Because the news was leaked and the stock price soared, Li Mu stopped today's plan to get Apple management to sign, and then put aside Tim Cook who had been talking for most of the conversation. Lin Qingya told Tim Cook that Li Mu is now We need to help Apple wipe their butts clean before taking the next step with them, otherwise, this acquisition will be terminated forever.
Tim Cook doesn't doubt Li Mu's words at all. No one in Apple's leadership knows Li Mu's true intention to acquire Apple, and how much Li Mu values Apple. So in their view, Li Mu may take over at any time. After Zi Zi figured it out, he completely gave up the acquisition of Apple. By that time, Apple was basically not far away from bankruptcy.
When Li Mu said that he was wiping Apple's butt, Tim Cook did not dare to refute it at all, because he knew very well that the news leak must come from within Apple, because the news spread widely within Apple, not just all The senior management of Makino Technology, and even all the middle managers, knew everything clearly. However, only the core management of Makino Technology knew about the company’s plan to acquire Apple. These core management were extremely close to the company’s interests, and they were all Chinese, and they leaked the news to Wall Street. The possibility is almost zero.
Li Mu, who had left Apple's owners aside, immediately summoned all members of the acquisition project team to continue the meeting. However, the meeting had completely changed direction, from discussing how to complete Apple's privatization as soon as possible to how to deal with the huge fluctuations in Apple's stock price. .
In the conference room, Li Mu first made his two demands clear. He said: "Regarding the demonic moth in Apple's stock price, we must first bring the stock price back to below 4 US dollars, and secondly, sharpen the knife and give these people a chance to think about it." Let the stock operators who made a fortune out of themselves need to bleed."
Louis Martin said: "Mr. Li, it is too easy to bring the stock price back to below $4. We only need to show that we have no intention to acquire Apple, and the stock price will definitely collapse."
Li Mu nodded and said: "This is indeed the best way to lower the stock price, but one thing is very important, and that is: we will not give up the acquisition of Apple! If we announce to the outside that we are giving up the acquisition, and then suddenly announce the acquisition after the stock price collapses, Decision will inevitably have a significant impact on our corporate image."
Louis Martin said seriously: "Mr. Li, in the United States, it is normal to go back on one's word. Every entrepreneur likes to put smoke bombs in front of the public, and the people have long been used to it."
Li Mu agreed and said: "Yes, in the US market where capitalism is extremely developed, it is very common for entrepreneurs to tell lies and go back on their word. Of course, China is not much better than you. Many of our entrepreneurs are also telling lies. The old fox, who swore today that he would never do anything like that, immediately broke his promise as soon as he turned around."
As he spoke, Li Mu became serious and said seriously: "However, Makino Technology is different from any American company, and it is also different from any Chinese company. It is a benchmark, a flag, and it represents the global integration of the Internet. , represents the people-oriented and user-oriented Internet spirit, so it must not lie in front of the public, let alone achieve its own capital purposes through lies."
Louis Martin was slightly stunned for a moment, thinking that Li Mu's requirements for himself and Makino Technology were too strict, but he soon felt relieved. Li Mu is a principled person, and sometimes this kind of person seems a bit stubborn and stubborn. Stupid, but looking at Li Mu's achievements, he found that in fact, such stubbornness and stupidity were not due to small losses, but to small gains.
Lin Qingya said at this time: "Mr. Li, the intensity of public opinion guidance in the market seems to be increasing. I want to confirm whether you are behind this?"
Lin Qingya was almost one of the earliest core members of Li Mu in the early days of his business. She had an extraordinary understanding of Li Mu's style of doing things. Although when the stock price began to fluctuate today, some people kept saying that the possibility of Makino Technology acquiring Apple was very low. Inducing retail investors to sell, but that kind of force can only reach 50 points at most. However, not long after Li Mu went out to make a phone call and came back, the online comments began to increase in intensity, and many people came out to badmouth Apple's acquisition. The possibility is even creating huge panic among retail investors, causing retail investors to accelerate selling. There is a big difference between the methods before and after. Lin Qingya can guess that in the first half, the main institutions of Nasdaq should be operating, and in the second half, it should be It was Li Mu's army running in.
Facing Lin Qingya's question, Li Mu smiled profoundly, remained silent for a moment, nodded slightly, and said, "That's right, I arranged for people to be behind the main organization to fuel them and assist them behind the scenes."
