The company Wang Gang works for belongs to the investment department of a foreign investment bank. His immediate boss is Yu Guanghong, a native of Shanghai.
When Wang Gang was recruited to the company, he was specially approved by Yu Guanghong.
With the academic qualifications of Wang Gang's predecessor, Bai Muyang, there was no chance of entering a Fortune 500 foreign company.
However, he was very talkative during the interview, and his remarks caught Yu Guanghong's attention.
Later, during the second round of interviews, Yu Guanghong specially interviewed Wang Gang in person. Not only did he assess his ability, he also deliberately found two difficult cases to test him.
As a result, the two of them saw each other right, and Yu Guanghong also specially approved Wang Gang to join the company as an intern.
After entering the company, Yu Guanghong intentionally or unintentionally handed over the most difficult tasks to Wang Gang. His original intention was to test him, which almost caused misunderstandings among other colleagues.
Many people in the department misunderstood that Yu Guanghong hated Wang Gang and wanted to use means to squeeze him out, but Wang Gang was the only one who didn't think so.
Wang Gang investigated Yu Guanghong and found that this person was actually very similar to him.
Yu Guanghong's academic qualifications are not high. He relied entirely on his own hard work and hard work to reach his current position.
He himself does not value academic qualifications, but rather his ability.
In the past month, Wang Gang has used his practical ability to conquer Yu Guanghong, and this is why Wang Gang will become a full-time employee next month.
Colleagues in the same department have a probation period of at least three months, and the longest period can be up to half a year.
Wang Gang also admires Yu Guanghong privately, he is a practical person.
In the afternoon, Yu Guanghong took Wang Gang to the conference room and prepared to introduce a big customer to him.
"The company will have a big project next, which is a merger and acquisition with an outside company. I'm going to let you participate."
"I've just joined the company not long ago, is it appropriate for me to be responsible for a big project?" Wang Gang asked curiously.
"There's nothing inappropriate. This is how I do things. If you have the ability, go ahead. If you don't, just let it go. I'm very optimistic about you. My job will be changed in the second half of the year. Will you follow me then?" Yu Guanghong asked.
Wang Gang extended an olive branch.
"Mr. Yu, are you going to be promoted? I don't know where I will be promoted!" Wang Gang said with a smile.
Yu Guanghong looked at the empty conference room and said: "I may become the vice president of the company, mainly responsible for investment and mergers and acquisitions. If you follow me, I guarantee that the annual salary will start at least one million within three years."
Wang Gang doesn't care much about money. Anyway, he has hundreds of millions in his bank account.
"Mr. Yu, haven't you considered going out and working alone?" Wang Gang asked.
Yu Guanghong was a little surprised and said: "What do you mean?"
Wang Gang said: "Actually, with Mr. Yu's ability, if you go out and start a company by yourself, you will definitely earn more than staying in the company, right?"
Yu Guanghong shook his head and said: "You don't understand, Morgan Stanley's platform is much bigger than you think.
Xiaobai, believe me, the platform is very important, don’t be fooled by those outside who make money, our industry loses more money than it makes money.”
"Okay, I will go wherever Mr. Yu goes, as long as you don't dislike me." Wang Gang said with a smile.
"You kid, it's a good thing to be young and ambitious, but it's hard to get enough training." Yu Guanghong scolded with a smile.
Wang Gang raised his eyebrows and wanted to tell Yu Guanghong that at his age, he is old enough to be your grandfather's grandfather.
Yu Guanghong chatted with Wang Gang for a while, and then three people came into the conference room.
The person in front is Xiao Sun, Yu Guanghong’s assistant.
"Mr. Yu, Mr. Tan is here." Xiao Sun introduced two people, a man and a woman. Wang Gang saw that they were old acquaintances, it was Tan Zongming and Andy.
"Mr. Bai?" Tan Zongming also recognized Wang Gang at a glance.
Yu Guanghong said in surprise: "Mr. Tan knows Bai Muyang?"
Tan Zongming laughed and said: "The world is so small, I didn't expect to meet Mr. Bai here."
Andy was not too surprised. She had thought about meeting Wang Gang ever since she heard that Tan Zongming wanted to cooperate with Morgan Stanley.
She and Wei Wei made an appointment at that restaurant at noon because it was convenient for them to come to Morgan Stanley for a meeting.
Wang Gang probably knows what the merger and acquisition case Yu Guanghong is talking about.
In the TV series, Tan Zongming asked Andy to return to China to handle the Red Star Group acquisition case.
Acquiring a group company is by no means a simple matter. Even financial giants like Tan Zongming have to seek cooperation.
As a Fortune 500 company, Morgan Stanley is naturally the preferred target.
