Chapter 330 329 Want to invest? No way!
For those who don’t know much about Zhetong Electric Power, their first reaction would probably be surprise when they heard that the boss of the automobile giant General Motors traveled thousands of miles to Binhai to personally “beg” Lin Zhe to sign a strategic partnership agreement.

After all, GM’s status is there, and it is unknown how many cars it sells to various regions around the world every year.

This is definitely a giant company, and it is really strange that such a company went to Binhai and actively requested to sign such an agreement.

This is their usual arrogant attitude, but if they understand the situation afterwards, they probably won’t think so.

At least Isaac has made a solid choice for his future and for the future of GM.

Some smart people have begun to focus on understanding Zhetong Electric Power, and then started to think about whether they can participate in Zhetong Electric Power’s subsequent global deployment, such as building a connection or something.

Among these people, there are naturally a lot of so-called Wall Street elites. These people naturally have a much better grasp of trends and markets than ordinary people.

They all saw that Zhetong would have a dominant position in the future and would definitely be an energy giant, so they were all eager to get involved.

Peter Rich is such a person. As a “genius” in the eyes of others, he entered the famous Stanford University with excellent grades after graduating from high school.

And the major he studied was not finance in the traditional sense, but mathematics, a numerical subject.

He hopes to slowly find his own answer in numbers, perhaps the origin of this world.

But it turned out that he was overthinking it. Peter Rich also learned a fact during his years of college life: one plus one is simple, and it is not difficult to figure out why one plus one equals two.

But the difficulty lies in staying on this path for a long time. Small cleverness in mathematics is of no use. What is needed is great wisdom.

If you know it, you know it. If you don’t know it, you don’t know it. Mathematics will neither help you nor deceive you.

It’s not like other things, maybe it can deceive people, but if you really don’t know how to do it, you won’t be able to pretend and will soon be exposed.

So Peter Rich realized that maybe it was time to change his path. With a foundation in mathematics, it would not be a bad idea to study finance.

Finance may essentially be a game of mathematics.

This is what Peter Rich believes.

Although it was delayed for two years, it turned out that Peter Rich was right. With mathematics as a foundation, he was quite outstanding in learning finance.

Soon after graduation, he joined Wall Street and became a financial analyst.

In the following days, Peter Rich quickly grew up with his sensitivity to numbers, and his position in the company was promoted one level a year, sometimes several times a year.

In this way, within a few decades, Peter Rich quickly transformed from the talented young boy on the block into a financial “croc”.

At least he has become the envy of most people, with a big villa and many luxury cars, and he also has a place in places like Wall Street.

Although he had everything he needed, Peter Rich was still waiting for an opportunity.

Although he is now one of the company’s senior executives, he does not have much real talent in his hands. If he can get a serious big order, he can gain a firm foothold in the company.

So Peter Rich has been waiting for such an opportunity.

But nowadays, there are not many such opportunities.

Basically, unicorn companies in all walks of life have already taken shape, and there are no more opportunities to be angel investors. In addition, some blue ocean industries will basically be taken over by more powerful financial institutions as soon as they emerge.

It is not difficult to achieve greater results, but their company has never been at the forefront of Wall Street because of the lack of such an opportunity.

So Peter Rich kept waiting.

……

Tonight, as usual, after coming out of the company building, Peter Rich first got a cup of coffee, then went downstairs and opened his Maybach.

After taking a few sips of coffee and lighting a cigarette, Peter Rich started the car.

Turning on the radio, Peter Rich started steering the car towards home.

As a successful man, he naturally has to take care of his family. The first thing he does after get off work every day is to go home.

Of course, it has always been Peter Rich’s habit to listen to the news broadcast in the car on the way home.

Putting aside other things, as a practitioner in their news industry cloud, Peter Rich, like his peers, pays close attention to all kinds of news.

After all, in the financial industry, it is natural to be aware of various news.

To put it bluntly, the stock market is people’s expectations for a project or a thing.

That news is undoubtedly the source of anticipation.

Just like those companies, especially the big ones in the industry, they invest a lot in news and public information.

The reason is that the financial statements of their listed companies need to look good, so there must be no negative news.

Of course, there must be news about the company, but it has to be news in a positive direction.

For example, if some companies encounter some big problems, such as safety accidents, it will be troublesome.

As soon as the news was reported, the company’s stock price dropped sharply as soon as the market opened. It’s basically like this all the time.

But it’s different for listed companies. Most bosses have to account to shareholders, and the financial reports have to look good, so this is a problem.

The public relations department has become an important part.

Especially when there is some major negative news, the company’s stock price will plummet, especially for some “bigger” company bosses.

You may be a billionaire today, but if the stock market evaporates in a few days, you will be penniless or even heavily in debt.

Of course, this is only an extremely rare extreme case.

But generally speaking, when this happens, the loss is huge.

But positive news is different. If it is positive news, the company’s stock price and so on can also increase a lot.

This is what it means to make money by sitting back. You don’t have to do anything, just sit in the office and the stocks in your hand will go up in value.

The impact of the news is still quite large.

That’s why Peter Rich listens to the news in the car every day after get off work. Not only on the way home, but also on the way to work.

This has become a long-term personal habit, and even if Peter Rich retires and leaves this industry, he will probably still maintain this habit.

……

Lightly stepping on the accelerator, Peter Rich slowly drove home.

Naturally, the voice of the news anchor rang in my ears. She was delivering the latest news through the radio.

