Chapter 55: The Super Banker
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Zhou You actually dislikes such trivial affairs the most, but he and the Bolivian officials are still familiar with each other and are in the run-in stage, and the two sides are still looking for a suitable mode of getting along. Therefore, it is not good for him to show his impatience, so he regards it as a dedication.
Although Bolivia is poor, there is a lot of hope for travel. Although it is very poor, it is rich in resources, and the population is not very large, and it is still possible to develop like Chile in the future.
A country with a population of 10 million is a very suitable place for Zhou You to develop, although at this stage Zhou You attaches more importance to the DRC than here, that is because there will be a war in the DRC, and he is so good at fishing in troubled waters to develop his own power.
When it settles down, the DRC will lose its rightful place. And this country with a small population and rich resources will be regarded as its most important base.
Otherwise, he would not have built his satellite control center here.
At the end of the talks, Zhou You proposed to build an emergency response base in the southern mountains of Santa Cruz province.
At present, in Bolivia, Zhou You has built three bodyguard training camps, but most of the training is ordinary bodyguards. These bodyguards are mainly escorts for transport companies, responsible for the security role of enterprises and banks, and have trained more than 10,000 security guards and have been assigned to various corporate services.
Most of these people are recruited from Bolivia, which can be regarded as providing a lot of jobs for local employment.
After asking about the role and function of this emergency response base, Morales even agreed with some surprise, and was willing to provide comprehensive services for this base, but they also proposed a lot of terms of cooperation.
Speaking of which, Bolivia is a country that is more difficult. Like Chile, they are a country of minerals, but the Spaniards have almost dug up all their gold and silver mines.
In the war a hundred years ago, they lost a small part of their country, and even their own access to the sea. Together, they and Peru were defeated by Chile alone.
Well, forget it this time and forget it. Fifty years ago, the second largest oil field in South America after Venezuela's Maracaibo oil field was discovered in the south of Bolivia.
They thought they were going to be developed this time, but the younger brother of the south, Paraguay, with the support of the British, fought another oil war with them.
Similar to the history of China and Japan, the boss in the past was beaten by the younger brother with a blue nose and swollen face, and a world-class large oil field was robbed by the younger brother two-thirds at once.
So much so that Bolivia has since regarded Britain as an enemy, and even the world map does not print Britain as a country. Of course, there was a time when Bolivia was a blank slate on the world map.
Throughout the countries around Bolivia, with the exception of Peru in the north, which is a traditional ally, almost all of them are enemies that cannot be provoked. Brazil in the east is the largest country in South America, Paraguay in the southeast is now a hard bone, Argentina in the south is once the first power in South America, and Chile in the west is the richest country in South America.
Caught in these countries, Bolivia is a small aggrieved sufferer, and anyone can come and bully it. When they are strong, they must cooperate and shout a few times, otherwise they will be beaten.
The emergency response base was nominally a contingency army to protect the Bolivian industry, but in reality, it was a mercenary headquarters that selected the elite of the security forces.
If most of the travel is for foreigners, they may also worry about whether they will have other thoughts on the trip. But Zhou You promised that half of the mercenaries at the base would go to Bolivia, which made them not have the slightest worry.
This is equivalent to Zhou You spending money to train their troops, and they are not the slightest bit unwilling, and they are even more looking forward to the early completion of this base than Zhou You.
However, although this plan has been proposed, except for the construction of infrastructure, which can be put on the agenda, everything else will have to wait another year before it can be launched. Because in 2008, the focus of the entire security company will be in the DRC.
Yang Billy, the chief instructor who was appointed by Zhou You, was still fighting in Africa, and without him, no one could take on this heavy responsibility. Although Bernard is not inferior to Young Bili in terms of ability, it is even a little stronger. But this army travels around and does not like the Basques mixing too much.
The people he introduced were now powerful enough, and there must be a force to restrain them. Although he is also his brother-in-law, in the face of power, even Gracia cannot threaten him.
Satisfied, I left Bolivia and returned to the United States, landing directly at San Jose Airport.
