Recast youth

Chapter 1758 Starbucks

Seattle is located on the Pacific coast of northwest Washington state, country A, between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, with the Olympic Mountains to the west and Lake Washington to the east. The scenery is very good.

It is worth mentioning that Seattle is also relatively close to Canada. It is only about 174 kilometers away from the Canadian border. If you want to go to Canada, it is relatively close from Seattle.

However, the purpose of Ye Feng coming to Seattle is not to travel, but to own an NBA team.

The Sonics were the predecessor of the Thunder. After the Sonics changed their name to the Thunder, they moved to Oklahoma City. This information was very important to Ye Feng.

Although the scenery in Seattle is beautiful, Ye Feng has no acquaintances in Seattle and no property. Therefore, if he can successfully buy the Sonics, he will not be able to keep the team in Seattle, but will have to move.

Currently, Ye Feng has two better options.

One is to move the team to New York.

Wen Yueqi is in New York, and Ye Feng comes to New York the most. When the team has a game, he can also go to the arena to watch the game at will. In addition, New York is also the most developed city in the world. Moving the NBA team here will have a great impact on business. Value development is also the most powerful. The only drawback is that New York already has two teams, the Knicks and the Nets.

The only option left is to head to San Francisco.

San Francisco is a city that Ye Feng is familiar with. There are companies here. It is also close to Silicon Valley and fcaebook. In addition, there are quite a lot of Chinese in San Francisco, so moving the team to San Francisco is also a better choice.

But again, all this is based on being able to buy the Sonics team.

Because of this, after Ye Feng's plane arrived in Seattle, it was already 18:[-] in the evening. Even if he wanted to talk to the owner of the Sonics about acquiring the team, he would have to wait until tomorrow, so Ye Feng and Wang Xin and others So he directly found a car and headed to Key Arena, which is now the home court of the SuperSonics.

After arriving at the Key Arena, Ye Feng realized that there was really nothing special about this arena, which is the home of the Sonics. Looking at the entire arena, there was no one with a unique design worthy of special mention. , it can only be said to be an ordinary arena, incomparable to the Staples Center Arena in Los Angeles.

After asking passers-by to find out more, it turned out that this arena was still rented.

But yes, NBA games are not held all year round. After the season is over, there will be a long break in the summer, which is also divided into away games and home games. Only when it is your turn to play at home will you return to the arena to play games. In this way If so, there is really no need to buy an arena. On the contrary, renting an arena is more practical.

Find a five-star hotel.

Ye Feng invited Chen Huang, Wen Yueqi, Zhou Yihang, Hou Yao and Citibank's head of global capital markets Dickson to the room to discuss the purchase of the SuperSonics team.

There were many bankers accompanying Ye Feng on the road show this time. After the Philadelphia road show ended and Ye Feng planned to come to Seattle, everyone else transferred to Washington to witness the last stop of the global road show, or returned to New York.

However, Ye Feng invited Dixon, who had the deepest impression on the road show, because he actually didn't know much about the operating rules of the NBA, and Sister Qi didn't care much about basketball.

So it would be better to find Dixon, an American with a banking background, to go with us.

Wen Yueqi and others have no objection to Ye Feng buying an NBA team. After all, Ye Feng is not short of hundreds of millions of dollars now, and the NBA is now becoming more and more influential in China. It is possible for a Chinese to become one of the 30 NBA teams. Team owners are also a good thing.

Dixon is an American. He doesn't know that a Chinese is obsessed with filling the gap between NBA teams that don't have Chinese owners, but that doesn't stop him from being enthusiastic about helping in this matter.

the reason is simple.

He participated in all five stops of Lanshan Group's global road show. Lanshan Group's stocks are very popular with investors, and there are even constant requests for Lanshan Group to increase allotments.

In other words, even if the listing price of Lanshan Group is raised again, there will be people willing to pay.Before Lanshan Group went public on May 5, it was indeed possible to update the last share prospectus. It just means that Ye Feng did not try hard to raise the listing price like the founders of other listed companies. Because of this, in Dixon's eyes, Ye Feng is not only a top entrepreneur with outstanding entrepreneurial talent, but also a person with very charming personality.

And it was only after Dixon's brief introduction that Ye Feng found out who the boss of the Sonics was. Before, Ye Feng had always known that the boss of the Sonics was Howard Schultz, but who exactly was Howard Schultz? Well, Ye Feng doesn’t know.

After Dixon's introduction, Ye Feng found out that Howard Schultz was the owner of Starbucks.

Starbucks Ye Feng knows too much.

In the previous life, the petty bourgeoisie girls used to pretend to be in the circle of friends. They randomly added a picture of Starbucks coffee, and then wrote a copy that seemed to be particularly literary and artistic, thus completing the invisible petty bourgeoisie pretense comparison.

Let me be more direct and ask you directly, do you know Starbucks? Have you ever drank Starbucks?I can't drink anything except Starbucks. I get stuck in my throat when I drink other coffees.

"It turns out the owner of the Sonics is the owner of Starbucks."

Ye Feng sighed suddenly.

“What is Starbucks for?”

When Hou Yao heard Ye Feng sigh, he couldn't help but asked, he had never heard of Starbucks and not Starbucks.

Ye Feng said: "Coffee shop."

"Have not heard."

Hou Yao shook his head, but when he saw Ye Feng mentioning Starbucks, he thought it must be a particularly high-end place, and then asked excitedly: "Starbucks is so popular? Does it taste good? If it tastes good, I will try it when I go back. .”

"Taste?...Forget it, with your IQ, you won't understand even if I tell you."

Ye Feng looked at Hou Yao who was excited and wanted to explain to him, but suddenly he thought that Starbucks was not very popular in China at this time in 2007. When Starbucks became really popular in China, it would be 11 years later. Something happened.

The most important thing is that Ye Feng has never drunk Starbucks in his previous life or now, and he doesn't know what it tastes like. If you ask him to describe it, he really can't describe it.

"..."

Hou Yao was choked by Ye Feng and was unwilling to give in. He asked Yi Yihang and Chen Huang: "Do you know Starbucks?"

"I haven't heard of it either."

Zhou Zhouhang shook his head.

"I've seen Starbucks in Yanjing, but I haven't tried it. But it's an American brand. Sister Qi should know." Chen Huang looked at Wen Yueqi.

"Yes, but Starbucks is just a very common drink in the United States. I've had it before, and there's nothing surprising about it."

Wen Yueqi spends most of the year in the United States and rarely returns to China, so it is difficult for her to understand why Ye Feng and others have such heated discussions about Starbucks.

(End of this chapter)