After discussing with the partners of the firm, the lawyer borrowed the hotel's business center and quickly drew up a new contract.
It was completely in accordance with the conditions that Cheng Yu had originally negotiated with Morris and others, and the request for commission that Cheng Yu had just put forward was also listed in the contract.
The most important thing is that the contract clearly clarifies the amount of shares held by Morris and other four people.
Thirty-two million US dollars.
This means that Cheng Yu has taken certain risks in the matter of share acquisition.
The current price offered by Oracle is indeed US$32 million.
But this kind of thing is not set in stone.
This price itself is the result of a premium to the market valuation of that company.
This means that if Oracle finally changes its mind and does not plan to acquire it at a premium, Cheng Yu will still need to bear the losses.
Of course, if Cheng Yu is able to sell these shares at a higher price, the excess will also become Cheng Yu's private property.
Currently, for Cheng Yu, the first phase of Qin Manyuan's investment has been received and can be transferred directly in a week.
As for the second phase of funds, if you include the funds on hand of Cheng Yu and the 50 million that Xue Changyun can come up with in two months, it is actually almost enough.
This means that in the next four months, Cheng Yu actually has nothing to worry about regarding funds.
As for Anthony's withdrawal, which resulted in his portion of almost 8 million US dollars, or just over 50 million soft sister coins, being unable to be invested according to the original plan, it actually had no impact.
Because Cheng Yu and Xue Changyun originally lacked about 200 million in funds, and now the funds that Morris and others can provide him are basically this amount. However, when Morris found him, Cheng Yu felt that his funds could be enough.
Part of it was left empty.
Of course, Cheng Yu also needs to consider the cooperation with Xu Wanting, which is related to the completion of system tasks.
Fortunately, it is always an investment of 10 to 20 million. With the operation of the existing funds on hand, if Cheng Yu cannot make a profit of 10 to 20 million within four months, then his investment company will really be in vain.
Of course, it would be even more perfect if Cheng Yu could allow Oracle to increase the price for the acquisition based on the original premium.
Even if it only increases by one or two million, that is still ten million soft girl coins.
Cheng Yu also thought about this issue seriously. He felt that his biggest advantage now was probably that his need for funds was not so urgent.
Theoretically, he has at least four months to slowly compete with Oracle.
Regardless of whether Oracle takes over the six-point share he holds, since it has already made the acquisition of that company, it is basically inevitable.
Whether the acquisition is successful or not, in principle, does not have much to do with the small amount of shares Cheng Yu holds. It is just that Oracle requires a wholly-owned and comprehensive acquisition.
This condition led to the founder of that company to let Morris and others sell their shares.
As an investor, the best choice for Morris and others is to let Oracle acquire the company, and then use the benefits brought by Oracle's acquisition to sell their shares to a better price.
third party.
For example, Microsoft or something.
This is also the reason why Oracle requires that 100% of the shares must be obtained.
Therefore, after Cheng Yu obtained these shares, his choice became extremely critical.
On the one hand, Oracle has an urgent need for an acquisition if its intention to acquire it is clear. When Cheng Yu starts to delay, Oracle is likely to take the initiative to increase the price.
On the other hand, if Oracle temporarily shels its acquisition intention because of this, or simply withdraws its acquisition option, then the founder of that company is likely to repurchase Cheng Yu's shares in the name of the company.
Of course, the price will definitely be higher than now.
The worse outcome is that Cheng Yu delays, Oracle gives up, and the company feels it might as well continue to develop on its own for a while.
Then, the value brought by this part of the shares will immediately return to a rational level, that is, it will be less than 32 million US dollars.
Moreover, it is almost difficult for Cheng Yu to successfully cash out within four months.
Four months later, there will be a huge gap in his funds.
But Cheng Yu still has enough confidence. After all, he is also a young rich man worth tens of billions. His family has more than 100 billion, and his father-in-law still has thousands of billions. If Lao Cheng and Lao Du are willing to
If the company is handed over to Cheng Yu, Cheng Yu will immediately become the richest man on Forbes China's list.
