America's Road to Fame

Chapter 72: Acquiring Siri
Hearing the news from Nelson, William Chen finally felt relieved.

During this period of time, William Chen had two main worries.The first situation is that the Siri company directly rejects his acquisition request, so that he can only seek temporary investment shares and hold a part of the Siri company's shares.

The second situation is that during this period of time, Apple's Jobs will appear again and make an acquisition request for Siri.

If that's the case, even if Siri rejects the other party's acquisition, it will be difficult to agree to William Chen's acquisition request in the short term, because it will obviously offend Jobs, so that their Siri APP will not be taken down from the AppStore. rack risk.

Fortunately, neither of these two situations happened. Nelson has already started the acquisition negotiation of Siri under the instruction of William Chen.

This kind of waiting in suspense is not comfortable for William Chen.The last time he felt this way was when he bought the New York Observer.

Since then, with the increase of Chen William's assets.There were not too many turmoil in the subsequent investments, so he couldn't help but feel a little proud.

This is also very easy to understand. With the experience of the previous life and the help of the future bank, this kind of emotion is easy to breed when the wind is smooth.

But at this moment, he once again tasted the feeling of waiting for a judgment, which is equivalent to ringing the alarm for him.

Even though he has various advantages, he still needs to be cautious when facing a behemoth like Apple.

What's more, there are still many such behemoths in the United States, and he still needs to continue to work hard.

At this time, the composition of Siri's shares, the three founders still hold 60% of the shares, and the investors of the two rounds of financing hold the remaining 40% of the shares.

Finally, an agreement was reached. William Chen's Meta Investment Company will invest US$1.6 million at a price of US$40 million to Siri's valuation, and acquire [-]% of the company's shares in the hands of the three founders and investors.

In this way, after the acquisition is completed, Meta Investment Company will hold 80% of Siri's shares, and the three founders will hold a total of 20% of the shares.

Finally, Meta Investment Company will continue to invest 6666 million US dollars in Siri. After this investment, the total shareholding ratio of the three founders will become 15%, and Meta Investment Company will hold 85%.

Through this series of operations, the Meta investment company held by William Chen has completed the absolute holding of Siri.

After the acquisition is completed, Siri will continue to be managed by the three founders, continue to improve the Siri APP, and improve the level of artificial intelligence.

In this way, all the US$5 million allocated to the equity investment department of Meta Investment Company has been spent, and the remaining US$1666 million needs to be invested in Siri, but there is no rush to allocate it, and it will arrive within half a year.

However, this does not mean that the task of the equity investment department is completed. William Chen will continue to allocate funds from the profits of the securities investment department. Next, they will return to New York under the leadership of Nelson and start working with Marvel. make contact.

"Nicky, why are you here?"

Having finally completed the acquisition of the Siri company, William Chen was in a good mood. When he returned to his home in Silicon Valley, he saw Paris's younger sister, Nikki, chatting with her in the living room.

"I just finished filming, and then I came to see my sister. I was talking about my sister's affairs. When will there be results?"

Taking advantage of her sister's inattention, Nikki gave Chen William a provocative look and said to him.

This girl is getting bolder and bolder, and now she dares to act like a monster in front of her sister.William Chen didn't bother to talk to her, and went directly to Paris and sat down.

It was Paris who replied to her sister: "It's not that fast. I have to wait a while before the court session. The most annoying thing now is my face. I don't know when it will return to normal. It's so annoying to be bored at home all day long." where."

"Then I just come to stay with you for a few days." Nikki said with a smile.

"That's great, you can chat with me here. William has something to do every day, and he can't see anyone during the day."

Hearing Paris complaining so much, William Chen thought that it would be good if Nikki came to accompany her. He is really busy now.

Although the matter with Siri has been resolved, he still hopes to arrange the matter with HOLA as soon as possible, so that he can return to New York earlier. He has not gone to class yet.

However, even though he is in Silicon Valley now, William Chen still takes time to open his mailbox every day to check the work reports sent from New York, and often needs to reply by phone or email.

When William Chen was looking at the recent investment situation of the securities investment department sent by John Paulson, the door of the study was opened.

William Chen raised his head and saw Nikki walking in quietly.

"Nicky, why are you here?" This scene seemed familiar, and William Chen immediately became alert. He slightly lowered his voice and said to her, "Your sister is still at home!"

"Oh, William, are you working?" Seeing her walking to William Chen's desk and about to look at the computer, William Chen immediately closed the laptop, and she couldn't help but say with some dissatisfaction:

"How mysterious, aha, you are not looking at something unhealthy, are you?"

William Chen glared at her and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? There are my company's secrets here. Of course, they can't be seen by others casually. You'd better get out, it won't be good for your sister to come and see later."

"Who cares to watch it, you are so timid, William, this is not like when you were in RB, you forgot to see you and that female star when I came back that day..."

"Shut up, Nikki, have you forgotten who was crying and begging for mercy?" I have to say that the two Hilton sisters were exactly the same at some point...

"Really? It seems that I really forgot, brother-in-law, why don't you help me recall it." He emphasized the word "brother-in-law" and said with a smile: "My sister just touched my face After applying the medicine, I have to sleep for a while before I can wake up."

"Okay, don't make trouble, Nikki, I have to work now."

"Do you want to work?"

Nikki rolled her eyes and said suddenly: "Then I can help you. I am your secretary Nikki now."

William Chen sized up Nikki, only to see that she was wearing a plaid short-sleeved shirt and a grass-green pleated skirt today, which looked more elegant.

"You don't look like a secretary in what you're wearing now?"

Nikki also looked down at her clothes, she patted her head and said, "I'm not ready today, next time I will dress up a bit, so let's just make it up."

William Chen looked at her suspiciously, not knowing what tricks she was trying to play.

Nikki walked to Chen William's side, supported his leg, and got under the desk in front of him.

"What are you doing, Nikki?"

William Chen looked down, and at this moment Nikki only showed her head, and she smiled charmingly at William Chen.

As he started to move, he said to him: "Don't secretaries always do this kind of work? Look at your documents, I will do it myself."

"Hi~"

It has to be said that this was the first time William Chen had such an experience.

Although he turned on the laptop and continued to read, but at this time his eyes swept over the words, but he couldn't enter his mind at all, and his breathing became more and more rapid.

At this time, his mobile phone on the table vibrated.

William Chen picked it up and saw that it was a short message, and the sender was Nozomi Sasaki.

"William, are you free? It's afternoon at your place."

William Chen checked the time by the way. It was almost four o'clock in the afternoon, so it should not be five o'clock in the morning in Tokyo.

Why did Nozomi Sasaki get up so early?Thinking of this, William Chen immediately replied a text message.

"What's the matter, Xizi, why did you get up so early, what's the matter?"

"It's nothing. I was a little tired after catching up with an announcement, so I went to bed early yesterday and got up earlier today."

Just when William Chen wanted to continue replying to text messages, he received another text message from Zuo Zuo Muxi.

"Actually, I miss you, William, can I go to America to see you? I happen to have a vacation after a while."

William Chen was about to reply to her text message, but felt that somewhere in the distant universe, a black hole was gradually forming, sucking all the surrounding objects into it...

(End of this chapter)