Becoming a Russian Oligarch After Rebirth
Chapter 333: Major Stakeholder_1

Chapter 333: Chapter 333: Major Stakeholder_1

"I know, it’s just 800 million US dollars. As long as the agreement is signed, the money can be immediately transferred into Apple’s account." Said Wang Ye leisurely, and then turned his head to signal Milna.

Understanding Wang Ye’s hint, Milna opened a folder in front of him and gave it to Boss Qiao, saying, "This is the proof of funds in the account of our Polar Bear’s San Francisco Branch, issued by Citibank, and can be cashed at any time."

Boss Qiao took a look, and indeed it was true!

The certification issued by Citibank clearly stated that there were 1.14 billion dollars in cash in the Polar Bear Investment Company’s San Francisco Branch account!

This money was obviously made by Wang Ye shorting US stocks...

After seeing the proof of funds, Boss Qiao finally believed that the young man opposite was not making empty promises, but actually had the capabilities!

You know, this is actual hard cash!

It’s not some messy loans or fundraising, but cash that can be immediately cashed!

"Okay, I believe that Polar Bear Investment Company came with sincerity. In theory, there is no problem with this matter, I will report to the board of directors and try my best to promote this investment!" Said Boss Qiao excitedly.

million dollars!

With this money, Apple could be saved!

Many of his plans could be carried out smoothly.

Have to say, for Apple now, this money is as precious as relief in dire straits!

Looking at Wang Ye again, gratitude filled Boss Qiao’s eyes.

Cook, too, was jubilant, saying, "The company has discussed the issue of equity financing at the last board of directors meeting, so there should be no problem. The basic plan is for the company to issue 800 million dollars’ worth of shares to the Polar Bear Company. The procedure is relatively simple and it just needs to be announced."

Because finance in the United States is highly developed, all kinds of investment are very convenient, and the procedures are simple.

"Then, let’s wish our cooperation a big success." Said Wang Ye straightforwardly.

Boss Qiao had already stood up, stretching out his hand across the conference table.

Wang Ye also stood up with a smile, firmly shaking hands with Boss Qiao.

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Today’s negotiations went very smoothly. One needs money and the other has it, it was simply like dry wood meets a raging fire, it was impossible not to go smoothly.

Moreover, Wang Ye did not bargain or take advantage of Apple’s predicament. He simply agreed to Apple’s conditions, investing based on the current market value of Apple, without any discount.

Apple’s current market value is 4.2 billion US dollars, the stock price is around 5 US dollars per share, with a total of 840 million shares outstanding.

They plan to issue an additional 160 million shares and sell them to the Polar Bear Investment Company.

After the directed issuance, Apple will have one billion shares, of which Polar Bear Investment Company will have 160 million shares, accounting for 16%!

Although this proportion may not seem high, in reality, it has become the largest shareholder of Apple!

The original largest shareholder of Apple was Fidelity Investment, with 10% of shares.

The second largest shareholder was Pioneer Group, holding 6.5% of shares.

All of the top ten shareholders were institutional investors.

As for the founder of Apple, Boss Qiao, how many shares does he hold?

Believe it or not, Boss Qiao only holds a symbolic one share...

This is due to the fact that when he left Apple in the past, he sold all the shares he held.

Even though he has now returned to Apple, although there is a stock incentive plan in the contract, he has only been back for a short time, and the company’s business has not really picked up, so he hasn’t yet received any shares as incentive.

In addition, it should be noted that Boss Qiao’s current annual salary is one US dollar...

From his salary and shares, it can be seen that this guy really doesn’t care about fame and wealth.

He is working completely for his own ideals ...

Of course, he himself is not lacking in money.

After leaving Apple, Jobs successively established NEXT Company and Pixar Animation Studios. By 1996, his personal wealth had reached hundreds of millions of dollars.

However, when Apple was in trouble, why Boss Qiao didn’t choose to personally invest in the company, but instead introduced new shareholders is not known.

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After signing the letter of intent for cooperation, Milna needed to discuss some details with Cook and others.

And Boss Qiao, warmly invited Wang Ye, Kaja and the translator Wang Ye had brought to his office.

For his personality, this was already showing gratitude and recognition to Wang Ye.

Wang Ye of course gladly accepted the invitation. The office of Boss Qiao was definitely worth a look.

After all, in Wang Ye’s previous life, this was a real legendary figure!

Boss Qiao’s office was not far from the meeting room, and you could get there after a short walk down the corridor.

Opening the door, Boss Qiao gestured for the three to go in.

The office was not big, only about forty to fifty square meters. The decoration is not luxurious at all.

In fact, it could even be called a bit simple. A regular office desk, simple styled chairs, and books, stationery, and various electronic products scattered around.

Boss Qiao picked up a few magazines from the sofa and put them to the side, saying somewhat awkwardly, "Sorry about the mess in the office."

Wang Ye laughed and said, "I understand, all of you techies and internet company people are like this. It’s called order out of chaos, right, haha..."

After showing Wang Ye’s party to their seats, Boss Qiao took three cans of chilled cola from a mini-fridge nearby. Cherry flavored, without even asking if they wanted something to drink...

In terms of interpersonal communication, he was indeed as rumored, quite lacking.

Just after they sat down, Boss Qiao seemed to remember something, he stood up again, walked over to a cabinet nearby, and took out something silvery and palm-sized.

He handed it to Wang Ye and said, "Mikhail, take a look, this is the music player, IPOD, that we just launched this year!"

As for this thing, Wang Ye had never touched it before.

In his previous life, he had bought a few MP3s, but they were all traditional products like Aigo, Iriver and even earlier ones like Sony WALKMAN.

Although he had heard of the name of Apple’s IPOD, he had never bought it.

When Apple launched this product, Wang Ye was in college and was not very affluent, so the price was not friendly to him.

Later on when he had money, IPOD had basically exited the stage of history, as it was already the era of smartphones.

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He took it over to play around with it a bit, the thing was not small, much bigger than the common MP3s on the market, and the texture was much better.

The outer shell was made of aluminum-magnesium alloy, cool and smooth to the touch.

And, Wang Ye knew that it was this little gadget that had completely revived Apple...