Well, maybe the word "family" will be added after Cheng Yu's name.
A guy whose own capital network reaches 40 billion U.S. dollars, and a guy whose total capital intertwined behind him even exceeds 200 billion U.S. dollars, this is something that no company dares to ignore easily.
Therefore, if you want to use psychological warfare to make Cheng Yu accept everything Oracle offers, it is almost impossible.
On the contrary, Cheng Yu can even put pressure on the company's founding team to conduct a counter-acquisition - of course, this is just a cover.
As long as Oracle really has sufficient demand for the company's current business, then they will definitely meet Cheng Yu's price requirements.
As for Oracle's determination to acquire this company, Cheng Yu has no doubts.
Even though he seems to be busy all the time, in fact he has already conducted enough investigations on this matter.
The company that currently holds more than six shares in his hands, the reason why Oracle wants to fully acquire it, and it is wholly owned, and is reluctant to even exchange shares, is because this company owns a key patent.
Even after Oracle acquired the company, it had no intention of actually retaining any of their employees. All employees would be disbanded on the spot and incorporated into dozens of different positions in Oracle's huge career system.
In short, they will no longer allow these employees to continue working in positions they are familiar with, and for this, they have paid five-year work contracts.
These include entrepreneurial teams and technical teams.
Generally speaking, the greatest wealth of such startups is often the entrepreneurial team and technical team.
But for Oracle, this is not the case.
All they need is this key patent, and all current employees of this company are prohibited from engaging in the development of this technology in the next five years.
Competition is often a serious matter in the United States.
To put it bluntly, Oracle is basically taking 500 million US dollars, or more, and after all, the salaries of all employees of this company for the next five years, to completely eliminate a company that may become a competitor with itself in a certain field in the future.
object.
After such an investigation, Cheng Yu didn't think Oracle would compete with him for just a few million dollars.
…………
After reading the contract here, both parties signed their names.
Next, Cheng Yu will take this share transfer contract to have a good fight with Oracle.
Morris and others did not know Cheng Yu's plan, and they did not even study the company they invested in or Oracle's acquisition of them in detail.
Of course, they have to make a decision in such a short period of time, which is Oracle's intention.
The reason why they are asked to make an immediate decision, or to ask the entire entrepreneurial team of that company to make an immediate decision, is that Oracle does not want their true intentions to be discovered.
In a business society, the exposure of any secret is only a matter of time.
Only if you are quick enough, the secret will not be exposed.
The reason why Cheng Yu knows so much is thanks to the existence of Xiao Ni.
That guy is really useful.
Although he is not that bold to let him hack into Oracle's server, of course, he may not be able to hack in. There is insufficient time, manpower and material resources.
But he could still easily do it by hacking into the mobile phones or personal computers of the smart members involved in the acquisition.
Modern people cannot guarantee that no work-related content will be revealed even if they take strict precautions on the electronic devices they use frequently.
Cheng Yu took advantage of this and obtained some information about Oracle's subsequent employee arrangements after acquiring the company. After analysis, he realized that Oracle spent money to buy the company not to help it become taller and stronger, but to help it become taller and stronger.
Destroy the opponent.
This undoubtedly gives Cheng Yu greater confidence in signing this contract with Morris and others.
Cheng Yu also thought about it and made his decision before coming to the United States.
If the contract is signed here and everything is based on the results of the initial communication on the phone, then Cheng Yu will help maximize the interests of Morris and others.
Although his operations are likely to bring him more profits, he does not feel that he urgently needs the money.
But now many twists and turns have occurred, which makes him feel that pure friendship does not exist between people like Morris.
Although what happened just now seemed to be Anthony's personal behavior, Morris, Holkins, and Francis were not aware of it.
But Cheng Yu didn't think they really knew anything about it.
However, Kloten knew clearly and chose to conceal it.