“Recent reports have it that General Motors’ boss, Mr. Isaac, has traveled thousands of miles to Binhai. According to our reporter, the purpose of his trip is to reach a strategic cooperation with Zhetong Power Group…”

The radio station also introduced it in detail. After all, General Motors is a serious giant company and an old-school leader in the automotive industry. Now such a company is putting on such a posture just to establish a connection with an electric power company. This sounds a bit incredible.

After all, there are a lot of power companies, but there is only one General Motors, so this is not the case under normal circumstances.

It should be the other way around, the power company is “fawning over” General Motors’ boss Isaac.

So when Peter Rich first heard the news, he was quite curious.

But I think a big shot like Isaac would definitely not be a fool. He must have a reason for doing that.

So Peter Rich used voice to check the encyclopedia of Zhetong Electric Power in the car, and of course Lin Zhe.

This was the first time he heard Lin Zhe’s speech, and it was the same dialect that Lin Zhe gave at the World Environmentalists Conference.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t listen to it, but I was really stunned when I heard it.

Wow? Biotech ants generate electricity? This sounds like science fiction.

Even Peter Rich wondered at the first moment whether this was fake or perhaps a commercial hype?

But Isaac couldn’t have failed to see this, right? If he really had no talent, why would he have appeared in Binhai so urgently and announced such news in front of so many media around the world?

Then, as his curiosity grew, Peter Rich simply stopped the car on the side of the road, pulled up the handbrake, took out his mobile phone and started checking.

……

The more he looked at Peter Rich’s expression, the more something seemed wrong.

This is simply an innovation in the energy industry! No wonder people like Isaac are so anxious to establish a friendly cooperative relationship with Zhetong Electric Power.

Because Zhetong Electric Power completely represents the future, which is the future that everyone pursues.

He put down his phone, released the handbrake and turned around on the spot. He had to return to the company.

While turning around, Peter Rich called his subordinates and told them not to leave in a hurry even after get off work, but to stay and work overtime today.

As one of the company’s senior executives, Peter Rich naturally gets off work earlier than others.

So the company still has a few minutes before the official closing time. I’d better make a phone call in advance to keep my subordinates in the company so that they can help me later.

……

Peter Rich was naturally very excited on his way back to the company, as there was now big news that the giant General Motors and Zhetong were cooperating.

Other companies don’t seem to be aware of this yet, and there has been no news of any cooperation.

And the most important point is that Peter Rich just searched using related words, and there is no such thing as Zhetong Electric Power plus shareholders.

What does this mean? It means that there is a lot of room for investment in Zhetong Electric Power!
If he seizes this opportunity, it is a foregone conclusion that Peter Rich will become one of the top figures in the company.

Like ordinary people, banks always lend to those who have money.

Financial investment companies like to invest in companies with promising prospects, and Zhetong Electric Power fully meets this condition! They will rush to give money to such companies and rush to invest!
Now, let alone how much available funds he has, even if he put all of them into Zhetong Electric Power, Peter Rich would be willing to do so even if it was an unconditional dry share!
Although he was very excited, the employees in the company were suffering.

Everyone was complaining a little. After all, several people had already made plans for after get off work, whether it was going out to eat with friends or going shopping or on a date.

Now, if Peter Rich calls, they have to wait and work overtime here.

……

Soon, Peter Rich returned to the company at lightning speed.

As soon as he returned to the office, he began to arrange work in a hurry.

“Quick! I need to print out the information about Zhetong Electric Power as quickly as possible!”

“Also check out the current shareholder structure and annual financial report of Zhetong Electric Power!”

After saying this, Peter Rich also took action himself. According to his idea, since there was no news about shareholders, Zhetong Electric Power should be a wholly-owned enterprise.

There is no doubt that if he can really invest, it will be the first round of angel investment, which is very cost-effective!
And even if there are no investment opportunities, Peter Rich has already made up his mind to start buying up some available Zhetong Electric Power stocks now.

Holding the stocks of future energy giants in your hands will be more valuable than gold!

So Peter Rich has been very excited.

But when Peter Rich sat down and turned on his computer to check the financial annual report of Zhetong Power, he was stunned. Why was it blank? No annual report?

“Damn it~”

After complaining, Peter Rich began to learn how to surf the Internet and check the network in Binhai, even if it was in Chinese.

After all, computers can now complete the translation directly. In addition, the company also has employees who can speak Chinese and help with the translation.

Although it is a bit troublesome, it is better than not being able to view the annual report.

……

After calling in knowledgeable employees, Peter Rich searched the Chinese media for the financial annual report of Zhetong Electric Power.

But it was still blank, and Peter Rich did not see the annual report he wanted to see.

“What the hell?”

Seeing that the network on the Binhai side was still blank, Peter Rich suddenly thought of a terrible possibility.

Could it be that Zhetong Electric Power is not listed?

……

To be honest, Peter Rich himself was shocked when this idea came up. There are such companies, but they are very few.

Otherwise, those listed companies would not go public only after meeting the threshold.

The reason for setting up a listing gate is that all companies want to go public, but only the best ones have to be selected to raise money through listing.

Being a company listed and not being listed are two completely different concepts.

As long as the company does not have any major problems, going public means that the company’s bosses and shareholders can make money without doing anything, and the book assets will suddenly appreciate by more than half or even several or dozens of times.

How many people can resist such temptation?

Peter Rich couldn’t believe that he could really meet such a person?
So all my hard work and excitement for so long were in vain? Zhetong Electric Power was not listed at all and had no shareholders.

Does this mean that Zhetong Power has no need for funds? Then how can I invest? Even rich people don’t need it.

(End of this chapter)