Lin Qingya blinked and smiled, and said: "You are adding fuel to the flames. Today, more than 70% of the stocks of retail investors have been sucked away by the main players. If we wait any longer, it is estimated that it will exceed 80%..."
Retail investors are the group that can least withstand deception and intimidation. If panic is really created, thousands of retail investors will choose to flee for their lives at the same time. On the contrary, if opportunities are described, thousands of retail investors will rush in with their money.
Major institutions often use the characteristics of retail investors to play around like monkeys. If they are optimistic about a stock, they will first make retail investors lose confidence in the stock, and then use various channels to badmouth the stock. For stocks, retail investors cannot stand the threat and sell them, and the main force takes over with a smile, and then raises the stock price. At this time, retail investors will have a feeling: Why does which stock I sell rise
If the main opponent is no longer optimistic about the prospects of a certain stock, he will first make retail investors have full confidence in this stock. The world will be flooded with good news about this stock, making people feel like they can't wait to soar into the sky, and then Retail investors think they have a unique vision, buy large amounts and wait for appreciation. As a result, the main force successfully sells the stocks in their hands to cash out. Then the stock price drops, and retail investors are deeply trapped in the posture of taking orders. At this time, retail investors will think: Why did I buy which stock? , which stock will fall
Apple's stock has been in the doldrums for a long time, and retail investors have long been exhausted. Today, it was suddenly announced that Makino Technology was going to acquire, and everyone was extremely excited. However, this excitement did not last long, and there were a lot of negative remarks about Apple in the market. The vast majority of retail investors felt that the possibility of Makino Technology acquiring Apple was basically zero, so they, who were already exhausted, went on another roller coaster, and the last trace of faith was exhausted, so everyone cut their losses and cut their losses. I am afraid that when Makino Technology officially refutes the rumors, the stock price will fall to a new low.
At this moment, the major institutions have almost passed out from happiness. In their eyes, Apple's stock is as if it contains gold, but they never thought that they wanted to take the opportunity to make money from Li Mu, but they didn't know Li Mu had already sharpened the knife and put it on their necks.
In the conference room, Li Mu laughed a few times and said, "If most of the retail investors have cleared their positions, then we can swing our swords boldly with confidence."
After finishing speaking, Li Mu said to Lin Qingya: "Qingya, we were prepared to release the information before. The content of the release was: Makino Technology will only consider acquiring Apple when its stock price is lower than 3.5 US dollars, and even 1 cent higher than this price. Makino Technology will not acquire even one ten thousandth of Apple’s shares.”
"$3.50?" Everyone was stunned.
Louis Martin looked at Li Mu and said dumbfounded: "Mr. Li, this move of yours is really..."
Seeing that he hadn't finished speaking, Li Mu asked with a smile: "Is it sinister?"
"No..." Louis Martin shook his head, gave a thumbs up, and said, "It's perfect!"
According to Li Mu's requirements for Makino Technology and himself, he must not declare to the outside world that he is not prepared to acquire Apple in order to suppress Apple's current stock price. However, Louis Martin did not expect that Li Mu would use the strange method of public pricing. to achieve this goal.
If Makino Technology issued this statement and made it clear that Apple's stock price would not be considered if Apple's stock price exceeded US$3.50, then there is no need to think about it. Apple's stock price will quickly fall below this price. Otherwise, as long as the price exceeds US$3.50, Apple will It is impossible to be acquired by Makino Technology, and it must digest all the negative impacts at this stage alone. In that case, it will inevitably continue to fall, so there is no doubt that as long as Li Mu issues this statement, no one will be able to make Apple's stock price stand at $3.5 above.
If Apple's stock price falls below $3.5, then Apple's stock price can immediately gain a firm foothold, because at that price, the prerequisites for Li Mu to acquire Apple are established. Everyone only needs to wait for Li Mu to formally submit a privatization application to Nasdaq. Can.
Currently, Makino Technology is the only company that is willing to acquire Apple and can immediately spend money to acquire it. No one else would think that acquiring Apple is a good deal. The iPod business is dead and facing huge losses, and the Mac business has been taken over by Microsoft. After so many years of grinding on the concrete floor and spending billions of dollars to collect such an apple, there is basically no possibility of turning around.
