Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

Next, Lu Yiming analyzed the success of selling 3721 to Yahoo.

Following Lu Yiming's analysis, Zhou Hongyi felt more and more that this deal could be done.

Compared with going public to make money, Zhou Hongyi is actually more interested in selling to Yahoo.

The stock market is like a poker table, even more dangerous than a poker table.When you are on the table, you can't control whether you win or lose.

Although Zhou Hongyi is always confident in herself, the stock market doesn't care about you so much.What's more, in the cold winter of the Internet in recent years, how many Internet stocks have become waste paper.

But selling to Yahoo is different. It can be argued with reason, and then the price is clearly marked.When the time comes, just take the banknotes and leave the market, and the drought and flood will guarantee the income.

As for how much money Yahoo can make with 3721 later, that is Yahoo's own ability.

If Zhou Hongyi's goal is to go public, and then to become bigger and stronger, then he will definitely not be happy to listen to Lu Yiming's analysis of Yahoo here.

However, Zhou Hongyi's goal is only to cash in money to leave the market, so whoever pays the money is the uncle, and it doesn't matter at all whether he gets listed or not.

Zhou Hongyi looked at Lu Yiming, and said with a smile, "Boss Lu, aren't you a shareholder of Yahoo? Why don't you help me out? After all, you are also a major shareholder of 3721. The deal is done, and the most profitable one is you."

Lu Yiming laughed and scolded: "Damn, according to what you said, I'm at most left-handed and right-handed. How can I make money? But I really want to go to the beautiful country recently, and I can help you to ask."

"Then I'll thank Mr. Lu first."

A few days later, Lu Yiming arrived in the beautiful country by plane, and walked into the office of Yang Zhiyuan, the headquarters of Yahoo.

"Mr. Yang, long time no see."

At this time, Yang Zhiyuan was sitting in front of the desk with a gloomy expression and erratic eyes, as if he was immersed in a certain pattern.

In fact, he was sad.

He recalled his entrepreneurial experience in the past nine years, and felt more and more in his heart that the times were changing so fast, so fast that it was dizzying and defenseless.

At the beginning of 2000, Yahoo's market value reached its peak, with a full US$1280 billion, which was US$200 billion higher than the market value of Berkshire Hathaway, which is controlled by Warren Buffett.

This made him once the best in the entire Internet market, and he was a well-deserved leader in the industry.

However, in just three years, Yahoo has experienced ups and downs. Although it is now back to its peak, with the gradual recovery of the Internet cold wave, Yahoo's revenue this year has also broken through to 16 billion US dollars in one fell swoop.

But the family knows their own affairs, Yahoo's potential has been exhausted, especially when it lost to Google in the search field, this is a very fatal strategic mistake, it is tantamount to giving up its own traffic entrance to others.

An Internet company without traffic, even if it is worth a little money now, has lost the greatest investment value for investors.

So Yang Zhiyuan is worrying about this. In fact, he has already thought about all the commercial solutions, but the search engine technology is not as good as others. This is a fatal injury, and he has nowhere to go with Google.

Hearing the sound, Yang Zhiyuan raised his head, and when he saw Lu Yiming walking in, his eyes immediately burst into light.

"Mr. Lu, why are you here?"

Lu Yiming nodded his thanks to Yang Zhiyuan's secretary next to him, then walked in and sat on the sofa, and said with a smile: "I'm here to do something in the beautiful country, and it just so happens that I haven't come to see you for a long time, why don't I come in and have a look."

Yang Zhiyuan got up and asked the secretary to come in and make coffee, but a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind.

That's right, Lu Yiming is not only a shareholder of Yahoo, but also a shareholder of Google. Why didn't he know how to leave this problem to Lu Yiming to solve?He is a shareholder on both sides, and he has a share in whichever side loses money!
Thinking about it this way, Yang Zhiyuan felt that the burden on his whole body had been lightened a lot, and he felt indescribably relaxed.

"Hey, Mr. Lu, why didn't you call me earlier? I'll pick you up at the airport. And I can help you arrange your itinerary."

Yang Zhiyuan swept away the previous haze, and sat opposite Lu Yiming, talking and laughing.

Faced with Yang Zhiyuan's hospitality, Lu Yi was obviously more enthusiastic. After all, he came here today to fool Yang Zhiyuan into spending money, so of course he would not be stingy with his compliments.

