My 1999

"Who made the call?"

"What, ward rounds?" Xu Liang said with a smile.

"I'm too lazy to care about you, just don't tell me."

Xu Liang stopped teasing her, "He is the person in charge of the Japanese company. He will meet with Masahiro Inoue, the president of Yahoo Japan tomorrow."

"Yahoo Japan? Do you want to cooperate with them?"

"Well, I plan to sell Excite's portal business."

"I finally bought it, why did I sell it so quickly?" Jiang Xiaoyang asked curiously.

"The Internet is a winner-takes-all industry. Unless the business model is completely changed, it will be difficult to subvert the leading companies in a field. Yahoo! Japan is the leader of Japan's portals, accounting for nearly 50% of the share.

In comparison, Excite only has about 15%.

Japanese Internet users are different from those in China. Once they get used to a website, they basically won’t change.

Therefore, it is difficult for us to subvert Yahoo's position in the Japanese portal field.

In this case, it is better to sell it completely and concentrate all resources on the search business.

Put it first, and the benefits will be even greater. "

"In the Internet industry now, portals and e-commerce are the mainstream. Most search companies are losing money. Are you sure it will have a future?" Jiang Xiaoyang asked.

After working as a venture capital investor, she also gained a certain understanding of the hot investment areas in the venture capital industry.

"Of course. In fact, our domestic search business has already made money, but the time is too short and we haven't been able to smooth out the expenses yet." Xu Liangdao.

"It's good that you are sure."

"Haha, I never do anything I'm not sure about."

After chatting for a while, Xu Liang hung up the phone.

After thinking about tomorrow's meeting, I picked up the book and continued my Japanese study.

"It's too inefficient to be alone. It would be nice to have a study partner."

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"Boss, this is it."

Xu Liang looked at the modern high-rise building with a dozen floors and glass curtain wall in front of him, nodded and walked in.

As soon as I entered the door, I was stopped.

"Sir, we have a membership system here, please show your membership card."

Hideo Fukunaga stepped forward quickly.

"Mr. Masahiro Inoue invited us here."

The guard glanced at them and said, "Please wait a moment."

Went inside and made a phone call.

It didn't take long for him to come back, and the vigilance on his face turned into an eager smile.

"Sir, please come with me."

He took Xu Liang and others inside and went from the elevator to the top floor.

Going out is an oval-shaped hall, with gorgeous chandeliers hanging down, illuminating the surroundings.

The decor, while not lavish, is tasteful.

Several beautifully dressed women walked by occasionally, looking at everyone curiously.

"please."

Turn into the corridor on the left side of the hall.

The carpeted passage is lined with exquisite oil paintings.

There is a portal next to each oil painting. Xu Liang counted eight staggered portals in total.

There were exquisite house numbers hanging on the door, all in Japanese, and he couldn't understand them either.

Stopping in front of the second door on the right, the waiter knocked on the door.

Click, the door opens.

A young woman wearing a suit with small lapels appeared in front of everyone.

Xu Liang is no stranger. The last time I met him at Yahoo headquarters, he was Inoue Masahiro's secretary.

"Xu Sang."

After bowing slightly to say hello, he respectfully opened the door and made way for the passage.

Xu Liang nodded and walked in.

The room is very large, and the suite inside is not clear. The living room in front of it alone is nearly fifty square meters.

Glancing around, in addition to Masahiro Inoue, there was also a middle-aged man wearing a black suit, slightly fat, and slightly bald sitting on the sofa.

He was no stranger to this person either.

It is precisely because of his investment in Alibaba that Masayoshi Son became famous in the Chinese venture capital industry.

In the first decade of the 21st century, he was almost one of the most famous business leaders in the Chinese business community.

"Mr. Xu."

Inoue Masahiro came forward to say hello.

After the two shook hands, Inoue Masahiro turned aside to introduce.

"No need, I still know the famous Mr. Masayoshi Son of SoftBank."

Son smiled and extended his hand.

"I'm very honored by this."

After shaking hands.

"Please take a seat."

"please."

After everyone sat down.

Inoue Masahiro's secretary quickly stepped forward and poured tea for everyone.

"In the history of China, Gan Luo became prime minister at the age of twelve, Wang Bo wrote "Ode to Fighting Cocks" at the age of sixteen, and Mr. Xu founded Hongmeng and New Dreams valued at tens of billions of yen at the age of eighteen. It is really admirable. ." Sun Zhengyi said.

Xu Liang smiled and said: Mr. Sun deserves the award, I am just a chance encounter and cannot compare to the two ancients who were eight Dou higher in talent. "

There was a pause.

"I didn't expect Mr. Sun to know so much about my Chinese culture?"

"China's long history is a precious treasure of mankind. I have always admired it and often read it to draw nourishment from it."

"Reading history makes people wise. No wonder Mr. Sun can repeatedly bet on promising companies and be successful in the venture capital world." Xu Liang said with a smile.

Son Zhengyi smiled and changed the subject.

