Chapter 324 Do you want to "trick" me?

Through Sun Yunyi's introduction, Hu Yang learned that many Huaqing graduates chose to study in the United States after graduating from undergraduate programs. After completing their studies, many of them stayed.

There are many alumni of Sun Yunyi and Shao Qing here in Silicon Valley, and as for the Chinese, there are even more.

After visiting the company as planned, Sun Yunyi looked at his watch and planned to invite Hu Yang and others to lunch.

"Director Sun, I have to go somewhere else tomorrow, let's forget it today. Why not, I have to go to San Francisco before returning to China. Then you can contact the local compatriots from the mainland, and I will hold a dinner party with everyone.

Let’s get together.”

Hu Yang planned to ask Sun Yunyi to contact him and hold a party when he returned to San Francisco. The purpose was not to recruit people, but just to expand his contacts.

Shao Qing looked at Sun Yunyi, and the two exchanged glances, obviously very interested.

Afterwards, Hu Yang and others said goodbye to Sun Yunyi and went to find a place to have lunch. In the afternoon, everyone walked around San Francisco for a long time before returning to the hotel to rest.

The next day, Hu Yang and others flew to Seattle with Adams.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with going to Amazon's headquarters, it's just a routine walk around.

Amazon showed considerable importance to Hu Yang's arrival. The company sent its CEO to accompany him throughout the process.

Hu Yang originally invested US$1 billion, including 62.4 million shares of Amazon's common stock. Including unilateral handling fees, it was basically US$500 million.

At the same time, it also purchased US$500 million in Amazon convertible bonds. The term of the convertible bonds is five years and the conversion price is US$12.5 per share.

At that time, due to the collapse of Nasdaq Internet technology stocks, Amazon's stock price was close to 5 US dollars. It was also at this time that Hu Yang entered the market to buy the bottom and bought 500 million at an average price of more than 8 US dollars per share.

US dollar stocks.

After the transaction of these 62.4 million shares was completed, Amazon's stock price rebounded to above US$10. Therefore, Hong Bo suggested that the remaining US$500 million might as well be bought into convertible bonds, and the conversion price is not high.

, save trouble.

Convertible bonds, within a five-year period, can be converted into the company's common shares at the agreed conversion price, which is US$12.5 per share. You don't have to want to convert shares. When the bond matures, the principal and interest will be repaid in one go.

, this is the same as an ordinary bond, there is no difference.

Of course, the interest on convertible bonds is much lower than the interest on ordinary bonds.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Amazon's stock price to rebound to $18. Until now, its stock price has fluctuated in the range of $10 to $20 for a long time.

For Populus euphratica, there is no hesitation and it will definitely be converted into stocks.

This US$500 million convertible bond is equivalent to 40 million shares of Amazon common stock. However, it will take 5 years for these shares to be listed and circulated until the convertible bond matures.

Therefore, Huijia International Investment currently holds 62.4 million common shares of Amazon, ranking among the top holders of common shares.

Chief Executive Officer Powell and others have always been very polite to Hu Yang.

Powell personally told Hu Yang about the company's development plan, and then the accountant analyzed the financial data of the last few fiscal years. Finally, Powell took Hu Yang and his party to visit the company, completing the process of the major shareholder's inspection of the company.

At noon, Powell invited Hu Yang and others to have a working meal, and Hu Yang and others left Amazon's headquarters.

After spending two days in Seattle, Hu Yang and his party went to Los Angeles, Washington, and New York.

This journey is basically focused on sightseeing. Hu Yang wants to have an intuitive understanding of this country from all aspects.

In the meantime, I stayed in New York for a little longer, five days in total.

In the past five days, Hu Yang has attended two luncheons sponsored by investment and financial professionals. Of course, this kind of luncheon is different from Buffett's. It is nothing more than a communication meeting between industry insiders and investors, and everyone pays for their own consumption.

That’s it.

"Peter, thank you very much this time. Next time you go back to Xiangjiang or go to China, you must give me a call and I will treat you to a drink then."

When I came to New York this time, the white middle-aged man in front of me gave Hu Yang and others a lot of help. This man's name was Chen Peter, a friend of Yu Hongbo's in Xiangjiang. Later, Chen Peter came to Wall Street and was only two years old.

The connection between people has never been broken.

"Mr. Hu, Hong Bo and I have been friends for many years. This is not worth mentioning. Then I won't take you to the airport. See you later!"

Peter Chen has lived in Hong Kong for 7 years, can speak relatively fluent Cantonese, and is currently engaged in financial derivatives transactions on Wall Street.

He and Populus euphratica could talk well and got along well these days. When parting, Populus euphratica treated him to a meal and gave him a few bottles of fine red wine.

By the time Populus euphratica returned to San Francisco again, more than half a month had passed.

