Chapter 194: The Kwok Group
Lin Feng knew that Ma Huateng was forced by the current situation, or he really realized the value of his suggestions to Tencent. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Now he should not have a strong confrontational mentality and chose to cooperate.
That's fine.
Without Ma Huateng's concept of pursuing the ultimate product manager, Lin Feng is really a little worried about whether Tencent can still develop into a terrifying monster in this life.
History always has an accident, and there is an inevitability in the dark.
Just like BAT in the previous life, why did they become giants in the end?
In the process of becoming giants, they have all experienced many setbacks and turmoil, defeating countless opponents.
When Alibaba's core business Taobao was released, Ebay had a market share of more than 90% and was backed by international giants.
When Tencent's QQ was born, there were at least seven or eight similar ICQ software on the market. Since then, there have been contenders.
Baidu has Google in front of it, and there are Soso, Sogou, and 360 search in the back. Still dominating the world......
There may be many factors to their success, but the core point lies in the characteristics of the founder: Jack Ma has always adhered to the e-commerce concept of "making it easy to do business in the world". Ma Huateng's pursuit of perfection for products and user needs is almost demanding. Robin Li's focus and technology leadership in the direction of search.
Since starting his business in this life, Lin Feng has always been the most vigilant, and even faintly afraid in his heart, is Tencent and Ma Huateng.
The business models and paths of the two sides are too similar, and when they reach a certain stage, they will inevitably go head-to-head!
Therefore, Lin Feng seized the only opportunity when Tencent went public, acquired the shares of MIH in one fell swoop, and became the majority shareholder of Tencent.
At this time, he has two ways to go, one is to use the equity advantage in the hands of major shareholders to kick Ma Huateng and other founding teams and management out of Tencent, comprehensively reorganize Tencent, and merge Tencent and Fengxing, so that Fengxing will replace Tencent and have great possibilities to become one of the three Internet giants in the future. "BAT" may have been changed to "FBA".
The other way is to continue to keep Tencent and let Tencent continue to develop according to the trajectory of its previous life.
On the one hand, he holds a controlling stake in Tencent, which greatly influences Tencent's direction and enjoys the benefits of Tencent's success. The most important thing is that Tencent will not be allowed to target Fengxing, and the two will fight in the field of entertainment content. On the contrary, they can use their status as major shareholders to promote cooperation between the two companies and support each other in this field.
On the other hand, he will continue to develop his popularity and see if he can find a new path that he has not had in his previous life!
If he can bring Fengxing, a company that did not exist in his previous life, to the throne of a giant step by step, for Lin Feng, the sense of accomplishment is the greatest!
This is what truly belongs to him after he is reborn!
Fengxing is by no means just a Chinese Internet giant, he aspires to make Fengxing the world's largest Internet company!
Rebirth always has to be a bit of a pursuit, right?
Take your time, don't rush, he still has time, it's only 2004 and he's just 25 years old. There are still more than ten years to go, and the layout is slow.
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The next day, it coincided with the weekend.
Lin Feng was not in a hurry to return to Beijing and accompanied Ye Weiyu to spend a weekend in Hong Kong.
Originally, Ye Weiyu was accompanied by a real estate company yesterday to see the house, this time is a very suitable time to buy a house in Hong Kong, after the Asian financial crisis, Hong Kong's property market fell all the way, in July 2003 fell to the bottom. The recovery began in 2004 and has since entered a period of more than a decade of growth.
Buying a property in Hong Kong at this time can be said to be a very cost-effective investment.
After buying a villa in the United States, Ye Weiyu now has a high vision, and the real good scenery of Hong Kong is naturally in Mid-levels, Repulse Bay, Deep Water Bay and other places. She took a look around and fell in love with the top floor of BranksomeCrest, which features a rooftop pool in the mid-mountain area. Although it is not a villa, it is located in the mid-levels, the 68-storey penthouse has a unique view, and the swimming pool on the rooftop is even more popular with Ye Weiyu.
However, the new property built by Kerry Properties at the beginning of this year is rent-only, not for sale, and according to the real estate company, it only "made an exception" to sell the 51st-floor full-floor special unit to Ho Hung's daughter Ho Chiu Hung when it was launched.
