Be reborn and be happy to the fullest

"Will you buy me coffee now?"

"Of course! Do you want to take my car? Or yours?"

Li Shuo looked behind Mattia at the fleet of cars on the road. They were all Cadillac CTS sedans with a grand and luxurious appearance. Coupled with the consecutive license plates, one could tell at a glance that this fleet came from a large enterprise.

Madea raised an eyebrow and said, "You really want to have coffee with me? Aren't all your girlfriends gone already?"

"Please, am I the kind of person who forgets his friends when he sees a beautiful woman?"

This sentence, said in English, was somewhat implicit, leaving Mattia bewildered. Li Shuo thought for a moment and said bluntly, "We haven't seen each other for a long time. Firstly, we happened to meet and catch up, and secondly, I'm also an investor, so we can talk about something in common..."

Mattia suddenly realized it, and then happily grabbed his arm, pulled it and said, "In that case, take my car. I happen to be taking these people back to the company. Why don't you come over and tour my company!"

"Uh, this is not good."

Li Shuo stroked his forehead. Of course, he wanted to ride in his own car.

Mattia, a typical North American girl with a straightforward personality, pulled him towards her fleet of Cadillacs. She even took the initiative to open the door of the lead car for him and pushed him, saying, "Hey, what are you doing? You've delayed me from picking someone up. I need to show these people around my company later..."

The second time he heard "my company," Li Shuo looked at her suspiciously and asked, "Didn't you come to South Korea to run your father's company?"

"Yes, my father's company is called Fortress Capital. But as you said, this is South Korea. Although I used my father's money and connections to establish South Korea Fortress Capital, it was founded by me. The company's location, layout, recruitment, operating conditions, and so on, everything is under my control..."

Seeing that this guy finally asked about the "serious topic", Mattia immediately started to "explain" incessantly.

Li Shuo could see that Mattia was very proud of the company she founded. At the same time, she really participated in the process of establishing the company, so she seemed so excited.

When Mattia was a little tired, Li Shuo asked at the right time: "So, what about its ownership?"

"Forehead"

Mattia choked, rolled her eyes at him, and said unhappily, "Li, you know this is a real letdown, right?"

These attitudes are the answer: Although they are father and daughter, Wall Street does not value family affection. Since Mattia used all the resources of Fortress Capital in the process of establishing the company, Fortress Capital (South Korea) naturally belongs to her father, the billionaire.

"I thought you would at least control part of the shares."

Li Shuo shrugged and said something that hurt his heart.

In fact, when he met Mattia last time when he left South Korea, Li Shuo really wanted to cooperate with this North American girl. One reason was that she was not very scheming, in other words, she was easier to control. The other reason was that she had a strong background, and her father was even a Wall Street tycoon.

South Korea is a country that combines many characteristics of both Eastern and Western cultures. It values ​​both human relationships and relationships and interests. In addition, as a vassal of the United States, Wall Street is like the emperor here!

As a person in the financial circle, Li Shuo knew in his previous life that since the economic crisis in 08, Wall Street capital has almost completely invaded South Korea and controlled every aspect of the South Korean economy through major chaebols!
Ordinary people can't help but puff out their chests with pride when they think of the super chaebol Samsung, which is a South Korean company. However, they don't know that the Samsung Lee family holds less than 10% of the entire chaebol system, while more than 80% of the shares are completely controlled by Wall Street capital!
The other SK Choi family and the contemporary Zheng family are actually in a similar situation.

Of course, individuals in these families are not unhappy about this at all. They are even proud and proud to be able to cooperate with Wall Street capital. They will even deliberately publicize Wall Street's attention to "their own" group companies in their own senior circles!

This is the most sophisticated form of financial colonization in modern society, using money and capital to control everything. As a financial professional, Li Shuo is disgusted by this. To be more precise, he hates being the colonized...

