In a large conference room in the Stark Industrial office building, all the company's directors were present.
They sat in their respective chairs, chatting familiarly, and their words were quite complaining about Tony Stark's late arrival.
After Howard faked his death, Stark Industries was once in trouble. Under Obadiah's instigation, Tony Stark would sell the 40% stake in Stark Industries that he inherited from Howard.
Ten percent was invested to save the company in trouble, and this is how the current board of directors came into being.
In addition, when the company went public later, Tony Stark reduced his holdings by 20% as tradable shares. Now Tony only holds 10% of Stark Industries' shares, and after a series of share changes
, the size of the board of directors has been further expanded, and now there are nine directors in total, who control more than 10% of the company's shares.
So the actual control of Stark Industries is not in the hands of Tony Stark, but in the hands of these board members here.
This is also Obadiah's plan, to sideline Tony through the board of directors and take control of Stark Industries.
As for Tony Stark, a group of board members, like Obadiah, just use him as a tool to make money for them. Tony Stark continues to develop new weapons, and they sell these weapons to anyone who needs them.
People, whether they are national troops or terrorists, as long as it can bring them wealth, they will not care who gets these weapons.
From this point of view, their concepts and pursuits were consistent with Obadiah's, so when Tony planned to close the weapons manufacturing department, they did not hesitate to stop Tony's work, help Obadiah seize power, and let Obadiah seize power.
He has complete control of the company.
This is also the result of Obadiah's years of planning and hard work.
Now that the spokesperson of the board of directors, Obadiah, is dead, Tony Stark, as the chairman, summons them to convene a board of directors. They don't know what Tony's purpose is for convening the board of directors this time.
Although he has become something like Iron Man, in their eyes, he is still the playboy they played with and applauded. If they were him, they would never disclose his identity. He is still as arrogant and as before.
childish.
If he knew the current situation, they wouldn't mind reinstating his job and letting him continue to run the company and make money for them.
After all, Tony Stark is really a genius in weapons research and development. As long as he is willing to continue to develop more advanced and powerful weapons for the company as before, then they will continue to enjoy the benefits of Stark Industries as before.
They created a steady stream of huge wealth.
And if Tony Stark is still stubborn, they don't mind continuing to restrict him and re-establish an obedient spokesperson. Anyway, Stark Industries' existing weapon technology is enough for them to make huge profits. Without Tony,
·Stark, they just make less money.
So when Tony Stark walked in, the eyes of the board members did not show any respect for the chairman, but instead looked at him with a superior look.
But soon, their eyes turned to the few people who walked in with Tony Stark, especially when one of them, a tall and slender Chinese young man with a cold and majestic face, originally belonged to the chairman of the board.
After sitting down on the chair, several directors couldn't help but frown.
"Tony! Who is this man?"
A man who looked to be in his fifties, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and with a mean face, asked rudely to Tony Stark, who had just sat down next to Chen Mo.
Tony Stark simply ignored his question and didn't even look at him.
If you dare to speak to me in this manner, it would be strange for me to ignore you!
Moreover, he didn't know how to introduce Chen Mo and tell everyone that this is my godfather. You can call him dad like me?
Ah no, it's my uncle, because he is almost a hundred years old and has just come out from under the ice.
The fact that you are alive and gesticulating here is all thanks to his life-saving grace!
Tony Stark only followed Chen Mo's request to convene the board of directors, but he didn't know Chen Mo's plan, but no matter what Chen Mo wanted to do, he would fully support him.
The director who had just asked the question found that no one was paying attention to him, and his face turned red in anger. He glared at Tony Stark fiercely and turned his attention to Chen Mo. Just when he was about to question Chen Mo directly, Chen Mo's eyes suddenly
He looked over at him.
Chen Mo's eyes were indifferent and cold, making people feel chilled all over. It seemed to be able to freeze a person's soul. The sharp energy contained in it made people's hearts twitch. The words of questioning he was about to say
It was suppressed directly into his stomach, and his proud head lowered unconsciously, avoiding Chen Mo's sight.
