Reborn as a tycoon in Hong Kong

"Alan, thanks to you, the response to "Cowboy" has been very good after its trial operation. Those game arcade owners ordered more than 3,000 units at once, and now the sales volume has exceeded 5,000."

Wade Thomas was very happy to say that although he only holds 5% of the shares in Zhonghe Games, if the company's valuation exceeds 100 million US dollars, his shares would be equivalent to 5 million US dollars, which would be a part-time job for him. It's not a small amount for a kid.

Before meeting Lin Baicheng, Wade Thomas could only be regarded as a mid-level and senior manager at Goldman Sachs. He was the manager of the Los Angeles branch. Because of Lin Baicheng's relationship, he brought a lot of performance to Goldman Sachs, so he was promoted to vice president. Before that, his annual salary was only two hundred thousand dollars, which was not low, but it was too little compared with wealthy people.

Therefore, when he first invested in Zhonghe Gaming Company, Wade Thomas had the idea of ​​​​taking a gamble, and he might not have wanted to use this company to achieve the goals of wealth freedom and class transcendence.

"It's not bad. As long as there are no problems in the future, "Cowboy" may sell 20,000 to 30,000 units in the United States this year."

Lin Baicheng couldn't help but nodded slightly after hearing this. He has 40% shares in Zhonghe Game Company. Of course, the more money this company makes, the better.

There is a reason why Zhonghe Game Company's "Western Cowboy" only sold 5,000 units, unlike Galaxy Games, where an arcade game can sell tens of thousands of units after trial operation.

Galaxy Game Company, Lin Baicheng's method is to sell arcade machines to big agents like Phil Smith, and at the same time place a large number of orders at one time to get a price discount, so agents in each place will place a large number of orders at once, which adds up to a small amount of money. Easily sell tens of thousands of arcade machines.

Zhonghe Game Company is different. First of all, the company's games are currently only sold in the US market. Secondly, the company's arcade machines do not have agents at the state level, but only city-level agents or owners of large chain game arcades. Mainly Or to make more profits.

Overseas sales have not yet been carried out, but the plan is not to package the game and sell it to a big agent, but to divide the area according to the size of the country, and then sell the arcade machine to several agents, also in order to absorb more information. Much profit.

In this way, although there is no way to get huge profits in a short time and the sales time will be lengthened, it can make more profits, so it is worth it.

After all, Zhonghe Game Company is no better than Galaxy Game Company. Phil Smith and others cannot guarantee whether the next game developed by the company will be popular. Therefore, this only game that seems to be a big hit, of course, squeezes out as much as possible. profit.

Another point is that Lin Baicheng's Galaxy Game Company originally chose to hand over arcade games to an agent in a certain country. That was because he was worried about offending the interests of other companies and did not want to focus on fighting, so he chose to give it up. part of the benefit.

Take the U.S. market as an example. After Lin Baicheng handed over the arcade machine to Phil Smith, if someone asked for trouble, it would be Phil Smith who would deal with it. Because his interests were violated, Lin Baicheng did not have to do anything.

Lin Baicheng has such worries, but the other shareholders of Zhonghe Game Company do not have such worries, so there is no need to give up part of their interests for this.

Wade Thomas said: "Alan, you hold 40% of the company's shares. I also hope that you can pay more attention to the company and give more guidance to the game development of the R\u0026D department. Not to mention the development of "Western Cowboy". For a good game, a little bit worse is acceptable.”

"I'll try my best. If I have time, I'll go take a look."

Lin Baicheng did not agree fully. He had so many companies, and Zhonghe Game Company was not his biological son, so it was normal for him not to take him seriously.

When Wade Thomas saw this, it was difficult to say anything. After all, when they jointly opened the company, Lin Baicheng had said in advance that he would not focus too much on the joint venture, and they also said it was okay at the time. It is hard to regret it now.

Lin Baicheng chatted with Wade Thomas for a long time, and when it was almost time to get off work, he invited Wade Thomas to have a meal with him at the restaurant.

The next day, Wade Thomas joined the Goldman Sachs team in the due diligence of Galaxy Game Company and restarted the investigation of Galaxy Game Company. He wanted to determine whether the revenue and profit data of Galaxy Game Company were falsified and whether they were true. so high.

Lin Baicheng didn't care. Wade Thomas' arrival had no impact on his daily life.

A few days later, Hutchison Whampoa and Ocean Trading Company officially completed the handover, and its foreign trade business was merged into Ocean Trading Company. At the same time, the balance of Ocean Trading Company was also transferred to Hutchison Whampoa Company.

This transaction allowed Hutchison Whampoa to obtain HK$920 million in cash. Although the company has set a strategy to develop the pharmaceutical industry, whether it is the establishment and expansion of pharmacies or the establishment of hospitals, there is no need to invest huge sums of money at once. At the beginning, only Just invest a small amount of money, and then invest more slowly later.

Therefore, in a short period of time, Hutchison Whampoa has a lot of cash, allowing the company to take greater steps in the expansion of the real estate industry, and has sufficient funds to acquire several high-quality land parcels.

However, although Hutchison Whampoa completed the transaction with Ocean Trading Company and received a large amount of cash, the company's stock price is still fluctuating and declining, showing an opposite trend to other stocks in the stock market that have almost all risen.

In the final analysis, Hutchison Whampoa rose too much last year. After the company lacked huge benefits, its operating performance could no longer support the original stock price, so it made a correction.

Lin Baicheng doesn't care about Hutchison Whampoa's stock price fluctuations. Again, the temporary rise and fall of the stock price has no impact on him. Unless someone is short selling, Lin Baicheng will raise funds to buy the bottom at a certain price and take advantage of the short sellers.

It's a pity that after two short-selling failures last year, even if Hutchison Whampoa's stock price is currently undergoing a correction, no one is willing to short-sell. It is also related to the market value of Hutchison Whampoa. With a market value of more than 20 billion Hong Kong dollars, without a large amount of funds, it is too easy to be liquidated by going short, and the risk is too high.

On the 10th, Lin Baicheng received an invitation from the Hong Kong government, inviting him to attend a charity fundraising dinner hosted by the Hong Kong government on the 13th.

The nominal statement is that since the beginning of this year, many refugees from Vietnam have poured into Hong Kong, which has had a very bad impact on social security. The Hong Kong government needs to make arrangements for those refugees, so it needs to raise funds from business elites, and ultimately for Or maintain social stability.

Lin Baicheng, however, didn't quite believe that this was a simple charity fundraising dinner. After all, the Governor of Hong Kong, John Maliho, had just returned from the mainland last week, so he couldn't help but connect the dinner with this incident.