Therefore, even if Li Mu lowers the circulating stock price to below US$3.5, he will not encounter any competitors.
Louis Martin asked Li Mu at this time: "Mr. Li, if this is the case, do we need to renegotiate the price for Apple?"
Li Mu waved his hand and said: "We adopt a dual-track system. The non-tradable shares of Apple shareholders are still acquired at 90% of US$4.15, and the tradable shares are acquired at a price of less than US$3.5 at a 1:1 ratio without any premium."
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the audience was shocked.
In order not to leave a bad impression on Nasdaq, Li Mu deliberately prepared a 1:1.5 privatization condition for the tradable shares, and it was based on $4.15. In other words, Li Mu was willing to pay for the tradable shares. Paid $6.22 per share.
However, now Li Mu has gone back on his word. He wants to lower the price of outstanding shares to US$3.50. In this way...
Ding Jian said with a worried look: "Mr. Li, if we are so strong in our privatization quotation, will it cause investor resentment?"
Li Mu said with a smile: "If I had released such news before today, I would have been scolded by investors on Wall Street and Nasdaq. However, today these major institutions came out to assist, which is equivalent to giving us a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." Chance."
Having said this, Li Mu added: "I will immediately arrange a new round of public opinion war, accusing securities investment institutions on the entire Internet of deliberately spreading negative remarks and tricking ordinary investors into selling Apple stocks. In this case, the investors who were deceived will definitely hate these securities investment institutions, and it will also arouse the public's disgust and hatred towards securities investment institutions. As long as this is achieved to the extreme, then The scene that these public investors are most happy to see must be that these securities investment institutions are punished and pay the price."
Everyone present nodded in agreement. If this guidance of public opinion is achieved to the extreme, then securities investment institutions will become the most hated objects of public investors. They will regard securities investment institutions as bandits, robbers, thieves and shameless people who tell lies. What I look forward to most is to see these bandits and robbers go to the guillotine.
Li Mu continued: "If this step is done well, we will announce the decision to acquire less than 3.5 US dollars. By then the stock price will crash, but public investors will not hate us, because before the stock price crashed, their stocks have been sold by these securities The investment institutions have deceived us, and what we are cutting are the leeks of these securities investment institutions. This is tantamount to giving public investors a bad breath. Will they still hate us? No, they will only applaud us and treat us as slaves. For a hero! And a superhero who cuts the bandits’ leeks and avenges them!”
Everyone has a breath of life. If his money is robbed by someone, he will definitely hate the other person. At this time, if someone comes and robs the person who robbed him, and then beats him up, he will feel a lot of relief in his heart. Although the person who came later took away the finances that originally belonged to him.
If it weren't for the mass base, Li Mu would not have given Nasdaq retail investors 150% privatization conditions. Now, now that the masses have lost their Apple stocks, they no longer have to worry about wielding the knife. .
Everyone in the conference room was excited because they realized that Makino Technology was about to get a blessing in disguise!
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When retail investors had almost sold off their Apple stocks, a terrible statement suddenly appeared in the market and on the Internet.
This kind of statement unswervingly claims that Apple investors have been deceived by securities investment institutions. They have created various panics to induce retail investors to sell their stocks, and then they have used various methods to raise funds crazily. Now, in the hands of retail investors ’s stocks have all gone into the pockets of these investment institutions, and they are ready to make a fortune.
Although this kind of speech has existed before, because people are really quiet in the face of panic speech, they have never been able to push their opinions out. But now, this kind of speech has suddenly become overwhelming, and its influence has spread so quickly that it is simply incredible.
However, this kind of statement listed a lot of detailed evidence and further proved his point of view with practical information, which caused a huge impact among ordinary investors!
These investors who realized that they had been deceived were furious and used various methods to criticize, condemn, and protest the investment institutions' practices, but they could only use their words. After all, although the investment institutions' practices were unethical, they were not illegal either. No one can do anything about them.
Stock markets all over the world are like this. It is normal for the stock market to see retail investors being manipulated by the main players. Is this fair? nonexistent.
The more there is no way to redress the injustice, the more the investors who were deceived are holding back a fire, and this fire is getting stronger and stronger. Subconsciously, these investors are beginning to look forward to something that is theoretically impossible to happen. Miracle, they are expecting someone to help them, to fight back against these capitalists who eat people without spitting out their bones, and make them pay the price!
(End of chapter)