Tan Zongming hopes to use the professional team of Wang Gang Company to complete this acquisition.
Seeing that Tan Zongming and Wang Gang knew each other, Yu Guanghong naturally gave the project to Wang Gang.
"Although Mu Yang is a newcomer, he may be very capable. Mr. Tan will be satisfied with his work ability." Yu Guanghong spared no effort to promote Wang Gang.
"Andy, what do you think?" Tan Zongming looked at Andy, she is the main person in charge of this project.
"Although I have a good personal relationship with Xiaobai, public affairs are public and private affairs are private. I am not sure about Xiaobai's working ability." Andy said honestly.
Tan Zongming smiled and said: "I believe in Mr. Yu's vision. He can never go wrong with the people he likes."
Yu Guanghong laughed happily and said, "Mu Yang will never let you down."
Next, the two parties discussed the details of the acquisition.
Generally, there are many ways to acquire large enterprises, including horizontal mergers, vertical mergers, cash acquisitions or share exchange acquisitions.
The Red Star acquisition is relatively complex and requires a compound acquisition.
Tan Zongming does not have the financial resources to complete the cash acquisition, and Red Star Group also has a complicated internal situation due to debt problems.
Wang Gang discovered that Tan Zongming did not want the entire Red Star Group, but rather some of his physical industries and production lines.
Wang Gang just chatted with Tan Zongming for a while and guessed his true intention of acquiring Red Star.
"Mr. Tan is interested in Red Star's mobile phone industry or chip research and development?"
Tan Zongming was shocked. He had never told outsiders about the true intention of the acquisition, not even Andy.
"How did Mr. Bai know that I wanted to enter the mobile phone chip industry?"
Wang Gang said: "The most valuable and promising areas of Red Star Group are these two. The domestic mobile phone industry has just emerged. Mr. Tan entered the industry at this time. It is a little late, but it is not without profit."
Tan Zongming sat up straight and asked: "What about the chip industry?"
Wang Gang smiled and said: "Red Star Group started research and development of mobile phone chips three years ago, which is something that few people in China would touch upon."
Tan Zongming became interested and asked: "Why is no one touching it?"
Wang Gang said: “Because chip research and development is too expensive, most of Red Star Group’s debt crisis stems from this.”
Tan Zongming frowned and said, "Mr. Bai is not optimistic about the chip R&D industry?"
Wang Gang shook his head and said: "On the contrary, I am very optimistic about the mobile phone chip industry, but this industry is too expensive and few companies dare to engage in it."
Tan Zongming and Andy looked at each other and asked: "Then do you think there are prospects for us to acquire Red Star Group, get his chip research laboratory, and continue to invest money?"
After Wang Gang pondered for a moment, he asked: "How much money does Mr. Tan want to invest?"
"One billion." Tan Zongming gave a price.
Wang Gang shook his head and said, "Maybe it's not enough."
Tan Zongming asked curiously: "How much do you think we need?"
Wang Gang said: "The biggest difficulty in chip research and development is not funds, but patents. Nowadays, most of the patents in this area are stuck in the United States."
"If I want to develop a completely independent mobile phone chip, how much money do you think I need to invest." Tan Zongming deliberately tested Wang Gang.
Wang Gang shook his head and said, "Then I would suggest Mr. Tan to give up this idea and move in another direction."
Tan Zongming asked curiously: "What direction."
Wang Gang said without hesitation: "Car chip."
Tan Zongming's eyes showed a strange color.
Because Wang Gang completely hit his mark.
As one of the big guys in Shanghai's financial circle, Tan Zongming has been optimistic about the domestic mobile phone industry for a long time.
But unlike others, he is not interested in producing mobile phones. Instead, he is more interested in the core of mobile phones - chips.
Currently, 90% of domestic mobile phone manufacturers purchase foreign chips, which are not only expensive but also prone to being stuck.
Tan Zongming came up with the idea of producing his own chips a long time ago. He started laying out the plan in the past two years and successively acquired many small R&D companies and studios.
This time he fell in love with Red Star and also with its complete chip research and development studio.
Tan Zongming also understood that the investment in research and development of mobile phone chips was too daunting, and he might not be able to achieve it with his financial resources, so he found another track.
That is the vehicle-mounted computer system.
It can be said that Wang Gang has completely exposed Tan Zongming's business plan for the next five years.
Regardless of whether Wang Gang guessed it or was fooled, it is a manifestation of ability in itself.
"I am becoming more and more confident in your ability to work." Tan Zongming pointedly said: "Do you want to work in my company?"
Yu Guanghong on the side said: "Mr. Tan is poaching my people in front of me, isn't that bad?"
