Hong Kong's new giants

The two shopping centers invested by Amazon Shopping Center are the 'Amazon Shopping Center' in Canary Wharf and the 'Amazon Shopping Center' in White City, London (the site of the 1908 French-English Exhibition).

There are also Langham Hotel and Ritz-Carlton Hotel, which own several five-star luxury hotels in the UK.

There are also terminal projects. There are two terminals in total, namely Port Phillis, the largest container group port in the UK, and Port Thames.

As for the telecommunications industry, it will be sold this year, so it is not considered.

There is also a department store, but under the LEIT Group.

Other scattered investments are not counted.

To sum up, the UK can continue to increase investment for two reasons:

First, it is naturally the origin of Hong Kong and the United Kingdom, as well as the relationship that Lin Zuhui has established in the United Kingdom for a long time;

Second, the UK is an important country in Europe. It is a strategy to use the UK as a bridgehead to invest in the whole of Europe.

After the ceremony, Lin Zuhui came to Richman's office. The two were not really subordinates, and Richman was more like his partner.

Lin Zuhui attaches great importance to Richerman's important position in the Canary Wharf Group, because others have been planning this project since 1986, and his ability and connections cannot be easily replaced by others.

"Mr. Lin, what are your plans for the listing of Canary Wharf Group?" Richman asked with concern.

Lin Zuhui promised that when the first phase of Canary Wharf reaches a lease rate of 99%, he will give Richman 2% of the shares. Anyway, it is a wealth of hundreds of millions of dollars, and Richman is naturally very concerned.Of course, he still has an annual salary of 300 million US dollars plus various subsidies, which can be regarded as a lot of income.

"It's still early to go public, but if you need to cash out, you can talk to me at any time." Lin Zuhui said with a smile.

Richman asked tentatively: "How far does Mr. Lin plan to develop the Canary Wharf Group?"

Lin Zuhui replied: "The second phase of Canary Wharf has not yet been completed and the leasing has been completed, and there is still a large area of ​​land around Canary for development, so the prospect of this company is unlimited."

Richman said: "That's true! But with the strength of your group, you don't even have to consider going public, right?"

Lin Zuhui spread his hands and said, "Maybe so. In short, the future is unpredictable, but I will not treat you, the founder of Canary Wharf, badly."

Richman has a lot of power in the Canary Wharf Group. New Era Business Management only dispatched financial audit and supervision, and left him in charge of the rest.

Lichtman said at this time: "I'm old, and to be honest, I plan to retire, so I not only want to cash out, but also want to resign as CEO of Canary Wharf."

Lin Zuhui was taken aback for a moment, then looked at Richman again, everyone seemed to be in their early 70s.

After thinking for a while, Lin Zuhui said: "Well, if you want to cash out, when the lease rate reaches 99%, we are willing to pay you 1.2 million US dollars to redeem the 2% equity you should have received; as for the resignation of the CEO Things, I hope you will give me a certain amount of time to find a replacement."

Richman said happily: "Of course there is no problem! If Mr. Lin hadn't helped me back then, my life would not have been so rich."

At that time, Lin Zuhui also redeemed 10% of the shares for Richman. Although he later returned to Lin Zuhui, he received at least about 1.5 million US dollars in income.Coupled with the high salaries of these years and the last dividend of 1.2 million US dollars, it is much better than other bankrupt rich people in their later years.

"Haha, we have a win-win cooperation! In the end, I still hope that you will continue to be a consultant for the Canary Wharf Group. I am willing to give you an annual consulting fee of 100 million US dollars, which does not need to take up too much of your energy."

"Why not!"

The two quickly reached a verbal agreement, and chatted and laughed happily.

Richman also agrees and recognizes some of Lin Zuhui's ideas and plans; and Lin Zuhui also hopes to continue to use Richman's ability and contacts in the UK for himself, so he gives 100 million US dollars every year consultant fees.

……

On the next day, Lin Zuhui inspected London White City accompanied by Steven, the president of 'Amazon Mall'.

The so-called White City of London is the site of the 1908 French-English Exhibition. Because many buildings here are painted white, it was later called the White City.

Lin Zuhui held the design draft in his hand, made gestures on a large area of ​​land, and exchanged opinions with Steven and other high-level executives, which was very professional.

"If the first phase of the project can build a shopping mall of 180 million square feet, we have to reserve land for future expansion." Lin Zuhui said.

"Well, the land is big enough, no problem at all."

Shopping malls in Europe and the United States are relatively short, because there is no shortage of land anyway.

