Chapter 975: A Sharp Turn
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Wickers' decision to cancel the bundling of Cosworth and Rolls-Royce was a bolt from the blue for Ford!
They ambitiously prepared a complete feast for Lin Zheng, just waiting to concoct Lin Zheng to their heart's content, but now, when Bill. When Ford heard that Vickers Group had decided to cancel the previous bundling strategy, he scolded his mother in the office for half an hour: his hard work in the past few days has become useless!
There was a desire to protest, but before Ford and Volkswagen could communicate well, Volkswagen's rival BMW publicly expressed its high welcome and support for the Vickers Group's approach. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
If Cosworth is a tasteless and discarded chicken rib for Volkswagen, then for BMW, Cosworth is a clean chicken bone to gnaw on, there was no way before, Vickers Group insisted on bundling Cosworth and Rolls-Royce, BMW only pinched its nose and admitted, but now Vickers Group is willing to take the initiative to lift this bundling strategy, there is a stupid * willing to take over Cosworth, BMW of course welcomes it with both hands and feet.
As a result, Volkswagen is extremely embarrassed: disagree? BMW is eyeing it on the side, and the acquisition of Rolls-Royce is of great significance for Volkswagen to enhance its brand image and added value, and it must not make BMW cheap at this time; Agreeable? What about the previous agreement with Ford? Or insist on buying Cosworth and Rolls-Royce together? PiΓ«ch refused to do it.
At the critical moment, capital showed its selfish nature, and after some weighing, Volkswagen had to pinch its nose and say that although they regretted the decision of the Vickers Group, they respected the decision of the Vickers Group.
Volkswagen and BMW, which are involved in the acquisition, have already made such statements, and the next thing is simple, Tesla Motors only needs to organize a negotiation team to negotiate the price of Cosworth with Vickers.
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Ford is Ford, realizing that it is impossible to do anything, immediately withdrew the negotiation team, and at the same time sent an official letter to Lianchuang Technology in the name of the chairman's office of Ford Motor, which clearly stated that in the second random inspection, it was determined that the qualified rate of the car audio system provided by Lianchuang Technology fully met the proportion specified in the contract, and the quality of the products supplied by Lianchuang Technology to Ford was qualified, and I hope that this accident will not affect the friendship between the two parties......
Ford is so shameless, but for Lianchuang Technology, he really can't take Ford Motor: who makes Ford the largest customer of Lianchuang Technology's car audio products.
Just because he can't take Ford doesn't mean that Lin Zheng can't take other people, such as his good partner, the second largest shareholder of the Minardi team, Paul. Stoddat.
How did things come to this? Paul. Studart propped his chin and stared blankly at the opposite wall: How did it happen so much overnight? Isn't everything under Ford's control? But who can tell themselves, why is Ford, which is as high as a god's mansion, so spineless?
No way! With a keen sense of the fact that after Lin Zheng and Ford reach an agreement, they will turn the finger at their own Paul. Studart, suddenly shivered, he was really afraid of Lin Zheng, he needed to protect himself!
"What about Mr. Minardi?" Calm yourself down, Paul. Studart pressed the intercom on the table: "Inform Mr. Minardi that I have something to discuss with him." β
"I'm sorry, sir," said Paul. Studart's secretary said timidly: "Mr. Minardi is going to Seattle today, and now he is on the plane, and we can't get in touch." β
"Went to Seattle?" Paul. Studart was stunned for a moment, and then became furious: "Why didn't you tell me about such an important thing?" β
Minardi went to Seattle? What is Seattle? Lin Zheng's bastard's residence in the United States is in Seattle, and he just bought a large piece of land in Seattle to prepare to work with Bill next to Lake Washington. Gates lives next to each other, and Minardi, the bastard, is going to Seattle at this time, what else can he do but be Judas, who betrayed Jesus?
He felt like he had been betrayed by the whole world.
The secretary is wronged, you ordered me not to disturb you no matter what the circumstances......
Paul. Studdart no longer had the heart to trouble the secretary, and he already had a premonition that it would not be long before his identity in the team would be left with the word "shareholder".
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With the chagrined, angry Paul. Stuartt was different, and Minardi, who got off the plane, was in a very good mood.