"Mr. Yang, you have a lot of things to do every day. How dare I disturb you. To be honest, Mr. Yang, you are my idol. At the beginning, I chose to start my own business after reading your entrepreneurial story. How can you tell my idol? Why pick me up at the airport?"

Although these words are suspected of being flattering, Yang Zhiyuan still has a lot of cards in the circle.

In 1995, Li Yanhong was still working on Wall Street, Lei Jun and Xiao Ma were still typing codes, and Ma Jieke had just resigned from Hangzhou Electronic Industry Institute to start Xiaguo Yellow Pages, all of them were unknown.

And Yang Zhiyuan, a doctoral student at Stanford University, has already founded Yahoo, and soon received a capital injection of US$1000 million from Sequoia Capital.

You know, it was the initial stage of the Internet industry at that time. People who wanted to browse the web could only search the directory to find the corresponding domain name and enter it. The operation was very cumbersome.

In a nutshell, what Yahoo did was to bring together a large number of websites on one page and make them free for everyone to use.It was this idea that allowed Yahoo to go public in just one year after its establishment, and created a new business model for the Internet.

Thanks to the huge traffic it gains, Yahoo can make a profit by selling advertising space.

While other companies are still fantasizing about making profits by billing according to the duration of the Internet, Yahoo has already been able to allow users to have a good Internet experience by only paying for phone calls and broadband.

In just the second year after its listing, Yahoo's advertising business has already achieved revenue of more than 7000 million U.S. dollars.

In September 1999, when Lu Yiming was still in his third year of high school, Xia Guoyahoo's website had already been launched, and after a few months, Yahoo's market value reached a high of 9 billion US dollars. Xia Guo's Internet counterparts.

It can be said that many people in this circle are actually Yang Zhiyuan's "fans".

Regarding Lu Yiming's words, Yang Zhiyuan was quite proud. After all, it was the highlight moment in his life, so he just said modestly: "President Lu, you are welcome, you can become the richest man in Asia at a young age, and you can become the richest man in the field of investment diversification." It is even more unique, it is really formidable for young people."

Lu Yiming and Yang Zhiyuan chatted more and more happily while carrying people in a flowery sedan chair, and they almost chopped off the chicken head and burned the yellow paper.

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "Haha, Mr. Yang is joking, my small business can't be compared with Yahoo. Actually, to tell you the truth, the first mailbox in my life was Yahoo mailbox. That was my first impression of the Internet. , is still hard to forget.”

Lu Yiming's face showed nostalgia, which was a rare expression of true feelings.

After exchanging pleasantries for a while, Lu Yiming did not forget the business, and began to explain the purpose of his visit: "Mr. Yang, I came to see you today, mainly to discuss a business with you."

However, as soon as Lu Yiming's words fell, Yang Zhiyuan also smiled and said: "Coincidentally, Mr. Lu, I saw you coming today, and I also want to discuss a big deal with you."

This was beyond Lu Yiming's expectation. He jokingly said, "We don't think we want to go together, do we? Tell me first, what kind of business do you plan to negotiate with me?"

Yang Zhiyuan didn't feel shy either, but said straightforwardly: "To be honest, I want to buy the Google stock in your hands, Mr. Lu."

Afterwards, he said with a smile, "Mr. Lu came here this time because he wanted to sell Google's stock to me, right?"

Yang Zhiyuan wants to buy Google stock?

This was indeed beyond Lu Yiming's expectation.He recalled it carefully in his mind, but he really didn't recall when Yang Zhiyuan bought Google's stock on a large scale.

However, Lu Yiming knew exactly how powerful Google was.To put it bluntly, if he had to choose to give up one of the two companies, Google and Yahoo, Lu Yiming would definitely choose to give up Yahoo without hesitation.

There is no need to say more about how awesome the Android of later generations is.

Thinking of this, Lu Yiming didn't beat around the bush, and said bluntly: "Mr. Yang, I am very optimistic about Google's development potential, so the price will be higher. I'm afraid it will be difficult for you. Why don't you buy something else? Don't hide it. You said, I still have a lot of good things in my hand."