Then Lin Zuhui said: "As we enter into large-scale shopping centers and self-built shopping centers, we need to pay attention to one problem. Generally speaking, when all commercial real estate builds shopping centers, the focus is on retailers and shopping centers themselves. But I hope that we will always put customers first, and we need to consider the convenience they need when they come to our shopping mall, such as reasonable layout so that they will not feel like walking into a maze, such as resting places, children's play, toilets, etc. A series of problems must be customer-centric."

Steven and other executives nodded. Although the management of Amazon Mall is in their hands, they understand a truth that the soul of Amazon Mall is the boss.

The Amazon shopping center has an advantage. Compared with the Westfield shopping center, it is much better in terms of advertising and marketing, because there is also Amazon.com, which is an emerging technology company with a market value of 500 billion; while the Westfield shopping center has to spend huge sums of money to strengthen the brand. The reputation of Amazon is far from being as loud as the Amazon shopping mall.

"Okay, I remembered what the boss said!" Steve said very seriously.This boss is not only very professional, but also very good at layout, which he admires from the bottom of his heart.

After communicating with everyone about "Amazon in White City, London", everyone returned to the office building for a meeting.

Amazon Shopping Center was preparing to enter Europe more than two years ago, and currently has two projects: one is Amazon in Canary Wharf, and the other is Amazon in White City, London.

Among them, the Amazon in Canary Wharf is still under renovation and will not open until Christmas this year; and the Amazon in White City, London, is still planning even the blueprint, which is expected to be around 2004.

Two projects will naturally not satisfy the Amazon shopping center, and a good opportunity has recently appeared.

Amazon European headquarters office building.

In the conference room, everyone sat together for a meeting.

Recently, the 'Broadmarsh Center' in Nottinghamshire, England, was open for bidding, attracting competition from a number of commercial real estate companies; among them were six competitors including Amazon Shopping Center and Westfield Shopping Center.

The Broadmarsh Center is part of the British Postal Staff Pension Fund.

After reading the information in his hand, Lin Zuhui said directly: "We need to keep our spirits up for this project. There are two aspects of it that deserve our best efforts:

First, sniping Westfield Shopping Center to enter the UK and even Europe.As we all know, Nishida established a branch in the UK, but there was no suitable opportunity. There was an opportunity in France that year, but it failed in the end.So as long as we win, it is equivalent to sniping the development of our biggest opponent.

Second, if you can gain the trust of the British Post Group, it means that there will be another cooperation.As far as I know, the British MEPC plc property investment and property development company still has a lot of shopping centers, and the two companies holding this company are the British Post Pension Fund and the British Telecom Pension Fund.Therefore, winning the 'Broadmarsh Center' is equivalent to continuing to cooperate. "

When everyone heard this, they nodded in agreement and admired Lin Zuhui's long-term vision.

Steven said: "This time the six consortiums are competing. Although our Amazon shopping center is well-known, we have a little lack of foundation; however, we have more than 80 successful examples in the United States, and I believe it is also very competitive. Nottingham The commercial district of Nottingham will have explosive growth, and Nottingham is located in the center of a transportation hub, with an attractive geographical location and a population base of 110 million, which is expected to grow by 8% per year in the next ten years, exceeding the national level of the UK.”

Lin Zuhui didn't care about the details, and said directly: "Sincerity and decisiveness are very important for you to make a bidding plan. I hope you can succeed! In the next ten years, European and American commercial real estate will still be in the golden age, so Amazon will not stop expanding. The group can Spend more than 20 billion US dollars in investment every year."

At present, the asset value of Amazon Shopping Center has reached more than 120 billion U.S. dollars, with an annual profit of more than 7 million U.S. dollars, and a profit rate of 6%, which is a very good performance. 6% is not a rate of return. After all, the assets are more than 120 billion US dollars, but New Times Group has not invested that much money, so the appreciation of assets must be included in the rate of return. Lin Zuhui predicts that the rate of return will be more than 15%, which is very high.

Steven nodded, feeling confident all of a sudden.

Two days on the weekend.

Lin Zuhui was on vacation in a luxurious manor in London, so he was naturally spending time with his family.

As he gets older (34 years old), Lin Zuhui delegates more and more authority to his subordinates. He didn't sign contracts worth billions of dollars before, and now he doesn't sign contracts worth less than 200 billion yuan.Even in some large-scale investments, he rarely participated in them. He probably felt that there was something profitable, so he would not object.

After all, with his current wealth, even if he gave birth to ten prodigal sons, he still wouldn't lose all of them.

Chapter 664 [Open large-scale cash-out mode]

Beginning of June.

ICQ was finally successfully listed on NASDAQ with a valuation of US$40 billion. It sold 25% of the public shares and raised US$10 billion in cash.On the first day after listing, the market value climbed to 52.8 billion US dollars, which is very hot.

