Chapter 3219 Find it first

The valuation of five billion US dollars far exceeds the true market value of Skyline.

Although Steve gave a time limit of three years to get the money, at least there is no performance bet. In other words, as long as Skyline's shareholders sign, they will definitely get the money.

These days, the worst thing to sign is a bet agreement. The world situation changes as fast as lightning. You may feel today that your industry will become a hot spot in the next three years, but tomorrow the entire industry may be completely ruined. In this case, no one dares to bet that future performance will continue to rise.

So, Carl had the answer in his mind almost immediately. He had no reason to refuse this proposal.

However, he still hoped to gain greater benefits. After all, he was facing the second in command of the Rothschild family. The Rothschild family was rich enough to rival a country. Five billion and six billion, to them, might be like fifty thousand and sixty thousand in the eyes of ordinary middle-class people. It was normal to spend a little more money when they found something they liked.

Thinking of this, he said to Steve, "Mr. Rothschild, we can accept the terms of your proposal, but the company's valuation is slightly lower than our expectations. We hope to increase Skyline's valuation to 6 billion. If you accept it, we can sign the contract at any time."

Steve was not a sucker. He smiled calmly and said, "I made this offer based on my personal interest in the remote sensing satellite industry. If I had to analyze Skyline's actual value and development space based on a rational market analysis, I would not have come here at all. So this price is the maximum price I can offer. I can assure you that there will be no room for the price to increase. As for whether there is room for it to decrease, I cannot guarantee that."

Steve's attitude put Carl in a dilemma.

He didn't know whether Steve was telling him the truth or deliberately lying to him.

The most important thing now is to try whether Steve is determined to acquire Skyline for some reason.

If so, then I will hold on to the six billion dollars and will not give up. No matter how he tries to explain himself, I will definitely win in the end.

But if not, he would probably lose a golden opportunity to get out of the predicament because of the 6 billion offer.

Seeing that Carl was hesitant, Steve took out his phone and said calmly, "It seems that three days is too long for you. How about this? I'll give you three minutes to think about it. As long as you say yes, 25 billion in cash will be deposited in your account within ten minutes. If you say no, or say anything unrelated to yes, I will immediately stop the acquisition and return to New York. You decide, and the countdown begins."

Carl was so nervous that he almost broke out in a cold sweat. It felt like he was playing a quiz game. He had answered the last question and accumulated a large amount of bonus. If he chose to answer this question, he would be able to win more bonus. But once he lost, all the previous bonuses would be reset to zero.

If you give up the last question, the accumulated bonus will be safe in your pocket without any risk.

Two minutes passed quickly, and Steve reminded, "It's the last minute. If you still can't make a decision, I'll be back in a minute."

Carl looked at Steve, hesitated for a moment, and finally made up his mind and blurted out: "Yes! I choose Yes!"

After saying this, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Steve nodded and said, "Give me the bank information of all your shareholders. Two and a half billion US dollars will be paid to each person's shares within ten minutes."

Karl exclaimed: “Mr. Steve, isn’t it…isn’t it necessary to sign a framework agreement and then wait for the audit before paying?”

The normal acquisition process is very cumbersome. In order to ensure that the acquired company has no hidden minefields, the acquirer must hire a professional audit team to conduct strict audit work. The main task is to check whether the situation described by the other party is true. Only after ensuring that there are no problems will the payment process begin.

However, he was shocked by Steve's approach. Not to mention an audit, he didn't even sign a framework agreement and just directly paid 25 billion US dollars. This was too much of a joke.

Seeing Carl's surprise, Steve said calmly, "No one in the world has been born who can cheat money from the Rothschild family. Since you have agreed to my offer, I will have to pay you the money sooner or later. It doesn't matter if I pay you sooner or later. If there is any problem with the audit, I have plenty of ways to make you pay back the money with interest."

Carl understood instantly.

For the Rothschild family, they never have to worry about someone defaulting on their payments. If anyone in the United States dares to default on the Rothschild family's debts, the other party will definitely pay a heavy price.

Even if Steve gave him the money first, he would never dare to put obstacles in his way during the subsequent acquisition process, let alone take the money and not do the job.

So, he immediately said excitedly and gratefully: "Mr. Rothschild trusts us so much, we will definitely not let you down!"

Steve nodded and said, "After the money arrives, I will give you an interface address. You must open the crawling rights of all the data in your database to this interface in the shortest possible time."

The connection of data is like the connection of electricity, and the interface is like the socket in the home. Once the interface is created, other devices can obtain electricity or data through the interface. As long as the interface of Skyline's database and the interface of the Ai model are interoperable, the Ai model can continuously capture data from Skyline's database.

Karl naturally had no reason to refuse Steve's request. He said without hesitation: "Please rest assured, Mr. Rothschild, we can share all our data through the interface at any time."

Steve smiled and said, "Very good. I like doing business with people like you. After the data interface is opened, your satellite orbit information will be synchronized. In the future, my people will tell you what your satellite should focus on. You just need to follow my instructions."

Karl nodded and said quickly: "Okay, Mr. Rothschild, everything is up to you!"

After one hour.

All Skyline shareholders received their fair share of the acquisition proceeds.

After the payment of $2.5 billion was completed, Steve didn't even want to waste time signing the contract, so he immediately called Ye Chen and reported to him: "Mr. Ye, the acquisition of Skyline has basically been completed. We can start connecting to the database and grabbing data."

Ye Chen was overjoyed. As a Chinese, he was originally unable to purchase an American company, but Steve took over it completely in just a few hours. The efficiency was truly amazing.

Now that Skyline is in hand, the next step is to see how to combine the Ai model with Skyline’s data to maximize its effectiveness.

So, Ye Chen took Lin Wan'er to meet with Lang Hongjun and Li Yalin to discuss.

Lang Hongjun is proficient in technology, so he said to everyone: "The data in the Skyline database is already astronomical. It will take a long time for us to grab such a large amount of data through the interface, so I suggest that we can first select a regional range and let AI grab satellite images of this area from the Skyline database first, and then let AI enhance the image quality. In this way, the computing power will be concentrated on a specific area, and the results will be achieved faster."

Li Yalin said: "In that case, why don't we start from Lagos, Nigeria? First, get the video data of the oil extraction companies near Lagos and let AI analyze it to find out where the Qing-breaking Society is stationed in Nigeria. Let's put it aside and find it first!"