Cheng Yu believed that if he really signed the contract just now, Kloten would be more likely to continue to follow Anthony one year later.
As for the other three people, perhaps they would not make the decision to follow Anthony as easily as Cloten, but if they had no such idea at all, Cheng Yu would never believe it.
At least, the three of them are by no means as innocent as they showed just now.
This was a contract that required the unanimous opinions of five people to be completed. The lawyer had been dodging all kinds of words. He just considered the interests of the firm and could not tell more of the truth.
Cheng Yu really didn't believe that such a long-established law firm in Los Angeles would make such a low-level mistake. It would directly ignore the true opinions of the other four contract partners because of the one-sided words of Anthony, a so-called partner of many years.
In this case, the most likely possibility is that after Anthony made such a request, the law firm contacted the remaining four people respectively.
Kloten may have directly expressed his support for Anthony, but when the matter was exposed, he chose to return to relying on Cheng Yu to handle the funds.
Morris and the other three maintained an ambiguous and ambiguous attitude.
They did not object to the law firm imposing greater restrictions on the terms of the contract, but they requested that if Cheng Yu raised objections, the law firm could not disclose their true thoughts.
This should be the truth of what happened.
For Morris and the other three, they can be satisfied with a 200% profit within two and a half years at most.
But it does not prevent them from feeling that if given the right opportunity, they would like to get more.
If Cheng Yu really signs the contract according to the contract just now, then after one year, regardless of whether the conditions of the contract are met, the key to whether they will withdraw their capital will be whether Anthony can find a better investment channel by then.
If Anthony does it, they will not hesitate to ask Cheng Yu to implement the terms of the contract.
But Anthony couldn't do it, so they continued to leave the funds with Cheng Yu to ensure that the 200% profit was still appropriate.
Relatively speaking, Cheng Yu believed Anthony's words more.
That is, he obviously will not be able to generate 100% profit from this money after one year. After all, this money will only have a specific profit amount when Qin Manyuan's entire project is completed.
And Anthony really didn't think about asking Cheng Yu to compensate him for anything.
At least Anthony made everything clear.
This is called conspiracy.
As for Morris and the other three, they looked forward and backward, and the smell of conspiracy was greater.
If Cheng Yu had to rank first, second, and third among these five people, then Anthony would be the one Cheng Yu was most willing to cooperate with, followed by Kloten, and Morris and the other three would be ranked last.
Therefore, Cheng Yu did not hesitate to propose the conditions for acquiring this part of the shares for US$32 million, and also proposed a commission that he had not originally planned to receive.
But now, the commission is actually written in black and white in the contract.
According to Qin Manyuan and Xue Changyun's views on this project, Cheng Yu has already received a huge profit share.
This is far beyond what a small commission can do.
In this current contract, although the word "bet" is not mentioned, in fact, it has become an out-and-out gambling contract.
Even including what Cheng Yu said to Anthony just now, Cheng Yu was just pretending.
Anthony wanted to invite Cheng Yu to have a meal alone, perhaps to express his personal apology. Cheng Yu refused on the surface, saying that he hoped to finalize the contract with Oracle tomorrow.
However, Cheng Yu actually understood that it would be impossible for him to finalize the contract with Oracle tomorrow.
Of course, it is true that he said he would return to China tomorrow.
But before returning to China, he actually had the idea of having a private interview with Anthony.
Without him, just because Anthony at least put everything on the table, Cheng Yu was willing to help him get more profits from this shareholding.
We have to negotiate with Oracle anyway, so why not let Anthony take the express train.
This is something that Morris and others never thought of after they had exhausted all their tricks and played tricks.
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After the contract is signed, of course there is a celebration.
According to Cheng Yu, it will be done in the hotel.
Morris opened two bottles of Cheval Blanc 1985 for this occasion.
After the meal, Morris wanted to invite Cheng Yu to another place to continue the celebration, but Cheng Yu declined with a smile on the grounds that he wanted to send Vincent home.
