Top of the Great Era

Chapter 3017 Entrepreneur

Finally the deal was made.

Changyou will invest US$5000 million and get 3% of Square's shares, and Zhou Buqi will personally invest US$4000 million and get 2% of Square's shares.

In addition, Zhou Buqi will invest $300 million in Bluesky, a new startup project that Jack Dorsey wants to start.

At this point, some of the disagreements and frictions between Zhou Buqi and Jack Dorsey in the early years have finally been put behind them.

Back then, Zhou Buqi looked down on this guy.

Especially seeing him eating, drinking, gambling, having tattoos and a nose ring, it was unbearable. In addition, in order to promote Sister Zhen Yu to become the president of Twitter, she would naturally fight against him in terms of power and take away his power and give it to Sister Zhen Yu.

Later, Zhou Buqi even made a big deal and sold Twitter directly to Google.

The startups are all founded by their sons.

This is equivalent to Zhou Buqi not only robbing someone else's son, but also selling him!

After this communication, both sides finally put aside their grudges.

What is past is past.

  Start over again!

Zhou Buqi also promised that once Square successfully went public, he would withdraw from the board of directors and only cooperate financially to maintain Square's independence, so as to avoid being misunderstood as if Boss Zhou secretly took Square's internal documents and strategic plans and shared them with PayPal or Helo Payment while on Square's board of directors.

In fact, the U.S. financial market is huge, and the three companies can coexist and develop peacefully. The competitive relationship is far less intense than in China.

If we only look at the scale of mobile payments, the United States obviously cannot compare with China.

China is relying on mobile payments on the Internet to become a cashless society.

There are also various debit cards and credit cards in the United States.

However, when it comes to making money, the United States is much better than China.

  The main thing is the handling fee is invincible!

Domestic Alipay, WeChat Pay, etc., currently have no handling fees. Whether users withdraw cash, pay or transfer money, there is no handling fee. It has strong financial flexibility and can be said to have greatly reformed the traditional financial industry.

Even if fees are charged in the future, they will be extremely low, at most one thousandth or one ten-thousandth.

It’s different here in the United States.

For example, Jack Dorsey said that Square’s next plan is to acquire a food ordering website. The reason for completing this acquisition is mainly to launch a payment product for the catering market. The payment fee... reached 7%!

The fees for financial services in other areas may be lower, but they will easily exceed 2%, which is dozens of times that in China.

The intermediary cost of this finance is much higher than that in China.

Therefore, in Europe and the United States, there are many small-scale Internet payment products that cannot survive in China, but can thrive in Europe and the United States. The main reason is that there are too many and too complex financial institutions in Europe and the United States, resulting in high interconnection fees between them, and users need to pay very high fees to establish connections.

It's a pity that the new secretary Huo Hua was very good at being a vase and had poor English. Although she was strongly supported by Boss Zhou and was allowed to accompany Senior Sister Gu Zanli closely, she didn't understand anything at all.

But she didn't feel sorry at all.

I am very happy to have the opportunity to work with a big boss and come to a big city like New York to discuss business.

Went to the garage.

After getting in the car, Huo Hua took the initiative to hug Zhou Buqi's arm, and her soft and youthful body nestled in the boss's arms, saying delicately, "Boss, that Jack is so handsome!" Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Yeah, he's a handsome guy, but his style is not very good."

Huo Hua blinked her big eyes, very curious, "Bad style?"

Zhou Buqi knew this very well. He said, "When he started his business before, he was in Silicon Valley. But when he founded Square this time, he chose to leave Silicon Valley and come to New York. Guess why?"

Huo Hua's beautiful eyes widened and she said crisply, "Because New York is a metropolis? It's the capital of fashion, and there are many beautiful women from all over the world."

"Yes." Zhou Buqi nodded. "It's not only a fashion capital with many world supermodels, but also a television capital. Movies are made in Hollywood, and American TV series are all launched in New York. Speaking of beautiful actresses, there are not many in Hollywood, and most of them are in American TV series."

Huo Hua snorted softly, "So he's a playboy!"

Zhou Buqi said, "It's human nature. He's only in his twenties, so it's inevitable that he likes to hang out in social places and make friends with all kinds of beautiful women. For entrepreneurs, a very important attribute is freshness. From a spiritual perspective, innovation and freshness are the same thing. A person's innovative ability is integrated. You can't just ask him to be innovative in his career and conservative in his life. Isn't this split personality?"

"Yeah, yeah, I understand. I understand."

Huo Hua covered her mouth and giggled, leaning intimately in his arms, with a faint fragrance on her body.

It's summer in New York at the end of May.

She was wearing a blue short-sleeved shirt and a white hip skirt. With her fair arms and straight legs, she looked both professional and fashionable. Her light makeup brought out her pretty and charming side.

Zhou Buqi was very graceful. He held Gu Zanli's hand on his right hand and Huo Hua's white and tender hand on his left hand. He said, "It's graduation season now. Don't you have to go back to school to defend your thesis?"

"At worst, I won't get my diploma."

Now that Huo Hua has a powerful backer, she even doesn't care about her school diploma.

"Ah?" Zhou Buqi was quite surprised. "How can this be possible? Didn't you graduate from the Central Academy of Drama? Such a good school, but you don't even want a diploma?"

Huo Hua smiled and said, "No, I have finished my graduation thesis and it has been approved by my teacher. I will return to China after the company goes public next month. I will pass the defense with my teacher. We are an art school, not as serious as other universities. It will not delay your important matter!"

Zhou Buqi asked curiously, "What's the big deal about me?"

Huo Hua felt a little embarrassed, so she leaned close to his ear and whispered, "My senior sister told me that...she said that on the night before the IPO, you have to lose your virginity and get pregnant, to pray for a good omen. Then, you will have to rely on me."

"How can that be possible?" Zhou Buqi's face changed drastically, feeling slandered. "Did Zhao Limuge say that?"

Huo Hua nodded slightly, also a little dazed, "Isn't it?"

Zhou Buqi said: "That's a non-existent thing!"

"Is that so..." Huo Hua suddenly felt that her role had greatly decreased. She hesitated for a moment and said, "Then... I will return to China in the next few days, just in time for the thesis defense. I won't have to find a teacher to hold another one later."

Zhou Buqi cleared his throat and said, "There's no need to go back. Let's stick to the original plan. The listing of Ziweixing International will be an unprecedented capital feast. The whole of New York will be boiling with excitement. You'd better be there to see such a grand occasion."

"Oh." Huo Hua was also smart. She blinked her eyes and leaned close to his ear again, whispering, "I'm still a girl, clean and tidy. Should I...well, you're an entrepreneur?"

"Say it again! Say it again!"

Zhou Buqi is becoming increasingly unable to handle young girls nowadays.

Each of them has a strong subjective initiative.