Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

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Thank you for the tip from the friend "I haven't thought about it yet,". You are now the first helmsman of my book.

I worked hard to write the words today, just to commemorate you as my first helmsman.

Add one more chapter!!!

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{Time: January 12, 2004}

{Location: Europe-Luxembourg;}

In the past few days, the news about skrpe has touched the hearts of many people. Because of skrpe’s rapid and rapid development model in a short period of time, and what was later revealed, the senior executives of skrpe actually started working together after the first cooperation was completed in January 2003.

Paying attention to skrpe, and starting to collect in-depth information on skrpe in August 2003, has intensified people's curiosity.

On January 5, 2004, skrpe also officially announced its financial report for the whole year of 2003. In that year, the revenue growth increased from negative to US$130 million, attracting more attention from Silicon Valley and Wall Street. It also brought

More pairs of eyes looked over at once.

And the focus information related to skrpe is bursting out one after another.

January 5: "skrpe still has more business models to be explored"

January 6: "Yix+skrpe: New integration of e-commerce"

January 7: "Advantages of Beibao + skrye"

Until January 8, when I saw that the momentum was not right, I stopped and cooled down the situation.

And then the big news broke on January 8, "Billion times dissatisfied with skrpe's sky-high asking price, may give up the acquisition."

In this situation where the key figures have not yet arrived and time is running out. Although Ning Zimo calmly accepted Jeff Jordan's exit and looked extremely calm, in fact, the anxiety in his heart was rapidly increasing.

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Because only Ning Zimo knows that he has plenty of time to sell skrpe, and he can negotiate for more than 4 billion. Even if he doesn't sell it now, he will work hard for ten years and sell it for nearly 10 billion like in his previous life.

Giving Ju Hard is a way out. What's more, he can build another ecosystem.

However, there is only a short time left for the opportunity to purchase the game department from Vivendi.

If Meg Whitman doesn't show up now, he will really miss the only opportunity to acquire Vivendi's gaming department.

If so, of course you can still find opportunities many years later.

However, it is possible that the road ahead will be relatively difficult.

I am not a masochistic player. Even if I am reborn, I still don’t have much time and opportunity to waste.

so,

These few nights,

It's so hard

…

The next day was Friday. Probably in order to cooperate with the news spread on Thursday, the entire Yibi team did not appear in the skrpe conference room. Ning Zimo knew that this was Jeff Jordan's negotiation strategy.

Although that guy has always been very close to him in private, when he doesn't have much contact with him, when he actually does things, he is a business-minded guy!

In his position, he seeks his government.

Isn't this the main reason why he admires Jeff Jordan?

When Ning Zimo came out of the tea room with coffee, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

in the end,

Even if it is rebirth,

Nothing is easy.

No one is easy to deal with.

“Look at the dumb tiger news!!!”

Zhuang Zhanpeng's voice reached Ning Zimo's ears through the office door, shocking Ning Zimo to the point of tinnitus.

Before he could react, Zhuang Zhanpeng rushed over quickly. Regardless of Ning Zimo still holding the coffee cup in his hand, he grabbed Ning Zimo and ran away, even letting the whole cup of coffee and the cup fall to the ground.

Everything was in disarray.

By the time Ning Zimo finally came to his senses, he had already been pinned down on his seat by Zhuang Zhanpeng, who was half a head shorter.

The monitor in front of him was displaying a piece of dumb tiger news. Ningzi stared at it silently for a long time before he saw the title displayed on the page:

"The mute tiger takes action, Yang Zhiyuan: Purchase skrpe to develop the European market"

!!!!!!

I am,

Ning Zimo was so excited that she didn't know what to say!

He didn't expect that Yang Zhiyuan would jump out and give him an assist at this time.

This favor,

He owes it!

Ning Zi didn't think about it silently, so he fumbled for his phone and opened the address book.

When he found Yang Zhiyuan's phone number, he suppressed his excitement and trembling impulse and dialed.

The call was quickly connected, and a hearty laugh came over.

"Zimo, why are you thinking of calling me? It's still dark in the United States right now?"

"Ah...Brother Yang, I'm sorry, I didn't pay attention to the time."

"Okay, okay, I made a few jokes to you casually. Why can't you accept it at such a young age?"

"Thank you, Brother Yang, I... I called you because I wanted to thank you specially..."

"Hey, it's about the news. Don't pay too much attention to it. After all, we, Duhu, have discussed it internally. If Yibi really withdraws from the acquisition, we really have ideas."

"ah?"

Ning Zimo was stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a while, he realized that these might be polite words from Yang Zhiyuan, probably to make him feel less indebted to him.

But before Ning Zimo could say anything else, Yang Zhiyuan's voice came from the other end of the phone:

"Zimo, we so-called seniors are too lonely. We always need you and fresh blood like Ma Yun to join this battle group, so that our circle will be bigger. In this way, our battlefield will be more beautiful.

The bigger the battle situation will be more interesting!"

Yang Zhiyuan's tone was slightly bleak, but he became calm as he spoke.

Ning Zimo had thousands of words in his heart, but in the end he just said softly:

"Brother Yang, thank you..."

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On January 12, when Jeff Jordan led the negotiating team into the skrpe conference room again early in the morning, Zhuang Zhanpeng noticed that he did not sit in the position of negotiating chairman again like last week, but led people to line up in a row.