Although Silicon Valley is the most resourceful place in the United States, he has rarely visited it. Because of frequent personal contacts, he often meets with the two founders of Google, as well as the leader of Joe, including the child Mark Zuckerberg.
Although Zhou You often puts forward some development ideas that make people like treasures, they are definitely not willing to let Zhou You participate too much in the management of the company.
Of course, Zhou You will not tell them that he has no interest in the management of the company, and that he only cares about the value of the shares.
This time he came to Silicon Valley for two purposes, one is to invest in Musk, and the other is to deal with the pressure of Facebook's shares.
Musk's rocket company is in Hawthorne, the southern suburb of Los Angeles, but Tesla's headquarters is on the southern slope of the Stanford campus in the core area of Silicon Valley, and Tesla's factory is in Fremont, across the Bay Area.
The U.S. Commercial Arbitration Board has not put any obstacles in the way of Tesla's investment. Musk is now only about to go bankrupt and urgently needs funds to save his life, so Zhou You intends to invest, and the two sides almost hit it off.
But for the stake in the rocket company, it is not so simple, there is no months of ripping, don't want NASA to approve it.
Therefore, this time I came to San Francisco, I only signed a shareholding agreement with Tesla.
As for Facebook's stake, this is another case of envy in the business investment of Zhou You. Since 2004, Facebook has grown rapidly in a viral way.
With the financial backing of Zhou You, Facebook's development has hardly suffered any setbacks, and the speed of development has stunned everyone.
Although Facebook is still losing money, its valuation has exceeded $10 billion, and Mark is hailed as a new generation of billionaires.
In the past three years of development, Zhou You has retained 36% of the shares except for giving up a little stake when he introduced Sean Parker, which makes the eyes of jealousy green for all investors.
Based on Facebook's market capitalization, the value of these shares would be hundreds of billions of dollars.
However, if all these shares are in the hands of Zhou You, it is almost impossible to develop to that point. Neither the U.S. cybersecurity department nor the antitrust center will allow Zhou You to own so many shares.
Under this pressure, Facebook also had to conduct a second round of funding, bringing in more institutions to share the cake.
Although Facebook's valuation is now high, Facebook's stake is still the most popular stock in the market. Because in terms of Internet investment, there is no doubt about the accuracy of Zhou You's investment vision.
Needless to say, Google and Apple have become the hegemons of the market, and their stock prices have risen again and again.
Tencent has become a big dark horse, and now the stock price has surpassed Google, chasing Apple and becoming Apple's most powerful challenger. No one could have imagined that a company that had grown on piracy would now become the most successful company because of its success in terms of market experience.
Of course, this has a lot to do with Tencent's game income, almost all the popular games in the world now, Tencent has intervened, and also directly holds shares in a number of game companies, becoming a powerful overlord.
Another reason for this is the video website in the hands of Tencent, as well as cloud services and big data. These have brought a promising future to Tencent's development, so the stock price has risen again and again.
In particular, Tencent currently holds 30% of the equity of Alipay, and Alipay has become the world's largest payment platform, which also adds a lot of glory to Tencent.
Even if the development is not particularly smooth now, the current market value has reached the level of 10 billion dollars. And Facebook, which pioneered the online social model, has a valuation of $10 billion, which is far from reaching its actual value.
So far, more than 200 individuals and institutions have sent letters of intent to Facebook. For the sake of the healthy development of Facebook, even if you don't want to, Zhou You will have to dilute some of the shares.
Silicon Valley in December has begun to get cold, watching Zhou You get off the plane in only a shirt and suit, Musk, who is wearing a down jacket, said with some envy: "You have only been in the United States for two days, and you seem to forget that it is still winter here." ”
Zhou You laughed and said, "You can't force a person who is ten times better than you to be wrapped in a thick down jacket like you." ”
Although it was only the second time they met, Zhou You and Musk both had a feeling of familiarity at first sight, and the two got along very naturally. This tyrant in his career, in the face of Zhou You, who is more successful than him, consciously or unconsciously hides his career complacency, and is more willing to show a kind of scientist's reserve in front of Zhou You.