Yang Zhiyuan's rejection of Lu Yiming can be regarded as a certain degree of psychological construction. Although he felt a little disappointed, he was not surprised.After all, Lu Yiming is not short of money, and has a lot of cash flow in his hands, so there is no need to sell stocks with healthy performance to cash out turnover.

However, he still asked unwillingly: "What? Mr. Lu, are you worried that I won't be able to afford the money?"

Lu Yiming smiled and said, "How could it be? I was just worried that the price I offered would hurt the harmony between our two families. After all, it's Google. I feel bad if it's too cheap, but if it's too expensive, Mr. Yang, you'll think I'm a lion, it's really unnecessary. Mr. Yang, your family has billions of dollars, is there anything in this world that you can't afford?"

However, Lu Yiming's words did not make Yang Zhiyuan retreat. Instead, he saw the hope of continuing the conversation, so he urged him directly: "Mr. Lu, let's not talk about compliments for now. In business, just ask for a price." .”

"Really?"

Seeing that Yang Zhiyuan was able to say such a thing, Lu Yiming was actually surprised in his heart, because it showed that Yang Zhiyuan's need was very urgent, and even put this kind of urgency on the surface, which is a taboo in business.

It's similar to putting a sign on the forehead that says "I'm a leek, come and cut me off."

However, after careful analysis, it was not difficult for Lu Yiming to understand the reason for Yang Zhiyuan's urgency. After all, Yahoo was beaten up by Google now, and if things went on like this, Yahoo would be beaten by Google.So this Yang Zhiyuan also thought of a strange trick, that is, to buy the Google stock in Lu Yiming's hand and directly enter Google.

No matter how much money is spent, as long as Google can be dealt with, the money will definitely be earned back from leeks.

And if you don't do this, the only things left in your hands now may be slowly eaten away.

Yang Zhiyuan gritted his teeth and said, "Of course it's true. Mr. Lu, we are smart people who don't speak secretly. As long as you are willing to sell me the Google shares in your hand, I can accept any price."

Seeing that Yang Zhiyuan had said that, Lu Yiming could only show a resigned expression, and said, "Seriously, Mr. Yang, I have never seen such a sincere businessman as you! And we trace back to the origin, we are all descendants of Yan and Huang, And you are still my idol, if I call you a high price here, it must be very inappropriate. In this way, I will suffer a bit, and I will give you a [-]% discount according to the psychological price, how about it?"

Yang Zhiyuan was overjoyed when he heard Lu Yiming's words, and even had the urge to kowtow to Lu Yiming on the spot.

He was already prepared to be slaughtered in his heart, thinking that he would be blackmailed severely by Lu Yiming.As a result, not only did Lu Yiming not ask for a sky-high price, he was willing to sell it directly at [-]% off the psychological price.

Yang Zhiyuan felt that Lu Yiming was simply his biological father who had no blood relationship.

"Mr. Lu, thank you so much! You are the most practical person I have ever met in business!"

Lu Yiming said cheerfully: "Hey, you're welcome, we are all our own people. You said that in this beautiful country, when fellow villagers see fellow villagers, they are teary-eyed and are not allowed to support each other?"

"That's right, that's the truth!"

Yang Zhiyuan nodded and said, "That's right! Then, Mr. Lu, please make a price."

At this time, Yang Zhiyuan was refreshed and full of fighting spirit.

However, Lu Yiming's next sentence broke Yang Zhiyuan's defense.

Lu Yiming said, "What do you think of $337.5 billion?"

"How many?!"

At this moment, Yang Zhiyuan felt that half-brothers and honest people who do business with idols are just floating clouds!It's all rubbish!

The richest man in Lu, the richest man in Lu, your f*cking heart is really dark.

Yang Zhiyuan was already regretting what he had said just now.

What fellow villagers see fellow villagers with tears in their eyes, you are obviously fellow villagers meeting fellow villagers and shooting at each other.

A few months ago, Sergey Brin and Larry Page's offer was only $50 billion, which was to sell the entire Google package to Yahoo.

At that time Yang Zhiyuan felt that the price was too much, but now facing Lu Yiming, he knew what was too much.

337.5 billion U.S. dollars, bargaining can buy Google seven times!

