Vol 6 Chapter 438: Mixed good and bad

Although he was talking about welcome, Feng Yiping really couldn't hear any welcome in his tone.

But Feng Yiping can also understand this.

Because he knows very well, Mr. Bloomberg, how fancy the shares of Bloomberg are.

If possible, he would definitely hope that he could hold 100% shares.

This is actually quite similar to Feng Yiping.

"Michael, I believe this will be another very wise decision after you decided to start your own business 27 years ago," Feng Yiping said very enthusiastically.

But this still does not make Bloomberg happy. "When will you send someone to talk about specific matters?"

"At the latest tomorrow afternoon, Cummins you met will go to New York instead of me," Bloomberg finally let go. Naturally, the sooner such a matter is settled, the better.

"It's just Michael, before they talk about the specific terms, do we first set the general direction?" Feng Yiping said.

"We know that Merrill Lynch currently holds 30% of your company's shares. I think you buy back 10% and I own 20%. Such a distribution will be very reasonable. What do you think?"

Bloomberg over there was immediately angry, "This is absolutely impossible,"

It sounds like his current anger is really no better than those parents knowing that they have worked so hard to raise up, and they are unanimously worry-free. They have always let their proud daughter have a heart tied to a well-known flower-hearted carrot, and life and death. The anger is low when I don't look back.

"Give you up to 10%,"

"20%, I will solve half of the funds you buy back," Feng Yiping countered.

There was a trace of hesitation over there Bloomberg.

As the founder and chairman of Bloomberg, he is naturally aware of the price of repurchasing shares at this time.

Bloomberg’s value at this time, in any case, is more than 15 billion US dollars. It is to take advantage of Merrill Lynch’s weak period to slash the price and buy back 10% of the shares. At least one billion US dollars or more must be prepared. funds.

In the world, there are people who can raise more than 1 billion to 3 billion US dollars anytime, anywhere, but there are not many. Feng Yiping is one of them, but Bloomberg is definitely not.

He almost subconsciously wanted to ask, what about the financing conditions?

But if he really asks, he will be at a disadvantage, "I will give you 10% at most, this is my bottom line,"

Feng Yiping sneered at what Feng Yiping said to him. An old fox like you, would show the bottom line right from the beginning?

"20%, that's my bottom line," he said, "Michael, you don't want us to raise the price with Merrill Lynch. Let Merrill laugh."

Feeling that Bloomberg’s anger is gathering again, he complained at the right time. You must know that if it is only 10%, it is not enough to offset the benefits that Merrill Lynch should give us."

"I really look down on the other shares held by Merrill Lynch, and I am not interested, so we really have to have 20%."

"15%, you settle 40% of the repurchase funds for me," Bloomberg countered.

"It doesn't matter whether the capital is 40% or 50%, or even more, it is not a problem." Feng Yiping is very confident at this time because of the oil revenue. "But the share ratio, we really cannot be less than 20%,"

"How about this," he thought, "We can specify in the agreement, when appropriate, you have the right to buy back 5% from me,"

This time, Bloomberg did not think too long, "Feng, you are a master negotiator," he praised Feng Yiping, "I agree with you 20% and 10%, but at the same time, you must solve half of the problem for me. Repurchase funds,"

"No problem Michael, we are all partners, none of this is a problem,"

"Also, I request that my representatives have the initiative in repurchase negotiations," Bloomberg added.

Although both reached a general agreement with Feng Yiping, it is impossible for Feng Yiping to raise the price with him, but his character does not allow the possibility of variables on such an important issue.

"I can't ask for it," Feng Yiping said immediately.

Although the US$30 million invested by Merrill Lynch was the key to Bloomberg's start, he believed that in such negotiations, Bloomberg would never consider the old feelings more than 20 years ago.

"Then it's settled, goodbye, my friend,"

As soon as he hung up, Xiao Zhijie and Wang Changning couldn't wait to ask, "It's done? What's the deal this time?"

"How much money do you want to help him solve?"