, as if to welcome someone important.

really,

the next moment,

A middle-aged woman with a stern face walked in from the door with steady steps. As soon as she entered, she nodded slightly. Then, she stood at the top of the billion-fold negotiation team with a serious look on her face.

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It was the first time for Zhuang Zhanpeng to see the middle-aged woman opposite him. He was very curious about who this person was. Why did everyone in the usually serious billion-fold negotiation team become more energetic as soon as she appeared?

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When the middle-aged woman opposite glanced at everyone here, she nodded silently towards Ning Zi.

"Ning, we meet again."

"Yes, Ms. Whitman, we meet again."

Ning Zimo nodded and then turned to his team and signaled, "Gentlemen, this is Ms. Meg Whitman, CEO of Billion Times."

Zhuang Zhanpeng secretly said that he was surprised, and then he realized that the person opposite was the person with whom the head of the family had dealt with several times.

As soon as they sat down, Whitman's first words made Zhuang Zhanpeng feel friendly.

"Gentlemen, thank you for your efforts on Skype during the past period. It is your efforts that allowed skrpe to have the capital to negotiate the sale of billions of dollars with us today."

Meg Whitman's words changed quickly, and in the first moment, Zhuang Zhanpeng felt her warmth.

But he didn't expect that in the next second, she would show her sharp and condescending style.

This change made Zhuang Zhanpeng unable to react for a while.

But just because he didn't react in time didn't mean that Ning Zimo wasn't prepared.

In fact, when Meg Whitman appeared in this room, Ning Zimo was not prepared to leave the negotiation work to Zhuang Zhanpeng like he had done in the previous two weeks of negotiations.

Today’s opponent,

It’s him and Whitman!

"Ms. Whitman, thank you for your praise of our team. This is what we should do. Because skrpe came from our hands, and today's value was jointly created by our entire team."

Ning Zimo choked back as soon as he opened his mouth, showing no mercy to Whitman.

After all, she had just pressed forward.

If you don't tell her who is the owner of skrpe, won't you give up the initiative?

Meg Whitman's eyes narrowed slightly, not caring about what the familiar young man opposite said.

From the first time she met him, she knew that he was an ambitious man, and naturally she gradually became comfortable with his style.

In 2002, if Billionaire hadn't shown enough sincerity, she wouldn't have considered recruiting the young people from the opposite side into their Billionaire team.

But she knew that her ambition was greater than she expected.

But what she didn't know was that the opportunity for him to reveal his ambition to her came so suddenly.

"...Ms. Whitman, Beibao had 23 million users when it was acquired in 2002, and skrpe now has nearly 110 million users..."

Although Whitman recalled the scene when he first met the young man opposite him, he did not miss a word he said.

When she got the chance, she quickly fought back, "Ning, skrpe grew to 130 million users in 2003. We all know this number. There is no need for you to deliberately exaggerate the number of users. Such information is useful to those who have information collection.

For us, it doesn’t make any sense…”

Ning Zimo had a ghostly smile on his lips. He raised his arm and shook his fingers in front of him and said, "Ms. Whitman, the data you mentioned are absolutely correct. But I can be sure that the numbers I mentioned are also not true."

Any mistakes. Because entering 2004, our negotiations have been going on for 12 days.

In these 12 days, due to the increase in skrype's exposure in the past period, not only the number of free users has increased by three times that of December last year, but the number of paid users has increased by five times. In other words, we are

After talking here for a day, skrpe will become stronger than before."

Ning Zimo stretched out his left hand again, spread his hands in front of him and said with a chuckle, "I am very happy to see our negotiations continue, and we will be happy to see them take a long time."

Jeff Jordan was secretly shocked as he listened to the sidelines, because in addition to the negotiation team sitting in this conference room, Billion Times also had two external investigation teams working together. One of them came to Luxembourg to follow up on skrpe's information, and the other

One is using various third-party data to verify the current authenticity of skrpe.

But he knew the style of the young man opposite him. Even in business negotiations, he used real data to back it up. Everything he could say would naturally be close to 100% true.

They had estimated this situation before. However, they did not expect that this matter that their Yibi team did not want to mention would be brought up so early by the young man opposite.

Iron Lady Whitman understands the numbers Ning Zimo said in her heart, but she is the top person in charge representing the billion-fold board of directors and needs to fight for the rights and interests of shareholders.

She understood what she was fighting for, "Okay, I admit that there is nothing wrong with what you said. But if many of these users were purchased through Fengyu keyword advertising..."

Ning Zimo is familiar with all the operating methods of the Internet in this era, and the amount of information Whitman possesses is not worth mentioning here.

He decisively interrupted Whitman's speech, "First of all, isn't Yibi competing with Mariana for some product keywords in the European and American markets? Isn't this the same as buying traffic from Fengyu or other search engine keywords?

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Furthermore, the reports of Fengyu adwrods can be queried. I think everyone knows the rules of search engine advertising, which are nothing more than conversion rate and retention rate. I can tell you this data. In the past few months of January, our skrpe has

Even with bandwidth competition, our cost to buy a user is US$0.21.”

Ning Zimo leaned forward, pressed towards Meg Whitman and continued, "This number is only 0.01 US dollars more than in the past year. In the past 10 days in January, our user online rate has been as high as 35

%, but it is 2.7% higher than last year’s average. These numbers are traceable!”

Across the conference table, which was more than 2 meters wide, Meg Whitman felt pressure coming on.

pressure!

From a young man less than half his grade,

Meg Whitman squinted her eyes,

She thinks about this,

So fun!