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New York City.
D-wave's New York office, small conference room.
Shi Lei announced his intention to acquire D-wave in a domineering manner. Everyone in the conference room was stunned.
Xiao Bo smiled bitterly in his heart. He originally thought that with Shi Lei's shrewdness, he wouldn't express his thoughts so openly to avoid being at a disadvantage in the negotiation.
But that was the truth. Shi Lei directly expressed his intention to acquire D-wave.
The three members of D-wave all looked at Shi Lei with joy.
Although they predicted that Dream Entertainment would acquire D-wave, they didn't expect Shi Lei to say it so directly.
"Mr. Shi, does your Dream Entertainment Company want to acquire D-Wave Company?" Hoyt Vandenberg, the president of D-Wave Company, asked for confirmation.
Hoyt didn't get Shi Lei's address wrong this time. His tone was full of eagerness. He looked at Shi Lei with longing eyes, which made Shi Lei a little uncomfortable.
"Mr. Vandenberg, how much do you plan to sell D-wave for?" Shi Lei asked.
Hoyt was the absolute shareholder of D-wave, holding 75% of the shares. He could completely decide the fate of D-wave.
As for the vice president, Sanford, and the technical director, Walter, although they held 25% of the shares, they couldn't influence D-wave's decisions. They only had the right to make suggestions, not decisions.
D-wave wasn't a listed company and didn't circulate on the stock market.
Therefore, they couldn't fully control D-wave through the stock market like they did with AMD.
Hoyt Vandenberg, as the president of D-wave, didn't really like the company.
President Hoyt was only an investor. Vice president Sanford was also a financial partner. The real founder of D-wave was the technical director, Walter Smith.
D-wave's development path clearly showed that the two presidents didn't like D-wave.
D-wave liked to brag and advertise so much that the computer technology community didn't approve of the company and even hated it.
Hoyt Vandenberg didn't answer Shi Lei's question. Instead, he asked, "Mr. Shi, what price is Dream Entertainment going to pay to acquire D-Wave?"
Vice President Santeff stood on the side and said, "Mr. Shi, D-Wave is the world's most advanced quantum computer technology company.
Our company has already produced a formal commercial quantum computer.
As the mainstream technology in the future, quantum computers have better performance than electronic computers. Mr. Shi, you should be very clear about this, right? "
The technical director, Walter Smith, frowned slightly and didn't say anything.
He didn't like the way the company was developing, especially the nonsense, which was not Walter's style at all.
Walter Smith was not very proficient in business matters. In fact, Walter's idea for participating in this negotiation was very simple. That was, D-Wave Company could get close to the tycoon Dream Entertainment and obtain a large amount of research and development funds.
Currently, Walter was very dissatisfied with the problem of research and development funds.
There were many times when Walter planned to do research and development and experiments, but D-Wave Company couldn't come up with the corresponding research and development funds.
In fact, Hoyt and Santeff couldn't be blamed. As investors, they invested in D-Wave Company not because they were interested in quantum computers, but because they wanted to make money!
Capital investment was just to obtain more capital!
Shi Lei looked at Hoyt and Santeff with a smile and said, "Mr. Hoyt, Mr. Santeff, Dream Entertainment's evaluation department has made an evaluation of D-Wave Company.
Your company's current market value, including brand value, is only about 12 million USD. "
Dream Entertainment's evaluation department had indeed made an evaluation of D-Wave Company, but it wasn't 12 million USD, but 22 million USD.
Shi Lei's negotiation skills were indeed problematic, but Shi Lei wasn't an idiot. How could he not know anything?
Hoyt immediately retorted, "Mr. Shi, please forgive my rudeness. Dream Entertainment's evaluation department is unfair to our company!
Our company's market value, according to our company's internal evaluation, is about 100 million USD. "
Vice-president Santeff also chimed in, "That's right!
Mr. Shi, we're the only company in the world that has officially commercialized quantum computers. We're completely incomparable to other concept companies. "
Shi Lei sneered in his heart. Hoyt and Santeff really thought he was a fool and wanted to take advantage of him?
"Looks like we can't talk anymore!" Shi Lei stood up and prepared to leave D-Wave's small conference room.
Hoyt and Santeff were stunned again. Wasn't negotiation a process of bargaining?
Shi Lei didn't play by the rules at all!
For example, when Hoyt, Santeff, and Shi Lei played Dou Dizhu together, when Hoyt played four twos, Shi Lei directly played five nines.
There was only one deck of cards. How could there be five nines?
