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The company produced the world's first commercially available 2D vector animation software for designing and editing flash documents, which was the beginning of the Flash animation, which would later become ubiquitous on the Internet.

In order to make this kind of small animation, which pops up when the software is opened, Hope Technology needs to pay more than $3 million a year to Future-Wave.

At that time, Han Xuan was very distressed when he learned that he needed more than three million US dollars.

So I bought the company for tens of millions of dollars, so I didn't have to pay it......

Today, the software department of HOPE Technology has a total of more than 2,200 employees, of which the number of developers accounts for 89%.

However, despite the fact that there are so many software programmers, Han Xuan still can't create a complete "Internet ecosystem" according to his wishes.

For example, in the early days of PayPal development, when I went to the patent office to apply for a patent.

Unexpectedly, someone has proposed a similar patent to PayPal using email addresses as identifiers to conduct electronic money transactions between users.

The plan to develop PayPal was almost stuck because of this patent.

Fortunately, an old professor at the Institute of Electronics affiliated with Stanford University, who applied for the patent at the time, has now passed away, and his daughter inherits the patent.

After spending a sum of money, I got it in my hands.

And Han Xuan added that he applied for all the patents that may be used in online payment, making this barrier impenetrable.

The reason why I want to give this example is because although the development of the Internet is still in its early stages, there are already many people who have applied for patents for their ideas.

Among them, there are some technical patents used to make video websites in this era.

Han Xuan's idea of developing a video website ran into a problem as soon as it was proposed, and the owner of the patent, the lion, asked for $5 million.

This made him deeply feel the importance of owning scientific and technological patents, pinched his nose and cut the price to two million dollars, and handed it over to him.

Han Xuan prepared 30 million US dollars for this purpose, and through a special acquisition team formed a few months ago, he continued to expand the patent reserve of HOPE Technology Company, and now the total number of patents owned by the company has officially exceeded 1,000!

Even if he doesn't do anything for the rest of his life, the money he makes from these patents alone is enough for him to be at ease......

"Charlie.

How about discussing with the heads of Macromedia and Adobe, and those major shareholders are willing to sell the company's shares to us?"

Han Xuan typed out "Cisco" in the destiny search bar while speaking, and when he checked Destiny Encyclopedia, he found that the introduction said that Cisco had been listed as early as 1990.

This made him a little confused, and he did see the name of Cisco on the electronic bulletin board in the NASDAQ market in his memory, and thought that maybe someone from McKinsey & Company had made a mistake.

After reading the information, I found that this is a network hardware manufacturer that makes routers, switches, network optical fibers and other equipment.

It dawned on him that it was no wonder that Cisco could reach such a high market value in the future, and with the continuous development of the Internet technology market, in the next two decades, the whole world will be the stage for the development of this company!

I decided to buy a small stake in Cisco to invest, and then I thought about starting a family office.

Now all his assets are on the bright side, and when his wealth expands in the future, he will inevitably be jealous.

It might be a good idea to learn from Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, the Rockefellers, the Waltons, and build a family office just for himself......

Old Charlie didn't know that the little boss was wandering, recalled the information in his head, and introduced:

"Last year, Macromedia's turnover was just over $60 million, but its profit was as high as about $18 million, and now it has a market value of almost $130 million on the NASDAQ market.

It issues few shares and has a high par value per share, and I've heard that the board of directors of that company recently seems to be planning to split the shares.

Two of the four existing major shareholders have already agreed to sell about 34 percent of the company's shares to us at a market value of $190 million.

When I contacted the other two major shareholders, they only said that they wanted to consider it, and they didn't call me back until now, so they probably weren't ready to sell.

When the 2.1 million shares are split and there are more outstanding shares in the market, we can take the opportunity to sweep the outstanding shares of macromedia and strive to occupy a controlling stake......"

Stock splits are a common practice in stock market trading.

After the split, the market price of the company's shares per share will be lowered, resulting in less capital required by shareholders to buy and sell the stock, increasing the frequency of the stock changing hands among investors, thereby pushing up the stock price.

And it can make more potential shareholders with limited financial strength become shareholders of the company.

Charlie Sr. sounded a bit like he was preparing a hostile takeover, which would not be good for managing that company in the future.

So Han Xuan asked him, "What does the board of directors of macromedia think about this matter?"

"There is no unanimity yet, but most people tend to be bought by us.

This company mainly makes audio, video and animation development software, and with our acquisition, it will have even more prospects.

Previously, the market value of Macromedia was only about $119 million, and after the news broke that our company wanted to buy it, the stock price rose a lot in this time. ”

The elder Charlie knew what the little boss was worried about, and with the current financial resources of HOPE Technology, it was almost difficult to forcibly acquire a company with only 2.22 million outstanding shares and a market value of more than $100 million.

But hostile takeovers are not good for the development of both companies, and it is easy to create contradictions.

As Han Xuan spoke, he tried out his company's software.

Standing up and twisting his waist, he took the sandwich and milk from Secretary Dawson, and asked, "So, what about Adobe?"

In a previous life, the two companies competed against each other for more than a decade before Adobe acquired MacroMedia for $3.4 billion.

Eventually, with a series of acquisitions and developments, Adobe became a software giant with a market capitalization of more than tens of billions of dollars, and is the world's largest desktop publishing, electronic document and graphics software company.

Once, when Adobe was plagued by the Huaxia piracy industry and closed its Huaxia branch, Han Xuan saw the news and clearly knew how big the company's development was.

"Little boss...... We hope that technology companies, and it may be difficult to acquire Adobe.

Apple used to own 20% of Adobe, and I contacted Mr. Jobs to ask for the number of Adobe's CEO, John Warnock.

Mr. Jobs told me that in 1989, the shares were sold by Apple executives for $89 million.

He only found out about it when he went back to the company, and said that it was a huge mistake to sell the stock, and his tone seemed very annoyed.

As a result, Apple now needs to pay more than $50 million in patent fees to Adobe every year, and Microsoft also needs to pay patent fees to it.

Adobe Inc., which just acquired Aldus for $525 million worth of shares last year, is preparing to enter the application software market.

It is constantly financed by printers and software, patent fees, etc., and there is no shortage of money at all.

Now it's worth about $2.3 billion, and you say you want to take a controlling stake, and we don't have that much money. ”

Like Cisco, it is another high-quality company that has missed out on the best investment opportunities.

After listening to old Charlie's words, Han Xuan thought that he had known this, and when he was a child, he would not be busy herding cattle all day, and eating delicious sandwiches in his mouth would taste the same as chewing wax.

He said, "It's good that you're in charge of acquiring Macromedia, and Adobe doesn't have to worry about it, and then I'll talk to that company in my personal name to buy a part of its shares." ”

Suddenly I thought of something, and sat down again.

Han Xuan had a hint of anticipation and typed "qualm" (Qualcomm) on the keyboard...... (To be continued.) )