Chen Wan stayed at Ziyun Villa for two days. After two days, she went to her parents' home in Yanjing, planning to stay with her parents for another two days before returning to Xiangdu.
Li Mu received a reply from Elon Musk, saying that Ford was unwilling to release the price at US$6.8 billion, and the negotiations were temporarily at a deadlock.
It happened that Google CEO Larry Page told Li Mu that all preparations for Google's IPO had been completed and the bell would ring on the Nasdaq a week later.
As the CEO of Google, Larry Page naturally has to attend the bell-ringing ceremony, but he hopes to invite Li Mu to attend, because if Li Mu comes forward to endorse Google, the capital market's recognition of Google will have to be recalculated. .
In view of the current Internet market, although Makino Technology's valuation is only over US$200 billion, which is not even comparable to Ali Tengxun in the previous life, the key is that in this era, there are no Internet companies that can achieve such a high market value.
Therefore, Li Mu’s current identity and status is almost equal to that of Apple’s Steve Jobs + Amazon’s Jeff Bezos + China’s second horse + Mark Zuckerberg + Elon Musk.
If I had to use a word that everyone born in the 1980s knows to describe it, it would be "The Combination of Six Gods".
Think about it, if any company in the future can ring the bell and invite such a group of big names to the platform, it will be a great show.
Now, it is enough to find Li Mu alone.
This time, Nasdaq underwriters gave Google a listing valuation of US$48 billion, a stock issuance price of US$80, and an expected financing of US$4 billion.
Makino Technology, as a 30% shareholder of Google, plans to sell 2.8% of its shares in this IPO.
But even so, Makino Technology’s shareholding will still be 27.2%.
When Google was forced by Li Mu to acquire Muye & Baidu. Inc, a joint venture he established with Baidu, Google seemed to be cutting off some meat, but it was actually a blessing in disguise.
For a big boss like Li Mu, after taking a stake in Google, he immediately directed all search traffic except Huaxia into Google, and even opened multiple entrances to Google search on YY, allowing Google has developed rapidly, and the capital market has increasingly recognized Google.
Without Makino Technology's investment, Google's listing this time would be valued at more than 20 billion US dollars at most. This is without the influence of Muye & Baidu. Inc. If Li Mu fully supports Muye & Baidu. The search engine that was founded, with the user base of Makino Technology, Google will have to be cut in half at least once, or even twice.
In that case, Google wouldn't even be able to get a market value of 10 billion US dollars.
In the current era when Internet payment has not yet been fully popularized and Internet payment has not yet been fully popularized, whoever has traffic is the father, let alone a super dad like Li Mu.
Well now, although Google ceded territory and paid compensation, it also received a large amount of resource injection. After getting a valuation of US$48 billion, looking back at Li Mu's previous coercion, Larry Page couldn't help but feel grateful.
Thanks to the agreement to cooperate with Li Mu, Google has now laid a foundation that no one can match.
Li Mu originally didn't want to participate in such things as bell-ringing. His own company hadn't yet rang the bell, so he went to attend the bell-ringing ceremony of someone else's company. It felt a little uncomfortable.
But if you think about it carefully, you are also a shareholder of Google. If Google's stock price rises, Makino Technology's valuation will also be affected. Not to mention that you are going to the United States to negotiate with Ford, so you might as well make big news.
In Li Mu's mind, he would quietly go to the United States to acquire the three Ford brands. After signing the contract, he would immediately announce it to the world. Then he would go straight to New York and go to Nasdaq to attend Google's bell ringing. , and then officially announced at the Google bell-ringing ceremony that Makino Technology will launch an IPO in the second half of this year. This three-strong streak is bound to have a huge influence around the world.
Thinking of this, Li Mu agreed to Larry Page's invitation, but there was one requirement, which must be kept secret.
Larry Page was overjoyed and quickly agreed. For him, being able to invite the six gods, Li Mu and Li, to the bell ringing scene would definitely be a big deal in terms of face and publicity.
What's more, he knew very well that Li Mu had not participated in any bell ringing ceremony.
In other words, the day Google goes public will be Li Mu’s first time.
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When Li Mu decided to leave for the United States, he called Chen Ze in advance.
Chen Ze is now running between Wanying Real Estate and the racing track every day. He is very busy and has not contacted Li Mu for a few days.
Li Mu asked him as soon as he came up: "Old Chen, what's going on over there at the racing track?"
"It's so awesome." Chen Ze said excitedly: "You've been seeing the dragon all day long. Come to the racing track when you want to see it. Our CSC club is so awesome now. In the Yanjing area alone, there are only two hundred supercar members. There are many, and it’s very lively on weekdays, and it’s even more lively on track days on weekends.”
Li Mu smiled and said: "It's extraordinary... He really knows how to use words..."
After saying that, Li Mu asked again: "How is the kart team?"
Chen Ze said: "We train every day. Before, we recruited a few promising young racers, preparing to participate in the National Youth Karting Championship, and then gradually participate in some international low-level events."
Li Mu nodded: "Are you free these two days?"
