Mawei's English is pretty standard. After all, many foreign customers in military factories use English for communication.

"Mr. Mavie, welcome! You must be exhausted on the road, right? Please come here." Jeff Beth smiled and led Mavie and others into the company building.

The former Amazon office building site in 2000 is generally simple and does not have the avant-garde and fashionable feeling of Internet companies.

The same is true for the office, with only a hundred employees sitting in front of the flat monitor with a sense of age, busy handling the online business. The old-fashioned phone ringtones that come from time to time make Ma Wei feel a sense of trance.

After all, these technological products from 2000 are really old antiques in his eyes.

"Mr. Mavie, this is our Amazon business unit. All online businesses in the United States will be summarized here and processed in a unified manner. Our Amazon company was established in 1995 and only operated books online at the beginning. Now it has developed to this scale, all because of the rapid development of the Internet..."

President Jeff Bess couldn't understand the expression on Mavie's face. The only thing he thought about now was that he hoped that the Russian tycoon in front of him could generously invest in the company and give them a hand. So he portrayed as much as possible the future of the Internet to Mavie. I hope that he, the arms dealer, could understand.

Of course, Ma Wei could understand the truth. As a person who has experienced it in 2018, he understood more than anyone else. At this time, Ma Wei nodded lightly and asked Jeff Bess, "How was the company's profitability last year?"

"Mr. Mawei, our company's net profit in the whole year of 1999 was US$9.81 million. These profits may not be significant at the moment, but Mr. Mawei, I believe that by three or five years, the company's profit will increase several times!" Jeff Bess said to Mawei with emotion.

Before the negotiations, he had inquired about Mavie's identity and knew that he was a Russian arms dealer worth hundreds of millions of dollars. So Jeff Beth was also worried that with the company's current profit and the arrival of the Internet bubble crisis, it would attract Mavie's investment.

"Mr. Jeff, three or five years later, no one dares to guarantee this. Let's talk about the current situation! Based on the company's current profit of $9.81 million, coupled with the bubble crisis, how much do you want me to invest?" Ma Wei would not try his best to give people money as soon as he came up. Otherwise, others would think that he is "silly and has more money" and is easy to fool.

When Jeff Bess, who were present, and a group of senior executives of the company exchanged their eyes. At the same time, their expressions became a little dim. It felt that this negotiation might be like the previous two days.

"Uh... this... to be honest, Mr. Ma Wei, you also know that our Internet industry is an emerging industry and its development prospects..." No matter what the outcome is, Jeff Bess, as the company's president, always has to give it a try when facing opportunities.

He explained Amazon's development and future plans in detail to Mawei. At the end, he said to Mawei with a very urgent look and tone, "Mr. Mawei, you see 18 million US dollars. Can you accept this investment amount? Our company really needs this fund as support. If you are willing to invest, everything is easy to say about shares and profit dividends!"

Jeff Bess has also made sacrifices for the money. Instead of facing a crisis, it is better to give more benefits and distribute them to investors.

What Mawei was waiting for was Jeff's words. It's not that he wouldn't be able to spend money, but that money would be thrown at the edge of the knife. He should not be treated as an ATM and he would give as much as he wanted.

"18 million US dollars seems to be a little less, right?" Mawei said to CEO Jeff Bes with a smile.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Jeff Bes standing in front of him, stunned for a moment! And the Amazon senior executives standing around him began to exchange their eyes again, and they all showed a slight surprise!

"18 million US dollars...it seems to be a little less? What do you mean... what do you mean..." President Jeff Beth asked Mavie with some expectations, and hesitation.

"I mean, just make up an integer and invest 50 million US dollars in your company. How about it?" Ma Wei looked at Jeff Bass with a faint smile. It felt so good to use money to smash people.

However, this money was not in vain. The shares and dividends corresponding to US$50 million will naturally rise. Otherwise, I won’t invest a penny.

"Come an integer, five...five million US dollars!" President Jeff Beth stood there in a daze without turning his head. He originally thought that what Mawei said was to make up an integer to make up 18 million US dollars into 20 million US dollars.

But what I never expected was that! God knows that Ma Wei said that he was making up integers, and that was such a way to make up! It completely refreshed his three views!

Including Amazon executives standing around, they all looked at Ma Wei and CEO Jeff Bess in surprise and dazed. They had seen investors talking about investment, but they had never seen investors talking about investment like this!

"Okay! OK! OK! That's really great!" Jeff Beth's previous investment of $18 million was the limit of the company's difficulties. Now Mavi is willing to invest 32 million more, so there is really no problem.

Including shares and dividend benefits, Jeff Beth will also keep his promise and give him the best treatment. After all, Mawei's money is life-saving money, which is completely different from other times.

"Then you have a happy cooperation!" Mavie smiled and shook hands with Jeff Bass.

"Happy cooperation!" Jeff Bess smiled with a sigh of relief. Today, his mood was like riding a roller coaster, rising and falling, which was extremely exciting.

Ma Wei does not need to discuss the details of the investment and investment in person. Some of them are talented to help him do this.

What Mawei has to do now is to wait until all negotiations are completed, sign and pay. In this way, he can hold the shares of the largest online e-commerce company in the United States in the future!

The market value of this giant company can challenge Apple! On September 4, 2018, Amazon's market value exceeded US$1 trillion, becoming the second company in the United States to have a market value of over one trillion.

It is conceivable how valuable these shares Mawei is about to purchase...

An investment of 50 million US dollars is in line with Jeff Beth's psychological endurance. If you invest too much money and have too much shares, it means that Ma Wei has become the company's decision-maker and bought the company. Any boss with a little business acumen will not agree. What's more, it is Amazon, which is the future of the future.

Ma Wei doesn't have to worry that he is a foreigner and cannot play with a large company of Amazon. After all, awesome Internet companies like Tencent and Alibaba are all foreigners. For example, Alibaba's largest shareholder is SoftBank, and Tencent's is South African newspapers.

These examples clearly represent that "a society ruled by law can be discussed."

Mavie's development strategy is like this, using American companies as the source of income to nourish his military industry in Russia.

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After all the details were settled, Mawei readily paid Amazon $50 million to help them overcome the difficulties.

I have to say that people in 2000 are relatively simple, direct, and simply put, they are very easy to fool. They do not have the twists and turns of later generations and are repeated over and over again.

After discussing business, Ma Wei was in a good mood. He was considering buying a house in Washington (the Amazon headquarters in parallel world, in Washington, DC). This way, he would not only invest, but also would not have to stay in a hotel every day in the future.

So Mawei immediately called the butler Ivan to the room, and then asked him, "Ivan, which is the most expensive mansion in Washington, DC?"

The butler thought about it carefully, and then replied respectfully and truthfully, "It's the White House, the young master."
Chapter completed!