Mr. Wo Delike was absent. He had previously been here because he was the president of the conglomerate and represented it at United Development Company's shareholders' meetings.
Now that he was no longer the president of the conglomerate, he could no longer come here.
The new president was an unfamiliar middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties. Lin Qi did not know him, but whenever their gazes met, Lin Qi would still nod to him or something.
Besides several shareholders from the Blackstone Group, Mr. Patu was also beside Lin Qi.
The Blackstone Group's strength differed from that of the other conglomerates. The other conglomerates were strong because they united to continuously swallow up their competitors from outside.
This was also capital's most common behavior: rapidly expanding assets through mergers and acquisitions.
Some small companies worth one or two million could use various methods to swallow up companies worth several million or even tens of millions, instantly multiplying their wealth.
The same was true of the major conglomerates. It was just that their core operations were so enormous that many people overlooked the growth brought by each acquisition.
But no matter what they did, the conglomerate itself remained a whole.
The Blackstone Group was different, however. Its acquisitions took place not only externally, but internally as well!
As the Blackstone Group's various industries entered periods of rapid development or even explosive growth, the changes among its internal members slowed down, but every change was still extremely frightening.
Shareholders worth millions or tens of millions were swallowed up by other shareholders. Every group shareholder who emerged from this constant internal competition possessed astonishing hard power!
Any one of them would be influential when taken out on their own!
For example, at present, the other conglomerates might have only one