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   Chapter 837 Thirty Years Hexi

   Considering GE's current size of more than 400 billion US dollars, raising more than 30 billion US dollars is not too painful, and it has not transferred too many industries.

It sounds scary, with three or four billion dollars in cash, but more of it is based on GE's reputation and equity as collateral, and issued a large amount of new shares and bonds, and then borrowed a sum from the bank to let GE. Electric raised $35 billion in cash!

Whether it is banks, Wall Street institutions, overseas consortia, or leeks, they have never worried about the problem that GE will not be in the accounts. It is really that Welch has taken GE to be a big one in the past few decades. , the annual revenue is hundreds of billions of dollars, and the profit is terrifyingly high. Even if Immelt messes up, with the profitability of General Electric, it is not a problem to pay back the money!

As a result, the stocks and bonds raised by GE were identified as "high-quality assets", and all parties were rushing to grab it. From the day of Immelt's inauguration dinner, this large dollar has already been All the funds were raised, and most of them were taken away by banks, Wall Street institutions, overseas foundations, consortiums, etc. The leeks, who were worth less than 10 million yuan, did not grab much chips.

   Seeing that Immelt raised $35 billion in cash as soon as he took office, the outside world could not help but speculate on what big project Immelt wanted to do.

Now the board of directors of General Electric, as well as investors from all walks of life, are eagerly looking forward to Immelt. Welch is obviously cheap and old. It took a long time to buy a Honeywell company, but he didn't get it. On Immelt's side, a giant company with a market value of three to four hundred billion US dollars was tinkered with while talking and laughing, so that all shareholders of General Electric made a lot of money.

Now all parties at GE are looking forward to the next three fires that Immelt will burn. Everyone believes that Immelt will lead GE to a new height, far beyond the Welch era. the height of!

Song Yang saw that in less than a week, General Electric had raised such a large sum of money, and he felt the strength of the world's largest company. , Immelt is about to give this beautiful knife to Song Yang himself.

A secluded manor in Connecticut is patrolled by armed Blackwater security officers from time to time. The manor is located in the shelter of a large forest. Ma Xuan's mood.

This is also a property of Song Yang, which was converted when Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and General Electric bought the equity of Song Yang ICQ. Now there are dozens of states in America, Song Yang dare not say that they have real estate, but each The capital of the state, there must be real estate belonging to the North American Global Investment Foundation.

Now the North American Global Investment Foundation has set up a special housing management company to manage these properties all over the world. The location is excellent and the environment is good, and they will be reserved for Song Yang and members of the Bruno family to live on vacation. , the rest will be packaged or sold for rent.

  Irene curled up lazily in Song Yang's arms. Here, you don't have to worry about being photographed by the media and reporters, making it a peach-colored scandal or even a scandal that shocked Wall Street, America, and the tech circle.

It's not that the rumors about the scandal between Irene and Song Yang haven't come out. Even a few years ago, it was reported by the lace tabloids. It's just that some things, gossip reports, were caught on the spot. are two completely different things.

   Lying in Song Yang's arms, Irene glanced at the newspaper in Song Yang's hand, knowing that Immelt raised such a large sum of money to buy the equity in Song Yang's hands.

Looking at the various cumbersome documents sent by the ICQ management, Irene was a little disappointed. She knew that with Immelt's character, after becoming the absolute majority shareholder of ICQ, sooner or later, she would break with Irene, or, Also take away the position of ICQ president.

   "I will resign as president of ICQ before the third quarter results this year!"

   After processing a few emails, Irene stood up suddenly, and said directly to Song Yang, regardless of the beauty in front of her.

Irene is also betting. The data collected from various sources shows that ICQ's performance this year is not much better. If Immelt and General Electric really want to take her ICQ CEO position, they will definitely get performance. say something.

   Rather than being ousted from power, Irene decided that it would be better to resign herself first. Anyway, she would never take the blame. ICQ’s performance declined, and even if ICQ collapsed, then Irene’s career was basically over!

Irene decided to follow Song Yang's strategy, take retreat as advance, leave ICQ first, and then use Song Yang's support to fight back to ICQ when the time is right. At that time, she can also do what Jobs did when he returned to Apple. Do it all over again, bloodbath the ICQ board and management!

   Song Yang looked at Irene with a resolute face and knew that she had made up her mind. With Irene's professionalism and character, it was basically a desperate decision to make such a decision.

After laughing, Song Yang looked at Irene and said, "It's okay to take a break, the North American Global Investment Foundation is preparing to invest in a new company, Google, to enter the search industry. If you are interested, you can enter this company! "

   With Irene's qualifications, it is more than enough to be in charge of Google. Irene's current reputation, connections, and influence are not a few streets away from Eric Schmidt? !

Irene is now the "Queen of the Internet", with a very bright resume and a lot of titles on her head. She has served in two Internet companies, Double Click and ICQ, and served as the secretary general of the American Internet Advertising Association. She is still a member of the American Internet Association. One of the chairman, looking at the entire Silicon Valley and the technology industry, is qualified to exist on an equal footing with Microsoft's Bill Gates, AOL's Case, IBM President, Cisco, Intel and other CEOs.

  If you parachute to Google, it’s like Bill Gates personally serving as the president of an Internet start-up company. No matter how successful Bill Gates is left, who would dare to object to this Internet company? !

The same is true for Irene. Google, including the two founders, can only welcome with both hands. How can I object? Once Irene announces this decision, regardless of the Internet market, Google will do it right. It is a proper dimensionality reduction to become a new star in Silicon Valley in an instant!

"Google?"

   Hearing that Song Yang is rare and wants to invest in a new Internet company, Irene became interested. Now ICQ is full of constraints, so Irene can't help but miss the old days.

After making a decision, and then looking at the documents about wrangling and fighting for power and profit, Irene's mentality has also changed a bit. Wall Street of General Electric, Comcast, and Goldman Sachs wants more rights, then Irene will give them, even if After breaking ICQ, Irene didn't have much to worry about, anyway, she had decided to leave the mess to Immelt.

   But if Irene still has a chance to return to ICQ, then these people who have tossed today are all on the blacklist, and Irene will be swept out of the house!

Compared with Welch's retirement dinner a few days ago, today's celebration of Immelt's ascension to the head of General Electric is obviously much larger, whether it is from the lineup of guests who came to congratulate, or General Electric's response is obviously more than one step higher.

The person in charge of the chief commander's office took a special plane early, and brought the handwritten letter of the chief commander and his wife to Connecticut. For GE and Immelt's attention.

   Congressmen on Capitol Hill, governors and state legislators in the states of America, especially those states who want to move GE's headquarters there, are particularly active, and this time they have sent a large lineup.

   As for Connecticut, not to mention, today there are also municipal television stations and media in the state. The most important thing is to report on Immelt's appointment.

On Wall Street, there are countless banks, investment banks, and institutions. There is no institution on Wall Street that wants to offend GE. Today, it can be said that GE has the most glorious moment in the past ten years, and it is also Yimei. A pinnacle of his career!

Today's limelight belongs to Immelt. Anyone with a bit of brains knows that, so the people present, whether they are high-level congressmen or presidents of large groups, are basically like Song Yang and Irene. In the same way, he hurriedly entered the banquet hall without making any shocking remarks.

   But when Song Yang and Irene were about to walk into the banquet hall, the arrival of a person broke everything.

  I saw a large-scale motorcade marching mightily to the front of the hotel in the banquet hall, and then one person, surrounded by many entourages, walked towards the hotel imposingly.

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