Coca-Cola's current market value is about US$200 billion.

As a leading company among the world's beverage companies, this multinational group is a famous century-old enterprise. It can be said that the history of Coca-Cola is the history of the current world empire in the United States.

World War II of that year.

Coca-Cola is even an indispensable military supply for the US military. It can lack ammunition and food, but Coca-Cola is indispensable. At the beginning, a newspaper said: Among the war materials sent by the United States of America to Europe, 13 of every 100 ships were carried by Coca-Cola.

A little exaggerated.

But from this we can see that this century-old beverage company has an influence in the United States.

Some people may say, isn’t there any Pepsi Coke available? I prefer to drink Pepsi, what does Coca-Cola count?!

hehe……

It's hard to say around the world.

In the United States... Just like KFC was beaten by McDonald's, Pepsi is also the kind that is beaten by Coca-Cola.

Such a business.

Buffett is one of the largest shareholders of Coca-Cola. He has held shares in the company since the last century. No one knows how much he holds. But some people speculate that this respected Mr. Jia Cheng is likely to hold more than 20% of Coca-Cola shares.

And they are likely to be preferred stocks.

Buffett paid too much attention to steady investment. Almost for a while, he bought Coca-Cola stocks if he had a little money, and bought Coca-Cola stocks if he had a little money.

It's exactly this idea.

He is now one of Coca-Cola's largest shareholders.

Now Buffett is willing to exchange 2% of Coca-Cola shares for Blue Star future 10% of its stock.

This is for him.

It may be a sacrifice.

For Abel, this is Buffett's estimate of his Blue Star's future market value, which has reached about 40 billion US dollars. After all, 2% of the shares of Coca-Cola are worth more than 4 billion US dollars.

only……

He still felt that it was too little.

Blue Star will definitely not be able to compete with the world's number one beverage group in the future. However, its potential will not be much lower than Coca-Cola. If you can't compare with it now, it does not mean that you can't compare with it in the future.

A market value of about US$200 billion.

This is also Abel's estimate of Blue Star's future potential.

Now Blue Star 1 production capacity is not good. However, the new factory is still under construction. It is expected that by January 2019, the monthly output can be increased to about fifty units.

At that time, the annual income would reach 60 billion US dollars, and its profit margin was even more amazing.

This is something that Coca-Cola cannot compare to.

therefore.

Even though he was very moved by Coca-Cola stocks, Abel still shook his head.

2% stock.

Even if it is Coca-Cola, the number is too small. Not to mention the fact that it is impossible to achieve absolute holding. But this digit seems too miserable.

"10%! 4% of them are exchanged for Blue Star Future stocks, and the remaining 6%, I am willing to buy them in cash!"

He said to Buffett.

Buffett smiled directly.

If it is really calculated based on 4% of Coca-Cola's stocks and Blue Star Future shares, then Abel's valuation of Blue Star Future will reach 80 billion US dollars.

It’s not that such a company is not worth the price. It’s just that at this initial stage, even interested buyers will refund it.

Abel asked for 10% of Coca-Cola stocks.

It is even more impossible for Buffett.

Buffett values ​​stocks of industrial companies that have a huge influence and are stable all over the world. He would not be willing to trade them with stocks with Internet companies that are worth more than Coca-Cola.

"hehe……"

He smiled calmly.

"If that's the case, I'm no longer the largest shareholder of Coca-Cola... This is impossible! If you want Coca-Cola stocks, if it's only 10%, you can buy so many stocks directly from the market with this money."

"Well...more than 20 billion US dollars!"

Buffett refused.

But Abel said: "The stocks on the market are all common stocks. Now even a stock investor knows that if you want to buy stocks, it is best to buy preferred stocks!"

Preferred stocks are generally stocks with voting rights. If you have enough preferred stocks, even if the overall share is relatively small in the company's shares, you can control the ownership of a company through the rights and voting of preferred stocks.

Just like Redstone's control over CBS and Viacom.

"2.5%...50 billion US dollars in valuation, what do you think? They are all preferred stocks, what you want!"

Buffett offered another offer.

If 2.5%, Blue Star’s future valuation of Buffett is now about 50 billion US dollars.

For a company that has been founded for several years but has just come up with the product until these few months, and the product has not even been verified by the market.

A valuation of US$50 billion.

It is definitely very rich. Even the female version of Jobs's company has bragged so much and attracted so many support from people.

The valuation is not more than that much.

In fact, Abel does not value Blue Star's future valuation. Anyway, this company will not be able to go public in the short term. By the time this company goes public, his strength at that time will probably no longer need the 100 or 200 billion US dollars.

It is precisely because of this.

Only then did he be willing to take out the company's stocks and exchange them for support from Fidelity, Sequoia Capital and KPCB.

Make allies for yourself.

Buffett is now willing to give out real money and exchange it with the valuable Coca-Cola preferred stock, and he agrees in his heart.

Being able to introduce Buffett among the company's partners will be of immeasurable help to Blue Star's future development.

To many aspects of yourself.

It also has very good help.

The only thing that is tangled now is the price issue. Buffett's bid did not meet Abel's expectations, and Abel's price exceeded Buffett's psychological price.

As a businessman...

Bargaining is a must.

"3% preferred stock! Plus 2% common stock! 2% common stock, I can buy it with cash!"

Abel bargained.

Buffett smiled.

Suddenly, he stretched out his hand: "Trade!"

Abel was stunned.

"3% of Coca-Cola's preferred stock will be exchanged for Blue Star's 10% preferred stock in the future! In addition, I can recommend friends and sell you 2% of Coca-Cola's common stock! It's better at the current market price. Today, Coca-Cola's market value is about 208.136 billion US dollars!"

"The price of 2% of common stock is about US$4.16 billion!"

"young people……"

"It was a pleasant decision like this!"

Abel was stunned when Buffett said this directly.

Shouldn't we continue to bargain?

His psychological price is actually 2.5% of preferred stocks, plus a portion of common stock, which is enough.

It is not a surprise to be able to get 3% of preferred stocks now. But surprises are always qualified.

The preferred stock of 3% is already a small shareholder with a large group such as Coca-Cola, which has extremely scattered shares.

I guess he would sell it if he was willing to.

These 3% preferred stocks can even be sold for more than US$6 billion. On the other hand, some people will definitely be willing to invest more than US$8 billion to buy them, which is about US$6 billion.

The reason is just because this is Coca-Cola's preferred stock.

Of course.

Even if he wants to sell it.

It is OK to sell it, but it must be sold to local American companies or merchants. Or it is sold to some guys in Qingmei in Europe.

In addition to these two sides.

Even if he wants to sell it, the federal government and the Coca-Cola board will not let him sell it.
To be continued...