Chapter 698: Twelve Percent

Jester is also not worried that Microsoft's board of directors will reject his opinion.

In fact, being able to add Jester to their side isn't a bad thing.

Plus, you can save a lot of cash.

At this time, cash flow is the most important thing for a company, although this money is not much for Jester now, but it is for Sandy, who is now actively contacting Da Mo. Will and his newly reorganized group of Travelers are in need of a lot of money.

During this period of time, the Traveler Group is raising a large amount of money, and Jester wants to maintain his stake in the Traveler Group, but he can only continue to raise funds.

Probably only a handful of people know that Sandy. What Will's real plan is.

That is to let the Travelers Group, the hottest financial investment group on Wall Street at the moment and last year's most profitable financial investment group, merge with JPMorgan Chase, the real controller of Wall Street with a history of 100 years.

Jester is known to Sandy. Will's plan even knew the final outcome of his plan.

Finally, when the two sides talked about the final step, JPMorgan Chase rejected Sandy, for some reason. Although Voyagers Group did not have a successful merger with JPMorgan Chase, they still succeeded in merging with Citibank, which was the largest, most amazing, and most influential merger in the entire 90s.

Two behemoths that can control Wall Street have come together.

It also made Citibank the most influential financial investment group in the world at that time, pressing their old rival JPMorgan Chase.

And Sandy. Will also relied on this merger to successfully become the chairman of the board of directors of the merged Citibank, becoming the real leader of this Wall Street behemoth, and the most powerful person in the entire Wall Street, the entire United States, and even the whole world.

Jester's layout for more than ten years is for Sandy. Will's merger.

Right now. The merger plan has officially begun, for Jester, that is, the wheel of fate has begun to turn, he just needs to wait quietly, and then continue to replenish his own funds to the Traveler Group, maintain his stake in the Traveler Group, although after the merger between Traveler and Citibank, his investment will not grow much.

However, with a seat that can attend Citibank's board of directors and has a large number of voting rights. Needless to say, in the United States, and even in the whole world, he will be a pivotal figure.

However, in this way, the financial pressure on Jester is also very great.

Basically, more than seventy percent, or even eighty percent of his liquidity, is all invested in it.

MICROSOFT SEEMS TO BE REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT THE WINDOWS ISSUE, AND JESTER'S MENTION YÌ TONG GUÒ . Three days after Gates handed over to Microsoft's board of directors, Jester was met with Bill Brown. Gates personally passed on to him the answer to Microsoft's board of directors.

First of all. Microsoft's board of directors agreed with Jester's resolution.

THEY AGREED TO USE MICROSOFT'S STAKE IN EXCHANGE FOR A PORTION OF WINDOWS, BUT REJECTED JESTER'S IDEA OF ADDING 15 PERCENT OF THE SHARES.

Admittedly, Jester gave this price. It's really not low, at least a little higher than Microsoft's current stock price on the market.

HOWEVER, MICROSOFT INSISTS ON TAKING BACK THE OWNERSHIP OF WINDOWS FROM JESTER. NATURALLY, IT IS UNUSUALLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE POTENTIAL OF THIS THING, AND IT IS PREDICTABLE THAT AFTER THE RELEASE OF WINDOWS. Microsoft's stock price is about to soar sharply, so after much discussion about Jester's 15 percent share request, they didn't get through it because they couldn't reach a consensus internally.

Microsoft's board of directors offered them only eight percent of the shares.

In fact, Jester didn't want Microsoft to agree to his previous offer. Gates said he agreed, and only said that he agreed with Jester's stake in Microsoft, not the 15 percent stake he had previously claimed.

You know, 15 percent of the shares, in Microsoft is the third largest shareholder, after Bill. Gates and Paul. Allan.

This is something that a lot of people on the board would never agree with.

This was originally a sky-high asking price, sitting on the ground to pay back the money, Jester got Bill. After Gates's reply, he immediately made his second offer, adding cash to a billion dollars, still asking for 15 percent of the shares, and this billion dollars is basically the largest amount of liquidity that Jester has deposited to ensure that his shares in the Travelers Group can be used.

Of course, in Jester's eyes, the future of Citibank's shares is the most important thing for him, and Microsoft has to back down on this matter.

ALTHOUGH JESTER KNEW THAT AFTER THE RELEASE OF WINDOWS AND THE GREAT SUCCESS, MICROSOFT'S STOCK PRICE WOULD SKYROCKET TO AN INCREDIBLE LEVEL, BUT DESPITE THIS, IT WAS STILL NOT AS IMPORTANT AS CITIBANK IN JESTER'S MIND.

THE SECOND DISCUSSION TOOK A LONG TIME, BUT SEVEN DAYS IS NOT A LONG TIME COMPARED TO AN ACQUISITION OF MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS, BECAUSE WINDOWS IS SO IMPORTANT TO MICROSOFT NOW, THEY NEED TO GET IT AS MUCH AS THEY CAN, SO THEY CAN DISCUSS JESTER'S SECOND OFFER SO QUICKLY.

Otherwise, an acquisition of this caliber could take a year or even years to complete.

This time, Microsoft's answer was also a refusal, and the answer they gave was only able to agree to the 12% share application, and Microsoft obviously did not want to continue with Jester's price increase, and also made it clear that 12% of the shares was their biggest possible concession, and they would not change no matter how far Jester quoted.

Although Jester scoffed at this answer, if he added billions of dollars, presumably Microsoft's board of directors would not really refuse.

However, it is true that he can't come up with so much liquidity to do such a thing now.

Besides, Jester has never thought so much about controlling Microsoft, and it is already too much for Jester to manage a game company, let alone a high-tech company that is many times bigger than Mars Entertainment? (To be continued......)