Various thoughts circled in his mind, and Yang Zhiyuan's tone became unfriendly: "President Lu, if I remember correctly, the total amount of Google shares in your hand is less than [-]%. "

However, Lu Yiming was sincere, and said plausibly: "Yes, the psychological price of Google in my place is at least 1.5 trillion US dollars, and I will give you a 337.5% discount for you, Mr. Yang, [-] billion US dollars is very fair? Don't worry. , I’m good at math, and I’m definitely not wrong.”

Yang Zhiyuan's face turned dark on the spot.

$1.5 trillion?

Is this US dollar TMD issued by Tiandi Bank?
There is no such big inflation in the underworld.

Seeing Yang Zhiyuan's gloomy expression, Lu Yiming also looked innocent: "Mr. Yang, I'm really not kidding you, Google is indeed worth the price, why don't we talk about something else?"

Yang Zhiyuan knew that it was impossible for him to buy Google shares from Lu Yiming.

337.5 billion US dollars, he can't even bargain for this offer!
Undoubtedly, in his opinion, Lu Yiming had no intention of selling the Google shares in his hand at all, so he just bid wildly.

The market value is 1.5 trillion US dollars, and the lunatics on Wall Street don't believe it!
The plan to buy Google fell through, and Yang Zhiyuan was not interested in what Lu Yiming wanted to talk about next. He leaned on the sofa and said weakly, "Boss Lu, what else are you going to talk to me about?"

Lu Yiming didn't say it directly, but asked with a smile: "Mr. Yang, I wonder if Yahoo is interested in entering the Xiaguo mainland market now?"

Entering the Xia Country mainland market?

Yang Zhiyuan immediately became alert.

The company does have plans in this regard, and it also involves Yahoo's core strategic direction. Even only a few senior executives in the company know about it. How could Lu Yiming, an outsider, get wind of it so quickly?

Yang Zhiyuan's first thought was: Is there a traitor in the company?

It's no wonder he thinks this way, after all, shopping malls are like battlefields, and methods of interspersing, infiltrating and alienating are not uncommon among large companies.

Seeing this, Lu Yiming smiled more meaningfully: "Mr. Yang, facing the pressure of Google, there are not many choices in front of Yahoo. But I think, Mr. Yang, you will definitely want to copy the Internet in Japan and Japan." Taiwan Province's success, to boost Yahoo's stock price, right?"

Yang Zhiyuan has a very strong mentality of a gambler, and he is not the kind of person who can calm down and do things well.

What he likes is "quick, accurate and ruthless", through financing to grow Yahoo and expand rapidly.

This kind of gameplay is not a problem in the chaotic and disorderly Internet 1.0 era. After all, everyone was a novice at that time and was not familiar with the new thing of the Internet.

But the 2.0 era of the Internet will soon come, and then the entire industry will have to start fighting head-to-head. The fight is no longer about who has the largest body and rich capital, but who has the strongest technology and who can better grasp the psychology of users.

At this point, Yahoo is a little bit behind, gradually falling behind.

It's a pity that Yang Zhiyuan was still obsessed with the glory of the past, and didn't realize this.

When Yahoo landed in Xiaguo in 1999, Xiaguo's portal website was just taking shape, and Yahoo already had brand influence and technical strength far surpassing the domestic Internet giants. China's Internet industry is gradually marginalized.

The complete "copy and paste" of the English website in the early stage was the key reason why Yahoo was one step behind at the starting line.Yahoo Xiaguo has completely made a translated version of the English website, but the original Western content obviously cannot meet the local needs of Xiaguo netizens, so that in terms of portal websites, Yahoo has lost to several rising stars such as Zlang and Netease.

A similar situation does not only happen in Xiaguo. Except for the global market in beautiful foreign countries, Yahoo has only done relatively successfully in Taiwan Province and the island country.

Yang Zhiyuan, who was belatedly aware of it, now speculates that he wants to replicate the Taiwan provincial model, and hopes to acquire a mainland company to boost Yahoo Xiaguo's performance.

And there are two choices before him, Li Hongyan's ferry, Zhou Hongyi's 3721.

Unfortunately, of these two companies, one is in the hands of Li Yiwen and the other is in the hands of Lu Yiming.

No matter how Yang Zhiyuan chooses, he will inevitably be severely slashed. It can only be said that from the beginning to the end, Lu Yiming has made clear arrangements for Yahoo.