"Under the Nasdaq crisis, all capital in the world is shrinking, but Mr. Xu's Hongmeng company seems to have been expanding?"

Xu Liang smiled and said: “From a philosophical point of view, everything develops in waves, with peaks and troughs.

The rapid development of the Internet before the Nasdaq crisis was a peak, but now it is a trough. The trough will always end, the peak will come, and the development of the Internet will never stop. "

"So, Mr. Xu judged that the Internet has reached its bottom now?" Son Zhengyi said with a smile.

Xu Liang shook his head, "I don't have the ability to predict the future, and I don't know if the Internet has reached its bottom now. I just believe that the Internet has a future, so I develop step by step, hoping to occupy a part of this industry.

In other words, I will develop this way whether there is a Nasdaq crisis or not. "

"Mr. Xu is a determined person," Son said.

"I think this is an essential quality for a successful person." Xu Liang said with a smile.

"Haha, you are right." After a pause, "If SoftBank plans to invest in New Dream and Hongmeng, I wonder if Mr. Xu will accept it?"

"Of course, but not now."

"Why?"

Xu Liang continued: "Since Mr. Sun knows about Hongmeng and New Dream, he should know that we are not short of money now and have no plans to go public soon, so there is no need to raise funds."

The conversation changed.

"However, if Mr. Sun plans to invest in Hongmeng Japan Company, we can cooperate."

If SoftBank and Yahoo Japan can be bound, Hongmeng's expansion in Japan will be much smoother and less troublesome.

"Mr. Xu means that Hongmeng Japan Company is an independent subsidiary?"

“We have always admired Yahoo Japan’s localization strategy and hope to learn from it.”

"Mr. Xu is very candid."

"I have always been honest in front of people who I admire like Mr. Sun." Xu Liang said with a smile.

"Haha, it's such a pleasure to be able to chat with Mr. Xu."

"me too."

After smiling at each other, Son turned around.

"Mr. Xu plans to sell Excite's Japanese business?"

"Yes. Between portal and search, we prefer to choose the latter. After all, the competition pressure is smaller and the enterprise market also has enough profits." Xu Liangdao.

"Inoue said Mr. Xu's conditions, I can make the decision to let Yahoo acquire Excite's portal business, and let Bing search become Yahoo Japan's search service provider, but in exchange, Hongmeng must accept SoftBank's investment."

Son's tone was full of no doubt, reflecting a strong sense of oppression.

Xu Liang looked calm.

If he was just a newbie in the business world, he might really be forced by Son's aggressive words to make mistakes and be full of loopholes.

But in his last life, he also worked hard in business for more than ten years and fought with more than a dozen top venture capital firms.

Trying to make him regress with words and momentum is simply wishful thinking.

"Hongmeng Japan is very willing to cooperate with SoftBank..."

Son immediately interrupted, "I'm talking about the entire Hongmeng."

Xu Liang calmly picked up the tea on the table, held it in his hands, and sipped it in small sips.

After a long time, Son Zhengyi couldn't help but said.

"Why doesn't Mr. Xu answer?"

"I see that Mr. Sun has repeatedly interrupted me, so I let you speak first."

Hitting a soft nail, Son quickly realized.

The young man in front of him was more difficult than he thought.

Son Zhengyi spread his right hand and made a gesture to please speak.

Xu Liang put down his tea cup and said calmly: "I remember I made it very clear to Mr. Sun before that Hongmeng Corporation currently has no plans to raise funds."

Masayoshi Son quickly shook his head and then said: "The prerequisite for acquiring Excite is that SoftBank invests in Hongmeng."

The differences between the two parties quickly tore the previous silent tenderness to pieces.

In fact, this is the norm in negotiations.

"If Mr. Sun insists, then I can only call Mr. Uchida of Goo or Mr. Morinaga of Nifty." Xu Liang said calmly.

Son Zhengyi smiled.

"NTT Telecom is behind Goo, and Fujitsu is behind Nifty. In the context of the Nasdaq crisis, they are all reducing investment in the Internet. They will not spend money to buy Excite."

"Really? How did I hear that NTT and Fujitsu are planning to invest trillions of yen to deploy broadband access next year? Oh, by the way. Mr. Sun's Yahoo also announced that it will invest 4 trillion yen.

If we were not firmly optimistic about the future of the Internet, I don’t think everyone would invest so much money. "Xu Liang said calmly.

Son Zhengyi smiled and said: "Mr. Xu's information is very well-informed, but broadband access is infrastructure, not specific websites. Infrastructure can definitely make money, but if the website does not have enough users, it will not make money. This It’s two concepts.”

"Mr. Sun is right. Maybe I can try to contact GOO and Nifty and merge the three companies into one, so that our market share can be almost the same as that of Yahoo Japan, and we will have enough users." Xu Liang said with a smile.

Son Zhengyi's smile froze, and he felt threatened.

The number of users combined by the three companies has exceeded that of Yahoo Japan.

His expression gradually became serious and his eyes became sharp.