The reason why it is so sought after is that ICQ has developed extremely large in the hands of Netflix, and has formed a dominant player in the instant messaging software market in many countries.

As for the instant messaging software MSN and IM developed by Microsoft and AOL, they cannot be compared with ICQ at all.

Through this incident, Lin Zuhui understands that if he is an Internet company, he will be ahead of similar products in many fields; of course, he prefers to be an investor and give advice.

The reason why ICQ was developed was that it was planned to be sold for hundreds of millions of dollars at the beginning; later, considering the development of the Internet industry in Xiangjiang, it was kept in hand for development.

In fact, after ICQ developed in the United States, it was immediately replaced by a team of professional managers. Lin Zuhui just gave some "very useful suggestions" behind his back.

California.

When Lin Zuhui came to the ICQ headquarters, he did not participate in the bell-ringing ceremony of ICQ, not even Liu Songcheng, the president of Netflix Software; ICQ was listed by a team of professional managers—George’s team.

Of course, Netflix Software is still in control of ICQ's board of directors, after all, it holds 75% of the shares.

The reason why ICQ has raised so much money (10 billion US dollars) and can still maintain 75% of the equity is that Netflix Software has been using its own cash to develop ICQ in the early stage. This is very different from some start-up Internet companies. The early Internet giants such as Microsoft and America Online are similar.

In the office, Lin Zuhui, Liu Songcheng, and George are talking. Lin Zuhui will not hold a board meeting, because although George is in charge of ICQ, he also understands that Lin Zuhui can remove his team through the board of directors at any time.

After all, the early president of ICQ was replaced by Lin Zuhui because of his lack of international vision.

Since these professional managers are obedient, there is no need for Lin Zuhui to hold a board meeting, because he intends to play down the influence of Netflix and himself in ICQ.

George said happily: "The stock price of ICQ is very optimistic by investors. The market value has risen to 70 billion US dollars in a week. It seems that it is not impossible to break through 100 billion US dollars by the end of the year."

He admires Lin Zuhui very much, because this boss is very important to the development of ICQ, and he is involved in many functions and layouts; today's ICQ has become an indispensable software for work, social interaction, and entertainment, with more than 7000 million users worldwide , It proves its unlimited status in the future.

At work: Free email, offline message and file transfer, ICQ group and other functions make ICQ an important office software.

Social: Personalized avatars, fonts, emoticons, chat rooms, adding friends offline, etc., have become indispensable software for social networking.

Entertainment: ICQ rating system, membership system, and ICQ games (Lianzhong chess and cards) have also become the signature features of new users.

In fact, ICQ is equivalent to the level after three years.

In the previous life, it wasn’t that Europeans and Americans didn’t like to use QQ and prestige, but that they didn’t have the habits of these Westerners at the beginning; Xiao Ma’s level was absolutely top-notch in the world, otherwise he wouldn’t be the only one in China, and even Max later They all said they wanted to copy prestige.

The reason why QQ and Weixin cannot go out of the country is because they are plagiarists, and Europe and the United States have become accustomed to the previous software, so it is naturally difficult to accept new software.Of course, the differentiated culture also has some influence, and the era also has a great influence.

In this life, ICQ itself is one or two years ahead of Microsoft MSN and AOL IM, and its layout and functions are suitable for the habits and favor of Westerners, so it can naturally crush other instant messengers.Especially when the 'Membership System', 'ICQ Game', 'Server Terminal', etc. appeared, it quickly widened the gap between everyone.

Lin Zuhui said calmly: "The funds raised by ICQ's listing cannot be used for acquisitions, but can only be used for company operations and technology development."

George was taken aback for a moment, and then said: "ICQ can actually use stock for acquisitions, if it can make the company develop faster!"

Lin Zuhui said seriously: "Now the Internet valuation in the United States has produced a big bubble, just like the Japanese real estate and stock market in the 90s; therefore, the 10 billion US dollars in the company's account may be our operating expenses in the next two or three years. As for you The stock acquisition mentioned, in fact, there is no field worthy of our shot, it is better to develop ICQ users as the target. For example, our ICQ game, we must aspire to become the largest United game hall in the United States, and use ICQ games to reverse attract ICQ, This will also introduce more middle-aged people to register for ICQ and diversify the age of ICE users."

Acquisitions are the favorite companies of American Internet listed companies. Through mergers and acquisitions, they quickly grow themselves up.

But ICQ doesn't need it, it just needs more people to register, and the growth of users will make the company grow.

George immediately said: "What BOSS said is very reasonable. Instead of blindly expanding, it is better to maintain our instant messaging monopoly."

