Darkstone Code
Chapter 168 - 0167 The Battle Between People

Chapter 168: 0167 The Battle Between People

A few investors from Sabin City were feeling a bit uneasy at the moment.

Strictly speaking, they and the capitalists sitting on the other side from Curilan City both belonged to the Progressive Party camp, and often they maintained a sharing attitude on certain resources and information.

This is where capitalists with political affiliations have an advantage when facing non-affiliated or neutral capitalists, they might even temporarily form an alliance under the influence of some powerful figures.

However, they cannot be considered as the same group, after all, they’ve never been feeding from the same trough, especially this time these people are trying to snatch business; they are even less likely to cozy up with each other.

What truly made them uneasy was their public claim that the valuation of the Interstellar Trade Company was seventy million, regardless of whether Mark really invested two million for three percent; at all events, this valuation cannot be lowered now.

This has nothing to do with Mark, if the valuation decreases, firstly Mark’s shareholding will increase, and then they might have to allocate more wealth than budgeted to seize more stock.

Everyone knows that whoever holds the most stocks in a company has the loudest voice, gets more support, and can decide everything within the company.

Startup companies have a love-hate relationship with investors and investment companies because of this; their stock holdings are often lower than those of the investment companies, which also leads to many founders eventually being laughably ousted by the board, booted out.

Previously, their idea was to bargain down the valuation and then play a double act with Lynch, keeping the stock price of the Interstellar Trade Company continuously increasing.

They weren’t worried about Lynch refusing, because this was faster and more profitable than doing business earnestly.

Boosting a company’s market valuation is essentially no different from hyping the price of an artwork, continuously flipping it to heighten people’s perceived value.

However, the hype of antiques ends waiting for a fool, while hyping a company’s market value is to wait for a group of fools after it goes public.

In the current Bail Federal and even the whole world, a large number of capitalists are shifting from the most primitive physical operations to capital operations, no longer chasing the value of goods, only valuing value.

They initially thought that they could get more shares from Lynch with relatively less money and other assets.

However, competitors appeared; if they lower the price, it means others can do more (get more shares) with less money, once both sides start competing, conflicts will become stark, and their losses greater.

There is also a worrisome young man among them, Lynch.

If at this time they still think Lynch is just a lucky kid, then they are the real fools; the mistake of arranging both groups together, either they were incredibly foolish or treacherously cunning.

Undoubtedly, Lynch doesn’t appear to be a foolish young man, the fact that he quietly pulled Mark in suggests they are the ones who misjudged.

"Everyone is here for my company...", Lynch smiled slyly, sipping his coffee, the slightly bitter taste followed by a rich aroma, roasted to perfection, he put down his cup, composedly looking at both groups, continued, "I don’t reject others investing in the Interstellar Trade Company, I’ve never thought a successful person could succeed alone, everyone’s success needs some help."

"If I succeed, you’ll be those who helped me, and vice versa, if you succeed, I’ll be the one who gave you help."

At this point, he set the tone for this small meeting, which was agreeing to investment and equity participation, and this attitude was impeccable.

To plunder wealth, these capitalists of the Federation even promoted legal clauses requiring companies valued over ten million to have multiple "shareholders", the purpose being to forcibly obtain equity.

Lynch didn’t oppose investment but rather warmly welcomed them, but somehow, they felt a bit... uncomfortable.

Immediately after, he started discussing some core issues, "Actually bringing everyone together is just because I don’t want to repeat some things, hope you can empathize, after all, I’m young, sometimes my temperament can be very bad."

He glanced at both groups, only nodded indifferently after everyone expressed understanding, "In my view, my company is certainly the best in the world, but I’m very clear this is not objective enough, we must respect the market’s choice."

"Not long ago, the famed young entrepreneur Mark from Sabin City acquired three percent of shares from me for two million, I think this is a relatively reasonable price, what do you think?"

People from Sabin City were quite blocked by Lynch’s few words, the seventy-million valuation was spread by themselves, and now they didn’t even have the courage to ask if Mark really gave two million.

If he really did give two million, these merchants from Sabin City would have to face the mayor’s fury because they caused him financial loss.