Chapter 690 [Nominee Shareholding]
The next day, Lu Chong sold all the remaining gold to Li Qinglong, the boss of the Chinese community in Los Angeles. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Originally, 1,250 kilograms of gold should be worth $17 million at the gold transaction price at this time, but such a large amount of gold could not be traded publicly, and Li Qinglong had to make some risk money, so Lu Chong sold it to him for $15 million.
The reason why he is in such a hurry to sell gold is because due to the foreign exchange management regulations, it is difficult for Lu Chong to quickly turn over the domestic money, anyway, the gold there is also a tricky thing, so it is safe to deal with it as soon as possible.
After disposing of the gold, Lu Chong didn't live in the house at all, and in order to avoid the owner of the gold from coming to the door, Lu Chong asked Gong Zhen to help him sell the house at a low price.
When Google registered and invested in the company, Sharon Stone, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Gong Bin and Isabel Adjani were all present, and they did not come to witness, but to hold Lu Chong's shares on their behalf.
This is the method that Lu Chong thought of, with his confidantes holding his shares on his behalf, even if one day the U.S. government declares that it cannot let the Chinese people control because Google involves their homeland security, even if the U.S. government finds out Lu Chong's true identity one day, Lu Chong's interests in Google will not be affected, because on the surface, Lu Chong has nothing to do with Sharon Stone, Catherine Zeta, and Isabel Adjani, at least there is no marriage relationship, and the United States cannot recover Lu Chong's property.
Of course, there is a risk in doing this, if the relationship between Lu Chong and these people changes one day, Lu Chong may lose both people and money, but he has confidence in himself and can definitely control the hearts of these women.
Sharon Stone, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Gong Bin and Isabelle Adjani all have little knowledge of the Internet and search engines, and they are willing to join only because they trust Lu Chong unconditionally.
However, when Lu Chong said about Google's future, "Google will become the world's most potential and innovative enterprise, and its market value will reach 500 billion US dollars in 20 years, and it may even reach 600 billion US dollars, and each of you can have a net worth of at least 10 billion US dollars.
Lu Chong invested $5 million in advance and owned 51 percent of Google's shares, which were held by four confidants, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Isabel Adjani, and Gong Bin each owned 12 percent of the shares, and Sharon Stone held 15 percent of the shares because she had a child.
Lu Chong didn't bring much money to the United States this time, he borrowed the money to buy the house from Sharon Stone temporarily, and later after getting the gold, he returned it to Sharon Stone, and the money invested in Google was all from the sale of gold, so to speak, he was a white wolf with empty gloves this time.
Larry Page and Sergei Brin didn't know where Lu Chong's money came from, they both thought that the money Lu Chong invested came from his record and movie income, they both understood Lu Chong's caution and worry, and they did not object to the shares being held by others, after all, except for Gong Bing, the others are the goddesses of the European and American film industry, if others can know that these goddesses have invested in their company, it will be of great benefit to the future development of Google.
Moreover, when Lu Chong's initial $5 million arrived, Larry Page and Sergey Brin were finally able to create the company according to their ideas in a big way, and no longer were constrained by the problem of funds, from thrift to luxury, from luxury to frugality, and after the $5 million to support their appetite, they got on Lu Chong's thief ship and refused to get down.
They saw the special relationship between Lu Chong and those goddesses, and they were even more determined to cooperate with Lu Chong, just like a Chinese man with Fan Bingbing, Li Bingbing, Gong Li and other first-line actresses, even if he is dressed very dirty and ugly, others will think that he is very powerful and status, and many times, a man's strength is also reflected by what kind of woman he has.
After the investment, what Lu Chong left to do was not to meddle in their specific work, but to recommend a few people to them.
One of them is the owner of the garage, Susan Wojcicki, who is also very important to Google, and it is she who has made an indelible contribution to the commercialization of Google, a company that makes 97% of its profits from the team she leads.
At that time, Google was too poor to spend a penny on promotion, so Susan had to persuade the university website to embed the Google search box for free, and at the same time make many creative logos for Google to beautify the page. These two moves have made more and more "repeat customers" in Google searches. Susan went back to pull advertisers to advertise, and then the Google Adwords platform was launched, and advertisers were able to manage their own ads, and ads would appear accordingly based on people's search terms. In addition, Susan and her team came up with a bidding model, where the higher the bid, the higher the ad position, which has become a model for many search engine ads. Finally, Google made its first pot of gold, and Google's commercialization hopes surfaced.
When Susan gave birth to her second child and everyone thought she was going to shift her focus to her family, she rushed to the top of the income pyramid with her advertising business team, eating 41% of the nation's digital advertising.
Not satisfied with the current situation of the advertising business, she began to lead everyone to do video experiments again, and in 2004, before YouTube even appeared, Google-video was born. Unfortunately, not long after, the emergence of YouTube, a "new video star", quickly accounted for 60% of the total number of online video views in the United States, forcing Google-video into an embarrassment. Just like before the merger of Didi Kuaidi, YouTube is still a competitor to Google-video, and the team members are full of morale to "kill YouTube", and Susan has a love-hate relationship with YouTube. And she found that without Google diversion, Google-video would not be far from death, so Susan decided to stop Google-video immediately and merge YouTube. Buying a company that is less than a year old, has no revenue, faces a lot of legal liability, and asks for $1.6 billion? An investor directly wrote an article saying, "A fool would buy YouTube." "What's even more devastated is the whole team of Googlevideo, who killed the red-eyed opponent two days ago, just because of Susan, they want to become colleagues who love each other? Many team members began to quit and rebel. Susan did not reverse the decision, and she firmly proposed the merger to management. In 2006, Google spent $1.65 billion to buy YouTube, paying for Googlevideo's failure. Later, YouTube has become an indispensable traffic entrance for Google.
For Google to make money and stay profitable, Susan Wojcki is indispensable and must be mined, and this depends on the efforts of Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Another person, Eric Schmidt, is the one who transformed Google from a mere search engine into a provider of various search services to enterprises and one of the largest advertising platforms on the Internet, and he tapped into Google's huge business potential, making it have a sky-high stock price of $400, $10 billion in cash reserves, and business tentacles that extend farther and farther.
Larry Page and Sergei Brin are more about technology and architecture, and the real management of the company depends on Eric Schmidt, of course, it is impossible to poach people in the first two years, only a little scale can attract people. When Schmidt came to Google, the company had only 200 employees and was just making a profit. Schmidt was introduced to Google by venture capitalists, and prior to that, he was chairman and CEO of Novell Networks. In more than two years. Schmidt has pushed the number of Google employees to more than 1,000, and its market value has grown even faster.
The most important goal of the trip to the United States has been achieved, and Lu Chong is about to return to China.