. New york city.

D-wave's New York office, small meeting room.

Shi Lei made it clear that he wanted to acquire D-wave with a domineering attitude, which made everyone in the conference room stunned for a moment.

Xiao Bo smiled bitterly in his heart, he originally estimated that according to Shi Lei's shrewdness, he would not express his thoughts so frankly, so as not to be at a disadvantage in the negotiation.

But this is the case, Shi Lei bluntly expressed that he wanted to acquire D-wave company.

The three personnel of D-wave all looked at Shi Lei with joy. Although they predicted from the beginning that Dream Entertainment might acquire D-wave, they didn't expect that Shi Lei would say it directly.

"Mr. Shi, do you dream of an entertainment company and want to buy our D-wave company?" D-wave President Hoyt. Vandenberg asked in a requisitive manner.

Hoyt didn't mistake Shi Lei's title this time, his tone was full of courtesy, and his eyes looked at Shi Lei longingly, which made Shi Lei a little uncomfortable.

"Mr. Vandenberg, how much are you going to sell D-wave?" Shi Lei asked.

Hoyt is the absolute controlling shareholder of D-wave, holding 75 percent of the shares, and he can decide the fate of D-wave.

As for Vice President Santeford and Technical Director Walter, although they occupy 25% of the shares, they have no way to influence D-wave's decision-making, only the right to make suggestions, but not the right to make decisions.

D-wave is not a publicly traded company and is not traded on the stock market. Therefore, it is not possible to achieve a wholly-owned controlling stake in D-wave through the stock market, just like sniping at AMD.

Hoyt. As the president of D-wave, Vandenberg didn't really like the company. President Hoyt only acts as a funder. Vice President Santeford is also a capital partner, and the real founder of D-wave is Walter Brown, director of technology. Smith.

The development path of D-wave clearly illustrates the essence of the two presidents who do not love D-wave. D-wave is so fond of boasting about advertising that the computer technology industry disagrees with the company, and even dislikes it.

Hoyt. Vandenberg did not answer Shi Lei's question, but asked: "Mr. Shi, you dream of an entertainment company, at what price are you going to buy our D-wave company?" ”

Vice President Santford said on the side: "Mr. Shi, our D-wave company is the world's most advanced technology company for the development and production of quantum computers. Our company has come up with a quantum computer that is officially commercially available. As the mainstream of the development of technology in the future. Quantum computers have better performance than electronic computers, and you should know this very well, Mr. Shi, right? ”

Technical Director Walter. Smith's brow furrowed slightly. Didn't say anything. He didn't like the way the company was growing, especially the nonsense. This is not Walter's style at all.

Walter. Smith is not very savvy with the business side of things. The reason why he came to the negotiations this time was that Walter's idea was very simple, that is, D-wave would get a lot of R&D funds by joining the local tyrant Dream Entertainment.

At present, Walter is already very unhappy with the problem of R&D funding. A lot of the time. What R&D and experiments Walter planned to do, D-wave could not come up with the corresponding R&D funds.

In fact, Hoyt and Santford cannot be blamed for this, because the two of them invested in D-wave as investors. It's not that I have any hobbies for quantum computers, but that I want to make money!

Capital investment, just to get more capital!

Shi Lei looked at Hoyt and Santford with a smile, and said, "Mr. Hoyt, Mr. Santford, the evaluation department of our dream entertainment company has made an evaluation of your D-wave company. Your company's current market value, including brand value, is only about $12 million. ”

Dream Entertainment's appraisal department did evaluate D-wave, but not $12 million, but $22 million.

Shi Lei does have problems with negotiation skills, but Shi Lei is not a fool, how can he not understand anything?

President Hoyt immediately retorted: "Mr. Shi, please forgive me for my rudeness, the evaluation department of your dream entertainment company is unfair to our company!" The market value of our company, according to our company's internal assessment, is about $100 million. ”

Vice President Santefort also helped: "That's right! Mr. Shi, we are the only manufacturer in the world that has officially commercialized quantum computers, which is completely incomparable to other concept companies. ”

Shi Lei sneered in his heart, Hoyt and Santford, really think he is Kaizi, do you want to slaughter him?

"It looks like we can't talk about it anymore!" Shi Lei stood up directly, ready to leave the small conference room of D-wave Company.

Hoyt and Santefort were stunned again, isn't negotiation just a process of bargaining? Shi Lei, this guy, doesn't play cards according to reason at all!

Just like Hoyt, Santefu and Shi Lei playing landlords together, when Hoyt came out with four twos, Shi Lei directly played five nines. There is only one deck of cards, how did you get five nines?