"What are you doing?" Chen Ze asked with a smile, "Want to treat me to dinner?"
Li Mu said: "I want to ask you to travel, pack your things, and accompany me to the United States in the next two days."
"I'm dizzy." Chen Ze said hurriedly: "Why do you ask me to go to the United States if you have nothing to do? Can't you ask Wei Lan to accompany you? I'm busy."
Li Mu said: "You know what we are going to do, just let Wei Lan accompany me?"
Chen Ze smiled and said: "I don't know why you are going, but Wei Lan is right to accompany you. It's not like Brother Liang and I don't know about you two."
"Stop it." Li Mu said, "I have important things to talk about when I go to the United States this time, and let me tell you this, if you don't come, you will regret it for the rest of your life."
"Who are you fooling?" Chen Ze snorted: "It's not like I've never been to the United States. I have nothing to regret for the rest of my life."
After saying that, he hurriedly said: "Unless you tell me what to do first."
Li Mu said: "Whether you want to go or not, just go back and pack your things and prepare your passport. Then come directly to the airport. If you don't go, forget it."
Chen Ze hurriedly said: "Oh, come on, Brother Mu, this is really something. You are so busy. Wanying has a lot of things to do every day, the club has a lot of things to do, and the team has a lot of things to do. I am the eight of them all. "Yes, I'm really busy. If there's nothing important, I really won't go to the United States. But if there's something important, please make it clear and I'll definitely follow you there."
Li Mu said: "Let me tell you something. This time I am going to the United States to pick up potential assets of Latin American imperialism. You can think about it yourself."
"Plundering the potential assets of Latin American imperialism?" Chen Ze was stunned: "What kind of fucking disclosure is this? What are you trying to plunder?"
Li Mu said contemptuously: "Forget it, just wait until you regret it."
Chen Ze hurriedly said: "No, no, no, no, brother Mu, I believe in you, I, Lao Chen, have always believed in you..."
As he said that, he calmed down and said, "Come on, just go! I'll say hello to Brother Liang and the others!"
"Okay." Li Mu said, "Go to the airport at ten o'clock the day after tomorrow, the business terminal."
Chen Ze hurriedly asked: "Should we call Wei Lan together?"
Li Mu said: "I take you and Wei Lan away, Brother Liang still has to fight with me."
Chen Ze smiled and said, "He will definitely understand."
"Forget it." Li Mu said, "If I ask Wei Lan to come with me, I don't want to take you with me."
"I value sex over friends." Chen Ze spat and said, "Then let's do it in the morning the day after tomorrow. I won't be poor with you, so I can arrange my work quickly."
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Until he got on Li Mu's business jet, Chen Ze didn't understand why Li Mu was taking him to the United States.
In fact, Li Mu wanted to take him to see the world, as a good brother, and he knew that he loved cars as much as his life. Even though he loved cars so much, his biggest dream was to set up a Formula 3 team and cultivate a Chinese F1 team. How can a racing driver dare to dream of building his own cars, sports cars, rally cars, and F1 racing cars
Li Mu has already found the lever and fulcrum to leverage capital. With his current approach, no matter what he does, he either doesn't do it or does it in a big way.
If we take over the three brands of Ford, it will be easy to start rally racing and touring car racing. After a few years of accumulation and some money, how much can we spend to build an F1 team? It only costs two to three billion US dollars a year, and that doesn't count the income. Sponsors alone can get more than half of it back. If that doesn't work, why don't we just sponsor ourselves? Anyway, there is a promotion budget every year, so where should we spend money on promotion instead of promotion
Therefore, from Li Mu's perspective, setting up his own F1 team is something that is just around the corner.
It just so happened that I took Chen Ze over this time to let him know his strategy. It was also a surprise to him. After all, his next layout in the automobile industry would be dozens or hundreds of times bigger than what Chen Ze had dreamed of. .
After getting on the plane and watching the plane take off in the sky, Chen Ze was still asking Li Mu: "Why are we going to the United States this time? Can we tell now?"
Li Mu waved his hand: "Don't worry, just wait. When we get to the place, you will slowly know."
"Oh..." Chen Ze shook his head helplessly and said, "You're so tight-lipped, you're going to kill me."
Speaking of this, Chen Ze hurriedly asked: "Can you always tell me which city in the United States we are going to?"
Li Mu said calmly: "Dearborn, Michigan."
"Where is this? I've never heard of it..." Chen Ze couldn't help but fell into deep thought.
Before coming here, he had thought that Li Mu might be taking him to New York to engage in some financial operations, or to go to Los Angeles and Hollywood to be cool, or to go to Washington to show off, but he didn't expect to go to an unknown place.
He only knew Detroit in Michigan, but he didn't know where Dearborn was.
In fact, Dearborn is a satellite city of Detroit, which is a bit like a county-level city under the jurisdiction of a prefecture-level city in China. Although everyone knows Detroit, a famous automobile city, not much is known about Dearborn.
Li Mu looked at Chen Ze, smiled faintly, and said, "Keep your heart in your stomach, and you will know everything in twelve hours."
(End of chapter)