Hong Kong's new giants

Next, executives from both sides exchanged ideas one after another, and Gao Kelin, the president of The Ninth City, was invited to communicate with Sony's game department.

After Lin Zuhui finished his inspection, he and Liang Zhenxun came to an office in Tokyo.

"How is the purchase of Sony stock going?" Lin Zuhui asked.

After the Nikkei fell below 15000 points, Lin Zuhui ordered the securities department of New Era Group to buy Sony shares again, with a total investment of about 50 billion Hong Kong dollars.The New Era Group made a profit of about 25 billion Hong Kong dollars by short selling the Nikkei index, and directly took back 20 billion Hong Kong dollars in cash from the headquarters.

Liang Zhenxun said: "The progress is already 80%, and it can be completed this week!"

Lin Zuhui said with satisfaction: "Well, this wave of T is done perfectly!"

I started investing in Sony in the second half of last year, but I didn’t expect a loss of 2 million Hong Kong dollars, and then New Times Group sold it before the Hanshin earthquake.Once sold and bought, the price difference is [-] billion Hong Kong dollars, which is equivalent to making a profit.

Today, Sony's market value is less than 200 billion US dollars. When the market value is 1100-1200 billion, it is a good opportunity to cash out, and a six-fold increase in value can be regarded as a relatively good profit.

In the next two days, Lin Zuhui successively inspected the businesses of LEIT Group and Wanhui Media Group in Japan before returning to Xiangjiang with satisfaction.The Japanese market is so big, as the market second only to the United States, it has always been a market that Lin Zuhui can conquer.Of course, only small achievements have been made so far, which are completely worthless, and we must continue to work hard.

Back in Hong Kong, the ninth city, a subsidiary of Wanhui Media, released the achievements of "Resident Evil" so far. It sold 15 sets in 50 days, and it is expected to become the first original game for PS game consoles to break through one million sales. game.

After being exaggerated by the media, the citizens of Xiangjiang were in disbelief for a while. Mr. Lin Zuhui is really a "god" existence, he can succeed in everything, and he can also achieve impressive results overseas.

In the previous life, there were so many rich people in Xiangjiang, but Li Chaoren was the only one who was rated as a world businessman, because he made far more money overseas than Xiangjiang and the mainland.

But now, Lin Zuhui's career is obviously even better.

……

At the end of June, the Singapore trading department of Barings Bank.

Pete walked into the trading room and announced the good news: "Brothers, after the delivery is over, the headquarters has arranged a vacation in Hawaii for us. You can bring your girlfriends and wives, and the company will pay for it."

"Wow, awesome!"

"I love Barings, I love the boss!"

All of a sudden, everyone howled excitedly.

Pete smiled. The company was so generous, which he did not expect. After all, they were only executing orders; but he vaguely knew that the company also hoped to use the Singapore trading department as a public opinion publicity-a classic case of turning defeat into victory, washing out Barings Bank past history.

This short-selling of Nikkei only made a profit of 1.7 million U.S. dollars again. Adding the profit of 1.8 million U.S. dollars in May, the total profit reached 3.5 million U.S. dollars.

Compared with the previous loss of 14 billion US dollars, the money earned this time is only a fraction, but it is just like this, but it has been well received by all parties, and it is stable and profitable. Why not do it!

at the same time.

Octopus Bank also bought 1.1 million US dollars of Nikkei futures index (25 times leverage), and the current average buying point is 14850 points; Buy Nikkei futures for $15000 million.Obviously there is still a chance, and it may end up investing around US$1000 million.

……

New Era Group.

Corbett came to Lin Zuhui's office and handed in the expansion proposal of Langham Hospitality Group.

Lin Zuhui flipped through it, and according to the proposal, three Langham Hotels (five-star hotels) will be signed this year, located in Sao Paulo in Brazil, Los Angeles in the United States, and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia; Times Group's Langting Hotels will reach four.

He read the proposal very quickly, and Corbett waited patiently, knowing that the boss would give him an answer soon.The boss has such a huge business, so he likes to finish things on the spot.

