Although it is just a small animation, it uses uture-ave's uture-splash technology.&Chinese&Novels..

The company has produced the world's first commercial two-dimensional vector animation software for designing and editing lash documents. This is the prototype of lash animations that will be seen everywhere on the Internet in the future.

In order to create such small animations that pop up when opening the software, hope Technology Company needs to pay more than three million US dollars in patent fees to Uture-ave.

When Han Xuan learned that it was more than three million US dollars, he felt very distressed.

So I will buy the company for tens of millions of dollars, so I don't have to pay it

Today, the software department of Hope Technology has a total of more than 2,200 employees, of which 89% of the developers are involved.

However, despite having so many software programmers, Han Xuan still cannot create a complete "Internet ecosystem" according to his wishes.

For example, in the early stages of developing PayPal, when I went to the patent office to apply for a patent.

It was unexpectedly discovered that someone had already proposed a similar patent for using email addresses with Paypal as an identity to conduct electronic currency transactions between users.

The plan to develop paypal almost got stuck because of this patent.

Fortunately, an old professor at the Stanford University Institute of Electronics who applied for the patent at the time has passed away and his daughter inherited the patent.

After spending a lot of money, I got it successfully.

And Han Xuan added that all patents that may be used for online payment can be applied for, making this barrier airtight.

The reason for giving this example is that although the development of the Internet is still in its early stages, many people have applied for patents for their creativity.

This includes some technical patents used to make video websites in this era.

Han Xuan planned to develop a video website, but he encountered a problem as soon as he proposed it. The owner of the patent rights, Lion, asked for a price of $5 million.

This made him deeply feel the importance of possessing a technology patent. He cut the price to two million dollars with his nose and handed it over to him.

Han Xuan prepared US$30 million for this purpose, and continuously expanded Hope Technology's patent reserve library through a special acquisition team formed a few months ago. Now the total number of patents owned by the company has officially exceeded 1,000!

Even if he does nothing for the rest of his life, the money he earns from these patents alone is enough to be free and easy...

“Charley.

How are you discussing with Mardia and the head of Adobe? Are those major shareholders willing to sell the company's shares to us?"

While Han Xuan was speaking, he typed out "Cisco" in the destiny search bar. When he checked the Encyclopedia of Destiny, he found that the introduction stated that Cisco was listed as early as 1990.

This made him a little confused. In his memory, he did see Cisco's name on the electronic billboard in the Nasdaq market and thought maybe it was someone from McKinsey Consulting that made the mistake.

After reading the information, I found that this is a network hardware manufacturer that makes routers, switches, network fiber and other equipment.

Then he suddenly realized that no wonder Cisco can achieve such a high market value in the future. With the continuous development of the Internet technology market, the whole world will be the stage for the development of this company in the next twenty years!

He made up his mind to acquire a small portion of Cisco's shares for investment, and then he turned to the idea of ​​setting up a family office.

Now all his assets are placed on the surface, and when his wealth expands in the future, he will inevitably be envied.

Learning from Bill Gates, Buffett, Rockefeller and Waltons, it might be a good idea to build a family office that belongs only to him...

Old Charlie didn't know that the boss was distracted. He recalled the information in his mind and introduced:

"Last year, maedia's turnover was only more than $60 million, but its profit was as high as about 18 million. Now, its market value in the Nasdaq market is about $130 million.

It issued few stocks and had a high face value for a single stock. I heard that the board of directors of that company recently seemed to have plans to split the stocks.

Among the four existing major shareholders, two have agreed to sell approximately 34% of the company's shares to us at a market value of US$190 million.

When I contacted the other two major shareholders, they only said they wanted to consider it, but they had not called me back so far and should not be ready to sell it.

When the 2.1 million shares are split and there will be more outstanding shares on the market, we can take the opportunity to sweep maedia's outstanding shares and strive to occupy the controlling stake..."

Stock splitting is a very common practice in stock market trading.

After the split, the market price per share of the company will be reduced, resulting in a decrease in the amount of funds required by investors to buy and sell stocks, increasing the frequency of turnover between investors, thereby pushing up the stock price.

And it can turn more potential shareholders with limited financial strength into shareholders of the company.

Old Charlie's words sound a bit like he is preparing for a malicious acquisition, which is not good for managing that company in the future.

So Han Xuan asked him, "What do you think about this matter, the board of directors of maridia?"

“There is no consensus yet, but most people tend to be acquired by us.

This company mainly produces audio, video and animation development software. After we acquire it, its development prospects will be broader.

Previously, the market value of maedia was only about 119 million US dollars. After the news of our company's desire to acquire it spread, the stock price rose a lot during this period."

Old Charlie knew what the boss was worried about. With the current financial resources of Hope Technology, there was almost no problem in trying to force the acquisition of a company with only 2.22 million outstanding shares and a market value of more than 100 million US dollars.

However, malicious acquisitions are not conducive to the development of the two companies and are likely to cause conflicts.

While Han Xuan was speaking, he tried out the software of his company.

He stood up and twisted his waist, took the sandwich and milk sent by Secretary Dawson, and then asked, "So, what about adobe?"

In his previous life, before adobe acquired maedia for $3.4 billion, the two companies competed with each other for more than a decade.

Finally, with a series of acquisitions and developments, Adobe gradually became a software giant with a market value of over tens of billions of dollars, and is the world's largest desktop publishing, electronic documentation and graphics software company.

When Adobe was damaged by the pirated Chinese version industry, Han Xuan saw that news and knew clearly how big the company was.

"Little boss...our hope technology company, it may be difficult to acquire adobe company.

Apple once owned a 20% stake in adobe. I contacted Mr. Jobs and wanted to ask the number of adobe CEO John Warnock.

Jobs told me that in 1989, those stocks were sold by senior Apple executives for $89 million.

He only found out about this when he returned to the company and said that selling the stock was a huge mistake, and his tone seemed very annoyed.

As a result, Apple now needs to pay a huge patent fee of more than 50 million US dollars to Adobe every year, and Microsoft also needs to pay patent fees to it.

Adobe, a company that just acquired Aldus for $525 million in stock last year, is preparing to enter the application software market.

Printers and software, patent fees, etc. are constantly providing funds for it, and there is no shortage of money at all.

Now its market value is about 100 million US dollars. You say you want to hold shares, and our hope technology company doesn’t have that much money.”

Like Cisco, it is another high-quality company that missed the best investment opportunities.

After hearing what Old Charlie said, Han Xuan thought that he had known this before. When he was a child, he was busy herding cattle all day long. The delicious sandwich in his mouth was as delicious as chewing wax.

He said: "You are responsible for acquiring maedia. Don't worry about adobe. Next, I will discuss with that company in my personal name to acquire part of its shares."

Suddenly I thought of something and sat down again.

Han Xuan held a little expectation and typed "qualm" on the keyboard (Qualcomm)... (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!