Chen Mo's eyes swept across the faces of everyone present. The arrogant expressions of everyone who met his eyes changed instantly.
These directors are just rich people who have the power of the company. In the final analysis, they are just ordinary people. How can they be compared with Chen Mo, who has killed countless people and is in charge of the imperial power of the empire.
They all retreated under his sharp eyes, not daring to look at him, and they couldn't help but feel a little afraid of this strange person who suddenly appeared in their hearts.
After looking around calmly, Chen Mo raised his hand and waved to Phil Coulson behind him. When he and Pepper Pepper stepped forward to hand out several documents they were holding to everyone, Chen Mo slowly spoke.
"I am the boss of this company!"
Everyone present, including Tony Stark, was stunned when they heard this, and then saw the documents that Phil Coulson and Pepper placed in front of them.
With doubts, everyone opened the documents in front of them and started reading.
As the documents were flipped through, the expressions on everyone's faces became more and more exciting.
At the top of the document is a copy of an equity transfer contract. This contract shows that seventy years ago, Howard sold 60% of Stark Industries' shares to a buyer for $60 million.
In other words, the person named Chen Mo in the contract holds 60% of the company's shares and is the real boss of Stark Industries.
In fact, everyone present knew that Stark Industries had a mysterious major shareholder who occupied 60% of the company's shares, but he had never shown up or interfered with the company's operations.
The huge dividends every year have always been paid to Howard's private scientific research account. After Howard's "death", it became Tony Stark. Therefore, Tony Stark's research funds have always been funded by this.
Provided by a mysterious controlling shareholder, if Howard's previous research on anti-gravity technology had not been too expensive and spent all the money in his account, Tony Stark would not have been instigated by Obadiah to save the money.
Sold shares in troubled companies.
Although Tony Stark only owns 10% of Stark Industries' shares, he actually enjoys 70% of the company's dividends, and the directors on the board of directors only only have about 1% each.
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It's just that Tony Stark is obsessed with weapons and technology research and development, and spends most of this huge income on experiments. The final results are produced and sold by Stark Industries, allowing the company and other shareholders to
Saved a lot of research funds.
It's just that Tony Stark didn't care about these before. In his opinion, experimentation and research are his hobbies. He enjoys the process, and Stark Industries is also his own company, so there is no need to calculate so clearly.
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So these shareholders on the board of directors have actually been taking advantage of Tony and feel at ease.
In the past, Tony Stark didn't care, because 70% of the profits came back to him anyway, and money was just a number to him. Stark Industries was founded by his father Howard, and now
It was handed into his hands, and he hoped to see it continue to develop and grow, and his research results be used by his own company, and if it was used, it would count as research and development expenses.
Of course now, after being tricked by Obadiah and the board of directors, Tony will no longer be as naive as before.
In fact, including Tony, no one knew about this mysterious major shareholder before. His information seemed to have been deliberately hidden. Everyone only knew about his existence, but no one knew who he was and why.
Although he clearly has a controlling stake, he never participates in the management of the company, and he also gives huge dividends to the Stark family for free use.
At this time, this contract solved everyone's doubts. An additional clause in the contract stated that Chen Mo would hand over all proceeds to Howard for research purposes.
As for not participating in management, it was a private verbal agreement between the two of them. Of course, for the two of them, this was enough. If it weren't for the equity and income distribution that required formal documents, the two of them didn't even have to sign a contract. Howard dared to rely on Chen Mo.
Account? Obviously he doesn't have the courage.
And if Chen Mo defaults on his debt, Howard will have no choice but to endure it. Who makes him unable to defeat Chen Mo?
The authenticity of this contract can be known after checking it. They don't think it is fake, but some people have discovered problems.
"This contract was signed seventy years ago. Don't tell us, are you Chen Mo?"
Although they were intimidated by Chen Mo's momentum at first, the important matter related to the control of the company and the huge benefits made them put aside their fears.
At this time, Tony Stark, who had read the contract, spoke.
"You should know the identity of my father. During World War II, he joined a special unit of the Allied Forces. You must have heard of one of his former comrades, that is the commander of the special operations team, Chen Mo!"