Chapter 430 [The bosses raised a huge sum of money after a few chats at the dinner table]
After the first day of today's conference, the organizer planned a grand dinner, and the conference will continue tomorrow. Today, the main exchange of "t" is the topic of science and technology, and the next two days focus on the two major areas of "entertainment" and "design".
However, Luo Sheng will not show up and participate. After attending today's dinner, he will leave Shencheng tomorrow.
"Mr. Luo. Your speech is excellent, and global health issues are also an area that I have always paid great attention to. Maybe we can cooperate with it."
During the dinner, Bill Gates, the former richest man in the world, shared a table with Luo Sheng. He took the initiative to open this topic for communication, and was obviously very interested in life sciences.
"I am very honored, but I didn't expect that the first person to respond to my call was Mr. Bill." Luo Sheng said with a smile: "I have the opportunity to work together, but these tools must be integrated under a global health system."
All the people at the same table are all tech giants, and everyone is also curious. The former richest man in the world and the richest man in the world today have expressed their urgent concern on global health issues and have also made them have a lot of interest in this field.
Gates chatted: "I agree with what you said in your speech that we must be in a ready state. The best example is to prepare for war. For soldiers, they are always ready to enter the war, and the reserve soldiers can greatly increase the number of prepared wars. For example, NATO has a mobile team that can act quickly, and there are many war games that can predict whether the personnel are well-trained?"
Gates looked at Luo Sheng and said in an orderly manner: "...Do they know about fuel, supplies, the same radio frequency, etc., if so, it means they are ready, and these are the things we should prepare for when facing the epidemic, but what are the key projects?"
Hearing this, Luo Sheng couldn't help but fall into deep thought. He was not easy to judge whether Gates was polite or truthful, but after hearing what he said now, Luo Sheng was likely to judge that Gates was indeed not polite.
After a while, Luo Sheng also became serious. After finishing his thinking, he looked at Bill and said clearly: "First, in poor countries and regions, there must be a developed health system. Mothers can have children safely, children can be vaccinated, and we can also detect potential outbreaks of epidemics at a very early stage."
After thinking for a while, he added: "Secondly, we need a systematic backup medical team, and there are many well-trained professionals who are ready to bring them to specialized epidemic areas at any time."
Gates nodded repeatedly to agree and responded naturally: "The army can be used to cooperate with medical staff, use the rapid movement of the army to carry out logistics transportation and maintain safety. It also requires supercomputers to perform some situational simulations, not war games but germ games to see where the defense loopholes are. I remember the last germ game was conducted in the United States in 2001, and it was not going smoothly. Currently, germs get 1 point and humans get 0 points."
Luo Sheng said frankly: "Then let's cooperate. To be honest, Bill, and everyone, I plan to use $5 billion of personal special funds to establish a life science private equity fund."
Gates invites the cup: "good."
Luo Sheng immediately smiled and looked at the other bigwigs on the table: "Are you interested in participating?"
The other bigwigs on the table seemed to understand that the two richest people in the world easily reached some consensus. After a while, Larry Page shrugged and smiled happily: "Why not? I'll spend 200 million US dollars to fund your life science fund."
Sergey Brin also said readily: "I'll pay 150 million US dollars to support it."
In this way, Luo Sheng easily raised $2.2 billion with just one sentence on the table. Gates was the one who strongly supported him, and he paid $1 billion for one person.
More importantly, this is funding, not equity participation.
Speaking of which, Gates' personal investment fund currently holds 3% of Blue Star Technology Group's shares. Before IPO, I had already taken the last bus to follow up and invested in it, and later increased my holdings. Now I am one of the major shareholders of Blue Star Technology.
The games in the circle of rich people are fully reflected here.
Although there is no written agreement, this kind of gentleman agreement is sometimes valid than any written contract. Moreover, Luo Sheng is not inferior to their $2.2 billion. Money is secondary, and interpersonal relationships may be more important than this money.
It is too easy for Luo Sheng to raise some money now. Many people are extremely keen to hand over the money to him for trouble, no matter how much they are, they are still dazzling until now, and Luo Sheng can always bring them higher returns.
Next, the big guys started to chat freely, most of them talking about elements such as technology, future trends, etc. After all, they are big guys in the technology industry. Although they all have competitive relationships with each other, they do not hinder the happy communication at this moment.
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"Mr. Luo stay, can you accept a simple interview with "Huaqing Online"?"
At the end of the dinner, Luo Sheng was intercepted by a beautiful female reporter on the way out. Seeing that the other party was very good at appearance, Luo Sheng nodded and signaled her to accompany her.
The female reporter was overjoyed when she saw it.
"The interview time has reached the door." Luo Sheng turned his head and looked at her and said, withdrew his gaze and continued to move forward.
As soon as the female reporter heard this, she immediately seized the time to ask: "Based on the content of your ted speech in the afternoon, do you want to start a new layout in the field of life sciences?"
Luo Sheng: "That's right, just at the dinner table, about 15 billion (2.2 billion US dollars) have been raised."
The female reporter caught off guard and did not expect the boss to answer so simply. What surprised her even more was that she raised a huge sum of 15 billion yuan in just one dinner?
However, time was tight, and she didn't have time to worry about these things and immediately raised the next question: "In recent years, the phenomenon of Chinese enterprises going global has shown a blowout development trend. Does that mean that many enterprises actually want to go global and realize such a layout?"
Luo Sheng walked along and replied in a plain tone: "That's just Huawei, several limited companies such as the Costa delle of Azure have shown explosive growth. What is this called growth? At that time, there were only a few that could be recognized internationally. In fact, the most important thing to pay attention to is the question of where our country is lagging behind. Our applied materials research is very backward, and precision manufacturing is also very backward. Typical examples such as lithography equipment, Chinese people basically cannot play with it."
Reporter: "The most core part cannot be done?"
Luo Sheng: "Other people make so much profit for you with just one lens. In general, what I mean is to be pragmatic. If you use other people's technology to compete with others, do you think others are fools? The core technology of a company depends on yourself. The so-called core technology cannot be bought or stolen. If it is your own core competitiveness, even if it triggers a flood and a tsunami, it will not overwhelm you. After the tide recedes, you will still stand firm."
When the female reporter was about to conduct the third question interview, Luo Sheng had already reached the exit and said the matter. The simple interview ended, and the reporter did not have the chance to ask the third question.
His partner looked at the big boss who was leaving and muttered to himself: "Following the Waiwei, Luo Sheng won another great victory on behalf of the technical and industrial and trade route, and the big boss's subtext obviously negated Lianxiang's trade and industrial and technological route."
The female reporter asked her partner: "Do you think the final victory of the Technology and Trade Fair is or the Trade and Trade Fair? Or can you continue both routes?"
The partner replied without thinking: "Is this a question? The answer is obvious. Who is the richest man in the world in the contemporary world? Let's take a step back, even if both routes can be continued, there is no doubt that Luo Sheng and his technical and trade routes have a more stable chassis. If you don't believe it, let's take a look."
Chapter completed!