Or, he prefers to develop a relationship with Zhou You
At Tesla's headquarters, after the signing ceremony, the photo of Zhou You shaking hands with Musk was published in the world's major media the next day.
Although Tesla is now valued at only $500 million, Zhou You, who invested $200 million, only asked for 20 percent of the shares. This investment allows everyone to see the generosity of traveling around the projects they are interested in.
Of course, there is also a major reason for Tesla's technology licensing, and Zhou You will send a technical team to completely copy Tesla's technology, and will build a Tesla factory in the mainland.
Like Tesla in the United States, Tesla in the mainland will also have 20 percent of the shares of Musk and his shareholders, and the status of the two sides will be equal.
The reason why Zhou You is so generous is because when he will inevitably use these technical teams in the future, he does not want to do one-time business, but also wants to continue the technical service.
Otherwise, knowing that Tesla will disclose some key technologies in the future, why spend so much money on traveling?
There are many manufacturers of electric vehicles in the world, but none of them can achieve an unparalleled comprehensive technical level like Tesla. Not to mention anything else, just one acceleration, which can go from a standstill to a speed of 100 kilometers per hour in less than four seconds, comparable to a supercar, which no one can compare.
Talents in the domestic automotive industry are easy to find, but they are mainly concentrated in non-core areas. Not to mention the engine, it is a gearbox, and now there is no real core technology in China.
Electric cars don't use engines anymore, but gearboxes are important. Anyway, in the impression of Zhou You, Tesla almost went bankrupt because of the gearbox problem.
signed a contract with Tesla, and the funds of Zhou You's money went directly into Tesla's account. Zhou You did not appoint any management personnel, but just asked Ma Hongtao to take on the task of liaison and send people to serve in China in the future.
For the next two days, Zhou You stayed in Menlo Park's Facebook company, and at the end of the two-day meeting, the target of the second round of financing was decided. This time, they brought in more than 20 institutions at once, giving up 10 percent of the shares.
Of these, Zhou You gave up 5 percent and received $600 million in compensation.
The front foot spent $200 million, and the back foot earned another $600 million, and the American media lamented.
However, they soon did not feel that Zhou You's money was hard to make, because the negotiations between Citibank and Wells Fargo were reached almost at the same time, and the management equity of the Tier 1 capital of the two banks was almost at the scale of more than 100 billion US dollars, and Zhou You was equivalent to investing more than 10 billion US dollars in the two banks at once.
However, some in the media began to comment sourly that the US bank was going to be surnamed Zhou.
And that's not all, just before Christmas, another bombshell news shocked everyone. JPMorgan Chase & Co. also accepted Zhouyou's conditions, agreeing to sell 5 percent of its voting shares to Zhouyou.
A 5 percent stake in each of the three banks, which is a huge investment of nearly $20 billion, and Zhou You promised that he would not use leverage to leverage funds and would buy them all out of cash.
The whole world was shocked by Zhou You's big hands, and apart from him, there was no company or individual in the world who could come up with all the cash when operating a 10 billion dollar acquisition.
Most of the world's mergers and acquisitions are based on cash plus stocks, or financing to solve the financial problem. But Zhou You took out all cash, and no one could do it except him.
In fact, there is really no shortage of funds in Zhou You's hands, and after speculation in the United States stops, the money invested in it needs to find a channel. Some of the money was his own, but more of it was financed in several banks. Originally, these funds were to be used for two years, and the interest was negotiated. Now that you don't need to travel, the bank is not willing to take it back, and the interest for two years is two billion dollars, and this business is not good.
Although Zhou You's earned more than $2 billion, the funds can't be idle in vain, so he directly invested in the United States.
So far, in addition to Citibank, three of the four major banks in the United States have also accounted for 5% of the shares. Although he does not have a bank in his hand now, the shares of these nine world-class banks have also made him the largest banker in the world.