Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

The time has entered the summer of 2005, and the scorching heat in August is unbearable. At this time, everyone will thank the air conditioner for saving my dog’s life, but when I think about the rise in temperature, the air conditioner is also responsible for it, and I suddenly feel that this is very contradictory. .

Lu Yiming planned to take a summer vacation for himself.Although I have graduated from college, it doesn't matter.

In the air-conditioned room, although it was cool, Lu Yiming always felt a little uncomfortable.

There was an unnutritious soap opera on the TV, but Shi Qingxue watched it with gusto while lying sideways on the sofa.

A pair of exquisite little feet wrapped in ultra-thin flesh-colored pantyhose rested on Lu Yiming's lap, enjoying Lu Yiming's massage service.

"The weather is really too hot. In my impression, Shanghai is already in the north. I didn't expect it to be so outrageous. How about we go on a trip? How about Jiuzhaigou? There is a big forest, the climate is cool and pleasant, and the natural air-conditioned room , it’s much more comfortable than blowing on the air conditioner.”

Lu Yiming played with Shi Qingxue's beautiful legs in stockings, and thoughtfully put forward his own suggestion.

Shi Qingxue watched the sunlight outside turn almost white, imagined the sourness of jumping into the oven as soon as she went out, and immediately hesitated.

Of course she wanted to go on a trip with Lu Yiming. After all, everyone was busy with their own careers, and it was true that they hadn't relaxed for a long time.

Obviously, this should not be the life of the rich—at least not the life of the rich in Lu Yiming's imagination.

Although it must be very hot to go out, Shi Qingxue still said very considerately: "If you want to go, then let's go."

After all, they are already rich and free, and it is not difficult for them to travel as soon as they say it.

But just when the two got up to pack their things and leave, Li Yiwen called.

"Something happened, something happened!"

His hasty tone startled Lu Yiming.

Li Yiwen is usually very calm, and the things that make him anxious like today are definitely not ordinary big things.

Lu Yiming quickly asked, "What's wrong? Someone died?"

In Lu Yiming's understanding, only killing people is the most troublesome thing, and everything else is secondary.

However, Li Yiwen's words made Lu Yiming breathe a sigh of relief.

"What life? I heard the news that Yahoo is planning to take a stake in Ari, and Yang Zhiyuan has arrived in the capital and is negotiating cooperation with Lao Ma!"

Hearing Li Yiwen say this was the case, Lu Yiming was completely relieved.Historically, Ahri did accept capital injection from Yahoo, and spent one billion dollars to obtain 40.00% of Ahri’s shares, becoming Ahri’s largest shareholder.

Of course, this thing will definitely not happen now, even if Ari accepts Yahoo's capital injection again, it is impossible for Yahoo to get more than 40.00% of the shares.After all, most of the shares are now in the hands of Lu Yiming. If Jack Ma sells the shares again, he will probably leave the house completely.

Yahoo came here to buy Ahri's shares at this time. From Li Yiwen's point of view, it was to steal money from future capitalists, so he was very upset.

Li Yiwen asked: "Should we stop this possible transaction?"

Lu Yiming shook his head slightly, and said: "In ancient times, this person was a so-called hero. He has the character of 'how can he be depressed for a long time'. How can we stop him? The more we stop him, the more determined this deal will be."

For Jack Ma, a rebellious boy, Lu Yiming has been a melon eater for a long time.

If you say that this guy makes money, he makes money. Being the richest man is nothing. He ran to open a university in a whimsical way, specializing in recruiting the children of officials and eunuchs, and cultivating his own connections.By the time the Dongchuang incident happened, there were quite a few of the graduates who were vice-provincial.

Many people think that Jack Ma was messed up because the bank didn't change and then Barabara. In fact, in Xia Kingdom, economic problems are really not a problem.

Li Yiwen didn't know this, but he could hear the implication from Lu Yiming's words, and immediately asked in surprise: "You mean, he introduced Yahoo on purpose, just to check and balance us?"

"Otherwise?"

