Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

/*I am the crown, I am the crown!*/

{Time: June 1, 2005}

{Location: Planting Flowers-Qiantang America-California}

June 1 was Wednesday, and at the exit of Xiaoshan International Airport, the crowds were not as crowded as on Sunday.

Cai Chongxin was standing not far behind Ma Yun, watching the old stall looking expectantly at the crowd walking towards the exit. Suddenly, he saw Ma Yun poke her head, and that excited action was obviously intentional.

Sure enough, following his line of sight, he saw at a glance the young man with a ponytail leading the way to the exit. From a long distance away, he waved to this side, while Ma Yun raised her arms and stood on tiptoe.

He responded with his feet in that direction.

Within a minute, Ning Zimo, who had not seen him for a long time, led a group of ten people away from the crowd.

When he walked over with a smile, Ma Yun hurried forward to greet him.

"Hey, I haven't seen you for a long time. You feel refreshed." Ma Yun patted Ning Zimo's arm and said.

Teacher Ma greeted him so enthusiastically, Ning Zimo couldn't help but laugh and said, "You are the boss of a group company, how can you still be so excited? This... is not in line with common sense."

Ma Yun laughed and gave Ning Zimo a Western-style hug. His completely different enthusiasm from the past made Cai Chongxin smile.

After exchanging a few words, Ma Yun took a look at the other people who came with Ning Zimo.

He knew Ning Zimo's beautiful secretary, Miss Dong, and Emperor Penguin's financial manager, Luo Shuohan, but he was unfamiliar with a group of short people with small eyes.

"Who are these?" Ma Yun asked quietly.

Ning Zimo smiled and said, "These are the future hardware team of our [Fourth Age Laboratory] - Soichi Yokota and the corresponding team members."

"Yokota?" Ma Yun frowned, "A neon countryman who had a good life...?"

"When you first met Sun Zhengyi, did you greet him like this?" Ning Zimo raised the corners of his mouth and eyebrows and teased Ma Yun.

Ning Zimo's subtle movements immediately made Ma Yun burst into laughter, "My mind goes too fast in front of people I know well."

"The application for Bodhidharma Academy was unsuccessful, so it was officially renamed [Quaternary Laboratory]." Ning Zimo shrugged and introduced the two parties to each other in English, and then explained it to Ma Yun in detail.

Said, "Learn from the strengths of the foreigners and use them to control the foreigners. This is the experience given to us by the older generations. So, why don't I put it to use now?"

"Looking at your energy, I'm afraid you're going to take the construction of the [Fourth Age Laboratory] a step further," Ma Yun said, changing the topic.

Ning Zimo nodded, nodded and breathed a sigh of relief, "Well, it's indeed more than that. This time we were in the United States and we also met Mr. Zhou Wei."

"Who?" Cai Chongxin asked, raising his eyebrows.

Seeing his surprised look, Ning Zimo knew that he must have heard the name just mentioned.

"Senior Zhou Wei Zhou."

"The president of IBM's large flower planting area?" Cai Chongxin chewed the name in Ning Zimo's mouth, and suddenly realized, "Is Mr. Ning's emperor penguin going to introduce IBM to provide management consulting services?"

"Well," Ning Zimo nodded, "IBM Consulting Company will join forces with PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting Company to send a joint research team to the Emperor Penguins. This month, the Emperor Penguins will officially launch their first internal

Management system upgrade.

Whether it is specific company business or collaboration processes, or third-party cooperation processes, financial settlements, etc. Emperor Penguin needs to implement a more advanced management model to cope with the expansion of personnel."

Smiling, Ning Zimo turned to look at Ma Yun, but raised his eyebrows like Cai Chongxin and said, "After all, our Emperor Penguin is a small family and a small business, unlike your Alibaba Group and peerless masters like Brother Cai."

Turning to Luo Shuohan and pouting, Ning Zimo smiled and said, "Our company is mostly headed by me, with rookies like Yang Jian, Xi Dan, Shuo Han and the others."

"Mr. Ning, this is a big joke." Cai Chongxin said, turning to Luo Shuohan with a helpless expression, "Shuohan, are you so casual when you, the boss, are not talking about work?"

Luo Shuohan just smiled and said nothing. Such jokes involving himself have always been a joke for the boss to encourage himself. Knowing the boss's habits, he naturally knew that this was the boss's way of relaxing.

Seeing Luo Shuohan's relaxed look, Cai Chongxin understood that he didn't care, and then said: "In fact, no matter how big a company is, it must have outsiders to make certain adjustments. This has never been the ability of internal personnel.

It's not enough, but it's a common way to avoid the black blind area under the light."

"Well," Ning Zimo nodded, "necessary efforts are made in exchange for more tangible external forces to promote the company's internal process implementation capabilities. This is another value of the consulting company."

No matter how large a company is, no matter how capable the team is, it needs external forces to sort out internal processes.

This is not a distrust of one's own people, but that sometimes important information is overlooked.

Only with the help of external forces and combined with the familiarity of our own people with the business is the best way to implement management upgrades.

Ma Yun naturally understood these truths, she just raised her eyebrows and said with a smile, "Now, I'm afraid you emperor penguins will have to spend a lot of money again next time."

"Look, IBM and PwC's consulting team won't officially enter Emperor Penguin until the end of the month." Ning Zimo shrugged, "Anyway, I'm ready to cut my flesh."

"Oh..." Ma Yun dragged out a long syllable, raised her eyebrows and smiled silently at Ning Zi, "Anyway, you emperor penguins have enough cash, so you are not afraid of cutting this bit of meat!"

Today, Ma Yun always turns the topic to something spiritual, intentionally or unintentionally, and now he mentions the sufficient funds of Emperor Penguins. Is he unable to hide his excitement at all?

