rebirth against the times

But he said that after Nangong Ming promised Bai Shuo to leave the mountain, Bai Shuo was originally going to help him change to a more spacious and comfortable house first, and then let Nangong Ming choose a house he likes after Li Fei's villa is ready in a month or two.

.However, Nangong Ming found it too troublesome and was too lazy to move around, so he insisted on living in the original old house temporarily. In this way, Bai Shuo had to run here every day, or arrange a vehicle to pick up Nangong Ming to discuss things. Xiao Lin wanted to facilitate Bai Shuo.

Shuo and Nangong Ming communicated. When Bai Shuo came to the old house, he often invited them to his home for dinner. The visits made Bai Shuo and Xiao Lin more familiar.

Although Cao An, Anna and others have seen Nangong Ming's power, the rest of the Bai Shuo team did not know this. The Bai Shuo team's office in Shudu was originally an independent office borrowed from the Huaying Group.

In the area, everyone saw that Bai Shuo often ran to such a remote place, and they often had to follow him back and forth. They all complained in the long run. Nangong knew that if he wanted to convince the public, he needed to give something tangible.

Therefore, he took the initiative to ask Bai Shuo about the most important thing at the moment. Bai Shuo remembered the failure of Ahri and Penguin, and he knew very well what kind of development these two companies would have in the future. If he couldn't get in and get a piece of

The soup is really a pity.

After learning about it, Nangong Ming believed that for Ali, Blue Ocean Capital has already invested in his rival Qiangdong Company, and there will be many opportunities in the e-commerce field in the future. It is not yet known who will win in the end, so he can let it go for the time being. As for Penguin, it is a company.

It may be difficult to take control of a listed company, but if you just want to force it to cooperate or get a piece of fat, it is not impossible. So Nangong Ming took the initiative to propose to Bai Shuan the idea of ​​​​sniping Penguin Company.

Bai Shuo calculated the time and found that the Lunar New Year was coming in more than a month. He asked Nangong Ming if he needed to consider the long term before taking action after the new year. Nangong Ming smiled slightly and said: "After the crisis, every minute and every second is important."

It’s the key to seizing the opportunity, and we can’t wait until after the New Year.”

Bai Shuo immediately said: "If the victory cannot be decided in a short time, will the long Lunar New Year holiday give the opponent more buffer time and affect the entire plan?"

Nangong Ming looked at Lang Lang's sky, thought for a while and said: "This matter must be resolved before the year. We will have more things to do after the year."

…

Although the end of December is not the Chinese New Year in the traditional sense, whether it is Christmas or New Year's Day, the land is filled with a festive atmosphere. On the occasion of bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new, China's Internet community has heard

Filled with the smell of fire and gunpowder, Blue Ocean Capital once again exposed shocking things.

It turned out that Penguin was secretly negotiating to acquire three Internet and technology companies, but suddenly they were strongly intervened by Blue Ocean Capital. Two of these three companies were established companies engaged in social networking sites, and one was an emerging company researching search engine technology. Because

The intervention of Blue Ocean Capital turned Penguin's secret acquisition into an open competition, and also exposed Penguin's SNS strategy and preparations to participate in the "search" business competition in advance. For a time, China's old network technology company giant "Fox"

, "Houlang", "Netzhi", etc. have joined the ranks of competing for turf. After Google discovered that Penguin independently developed search engine technology, it immediately terminated its cooperative business with Penguin. Penguin had to start its investment plan in advance and begin a comprehensive layout.

At this moment, Blue Ocean Capital, with lightning speed, found another way to acquire another small network platform company that had experienced a surge in traffic recently, and took the lead among many companies participating in the war. However, that time

After careful analysis, people found that the business sectors of these enterprises that the Internet giants competed for were of great value to Penguin and other companies, but they were of little significance to Blue Ocean Capital unless Blue Ocean Capital continued to acquire and expand in large quantities.

scale, otherwise it would be difficult to compare with companies such as Penguin. Therefore, everyone has judged that Blue Ocean Capital has no intention to enter the Internet business. This incident is regarded as an act of revenge by Blue Ocean Capital for Penguin’s previous indifference.

In a spacious, bright and luxurious office in the Penguin Building in Shenbu, Xiao Ma is discussing the next plan with his core team. After some discussion, the biggest problem currently facing Penguin Company is the advancement of the strategic plan.

The exposure and the resulting series of problems that have not yet been prepared for. Although colleagues in the past knew each other's next plans, everyone secretly made their own plans and maintained a tacit understanding and silence. But at Blue Ocean Capital,

After disrupting the situation, these matters were brought to light in advance, and everyone no longer cared about face, and took action to turn the situation into a robbery, resulting in vicious competition in the market. This forced Penguin to come up with a huge amount of money in advance.

Funds compete with opponents for resources, staking land and launching related plans in advance. However, the most troublesome problem is that under the current financial crisis, the world is short of funds. Although Penguin has not been too affected by the crisis, financing is still extremely difficult

, it is not easy to raise a large amount of funds in a short period of time to carry out large-scale acquisitions.

