Rebirth of the 92 Business Tycoon

The eBay headquarters park in San Jose, Silicon Valley can be said to be the least distinctive of high-tech companies in Silicon Valley. Of course, we can also say that this is the simplest headquarters park.

The only bright spot on the ordinary and plain brick building is the bright primary color letters in the eBay logo on the wall.

The entire headquarters, under the embellishment of those four letters, finally seemed a bit alive, but overall it was still dull, just like the eBay queen here.

Ms. Meg Whitman, the president who was hailed by the American business community as "with the charming smile of Shirley Temple," is a little bit unable to laugh now.

She is very angry now.

If Feng Yiping is in Silicon Valley right now, she will definitely make a call immediately, "What/are/you are doing?"

Like our Miss Dong, these strong business women in the United States, such as Ms. Whitman, who is about to be elected the first name of "Most Powerful Business Women in 2004" by "Fortune" magazine, are always easy to get angry.

Although externally known for her charming smile, internally, in many cases, like Miss Dong, she may use the topic because the welcome applause is not warm enough.

Of course, we have to understand that the reason why a strong woman becomes a strong woman, and the reason why a strong woman is irritable, in addition to physical factors-such as menopause, is actually socially forced.

When they first started their careers, when they were running towards the goal of being a strong woman, in order to stand out from the workplace of men everywhere, they had to be tougher than men.

In the beginning, this was done to cover up. After more than ten years of cover up, it became instinct and became one of their most distinctive characteristics.

Like Miss Dong, Whitman is also eBay's biggest hero.

This is also a strange woman who has been very interested in business since she was a child.

While studying in Princeton, when disco was popular, young energetic young people who had nowhere to vent were obsessed with dance steps such as space walks. Few college students would read the Wall Street Journal.

But she never tire of it, letting people send newspapers to the dormitory every day.

This made other students find it incredible, and it strongly explained her enthusiasm for business and the ambition of this girl with a charming smile.

No idea, just take a look at VOGUE and go to one party after another with your male classmates. In the future, just find a good person to marry. Who would be patient to nibble on that professional and boring Huari Street Daily every day?

In the late 1970s, the young Whitman was admitted to Harvard Business School. Her class later became a veritable star class, including Zhao Xiaolan, the first Chinese minister in the United States at this time.

After graduating from Harvard MBA, she worked in Procter & Gamble, Disney, and Bain consultants. She was in charge of Hasbro before being dug into the company as president by eBay.

Oh, by the way, after leaving eBay, she became the helm of another well-known IT company, the CEO of HP.

After joining eBay, Whitman, who had never been involved in the Internet field before, had an eye-catching performance. In only half a year, he successfully led eBay to go public. Since then, various mergers and acquisitions have continued, including the acquisition of PayPal founded by Musk.

At the same time, under her leadership, eBay began a continuous global expansion, entering Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Austria, South Korea, Italy, New Zealand, Switzerland, Ireland, and Singapore..., of course, including China .

Conquer cities all over the world.

It can be said that it is under her leadership that eBay has become the world's leading e-commerce company.

With such a glorious performance blessing, Whitman at this time, like Miss Dong later, had a great temper.

It was so easy to force Ali to the corner in China. Why did you Feng Yiping jump out at this time and smash my good deeds horizontally?

Don’t you know if I let go, Taobao can only exist for 18 months?

Looking at the bad-faced boss, the secretary who is cautious in his words and deeds, notify the executives, including the chief operating officer, to come to the meeting.

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"Our arrangements in China have now undergone new changes," Whitman's opponents said in the first sentence, "The young Feng took over all the shares of Alibaba held by Goldman Sachs. They have now become Aridians The two largest institutional investors, eBay’s feedback is that Jiasheng and Ali have formally reached a strategic cooperation."

Knowing this news, her men were not calm.

Although eBay's current main competitors are in the United States, Amazon and Yahoo Auctions, what worries them most is actually Alibaba, which is growing.

The main reason is very simple. They know the iron rule that users are king.

In the face of China's huge population base, their proud tens of millions and hundreds of millions of users are not like a joke, but there is really nothing to be proud of.

Ali does not need to be busy around the world like them. As long as they work hard in mainland China, they can easily have more than 100 million users.

With the increasing economic strength of China and with China’s basic conditions, such as network construction getting better and better, the ownership rate of PCs is getting higher and higher. It is foreseeable that Ali has more than 200 million users and more. It's hard.

Especially when one insists on charging for services, but Ali insists on providing free services.

Therefore, if Ali doesn't fall for a day, they can't sleep well, even if Ali's revenue is only a few tenths of theirs.

The most beneficial way for one’s own side is to work hard to expand their market share in China, and at the same time, try their best to suppress Ali and its nascent Taobao, and try their best to squeeze their living space, ultimately leaving them with nowhere. Can go.

"Not just financial investors?" asked the chief operating officer who felt the pressure suddenly increased.

"It has clearly disclosed the relationship of strategic cooperation to the outside world," Whitman said. "Why haven't we heard any news about the transfer of shares of Goldman Sachs before?" She knocked on the table and asked.

The heads of the marketing department and the public relations department lowered their heads in shame. The most concerned competitors and their investment structure have changed. They only now know that this is indeed their negligence.

"The Paulson of Feng and Goldman Sachs is said to have a good personal relationship," someone still distinguished.

It should be said that his sentence also touched on the truth.

Who knows that Goldman Sachs and Jiasheng, in a few words, casually settled such a thing?

"Don't always find reasons for your negligence and oversight," Whitman choked back.

"Perhaps Feng and his company don't know what is at stake?" Another subordinate said tentatively.

"Look at that Feng's recent move. Do you think he is someone who doesn't know how to speak and do things like this?" Whitman said irritably. "Before he invests in a company, he will not investigate the basics of that company." Situation? Don’t know the main challenge that company faces?"

"I think ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ still does not rule out Feng and his company. Although we are clear about our competition with Ali, we don’t know how intense this competition is. We all know that Jack is a Very persuasive person," said the operations director.

Whitman thought for a while, she also knew the skill of the Chinese opponent, "I really do not rule out this possibility,"

"Then do we contact Feng's company in Silicon Valley once to express the current situation clearly? I think Feng should have the right choice after knowing the details."

"We have a partnership with Coin Star to let Merbach of Coin Star spread the word," someone suggested.

"No," Whitman shook his head. "It's useless to mention this. They have officially announced to the outside world that they have reached a strategic cooperation. Do you think it is Ali or Feng that will withdraw such a promise?"

Ali naturally wouldn't. As for that Feng, even if he was deceived, but he had already let out his words, naturally he couldn't take it back because of his own words.

They know that their company does not have that much influence on the richest man in mainland China.

"It's not how we express our opinions," Whitman said proudly.

Feng Yiping couldn't be subdued just because she heard what they said. Similarly, she didn't want to express her opinions in such a weak and weak way.

The question is, what to do?

Feng Yiping had a closer relationship with Amazon, and he was also a major shareholder and executive of Google. Google is the most important channel for eBay promotion. If you want to deal with Feng Yiping, it is not likely that Feng Yiping and his NEXTDOOR, Coin Star, and Google, completely push to Amazon?

"I think we do this," Whitman said. (To be continued.)