Riding the wind of rebirth

"Haha, kids, does that mean you've already accepted him in your heart?" Louise keenly caught the plural expression in McGeff's words.

"Tell me how he got involved with you guys in business?" McGeve didn't know that his wife had already figured out what he was thinking without him realizing it, so he became concerned about this question: "As for this kid, when his father introduced him to me at first, I thought he was a computer talent in China, and I thought he and Xiao Miao had similar interests. But then I heard that he went to ethnic minority areas to work on some humanities project, and then I found out that he studied liberal arts. At the age of 21, he was able to work on a project on his own and enter graduate school early, so he was quite capable. But then I heard that he built some system and tied Xiao Miao there..."

"Why is he involved in a lawsuit in the United States now? And I don't think he takes it seriously. Why is he doing art restoration again?"

"Oh, by the way, I also told you that the last time we had dinner together, I saw a Chinese porcelain jar in the restaurant. I just made a phone call to find someone and got in touch with the restaurant owner. I exchanged a bottle of wine for the jar, and the owner gave him $100,000!"

"After listening to my dad's introduction, I was quite worried. I was worried that he had cheated both my dad and Xiao Miao... But when I saw the $100,000 check in his hands that day, I felt that there seemed to be nothing to worry about, huh?"

"Do you think there are no tricks in a Michelin three-star restaurant?" Louise couldn't help but sigh as she looked at her husband who had been growing up and working in an ivory tower.

When Louise learned that a bottle of wine was exchanged for a jar and $100,000, she was almost certain that Zhou Zhi was a liar. However, she did not dare to provoke her husband, so she immediately mobilized her own forces to investigate Zhou Zhi.

Fortunately, Zhou Zhi came to New York for business, and investment banks are responsible for this. Collins Bank's business intelligence research capabilities are among the best among its peers. Therefore, Louise could easily find out the people who accompanied Zhou Zhi, where they stayed, who the borrowers and lenders were, and why they came.

When she got the information, Louise could hardly believe her eyes. Zhou Zhi arrived in New York as a founding shareholder of Digital Alliance, together with representatives from Samsung and Sony, who were also founding shareholders.

Judging from the people who hosted them and the hotel they stayed in, these could not have been faked.

As a participant in the second round of investment in Digital Alliance, Louise is of course very clear about the operational potential and potential value of Digital Alliance.

This investment itself was a masterpiece that she personally promoted. Then she found out that the initiator of this investment target was actually her precious daughter’s boyfriend!
There was no surprise, but it felt a bit absurd and bizarre.

Unable to suppress her curiosity, Louise asked her subordinates to continue digging deeper into Zhou Zhi's information while personally attending the mediation meeting between the Digital Alliance and the Practitioners Association. She wanted to observe this young man up close.

In order to prevent her daughter from finding out, she also hinted at the emphasis Wall Street now places on high-end mathematical and statistical tools, and asked about the discrete statistics level of McGeoff's students.

As expected, McGeoff fell into the trap and asked his daughter to give special lessons to his students. She would not appear with Zhou Zhi, so she would not be exposed.

After some contact, Louise found that this young man was calm, steady, low-key, and highly foresighted. It could even be said that he had considered the possible disputes in the future when the forum was first established, and avoided them in advance when designing the system.

He even went so far as to face the opposition of shareholders and would rather lose some profits to ensure his compliance and to ensure that "public order and good morals" were taken into account to the greatest extent. After the case was revealed, he immediately threw out a bunch of countermeasures and instructed the legal representatives and lawyers of the alliance to counterattack. Basically, every move was bloody and fatal. However, during the contact, he did not show any self-praise. On the contrary, he seemed to be deliberately hiding his influence. For example, Freeman of Luhman Private Equity Investment Fund was probably unaware of the importance of this young man in the alliance.

This was beyond the level of a Digital Alliance Forum system architect. Although in the research book, Zhou Zhi obtained the startup qualification through the development of the JAVA Forum architecture used by the Digital Alliance, Louise only needed to take a look at the original equity distribution ratio to know that it was impossible.

The information about Zhouzhi originally ended here. What remained was the Business Intelligence Department collecting various news, which were basically related to liberal arts projects, such as cultural exchanges, bringing national treasures home, repairing inscriptions, participating in art auctions, and even investing in the filming of Hollywood movies and publishing foreign books. All these messy things were dug out.

He looked like a capable literary young man, but Louise refused to believe it. After some careful analysis, including some discussion materials from the establishment of the forum and the guidance Zhou Zhi sent to the alliance from China before the case started, Louise felt that this young man was the main driving force behind the Digital Alliance. Sony and Samsung could even be said to have taken advantage of him.

The question becomes very interesting here. Samsung and Sony are not small companies. Why did they choose to cooperate with such a young man?

So they continued to dig deeper and finally found clues in Samsung and Sony's investment projects in Shanghai, and the Clover Group surfaced.
Because the relationship between Clover Group and Microsoft, IBM, and Unicode was obvious and very easy to find, it took the Business Intelligence Section a lot of effort to connect Zhou Zhi himself with Clover Group, because Wall Street paid very little attention to Chinese companies, especially those in the information industry.

After confirming Zhou Zhi's relationship with Clover Group, his relationship with Samsung and Sony can be reasonably explained.

AXA Fund has now become a behemoth, but what outsiders know is just the tip of the iceberg. Most people have focused their attention on the third son of the Li family in Hong Kong Island, and few people know that there is a Zhou Zhi behind the scenes.

Even Louise didn't dig it out. Most people also believed that Clover Group grew up with the support and investment of AXA Fund, ignoring the fact that Zhou Zhi himself was the actual owner of AXA Fund.

Even so, the limited information was enough to shock Louise. It was hard to imagine that in the Westerners' stereotype of the Eastern powers, there would be technology company owners like Zhouzhi.

Moreover, the development of this enterprise seems to be booming, and one can almost see its ambition to control the entire product chain of the information industry.

Currently, Wall Street has begun to include companies that have been established for less than ten years, have a valuation of more than one billion US dollars, and have not yet gone public into a key focus list. These companies generally have high growth, high innovation, high profitability, high valuation, and unique or even unique business models.

Clover Group is not a listed company. It is far away in mysterious China, so it is difficult for outsiders to get a glimpse of its territory. However, just looking at its business cooperation with Microsoft, Samsung, and Sony, we can see a lot.

The group's operation and management of intellectual property rights in the IT industry is a classic, and its vision is legendary. (End of this chapter)