Just when everyone was arguing, Xiao Ma, who liked to watch the scenery by the window, walked from the window to the main seat of the conference table and sat down. Seeing this, everyone also became quiet and looked at each other.

Brother Ma, wait for his final decision.

Brother Ma tapped his fingers on the table rhythmically. As the rhythm gradually slowed down, he finally asked: "How much funds can we currently have on hand?"

Chief Financial Officer: "Excluding the necessary operational turnaround and follow-up fund reserves for projects that have been launched, the funds we can currently provide are only about 800 million."

Brother Ma continued to ask with a serious face: "What if some unimportant projects are suspended?"

Chief Financial Officer: "That can squeeze out another 400 million yuan or so."

Brother Xiao Ma: "How much capital is expected to be needed if all of these current M&A projects are completed?"

Strategy Director: "The total amount should be more than 3 billion. According to the current negotiation situation, in the short term, we must prepare at least 2 billion funds to win it as quickly as possible to avoid long nights and dreams."

Brother Ma thought for a while, and his face gradually regained its former look. He adjusted his glasses, with a hint of slyness in his eyes: "Actually, what is there to be anxious about? It's just a funding gap of less than 1 billion.

That’s it. It’s difficult at the moment, but this difficulty is not unique to us. Everyone should notice that our opponents are more difficult than us. In fact, this is also an opportunity. If we wait for the first half of the year, everyone will have recovered their strength and there will be no shortage of funds.

Now, what advantage do we have? Now, while we are standing and others are kneeling, we can show off our muscles. Even if we only have one breath left, as long as we can knock the opponent down completely, it will be victory."

After some praise from his subordinates, Xiao Ma began his deployment: the chief operating officer suspended all unnecessary projects, while reducing operating expenses in the short term, increasing funds collection efforts, and fully supporting the funds needed for the acquisition campaign; strategy

The director is responsible for intensifying the negotiations on M&A projects, with the primary purpose of reaching a contract. As for the payment time of the required funds, it is delayed as much as possible. However, because the company's current stock price is not high, unless necessary, stock exchange will not be considered as an acquisition condition for the time being; Chief Financial Officer

The official is responsible for mobilizing the maximum amount of funds and using all financing channels to obtain funding sources to support this merger and acquisition...

After the arrangements were properly made, Penguin's top executives took action separately according to the plan. Brother Ma came to the window again and looked down at everything under his feet: "Blue Ocean Capital, I want to see that you are not only causing trouble for me like a clown.

, what other tricks will there be."

Almost at the same time, in an old, narrow house in the capital of Shu, Nangong Ming was tinkering with his tea set while listening to everyone's reports. In the small room, at this time, Bai Shuo, Cao An, Xiao Lin,

Tian Yu, Mark and more than ten people found a corner to sit down. This scene was in sharp contrast to the penguin's place.

Opposite Nangong Ming, sitting next to Bai Shuo on the sofa, a very capable woman wearing a professional suit is Tian Yu. At this time, she is introducing the relevant situation to everyone:...the early days of Penguin's business

It received support from idg and the eldest son of the Li family, one of the four major families in Hong Kong, and received an investment of 2.2 million yuan. The two of them also obtained 20% of Penguin's shares. In 2001, the Li family in Hong Kong invested 12.6 million yuan.

At the price of rice yuan, it sold all its 20% stake in Penguin to South Africa's M Holding Group. Subsequently, M Holdings also acquired 12.8% of its shares from idg. A year later, some of Penguin's main founders transferred their holdings

Some 13.5% of the shares were sold to M Group. At this point, Penguin’s equity structure became that the entrepreneurial team such as Xiao Ma Ge accounted for 46.3%, M Holdings accounted for 46.5%, and idg accounted for 7.2%. Later, due to listing reasons, Penguin

The company once again adjusted its equity structure and recovered all 7.2% of idg's equity. The final holding structure became a situation where Penguin Entrepreneurs Team and M Holding Group each held 50%. In 2004, Penguin IPO was listed on Hong Kong Island and issued 420 million

shares of public shares, this IPO adopted the method of increasing share capital to dilute the proportion of original shareholders. The proportion of Penguin shares held by the 12 natural person shareholders and M Holdings each decreased from 50% to 37.5%. On August 31 of the same year, AB, the largest bank in South Africa,

The group announced that it holds 185 million Penguin shares, accounting for 10.43% of the issued shares. As of now, Penguin’s total share capital is approximately 1.8 billion shares, and its ownership structure is 37.5% for the founder team, of which Xiao Ma personally holds approximately 14.43%, m

37.5% of the holding group and about 10.43% of AB Bank. In addition to these relatively fixed major shareholders, the total number of shares circulating in the secondary market is about 200 million shares, accounting for about 15% of Penguin’s total share capital. Looking at the overall situation

, Penguin's shares are relatively concentrated, and it would be very difficult to acquire them...

After listening to Tian Yu's analysis, Bai Shuo and others showed very ugly expressions...