Legend of Xiangjiang Tycoon - Chapter 508

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Wyeth is one of the world’s largest research-based pharmaceutical and health care product companies, headquartered in Madison, New Jersey, USA, with 18,000 employees and operations in many countries and regions around the world.

Founded in 1926, Wyeth was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1955 and has a current market value of $5 billion.

And most of its shares are concentrated in the hands of Wyeth’s descendants, making it very difficult to acquire.

In 1888, Dr. Wallace C. Abbott opened his own pharmacy and began to formulate and manufacture medicines with the aim of providing patients and doctors with more effective treatments.

Under the management of Dr. Abbott, the company quickly became one of the founding companies in the pharmaceutical industry. Leverage the company’s leadership in new medical research fields to meet growing global medical needs through continuous business expansion. While constantly stepping into new fields of the medical industry and opening up new markets, we have gradually established the company’s tradition of nearly a hundred years – helping more people around the world live healthier and better lives.

Dr. Abbott’s spirit of entrepreneurship, innovation and caring for life is deeply rooted in Abbott’s corporate culture, and is fully reflected in business development and investment in medical technology.

In 1888, Dr. Wallace Abbott, a thirty-year-old practicing physician, founded the Abbott Laboratories in Chicago to develop medicines containing active substances from plants and herbal species. In its first year, pharmacy sales reached $2,000.

In 1894, the Abbott Alkaloid Company was established. At this time, Mr. Abbott was both a publisher of medical publications and a medical manufacturer.

1907: The company expands its business outside the United States for the first time, establishing an office in London, England.

1916: Chlorazene, the first synthetic drug, is produced. This breakthrough antibacterial drug was developed by British chemist Dr Henry Dakin to treat wounded soldiers during World War I.

1922: Dr. Ernest Volwiler worked with Roger Adams to develop Butyn (butane), the first in a series of anaesthetics from Abbott.

1929: Abbott’s initial public offering, its first stock offering in the year of the Great Depression-era stock market crash. Although the market environment was sluggish at the time of listing, Abbott’s stock value began to grow on the first day after listing, and has risen more than 10,000 times.

1932: The most difficult year of the Great Depression, Abbott’s business continued to expand, largely due to the company’s leadership in emerging fields such as vitamins and intravenous fluids.

The Beacon Country’s “National Business Journal” gave this evaluation: “There are few leading companies in the Beacon Country industry that have had such a solid performance in the past year as Abbott.”

1935: Sodium thiopental was introduced, the product was the world’s first choice anesthetic for many years, and its inventors, Dr. Volwiler and Dr. Donalee Tabern, were inducted into the American Inventors Hall of Fame.

In 1942, Abbott joined the Alliance of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers to participate in the production of wartime penicillin at the beacon government’s appeal. With the joint efforts of alliance members, Abbott increased penicillin production by more than 20,000%.

1959: Abbott’s “A” logo begins, a classic industrial design that remains a cornerstone of Abbott’s visual identity.

1960: Reorganized under President George Kane—a history covered in the 2001 bestseller “Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t.” The author of the book, Jim Collins, even selected 1,400 companies carefully, and listed 11 companies, including Abbott, with outstanding performance in product, service, organization and personnel quality as key recommended companies.

1964: Acquired M&R Dietetics, which gave Abbott the right to manufacture and operate the best-selling infant formula, making Abbott a leading nutritional company.

1972: Launched the ABA-100 blood chemistry analyzer and Ausria, a radioimmunoassay for the detection of hepatitis pathogens in serum, a breakthrough in the industry. This is also the hallmark of the beginning of Abbott’s modern diagnostic business (instruments and reagents). Abbott quickly became a global leader in this field.

So these companies dominate the lighthouse biopharma space. And with the expansion of the lighthouse country, it has expanded its business to the world and has become one of the best international companies.

However, Amgen is different. Amgen was established in 1980. At this time, the lighthouse country was in a weak state, and Amgen’s experiments were not available at all, so Curatos Blanc found an opportunity.

Amgen was founded in 1980 by a group of scientists and venture capitalists.

The company started operations in 1981, raising a total of 19 million US dollars as start-up capital to start the company’s operations.