Lin Zuhui said: "Using the local cultural elements of Sao Paulo and Riyadh to integrate into the Langting Hotel, I very much agree; including the Langting Hotel in London, we also do the same, very good... Well, you remember, if the Langting Hotel in London Opening, we can create an 'afternoon tea' culture, celebrities and aristocrats in London come to our Langting Hotel for afternoon tea... In this way, it can be regarded as one of our characteristics."

Corbett immediately said: "Okay, I will write it into the plan immediately."

Just a small suggestion, nothing much.

Soon, Lin Zuhui said with satisfaction: "The plan is very good, I hope you will implement it well. Langham Hospitality Group is committed to becoming a worldwide hotel group, so your team has a heavy task."

Corbett said seriously: "Boss, don't worry, the Hong Kong brand hotel is an important force in the world's hotel field. Moreover, we have developed overseas for so many years, and we will definitely live up to your expectations."

Xiangjiang people do have a way of making hotels. The top ten hotel groups in the previous life, Hutchison Whampoa, and Shangri-La Hotel Group, are all ranked first; behind them are New World, Hang Lung, Lui Che Woo and other hotel tycoons. It is also very influential.

However, Lin Zuhui's ambition is even greater, at least he must be in the top five, or even the top three of the hotel group.

Lin Zuhui said: "I would like to make a few more requirements: first, Langham Hotel should develop at the speed of signing three companies every year; second, your management team should always pay attention to the advantages brought by information technology to the hotel industry, and The first is to integrate the Internet into all aspects of the hotel field; the third is to develop Europe and the United States first, and then develop Asia.”

Corbett immediately said: "I remember!"

Langham Hospitality Group has three business sectors: hotel management (light assets), hotel group (heavy assets), and cultural tourism (light heavy assets).

Corbett is the president of the entire group, but mainly manages the hotel group; the hotel management company is headquartered in the United States, and it is a listed company, and the president is a native of the United States; the cultural tourism group is a cultural and tourism industry based on Club Med, including beautiful Hua Group's tourism company will eventually be included in this group. The president is a former French Disney executive with very good capabilities.

There are naturally many advantages to operating the three businesses separately. Even the Marriott Group formed this model in 1993, operating light and heavy assets separately.

The hotel business as a whole has just developed. Without New Era Group's strong financial strength, it will soon become a worldwide group.

……

In early July, Lin Zuhui heard a "surprised" news, and immediately came to the United States by private jet.

It turned out that Marriott Hotel also took a fancy to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Group and was contacting Holmes and others with the intention of winning the remaining 52%.

Of course, Holmes still told Langham Hospitality Group about this matter, because the two parties agreed that Langham Hospitality Group has the right of first refusal.

Up to now, the only way to buy the Ritz-Carlton Hotel is immediately. Although the price is huge, it is not unaffordable.

Lin Zuhui first came to the New York headquarters of Langham Hospitality Group, and met Corbett, Li Mingtao and other executives.

"What is the status of the talks between Marriott and Ritz-Carlton, did Holmes disclose?"

Corbett immediately said: "It hasn't been revealed yet, but it can be seen that the price offered by Marriott is not high, otherwise Holmes and the others would not have been so kind to inform us as soon as possible. And it can be seen that Hall James and others want to sell all their shares at a high price."

Lin Zuhui nodded. Last time, [-] million US dollars was really high, so that Holmes and others quickly agreed; as a local brand Marriott Hotel, it is impossible to be so generous.

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Group should only be worth 12 to 15 billion US dollars in terms of value, but Lin Zuhui directly gave a valuation of more than 16 billion US dollars.

Of course, doing business is like this sometimes. When you see a brand you like, you can buy it at a premium; if it is a normal purchase, you can naturally bargain.

Lin Zuhui immediately said: "Well, let's go to the Ritz-Carlton Group tomorrow to acquire the remaining 52% of the shares! Just in time, the group has recently made more than 5 million US dollars in Nikkei futures index and foreign exchange. I don't feel bad either!"

All the hotel executives laughed. In Langting Hotel Group, everyone put more work into the hotel from site selection, decoration, and operation.Funding work is relatively easy.

……

At the same time, Bill Marriott, the president of Marriott Hotel, came to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Group again and met Holmes and his party.

