The two sides barely reached some unwritten consensus in this meeting, and although it was not very satisfactory, at least there was hope that it might be improved.

By the next day, Lowell and the others had already returned to North America, and after he returned, he had a personal call with Randall, the head of AT&T Group, for the first time.

After learning about the general situation, the head of AT&T asked directly: "How can Ansys be willing to cooperate with Luo Sheng and help him develop CFD talents?" It doesn't seem likely, and the Ansys board of directors will never say yes. ”

Lowell said expressionlessly: "Of course it is impossible to tell them, there is only one way to do it, and that is to personally sit on the board of directors of Ansys and take control of the company to vote." ”

Randall: "You mean a hostile merger ......"

Lowell nodded affirmatively: "United Wall Street to short Ansys stocks, and gradually realize control of Ansys, you and I have the big head, and several other technology giants have also to help, Ansys's performance is excellent, and the $23 billion plate still needs a little price to short, and at the same time, it also has to secretly acquire the shares of some small and medium-sized shareholders." ”

Randall did not object, after all, whose interests are cared for, and the losses of the major operators in North America are the most intuitive, so the big head must be drawn in terms of cost, but the final benefit is also a big head.

It's just that poor Ansys still doesn't know that it has been used as a bargaining chip by the bigwigs to give to Luo Sheng.

After a while, Lowell asked, "How's the matter going on your side?" Did it go well? ”

Randall replied: "I have personally visited the Koch brothers the day before yesterday, and they have expressed their willingness to contribute to provide the necessary support behind the scenes, and the general interests are unanimous, and it is unlikely that the Koch brothers will regret it." ”

Hearing this, Lowell's spirits lifted: "Great, with the support of the Koch brothers behind the scenes, the certainty of success in this matter has greatly increased." ”

The Koch brothers, this name is a notorious name in the eyes of the North American public, if there is anyone else in the world today who can compete with Luo Sheng in wealth, I am afraid that only the Koch brothers have the strength to fight.

This name is the real richest man in North America, and his wealth actually surpasses Buffett and Gates and other familiar names.

Koch Industries is the second largest unlisted company in North America, spanning finance, energy, chemistry, agriculture and animal husbandry and other major fields, just as no one knows how much the real wealth of the Luo Sheng family is, and the outside world also does not know how much the real wealth of the Koch brothers is.

The most powerful thing about Koch Industries is that all its expansion is rolled out of its own profits, not through public financing, and just rolled out a business empire with annual revenues of hundreds of billions of dollars.

The Koch brothers are richer than Buffett and Gates, because the Koch brothers' money is not virtual wealth, not the valuation of corporate capital, but real cash and profits of two or three billion dollars a year, which are all real money.

Since it is a private company, no one knows how many assets Koch Industries has today, and its profits do not need to be distributed to shareholders and shareholders, all of which go into the pockets of the Koch brothers.

For super-rich people like Gates and Buffett, their wealth is too much, and they have very little cash at their disposal, and if they sell a lot of stocks in exchange for cash, it will inevitably cause the company's market value to plummet, and their own worth will also shrink.

Luo Sheng's worth is actually supported by the market value of Bluestar Technology, but no matter how large Luo Sheng's wealth is, it can't stand his terrifying base, no matter how much it is squeezed, it is also a terrifying scale of hundreds of billions of dollars, and Luo Sheng's family fund is hundreds of billions of dollars in cash alone.

But the Koch brothers are obviously not inferior, and now they are rolling in profits of more than 20 billion US dollars every year, and this kind of earning power has lasted for five or six years, and these profits are all exclusive.

If Koch Industries goes public, the market value will have to go up to $400 billion, and this is all owned by the Koch brothers, and there are no outside shareholders and shareholders to share with them.

In terms of wealth, the Koch brothers may not be as good as Luo Sheng, but in terms of the influence of the North American elite, the Koch brothers are completely incomparable to Luo Sheng.

The Koch Group's influence in the United States is beyond any ordinary person's imagination, and the Koch brothers have extended their tentacles to the federal courts of North America, Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency, state courts, and the Commodity Futures Trading Association.

The energy tycoon Raymond Tusk in "House of Cards" is based on the Koch brothers, but the real Koch brothers have a more terrifying influence in the United States.

In fact, the current wave of scalping in the Mexican market, the sudden speculation of futures trading, has the shadow of the Koch brothers behind it.

The profits here are so great that everyone wants to get a piece of the pie.

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On the other hand, after meeting with Lowell and others, Luo Sheng said hello to Yao Jianhong about this matter, as the No. 2 real power task of the Cote d'Azur company, the main affairs are Yao Jianhong presiding over the operation, this matter naturally has to be talked to him, otherwise the work behind will not be carried out, and he will not be able to be a good shopkeeper.

"Mr. Luo, do you think companies like Verizon and Qualcomm will really ...... Or can we balance what Ansys gives us what we want? ”

In Luo Sheng's office, the company's No. 1 and No. 2 people were discussing this matter, and when he heard Yao Jianhong's words, Luo Sheng directly asked, "Is this important?" If you pick it up cheaply, I won't lose it, right? The Mexican scalping wave continues to create greater profits, and whether Ansys succeeds or fails, we all make money, it's just a matter of making more and making less. ”

Yao Jianhong nodded and smiled: "That's the same." ”

Luo Sheng analyzed: "The breadth and depth of my influence in North America are limited, and I can't judge how big the success rate is, but one thing can be 100% confirmed, that is, Lowell's gang will definitely try their best to meet my requirements, because only by meeting my requirements, they can recover their losses and even make money, and the two are linked." ”

Whose interests are concerned, Lowell's gang is not only helping Luo Sheng, but also helping themselves, so they are not worried at all that Lowell's gang will play a set of dramas on the surface and behind them.

