Life at The Top novel Chapter 789

Jasper did not have much hope when he asked.

After all, Todd was merely enjoying his grandparents’ wealth and was focused on real estate.

His main assets were also real estate enterprises that he had inherited.

Jasper had never heard of Todd holding shares in any particularly large companies.

However, Todd’s following words immediately piqued Jasper’s interest.

“The company goes by the name Google. I’m sure you’ve never heard of it considering how weak and poor they are. They don’t even have an office but they’re working in the internet industry. They’re doing search engines, the kind of service that allows you to search websites and information online.”

Seeing how Todd was stumbling over himself as he spoke, Jasper was certain that he had no understanding of how huge this company he had invested in would turn out to be in the future.

“So, are you interested?” Todd asked Jasper, his eyes shining.

As far as Todd was concerned, he had only bought the company’s shares to gain favors from a friend. He never expected to earn any money from this at all.

He only paid money to make a friend.

However, Todd realized that perhaps he could persuade Jasper to free him of these shares since Jasper also did business in the internet industry.

It would be an easy profit if he could exchange Google’s shares with Sena’s.

“Indeed, I’ve never heard of them before,” Jasper frowned and shook his head slightly. “I do know about search engines, though. But there haven’t been many similar businesses in the market, so profiting would be extremely difficult. Why would you invest in such a company?”

Todd replied, evidently upset, “I didn’t have a choice. Businessmen like us will always have to deal with those damned politicians.

“But Laine, I’ve always thought that your mind and vision have been the most outstanding of all the people I’ve met. Maybe Google is a company with a lot of potential for development? Even Yahoo has a dedicated department for search engines, and its market price is comparable to large internet companies like Weresoft. You should know about those, right?”

‘Of course, I do.

‘I also know that Yahoo is going to make a severe loss in the future and end up going bankrupt until the point that it’s worth nothing anymore.

‘Google, on the other hand, will take over Yahoo’s place in the United States as the main internet company and secure over 70% of search engine business within the country.

‘If not for Somerland keeping Beido, Google would’ve easily become the top search engine all over the world.’

“You’re asking me to pick up after you, Todd,” Jasper spoke with a subtle smile.

With his thoughts exposed, Todd laughed to smooth out the awkwardness before speaking, “I’m just saying that it might be a chance. Of course, it’s fine if you’re not interested in it at all.”

“Oh, no, I’m interested.”

Jasper reignited Todd’s hope just as he was about to give up.

“Really?” Todd asked in surprise.

Jasper clapped Todd’s shoulder and spoke, “I told you we’re friends, didn’t I, Todd? That alone is enough for me to be willing to help you with this problem. How do you plan on exchanging the shares?”

Todd shook Jasper’s hand while feeling moved and spoke, “That’s great, Laine! We’ll be best friends from now on!

“I currently have 27% of Google’s shares and I plan to exchange all of them for Sena’s shares,” Todd spoke greedily.

‘I can’t believe I thought you only became worse when you grew older when in truth, you’ve been so evil ever since the beginning.’

Jasper scoffed internally but put on a conflicted expression. “You know, Todd, Sena is really important to me. I can give you the outstanding shares but I cannot give you my percentage.”

“That’s fine,” Todd waved him off and agreed readily.

He was not interested in being a shareholder of an internet company that was based all the way in Somerland. All he wanted now was cash, money!