Lu Yiming didn't panic at all, and he didn't have any opinion on Jack Ma's thoughts at all: "Although Jack Ma was respectful to me at the beginning, but now his wings are hardened, it's only natural that he wants to be his own master, and I don't need to interfere. As long as you still hold the shares in your hands, it is enough. Let him toss around, and when Ahri’s stock price reaches its peak, he will sell some of the shares.”

Knowing that Lu Yiming actually wanted to sell Ari’s shares at the right time, Li Yiwen didn’t understand this, and said: “Ari owns a business platform like Taobao, whose value is beyond imagination, shouldn’t we hold it firmly? Is it right to be in control?"

Right now, Ari has gradually become a monopoly. Mastering such a platform can not only gain monetary benefits, but in a sense, he can even control power and even influence the economic trend of the region.

This is not a delusion. When Ahri was at its most glorious, Jack Ma traveled abroad, and even foreign leaders came to greet him. The treatment was so high that an ordinary businessman could not enjoy it at all.

why?
It's not because of the Taobao platform, the interests involved are too great.

Lu Yiming said to Li Yiwen: "It is because the interests are too involved, so we must know how to protect ourselves wisely and retreat bravely. When online shopping develops to a certain extent, it will cover the entire country. Do you think such a platform can be simply handed over to capitalists to manage? "

"Ah this..."

As the saying goes, the celestial dynasty has its own national conditions here, and Li Yiwen understood it all at once, and his face turned pale with fright.

Lu Yiming sighed, and said: "Capital is a fierce tiger, and if the tiger is not kept in a cage, it will definitely jump out and eat people."

In the previous life, Taobao took care of small and medium-sized merchants at the beginning, but after the monopoly of the platform, various operations followed.

To make money, you can earn more without a conscience. How can capital not cut leeks?
At the end of the day, why did the scary thing suddenly disappear, and even the social proof became a village teacher?

There are many doorways here.

Therefore, as a big capitalist, you have to have a little discernment, and you have to understand what money you can make and what money you can't make.

As for wanting to control huge social resources by controlling the platform, this kind of idea itself is very rebellious, because this is the power that only the government has. How can a capitalist surpass it?
Therefore, Lu Yiming has a very clear position on himself. If you are in business, you must do business, and you cannot do things that cross the border.

Lu Yiming explained this truth to Li Yiwen. Although Li Yiwen felt very sorry, he is also a smart person and knows what it is to be a human being.

Not making money or giving up the money earned will indeed make people feel extremely disappointed, but compared with Xiaoming, this is actually nothing.

Li Yiwen: "Then do you want to talk to Jack Ma?"

Lu Yiming recalled the matter of Jack Ma's college opening, so he said, "It's good to have a chat, so that the old horse won't get too flustered and do something irrational."

Beijing, Badaling.

Although it was the scorching heat, a team climbed the Great Wall despite the high temperature.

They are naturally the team led by Jack Ma and Yang Zhiyuan.

Yang Zhiyuan looked at the vast and magnificent rivers and mountains in front of him, and he felt proud, and said to Jack Ma: "Taobao has defeated eBay. In the whole world, you have no opponent."

Although Jack Ma was floating a bit, he didn't float too high. At this time, he still maintained a certain degree of modesty. He looked at the rolling mountains and shook his head and said, "One mountain is still as high as another. Taobao can win, not because we have How powerful, but Yibei made too many mistakes in Xia Guo."

Now it's the second half of 2005, thanks to Lu Yiming's full support, Taobao's market share in Xiaguo is close to 80%, while Ebay has less than one-fifth left, it can be said that it is on the verge of dying. Far.

As a result, Ali Group has shown a thriving attitude, and it is just around the corner to become the industry hegemony in the field of e-commerce.

Therefore, Yahoo, which is in a development dilemma, has taken a fancy to the potential of Ari Group and wants to bet on Jack Ma.

Yahoo is in a bit of trouble right now.

First, it was stolen by Google, and the "Longxing Land" in the search market was almost lost.

Secondly, Yahoo also got involved in the previous battle between MSN and QQ, but he chose the wrong side. As MSN lost to Maicheng, Yahoo's stock price also collapsed.

So in desperation, Yang Zhiyuan wanted to make up for Jack Ma. No matter what, the stock price couldn't fall anymore, otherwise the shareholders on the board of directors would definitely go crazy.

