Chapter 2575: Driving people away

Jamie Damon has a lot of connections.

He is a world-renowned financier who makes waves on Wall Street.

And he also controls the world-class investment bank JPMorgan/Chase.

Morgan/Chase was founded by the Morgan family. In American history, the Morgan family is also a legendary wealthy family as famous as the Rockefeller family.

However, after two hundred years of development, the descendants are not filial, and the current situation is similar to that of Rockefeller.

The Morgan family has long lost control of JPMorgan Chase, and its shareholding has been diluted to less than one ten thousandth. It only sends a symbolic representative to serve as a director with little say in Morgan's board of directors.

As the chairman and CEO of Morgan, Jamie Damon naturally has a relationship with the Morgan family.

The Morgan family was once extremely illustrious and had numerous collections, especially thousands of pieces of extremely exquisite Chinese porcelain, each of which was as good as a chicken vat cup.

However, descendants are unfilial.

Because after the elder died, the younger generation had to inherit a large collection and needed to pay 50% inheritance tax... It couldn't be paid, and the descendants were not interested in the collection, so they sold it all.

The person who took over was David Rockefeller, who is more than a hundred years old and is still alive today.

Zhou Buqi has little interest in art from Europe, America, India, Korea, Japan, Latin America, Egypt, and the Middle East. If there are too many, he may not be able to afford them.

Today’s art market is different from what it was 70 or 80 years ago. A piece of art can easily cost millions of dollars. If I had the chance, I would be satisfied if I could buy back some more treasures that represent Chinese civilization.

Jamie Damon intends to have a good relationship with Boss Zhou.

Not only the rise of PayPal, but also the listing of Ziweixing and Ziweixing International in the future, as well as more startups related to Boss Zhou.

JPMorgan/Chase have to participate. This IPO capital feast is the carnival that every investment bank dreams of.

When Zhou Buqi came to New York this time, he was accompanied by two Korean girls, Xu Zhuxian and Zheng Xiujing. They were busy with work and pressed for time. Since they came to the United States, they naturally had to stay with the big boss.

Zhou Buqi didn't hesitate. He went to visit Carl Icahn's house the next day and took the two of them directly.

After coming here, he said he wanted to ask Carl Icahn for help and contact Rockefeller...

But before he finished speaking, Carl Icahn stopped him, "Don't even think about it! This is impossible!"

Zhou Buqi was slightly startled, "What's wrong?"

Carl Icahn said: "His family and I are sworn enemies. I once engaged in Mobil Oil and directly caused them to lose control of the family business. There was a guy named Ron who later committed suicide. Many people said that he was I was angry. But in fact, I only made some money that time. The Rockefeller family was not united and their standards were poor, so others took control away from them."

Zhou Buqi was angry and funny, "How many people have you offended?"

Carl Icahn didn't take it seriously and said with a smile: "As long as you don't offend people like you, those old families are stupid and have a lot of money. They are like warehouses with open doors. If I don't rob them, they will be robbed by others." Robbed."

"Me?" Zhou Buqi shook his head, "I'm still far away!"

Carl Icahn pointed at him and said with a smile: "Then you are too humble. You are no different from Bill Gates. If I attack Silicon Valley, I dare to attack outdated business elites like Yang Zhiyuan and Michael Dell." I don’t dare to offend you young people who are active on the front line.”

Zhou Buqi is really not interested in this kind of American family dinner.

The main reason is not eating well.

A rich man of this level doesn't even hire a five-star chef. He just pretends that the dinner his wife cooked is some kind of delicacy, and he keeps showing off.

In comparison, going to Europe is much better.

When I went to Korea and Japan, the scene was even bigger and more impressive.

After simply eating some beef pie, Zhou Buqi mainly told him about PayPal, "I have already found the CEO, Dan Schulman, the senior vice president of American Express."

Carl Icahn said without hesitation, “No problem!”

Zhou Buqi said: "It's best to find a way to get Pierre to leave the board of directors."

"Huh?" Carl Icahn was a little embarrassed. "This is not easy."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "We don't want him to leave now. Bill Gates is not willing to do that. We will wait until PayPal is listed and the stock price stabilizes before making some adjustments. I really don't want to work with him. If PayPal wants to have a long-term For development, it is best to have a stable and united board of directors.”

When PayPal goes public and everything is settled, it will be easy to kick Pierre off the board of directors...

However, this will give you a bad reputation.

Zhou Buqi didn't want to do it himself.

PayPal was not a company he founded, he took it over halfway. If he had driven Pierre away and created a board of directors that was almost monolithic, it would be too suspicious of a dictatorship.

There will be some adverse effects.

There is no need to worry about Carl Icahn. This old man is already notorious. Let him threaten and intimidate Pierre. It doesn't matter how bad his reputation is.

Carl Icahn was a bit embarrassed, "A lot of things have been done in order to spin off PayPal."

"How about..." Zhou Buqi coughed, "Do it again?"

Carl Icahn said angrily: "You do it yourself!"

Zhou Buqi sighed: "I'll solve it. Of course it's okay, but I'm afraid it will affect the business. After PayPal goes public, a series of reforms are needed. The first thing is to get rid of the e-commerce company with more than 6,000 people. The burden of the department. Without this burden, without any financial skills, PayPal can make a profit every quarter."

"Can it be profitable?"

Carl Icahn raised his eyebrows.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Of course, PayPal is an Internet company that has been around for more than ten years. It is very inappropriate if it continues to burn money. It should have made profits long ago."

Carl Icahn is also a traditional investor. He is not very interested in technology stocks that only tell stories but do not make money. But once they generate sustained profits, it will be attractive to him. "If this is true, I can hold more shares of PayPal." For a period of time."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "I have already said that I want to build PayPal into an Internet giant with a market value of more than 300 billion US dollars. PayPal's stocks must be long-term holdings and value investments!"

Carl Icahn nodded, "Since there is no rush, let's talk about it later. If after PayPal goes public, its business develops stably, its structural adjustment takes effect, and it really continues to generate profits as you said...then I will help you." Get Pierre out! I'm tired of him too, he's just the second Yang Zhiyuan!"

Zhou Buqi achieved his goal and said with a smile: "It's a deal!"