The Chinese Spring Festival is still brewing. After all, the Gregorian calendar year, New Year's Day, has not yet passed, but the Spring Festival breeze has begun to blow slowly.
Christmas has just ended in the United States, and another bombshell dropped on the stock market. Not long ago, Google spent US$2.1 billion and part of its shares to acquire YouTube. Google, which is known as the largest and most successful merger and acquisition in the Internet industry this year, is ringing the bell to go public.
As soon as the stock opened, it detonated the entire stock market, and at the same time, the entire technology sector rose slightly.
In addition to the selling point of YouTube, Google, as the world's largest search engine company, has also launched its own flagship product Google Maps with a navigation system.
Extremely accurate GPS navigation and positioning, as well as the world's top level in-vehicle map navigation. Adding another rocket booster to the already crazy Google stock.
The issue price of Google's shares is US$99, which is also the current record for the issue price of technology stocks. As of the close of the day, Google's stock price soared to $385.6, a nearly four-fold increase.
Such a crazy stock price made Google become the number one Internet technology company in the United States, and Microsoft, Intel, and Amazon were all suppressed.
Google executives and investors who bought Google stocks were so happy that day that they almost went crazy. Wall Street has also ushered in a slight bull market in recent years.
Of course, at this time, there are always some experts and scholars who come out and say beware of another Internet bubble, which starts to break the cold water for Google's stock price.
However, this still did not stop Google from opening at $381 on the second day, lower than yesterday's closing price. But after the opening and closing, the stock price soared to $453.3 and exploded again.
Then came the third day, the fourth day... For a week, experts and scholars from all over the world stood up and called Google to create an Internet bubble, and this bubble may explode tomorrow.
After one week on the market, Google's final valuation was set at $566.4. Although the price fell for the first time in a week at the final close, it was only a small shock and quickly rose back up.
So little Jack and the Kennedy family went crazy.
"Do you want me to sell some stocks? Should I sell some stocks..." In a high-end villa in New York, little Jack kept walking back and forth, with Casto sitting on the sofa in front of him.
The cell phone placed on the table kept ringing, but little Jack had no intention of answering the phone.
It must be the old guys in the consortium who asked him to go to the meeting in order to get more power in the consortium. So some work was done to let the consortium hold a part of Google's shares.
This share was divided from his shareholding ratio, and there were some old guys from the consortium who spoke in strange ways. But after Google went public, these people all shut up and almost came to kneel in front of me. In the capitalist world, rich people are the boss.
What's more, little Jack is not only rich now, but also has spent money to cultivate some congressmen, as well as some officials from other government departments who have secretly promoted him in cooperation with the Kennedy family.
He now wants money and people, that is, traditional financial markets and arms markets, as well as industries similar to traditional mining. Because the other big consortiums had just squeezed him out, there was no way to counterattack for the time being.
In other industries, especially the Internet industry, Little Jack is now the absolute king. Of course, none of this can be announced to the outside world. It must be low-key.
But he really couldn't keep a low profile, so he asked Casto to share this joy.
But his joy was undoubtedly torture for Castor.
Originally, Castor felt that by taking advantage of the convenience provided by Little Brother Jie, he could still see hope of turning around. As a result, in the blink of an eye, this guy who was originally running wildly on the highway now took off directly on the highway.
"Are you sure you really don't want to answer the phone?" Casto really couldn't bear the excitement and laughter of little Jack showing off in front of him, so he interrupted his roar of excitement and excitement.
"There's nothing to pick up. A bunch of vampires are just interested in the remaining Google stocks in my hand." Brother Jie gulped down the wine in his glass with a look of disdain on his face.
If he hadn't been a fledgling man now, he would have had many constraints in doing things and had to resort to the name of a consortium to do them. He would definitely kick all those confused and old-fashioned old guys into the sea one by one.
The main reason why our consortium has fallen to the bottom of other established consortiums today is the poor decision-making of these old guys over the years.
As a result, something happened, and the blame was directly passed on to these heirs, saying that they were supposed to be competing for the position of heir, how they were not decent, how they gave the enemy a chance, and they were a bunch of shit.
"How many Google shares do you still have?" Casto couldn't help but asked curiously.
Little Jack poured himself another glass of wine and smiled mysteriously, "Guess!"
Little Jack still owns about 1.2% of Google's original shares, but he actually owns far more than that. For example, the Google shares he received from the previous YouTube sale were held by someone who had nothing to do with him on the surface.