"It's done," Feng Yiping slapped his hands. "Merrill Lynch holds 30% of Bloomberg's shares. The current market value should be around US$5 billion. Because of another transaction, Merrill should pay us in return. The gap is close to $3 billion,"

"So, I took 20%, and Bloomberg's Bloomberg bought back the remaining 10%,"

"That is, you want to provide him with at least 500 million US dollars of repurchase funds for free?" Xiao Zhijie asked immediately, "500 million US dollars, even if it is put in the bank for one year, there must be..."

Feng Yiping interrupted him with a smile, "Of course it can't be free, at least it must be based on bank financing terms."

"Oh, I understand, I understand," Xiao Zhijie nodded, "It's just that you big bosses won't talk about these details."

Feng Yiping still spoke. Wang Changning on the other side looked at his watch, “In less than 10 minutes before and after, you have negotiated a transaction involving US$5 billion, which is RMB 340 billion. This is really the big boss’s. Demeanor,"

"How can it be so easy, Comrade, Bloomberg is not someone who would easily accept outsiders holding Bloomberg's shares. In order to have the results like today, the preparatory work done before then," Feng Yiping shook his head, "Really. Not one or two points,"

For such a rare and good opportunity as the subprime mortgage crisis, he has already set the general direction, and in the previous years, he has perfected the details step by step.

It can be said that many things in the past few years, including the initial contact with Bloomberg, and even the creation of "Foreword" magazine, all have this consideration.

Of course, the matter that Lauder of Goldman Sachs took the initiative to discuss with him, the acquisition of Hilton from Blackstone, was a surprise.

In fact, after all these years, it is not the first time that he has such an unexpected joy in the matter of his key plan.

He had just arrived in the United States and naturally had the intention of contacting Google, but he did not expect that Page would come to the door because of the cloud computing he proposed.

Apple, he naturally hoped to get a kick, and after having a deep conversation with him, Page actually took him to see Jobs...

Thinking of it, there is really a sense of reward for work.

However, what he didn't expect was that there were two surprises that were actually related to Goldman Sachs.

Goldman Sachs gave him another surprise, naturally, he took the initiative to transfer his shares of Ali to him.

His original plan was to fight hard with Yahoo, but the opportunity came so easy.

"This is the same as one minute on stage, ten years of work off stage," Zhang Yan said at this time.

"It's not that hard, but we do have to do a lot of preparatory work in advance," Feng Yiping said.

Over there, Xiao Zhijie is a little bit dissatisfied, why does Zhang Yan always steal my lines?

But, alas, that's Zhang Yan.

"Today's experience is really precious. Unexpectedly, we just watched a big business involving tens of billions of dollars," Wang Changning laughed.

"Don't, the business you are doing now is definitely better than today's deal?" Feng Yiping said, "Does the future value of Tongcheng.com in your mind only amount to 5 billion US dollars?"

"Well, hehe," Wang Changning scratched his head, "now we still don't dare to think about the future market value,"

Xiao Zhijie asked immediately, "Yiping, what do you think our market value will be in the future?"

"At least it has to be more than $10 billion," Feng Yiping said.

Otherwise, how can it be worthy to integrate so much content on the same city network.

Xiao Zhijie and Wang Changning looked a little confused after hearing this number.

"10 billion~www.wuxiaspot.com~ dollars!"

"Will there be so many?"

"There must be so many," Feng Yiping said.

"I know the boss, you are setting us a task," Xiao Zhijie said.

"Hehe, it's not unreasonable to understand, don't be in a daze, get out of the car," he patted the shoulders of both of them.

"Suddenly I felt that the burden on my shoulders was so heavy that I couldn't walk," Xiao Zhijie said.

"Do you want me to help you?" Zhang Yan said with a smile.

Xiao Zhijie glanced at Feng Yiping, "Hey, no need,"

Feng Yiping was about to speak, the phone rang, and it was Zuckerberg. Is it possible that there is also good news here?

But this time he thought more beautifully, "Boss, I think, I might have screwed up about Twitter," Zack said hesitantly.