At that time, Sun Dahai personally held 0.99% of Microsoft's shares, and Jiashe Future Holdings also made financial investments in Microsoft. It temporarily held about 1.8% of the shares and was continuing to increase its holdings.
Adding these two shares together, Sun Dahai actually became the seventh largest shareholder of Microsoft at that time, and also the third individual shareholder, second only to Bill and Paul.
This status gave Sun Dahai enough capital to join Microsoft's board of directors and become one of its directors. However, he always shied away and was unwilling to bear such a false name.
The more Sun Dahai behaves like this, the more Bill wants to pull him into the board of directors. Because Bill knows that even if Sun Dahai becomes a director, he will not be willing to participate in the management of Microsoft.
Such a pseudonymous director is the favorite of the chairman of any company. Even if he does not show up at all, it is better than introducing a director who competes for power or makes random comments on the board of directors.
Sun Dahai did not turn down this position in the end, but he arranged for Zhu Lihua to take the name on his behalf.
Julie was stationed in the United States anyway and knew Bill, so she took on the name.
Zhu Lihua understands Sun Dahai's thoughts, and she is straightforward in her work. Over the past year or so, she has not participated in any activities of the Microsoft board of directors.
Although this approach was a bit willful and childish, it also made Bill's trust in Sun Dahai a step closer.
And Sun Dahai's performance is truly worthy of Bill's trust.
Because the global stock market crash in 1987 happened so quickly, various plans and response measures did not follow normal procedures.
Bill just exchanged opinions with Sun Dahai on the phone and decided to apply for personal financing from Sun Dahai at the expense of the share transfer one year later to complete the stock repurchase within his share.
Although a few days later, Julie, who was in the United States, sent someone to deliver an agreement of intent to Bill. But before that, Sun Dahai's money had already arrived in Bill's personal account.
Moreover, this kind of intention agreement is purely a gentleman's agreement, guarding against gentlemen but not letting villains go. It is really doubtful how much specific legal effect it will have.
If Bill wants to default on his debt or breach of contract, the only thing he needs to do is to be "shameless". There is no technical difficulty in other aspects.
Fortunately, Bill is not the kind of person who doesn't care about money. He focuses on his career and has no thoughts about Heisun Dahai.
So, two people who were not considered gentlemen silently carried out this gentleman's agreement.
Although the two people had discussed the general situation of the matter on the phone, there were still many problems with the details. Sun Dahai was easy to talk about, but Bill was careless.
As a listed company with a market value of over 10 billion US dollars, even if only one thousandth of a stock is traded, it will attract great attention from Microsoft's internal securities department and will report directly to Bill.
Because this one-thousandth of a point represents the occurrence of transactions exceeding tens of millions of dollars. Although this small share is unlikely to have any major impact directly, if a thousand-mile embankment is destroyed in an ant nest, once a small amount is accumulated by someone who is willing to do something,
If it's not good, it will bring great passivity to Bill.
Therefore, Bill will not relax strict supervision on changes in shares exceeding a certain number.
According to the agreement between the two, Sun Dahai can get more than one point of Microsoft stock at the end of this year.
At present, Sun Dahai personally holds 0.99% of the shares, and he plans to hold 4.99% of the shares in the future, which is already on the verge of mandatory disclosure of information. Based on Bill's understanding of Sun Dahai, he knows that he will definitely not cross the line.
Therefore, Sun Dahai will definitely transfer these newly added stocks to other companies or individuals to hold.
As a result, new problems arise.
What is the specific situation of this (or several) new shareholders? What is their strategy and purpose of holding shares? Are there any other demands on Microsoft? Bill must find out these issues as soon as possible.
None of the above can be explained clearly on the phone. At this time, both Bill and Paul received an invitation from Julie to go on vacation in China.
Bill will definitely not be able to leave.
After the stock market crash, it was a good opportunity for Microsoft to expand aggressively. Affected by the stock market crash, countless software companies, large and small, either went bankrupt or closed down, or laid off employees and cut projects. It was a great time for Microsoft to pick and choose from them.
Bill will definitely not leave the company at this time to participate in a ten-day tour of China. He needs to sit in the company, select acquisition targets according to his own development needs, and conduct countless negotiations.
Therefore, Bill declined Julie's invitation. Not only him, but the entire Microsoft employees regretted not participating in this travel vacation.
Because at this time, all of Microsoft's top technical and management personnel were busy with various acquisitions.
Those who are not busy at this time mean that their status in Microsoft is not important, and they are not qualified to participate in this event on behalf of Microsoft.
However, there was a big idler at this time, enjoying himself with nothing to do.
After completing staged treatment and in the midst of a long recovery period, Paul readily agreed to join this tour group.
Due to his physical condition, Paul could no longer work in software development and design, so he completely let go of himself and began to enjoy life.
He is the biggest player that Sun Dahai has known so far. The rising stock price of Microsoft has provided him with a huge amount of funds, enough to satisfy all his personal hobbies.
Among them are not only luxury houses, sports cars, and yachts, but also countless investment projects based entirely on his personal interests.
Knowing that Paul was going to China for vacation, Bill specially met with him and asked him to help communicate with Sun Dahai and understand the situation of the new shareholder as soon as possible.
Although Paul has left Microsoft for a long time, he is still the second largest shareholder of Microsoft. At the same time, his personal relationship with Bill remains the same, so he came to China with this small task.
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At this time, other Americans who were having breakfast in the cafeteria couldn't help but feel a little surprised when they saw Paul taking the initiative to greet a half-grown man.
However, as they have the courage to start a business in the United States and have already received recognition and investment from Blue Ocean International, the city still has a little bit of this.
They all looked as if nothing had happened, but their eating movements slowed down a little. At the same time, the people who had been talking quietly lowered their voices even lower, and their words were somewhat unclear. Everyone paid attention.
When all the efforts were concentrated on Paul and Sun Dahai, they almost pricked up their ears.
"Hi, Sun. Taking this vacation is probably the best decision I have made recently. Although today is only our second day here, I feel relaxed all over. It seems that this place is good for me.
The physical recovery has been very helpful. Thank you for the invitation, my friend.”
As soon as they met, Paul gave Sun Dahai a warm hug.
