Chapter 165: Acquisition
New York a month and a half later.
“A pleasure to work with.”
Carson stretched out his hand and shook hands with the two representatives of Wall Street institutions in front of him. After shaking hands one by one, he led his team and walked out of the venue in high spirits. Before he completely left the other company, Carson eagerly took out his mobile phone.
, called Kaos, wanting to report the happy news.
He was followed by more than a dozen subordinates, supporting Carson's appearance of a big boss traveling.
"How did things go?"
After the call was connected, Kaos on the other side of the phone asked straight to the point.
Along with Kaos's words, there was the sound of howling wind and the roar of car engines.
"Haha, everything goes well. The two companies have acquired all 7.1% of the shares at a price of 430 million. An announcement will be made shortly."
Carson replied with a smile.
"Well, that's good. I thought Steve Jobs would get involved and ultimately have an impact on your acquisition. It doesn't seem to be the case. So keep working hard and try your best to get absolute controlling rights."
Although Carson couldn't see Kaos's expression, he could still tell from his brisk tone that he was very happy that the share acquisition was successful.
It was impossible to conceal the news of acquiring shares. Even if Jobs didn't inquire, these two institutions would reveal the news and find ways to attract competitors and raise the price.
However, compared to funds, Jobs obviously cannot compete with Google, otherwise they would have solved their own R&D funding problem long ago.
But now they have not done so. It is obvious that Jobs has given up. After all, 7.1% of the shares is far from being able to determine the ownership of the company, and at the same time, they do not have the funds to participate.
"Don't worry, I will keep a close eye on things here, but because the market knows about our acquisition of Apple, the price is not cheap anymore. With the shares of you and Miss Ivana, the three parties will also
But it’s only 20.1%, so with a 51% holding, I think you shouldn’t have too high hopes.”
Carson said with a wry smile. The real situation is not that it is impossible to acquire more shares. The only difficulty is the price. If the price is too high, it is obviously not in their own interests, especially now that Apple does not have
Such a high value.
Therefore, the acquisition of shares can only be done slowly and wait for those shareholders to give up step by step.
After confirming the future plan with Kaos, Carson also walked out of the office building, got in the car and headed towards Google. Compared to Kaos' leisurely life, he had a lot of things to do and needed to go back to deal with them quickly.
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On the interstate mile from San Antonio to Houston in Texas, a Ferrari F50 was running on it, followed by four Cadillacs.
"Hoo...ho..."
After hanging up the phone with Carson, Kaos stepped on the accelerator hard and watched the car speed increase little by little, 70 miles, 80 miles, 90 miles, until it was almost 120 miles per hour.
It stopped accelerating.
But even with such boiling blood, Kaos still felt a little dry in his mouth. His left hand firmly grasped the steering wheel, and the veins on it popped out. At the same time, Kaos's breathing became much heavier.
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I have never driven a sports car so recklessly in the past, which made Kaos' brain a little bit out of control. Fortunately, most of the American interstate highways are straight roads and do not require many other operations. This is why Kaos drives so recklessly.
Of course, the more important reason is that there are bodyguards following behind him, but on the road further ahead, there are also driving vehicles, reporting road conditions in real time, which makes him feel more at ease.
This speed was maintained for almost a minute. During this period, the speed was also reduced, but the speed was maintained above 90 miles per hour.
After knowing that Kaos felt more and more powerless, the sports car could not keep running in a straight line on the road.
Kaos, who was very sorry for his life, completely reduced the speed of the car. After that, Kaos put the sports car on the road, found a safe place and stopped, with the pilot's seat behind his back, and took a good rest, but his face was still.
There was an irritating flush, obviously the warm blood just now had not completely dissipated.
"You were a little too fast this time."
Penelope stood up, adjusted her sitting posture, looked at Kaos and said with some dissatisfaction.
The car was going so fast just now that she was so scared that she shrank under the seat. Now that the car stopped, she took a breath and dared to sit up.
"Hey, I'm really sorry. I've been holding it in for more than a month and I'm a little out of control."
Kaos looked at Penelope, stretched out his hand and took out a few pieces of tissue paper to give to the other party. At the same time, he handed over some mineral water, indicating to the other party to take a sip and clean up the vomit caused by the motion sickness.
I brought Lin Yifei to Texas before and followed the ranches to more than ten ranches before finally choosing a few ranches very close to Houston and buying them all at once to form a ranch.
There are 100,000 acres of super ranch.
After that, we found a professional construction company to re-build residential estates and fences to enclose the land. It took us a full month and a half to finally get everything settled.
Even so, the manor and fence would still take three or four months to be built. This made Kaos finally have to let Lin Yifei return to New York first. After all, the other party had to take various courses. More importantly, Lin Xiaoli spoke.
Okay, after all, it was a bit outrageous to have kidnapped someone else's daughter for several months.
He stayed to discuss the acquisition of the Houston Rockets, and he had already had several negotiations with the other owner on this matter.
It's just that the issue of price has been unable to be negotiated, but in recent days, Leslie Alexander has become somewhat relaxed.
After all, the other party only made a lot of wealth on Wall Street in his early years, and now more of his wealth is used to invest in real estate after retirement. Under his leadership, the Houston Rockets only won the championship in 1994 and 1995.
Later, due to the lack of financial support and the lack of excellent big men tactically, the Rockets, which relied solely on outside support, hovered on the edge of the playoffs in the late 1990s and early 21st century.
And seeing Hakeem Olajuwon getting older has made the team even worse.
Leslie Alexander also had some thoughts of selling in his heart, but he was entangled in the price, so he asked for US$150 million.
How could Kaos agree to this? Without Yao's entry, the Houston Rockets were left with Steve Francis and Cuttino Mobley, leading a group of rookies to work hard on the bench. Kaos
How could you agree to such a high price?
Chapter completed!