Life at The Top novel Chapter 829

After Morrison withdrew from the acquisition of Google, coupled with Page and Brin’s cooperation, Jasper’s subsequent acquisition went on without hindrance.

Jasper did not go easy on the shareholders who were selling only to make a fortune by getting a good price.

He lowered the price by 30% and put on an air of nonchalance.

Page and Brin gave Jasper their full cooperation. These shareholders had made them really unhappy previously when Google nearly fell into Morrison’s hands because of them. It was tantamount to taking Brin and Page’s lives.

What was more, Jasper bought the portion of their shares at a high price.

In the end, Jasper spent 120 million US dollars to acquire 70% of Google’s overall shares and became Google’s largest shareholder. Meanwhile, Page and Brin were the two remaining shareholders holding 30% of the shares in total.

The rest of the shareholders were flushed out by Jasper.

At this moment, those shareholders, including Todd, still felt as though they had made a fortune.

With the Sena shares Jasper gave Todd, which were still rising during this period of time, Todd had earned nearly 80 million US dollars.

In other words, Google’s 27% shares translated to 80 million US dollars, which made this a really lucrative deal no matter how one looked at it.

At this critical juncture, at almost the same time Jasper completed the overall acquisition of Google, Yahoo made an announcement.

Yahoo agreed to partner up with Google by fully adopting Google’s search engine technology.

All of a sudden, Google went from being an underdog that everyone had doubts about to being a new sensation that was backed up by Yahoo. It quickly became the top US internet search market share.

When Page and Brin received news about this, they had just finished finalizing the contract with Jasper and received a one billion dollar check from him.

“My God.” Page looked at the check in his hands with a dumbfounded expression and then looked at Jasper, feeling that this whole ordeal was slightly unfair.

If the news had been released a day earlier, Google’s value would definitely be far more than this.

“Mr. Laine, your 120 million US dollars investment has doubled just after it’s completed,” Brin said with a strange look on his face.

At this point, he began to wonder if Jasper had planned everything in advance. How else was he supposed to explain this coincidence otherwise?

Despite that, Brin reasoned with himself and thought that it was impossible. If he, the party involved, did not even know what Yahoo was up to, how could Jasper know?

However, Brin still felt conflicted because he had sold off the company at its lowest price on the exact same day its value skyrocketed.

Jasper laughed. “I believe that Google will do far better than this in the future. This bit of good news is just the beginning of the rise of Google.”

Brin and Page let out a wry chuckle upon hearing Jasper’s words. What was done could not be undone. The contract had been signed and the shares had been transferred. They had even received their checks. It was too late for regrets.

“Cheer up and be far-sighted.” Jasper patted their shoulders. He empathized with them very much and had not expected the news to arrive so quickly either.