Bill Marriott wanted to make a quick decision and took 52% of the shares of Ritz-Carlton before Langham Hospitality Group reacted.At that time, Langting Hotel will be forced to hand over the remaining 48% equity.

You know, the Ritz-Carlton is the originator of luxury hotels, which is very important to the Marriott Hotel Group, not to mention that the Langham Hospitality Group is a Hong Kong native. Even if it is the richest man in the world, so what? Do Chinese understand the operation of luxury hotels?

"Mr. Holmes, 7.5 million US dollars, we are willing to pay this price to take your remaining 52% equity. You know, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel is only worth 12 billion US dollars, and we have already paid a huge premium."

Looking at Bill Marriott's urgent mood, Holmes and others thought it was funny. They didn't tell Bill that the last time Langham Hospitality Group won 8% of the equity for US$49 million.

Holmes said with a smile: "President Bill, to be honest, we are very dissatisfied with this price! Because others gave more!"

Damn, those rich guys in Xiangjiang know how to buy, buy and buy all over the world in the past few years, Bill cursed secretly.

"How much did they give last time?"

Holmes shook his head and said, "This is temporarily confidential. For the remaining 52% equity, we will let you bid to decide. The highest bidder wins. You can bid together tomorrow. If it is the same price, we will give priority to Marriott." Yes. And I can also tell you that the price they offered last time was a little higher than your price today."

Bill Marriott said unwillingly: "Compared with the newly established Langham Hotel Group, our Marriott can inherit the business philosophy of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel."

Holmes said: "So I am the same price and will consider you!"

……

The next day.

When Lin Zuhui brought people to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Group, he was told that Holmes and others hoped to decide the remaining 52% equity through bidding.

He agreed, but also made a request, that is, Horst Schulz, the current president of Ritz-Carlton, has to stay at Ritz-Carlton for half a year to complete the assistance work.

Horst Schulz said with a smile: "Thank you for Mr. Lin's attention, I agree to this request. But I'm curious why Mr. Lin doesn't want me to stay forever."

Lin Zuhui said with a smile: "I see ambition in your eyes, and guess that you should continue to start a business and establish your own high-end hotel brand."

Horst Schulz was taken aback, and secretly sighed at Lin Zuhui's sharp eyes, he really had this idea.The Ritz-Carlton Hotel is not what he wants to sell, but other partners want to sell it; but he considers that the Ritz-Carlton is a brand born of the European "Ritz Hotel" after all, not founded by them, so it was born The idea of ​​establishing a high-end brand by yourself.

"Mr. Lin's success is a matter of course!"

Everyone chatted for a while, and Bill Marriott also brought people to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel again. When the two sides met, there was a bit of gunpowder.

After all, Langham Hospitality Group has already intervened in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, and it is obviously disgraceful for the Marriott Group to want to grab it.The 48% stake in Langting Hotel means that it has all the holdings. If it can't hold the shares, then what's the point of the shares.

He didn't say anything harsh, but Lin Zuhui's eyes told Bill Marriott that everyone will be competitors in the hotel field in the future.

When bidding, Lin Zuhui directly filled in $9.8 million!

Not surprisingly, Langham Hospitality Group has acquired all the assets of the Ritz-Carlton Group, including brands and properties.

Before Bill Marriott left, he said unwillingly: "Mr. Lin, you are really rich to buy a Ritz for 18 billion US dollars!" The implication is that Lin Zuhui has been taken advantage of.

Lin Zuhui said calmly: "The price was originally three years later. If it wasn't for the Marriott Group's intervention, we naturally wouldn't need such a high price!"

In fact, it may be even higher in three years, Lin Zuhui just said that on purpose.

Knowing that he was wrong, Bill Marriott left the Ritz-Carlton Group.

Next, it is the matter of Corbett and Horst Schulz. Lin Zuhui hopes to complete seamless acceptance in half a year.After that, he will work hard to develop the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.

……

The American media reported that Langham Hotel Group bought the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Group for a huge sum of US$18 billion, which aroused great public opinion for a while; into buying the hotel.