There are many such holders, and some only own Google shares or even only a few tenths of a percent. They are like a lucky person who randomly lost tens of thousands of dollars to the founder of Google when Google was founded.
Yang Dongxu is constantly reducing his shareholdings and does not want to be sued for Google's listing. The same is true for Jack Jr. and the Kennedy family.
Even the Google shares that Little Jack voluntarily transferred to his own consortium, while wanting to use them as bargaining chips in exchange for more dominance and control of the consortium, also meant that the consortium would attract the attention of a wave of enemies.
Anyway, those big conglomerates are eager to drive out the California conglomerates. The consortia are attracting such a wave of hostility. They also have too many debts and don't have to worry about too many lice.
Casto did not ask the rhetorical question, "Guess or not?" Instead, he asked, "Are you going to run for mayor of New York City?"
"No, no, my good brother." Little Jack kept shaking his head, "You are the one who wants to run for mayor of New York City, otherwise you would think that during this period, I would keep exposing you in front of the media and asking you to do various charities. , are the various donations meant to clear your name?"
"Then if something happens in the future or you encounter any danger, will I explode instantly?" Castor made an explosive gesture. Although he tried his best to keep a smile on his face, MMP's inner roar was already beyond words. .
If a scapegoat like him is just behind the scenes, there is still a chance of struggling. After all, as long as many things don't form public opinion and are suppressed in time, whether you can get away with it depends on whether you can afford the bargaining chip.
But once he comes to the stage, the things he did himself and the things he helped take the blame for Little Jack, whether Little Jack was exposed when he was out of control, or Little Jack's enemies found clues and were exposed to the public, he would instantly It was so dead that there was no room for struggle.
"Don't worry, as long as you do well enough, you will definitely be a rich man for life. After all, the position of mayor of New York is very important. To promote you to it, I need to pay for many, many resources, and some resources cannot be bought with money. It's here." Little Jack comforted.
Castor forced a smile, this was indeed a comfort, even if the comfort was so insincere.
But from the perspective of interests, little Jack has to spend so much resources and energy to promote him to the position of mayor of New York, and he will not be easily pulled down. After all, this is not in his interests. Continuous squeezing is what little Jack prefers for him.
"The old men in the consortium seem to have other candidates."
"Otherwise, why do you think I transferred part of Google's shares to the consortium before?" Little Jack sneered, his eyes flashing coldly, "If you take my money, you have to get things done, otherwise... ..."
"I need to deal with some matters before the election. Otherwise, I might not have been able to take the mayor's position, so I would have gone to the cell first." Casto said with a frown.
Since there is no way to resist, you can only choose to accept it. While accepting it, see how much benefit you can get from this matter, and accumulate strength for turning around in the future.
"That's your business. I can help you provide you with a campaign fund from a legitimate source. As for those things about you, I believe you can handle them yourself.
After all, Casto, you are now the brother of my little Jack, one of the heirs of the California Consortium, a hero who succeeded and returned as king after being suppressed by those old guys. "
Little Jack laughed and patted Castor on the shoulder, laughing very happily. This feeling of being able to control everything is intoxicating.
"In addition to the campaign donations, I also need some money. You don't want me to use the campaign funds to settle the things that happened to me and be reported by my opponent before I even took the mayor's seat, right?" Casto tried his best to fight for the benefits. .
Listening to Little Jack's intention, it was obvious that he wanted to spend money to settle those tails on himself and those who had helped Little Jack take the blame before.
In other words, the money I have saved so hard and for so long may be about to hit the bottom this time.
"It's very bad of you to do this to my brother." Little Jack shook his head, but then changed the topic, "But it's not impossible to help you, but you have to pay a price, right?"
"Everything I have now is from you. You can take whatever you want." Casto looked a bit rogue at this time.
"No, no, no, you still have your own things. For example, the old guys from the consortium that you supported before, or the congressmen you trained before after you restored your identity and career."
The look on little Jack's face was as close as a brother's, and the white hair on Castor's back instantly broke out. These are the assets that he can use to make a comeback in the future.
Little Jack had only chosen him to be the scapegoat because he was like mud. Maybe he really took a fancy to his ability.
After all, among the first few competitors, he really put a lot of pressure on little Jack.
The other one is undoubtedly because of the connections and resources he has created before.
These things are naturally worthless when he is down, because those people will not help a useless person. But now that he has stood up again, they have mutual value.
And little Jack undoubtedly wants to take away these personal resources of his and use them for his own use.