The reason Li Shuo thought so much was because he realized early on that Mattia and Maroley were the key to entering Wall Street: Maroley, as a senior advisor to Shuoguo Investment (USA), played a crucial role in the company's establishment in the US. Countless reports Li Shuo received, especially Bill Huang's, detailed the intangible benefits Maroley provided to the company. Now, Li Shuo's second trip to South Korea had only one grand purpose: to establish South Korea as his overseas base, and even to gain chaebol-level influence there!
Li Shuo had a plan for achieving chaebol-level power: the support of Lim Se-ya and Choi Yoon-jeong, along with the flourishing Shuoguo Group, were enough. However, to truly demonstrate chaebol-level influence, the quickest way was undoubtedly to rely on "foreigners"...

"Of course I have equity, and it's quite a bit..."

Mattia had no idea that Li Shuo was targeting her, and she just pouted to herself.

"Oh, how much exactly?" Li Shuo asked with a smile.

"Well, it's a lot anyway."

"How much is a lot? More than half?"

"Tsk, how is that possible... I doubt you know anything about the structure of a modern company. Otherwise, why would you say that a natural person can control more than half of a company's shares? This is such a huge waste!"

"But I own over 60% of my own company, and some of my subsidiaries hold over 90%!"

Li Shuo shrugged, blinked, and said with a smirk in his face, in a teasing tone.

Mattia rolled her eyes at him. "Who would compare with a freak like you? Even if we, Fortress, invested in South Korea, we still needed support from various sources of capital during our development. And every time we received support, it was a process of redistributing shares and rebalancing management rights and responsibilities..."

"So, are you interested in Shuoguo Investment? You know, when I was in the US, I registered Shuoguo Investment (Global) on a certain island. Many of our branches in the US now have their equity held by this company. That's its scale, and in terms of influence, as Shuoguo Investment gradually achieves success in the US securities and cryptocurrency markets, it's also attracted some attention..."

When Li Shuo said this, Mattia's eyes lit up. She was also aware of the success of Shuoguo Investment's US branch, especially its investment in B-coin. Malori had always talked to her about it, and even hoped that she could invest some money in one of Shuoguo Investment's B-coin follow-up projects in the US...

But this was not the point Li Shuo wanted to make. He glanced at the driver and the co-pilot in front of him, winked at her, and asked in a low voice, "Are these your people?"

Although Cadillac is big, it is a sedan after all, and people in the front can hear what they are talking about in the back seat.

Mattia understood what he meant immediately and smiled at him, "Don't worry, Uncle William has watched me grow up since I was a child. He and my mother are schoolmates..."

As he spoke, the middle-aged white man in the passenger seat turned around and nodded to Li Shuo with a slightly scrutinizing look in his eyes.

The other party's attitude wasn't very friendly, so Li Shuo didn't say hello too much. After he turned around, he continued to talk to Mattia, "With Shuoguo Investment acquiring a stake in Fortress's South Korean branch, we can have deeper cooperation, such as mutual investment. You're in frequent contact with Malori, so you should be aware of my investment record..."

Mattia jokingly said, "But we all know that past investment performance doesn't guarantee future returns. Many, no, most, investment geniuses always fall when their returns reach their peak..."

Although it was a joke, Li Shuo responded with a rare seriousness, "I can prepare two investment plans for you. One is a guaranteed return plus a commission, giving Fortress a fixed income and an objective rate of return, such as 10% per year. The other is no guaranteed return, but with my style, I can probably get an excess return of more than 20%..."

"There's a fixed income, and a 10% profit share every year?"

Mattia was shocked. Generally speaking, the interest rates for loans from major banks were lower than this figure! Although bank loans could not necessarily be used for investment, and the amount would not be as large as the Fortress Investment, this was enough to prove Li Shuo's confidence.

Then, she immediately reacted, and said with surprise and joy: "Li, I didn't expect you to be so confident in yourself... But if you can really reach this level, no matter which investment company it is, they will be willing to cooperate with you!"

"But you are my friend, two of my best American friends, and the other one is your sister."

Li Shuo extended his hand to her, revealing his signature "male god smile"... (End of Chapter)