Wall Street Legend

  Chapter 356 Privatization

  Ye Dongqing has enough time and freedom to think about things that ordinary people don't often think about.

  The level he is in is different, and the pursuit has become different. He has long since lost his worries about material things, so he often thinks about what he should do next and what he should pursue.

Take the 8 million mosquito nets donated to Africa as an example. To him, it is only more than 20 million US dollars, but it may save the lives of hundreds or even thousands of African residents. It is very meaningful. It is also very meaningful to donate Apple computers to China to give poor children in mountainous areas the opportunity to study.

  I didn’t think charity was a thing before, but now I realize that spending money to help others can really buy happiness.

   Of course, it is also a good thing to bring some good reputation by the way. If Danshui Investment Group is not currently burdened with too much debt, he feels that he should continue to help more people without delaying his life and future.

   After all, he is not the richest man in the world. One of his small goals is to get this dazzling title and keep it for a long time.

  In addition, I also want to prove to myself that even cross-bank hedging can be successful.

No one put pressure on Ye Dongqing, it was because he wanted to gain a sense of accomplishment through hard work, just like no one used a gun to force others to spend the rest of their lives jokingly climbing Mount Everest, and no one forced anyone to climb the cliff with bare hands. He is also free. In fact, he can let time go by and gain countless profits with his current investment, but Ye Dongqing always feels that something is missing in his previous life, and he has lost the passion he had when he first started his business.

  After much deliberation, it is probably the fascinating unknown and sense of accomplishment, so he agreed to Mr. McCord's suggestion to start a "second venture"...

Unfortunately, long-term goals are easy to find, but short-term goals are very difficult to find. For the next few hours, Ye Dongqing sat there, not going anywhere except the bathroom, and his mind was filled with a bunch of data and information , I was so worried that I drank two cups of black coffee.

  I have a little idea, but it is not safe. I feel that if I continue to toss like this, it will not have much effect, so I can only forget it today.

   Sighed deeply, and muttered to himself: "It's really hard for ordinary people to get rich."

  Suddenly remembered that I was busy collecting information just now, and forgot to write letters to those potential investors. Now I was too tired to think about it, so I simply took off my clothes and changed into a pair of swimming trunks, and went to swim in the swimming pool at the door.

  At around nine o'clock in the evening, Ye Dongqing swam back and forth more than ten times before taking a shower and going to a private theater to watch a movie. He suddenly admired those hedge fund managers who didn't rely on insider information.

   But if you think about it carefully, it seems that their chances of success are not very high, and most of the time they just earn a small difference in interest.

  …

  The hedge fund department is preparing to start operation. Most of the core members are old employees of Freshwater Investment Group. The running-in period is not expected to be too long.

This is Ye Dongqing's private little hobby. He abuses himself to play, and he can't lose the really important business. The next morning, just after dinner, a stranger was ushered in on the island, a white man named John Stiller The old man, he was looking at everything on this island through the car window with astonishing eyes.

Before Ye Dongqing invested in Green Mountain Coffee, Mr. John Stiller was the major shareholder and founder of Green Mountain Coffee. In the first half of this year, Danshui Investment gave him an acquisition agreement that he could not refuse. Now the old man only holds Six percent of the shares, another co-founder almost emptied the stock of Green Mountain Coffee, and went to travel around the world to enjoy his old age.

The burly adult stallion was ready, and Ye Dongqing personally came to the door to meet him. The two rode around the island and chatted about the company's recent developments. Cut to the chase.

  "I think there is a problem with the company's current development. In my opinion, it is far from enough to focus on the office market. Green Mountain Coffee should enter more families. The current performance does not satisfy me."

  Ye Dongqing's words sounded like accusations to Mr. John Stiller, but his tone was very calm, and there was even a smile on his face.

This made the old Mr. Stiller a little confused. Since Danshui Investment Group took a stake, the sales of Green Mountain Coffee have increased gratifyingly. In the third quarter, it has increased by eight points compared with the same period last year, and the management and operation costs have also been greatly reduced. I came here today to talk about advertising on Facebook, but now the old man held back his words and told: "We have tried to enter more families, but the market has almost been divided up, and it is difficult to continue. Grabbing a piece of the pie, unless we use the intensive advertising bombardment to make people willing to throw away their current coffee machines and buy our products instead.”

  Currently, Green Mountain Coffee’s profit last year was only more than 13 million US dollars, and it is estimated that it will rise to almost 20 million this year.

Originally, this kind of achievement made the old Mr. Stiller very proud. After all, the income of ordinary small companies was much stronger than that of ordinary small companies. But in front of Ye Dongqing, a perverted Chinese guy, he really didn’t dare to say anything. Kick yourself, the founder, out of the game.

   "I can see your efforts, sir, the idea is good, but not enough, I think the potential of Green Mountain Coffee is far underestimated.

The reason why I came to you today is mainly to talk to you about the delisting of Green Mountain Coffee from Nasdaq. The listing will only hinder its development and not help much, right? After the delisting, I gave the company more financial support, including investing in the acquisition of Krieger, obtaining its patents for the production of K-cups and coffee machines, and fully utilizing the Internet resources in my hands to promote this company. "

  That's right, Ye Dongqing is going to forcibly privatize and delist this cash cow company. Since a company can go public, it can naturally delist after meeting certain conditions.

  Different from some rotten companies that are forced to delist, the premise of privatization is often that the company has a good prospect, and the controlling shareholder believes that the current company's stock price is obviously undervalued, so the stock price is very cheap at this time, and it is profitable to buy back a large number of stocks.

After privatization, Danshui Investment Group can greatly reduce the loss of other shareholders sharing the company's profits, enhance its control over Green Mountain Coffee, and is less restricted by investment institutions and regulatory agencies, and there is no longer any compulsory listing. It also saves a lot of information maintenance costs. There are many advantages and almost no disadvantages. The only disadvantage is that the scattered small shareholders must be compensated and bought back from them with real money. The premium rate Probably more than forty percent, even forty-five percent.

  Old Stiller was obviously a little confused, almost fell off his horse, and asked Ye Dongqing in a daze, "Privatization and delisting, are you sure this is the real idea?"

   "Otherwise, could it be possible that you were rushed all the way here just to joke with you?"

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  (end of this chapter)