In this regard, Lin Zuhui was acquiesced.The factors here do have his own personal factors, he likes things with 'luxury' and he likes to collect them.Therefore, with so much premium, he doesn't feel bad at all.

Just like Bill Gates in his previous life, just because he liked the Four Seasons Hotel, he joined hands with the richest man in the Middle East to privatize it.

Chapter 573 [Internet Venture Capital King]

California, Matrix Partners (USA).

Jingwei Capital (USA) has become the star of American limelight companies, and has invested in 28 companies, but it has already flocked to companies such as Activision Blizzard, Kingston, Netscape, and YAHOO.

Lin Zuhui injected a total of 2.15 million US dollars into Jingwei Capital, and has already spent 10.8 billion US dollars, of which Kingston has spent 10 billion US dollars; therefore, the current cash flow on the account is about 1.2 million US dollars, and the debt is 10 billion US dollars.

According to history, Netscape browser will be acquired by AOL (America Online) for 1998 billion US dollars in 42. This transaction will bring Jingwei Capital about 4 million US dollars in revenue.

YAHOO should be listed next year, but its market value in 1999 should exceed 1000 billion; Jingwei Capital currently holds 20% of the shares, even if it is diluted to about 10% after listing, the value will be as high as 100 billion US dollars, and all will be cashed out before the bubble crisis.

Activision Blizzard is not considering selling for the time being; Lin Zuhui divides Activision Blizzard into two parts-Blizzard Entertainment and Activision.Blizzard Entertainment has perfectly completed the first and second of "Warcraft", "Diablo" is also in development, only one "StarCraft", Lin Zuhui has hardly interfered, and will continue to move forward according to the history of the previous life.Activision, I can give some game suggestions later.

Kingston, long-term investment.

As for the other 20 companies, if they can go public, they will consider cashing out before the bubble crisis.

In the conference room, Lin Zuhui and a group of investment managers were having a meeting.For a long time, although Lin Zuhui was in Xiangjiang, Jingwei Capital would send back some project information to Xiangjiang every day for Lin Zuhui to understand the situation in the United States.

In fact, except for the project that Lin Zuhui is interested in, Jingwei Capital's other projects are hidden, so they have been controlled in quantity and price.

Investment manager Fries said: "Recently, an Internet company has just appeared, and it is also called Amazon, which has the same name as your boss's Amazon shopping mall. So, should you immediately send a lawyer's letter to warn them to change their name?"

Lin Zuhui was taken aback. Didn't Bezos know about the Amazon shopping mall?

At present, Amazon shopping malls have completed 19 renovation projects, and recently acquired 10 shopping malls, which are ready for renovation and upgrading (depending on the situation, some will undergo re-planning and renovation, and some will only change the signboard to a simple renovation).

Logically speaking, Bezos should have heard of it, right?

However, it may be because it is not yet the Internet age, and Bezos started his business in Seattle, so he may not have heard of it.

Lin Zuhui asked: "What kind of Internet company is this?"

Fries said: "It is a company that uses the Internet to sell books. I am more optimistic about this company and plan to recommend the company to invest. But this name has indeed infringed."

It is said that Blizzard Entertainment wanted to take a 'Chaos (chaos) studio'. Unexpectedly, a company based in New York had registered the name and asked for a transfer fee of 10 US dollars.

Lin Zuhui thought for a while and said: "I am very interested in this model of using the Internet to sell books. Since the Internet can sell books, will it be possible to sell more things in the future? Customers place orders at night, and the Internet sends express delivery to customers Come home, will this be a promising industry?"

An investment manager asked: "How to solve the payment method?"

Lin Zuhui said with a smile: "Online banking similar to the banking system!"

"is it safe?"

"This is a matter for the future. When the Wright Brothers invented the airplane, did you think that the aviation industry has developed into what it is today?"

"The boss said yes!"

……

Seattle.

Bezos is very excited recently. Amazon, which has been preparing for a year, has finally opened. After half a month of business, the turnover has exceeded 7000 US dollars. This is a very good start.

Thinking of the phone ringing, Bezos quickly picked up the phone. At present, the company does not have too many people, so many calls go directly to his office.

"Hi, is this Amazon.com?"