But after two years of operation, Amgen did not have any performance output at all, but continued to invest.

This made these venture capitalists unhappy, after all, they invested in Amgen to make money, not endless research and development.

To this end, conflicts broke out between the two sides, and the result of the final compromise was the introduction of attracting investment.

The management of Amgen Corporation kept looking for investment, but all failed. In the end, they could only meet the dead mouse, and finally found the Mars Fund.

And Curatos Blanc has studied for a long time and believes that this project is worth investing in.

But this is not a matter of tens of thousands of dollars or hundreds of thousands of dollars. It is a matter of tens of millions of dollars or even hundreds of millions of dollars.

Therefore, Curatos Blanc can’t make the decision at all, and can only wait for Li Zhiwen to make a decision.

“Curatos, how many shares does Amgen give out, and how much capital does it need to bring in?” Li Zhiwen asked.

“$30 million, 20 percent of the shares,” Curatos Blanc said.

“In your opinion, Amgen is worth $150 million?” Li Zhiwen said.

Curatos Blanc is more than that.

Obviously, Curatos Blanc thinks that Li Zhiwen believes that Amgen can invest, but the market value is obviously too different.

Li Zhiwen looked at Curatos Blank and said with a smile: “Curatos, don’t be too nervous, you can talk to the other party, 15 million US dollars, 20% of the shares, just if you want, Pull it if you don’t want to.”

Curatos Blanc looked embarrassed, because in the past two years, the investors of Amgen have invested nearly 60 million US dollars, and Li Zhiwen is now valued at 75 million US dollars, This is simply too low.

But Curatos Blanc still agreed: “Yes, boss, I’ll go talk to them!”

“Don’t worry, you can do it, I believe in you!” Li Zhiwen said.

Today’s Amgen is a buyer’s market. If Amgen does not agree, then they only face the risk of bankruptcy, so Li Zhiwen is sure that they will agree.

……

San Francisco Arena, this is the game between the Lakers and the Golden State Warriors, and the Lakers take on the Warriors away.

And Li Zhiwen also visited with the team, but Li Zhiwen did not stay with the team in San Francisco, but went to Silicon Valley.

Now that things are done in Silicon Valley, it’s time to go and watch the game.

The Warriors knew that the owner of the Lakers led the team, so they reserved two courtside tickets.

And Li Zhiwen specially called Michael Jordan from the University of North Carolina to let him play basketball with him.

“Mr. Lee!” Michael Jordan shouted cautiously.

At this time, Michael Jordan was not the old hooligan of later generations, but a young boy.

“Let’s do it, you are now the number one superstar of Reebok, so you can’t be so restrained!” Li Zhiwen said with a smile.

When Li Zhiwen decided to sign Michael Jordan to Reebok first, he arranged it directly and let the company’s people directly sign Michael Jordan’s lifetime contract at a cost of 30 million US dollars.

This is the largest contract in the history of the NBA, which naturally detonated the attention of the beautiful basketball market.

You must know that Michael Jordan is just a college student today, and Michael Jordan was the first to receive such an honor during his college years.

This attracted every nba team to send scouts to the University of North Carolina to watch Jordan’s game, and then directly addicted.

And Michael Jordan is very grateful to Li Zhiwen, who has never shown up.

After all, before Reebok’s big contract, Michael Jordan’s draft has been hovering in the fourth or fifth place. After all, there are too many big men in the next draft.

And now Michael Jordan’s draft pick has soared directly to the number one pick, which is amazing.

“Yes, Mr. Lee!” Michael Jordan said.

“Michael, what do you think of the Lakers?” Li Zhiwen asked, pointing to the players off the court.

“The offense is sharp, Johnson deserves the title of Magician, and every pass is just right, allowing Kareem to fully open the offense…”

Speaking of basketball, Michael Jordan started chattering, no longer the shy little guy.

“Is it just that?” Li Zhiwen asked with a smile.

Michael Jordan slammed the Lakers for a while. After all, this is the right owner of the Lakers, so he can’t speak ill.

Of course, it seems that the boss is not willing to just listen to the good words.

