Chapter 1315: Glorious History

When He Yuanjiang said these words, Ye Chen already understood in his heart that there was no possibility of persuading him to cooperate with him.

Moreover, he also understood a truth, called "a gentleman does not force others to do what they do not want."

He did not make any further efforts and said very seriously, "Professor He, I understand what you mean. I'm sorry, I was too rash."

He Yuanjiang hurriedly waved his hand and said, "It's not your fault, it's my own knot. Since I have already promised my late wife, I must keep my promise and cannot be unfaithful in such matters, so I hope you don't blame me."

Ye Chen hurriedly said, "How could I, Professor He? I understand your decision one hundred percent."

He Yuanjiang smiled with relief, then remembered something, and said to Ye Chen, "Ye Chen, actually, if you want to ensure an absolute advantage in front of the Ye family and the Su family, there is no need to be so troublesome and engage in ocean shipping yourself."

Ye Chen asked curiously, "Professor He, what do you mean?"

He Yuanjiang said earnestly, "I think you can go to the United States to find your grandfather. With him as your backing, you don't have to worry about the Su family or the Ye family, because even if the Su family and the Ye family are tied together, they are not your grandfather's opponents."

Ye Chen was dumbfounded and blurted out, "Professor He, my grandfather... does he really have such strong strength?"

He Yuanjiang said earnestly, "Strong? It's more than just strong! The three richest families in the world are all wealthy enough to rival nations. One is the Rothschild family in Europe, one is the Saudi royal family in the Middle East, and the other is the Chinese-American family, the An family!"

As he spoke, He Yuanjiang added, "Do you know how much wealth your mother created for the An family alone?"

Ye Chen shook his head and sighed with shame, "To tell you the truth, Professor He, I don't know much about my grandfather's family. One is that I was too young back then. Although my mother took me to my grandfather's house a few times, I didn't know much about my grandfather's family. Another is that, in my impression, the relationship between my mother and my grandfather didn't seem to be very good."

"Yes." He Yuanjiang nodded and said, "Back then, when your mother and your father got together and wanted to return to the country with him and marry into the Ye family, your grandfather was very dissatisfied, because your grandfather didn't look down on the Ye family at all, feeling that the Ye family was not worthy of being his in-laws."

As he spoke, He Yuanjiang said earnestly, "Actually, your grandfather was not wrong. The Ye family was indeed just like that back then. Although they were very powerful in the country, looking at the international level, they really couldn't get on the table."

Ye Chen asked curiously, "Then what kind of industry does my grandfather's family do?"

He Yuanjiang sighed, "Your grandfather's family does almost everything. Any industry you can think of, the An family should have some involvement in. It's just that the An family acts extremely low-key. They have thousands of companies all over the world, but these companies look like they have nothing to do with the An family from the surface, and the An family members rarely come forward themselves. This is the same as the Rothschild family."

"The Rothschild family's current industry doesn't seem to be much in the eyes of outsiders, but the key is that the Rothschild family has more than one bank and holds many shares in many banks in disguise."

"Owning a bank is equivalent to controlling finance, and almost all current enterprises need to raise funds and go public through banks."

"Therefore, such large families will naturally invest in many start-ups and listed companies through a large number of venture capital funds and stock funds. Almost all of the Fortune 500 companies in the European and American world you can see now have shares of the Rothschild family, but their shareholding structure is designed very secretly and exquisitely, and outsiders can't see it at all."

Speaking of this, He Yuanjiang said with admiration, "The An family's operation route is similar to the Rothschild family's. Therefore, how much money your grandfather has, maybe even he himself can't count it, so I have no way of knowing."

"However, I know that the venture capital fund your mother established in Silicon Valley back then had a total capital pool scale of over 10 billion US dollars thirty years ago."

"Other funds want to raise so much capital, and they don't know how many wealthy people or even retail investors they have to raise funds from behind the scenes, but the capital your mother took out back then was all provided by the An family itself!"

"Moreover, I believe most people have heard of the development history of Silicon Valley for so many years. A large number of Fortune 500 companies were born here, and a large number of top IT billionaires were also born here."

"Google, Apple, Yahoo, Cisco, Oracle, Tesla, etc., these top high-tech companies all walked out of Silicon Valley step-by-step."

"They have grown thousands or tens of thousands of times in market value to this day, and the incremental space is extremely huge!"

"Any retail investor, if he bought Apple's stock twenty years ago, the return now would be more than three hundred and nearly four hundred times."

"But do you know what? Before you were born, your mother invested in Apple with the venture capital fund she established!"

"At that time, Jobs treated her as a guest of honor, and when Apple's market value was only a few billion US dollars, she used a few hundred million US dollars in capital to exchange for 10% of Apple's shares!"

"And now, Apple's market value is more than two trillion US dollars, which is equivalent to more than 15 trillion yuan!"

"The 10% stake your mother invested in back then, after rounds of dilution and reduction, should still be around 6% now!"

"How much is that converted into yuan? It's about 900 billion!"

"But your mother didn't just invest in Jobs' Apple back then, she also invested in her junior at Stanford, Larry Page."

"Larry Page is the founder of Google. Google Search, Google Maps, the Android mobile phone system, and the intelligent Go robot AlphaGo that was very famous some time ago are all products of this company."

"Now the market value of this company has also exceeded one trillion US dollars, and your mother's venture capital fund holds more than 10% of this company!"

"Therefore, the gains your mother obtained from investing in these two companies alone have already exceeded the sum of all the Ye family's assets. If you count all the investment gains of your mother's venture capital fund back then, the Su family and the Ye family combined might not be opponents, let alone the entire An family's assets."

Hearing this, Ye Chen was dumbfounded!

Many people know or have heard of the miracle of Silicon Valley back then, and Ye Chen is no exception.

Countless high-tech companies were born here. There are countless companies with a market value of more than 10 billion US dollars, several with more than 100 billion, and even two or three with more than one trillion.

Back then, whoever could take money to Silicon Valley to invest, and invest randomly with their eyes closed, could also hit a bunch of companies with unlimited potential.

And the awesomeness of investment lies in the fact that the room for growth is beyond imagination.

Back then, Japan's Masayoshi Son invested 20 million US dollars in Alibaba and earned 50 billion US dollars;

South Africa's Naspers Group invested more than 30 million US dollars in Tencent Group and earned 130 billion US dollars!

This is the charm of investment. If you grasp a potential stock, you can achieve thousands of times the net profit.

These are all classic investment cases that the people of Huaxia are familiar with.

But Ye Chen really didn't expect that his gentle, virtuous, and knowledgeable mother actually had such a glorious history! ===== CHAPTER 1316 =====