Luo Sheng said with a smile: "More importantly, Qualcomm these companies can no longer afford to lose a big customer like the Cote d'Azur, let alone lose the Greater China market, this is not as simple as losing a customer and a little market share, what is lost may be an era, they know the stakes, but they don't know the king." ”

Yao Jianhong nodded slowly: "It makes sense." ”

It's no wonder that the Silicon Valley tech community and the king of understanding are not dealing with each other.

Now that Wang is so aggressive, it makes North American high-tech companies angry, and they are even more nervous, especially Qualcomm and IBM are among the representatives.

Losing the Côte d'Azur is not just about losing orders, these high-tech companies in North America now attach great importance to performance, because whether it is a leapfrog breakthrough or iterative progress in the research and development of technology, they have to keep throwing money into it, and they need to invest a lot of prepaid sunk capital, which requires strong performance to cover the bottom.

Luo Sheng is now constantly investing in technology research and development, and high-tech companies in North America dare not relax, and they can't stop Luo Sheng from taking the road of self-development, so they can only follow the investment to ensure that they can be in a leading position.

The previous president gave a trillion-dollar stimulus plan, and he didn't say anything about it, and he made a mess for you, and there were competitors on the Cote d'Azur and Plough for these competitors outside, and there was no scum left that might be eaten if few decisions were lost.

The outside world doesn't know that the current North American high-tech companies are walking on thin ice, they charge high technology patent fees, and the outside world only sees how profitable they are, and then compare the Cote d'Azur or Plough for these companies to not charge or less patent fees at all, and even open source directly does not make money and feels incomprehensible.

That's because the Cote d'Azur has no pressure to survive at all, but is in a period of rapid expansion, and it has not yet reached the time to kill, of course, it is to serve the territory expansion of this huge business empire.

Qualcomm and IBM, North American high-tech companies that lie down and collect patent fees, are now happy to count money on the surface, but in fact they are very nervous inside, and in order to maintain their monopoly position, they must be very careful to control it, and they must prevent the Cote d'Azur and Plough from catching up with these competitors.

It was not easy to maintain a good monopoly ecosystem, but as soon as Wang came up, he disrupted all of you, and frantically sent assists to Luo Sheng, and the mentality of the North American technology giants has not collapsed is already very strong.

These North American high-tech companies have invested so much R&D expenses and purchased a large amount of equipment, you know that Wang will not give food in one sentence, even if it is repaired again in the future, but the customer has determined that it is lost, and the income will decrease, which will inevitably lead to a decrease in R&D investment, and finally a slowdown or even stagnation of technological progress.

At the same time, competitors are playing catch-up.

In this era of rapid iterative development of high-tech, technology companies are actually insecure, because you may open your eyes one day and tell you that your technology has been overtaken and your company is in decline.

Not to mention how dangerous it is for a technology company to stagnate the development of technology, even if the progress is slow, it is dangerous, and once the speed of progress cannot catch up with the progress of the opponent, it is backward.

In the context of iterative development of technology, as long as enterprises have sufficient funds to grind time, they will be able to make breakthroughs, the rise of Huawei in the past two decades is an example, and the lightning rise of the Cote d'Azur in the past ten years is a textbook-like paradigm.

Of course, the success of Huawei and Bluestar Technology is also based on the premise that the quality of China's population is higher than that of North America, and it also dares to invest in human capital, and there is a rise that does not make money for five years or even longer.

Qualcomm's biggest fear now is that the king of understanding will let him run out of stock, okay, Qualcomm's revenue has plummeted, which will affect the scale of R&D investment, and ultimately affect the iterative progress of technology.

On the contrary, Huawei's baseband chip may therefore obtain an almost explosive incremental investment, Qualcomm people do not doubt that once this kind of thing really happens, Luo Sheng will inevitably make up his mind to personally spend money crazy kryptonite Lens Semiconductor, so that Huawei can accelerate the baseband chip out, he has enough capital to provide prepaid capital for the research and development of Lens Semiconductor's baseband chip, and fully cover the risk of research and development.

The speed of competitors taking off is accelerating, but the speed of their own progress is slowing down, and what will happen to Qualcomm after that?

No matter how this account is calculated, it cannot be said that the loss of a little market share can be made up for in the short term, and what is lost is likely to be an era, and finally slapped to death on the beach by the tide of the times.

Such a thing, the North American tech giants dare not bet on? Can't afford to lose! It is moving forward cautiously.

Qualcomm understands it, and the technology giants in Silicon Valley can all see it, but the worst thing is that the tsundere understands that Wang can't understand it, and Wang Wang, who was born in trading and made a fortune by real estate finance, doesn't understand the significance of technology accumulation and iteration and technology ecosystem at all, and he doesn't know that once the ecology is destroyed, it may be lost forever, and if you want to take it back, you have to start from scratch.

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(End of chapter)