"Hahaha, there are times when you can't keep your temper?" Ning Zimo teased.

Ma Yun scratched her head, looked at Ning Zimo and said with a smile, "I just heard you mention myspace. I guess Silicon Valley should be very lively today."

Holding the car door, Ning Zimo shook his head and smiled. Finally, he nodded after getting into the car.

Yes,

Silicon Valley Today,

It should be very lively.

after all,

myspace,

It is a company founded in Silicon Valley.

And it is the number one social networking website!

***+***

On May 31 in Silicon Valley, James Murdoch was leading News Corporation's negotiation team to conduct final negotiations in the main conference room of MySpace.

As for whether MySpace should be acquired back, as early as mid-April, when News Corporation saw that Google and Bing had signed huge advertising contracts with MySpace, there was no disagreement.

Although the 1.2 billion advertising contract is only over 500 million a year, it is a relatively large part of Internet advertising.

There are only a few Internet giants today. If MySpace can win over Google and Bing, it will be even more attractive to other companies that need to advertise in the future.

But regarding the details of how to acquire Myspace, News Corporation has started a lengthy negotiation process with the Myspace team in an almost competitive manner over the past month or so.

Myspace’s team management model;

The future development direction of myspace;

And the actual price of myspace acquisition;

All these details require every inch of space.

After all, money speaks for itself in business, but for some reason, James Murdoch felt that David Sacks, a PayPal-born executive in front of him. Although this person had no management experience in a large company, he was very successful in the entire negotiation process.

He is not easy to deal with!

"I have emphasized the difference between the MySpace team and News Corporation countless times, but you have never paid attention to this point." David Sacks said seriously, "I have participated in the integration process after PayPal was acquired by eBay.

, so I have seen how it is difficult for teams with two different systems to implement business when their models are inconsistent."

Unable to help but imitate Ning Zimo's tapping action on the table, Sacks looked at James Murdoch and said word by word, "So I said, our issue must be to choose one of the two methods.

One is that after News Corporation acquired myspace, it placed absolute operational rights in the hands of myspace’s operations team to ensure myspace’s long-term operational strategy and direction.

The second is that after News Corporation fully acquires myspace, I will separate from myspace and let you re-appoint a new president and CEO, so as to achieve the effect of a decree from above."

Regarding the next development of myspace, Sachs has already had full communication and deduction with Ning Zimo.

After Ning Zimo's reminder, Sachs could easily think of the awkward integration process after eBay acquired PayPal in 2002. That was a huge difference between the two corporate cultures. The traditional bureaucratic management style could easily make emerging Internet companies fall into the trap.

In the quagmire of being unable to move forward.

At the same time, in the process of promoting myspace in 2004, Sacks also discovered that the potential problems of myspace were quite large. Mainly due to the one-sidedness of the user group, the potential for future development was limited by the user group, so for Ning, Ning would focus on the social platform.

Saxophone's attention turned away from Facebook, which is completely understandable.

Now that we have made preparations in all aspects, the most important thing at the moment is what kind of situation mysapce will sell!

They have already experienced this together once when they were on PayPal.

Next to Skype, they watched Ning completely give up once.

When he got to myspace, he had to get rid of it all.

In this way, you can invest your energy in creating other new possibilities!

Sacks looked into James Murdoch's eyes and said calmly, "We do not refuse the intervention of capital, because our group of people from Paypal have already had similar experiences. After all, whether it is Paypal or MySpace, this is all done by us.

Created by my own hands. All we care about is how to continue the glory of myspace."

James Murdoch remained silent. He had been considering how to completely transfer all rights to MySpace from the start-up team to News Corporation!

He still remembers what his father, Rupert Murdoch, said:

"As long as we acquire myspace at a minimal cost, we can sell it for 6 billion a month later! Or we can use myspace to participate in the growing online advertising industry."

Although he has been in charge of matters related to the British Sky TV station, James has always paid considerable attention to the American territory presided over by his father.

In 2005, the market share of online advertising in the United States is expected to be 17.5 billion. Either of the two plans mentioned by my father will be a choice that can bring considerable benefits to News Corporation.

However, all the prerequisites are to gain absolute decision-making power. But even if the other party talks openly, how can I win the negotiation hosted by myself this time at the minimum cost?

"We tend to hold the operating rights in our hands because we at News Corporation have absolute experience in the advertising field. Putting this experience into the operation of myspace will definitely allow myspace to maximize its value."

James Murdoch said without hesitation, "Although I respect you as the founder of myspace, we still choose to believe in ourselves. So, please make a real decision with your shareholder who has never appeared. Because we have nothing but

Apart from the acquisition amount, there are no other objections!”

"Please don't worry about this issue," Sachs said solemnly, "I have an agency agreement signed by our other shareholder, and I will be solely responsible for the sale!"

"3.1 billion, this is our bottom line." James Murdoch immediately stood up after hearing this, and he stepped closer to Sacks, "Since we can agree on how to use myspace's advantages, there is no need to

We are worried about this result."

Hearing the number from James Murdoch, Sachs raised the corner of his mouth slightly, because this number was one step closer to the consensus reached by him and Ning in advance. In this case, he had to draw a perfect end to the MySpace project today!

"3.2 billion, cash transaction, all funds can be completed within 3 months at most!" Sachs said decisively, "myspace must have a value worthy of its true worth!"

There was no sound in the conference room for a while. The room of about twenty people was so quiet that you could clearly hear the sound of a pin dropping on the ground.

But soon, James Murdoch rested his upper body on the conference table.

His eyes were fixed on David Sachs opposite.

It seems like a century has passed,

His frown relaxed.

"make a deal!"