"Mr. Zhang, can your friend really help me apply for a prestigious school in the United States? I don't want Harvard or Yale, but any school ranked in the top 100 will do."
Chairman Wei finally showed a hopeful look. He had no choice but to apply for his son's school. Not to mention famous schools, ordinary schools may not be able to apply.
My family is not too rich, so it’s pretty good to be able to pay for the tuition to study in the United States. As for living expenses, I can only save money to live on. If I have more money, I can only apply for scholarships or work part-time to earn some money after my children go there. . Zhang Yao nodded, "You can rest assured that Mr. Mu is still very capable in the United States. Of course, first of all, your young master is willing to go. If he is not willing to go, we are also willing to give him a chance to work with Mr. Mu after he graduates." Looking for a position in the company, of course, it will not be a management position, and neither will you.
I hope he will be overthrown, right? "
After hearing this, it would be a lie to say that he is not tempted. Chairman Wei believes that he can be friends with Zhang Yao. However, he still wanted to confirm it himself, so he asked again, "Which company does this CEO Mu belong to?" of?"
Zhang Yao took out the business card Mu Chenhao gave him before leaving from his pocket, "President of Mu Group in SH City, Mu Chenhao!"
Looking at the gold-gilded business card in his hand, Chairman Wei couldn't control it anymore. He opened his mouth and said, "That's... the founder of Chuangshi Network? Mu Chenhao, the son of the Mu family?"
Zhang Yao smiled and nodded. Chairman Wei agreed without hesitation. Within half an hour, the two parties signed an 8% share transfer agreement.
Zhang Yao looked at the agreement in his hand and smiled helplessly. It seemed that Mu Chenhao's name was more useful than his own.
Subsequently, he continued his efforts and obtained another 5% share from the Mountain City Propaganda Department on the condition of helping Mountain City form a partnership with New York City, USA.
The acquired shares are held by Zeus Industries, which is currently managed by Xia Qingkong. Of course, Mu Chenhao paid for the acquisition himself and only borrowed it from Zhang Yao.
In other words, Mu Chenhao personally acquired 13% of the equity of Information News. Once the management's equity is repurchased, Mu Chenhao's equity in Information News will reach 18%.
Including the 49% obtained from Zhang Yao's previous financing, it just exceeds the 67% equity line of absolute controlling rights.
A week passed quickly. Mu Chenhao came to the Information News again. President Chen Qiang and Li Weiming, who had interviewed him at the time, received him. After some consideration, they readily agreed to Mu Chenhao's request.
As the founder of the Information Newspaper, Chen Qiang certainly has a deep affection for the Information Newspaper. Although he and Li Weiming only hold 5% of the shares, they are the actual talkers of the Information Newspaper.
Due to the equity distribution problem of the information newspaper itself, Chen Qiang was also very distressed about how to achieve the transformation.
In fact, Zhang Yao talked to Information News about financing last year. At that time, he wanted to use 1.5 million yuan to acquire 51% of the shares of Information News.
At that time, the Information Newspaper had just started to make profits. How could Chen Qiang and Li Weiming agree? The matter ended without any problems.
This year, Mu Chenhao made an offer in his own name that Chen Qiang could not refuse. And after a year, Chen Qiang's mentality has also changed a lot.
In this year, although the development of the Information News was unprecedentedly rapid, Chen Qiang also encountered more troubles than ever before.
The Shancheng Propaganda Department and Shancheng Science and Technology Association, which originally didn't care about anything, saw that the Information Newspaper had made achievements. Although they didn't say anything on the surface, they took many actions in private. However, Chen suppressed these for fear of the impact. The military spirit was not known to the people below.
Since then, Chen Qiang has developed a deep sense of powerlessness, which is also a common distress among many entrepreneurs today.
Therefore, this year, when Zhang Yao approached the Information News again, hoping to talk about financing, Chen Qiang had already decided in his heart that external forces must be introduced to check and balance the two major shareholders' covetousness of the Information News.
Things were similar to what Chen Qiang imagined. After Zhang Yao came in, the 5% shares held by himself and the management became the most powerful weapon to balance the two parties.
No matter which party gets its own support and can achieve control, then each party needs to try its best to win over the management. In this case, the actual controlling party becomes their management.
As the saying goes, when fish and clams fight, the fisherman benefits. This is what Chen Qiang had in mind.
So when Li Weiming found him and told him about Mu Chenhao's idea of absolutely controlling the Information Newspaper, Chen Qiang immediately felt that something was wrong and that he was inviting a wolf into the house.
But after hearing Li Weiming's idea of setting up a portal website for the Information Newspaper, Chen Qiang was really unsure about his decision.
After all, he is almost fifty, and his ability to accept new things is not as fast as that of young people. What exactly is this portal that Mu Chenhao wants to build? How to do it? He has no idea at all.
But after carefully listening to what Li Weiming relayed and thinking about it for a long time, he strongly agreed. He had a vague concept before that the information newspaper must transform, otherwise it will be shattered by the impact of the Internet trend.
But what he actually wanted was for the existing information newspaper management team to take the lead, and Mu Chenhao could not interfere. The two people discussed it for two or three days, but no result was reached.
A few days later, news came from the two major shareholders that the two major shareholders made concessions at the same time and gave a total of 13% of the shares to a company called Zeus Industries.
This matter was also recognized by Mr. Zhang Yao, who had previously successfully raised funds. He then reached an agreement with Mu Chenhao and transferred 49% of his equity. Mu Chenhao actually held a total of 62% of the equity, which constituted a controlling stake. .
Li Weiming didn't expect Mu Chenhao to move so fast. He knew with his knees that this Zeus Industry was Mu Chenhao's skin.
At this point, the management represented by Chen Qiang could only do the next best thing and promised Mu Chenhao that he could transfer the equity in his hands, but the management options must be retained. Mu Chenhao also agreed to this plan.
At this point, the Information Newspaper has completely completed the change of ownership and has become an absolute holding company under Mu Chenhao in a practical sense.
Of course, after completing the absolute control of the 13% equity, Mu Chenhao transferred it to Xia Qingkong. This arrangement was mainly made to avoid future policy risks.
And next, there is still one thing that has not been done, which is to find a real helmsman for this portal that is already under preparation!
It's not that Mu Chenhao hasn't considered Li Weiming and Chen Qiang, but they both have their own problems.
Chen Qiang is too ambitious and has too many thoughts. Although he is motivated and suitable for content creation, he is not suitable for taking charge. Li Weiming is good at communication and management, but he is not suitable for taking charge. Therefore, Mu Chenhao took Xia Qingkong and flew back to SH. There was a young man waiting for him to come for an interview.