Morris invited him again and again, but Cheng Yu just refused. Francis even said that he would like to invite Cheng Yu to dinner tomorrow and thank Cheng Yu for his help alone, but Cheng Yu also refused.
“It’s really our traditional Chinese Spring Festival and I have to rush back.
There will be plenty of opportunities in the future, don't rush.
Moreover, it is difficult to complete the negotiations with Oracle immediately tomorrow. I estimate that more than 90% of them will need to wait until half a month before continuing.
After all, tomorrow is Sunday.
So, let's do it this time. You can continue to celebrate. You must know that after this contract takes effect, you will have at least more than 20 million US dollars in personal funds in not too long two years.
This is cash.
It’s really worth the splurge.”
Now that Cheng Yu has talked about this, Morris and others can only give up.
"Well, you really need a good rest after such a long flight. The lawyer will contact the company, and the company will also express your request to negotiate with Oracle tomorrow. I will tell you the specific results later.
.”
Morris shook hands with Cheng Yu.
Cheng Yu said with a smile: "Anyway, although there was a little accident in this cooperation, I don't want the relationship between you and Anthony to change because of me.
Everyone has their own ambitions, and in fact no one is right or wrong.
So, I think you can invite Anthony to join you in your celebration tonight."
When Morris heard this, he immediately said warily: "Cheng, you don't think we actually know what Anthony is doing, do you? We really don't know. You must believe us on this."
Cheng Yu laughed loudly, patted Morris on the shoulder and said, "Why would I think that? I just think that the five of you have always had a good relationship. There is no need to become friends just to make a business decision."
Done.”
Kloten said: "I think Anthony is definitely not in the mood to celebrate with us right now. After all, although he can easily sell his shares, he still doesn't know how to use those funds.
Originally, these things need to be worried about after a year, but now, he is afraid that he will start preparing immediately."
Cheng Yu smiled and nodded and said, "I'm just expressing my opinion. As for whether you invite him or not, I have no right to interfere." Cheng Yu spread his hands.
Morris vowed: "Cheng, don't worry, we are absolutely ashamed to be associated with people like Anthony who betray our small collective and tamper with the terms of the contract in private.
If he sincerely apologizes to you in the future, we will consider forgiving him.
But now, we will never say a word to him, let alone celebrate together.
The reason we celebrate has nothing to do with him."
Seeing how determined he was, Cheng Yu shrugged his shoulders and said no more.
After the four people left happily, Cheng Yu touched Vincent's head and said with a smile: "It's getting late, I'll take you back to the apartment."
Vincent nodded.
After asking the hotel concierge for a car, Cheng Yu took Vincent to the hotel door.
Vincent suddenly stopped, raised his head and said, "Sir, are you going to meet that Anthony later?"
Cheng Yu was stunned and said with a smile: "Why do you have such an idea?"
Vincent curled his lips and said: "Actually, I think that among these five people, Anthony is the most direct one.
If he had any different opinions, even if he did something wrong, he still expressed them directly.
At least he is honest.
As for the other four people, Kloten is a little better. For the remaining three, I don't think they were aware of the changes in the terms of the contract.
They are just pretending.
I also feel that since I can see this, it’s impossible for you, sir, not to be able to see it.”
Cheng Yu laughed.
The car arrived, and Cheng Yu took Vincent into the car.
Then, Cheng Yucai said: "It's really surprising, Vincent, you are really a very smart young man. I am looking forward to more and more you helping me in my company when you grow up."
Vincent blinked hard and said, "So, my guesses are all right?"
Cheng Yu nodded and said, "It's probably the same. But, what does this have to do with whether I will meet Anthony or not?"
Vincent thought for a while, shook his head and said: "I really don't know this, it's just an intuition. After all, sir, it seems that he doesn't need jet lag, and sending me back is completely convenient.
It prevents you from continuing to celebrate with those people just now. So..."
