Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

{Time: July 7, 2004}

{Location: United States-California}

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3 billion

5 billion!

Google is really stupid!

From Jerry Yang's own words about Google's aggressive resistance to Yahoo in the past few years, Ning Zimo secretly laughed in his heart, but he really didn't know how to describe his feelings.

If he were just looking at the perspective of his previous life, he would definitely appreciate Google's persistence. But now, fate has tricked Google into becoming an enemy in this life. Then Google's behavior will not only make it appreciate the death of Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

, just applaud their behavior!

Because it is precisely because I understand what Google has done to Yahoo that I know clearly that Yahoo will definitely cooperate with them in jointly dealing with Google. Otherwise, how could Yahoo allow such a big deal with only 100 million US dollars?

Inject traffic into Bing search to help Bing develop?

Isn’t this a case of exaggerating business and working together to create obstacles for competitors?

Although the golden opportunity to work together to add to the problem is only 7 months from February to September, Bing has indeed gained a rare opportunity for growth. Taking this opportunity, there is also a revolution between himself and Jerry Yang.

friendship.

Come to think of it, Google would never have thought of their recent troubles. A large part of the reason was because they had offended the giant Yahoo at the time! It was really cheap to offend this ethnic Chinese Internet legend who disliked them so much.

bing.

Just when Ning Zimo was thinking, Yang Zhiyuan gently shook his head and smiled at Ning Zimo and the people around him:

"I'm sorry, we are all Chinese and have a good cooperative relationship, so I nag a little more."

Ning Zimo didn't answer, but smiled kindly at Yang Zhiyuan.

It gave him the feeling that Yang Zhiyuan at this time was not like a businessman, but more like a senior student. Naturally, he was not very good at responding too much to his feelings.

Seeing this, Yang Zhiyuan nodded to Ning Zimo and said, "Okay, you guys came all the way from growing flowers to California to listen to my complaints. Let's get back to business."

With just a small movement, Dong Qianqian found that Yang Zhiyuan seemed to have come out of his depressed spirit, and then the aura of fighting on the battlefield returned to him.

Just now he was a kind-hearted senior expert,

Now want to become a business negotiation opponent?

At this moment, Dong Qianqian couldn't adapt.

Yang Zhiyuan didn't notice the status of Ning Zimo's team members. He just focused on Ning Zimo and said, "Zimo, I was still curious last time why I got the news from you from Miss Li that you wanted to acquire Yahoo!

.Since you are doing well in the foreign Internet industry, why do you want to expand your domestic business?"

"It's not like walking is different from what I originally imagined," Ning Zimo put down the cup and glanced at both sides, then smiled at Yang Zhiyuan, "I was still young when you invited me to Yahoo!

Sheng, naturally wanted to do some earth-shattering things. But when he really started doing earth-shaking things, he realized that the team around him had gradually grown."

Ning Zimo shrugged helplessly and said, "My mentality has also changed since my family became big. I can no longer be as casual as before. After all, things nowadays can't be accomplished by just a few people. So I want to give it to us."

Emperor Penguin was looking for a foundation in Flower Planting. After much deliberation, he didn’t know anyone, so he set his sights on Yahoo Flower Planting, which is owned by General Manager Yang.”

"Look at you, after your family is big and your business is big, your plans become even bigger. The important thing is that you just keep an eye on our Yahoo planting flowers." Yang Zhiyuan looked at Li Ying and smiled, "Look at your partner.

, are you thinking of eating our Yahoo flowers all of a sudden?"

Li Ying just smiled in response, but was not prepared to participate in the negotiation between the two.

She felt that Ning Zimo's point of entry seemed to be changing, and knew that this was not the time to disturb him.

Li Ying did not respond to Yang Zhiyuan but made room. Ning Zimo shook his head and smiled:

"Jerry, if I were to acquire Yahoo Flowers, it would be a win-win situation for both parties, so I would naturally consider it deeply as soon as the idea came up."

"Both parties will benefit from cooperation?" Yang Zhiyuan leaned forward with interest.

He rested his elbows on his legs, intertwined his palms in front of his face and raised his eyebrows at Ning Zimo, "Zimo doesn't want to earn part of Yahoo's shares like Sun Zhengyi operated Neon Country Yahoo, right?"

Yang Zhiyuan's words made Dong Qianqian feel a thump in her heart, and suddenly she felt something was not good.

Although the boss and Mr. Yang approached the topic of acquisition in an unexpected way, Mr. Yang of Yahoo suddenly mentioned Neon Country Yahoo. Neon Country Yahoo is different from American Yahoo. It is owned by Son Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Group.

%, with Yahoo America holding 49% of the regional exception.

But when the team was considering the acquisition plan yesterday, they rejected this development method of partial equity transfer from the beginning. This is because for Emperor Penguin, only a wholly-owned acquisition of Yahoo Flowers can guarantee absolute independent management rights.

The most difficult path was revealed from the beginning. Dong Qianqian didn't know how the boss should resolve this situation.

Dong Qianqian didn't know at all that after Ning Zimo heard Yang Zhiyuan mention Yahoo of Neon Country, he was keenly aware of Yahoo of America's attitude towards Yahoo's flower cultivation.

Yahoo America doesn't know how to develop Yahoo Flowers. If Jerry Yang can mention it like this, there is a possibility of more than 70% that Yahoo Flowers is probably a project that Yahoo America currently feels is worthless and a pity to abandon. As long as the price is right and the taker is

A person who is pioneering territory, they are happy to hand over Yahoo's cultivation.

