Baron himself does not believe that he can run a global Internet company like Google and Facebook simply by relying on his own financial investment, even if he has the memories of his previous life.
After all, a good idea or better technology is not a necessary condition for a company to become a giant.
Just like Google acquired dozens of different startups during its development, don't these companies have good ideas or better technologies?
But they eventually became the food for the giants.
"What do you want us to do?"
Facing Morris' question, Barron smiled and said,
"I know Sequoia Capital has a great influence in Silicon Valley. I hope you can help me contact the shareholders of a company and, if possible, acquire their shares."
After hearing what Barron said, Morris couldn't help but become curious:
"Which company?"
"Apple!"
"You want to buy Apple stock?"
When Morris heard Barron's words, he didn't know whether the other party was too smart or stupid.
In short, he was full of surprise. At first, he thought Barron had set his sights on a Silicon Valley startup, but he didn't expect it was Apple, which had been developing for many years.
You know, Apple's stock price performance this year is not good, it can even be said to be very bad.
Their stock price fell by more than 66% from $36 at the beginning of the year to $12 in just half a year.
In the second half of this year, Apple's stock price is still falling, and as of now, it is close to falling below $7.
At this time, Apple's market value has almost dropped by 5 billion US dollars!
It can be said that even Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, is not optimistic about the future of Apple's stock...
Morris didn't know why Barron chose to buy Apple stock at this time. It is true that compared with before, Apple's stock is at the bottom, but the key is to invest in Apple now, can it return to its previous market value later?
The fact is that most people now believe that Apple is finished, and just like those once-glorious companies before it, it is destined to decline.
At this time, Apple's most important product was the iPod, but only people with Apple MAC computers could use this MP3 player, so the iPod only had about 3% of computer users in this market.
It doesn't look competitive at all.
Therefore, Morris found it difficult to comment on Barron's statement that he wanted to buy a portion of Apple's shareholders' shares, but it was not a difficult thing to do...
"That's no problem, Your Highness. I can help you contact some funds that own Apple shares right away. I'm sure that under the current circumstances, some people are willing to get rid of their shares by selling them directly..."
After all, large-scale stock transactions like this that are not conducted directly through the secondary market have a very low impact on stock prices. If the stock is to be sold through an exchange, it will probably cause a sharp drop in stock prices immediately.
The reason why Baron wants to buy stocks directly from Apple shareholders in this way is that he wants to maintain the current "pessimistic" atmosphere of Apple's stock.
If you buy directly from the secondary market, it is easy to push up the price of Apple stock after purchasing a certain amount.
"I think you can also contact Mr. Jobs, maybe he is also interested in selling his Apple stock..."
The reason he said this was that he remembered reading related reports in his previous life.
It was after Apple's stock price fell below $7 this year that Apple's founder Steve Jobs panicked and sold all 55 million shares of Apple stock, leaving only 4.5 million shares.
It can be said that compared with Apple's later market value, his selling this time caused him to suffer heavy losses.
In the era when Barron was reborn in his previous life, even many people who didn't know much about technology companies knew that Apple was the company with the highest market value in the world at that time.
Therefore, now that he has encountered such an opportunity, Barron certainly does not need to consider anything. The only thing he needs to do is to buy as many shares of this company as possible...
It just so happens that the Mars Fund will soon increase its investment of 200 million pounds from Abramovich, and together with other funds, it can be used to purchase these Apple shares.
According to the profit-sharing rules of the Mars Fund initially stipulated, DS Capital will receive 20% of the profit for the client's profit below 20%; they will receive 30% of the profit for the client's profit between 20% and 50%; they will receive 40% of the profit for the client's profit between 50% and 100%; and they will receive 50% of the profit for the client's profit above 100%.
According to this profit sharing ratio, when the initial 50 million pounds investment matures one year later, the funds will be worth more than 200 million pounds, a return rate of more than 300%.
Therefore, after withdrawing the profits, DS Capital received a total profit share of approximately 66.5 million pounds!
After withdrawing the profits, almost all of the earliest investors chose to continue investing the profits into the Mars Fund.
In addition, due to the super high returns of the Mars Fund, it once again attracted enthusiastic investment from investors. Therefore, this time, in addition to the 200 million pounds from Abramovich, more than 350 million pounds of funds have once again flooded into the Mars Fund.
So far, the funds controlled by the Mars Fund have exceeded 1 billion pounds!
These additional funds will be used to invest in technology stocks including Apple - the Nasdaq stock market is now showing more and more signs of recovery from the previous crisis.
According to Baron's memory, he knew that a year later, Apple's stock price would more than double from its current level.
Because by then Apple's latest version of iPod will be compatible with ordinary computers, thus occupying 97% of the new market. Also because of the iPod's excellent appearance and sound quality, it has become popular among MP3 users since then.
Morris acted quickly. In order to join the investment in Woaw, he used his connections in Silicon Valley and the financial industry to connect Barron with Jobs himself and three other fund companies that held shares in Apple.
Just as Barron had expected, Jobs no longer had confidence in continuing to hold Apple's stock due to the plummeting stock price and was preparing to sell most of his shares.
Now someone was willing to take over the shares at the current price of $7 per share without having to sell them in the secondary market, which would cause the price to fall. This made Jobs agree to the deal very happily.
He will sell his 55 million shares of Apple stock to DS Capital for a total price of US$385 million, retaining only 4.5 million shares of Apple stock.
The other three fund companies will also sell a total of approximately 107 million shares of Apple, with a total price of approximately US$750 million.
In this way, DS Capital and its private equity fund Mars Fund will purchase a total of approximately 162 million shares of Apple, spending approximately 760 million pounds!
In this way, the Apple shares they hold at this time account for approximately 22.5% of Apple's total share capital, becoming its single largest shareholder.