, is there anything else?"

"Also, about Project Sony... Kagawa's words made Kiyoshi Sakamoto concentrate again.

"Well, how's it going?"

This plan to replace the director of Sony Music by acquiring shares of Sony Corporation has been going on for more than a year, and Sakamoto Kiyoshi feels that it is time for him to see the results.

"After more than a year of covert acquisitions, we have acquired 0.5% of Sony's shares through the acquisition of retail investors and minority shareholders. ”

"Is it only 0.5%?" Kiyoshi Sakamoto seemed a little unhappy with this figure.