Global Monopoly of Technology

During the luncheon, twelve Wall Street bankers, representing their investment banks, played with Luo Sheng again. The subsidiary company of the new energy car company in the Côte d'Azur also contained 20% foreign capital.

Eight billion US dollars is of course a huge amount of wealth, about more than 50 billion yuan, but it is not a huge amount for Luo Sheng. The establishment of this new energy vehicle company is only 400 yuan. One hundred million U.S. dollars.

However, this group of Wall Street bankers was invited by Luo Sheng today, not just to invest the 8 billion US dollars.

Just as the luncheon was now, Paul Watson of Goldman Sachs Capital made eye contact with the executive vice president of Morgan Stanley.

"Mr. Luo, in fact, we have led 33 institutional investment teams to come here this time. We hope to visit the Cote d'Azur headquarters tomorrow..." Paul Watson said to Luo Sheng.

But before he finished speaking, Luo Sheng hurriedly replied: "I know, I know Mr. Watson, but there is really no need to talk about this issue, Azur will not have any problems now, including in the long term in the future. plans to go public.”

In the past three years, Luo Sheng has forgotten how many times these old friends from Wall Street have lobbied in his ears about the proposed IPO of the Côte d'Azur, and he will talk about it if he has a chance to meet.

Several bankers present at the meeting looked at each other, and after a while, Paul Watson, who had two seats across Luo Sheng, said with a disappointed face: "God! Mr. Luo, thirty-three institutions jointly underwrite and sponsor your company, Cote d'Azur. When you go public on the NYSE, you are rejecting a super financial team with $3.75 trillion in capital.”

Zhong Yuanhong, who was present at the meeting, basically didn't say anything this time. He couldn't help but look at Luo Sheng and found that the other party was unmoved by it.

Other bankers were also helpless.

At present, Wall Street really loves and hates Luo Sheng. They are always thinking about how to convince Luo Sheng to list the Cote d'Azur company. Wall Street's internal analysts expect that based on the current operating conditions of Cote d'Azur, the current valuation is 450 billion yuan. In dollar figures, long-term valuations are tech companies with trillion-dollar market cap potential.

There is no doubt that this is an astronomical figure. If the IPO roadshow is really carried out smoothly, I am afraid it will break a new record in the history of IPOs. Don’t worry, it will definitely be broken. Even if the IPO public offering of US$30 billion is completed, Wall Street will not be surprised. .

For Wall Street, the biggest problem is that Luo Sheng, the decisive figure, cannot be dealt with.

With the end of the luncheon, the participating bankers also left with a gentleman's farewell.

Luo Sheng personally sent these bankers away.

At the gate, Paul Watson stopped abruptly, turned back to Luo Sheng, who was standing there, and said, "Wall Street will not easily lobby for action."

Luo Sheng smiled and said: "OK, Paul, Goldman Sachs prepare a sum of money, Cote d'Azur is about to issue the third round of corporate bonds, this time we are going to borrow 30 billion US dollars from Wall Street, Goldman Sachs I am a hardcore ally, you can get it I will borrow as much subscription funds as I can."

Paul Watson was stunned for a moment, and said humorously: "Wow, next time I will participate in lobbying."

The two sides shook hands again, and the moment Luo Sheng, who was smiling in Paul Watson, turned back to the building, the smile on his face stopped abruptly. : "The greedy vampires on Wall Street are not satisfied with borrowing your loan sharks every once in a while..."

There is no right or wrong in the adult world, there are only trade-offs between pros and cons.

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Returning to the living area of ​​the building, Luo Sheng said, "Xiao Na, report the current asset management list of the Azur Coast, upload it to my private server, and simply tell me how much money I have and what is the debt ratio?"

After a while, Xiaona's voice responded in the room: "Master, the detailed list of assets on the Cote d'Azur has been uploaded."

Luo Sheng opened a laptop and stared at the screen to browse, and Xiaona continued: "The company's current book cash divisions are in Europe, North America and the mainland, with an amount of 27.7 billion US dollars, and the current debt ratio is maintained at 43.7%. Assets are in good condition.”

Such a debt ratio is considered low for the Côte d’Azur. The company’s warning line for the debt ratio is 65%. The company’s asset-liability ratio should be kept within a reasonable range. It is not the lower the better. If it is too low, It shows that the financing ability and investment ability of the enterprise are very poor, and the development of the enterprise will be limited. If the debt ratio is too high, the risk will also increase.

If so, the development of the Côte d'Azur should not be very healthy, but in fact it is not. The previous debt ratio was close to 50%.

However, the earning power of Côte d’Azur is terrifying year by year. Because it earns too much, it has offset a lot of debts. Even if it issues large-scale external debts, the debt ratio will not go up...

Luo Sheng closed the laptop and said, "Send an email to Lao Yao in my name, and start to formulate the issuance of the third round of 3A-level corporate bonds of Côte d'Azur. The interest rate will remain unchanged, and the bond size will be 23 billion US dollars..."

After finishing the order, he stopped dealing with work affairs, and called Qingxue sister paper over to exercise.

These 30 billion US dollars or about 200 billion yuan of funds will basically be spent on the Cote d'Azur laboratory for scientific research expenditures.

It is worth mentioning that "Côte d'Azur Lab" is now hailed as "Oriental Bell Labs" by Western media, and the people who eat melons also get the nickname.

This is not a laboratory, but a comprehensive title. In short, it is composed of many laboratories or research institutions, and it is spread all over the world, except for the core experimental center of the company's headquarters in the city of the Milky Way, which is currently located in Göttingen, Germany. , Sweden, the United Kingdom, France, Canada, the United States, Japan and other places have R \u0026 D centers.

Also known as "Côte d'Azur Labs", they compete for talent on a global scale.

At present, the staff of Côte d'Azur has expanded to 110,000 people, including more than 50,000 engineers, scientists and researchers working in the Côte d'Azur laboratory.

Google offers an engineer a price, and Luo Sheng's company will be five times as much as Google's standard. Even like some overseas scientists, in order to recruit his subordinates, the scientist is reluctant to leave the city where he lives, and the Cote d'Azur is directly in him. Build a laboratory there.

Just so cruel.

This kind of sincerity, basically few people can refuse.

There is also a company in China that does the same, and the investment in talent issues is not distressed at all.

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In the afternoon, Luo Sheng received a call from the "Innovation Workshop" of Bluestar Technology, changed into a set of outing clothes and went out to sea on his private yacht.

The submarine data pod that was sunk in the offshore area of ​​the East China Sea will be recovered today.

The submarine data center is a big strategy that Luo Sheng attaches great importance to. All his layouts seem to be independent on the surface, but in fact they have the attribute of deep linkage. New energy vehicles and driverless vehicles cannot be separated from the support of big data and cloud technology.

Otherwise, the technology foundation of this piece will come, and another technology will not be able to be industrialized and commercialized.

The development of science and technology at the national strategic level, including Beidou navigation, is inextricably linked.

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