"Mr. Zhou, our investment team had a conference call with senior executives of Citibank last night, and this was the email they sent there.

Mercedes-Benz is currently only willing to sell 5% of Tesla shares, but Japan's Toyota and Honda are also selling Tesla shares because they want to enter the new energy vehicle field. They are also preparing to acquire some. In addition, some other investors on the market also have some tendency to sell. The total share of this acquisition is about 8%, and Citibank's estimated price is US$1.03 billion." Tao Weidonghui, the new director of the investment department of Toutiao, reported.

Zhou Yujie nodded and said, "Then just agree."

When he just started his business, Zhou Yujie arranged for Tao Weidong to go to the United States to acquire Bitcoin, and the initial results were also very good. In the past one or two years, with the intervention of speculative capital from all parties, Bitcoin was scavenged thousands of dollars, attracting the attention of almost global capital and home searches.

In addition, Toutiao has developed very smoothly in China and needs to set up a special investment department. Zhou Yujie transferred Tao Weidong back from the United States and served as the head of the investment department.

In the early stage of entrepreneurship, Lin Youde was the best one, the worst one, and the vice president of the company's core department, which was the reward for initially joining the company.

Tao Weidong was stunned for a moment and said, "Mr. Zhou, Citibank obviously has a price increase component, and it may be possible to talk about the acquisition price again?"

Zhou Yujie waved his hand and said, "You can talk a little, but don't waste time too much. Time is more important to us."

Musk is now constantly testing the rockets. Although he has not gone to space, the video of rocket hovering and returning to the position is amazingly visited by the oil pipes. The reputation of Iron Man in Silicon Valley is also getting bigger and bigger. As the founder of Tesla, when his fame becomes bigger, Tesla's fame will also be affected. In addition, Tesla's production capacity problem has gradually been solved over time, and Tesla's stock is also rising rapidly.

When buying such stocks, you must make a quick decision, otherwise it will be more costly. Over the years, this kind of thing has often happened in the domestic real estate market. People who buy houses hesitate to bargain, but later the house prices rose and they could only buy houses at a higher price.

"Okay, I'll notify Citibank immediately now." Tao Weidong said.

Zhou Yujie continued: "The price of Bitcoin has been relatively high recently. We will arrange for the team in the United States to sell some appropriately. I guess it will fall in the future. We will buy back some at that time."

"Okay, understand." Tao Weidong nodded and agreed.

He had been buying Bitcoin for his boss in the United States before, and in his spare time he also bought some of them. As the price of Bitcoin has risen to several thousand dollars, his net worth is as high as tens of millions of dollars.

However, compared with Lin Youde and Zhong Guangwei, the top executives who hold original stocks of Toutiao core resources, are still far behind.

And although he is rich, he is just rich. Even if he cashes out Bitcoin, it is just a bunch of numbers. For them who do not pursue wealth, resources and rights are the most important.

These resources are not exchanged for hundreds of millions. Instead of starting a business by yourself or squandering your own life, it is naturally the best choice to continue to serve as a company executive on Toutiao. You can get a lot of stocks every year and there are no business risks.

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After another half a month, Citibank and Toutiao representatives signed equity transfer agreements with Toyota, Honda and Mercedes-Benz respectively. Toutiao has since acquired 8% of Tesla's stock. In addition, the US financial team also acquired it in the secondary market for a while ago. By December 2014, Toutiao held a total of about 9% of Tesla's shares.

However, people like Musk must have been preventing control of the company for a long time. They have no voting rights if they can be circulated outside or have previously raised funds. Zhou Yujie didn't think much about this. Not to mention Chinese, such high-tech enterprises, even if European capital wants to acquire them, the American government cannot pass the qualifying level.

Fortunately, Tesla is not currently considered a "high-tech enterprise" defined by the US government. Otherwise, a foreign capital cannot hold 5% of the shares of a listed company in a US high-tech enterprise, which can destroy half of Zhou Yujie's plan.

Toutiao used overseas game profits to pay US$350 million, and the remaining US$700 million were all taken by Citigroup loans, including agency fees that needed to be paid to Citigroup.

The transaction price this time is about 30% of Tesla's current stock price, which is also the reason why Citi can quickly win this part of the stock. If you spend enough money, the fewer competitors will be, and the lower the possibility of any trouble. After all, Mercedes-Benz also hopes to get higher returns.

According to the plan, the US financial team will continue to acquire Tesla's shares, but according to US law, 10% is almost the upper limit, because US law stipulates that every 5% of the acquisition of shares by major shareholders of listed companies will need to be officially announced. At the same time, the China Securities Regulatory Commission will also have the right to reject it, which makes it difficult for Toutiao to overcome this level, and even if it is passed, Musk and other investors will definitely react.

There is no need to go too far on other people's territory. Anyway, this is not a strategic investment, it is simply a profit. In the future, when your new energy vehicle or driverless technology is in serious burning money, you can sell it to raise funds.

Zhou Yujie was in a good mood and invited several senior executives of the company to come to the company's cafeteria to prepare some side dishes in the kitchen. While drinking beer, everyone was discussing things inside or outside the company at will, focusing on relaxation.

Halfway through, Zhong Guangwei suddenly received a call and said to Zhou Yujie: "Mr. Zhou, I just got the news that JD has obtained a third-party financial license and also established a fund. Now JD APP has begun to promote its own JD Payment, and our Quxin Payment position is also placed second. With some page designs, it is estimated that the traffic will drop by at least 50% or 60%. If JD has other actions in the future, the decline may be even greater."

"As expected, don't worry too much." Zhou Yujie nodded and said, "We now support Pinduoduo's traffic is more than ten times that of JD.com. In addition, we have also opened up Tiantian Express and terminal express cabinets. Liu Changdong must have seen that we are determined to support Pinduoduo. Naturally, he may establish his own business, and it is possible to even defect to Tengxun."

Lin Youde said: "Even if you are expected, why should you cut off the traffic from JD.com? Should you sue the legal affairs side? After all, they breached the contract first."

"Since Liu Qiangdong has made such arrangements, he is probably ready to respond. Since he is determined to give us money, how can we not do it?" Zhou Yujie smiled and said, "If you want to do traffic, you should also cut it off first. However, if JD.com does not provoke it on its own initiative, there is no need for us to conflict with them in the media. Just follow the contract."

Business belongs to business, and when a contract is signed, it is based on a contract. The same is true for breach of contract. It is common between large enterprises, especially Internet giants, but it still needs to cooperate in the future. There is no need to do it because of a small matter.
Chapter completed!