Chapter 310 The ambition of the snake swallowing the elephant
Thinking about it, I fell asleep unconsciously.
After getting up the next day, I had a buffet breakfast in the hotel restaurant. Linda Yun told me that the new house had been tidied up overnight, the home appliances would be brought in today, and a few professional servants would be temporarily hired.
then.
Su Yehao decided to take a look at the new house again. He spent a total of more than four million US dollars and still continued to invest. It was full of freshness.
Return to the small town of Atherton again.
On the narrow road, supercars and luxury cars pass by from time to time, some of which are accompanied by bodyguards.
The house is hidden behind lush trees, and the environment is open and quiet.
A hundred years ago, this was just a quiet little village, but now it has become a gathering place favored by billionaires. Anyone you meet on the roadside may have a net worth of over 100 million. The local median house price exceeds 2 million US dollars.
You must know that the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar in this era is still very strong.
Even Manhattan, New York, looks weak compared to a small town like this where the super rich gather together.
The newly purchased house by Su Yehao is very nice, but it is not the best property in the area. After he visited the inside and outside and stood on the terrace looking into the distance, he pointed to a house with a red roof and asked
: "Whose house belongs to it? It seems very big?"
The real estate agent who came over after receiving the news and was standing next to him laughed after reading:
"It's really big. The yard is about 50% larger than yours. There are eleven rooms in total, and it has almost perfect British-style decoration. I just sold it to an anonymous buyer in October last year, and I guess I will sell it again soon.
If you are interested, I will let you know when the time comes."
After hearing this, Su Yehao asked curiously: "Anonymous buyer? How do you know it will be sold again?"
"...This is an almost open secret. I can only tell you that it is registered in the name of a young girl. There are rumors that Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, often comes to visit."
It was said to be a secret, but in order to get closer to Su Yehao, the real estate agent still put on a "trust me" attitude, smiled, nodded gently, and continued:
"But Paul Allen hasn't been here for two or three months, and the hostess of the house is currently living with a male model. They definitely can't afford the high property taxes. They are not really rich like you.
people."
Paul Allen.
This playboy, who has never been married and is also worth more than 10 billion US dollars, bought a young girl a house worth more than 6 million US dollars. You can guess the story without saying much.
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Just listen to gossip.
Su Yehao shrugged and said: "It's nice to have a beautiful neighbor, but I won't buy another house. I have a house worth 60 million US dollars in Hong Kong City, and I also own a lot of land. I just want to live there when I come here to do business."
It’s just comfortable.”
"...Sixty million US dollars? Wow, isn't that more than the most expensive property in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles? Asians are really crazy and very rich."
The real estate agent saw a car approaching and went downstairs to help receive it.
The house was not tidied up yesterday, so their company provided garden care and swimming pool cleaning services as a gift, and also helped prepare a set of exquisite porcelain, produced by JDZ.
Everyone in their profession knows that rich people like to hang out together, and the friends of rich people are often very rich.
Therefore, we try our best to provide the best quality service in order to help introduce more customers. Judging from the strength Su Yehao has shown, he deserves to be taken seriously by them.
The house is clean.
There are still very few things and it looks extremely neat. The bookshelves in the private library are still empty. At night, people took apart the crystal chandelier, wiped it one by one and put it back together again.
Finding that the workers would continue to be busy, Su Yehao went out first, heading to the windy sand road where venture capital companies gathered, and looked for the office of the McKinsey consulting firm that he had worked with.
A middle-aged Jew named Adrian was responsible for receiving Su Yehao, and Linda Yun, who acted as assistant and translator, accompanied him.
She had taught Su Yehao English before, so of course she knew what his level was. He could chat normally, but often had to guess. English words had different meanings. If you didn't know, you just didn't know. You would inevitably need help from a translator.
Sitting in the VIP room.