Come to think of it, this is why in the previous life, when Yahoo invested 1 billion in Ali, it would hand over the hot potato of Yahoo to Ali Baba.

Quickly turning this thought away, Ning Zimo smiled and said, "I don't think it's impossible to try. Although I haven't thought clearly about whether I can fully acquire Yahoo Flowers, in theory, only with full control can we give it a try.

Our team has more autonomy in localizing Yahoo Flowers."

Ning Zimo emphasized the pronunciation of "localization", which made Yang Zhiyuan quickly understand what he meant.

He soon understood that this young man really wanted to win Yahoo Flower, and he should have a series of development plans for Yahoo Flower.

At present, Yahoo Planting has not actually developed much after their acquisition of 3721. Although CEO Zhou Hongyi has some abilities, he is far behind the young man in front of him. The young man in front of him has obtained 5.6 billion US dollars in acquisition funds in 3 years, at least until

So far, Jerry Yang has only seen this person do it.

It now appears that they underestimated this young man when they invited him in 2002, causing Yahoo to miss a wave of opportunities for rapid development.

If the Yahoo b2c project had been led by this person, I am afraid it would have developed to a higher level than it is now this year.

But the opportunity at that time has been missed, and now we are talking about Yahoo planting flowers.

Yahoo flowers can be sold, but in what form?

What does Yahoo! America get from this sale?

Is it money? The person in front of me has no shortage of it.

Is it a suitable development resource? Something as valuable as the "B2C Future Development Direction" last time?

Thinking of this, Yang Zhiyuan didn't speak for the time being, and instead took the time to drink water from a cup and think about it carefully.

When he put down the water glass, Yang Zhiyuan had a rough idea of ​​the sale in his mind. He asked, "What is the main significance of Zimo's emphasis on localization?"

"It's mainly about the cultural differences between the East and the West." Ning Zimo quickly answered, "After all, Huahua is an independent individual who has never been influenced by Western countries and has a unique personality in culture. So Yahoo Huahua must be different from the West

Business model, and since my team and I are both flower growers, we can naturally grasp this personality well."

After a pause, Ning Zimo looked into Yang Zimo's eyes and continued, "I just thought about it. I am more inclined to acquire 51% of the shares of Yahoo Zhonghua first, and hope that Jerry can transfer the remaining shares of Yahoo Zhonghua accordingly.

The decision-making power is left to our team. Within 4 years, we will complete the acquisition of the remaining 49% of the shares in two phases.

When Yahoo Flower is finally fully owned by Emperor Penguin four years later, Emperor Penguin will take ownership of the Yahoo Flower website, Yahoo Flower brand, Yahoo Flower domain name and all its products and related intellectual property rights."

Ning Zimo was honest and honest, and Yang Zhiyuan quickly grasped his purpose.

"That is to say, even if Zimo makes a partial acquisition, Emperor Penguin will also be required to fully control Yahoo Flowers."

"That's right," Ning Zimo said firmly, "except for us Emperor Penguins, no one can do a better job than us in localizing Yahoo Flowers."

Considering the current cooperative relationship between Bing and Yahoo, Ning Zimo knows that the current cooperation with Jerry Yang is still in the honeymoon period.

He can firmly state that he wants to win Yahoo's ultimate goal of planting flowers, and he can even refer to Yang Zhi's initial misunderstanding of their purchase. Emperor Penguin can only acquire 51% of Yahoo's shares from the beginning, and all the plans he said yesterday

All plans can be overturned.

Because, he can take this opportunity to talk to Yang Zhiyuan about something more interesting.

Thinking of this, Ning Zimo said directly, "I am sure that our Emperor Penguins are more inclined to determine the acquisition of Yahoo Flowers in this way with Yahoo. The point is that we have a better cooperative relationship with each other and can definitely do some longer-term cooperation."

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Yang Zhiyuan squinted his eyes and asked curiously, "What is Zimo's longer-term thing?"

Ning Zimo habitually tapped his knuckles on the armrest, smiled and said, "Through the past five months of cooperation with Yahoo, I found that our Bing can completely coexist with Yahoo's search market in the United States.

I think that after we complete the acquisition of Yahoo Zhonghua, Bing can reach a deeper cooperation with Yahoo. As long as Mr. Yang thinks it is possible, Bing can join forces with Yahoo to carry out a joint strangulation operation against Google after Yahoo Search goes online."

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When Yang Zhiyuan heard this, his eyes narrowed into a line, and the triangle area between his eyebrows came together.

Upon seeing this, Ning Zimo continued, "As long as Bing increases its investment to hold back Google before the launch of Yahoo Search, and waits for the new version of Yahoo Search to be launched, Bing can share technology with Yahoo Search, intensifying the competitive pressure on Google."

Ning Zimo raised the corner of his mouth and said loudly, "It's even possible that Google won't have the possibility of an IPO next year!"

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For an instant, everyone in the room focused their attention on Ning Zimo.

Because this is a plan that is completely separate from what we prepared yesterday.

Ning Zimo knew that everyone around him was looking over, but he still focused on Yang Zhiyuan's face.

He knew that Yang Zhiyuan would definitely agree.

Not for anything else, just for the tone of being rejected!

a long time,

Yang Zhiyuan's brows stretched.

"I think this is possible!"