After walking on the Great Wall for a while, everyone was already sweating profusely.And Yang Zhiyuan also chatted with Jack Ma about the acquisition of shares during this time.

"As you can see, we at Yahoo are very sincere and bought 40% of Ahri's shares for one billion dollars. No one can afford this price except Yahoo."

Although Yahoo is in trouble now, it is Yahoo after all.

And Jack Ma was also very excited, because it was one billion dollars after all.

One billion U.S. dollars, equivalent to Xia Guo's currency, more than 80 billion.

What is this concept?
The reason why Jack Ma agreed to the deal at the beginning was because Yahoo offered too much money, and it was simply not something he could refuse.

And because of this deal, Yahoo broke free from the quagmire as Ali's stock price soared.

However, that is the old calendar.

Now, even if Jack Ma wants to complete this deal, he still has more than enough energy.

He smiled wryly, and said regretfully: "Mr. Yang, I know you are very sincere, but I also have to tell you with regret that even though I am the founder, I don't have that many shares in my own hands right now. selling."

Although Jack Ma now has more than 40.00% of the total shares in his hands, the excess is not much. If this deal is reached, it will be no different from going out of the house.

Although he is very envious of the billion dollars, he is an ambitious person. He has gone through hardships to start Ahri. After seven or eight years, he has been on the right track. Of course, he does not want to stop there.

Casually, after thinking for a few seconds, he said to Yang Zhiyuan: "I can sell you a maximum of 20.00% of the shares. After all, I have to keep some for myself, and you have to figure out the rest."

Ari also has a few small shareholders, all of which are investment companies with Wall Street backgrounds. They don't have 40.00% of the shares together, and it is impossible for Yang Zhiyuan to get [-]% of the shares if he buys them all.

Yang Zhiyuan frowned slightly and asked, "Why?"

Jack Ma didn't hide it either, and said directly: "Because most of Ari's shares are in the hands of the richest man in Lu, if you really want so much, I'm afraid you can only talk to the richest man in Lu."

"Most of Ari's shares are in the hands of Lu's richest man?"

This news really surprised Yang Zhiyuan a lot.

Although they did a lot of background checks, because Ari was not listed and Lu Yiming acted in a low-key manner, they didn't find out about it at all.

Thinking of dealing with Lu Yiming, Yang Zhiyuan suddenly felt a headache.

There is no doubt that Lu Yiming is definitely a difficult person.

Among other things, the most important point is that Lu Yiming is not short of money.

Negotiating business with people who are not short of money is in itself a very maddening thing.

But thinking of the situation Yahoo is facing now, Yang Zhiyuan had to make another move.

He couldn't help stretching out his hand to pinch the center of his brows, and said distressedly: "I have dealt with him before, alas, it seems that this time he is going to bleed again."

The last time Yahoo bought the 3721, it was seriously over budget.

This time he was going to confront Lu Yiming again, Yang Zhiyuan felt exhausted.

I just want to make Yahoo great again, why is it so difficult?
In the time and space before Lu Yiming’s rebirth, in August 2005, Yahoo and Ahri officially announced that Yahoo would inject US$8 billion into Ahri, and Ahri would acquire Yahoo ZG.

At the reception after the cooperation ceremony, Jack Ma once teased with a wine glass: "This is the most expensive sake I have ever drunk."

Billion USD, 40.00% of shares.

At the peak of Ali's stock price, the market value of Nasdaq was 600 billion US dollars, and the Hong Kong stock market was worth [-] trillion.

40.00%, that's $440 billion.

Now only one billion dollars has been exchanged.

But this deal had to be done—it was with this money that Jack Ma could make every step of the way and win against eBay.

In the second year, eBay stock suffered a sharp drop from a high of 46 US dollars to 8 US dollars in August, and Taobao gave itself the halo of "Asia's largest shopping website", announcing that there are more than 24 million people every day. "Shopping on Taobao."

Of course, the current Jack Ma has already defeated Yibei with the help of Lu Yiming, so there is no need for this life-saving money at all.

A group of people got off the Great Wall and sat in the car with the air-conditioning fully turned on.Yang Zhiyuan said, "I'll go talk to the richest man in Lu."