When Hoyt and Santeff understood Shi Lei's five nines, which meant that Shi Lei directly stated that he wanted to acquire D-Wave, the two of them played new cards, three, four, five, six, and seven. Shi Lei directly played five, seven, eight, and JK. He didn't play by the rules at all.
How could there be no bargaining in a business negotiation?
"Mr. Shi, please wait. If you're not satisfied with our price, you can tell us what Dream Entertainment thinks," Hoyt hurriedly stopped Shi Lei, afraid that Shi Lei would really leave just like that.
D-Wave was on the verge of collapse in the hands of Hoyt and Santeff!
The future D-Wave was indeed on the verge of collapse.
That was because no one was buying the quantum computer produced by the D-wave company.
Only in 2013 did NASA and Google cooperate to buy a quantum computer, which earned them 15 million USD.
That was the first time in D-Wave's history that a quantum computer was sold commercially.
Shi Lei, who was asked to stay, didn't immediately sit down. Instead, he turned to look at Hoyt and Santeff and said, "President Hoyt, Vice President Santeff, you don't intend to sell D-Wave. Why continue the discussion?"
Hoyt hurriedly said, "We do intend to sell D-Wave, Mr. Shi. We can talk about it in detail."
"President Hoyt, please forgive my rudeness.
First, D-Wave's quantum computer isn't officially commercially available.
The quantum computer you brought out this year was only an experimental model, right?
You announced that it was officially commercially available for the company's needs.
Dream Entertainment is very clear on this point.
Second, Dream Entertainment is also very clear on how much your company is worth. Your false price is meaningless. "
Shi Lei paused and continued, "If you're sincere about selling the company, just give me a final price.
D-Wave isn't our only choice.
Buying D-Wave isn't because I'm optimistic about your company, I'm just bored! "
Once again, the three D-Wave employees were stunned by such a ridiculous reason!
Even Xiao Bo couldn't confirm if Shi Lei really wanted to buy D-Wave or if he was just bored like Shi Lei said.
Hoyt's expression kept changing. He didn't know if Shi Lei was telling the truth.
"Sh * t!
How should I respond to this d * mn bastard?
If this bastard is just bored, our price is too high. Based on his previous attitude, I'm afraid we can't sell it to him! "
Santef coughed softly and pushed the phone to Hoyt. On the screen of the phone, Santef entered the price of 30 million USD in the short message draft interface.
Hoyt considered it and accepted the price. He said to Shi Lei, "Mr. Shi, our final price is 30 million USD!"
Without saying a word, Shi Lei took out his Swiss bank's overseas account checkbook, signed a check on it, and then put it on the conference table.
Hoyt and Santeff smiled.
However, their smiles froze in the next moment. Shi Lei shattered their fantasy and said, "20 million USD. Accept this price and we'll start the transfer process today.
If you don't accept it, I'm too lazy to play with you!
I'm going to inspect AMD. I'm not interested in wasting time with you. "
Hoyt and Santeford looked at each other with hesitant expressions.
Walter, the technical director, suddenly said, "Mr. Shi, if you buy D-Wave, will you invest enough R&D funds?"
Shi Lei glanced at Walter and said arrogantly, "That depends on whether D-Wave is worth the investment!"
Walter promised, "Mr. Shi, I can assure you that your investment will be worth it!
I'm the technical director of D-Wave. I understand the potential of quantum computing technology!
If I have enough funds, my R&D progress will be even faster!
I only need sufficient R&D funds. I don't want to pay too much attention to other things! "
Hoyt and Santeff looked at Walter angrily. Walter was indirectly "flirting" with Dream Entertainment. His subtext was, "If the acquisition fails, he can join Dream Entertainment, as long as he has sufficient R&D funds!"
Shi Lei laughed and looked at Hoyt. "President Hoyt, you have ten seconds to consider.
After ten seconds, I'll have no interest in D-Wave! "
Hoyt and Sanford were completely defeated by Shi Lei. They chose to accept Shi Lei's conditions to prevent the technical director, Walter, from leaving with Shi Lei. If that happened, their D-Wave company would become an empty shell.
Over the next two days, Xiao Bo followed the three senior executives of D-Wave back to Burnaby City in Ghana to deal with D-Wave's share transaction.
Dream Entertainment hadn't announced the acquisition yet. Shi Lei planned to delay the announcement.
It was already June 9th in Lijian Province. Dream Entertainment's player event in New York City was about to begin.
Gabriel and Shi Lei's cooperation was about to start …
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