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Chapter 613 The enemy of the enemy

Bernard Ebes took the acquisition agreement slowly in the victor's attitude, and looked at James Crow with mocking and mocking eyes.

A year ago, James Crow also dominated MFS Telecom, snatched the "network giant" UUnet Telecom from WorldCom at a high price, which really confused Bernard Ebes and made Bernard De Ebes was ridiculed by the media industry for being old.

But now, Bernard Ebbes, like Napoleon, has entered MFS Telecom as a conqueror. At this moment, Bernard Ebbes is like the emperor of telecom, enjoying the audience of the MFS board of directors. There is a "loser" loss...

Stared at by Bernard Ebes, James Crow looked ugly, and the executive behind him pulled his clothes, and then squeezed out a stiff smile in front of the camera for taking pictures.

Crowe understands that the general situation is over. The MFS board of directors has been defeated by Bernard Ebes' gold dollar offensive. The acquisition price of 125 billion US dollars is equivalent to more than twice the actual assets of MFS Telecom. Bernard · Ebes is really willing to offer such an acquisition price to MFS, and the board of directors of MFS has no ability to refuse.

For this acquisition, WorldCom used part of the cash and a large amount of WorldCom stock to complete the acquisition. Crowe really couldn't figure out how much ecstasy Bernard Ebes poured into investors to make WorldCom Common investors agreed to such an absurd acquisition.

But the fact is that it is so magical. For this acquisition, the investors of WorldCom not only did not object, but crazily praised Bernard Ebbes as the emperor of the telecommunications industry!

For example, Behrens, one of the most important shareholders of WorldCom and the largest telecommunications investment foundation in America, who was here with Ebes today, and the president of the Flegal Telecommunications Foundation, still dislikes the shareholding of WorldCom too much. At least, this time it is a full support for Bernard Ebes, just to get more shares in WorldCom.

Ordinary investors admired Bernard Ebes even more. When WorldCom announced that it was going to issue new shares to acquire MFS, the investors of WorldCom were extremely supportive and didn't care at all. Issuing new shares will lower the stock price and affect the WorldCom stock in the hands of their gang of leeks. Instead, they believe that Bernard Ebes' decision will make WorldCom's stock price rise even higher!
"This is the ability of the Emperor of Telecom. Only he can do things that others dare not do!"

This is the reason why Bernard Ebbes' die-hard supporter, a Wall Street telecommunications analyst, and Bernard Ebbes' die-hard fan, William Newbury, wrote to clients recommending WorldCom stock, and nothing else The reason is that he believes that Bernard Ebbes can lead everyone to make a fortune. He himself crazily praised Bernard Ebbes and bought a large number of WorldCom stocks.

"Crow, you'd better be ready to get up early anytime you want to work for WorldCom in the future!"

At the moment Bernard Ebes signed, he made fun of James Crowe, and the entire conference room burst into laughter.

Bernard Ebes didn't mean to beat Crowe, but simply told him a truth that MFS will belong to WorldCom in the future, and if he wants to stay in MFS company, he needs to "knowledge".

In order to show his magnanimity, Bernard Ebes will not immediately kick Crowe from the position of president of MFS Telecom, but if Crowe does not perform well, then Bernard Ebes does not mind and let Crowe return. Go home!

The "understatement" of Bernard Ebbes, the MFS board of directors and executives fawning over Bernard Ebbes, for James Crowe, it is a fruitless humiliation, the hand under the table, can't help He clenched his fists and lowered his head without saying a word. This was the darkest day in the history of his career!
Bernard Ebes glanced at James Crow. Ebes dismissed Crow's anger. So what if he was ridiculed as an "old cowboy picking up potatoes". James Crow, these professional Wall Street managers , Wasn't it stepped on by him, what's the difference with a potato?
On the other hand, Bernard Ebes paid a lot of attention to the other person. After putting down the Parker pen, Ebes immediately called out to a person sitting in the corner of the meeting room, "Mr. Sitchmore, I hope you can join WorldCom. Serve as the general technical advisor of WorldCom!"

Sidg Moore, the founder of UUnet, who was sitting in the corner, couldn't help being surprised when he heard this. He didn't expect that Ebes valued him so much and directly asked him to be the general technical consultant of WorldCom.

After MFS Telecom acquired UUnet, it has not digested much in the past year or so. It is still the same sentence, the purchase price is too high, the purchase price of 21 billion US dollars, UUnet Telecom has many users and technology. Industry, it is not so indispensable, after the acquisition of MFS, there was not much spark between the two sides, and Sitchmore also began to sit on the bench.

MFS is somewhat "useless" to Sitchmore, and does not know how to arrange Sitchmore, but Ebes values ​​Sitchmore, a "telecom industry superstar" figure, and wants Sitchmore to be his right-hand man.

Seeing the importance Ebes attaches to Sitchmore, and looking at his attitude towards himself, James Crowe is the only one who knows how he feels. He, the president of MFS Telecom, in the eyes of Ebes, is not even under the MFS banner. Is a department head important? !