Su Yehao held the coffee cup in his hand, crossed his legs, and said: "My father is a client of your company and is handling a project worth 500 million U.S. dollars in China. However, it is the responsibility of McKinsey Harbor City Branch, but it is still considered to be related to you.
Over intersection."
It’s not that he likes to talk about how rich he is and show off his strength unscrupulously.
The main reason is that in Silicon Valley, where I am unfamiliar with my life, it will be difficult for others to take me seriously if I don’t show off.
really.
When Adrian heard these words, he immediately became energetic, became more serious, and said with a smile: "No matter which country they are in, as long as they are our clients of McKinsey, we will definitely provide the best service. In the past few years, I worked in
I have been working in Singapore for half a year, who is your father...maybe I have dealt with him?"
No matter how you listen to this sentence, it sounds like you are checking your household registration.
For companies such as corporate services, it is common to dislike the poor and love the rich. Everyone is competing for high-quality big customers, and the service fees have been reduced again and again. If they are replaced by ordinary small individual customers, it is normal if they are too lazy to receive them.
Su Yehao glanced at Linda Yun.
Linda Yun helped introduce: "The chairman of Casino Sihai International Group, Mr. Su Sihai, is my boss's father, and it is his family business."
When he heard this, Adrian was surprised because he had actually come into contact with her at a yacht party in Singapore.
We found the connection by beating around the bush, talked passionately for a while, and then got down to business.
Adrian asked Su Yehao: "I want to know, what can our company do for you?"
"ICQ. I am a businessman. I have become the seventh largest shareholder of Yahoo and may soon become the sixth. In addition to investing, I am also engaged in entrepreneurship in the Internet field. Recently, the ICQ chat software company wants to acquire my project.
But I want to acquire them even more, so I hope you, McKinsey, can collect all the information about ICQ for me."
Su Yehao struggled for a while before going to bed last night, and thought about it again after getting up this morning.
When he discovered that by spending more than 300 million, he would have the opportunity to become the world's largest instant messaging software service provider, there was nothing left to hesitate about.
If ICQ is acquired at a price of 350 million U.S. dollars, calculated based on 7 million active users and spread equally to each user, it will cost 50 U.S. dollars.
The cost of acquiring customers is too high and it has been unable to make profits. This is one of the main reasons why ICQ’s valuation is too low.
It seems expensive, but it is cheaper than TAT's current cost of accumulating users. The cost of acquiring customers can be diluted as users increase, so it doesn't matter if the initial cost is higher.
Moreover, it can eliminate the obstacles on the road of expansion in one fell swoop, and obtain the patents owned by ICQ Company, together with the patents of TAT and TVT, to create a barrier and make it more difficult for peers to imitate.
To take a step back, it is only more than 300 million U.S. dollars. As long as Yahoo continues to develop at its current momentum, it will have a chance to earn back this investment without waiting until the end of this year.
Adrian's heart was pounding. In order to avoid being agitated, he immediately asked: "I don't understand. Are you going to just let us collect information, or are you going to entrust our company to help and be responsible for all the work of mergers and acquisitions?"
"...It's all fine. If the price is right, it's okay to leave it to you. But I heard that Goldman Sachs Group is the best in this area, and I hope to buy it at a suitable price."
When Su Yehao said these words, he felt a little uneasy.
A business worth two to three billion Hong Kong dollars, converted into cash, could fill an entire small warehouse or two trucks with a load of ten tons.
The thought of so much money made him feel deeply stressed.
Even though we know that we are more certain of success, we can't help but worry subconsciously, for fear that we might accidentally screw up and lose all the profits we make, including the profits.
I signed a service agreement with McKinsey first to avoid leaking information.
Su Yehao continued to seek help, trying to fulfill She Tunxiang's ambition, and contacted the president of the Hong Kong Branch of First Quanye Bank.
The other party was a Japanese. After understanding the situation, he did not dare to give an answer. He only said that he would fly back to Tokyo today and discuss it with the senior management of the head office...