Chapter 2454: Exposed
At this time, although Lloyd and Xia Jinheng still looked at Feng Yiping coldly, in fact, their momentum had already dropped.
Feng Yiping's straightforward words hit their soft spots.
As more and more people are affected by subprime mortgages, anger against Wall Street is fermenting among the people and on the Internet.
Words that have not appeared for many years, such as "vampire" and "parasite", have appeared more and more frequently.
Thinking of this, oh, by the way, the website most visited by American people is Google, and social networking sites, in general, are the world of this person in front of him.
The companies he mentioned as "not worth mentioning" include the two social networking sites with the most users in the world, Facebook and NEXTDOOR.
Although Wall Street and Silicon Valley did not like each other at the beginning, they have influenced and penetrated each other deeply over the past few decades.
Wall Street's understanding of high technology is also far more profound than other industries.
So they know very well that what Feng Yiping lacks the least is the channel to make relevant remarks.
Not to mention that they actively add to the current unfavorable public opinion against Wall Street, as long as they want, soon, at least more than two-thirds of the American people will know that Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the two most well-known investment banks on Wall Street, refused to fulfill the agreement.
Whether it will affect their business remains to be observed and discussed, but it is certain that once the public knows about this situation, their stock prices will definitely fall.
For them at present, this is not just a simple matter of adding insult to injury, it may even be fatal.
In fact, when they realized that the agreement signed with the fund established by Feng Yiping and others would cost them a huge price, and when they studied the relevant countermeasures, they once again had an intuitive and profound experience of Feng Yiping's precise vision and comprehensive thinking.
Frankly speaking, if the owner of this fund was only Feng Yiping alone, or other lightweight partners, they would have plenty of ways to deal with it.
Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869 and has a history of nearly 140 years.
Morgan Stanley has been around for 70 years since 1935, the year it split from the company.
After so many years, they have a lot of experience in the reasonable use of rules.
But because of the luxurious configuration of Feng Yiping's fund, their experience is difficult to use at present.
Although from now on, Wall Street still beats Silicon Valley in terms of overall strength - this can be seen from the employment choices of graduates from prestigious American universities over the years. As of this year, Wall Street, not Silicon Valley, is still the first choice for outstanding graduates from prestigious American universities.
But this does not mean that Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley can ignore Google, Apple, and Feng Yiping's company.
Frankly speaking, the combined strength of the companies of all the fund owners is far greater than that of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
More importantly, there is also a Jobs among them.
The reason why Jobs is mentioned is not because he will definitely become the most influential business leader in the United States this year, but because of Jobs' personal situation.
Because Jobs spent more effort than Feng Yiping and the other three to raise the $1 billion, so Lourdes and Xia Jinheng knew very well how much Jobs expected from this matter.
It can be said that it was a gamble to a certain extent.
Considering Jobs' usual bad temper, do you want to give him a discount on the return?
More importantly, it is Jobs' "personal condition".
This personal condition mainly refers to Jobs' health condition.
Although Apple has kept Jobs' health issues highly confidential, although Jobs publicly said that his tumor problem has been cured.
However, the information obtained by Lourdes and others shows that things are not as optimistic as Jobs said.
That is, once they prepare some actions, to a certain extent, they are confronting a person with a wide range of positive influence, a bad temper, and who is likely to have not much time left.
The arrogant are afraid of the stupid, and the stupid are afraid of the desperate. This principle is the same everywhere.
Whether it is Lourdes or Xia Jinheng, they are unwilling to confront a person who is arrogant and may really be desperate.
Because, who knows what the other party will do?
That's why they were so humble at the beginning. Feng Yiping had considered all aspects. It would definitely not work if he used force, so he could only use soft tactics.
However, it's not impossible to try the hard tactics. After all, Feng Yiping is still so young, isn't he?
Who knows, he won't be scared?
But it seems that he really can't be scared.
"Feng, haha," Lourdes laughed again, "Where is the threat? You completely misunderstood our meaning,"
He glanced at Xia Jinheng.
Xia Jinheng also laughed, not only with his face, but also with his flesh moving as much as possible, "We just can't hide our disappointment,"
"Our original intention was to hope to get your understanding and hope to find a perfect solution to our differences,"
Lourdes said immediately, "After the previous frank and in-depth communication, we fully exchanged opinions. I think we both clearly understand each other's positions,"
His words were very appropriate.
In many cases, "frank" communication means that both parties quarreled, and "full" exchange of opinions means that each party said something different.
"But I think the purpose of this meeting initiated by you, Feng, must be to find a perfect solution to the problems we are facing, right?"
They did not get angry and walk away because of the fierce conflict between them and Feng Yiping's harsh words before. Instead, they lowered their posture again.
For them, the scene just now was really nothing.
They didn't know how many times they had done the spit in the face.
Feng Yiping also sat down. Putting those words was actually a means. Of course, it naturally contained the intention of testing their bottom line and determination.
"I originally came with the good intention of solving the problem. Whether it was Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley, we had a good cooperation before. I have always hoped to continue to maintain and enhance our cooperation,"
"But I found that you two did not have such intention,"
"No, Feng, we definitely hope to continue to maintain our friendly and cooperative relationship more than you do," Lourdes said immediately.
"Your company has always been Morgan Stanley's best partner. We don't want to give up such a rare partner," Xia Jinheng also said.
"Really? Why can't I feel that you two have such intentions?" Feng Yiping looked at the two of them, "Otherwise, why do you keep forcing me to give in now with something that is still far away and very likely not to happen?"
This is a bit difficult to answer, but it has to be answered.
"Feng, we are indeed in a difficult situation at the moment," said Lourdes.
"Feng, we will be in even greater difficulty next time," said Xia Jinheng.
Lourdes was too lazy to argue with Xia Jinheng at this time. Since you must compare your misery with us, it's up to you.
"So, are you going to go bankrupt now or next month?" Feng Yiping asked.
"No!"
"In that case, why do you keep talking to me with this as a premise? Is this your sincerity in wanting to continue to maintain friendly cooperation with my company?"
"Feng, our original intention is just to prepare some work in advance," said Lourdes.
"Our original intention is to hope that you can fully understand our difficulties," said Xia Jinheng.
"Is it as you said? I think no one knows better than you," Feng Yiping said, "I think you also know very well that it is me, not Jobs, or Page, or Brin, who is here to discuss this issue with you two, which shows my sincerity."
At least, Lourdes and Xia Jinheng originally agreed with this.
Generally speaking, it feels that Feng Yiping is indeed easier to talk to than the three, but at this time, they really prefer to talk to them instead of Feng Yiping.
Because Feng Yiping is really too difficult to deal with.
But in this case, how could they say no?
"Yes, we fully understand,"
"I also want to say a question that makes me very disappointed," Feng Yiping said, "You two just mentioned the preparation work,"
Lourdes and Xia Jinheng inexplicably became a little nervous.
"I also know that you two have indeed done a lot of preparation work,"
It's not that, Lourdes and Xia Jinheng's smiles became forced.
"I also know that one of them is to work with some asset management companies to develop a plan for my company, right,"
Lourdes and Xia Jinheng both sighed secretly, it really is this!
Yes, how could such a thing be hidden from him?