After signing, Bernard Ebbes left with a group of WorldCom executives. Obviously, there was something important to announce. Bernard Ebbes called Sitchmore away, but ignored James Crowe.

In the empty conference room, the MFS executives were a bit shy of James Crowe. Even if Crowe could still stay in the position of MFS president, with Ebes's attitude towards him, Crowe was basically an empty shelf. A character who becomes a clown.

Taking a deep breath, James Crowe suppressed his anger. He knew that getting angry at this time would be useless except to be humiliated again.

Crowe knows that MFS and Shitong, he can't stay any longer. If he wants to pay back what he has experienced today, he must find another backer, go to Shitong's deadly enemy, and then report revenge to Shitong. !
There are many opponents of WorldCom. Crowe can count a lot of them with his eyes closed, but the position of the head of the major telecom giants has been given a seat. After he went, he was basically sitting in the cold The bench, even the vice president, is probably suspended.

Silently packing up his things and picking up his coat, when James Crowe passed by the window, he glanced out of the window and accidentally saw several telecommunications engineers in blue uniforms leading people to set up broadband lines.

Seeing this scene, Crowe was annoyed for a while, feeling that he was really deceiving people too much. This f*cking telecommunications line was almost erected at the gate of MFS Telecom headquarters.

Just picked up the phone, and was about to call the security and the marketing department to drive away the people downstairs. After thinking about it, the current MFS Telecom seemed to have nothing to do with him, and James Crowe couldn't help feeling depressed.

While pressing the elevator, when James Crow saw the logos on the blue uniforms of those engineers, his heart suddenly moved.

"America Telecom..."

Various thoughts flashed through James Crowe's mind. In the telecommunications industry, American Telecom's strength is not as good as WorldCom's, but it is the fastest growing.

More importantly, Crowe has heard about the style of the founder of American Telecom for a long time. It is revenge, and it is more radical than Bernard Ebes. There is also a relationship between WorldCom and America Telecom. For the holidays!
It is hard to say whether other telecommunications companies dare to confront WorldCom, but Crowe feels that America Telecom will definitely dare to open a film with WorldCom. James Crowe does not want to be the president of America Telecom, but with his industry Experience, qualifications, contacts, he is somewhat sure of being a vice president!
Not to mention the salary, American Telecom's salary is quite good in the telecom industry, at least it ranks in the top three together with Telephone and Telegraph Group, Southwest Bell and other companies, but it is WorldCom, which has acquired everywhere, and the salary for employees is not high. high.

Because Worldcom supports too many people, a total of 6 to [-] people, and Worldcom's actual revenue is not that high, and it has to distribute huge dividends to investors every year. It's unremarkable, let alone anyone else.

If he can enter American Telecom, get a good salary, and the key is to add trouble to WorldCom, James Crowe feels that it is definitely a bargain!

"MFS Telecom is not the end of WorldCom, not even the beginning, it's just a warm-up match!"

Back at the hotel where he was staying, at the impromptu celebration banquet, Bernard Ebes once again uttered bold words in front of all his confidantes, which shocked Sitchmore, who had just bought the MFS Telecom, Bernard Ebes is not satisfied yet.

Looking back, the other executives of WorldCom didn't seem to be surprised by Bernard Ebes's rhetoric, and they were obviously used to it.

"MCI!"

Bernard Ebbes shouted, "WorldCom's next goal is MCI, regardless of the cost, no matter how much money, WorldCom will accept MCI!"

Sitchmore stared blankly at Bernard Ebbes. At this moment, he was a little confused whether Bernard Ebbes was crazy, or if he really had a plan. After the acquisition, WorldCom raised money to buy it again. MCI Telecom is already heavily in debt. Do those creditors really believe that WorldCom will not go down? !

Seeming to see Sitchmore's doubts, Bernard Ebbes said to him with a smile, "The goal of WorldCom is not to gain many markets and users, nor is it globalization. WorldCom wants to become the number one stock on Wall Street! "

Sitchmore vaguely understands what WorldCom is playing. As long as it can raise the stock price and make WorldCom’s stock price rise, then Wall Street and leeks are willing to support WorldCom, and Bernard Ebbes can do it. to everything...

WorldCom's share price suddenly skyrocketed, and then there was shocking news from the telecommunications industry that WorldCom officially acquired MFS Telecom at a price of US$125 billion.

Affected by the news, WorldCom's stock price began to skyrocket, and countless leeks began to spread the name of Ebes, and then there was another news in the market that after Bernard Ebes took over MFS, he was still unwilling to stop and wanted to Go ahead and take down the MCI...

It's hard to distinguish true and false news, but WorldCom's stock price has skyrocketed. Even if the news is outrageous, a group of investors in WorldCom believe that Ebes can do it!
In contrast, the other piece of news that came out was somewhat inconspicuous. The Telephone and Telegraph Group quietly announced that it had reached an agreement with America Telecom to transfer Bell Labs to the North American Global Investment Foundation headed by America Telecom.

(End of this chapter)