My Age of Investment

"Nicholas, don't be angry!"

Steven looked at Nicholas, who was on the verge of eruption, and comforted him with a smile.

"If this transaction is really messed up, none of our shareholders present will benefit."

Nicholas' eyes were burning with anger, and he glanced at all the shareholders except Xia Jingxing.

Many shareholders lowered their heads, because this matter was indeed handled in a somewhat unreasonable manner.

"Okay, if you really want to sell Scape, we can't stop it."

Steven glanced at Nicholas without showing any weakness, "Our shareholders present just want to reach a more reasonable plan."

Other shareholders nodded in agreement.

"That's right, I didn't intend to disturb the pornographic business."

"We just want to negotiate with shareholders again and make a better transaction plan."

"Nicholas, don't be angry, sit down and discuss slowly."

...

Under the persuasion of a group of shareholders, Nicholas temporarily suppressed his anger and sat back in his seat, but his eyes were still fixed on Steven.

Steven stood up and said with a smile: "The pre-acquisition transaction cost 2.6 billion U.S. dollars. Logically speaking, DFJ holds 12% of Skype shares and can get 312 million U.S. dollars, including 156 million U.S. dollars in cash. $156 million worth of eaby common stock.

We can take out part of the cash, or eaby common stock, to exchange the remaining rights and interests of the VAM agreement with other shareholders.

In order to facilitate everyone's understanding, let me give an example! "

"Daren!"

Steven looked at Xia Jingxing who had been silent all this time, and called out his name with a smile on his face.

Xia Jingxing raised his head and looked at each other.

Steven smiled, "Daren, I wonder if it's convenient for Fang to use you as an example."

"As long as you don't curse, you can do whatever you want!"

Xia Jingxing seemed very magnanimous,

Because he more or less guessed Steven's intentions.

"Daren, you hold 8% of Skype's shares. If you successfully complete the bet, you can get a maximum of 120 million US dollars in three years, or the equivalent of eaby shares."

Xia Jingxing nodded, there is nothing wrong with such a calculation.

"But if the bet fails, you won't get a dime."

Steven smiled and said: "That is to say, this is actually a deck of poker, whether it will make a lot of money or nothing is unknown.

I am now willing to spend an extra ten million dollars to buy the deck of poker in your hand, Darren, are you willing? "

Xia Jingxing shook his head, "I definitely don't want to, you can win up to 120 million US dollars in poker, and I will sell you 10 million US dollars?

Anyway, if the bet fails, it means nothing, I am willing to bet! "

Steven looked at the other shareholders and said, "Daren is unwilling to sell this deck of cards, what about the rest of you?"

"I do!"

The shareholder representative of Hongshu Ventures was very cooperative and said with a smile: "Of course, the premise is that the price is reasonable!"

Other shareholders also expressed their views one after another, some willing and some unwilling.

Seeing this, Nicholas understood that DFJ had put his mind on the $1.5 billion bet.

So confident? Aren't you afraid that the failure of the bet will cause DFJ to lose all his money?

Steven has his own considerations. First, he will not pay too high a price to buy the gambling rights in the hands of other shareholders; second, even if the gambling fails, he will not lose too much. Even in the Skype project Yes, it's still a big profit.

"If there is an exchange between shareholders, let's make a decision today!" Nicholas said lightly, "The people at eaby let it go, don't wait for it to be outdated."

"Of course, it won't take too much time."

Steven replied, and began to deceive other shareholders to sell "the right of gambling corresponding to the shares".

Most people don't want to sell because Steven's offer is too low.

Taking Xia Jingxing as an example, Steven wanted to buy a maximum value of 120 million US dollars of gambling rights for 10 million US dollars.

For many people, it's better to keep it in their hands. If the bet is completed, wouldn't it be possible to make another big profit.

Only fools sell it!

"30 million dollars, I will sell you my "120 million dollars"!"

Xia Jingxing, who had been silent for a long time, spoke, looking straight at Steven.

"Daren, don't be kidding. You don't think that the bet can be 100% completed. We are also at risk to get the 120 million US dollars."

Steven smiled and shook his head. He was optimistic about Scape's successful completion of the bet, but he was not 100% optimistic. He was 60% to 70% sure, so he wanted to make a new "second harvest" with a small fortune.

But if the price is not well grasped, it will be harvested by others.

"Then I won't sell it, and I'm not the one who lacks the 30 million dollars."

Xia Jingxing was actually very interested in Steven's proposal, but this thing was a psychological warfare, and he couldn't easily reveal his thoughts.

Gotta hang on!

Steven asked a few more times, but basically no one was willing to sell.

"Steven, no one is a fool, so stop doing these things, it's boring!"

Nicholas thought it was a little funny. Steven wanted to rub other people's IQ on the ground, so he couldn't help but sneered.

"Daren, 20 million dollars, can you sell it? This is the final offer."

After much deliberation, Steven still focused on Xia Jingxing's breakthrough point.

Like Nicholas, last night they DFJ also visited the shareholders of Scape.

Among these shareholders, Xia Jingxing was the most short-sighted. Everyone else hesitated, but this Chinese person rejected them without thinking, and made it clear that he must sell the shares of Skype.

"make a deal!"

Xia Jingxing knew that there was basically nothing left to squeeze out, so he decided to accept it as soon as it was good.

Steven showed a satisfied smile, and looked at other shareholders, "Is there anyone else who wants to sell? We will buy it at the price of Darren!"

In the end, with Xia Jingxing taking the lead, some people actually sold their "rights to bet on gambling".

After all, it will take three years to find out whether the bet can be won or not, and it's nice to be safe now!

In the last inventory, including Xia Jingxing's 8% equity, a total of 40% of the equity corresponding to the gambling rights were sold to DFJ.

The price that DFJ needs to pay is not cheap, it needs to pay 100 million US dollars in cash!

Xia Jingxing has seen the gambling nature of European and American capitalists!

Agricultural products and mineral energy futures were also the first inventions of these people.

As long as it is profitable, everything can be gambled!

DFJ bet 100 million US dollars, and if he wins, he will earn 600 million US dollars; if he loses, he will still have a profit of 200 million US dollars.

Because DFJ A and B invested in Skype for two consecutive rounds, the investment cost was less than 10 million US dollars.

After the meeting was over, Nicholas pulled Xia Jingxing aside and persuaded him, "Dailun, don't fall for Steven's tricks, that guy is clearly just gambling."

"I'm betting too!"

Xia Jingxing still didn't say the second half of the sentence: I bet, I can't finish the bet.

Nicholas is the founder, and will continue to work at Skype, and there are also a lot of potential benefits.

So it's not convenient for Xia Jingxing to say something like "I can't complete the bet", isn't that cursing him?

Seeing that Xia Jingxing was determined to "take it as soon as it is good", Nicholas stopped trying to persuade him, after all, everyone has their own ideas.

After reaching a consensus internally, the negotiations with eaby were restarted the next day.

Nothing happened this time, and all shareholders of Skype happily signed the acquisition agreement.

At the same time, DFJ also signed an "equity transfer agreement" with Xia Jingxing.

That is to say, after signing this agreement, Skyp has nothing to do with Xia Jingxing anymore.

After duck neck and other employees reviewed the agreement, Xia Jingxing readily signed it.

Including the windfall 20 million US dollars, 104 million US dollars in cash paid by eaby, and 1.04 US dollars equivalent of eaby common stock, Xia Jingxing received a total of 228 million US dollars.

It's just that eaby's common stock cannot be sold for the time being. There is a half-year sales restriction period. Once the sales restriction period passes, they can be sold in batches and turned into cash.

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