Now he is especially glad that he did not take sides in the previous Cowsworth battle, and now it is time for him to reap the rewards.
Although he was in a good mood, Minardi still maintained considerable respect for Lin Zheng, the driver who came to greet him at the airport in person.
Xiao Ding's attitude was always very respectful, and he politely said to Minardi: "Sir, Mr. Lin originally planned to come in person, but there was something temporary, and he asked me to convey his apologies." β
Although he knew that Xiao Ding said so, Lin Zheng would definitely be "something" even if he was fine, but since he was able to take the initiative to come, it meant that he didn't care about this, and said politely: "Mr. Lin is really polite." β
Xiao Ding picked up an envelope from the dashboard and handed it to Minardi: "Mr. asked me to give this thing to you." β
The envelope was not sealed, and when I opened the envelope, Minardi trembled excitedly: $100,000?!
$100,000 is not a big amount, but for Minardi who has been losing money all year round and has to be careful about every penny, this is already a considerable amount of money...... The team's two drivers earn a slightly higher salary, one at $250,000 and the other at $200,000.
Don't think that all F1 drivers have an annual salary of millions of dollars, in fact, in addition to the leading drivers of those top teams, the drivers of the teams ranked fifth in the team have an annual salary of less than $1 million, because the popularity is not loud enough, there are not many endorsement contracts that can be obtained, and it is very good to have a year's income of $2 million on the books, and then remove the share of endorsement fees to the team, the share to the agent, and the tax paid to the state, and the driver who earns 2 million a year, The net amount that falls into the wallet will not exceed 800,000. Of course, $800,000 a year in net income is enough to make the vast majority of people blush.
$100,000 is nothing to Lin Zheng, and even Xiao Ding doesn't think much of it, but for Minaldi, it's a huge amount of money almost equivalent to his annual income - because of the team's unsatisfactory performance, Minardi doesn't have many opportunities to make extra money.
Tremblingly, he put the envelope in his pocket, took a deep breath, and asked Xiao Ding in a deep voice, "What does the boss want me to do?" β
"It's good to cooperate with Cosworth to do a good job of matching and debugging the vehicle and the power system."
Xiao Ding's words were very ordinary, but Minardi nodded heavily and said, "Please rest assured, if he has any ideas for the construction of the team, I will do my best to support it." β
The boss read that right, this guy is really a smart guy. Thinking of the boss's evaluation of Minardi, Xiao Ding couldn't help muttering two sentences in his heart: They are all partners, why is that Paul. Stoddart's brain is so bad?
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Lin Zheng is really something, not perfunctory Minaldi, because this time he has a big deal: Warren Buffett took the initiative to come to the door, hoping to hold the shares of 2 ICQ, and took the initiative to open the price to 200 million US dollars, in other words, the stock god believes that the current ICQ is a company with a market value of 10 billion US dollars.
Buffett's request made Lin Zheng very embarrassed.
There is no doubt that with Buffett's influence in the American financial, political and banking circles, once the news of Buffett's acquisition of ICQ's shares in ICQ Company 2 for $200 million spreads, this will become ICQ's biggest advertisement, which will play a huge role in promoting ICQ's next listing, but the problem is that Lin Zheng only prepared 15 shares for this IPO, and there is nothing to do.
The previous 15 has already delineated the scope, and there is no way to move at all, and the only way to sell to the stock god 2 is to expand the proportion of shares in the IPO from 15 to 17, but this is also a big trouble: it is necessary to re-file the application with the US securities regulator, so that the original listing time will be postponed.
"Lin, I understand your hesitation, but trust me, I'll help you with it from the securities regulatory department," Buffett on the phone laughed loudly: "Also, young man, I heard that you are now buying Cosworth?" After this news spreads, it should be a very good impetus for the negotiations between you and the Vickers Group, right? β
Lin Zheng nodded with a wry smile, he admitted that the words of the stock god were right, once the stock god thought that ICQ was now worth more than 10 billion US dollars, the Vickers Group, which was still procrastinating and ready to knock out more ICQ shares from Tesla cars, would inevitably finalize the contract at the speed of a dog grabbing bones: no one is stupid these days, right?
As a last resort, Lin Zheng had no choice but to nod: "Okay, I'll think of a way." β
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