"Mr. Hu, I have already made preparations for what you told me. During this period, I have contacted more than 50 alumni or compatriots working in Silicon Valley. They heard that they could have a gathering with you, and they were all very interested."

Returning this time, Hu Yang and others stayed at the Liskar Hotel.

After a day's rest, Hu Yang asked Shao Qing to get in touch with Sun Yunyi. Sun Yunyi even went to the hotel to meet with Hu Yang.

"Then let's do it tomorrow night. Tomorrow also happens to be the weekend, so everyone has time."

Hu Yang scheduled the dinner party for the next day to give himself enough preparation time.

The next day.

Hu Yang has booked a banquet hall in the hotel annex, where the dinner will be held.

In the evening, when he stepped into the banquet hall, he saw several rows of long dining tables placed in the center of the hall. The dining tables were covered with white tablecloths and scattered decorations.

"Mr. Hu, some of the guests have already arrived, and they will all arrive soon."

Sun Yunyi and Shao Qing are responsible for welcoming guests today. They plan to formally introduce Populus euphratica to everyone before the dinner party begins.

It didn't take long and the guests arrived one after another.

Hu Yang noticed that there were more people coming tonight than Sun Yunyi said.

Shao Qing came over and said: "Today is the weekend, everyone is relatively free, and the guests may bring some friends over, so the number of people will be larger than expected."

Hu Yang said with a smile: "It doesn't matter. The hotel is well prepared. Even if a hundred people come, it will be no problem."

He said this casually, but by the time the dinner party started, almost 80 people had come.

Sun Yunyi introduced Populus euphratica to everyone before attending the meeting.

As for the guests, there was definitely no way to introduce them to Hu Yang one by one. The matter of collecting business cards was left to Lin Yan.

There aren’t too many rules at a dinner party. Everyone sits down, eats and drinks, and then can change places at any time and talk to people they’re interested in.

Anyway, it is a meal-sharing system. Food and drinks are provided by waiters pushing dining carts to everyone. You can choose what you want.

Hu Yang sat without moving because he couldn't move away, and from time to time someone would change places and sit next to him.

"Mr. Hu, I'm sorry, can I sit down?"

Han Wen never left Hu Yang, and Li Jie followed Lin Yan and kept communicating with everyone. At this time, a young and beautiful girl came over.

When Hu Yang heard the sound, he looked up and saw that the girl in front of him was probably in her early twenties and she was really pretty.

In terms of appearance alone, she is probably similar to Liang Shuqi and Tian Sichun. But her figure is more like a Westerner, very hot.

Hu Yang smiled, nodded and said, "Please sit down."

"Mr. Hu, my name is Su Tingting, and I am an international student from China. I am very happy to meet you, an investor, tonight."

Liu Tingting sat down and the waiter handed over clean tableware. She randomly ordered two foods and a bottle of red wine.

"I'm very happy too, Miss Su. Come, have a drink for our acquaintance."

Hu Yang wouldn't mind chatting with Su Tingting for a while. Beauty always has privileges.

It turned out that this beauty was not only a good talker, but also a good drinker. While the two were chatting, they drank an entire bottle of red wine without even realizing it.

"It seems I have to leave for a while, Mr. Hu, here is my contact information. I hope you all still have a chance to meet."

Su Tingting saw that someone had cast a dissatisfied look, so she smiled and wrote down her contact information on a piece of paper, and then looked at Hu Yang with a smile.

Hu Yang smiled and handed her a business card before Su Tingting got up and left.

"No, no, no, these guys are taking turns to drink from me."

When Sun Yunyi sat over, his face was already red from drinking. At this time, everyone was drinking, including red wine, brandy, etc., and many bottles were emptied.

"No wonder you are hiding here from me. Director Sun, it's getting late now. Shouldn't today's party end?"

Hu Yang himself was a little dizzy after drinking. He looked at his watch and saw that today's dinner party had lasted for more than three hours.

Sun Yunyi came to look for Hu Yang, which was what he meant.

Since Hu Yang agreed, Sun Yunyi went to make arrangements, and then the guests left one after another.

Hu Yang sat for a while, but no one came to sit on the empty seat next to him. He didn't know what he thought of, and suddenly laughed.

"Mr. Hu, why are you sitting here laughing alone? Let's go, it's time for us to go back."

Lin Yan and Li Jie just showed up at this time. She was busier than Hu Yang during the entire dinner party. Hu Yang could chat with people at will, but she had to be busy building connections.

"Nothing...let's go!"

Hu Yang shook his head with a smile and stood up.

He laughed before because he remembered an incident in his previous life. That year when Brother Dong was in the United States, he was tricked by a beautiful woman. It seemed that it was also at a dinner party. The familiar scene and the familiar plot, he almost thought that

Su Tingting is also preparing to trick herself.

So, he waited a little longer, but they didn't come at all.

"If Su Tingting really invites me to send her back, should I go? Or should I go?"
Chapter completed!