My Age of Investment

One Thousand and Thirty-seven, 5 Horses Dismembered

After playing golf, the three of them had lunch together and then went back to their respective homes.

In the evening, Yang Zhiyuan called Xia Jingxing. When he got through, he asked, "What does it mean when you tapped my hand three times during lunch?"

A smile appeared on Xia Jingxing's face, "Have you never read Journey to the West?"

"I've seen it, but you didn't hit me on the head?"

Jerry Yang made a few jokes and finally got to the point: "Let's go out for a drink. I know there is a private club nearby that has a good wine collection."

Xia Jingxing agreed with a smile, hurriedly put on his coat and prepared to go out.

Kristina had just put her child to sleep and was about to go downstairs to chat with Xia Jingxing for a while. When she reached the stairs, she saw him looking like he was about to go out.

"Are you going out so late?"

Xia Jingxing turned around and glanced at her, smiling and saying, "Jerry has been under a lot of pressure recently, I'm going to show him a clear path."

"Don't waste your efforts. Now the entire Silicon Valley knows that Jerry is very resistant to this deal, and it's useless to try to persuade him."

Kristina leaned on the handrail of the stairs, folded her hands on her chest, and looked at the ceiling with a very unfavorable look.

Xia Jingxing didn't leave in a hurry. He walked over and gently held up Christina's jade-white face, looking into those blue eyes, "Do you want to make a bet? If I make it, you promise me one thing. .”

"What if it doesn't work?" Christina asked.

"I promise you something!"

Kristina just thought for a moment and replied: "No problem, I agree! Don't worry, I won't mention anything that will embarrass you."

Xia Jingxing smiled and was about to turn around and leave when Kristina grabbed him. She carefully smoothed out the wrinkles on his clothes and then patted his shoulder, "Go ahead and wish you success. "

Xia Jingxing noticed the silver bracelet on Kristina's hand and his eyelids twitched, "Don't you like wearing this rustic antique?"

Kristina scratched her sleeves, stretched out a white wrist, and turned it in front of Xia Jingxing, "Does it look good? Who said I don't like it? I just don't wear it outside, I just wear it at home."

If Xia Jingxing realized something, he didn't dare to talk about this topic any more and hurried out.

Sitting in the car, he felt a little uneasy. Thinking back to Kristina's words, he always felt that there was something in them.

Without thinking for too long, the car quickly arrived at the club where Yang Zhiyuan had an appointment to drink.

As soon as Xia Jingxing walked through the door, a waiter came up to him, exchanged a few words, and then took Xia Jingxing to the room where Yang Zhiyuan was.

Seeing Xia Jingxing coming, Yang Zhiyuan, who was drinking alone, put down his wine glass and stood up to greet Xia Jingxing: "Darren, sit down wherever you want. What would you like to drink?"

"Whiskey!"

Yang Zhiyuan whispered a few words to the waiter, who bowed and exited the room, closing the door gently.

"Is it necessary to avoid Jack? He is quite enthusiastic about this matter." Yang Zhiyuan picked up the wine glass and looked at Xia Jingxing sitting opposite him with a smile.

Xia Jingxing smiled. Lao Ma thought he was keeping a low profile, but Yang Zhiyuan saw through all his little thoughts.

Perhaps due to his personality, Yang Zhiyuan just didn't point it out. In fact, he knew everything in his heart.

When you reach this level of wealth, you can be said to be well-informed, and novices and nerds will be exaggerated into business tycoons. No matter how you play, you will only be looked down upon.

Therefore, Xia Jingxing did not play tricks and said very frankly: "As long as the two of us reach an agreement, I will take care of his side."

Yang Zhiyuan nodded slightly, and just as he was about to speak, he heard a knock on the door.

After the waiter entered the room, put down the wine and left, Yang Zhiyuan picked up the whiskey and poured a glass for Xia Jingxing. Then he took out two cigars from the cigar box on the side and handed one to Xia Jingxing.

Jerry Yang cut off the cigar cap and said, "What are you going to do with me?"

"What's the arrangement? That's too serious."

Xia Jingxing immediately shook his head and laughed. After a while, he looked at Yang Zhiyuan and said in a sincere and firm tone: "To be precise, it is cooperation!"

Yang Zhiyuan lit a match, held the cigar horizontally in his other hand, and slowly rotated it. After the small flames evenly blackened the end of the cigar, he took a puff in his mouth and exhaled a large puff of smoke, "Tell me, How to cooperate?"

"Yahoo Mail and Ali's 26% stake were split and sold to Vision Capital, Ali's management... and Facebook."

Yang Zhiyuan reacted calmly and looked at Xia Jingxing with a rather amused smile, "Weren't you not interested in merging Yahoo before? Why are you interested again now?"

Xia Jingxing also lit a cigar, and he took a big puff before spitting it out. The thick smoke covered most of his face in the smoke, "I thought about it, you, the most outstanding Chinese in Silicon Valley, shouldn't sink like this. You shouldn’t step down with a bad name on your back.”

Under the dim light, Yang Zhiyuan's face seemed to be smiling but not smiling, "So, you are helping me?"

"Help you and help myself too!"

Xia Jingxing spread his hands, looking very magnanimous.

Jerry Yang shook his head slightly, "I'm sorry, I can't accept this plan to divide Yahoo into five pieces!"

Xia Jingxing chuckled, "This is not about being divided into pieces, but about breaking out of a cocoon and becoming a butterfly, ushering in a new life.

Do you think Yahoo can still make a U-turn now? You, the captain, cannot decide the direction of travel. You are just a firefighter temporarily invited to put out the fire. "

Jerry Yang was not angry, but smiled, "Darren, I understand what you mean. You want Facebook to annex Yahoo Mail and continue to expand Facebook's boundaries."

At this point, Jerry Yang changed the topic, "But you should understand that I have deep feelings for Yahoo, and I will never tolerate it being cut into pieces like pork and put on supermarket shelves for anyone to choose from."

Xia Jingxing and Yang Zhiyuan looked at each other, but neither said anything. The room became quiet, with only clouds of smoke rising.

"You come to be the chairman of Facebook, and next year or the year after that, let's ring the bell to go public together!"

Jerry Yang shook his head again, "Darren, that's not what I value."

"Even if Yahoo and Facebook merge one-to-one, you are only a small shareholder holding less than two points of shares. If you are asked to serve as CEO, are you confident that you can secure that position?"

Xia Jingxing looked at Yang Zhiyuan with piercing eyes, and his tone was no longer gentle, but had a hint of questioning.

Jerry Yang took a long breath and said, "I know that I am not a competent CEO, nor am I an excellent founder. I just got lucky with the times.

You are better than me. You have transferred all kinds of capital, made close and distant contacts, and are still the largest shareholder of Facebook. You can still exert significant influence on Facebook. "

Xia Jingxing sneered, "It's meaningless to talk about this now. Our eyes should be fixed on the future instead of clinging to the past."

Jerry Yang is a little conflicted. One reason is that he is reluctant to sell Yahoo. The other reason is that he still has some baggage in his heart that he still can't let go. Being swallowed up by his little brother Facebook is not a good reputation.

But then I thought about it, and the other party had already treated me with great respect, letting me serve as the chairman of Facebook and ringing the bell to go public together.

In the future, Facebook's IPO may be a $100-billion IPO, setting a new financing record for technology stocks, worthy of being the first Internet person of the century, and perhaps regaining the lost reputation.

As for things like shares and net worth, he has to put them in the back row in his mind.

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