When Hoyt and Santford understood Shi Lei's five nines, that is, Shi Lei said straight to the point that he wanted to buy D-wave company, the two of them came out with a new card of three, four, five, six, seven, and Shi Lei directly played five seven or eight JK, which was completely a game that did not follow the rules of the game.

How can you not bargain in business negotiations?

"Mr. Shi, please wait, if you are not satisfied with our price, you can tell us what you think of Dream Entertainment Company." Hoyt hurriedly stopped Shi Lei, for fear that Shi Lei would really just leave.

D-wave is in the hands of Hoyt and Santford, and it's out of the game!

The D-wave company of later generations is indeed facing a rhythm that cannot be played. Because, the quantum computer produced by D-wave is completely unpopular with the rhythm. Only in 2013 did NASA buy a quantum computer in partnership with Google. That's fifteen million dollars in revenue.

This is the first time in D-wave's history that a commercial product of a quantum computer has been sold.

Shi Lei, who was retained, did not sit down immediately, but just turned to look at Hoyt and Santefu, and said: "President Hoyt, Vice President Santefu, you have no intention of selling D-wave company, why do you want to talk about it again?" ”

Hoyt hurriedly said, "We do have plans to sell D-wave, Mr. Shi, we can talk about it in detail." ”

"President Hoyt. Please forgive me for my rudeness. First, your D-wave quantum computer is not officially commercialized. The quantum computer you guys came up with this year is just an experimental model, right? Your external publicity is officially commercial. Just for the company's publicity needs. We dream entertainment companies know this very well. Second. How much is your company worth? We at Dream Entertainment also know very well that your false prices are meaningless. ”

Shi Lei paused and continued: "If you have the sincerity to sell the company, give me a final offer directly. You, D-wave, are not our only choice. Acquisition of D-wave Corporation. It's not that I'm optimistic about your company, it's just that I'm bored! ”

Such a hairy reason once again stunned the three personnel of D-wave Company!

Even Xiao Bo couldn't confirm for a while whether Shi Lei really wanted to acquire D-wave. Or as Shi Lei said, it's just boring.

Hoyt's expression was uncertain, and he didn't know whether what Lu Dao Shi Lei said was true or false. 'Oops! How should this damn bastard be responded? If this bastard is really just bored and playing, our price is too high, and according to his previous attitude, I'm afraid we really can't sell it to him! ’

Sunteford coughed lightly and pushed the phone to Hoyt, and on the phone screen, on the text draft interface, Sunteford entered the price of $30 million.

Hoyt thought about it for a while, accepted the price, and said to Shi Lei: "Mr. Shi, our final offer is 30 million US dollars!" ”

Shi Lei didn't say a word, took out the checkbook of the overseas account of the Swiss bank, signed a check on it, and then put it on the conference table.

Hoyt and Santford had smiles on their faces.

However, the next moment, their smiles froze, and Shi Lei broke their illusions and said: "Two million US dollars, accept this price, and start the process of equity transfer agreement today." If you don't accept it, I don't bother to play with you! I'm going to inspect AMD, and I'm not interested in delaying with you for too long. ”

Hoyt and Santford glanced at each other, both looking hesitant. Walter, the director of technology, suddenly spoke: "Mr. Shi, if you acquire D-wave, will you invest sufficient R&D funds?" ”

Shi Lei glanced at Walter and said with an arrogant expression: "It depends on whether D-wave is worth investing in!" ”

Walter assured: "Mr. Shi, I can assure you that your investment will be worth it!" I'm the Director of Technology at D-wave, and I understand the potential of quantum computer technology! If the funds are sufficient, my R&D progress will be faster! I just need to have enough R&D funds, and I don't want to focus too much on other things! ”

Hoyt and Santford looked at Walter angrily, Walter was 'flattering' at Dream Entertainment in disguise, and his subtext was: 'If the acquisition fails, he can join Dream Entertainment, and only needs sufficient R&D funds!' ’

Shi Lei laughed a few times, looked at Hoyt and said, "President Hoyt, think about the time in ten seconds." Ten seconds later, I'm not interested in you D-wave anymore! ”

In the face of the strong Shi Lei, Hoyt and Santford were completely defeated, and chose to accept Shi Lei's conditions, lest Walter, the director of technical skills, run away with Shi Lei, and their D-wave company would become a complete empty shell.

Over the next two days, Xiao Bo followed three executives from D-wave back to Burnaby, Ghana, to handle D-wave's equity deal.

Dream Entertainment has not announced this acquisition to the public for the time being, and Shi Lei plans to postpone it for a while. Because, it's June 9th, and Dream Entertainment's player event in New York City is about to begin.

Gabriel and Shi Lei's joint show is also about to be staged....

(To be continued......)

PS: [Apologies] May Day is too busy, and the name of the previous chapter is wrong.

【HK990 name change】Gabriel's calculation!