Chapter 546: Fishing in Troubled Waters
Tang Dynasty. Valentine, the father of venture capital in Silicon Valley and one of the Big Four, is in close proficent relationship with Arthur. Locke, John. Doerr and Vinod. Kos is also known as the "Four Emperors!" After graduating from Fordham University, he joined Raytheon and then joined National Semiconductor, which gave him a wealth of experience and vision.
In 1972, he gave up his years of work to set up Sequoia Capital, which later became a leader in the investment world, and invested in hundreds of companies, including Apple Computer in the computer revolution, Oracle Corporation, a database company, and Internet companies such as Cisco.
When Steve Jobs and his friends were in the garage, he personally drove a dazzling Mercedes Benz to meet them, and he didn't let go of this investment that later brought him hundreds of millions of dollars, which is also a good story.
Of course, Tang Dao prefers to call this the dog's nose of capital!
Such a person, born with a sense of smell, who else can succeed if he doesn't succeed?
In order to show respect, Tang Dao personally went to the door of the Hilton to greet him, a dashing Mercedes-Benz luxury car parked at the door, opened the door, and a spirited old man came down from above, it should also be an old man, Valentine, who was born in the 30s, is close to 70 years old, but wealth makes his body full of health, wearing simple casual clothes, but his figure is slightly fat.
When he saw Tang Dao, he laughed happily, shook hands with him, and then hugged him, his voice was hoarse, "It's a pleasure to meet you, the king of war in Africa!" ”
This kind of ridiculous nickname is privately called Tang Dao by Wall Street management, and it can only be said that he is bold when he calls it like Valentine.
But Tang Dao smiled happily on his face, what is this? He's a mean, shameless and self-serving capitalist himself, and all his nicknames are more of a compliment to himself, isn't he? Earth Dogs!
The two seem to have known each other for a long time, and they almost held each other's hands, but this scene was still seen by many guests in the hotel.
No matter where they are, the rich are always the ones people are most worried about, so when they saw Valentine and Tang Dao, the faces of some insiders were very excited and excited, and they were ready to lean over, but they were blocked by the bodyguards.
"Mr. Valentine." A man with a camera shouted at him, and Valentine looked over and saw that the other party was very excited and said, "Can I take a picture with you?" ”
Valentine nodded politely and motioned for the bodyguards to let him in.
Tang Dao stood next to him very consciously, looking at the other party's group photo, smiling the whole time, and after the other party left satisfied, Tang Dao said with a smile, "Mr. Valentine, you are more popular than Hollywood stars, if you go to act, it will definitely be a box office appeal." ”
He still has a lot of respect for this old man, and people with ability are respected everywhere.
Moreover, Tang Dao also wants to find an ally on Wall Street, and even the exchange of interests is not bad, think about the five major hooligans, think about it carefully, why do everyone scold each other, but there is less in the sale of weapons? The cat in it is so boring that it makes people think deeply, of course, Tang Dao doesn't want to do so much, it's not good to know too much.
Anyway, if you have money, you have to earn it together.
The two went upstairs, and at this time, Jack, who had not rested when he heard the movement. Kennedy and Charlie were also standing at the door, the former obviously had a good relationship with each other, and they also gave a closet salute, and the latter shook hands politely.
"All of you Boston are here? Looks like you're planning a big one? Valentine laughed, still shaking.
Jack shook his head and said with a smile, "What's the big business?" It's not easy to do it now, so I will follow Nicholas to do some small business. He said and looked at Tang Dao, if the female writer was here, she could give them the whole millions of words of affection and love...
Tang Dao laughed, the corners of his mouth raised, and there was a little bit of the taste of the dragon. (Same as me!) )。
Invite Valentine into the room and say, the room space for tens of thousands of dollars a night is moderate, and there is also a small living room, Tang Dao raised his hand to signal Valentin to sit down, and he went to the sofa by himself, knocking on Erlang's leg, and the fingers were knocking on each other, "I have been longing for Mr. Valentin for a long time, of course, I said that I want to see you." ”
"Hahahaha."
Several people laughed, and Valentine spoke very casually, "But you don't come to me, obviously, I miss you more than you miss me." With that, he laughed to himself.
"I was going to see you at the Wall Street gala, but I didn't expect you to come in person, if you need to, you can call me and I can go to you." Tang Dao is a mouthful, you are still very useful, at least this young man is not as arrogant as the legend, Valentin has more than one person said that the other party's business in Africa is almost monopolized, of course, except for those hooligans, it is difficult for private arms dealers to confront him, so he can only reluctantly accept the proposal to work together.
This was actually a decision made by Mister at the beginning of his tenure as head of Africa, and of course, the decision-makers of this approach were think tanks!
The savior company only has Soviet goods, which is obviously not good, for many buyers with special fetishes, such sellers are too selective, and at this time, many outsiders who can not open the market are forced in, so if it continues, the market share will definitely be reduced, so he found a few more representative outsiders to cooperate.
A weapon, the savior charges a fee of one percent! That is to say, for example, a Steyr-Manliscya AUG automatic rifle worth 3,100 US dollars produced in Austria, the savior will take 31 US dollars, of course, only some mercenaries are willing to buy this kind of high-priced goods, poor people, who is so lavish?
In this way, the think tank protects the interests of the Savior Corporation in Africa.
Of course, it's not that no one has thought of going straight to the buyer, skipping the middleman, hehe, that's Africa! Business is not only about the immediate reluctance, but also the saliva of lions and hyenas.
In Africa, their savior is the hegemon!
Valentine waved his hand, so that Tang Dao didn't need to be so polite, "I just want to meet you, of course, if you need to invest, I'm glad." ”
"Of course you do!" Tang Dao also said bluntly.
"Oh? How much does it cost? Valentine's eyes lit up, is there a bonus?
Tang Dao saw that he was so excited, so he stretched out his finger, "1 billion US dollars? ”
"Uh..." Valentine suddenly had difficulty speaking, he was rich, but it was worth, not a flow of funds, if he took out so much money at once, he would have to sell some of it, he suddenly didn't want to talk, and wanted to change the subject.
Tang Daoxing probably saw his stubbornness, so he hurriedly said, "Of course, I don't have any idea of selling my shares now, and I'm still waiting for the day when he goes public." ”
Valentine was also quick to answer, "When the time comes, I will definitely give you financing." ”
Are Wall Street people so hypocritical?
Finally, Valentine said what he really meant, he took a sip of his coffee and sat up straight, "Actually, I'm here to buy Yahoo shares from you." ”
Sure enough, I fell in love with this.
"$100 million, I want all of your shares."
"I'm sorry, Mr. Valentine, I don't have that idea, I don't think I'm short of money at the moment."
This golden rooster is about to lay eggs, how can it be let go.
Valentine also knew that the other party would not agree, and sighed, "It's a pity, I'm fine, but you have to be careful of others, there are too many people on Wall Street whose methods are not clean." ”
"I believe in the law here." Tang Dao still said so calmly, with a little dimple on his face.
He believes that the law here will not sentence the death penalty for killing, Tang Dao likes unclean places, too clean, this is too fake, he is soft in everything, that is, the physical attack is very hard, and this bone is still there.
Moreover, Valentine is so good that he came specifically to talk about it?
I'm afraid I want to watch the show.
This old man wants to fish in troubled waters.
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