When Paul opened his mouth, there was a lot of blah blah blah.
However, Sun Dahai just listened to Paul's words and didn't take them too seriously. Don't think that Americans don't flatter others, they just use them less.
"Paul, that's great if you like it. I'll have someone give you the contact number of the resort in a moment. If you want, you can come for vacation at any time."
There is a reason why the phone number was given to Paul instead of to his assistant. The assistants Paul hired were just in name only, they were all young, beautiful and plump beauties.
However, his assistants changed too frequently, and the longest one did not last more than three months.
Therefore, Sun Dahai does not regard these so-called "assistants" as assistants at all. When he cannot be found for something, he would rather contact his lawyer or accountant than bother to deal with his "hard friends".
To be honest, the relationship between Sun Dahai and Paul is closer than the relationship between him and Bill.
In the summer of 1986, Sun Dahai went to the Microsoft headquarters, faced with the top two shareholders Bill and Paul, explained his strategy and purpose of holding Microsoft stocks, and made the decision to grant voting rights to Bill.
Bill recognized Sun Dahai's approach. He reciprocated the favor and, on behalf of the Microsoft board of directors, clearly supported the plan of setting up a future holding company to increase its holdings of Microsoft shares to 4.99%.
Paul wants to sell stocks in exchange for cash to meet his living and investment needs.
At that time, Sun Dahai's Future Holdings Company only held less than 2% of Microsoft's shares, which was still a long way from their ultimate goal of 4.99%.
However, if this part of the gap is acquired from the open market, it will not only take a long time and high cost, but also cause artificial fluctuations in Microsoft's stock price.
The two of them had their own needs and hit it off immediately.
Under the witness of Bill, Sun Dahai and Paul reached a consensus. Starting from the autumn of 1986, Paul would conduct transactions with the Future Holding Company on the stock block trading platform based on the market price at the end of each quarter.
By the end of last year, Establishment Future Holdings had successfully completed the increase in its holdings of Microsoft stocks, with its total shareholding reaching the expected 4.99%.
Of the more than 3% of Microsoft shares that will be added in the future, more than 2% of the shares will be transferred from Paul.
Before each transaction, both parties have to communicate, so the contacts between Paul, Sun Dahai and Jishe Future Holding Company are very frequent, making his assistant useless.
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Sun Dahai and Paul were chatting while having breakfast. After a while, he found an acquaintance walking into the restaurant.
Chen Xi and Mayena are employees of the CPC department of Citibank. They are also members of the three-person customer service team dedicated to serving Sun Dahai. Chen Xi is the supervisor.
After the New Year, Chen Xi contacted Zhu Lihua and prepared to come to China to find Sun Dahai.
Every year after the New Year, CPC customers must sign a business statement for the previous year. This is the bill that Citibank charges CPC customers.
At the same time, customers must sign a series of authorization documents for the new year. Otherwise, many project customer service teams will not have the authority to operate according to customer instructions.
Sun Dahai was upgraded to Citibank's CPC2 level customer in the summer of 1986. After the upgrade, his customer service staff became a customer service team dedicated to him.
By this year, the authorization documents he signed at the Citibank headquarters have expired, so Chen Xi must meet with Sun Dahai as soon as possible this year and ask him to re-sign these authorization documents.
Not long ago, Chen Xi contacted Zhu Lihua and planned to contact Sun Dahai through her to arrange a meeting.
Zhu Lihua is the second contact person registered by Sun Dahai at Citibank. The first contact person is Gao Yi, who left the phone number of Xiangjiang.
However, after the New Year, Gao Yi returned to the mainland, and her eldest brother was handed over to her secretary.
CPC is actually the private banking department of Citibank, and the business involved is extremely private. Without Sun Dahai’s formal authorization, Chen Xi has no right to let others know about any of Sun Dahai’s affairs at Citibank.
Chen Xi couldn't contact Gao Yi, so he had to follow the order and find the second contact person Zhu Lihua and ask her to arrange the schedule.
Chen Xi and Zhu Lihua knew each other. When Sun Dahai went to the United States, Zhu Lihua and Chen Xi's team coordinated many matters.
Strictly speaking, Chen Xi's customer service team provides personal services to Sun Dahai and has no direct business relationship with Blue Ocean International.
But Zhu Lihua knows how to be a good person. When Chen Xi contacted her, she directly gave Chen Xi's team two vacation spots, allowing them to complete their work while vacationing in China.
CPC2's customer service staff can be reimbursed for traveling abroad to meet customers. However, part of this expense must be included in their costs, which will reduce their profits when calculating performance at the end of the year.
Zhu Lihua gave Chen Xi's team two places, which is equivalent to Blue Ocean International paying for them to come to China. While completing their own tasks, they can also travel and vacation. It is just right.
Last year, it was Hefziba, the financial planner of Chen Xi's team, who flew to the mainland to find Sun Dahai to sign. So the two places given by Zhu Lihua naturally fell to Chen Xi and Mayena.
So, the two sisters happily joined the tour group and arrived at the resort yesterday.
When Sun Dahai saw them, he greeted them and they all sat down to eat together.
Although Chen Xi and Paul both wanted to see Sun Dahai about something, they would not discuss it in detail in public. So they made separate appointments with Sun Dahai respectively, and now they are just eating and chatting.
After a while, brother and sister Qiao Hongwei, Zhu Lihua and her assistants, Chen Feng and Fang Ying, Battelle, Alaya, Fan Zheng and others came to the restaurant one after another.
Many of them have known each other before, but due to work arrangements, they have seen each other less often.
Just like Alayah, she was Zhu Lihua's first assistant. Since she was transferred to Jiahua, she has not seen Zhu Lihua for more than a year and has only kept in touch through phone calls.
Yesterday they met at the resort, and the two of them naturally had a lot of intimacy.
Now that we had the opportunity to get together, everyone unknowingly sat down around Sun Dahai and communicated enthusiastically with each other. The cafeteria suddenly became lively.
Many American guests present couldn't help but ask, who is the young Chinese man occupying the C seat in the middle? Even Zhu Lihua and the company's boss Qiao Hongwei could only sit aside.
However, they are destined to get no valuable information. As for Sun Dahai's identity, unless he takes the initiative to reveal his identity, the company will introduce him to the outside world with a unified caliber: he is a relative of one of the company's shareholders.
In fact, it would be more accurate to replace "one" with "only" in this sentence. However, except for those who know Sun Dahai's qualifications and abilities, others should continue to remain unclear about Sun Dahai's true identity.