At this time, ICQ already has a lot of functions, and Lin Zuhui will hardly contribute any more opinions; of course, in two years, we may be able to set up a Twitter (blog) subsidiary.

……

The next day, Lin Zuhui came to Hengjin Investment headquarters in New York.

The old retainer "Old George" came in with a suitcase, and vice president Wu Guoming, who was also an old retainer, came in hand in hand with him. George put the suitcase on Lin Zuhui's desk and opened it. Inside was a stack of documents.

"Boss, all the investment details of Hengjin Investment are here. Usually these materials are distributed in three global headquarters. Only President Wu and I know the whole situation, and the rest of the investment managers only know the parts they are responsible for."

Lin Zuhui nodded, then motioned for the two to sit down, and he took out the documents to review quickly.

In fact, he has always firmly remembered the situation of Hengjin's investment, because he has a very good memory, so he can remember clearly some scattered channels.

George and Wu Guoming waited quietly on the sofa. In fact, they were still shocked and admired in their hearts. Even though they knew the specific situation of Hengjin's investment all the time, they still held that mentality today, because the boss's investment is so superb. , if Buffett is a stock god, then the boss is Zeus.

While Lin Zuhui was watching, the pen was roughly recording on the paper, and he would arrange cashing out later.

Holding 2% of Microsoft shares (dilution and dividend increase during the period), the current market value is more than 4000 billion US dollars, and it is expected to be more than 6000 billion US dollars by the end of the year. Lin Zuhui plans to cash out in nine months, and is expected to withdraw funds of 110 billion US dollars;

Holding 2% of Cisco shares, the current market value is about 3000 billion U.S. dollars, and it is expected to be 5000 billion U.S. dollars in March next year, and it is expected to cash out about 80 billion U.S. dollars.

Holding 2% of Oracle, the current market value is 1350 billion. It is estimated that before the bubble crisis, it will be 2000 billion U.S. dollars, and it can cash out 30 billion U.S. dollars.

Holding 2% of Intel, the current market value is more than 3200 billion, and it is estimated that before the bubble crisis, it will be 4500 billion US dollars, and it can cash out 80 billion US dollars.

Holding 2% of Dell Computer, the current market value is 1200 billion, and it is expected to be 1500 billion US dollars before the bubble crisis, and 25 billion US dollars can be cashed out.

Holdings in IBM, Harley motorcycles, etc., these stocks have increased by more than ten times;

Stocks like Intel, Oracle, Cisco, Dell Computer, Microsoft, etc. have increased by dozens of times.

Lin Zuhui's mood began to get agitated after writing down an account on paper. There were really a lot of people robbing money.

Roughly estimated, about 420 billion U.S. dollars can be cashed out, or about 3200 billion Hong Kong dollars, which is only invested by Hengjin.There are also Jingwei Capital and New Times Group in the back. As for the investment in family offices, we will not do T this time, and save T for 2008.

After a long time, Lin Zuhui said: "For Hengjin's investment projects, only Starbucks and Nike (which bought another 3%) are retained, and all other holdings are divided into nine months to cash out. Remember to cash out these 50% of the funds go to Hong Kong, 25% go to Switzerland, and 25% stay in the United States.”

George and Wu Guoming nodded seriously. They knew the boss was worried. After all, even if it was legal to make so much money from the United States, it was inevitable that people would be jealous.Plus, bosses need to hide their wealth, so pay extra attention.

In their view, there will be no problem in cashing out 300 to 400 billion US dollars in nine months; on average, they will cash out about 40 billion US dollars every month.

The market value of the U.S. stock market is currently around 12 trillion U.S. dollars, and it is not impossible to rise to 15 trillion U.S. dollars this year. Therefore, cashing out about 0.3% of the stock market in nine months has little impact.

The key factor here is the boss's strategizing and sense of the general trend.

After all, the Internet has grown so much in recent years, 99% of people may have stopped early after making a little money, and after seeing the people in front made money, they rushed in desperately.

"Don't worry, boss, we will definitely complete the task." George said confidently.

We have cooperated for ten years and have built a lot of trust.

To be honest, Europeans and Americans are more suitable to be housekeepers and retainers, but they know how to 'serve a master for life', provided that the salary is high enough.Undoubtedly, George's annual salary is as high as 500 million US dollars, plus various subsidies and benefits, based on his financial ability and level, the salary level on Wall Street is only 100-200 million.

But what Lin Zuhui needs is loyalty, followed by ability.And this loyalty is high welfare and long-term relationship.

In fact, Lin Zuhui also discovered one thing. After his management team followed him, almost none of them quit. He was wondering whether his charm could attract men as well as women?

It is not known that there are many people and media who say that Lin Zuhui has great charisma, so he believes it.