Chapter 230 Gave Masayoshi Son a Fright

Li Xiaofan was deeply impressed by the Hong Kong movie "The Thief King". In the movie, the heroine Guan Xiumei played the girlfriend of the thief king. She was tortured by the Hong Kong police with a condom filled with ice cubes. The scene was really heartbreaking.

"Okay, then I will treat you to this movie after dinner."

Guo Hanyue smiled and said, "Wow, it's great. We haven't eaten, drank and watched movies together like this for a long time!"

As they were talking, Li Xiaofan's phone rang. He opened it and saw that it was Tang Jiaming calling.

"Afan, have you eaten?"

"Just finished, Brother Ming, what do you want?"

"That Dato Hui from Johor is coming to Singapore to discuss business this afternoon. Now we plan to go to Lido Nightclub for a drink. Brother Hui mentioned you just now. Why don't you come over for a few drinks when you are free?"

Li Xiaofan thought about it and still had to give Brother Ming face, so he replied: "Okay, I'll call two taxis..."

After Li Xiaofan hung up the phone, Guo Hanyue and Liu Mengchen heard that Li Xiaofan had something to go out and couldn't accompany them to the movie, and they were immediately in a bad mood.

After rushing to the Lido Palace box, Li Xiaofan toasted Dato Hui and Brother Ming for a few rounds of wine, and then Mommy Shirley called Tianyu to accompany Li Xiaofan.

Tianyu was wearing a sexy deep-V cheongsam today, revealing most of her snow-white thighs. She held Li Xiaofan's arm affectionately and asked, "Afan, I haven't seen you for a long time. What have you been busy with recently? Why don't you come here to play?"

"We are poor boys and can't afford such a high-end place!" Li Xiaofan laughed.

"Then why did you come here again today?"

"Brother Ming invited me today to give me face. How are you doing?"

Tianyu leaned on Li Xiaofan and said, "I have adapted to it. Anyway, I just accompany you to drink and laugh, and occasionally let you men touch me a few times to satisfy your pleasure..."

Li Xiaofan laughed: "Haha, I haven't touched you!"

Tianyu said softly: "That's because you don't want it, but my family didn't refuse..."

In the evening, Li Xiaofan found that Tang Jiaming had changed his girlfriend in Lido Palace. The new girlfriend was a young "female singer" named Shasha from the mainland.

Li Xiaofan sighed inwardly. How could Irene get pregnant when Mingge watered the wild flowers outside every day...

On Monday morning, Li Xiaofan met up with Lin Muchu, Zheng Shujia and others from Ascendas Group at Changi International Airport, registered to go to Tokyo, and then took a United Airlines flight to San Francisco.

It was already past four in the afternoon when they arrived in San Francisco, and it was already six thirty in the evening when they got out of the airport and rushed to the hotel. They stayed in a four-star hotel in Rohnert Park in the Bay Area.

In the evening, Li Xiaofan invited Lin Muchu, Zheng Shujia and others to have dinner at Tangyuan Chinese Restaurant. When Li Xiaofan went to pay the bill, he found that Lin Muchu and others had quietly paid the bill in advance.

The next morning, Li Xiaofan accompanied Lin Muchu and others to visit Jerry Yang and Marc Andreessen of Netscape.

As Li Xiaofan predicted, Jerry Yang and Marc Andreessen were not interested in the suggestion of moving the headquarters to Singapore or setting up branches for the time being.

Especially Marc Andreessen was ambitiously busy with the plan to list Netscape Nasdaq in the second half of the year.

However, Marc Andreessen finally gave Lin Muchu a glimmer of hope: "Ms. Lin, when my company is listed on Nasdaq in the second half of the year and we raise new capital, I may consider your suggestion to set up a branch in Singapore to develop our Asian business..."

And Jerry Yang and Filo had just received a $2 million investment from Sequoia Capital and Li Xiaofan. Yahoo changed its office and bought a lot of new servers and other hardware. They were busy in Silicon Valley and had no energy to consider the possibility of opening a branch in Singapore.

Although no business was recruited, Lin Muchu, Zheng Shujia and others felt that they had gained a lot, which allowed them to have a more comprehensive understanding of the current status of the Internet industry in Silicon Valley.

That afternoon, in the conference room of Yahoo's new office, Li Xiaofan, Moritz of Sequoia Capital, and four other Yahoo shareholders including Jerry Yang and Filo met with Masayoshi Son of Softbank Group who visited Yahoo again.

In his previous life, Li Xiaofan had only seen many reports about the legendary investment tycoon Masayoshi Son on the Internet and on TV.

Masayoshi Son is a descendant of refugees after the Korean War and was born near Tosu Station in Saga Prefecture, Japan. It used to be a shantytown, inhabited by homeless Japanese and Korean poor people.

His father, Sanxian Sun, had his own way of educating his children: he often praised his children as geniuses. It was under such education that the young Masayoshi Son was often full of self-confidence, and his catchphrase was "Because I am a genius."

He is indeed a "genius". He studied hard and had excellent grades since he was a child. Later, he insisted on persuading his family to send him to study in the United States. Later, he founded SoftBank, invested in Yahoo despite the opposition of other directors, threatened the communications oligarch NTT with "self-immolation" to provide services for himself, and later succeeded in Alibaba, Uber and other targets...

Many turning points in his life relied on his own very advanced strategic vision and tough tactics, as well as relatively good luck.

It is said that he is very proud of his Chinese surname "Sun" and refused to change it when he joined Japanese nationality. He also claimed that his ancestral home is Putian, China, and that he is a descendant of "Sun Bin", a great strategist in ancient China...

This was the first time that Li Xiaofan met the real Masayoshi Son face to face, and he was inevitably a little excited.

Sequoia Capital's Moritz and Jerry Yang and others had met Masayoshi Son before, but Masayoshi Son didn't know Li Xiaofan among the crowd.

So Jerry Yang introduced: "Mr. Sun, let me introduce you, this is Mr. Li Xiaofan, the executive director of Singapore Yifan Private Limited, currently the fourth largest shareholder of our American Yahoo company..."

Masayoshi Son politely extended his hand to greet Li Xiaofan: "Hello, Mr. Li, nice to meet you!"

Masayoshi Son in front of him looked very elegant, but he could be seen to be in a high-spirited state, full of confidence, and his eyes were bright.

He sat in the office chair, and seemed to have an aura that looked down on the people in the room.

Masayoshi Son does have the capital to ignore Sequoia Capital, let alone the unknown Li Xiaofan. Last year, SoftBank Group, founded by him, was successfully listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, with a market value of more than US$1 billion.

After a brief greeting, Son made his investment proposal: the current valuation of Yahoo has tripled from $4 million to $12 million, and SoftBank Group is willing to invest $4.8 million in Yahoo, accounting for 40% of the shares. If old shareholders like Li Xiaofan are willing to sell their old shares, he is willing to buy Li Xiaofan's Yahoo shares for $1.2 million...

After speaking, Son glanced at everyone in the room with pride, and then smiled and stopped his eyes on Li Xiaofan, looking at the young man from Singapore in front of him, thinking: In more than a month, $400,000 has appreciated to $1.2 million, making a profit of $800,000, a 200% return, this young man should be satisfied and sell his shares to me, right?

After drinking a few sips of mineral water and clearing his throat, Li Xiaofan said slowly: "Our Singapore Yifan Private Limited is also willing to invest $4.8 million in Yahoo, accounting for 40% of the shares..."

Li Xiaofan's words startled Son, and his eyes widened in shock.