Ye Weiyu liked it very much after going to see the room, so she asked the real estate company to contact Kerry Properties to see if it was possible to buy it.
On the same day, the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of Tencent Holdings was held, and the media in Hong Kong paid attention to it, Lin Feng was successfully elected as the chairman of the board of directors of Tencent.
Lin Feng, who was already famous in Hong Kong's business community because of his title of "China's youngest billionaire", naturally rose sharply at this time.
This is a young man who has the opportunity to win the throne of "the richest man", who dares to underestimate it?
When the senior management of Kerry Properties heard that the buyer who was going to buy the property was Lin Feng, they relented.
Even this incident alarmed Guo Henian, the big boss of the Kwok Group (Kerry Group).
Kwok Henian, "the richest man in Malaysia", one of the top richest people in Hong Kong's business community, owns Wilmar International, Shangri-La Group, South China Morning Post Group, Kerry Group, etc., and the Kwok family has a market value of nearly 150 billion Hong Kong dollars in some listed companies in Hong Kong and Singapore.
Born on October 6, 1923 in Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia, Guo Henian's ancestral home is Gaishan, FZ City, FJ Province, and enjoys the reputation of "Asian Sugar King" and "Hotel King". From sugar, hotels, real estate, shipping, minerals, insurance, banking, media to grain and oil, Guo Henian has built a huge business empire.
In addition to his outstanding business acumen, courage and vision, Kwok's success has also been enhanced by his excellent interpersonal skills, broad network of political and business elites, and timely introduction of strategic business partners.
He has maintained good relations with former Malaysian Prime Minister Razak and Hussein Aoun, Singapore's Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew and other dignitaries, joined hands with Southeast Asian shipping master Cao Wenjin to enter the shipping industry, joined hands with Indonesian business giant Lim Shaoliang to enter the Indonesian market, and formed alliances with ADM and COFCO to enter the Chinese market.
When he heard that Lin Feng was going to buy Kerry Properties' properties, Guo Henian immediately realized that this was a very good opportunity to make friends with Lin Feng.
The mainland is a market that Guo Henian attaches great importance to.
Nowadays, in the mainland business community, the most popular young man is undoubtedly this Lin Feng, who is known as a "business genius".
What's more, judging from the Tencent acquisition case that has just happened, Lin Feng is quite desirable in terms of skill and thought. It lives up to its name.
Although he has the status of Guo Henian, Lin Feng is still only a small character.
But with the next generation in mind, Guo felt that they should make more mainland partners.
Therefore, Kerry came forward to negotiate with Lin Feng is Guo Konghua, who is the same age as Lin Feng, who just graduated from Harvard last year and returned to Hong Kong to join the Kwok Group.
Guo Henian's youngest son.
Considering that Lin Feng is from the mainland, Guo Konghua also put a lot of thought into arranging the meeting place: it was the weekend, he asked Lin Feng and Ye Weiyu to go to Sha Tin Racecourse to watch horse racing, and by the way, they chatted about buying a house.
Lin Feng returned to the hotel in the evening, and after listening to Ye Weiyu talk about the situation, his face was strange.
If he remembers correctly, the house that Ye Weiyu is optimistic about seems to be the first luxury house purchased by Ma Yun in Hong Kong after Alibaba's listing....... How could it be such a coincidence?
"Then go and talk to Guo Konghua, this kind of Hong Kong wealthy kid, it doesn't hurt to get to know him...... , as long as you like the house!" Lin Feng said indifferently.
Ye Weiyu was a little depressed: "The house in Hong Kong is so expensive, this house is an apartment, only 750 square meters (about 7,000 square feet), and it costs 120 million Hong Kong dollars...... But I have seen some other villas, like those in Repulse Bay, which cost 400 or 500 million, which is more expensive......."
Lin Feng smiled: "This price is good, Hong Kong's property market is recovering, and housing prices will rise in the future, we won't lose money anyway." ”
I remember that in a few years, when Ma Yun bought this house, the price was 300 million Hong Kong dollars. In a few years, it has almost doubled.