Michael Jordan said sternly: “The only flaw in this is that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is too old. Once Abdul-Jabbar is off the court, the Lakers’ offensive ability is worth worrying about.”

“Then what do you think if you are integrated into this team?” Li Zhiwen asked.

There is also a reason for Li Zhiwen to ask this question. After all, after Kareem Abdul-Jabbar retires, if Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson can form a double gun in the backcourt, the play style is absolutely gorgeous, which is also in line with David Stern’s governing philosophy.

Michael Jordan obviously understood the meaning, so he thought for a while and said, “Mr. Li, if I join the Lakers, whose team is the Lakers?”

Michael Jordan is not a fool, he understands that if he joins the Lakers, winning the championship in his rookie season will definitely not be false.

But at this time, Michael Jordan was still a little arrogant and unwilling to assist others.

“Whose team is the Lakers? Of course it’s my team. If I bought it with money, could it still be someone else’s?” Li Zhiwen said.

Although Li Zhiwen understood what Michael Jordan meant, obviously, Li Zhiwen was going to play stupid at this time.

“Who’s the centerpiece on that court?” Michael Jordan asked further.

If this problem is not solved, Michael Jordan will keep it in his heart for a long time.

Today’s game is obviously centered on Magic Johnson.

“Aren’t dual cores great?” Li Zhiwen asked.

“Mr. Li, although your proposal is very tempting, I still want to be the only core of the team, so I’m sorry.”

Michael Jordan said, and then casually knocked out the basketball that came straight to Li Zhiwen’s face.

“Of course, there’s nothing to be sorry for, I’m just asking casually, but you have to think about it, if that’s the case, then you may have no crown in your life!” Li Zhiwen threatened.

In fact, Li Zhiwen’s words are not scare but not scare.

If Michael Jordan was drafted by the Bulls like the previous generation, then it would be a question of whether he could rush out of the East, after all, the bad boys today are no joke.

And even if he rushed out of the East, when Li Zhiwen arranged for the Lakers management to get the first and second picks in the next session, the result was already doomed.

After all, the Lakers will select their own big man Olajuwon, and then it will be a turnaround Kareem, even more powerful than Kareem.

“Mr. Li, isn’t it good to live forever?” Michael Jordan said.

Michael Jordan didn’t believe Li Zhiwen’s nonsense about being crownless in his life. After all, Michael Jordan’s career didn’t start at this time, so how could he believe other people’s words.

“I hope you can say this in the future~www.mtlnovel.com~ Now let’s watch the game well!” Li Zhiwen said with a smile.

“Yes, Mr. Lee, I think so too,” Michael Jordan said.

Soon, the Lakers defeated the Warriors 99-78 on the road.

Li Zhiwen also went off the court to shake hands with the players, and then Li Zhiwen pulled Pat Riley aside and said, “Pat, it seems that our plan is about to start.”

“Yes, boss!” Pat Riley said.

The plan that Li Zhiwen said is very simple, that is, to continue to rank Michael Jordan’s ranking prediction.

Continue to say that Michael Jordan is an unborn talent.

The Lakers aren’t guaranteed to get the No. 1 pick, but if that’s the case, why not let Michael Jordan draw fire.

Then the Lakers darkened Chen Cang and chose Olajuwon.

Of course, this kind of thing can’t be 100%. After all, the NBA has always been circulating. If you don’t know who to choose, it’s better to choose a big man.

Therefore, it is possible that the Lakers cannot choose Olajuwon and can only choose Michael Jordan as the second best choice.

After all, in Li Zhiwen’s view, although Michael Jordan is called the **** of basketball, for the Lakers, Olajuwon and his team building are more suitable.

After all, the cooperation between Johnson and Abdul-Jabbar has been rehearsed successfully.

In later generations, there are too many double guns in the backcourt that misfired in front of the Jagged Defense. Li Zhiwen was very worried about the chemical reaction between Magic and Michael Jordan.

In this case, it is better to choose a safer choice, plus Michael Jordan has clearly rejected it.

On the Reebok side, Michael Jordan may be built into an image of a forever old city. Don’t think about the **** of basketball or anything. Anyway, this will not delay Li Zhiwen’s money.