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Until around 11 o'clock in the morning, Changyou's rising stock price began to fluctuate. When Zhou Buqi left, the stock price still rose by as much as 15.3%.

Two consecutive pieces of good news gave the market an opportunity to make money.

This made Zhou Buqi feel somewhat elated.

The shadow of a famous tree.

Changyou is about to hold a shareholders' meeting, and the outside world generally analyzes that Mr. Zhou Buqi will become the new chairman of the board of directors of Changyou... Then, the market gave very positive feedback.

This illustrates Boss Zhou’s current industry status and influence.

I left the company and headed to Sand Hill Road.

In the car, Zhou Buqi sat in the back seat, with Ning Yaxian on the left and Ning Lu on the right. Guan Nanqing, the new secretary, could only sit in the front passenger seat.

Hearing the big boss in the back row say that Sand Hill Road is the "Wall Street" of Silicon Valley, Guan Nanqing was very curious and turned her head. She immediately blushed and turned around quickly.

I saw the big boss in the back row, hugging him from side to side, putting his arms on the shoulders of Ning Yaxian and Ning Lu, and reaching down unceremoniously.

The two of them were still smiling, and they looked sweet to each other.

After all, Changyou's stock price has soared, which is a commendable happy event. It reflects the recognition of the biggest boss in the capital market.

Ning Yaxian now focuses more on her children. The eldest daughter Zhou Xin is 7 years old this year and is in elementary school.

The younger daughter Ning Ning still has to take care of her.

Moreover, her sister Ning Yameng has been working outside for a long time, and her son Zhouzhou has also been entrusted to her to take care of, so she has not paid much attention to things in the company recently.

There is nothing we can do about it.

Working women seem to be able to take care of each other when it comes to having children, but in fact, they often choose one or the other. Zhou Buqi suggested that she leave the child to a nanny, but she was not reassured.

Ning Yaxian had met Guan Nanqing before. When she saw her turning her head shyly, she asked with a smile: "Qingqing, what do you think of our boss?"

Guan Nanqing said sincerely: "It's amazing. He is a big shot at the top of the pyramid. He even took me to meet Steve Jobs yesterday."

Ning Yaxian asked abruptly: "Have you ever been with someone?"

"Ah?" Guan Nanqing was slightly startled, feeling that this topic was a bit private and a bit embarrassing, "No... no."

Ning Yaxian smiled and said, "You are so beautiful, but no male classmates chase you in school?"

Guan Nanqing said softly: "Yes, but I don't want to talk about it. I haven't considered these things."

Ning Yaxian looked like she had come before, "Do you think the male classmates in school are all boys and not worthy of you?"

Guan Nanqing shook her head and said nothing more.

Ning Yaxian chuckled and said, "What do you think of our big boss?"

"ah?"

Guan Nanqing suddenly became flustered.

Ning Yaxian then asked more directly, "How nice our boss is. He is also young, handsome, talented and rich. Do you want to be friends with our boss?"

"me……"

Guan Nanqing was speechless.

She is a big girl, how do you say this?

She raised her head and glanced at the rearview mirror in the car, and found that the big boss in the back row had his two secretaries, Ning Yaxian and Ning Lu, on his left and right sides. His face was smiling, calm and calm.

Ning Lu chuckled and said, "If you want me to tell you, just make a decision quickly. If you just go back to China, won't the little goblins in the office laugh at you to death?"

"Yes!"

Guan Nanqing suddenly thought of this.

In their envious and jealous eyes, I went on a business trip abroad, but returned home unchanged... I don't know what kind of criticism I will receive from the little sisters.

Look at how good Mai Feixue is.

Look at Yan Qiqi, who accompanied her boss on a business trip south and then ran back in a daze.

The contrast is obvious.

Stealing other people's opportunities and seizing them firmly, that's all. Taking someone else's opportunity and then squandering it will easily make those who didn't get the opportunity angry.

At this time, Zhou Buqi spoke, simply and neatly, "That's it, I'll take some time in the past few days to collect and use it when it's time to finish it and recover as soon as possible. Is it okay for you physically? Don't run into relatives or anything. of."

Guan Nanqing said in a very low voice: "It's convenient, I...I have to wait until the end of the month to visit my relatives."

"Then it's settled."

"Um."

…

Sand Hill Road is a VC street. Venture capital institutions in Silicon Valley basically have offices or institutions here. Including the Zhou family's family fund managed by Senior Sister Zhen Yu.

The family fund has a subsidiary venture capital fund called ZZY. There is a small office here with a total of three employees, one man and two women. They usually look for high-quality investment projects.

Zhou Buqi came here, and it was obvious that during lunch, he was going to discuss an investment-related deal.

The other party is Jack Dorsey, the current CEO of Twitter, who has been in contact for a long time.

Google wants to acquire Twitter, but it doesn’t want Dorsey to leave and wants to maintain the stability of Twitter’s existing framework. After Google has fully mastered Twitter's business, it will gradually use Google's direct team to take over Twitter to avoid management turmoil caused by the transaction.

It's not easy to do this.

A very important obstacle is Zhou Buqi.

In the past few years, Zhou Buqi and Dorsey have often had disagreements over Twitter's business, and they have used the power of major shareholders in the board of directors to put a lot of constraints on Dorsey in his work.

One of the most typical examples is that Dorsey wanted to promote Twitter to the Korean and Japanese markets, but was rejected several times by Boss Zhou.

Later, when he had no other choice, Dorsey decided to cut the deal first and do it later, without going through the board of directors, so he started the matter quietly.

Secretly, offices were built in South Korea and Japan, and employees were recruited.

After Zhou Buqi heard about it, he became very dissatisfied and put great pressure on Duoxi. Later, they had no choice but to take a step back. Twitter kept its offices in South Korea, but was forced to close its offices in Japan.

This allowed YikYak to completely dominate the Japanese market.

However, there are no enemies in business competition.

This kind of contradiction is about the problem and not the person.

In addition, this time it was Boss Zhou who took the initiative to invite Duoxi out for dinner, giving him enough face and promising to give him a large sum of money... There were some minor conflicts, so he gave up when it was time to give up.

Seeing Dorsey again, Zhou Buqi felt that this kid was much more mature and looked like a successful person in Silicon Valley.

When it comes to continuing to serve as Twitter CEO, Dorsey has no problem.

The treatment and promises provided by Google are quite good.

Next, let’s talk about another entrepreneurial project.

Because Zhou Buqi restricted Dorsey at every turn when he was the CEO of Twitter, which made him very angry and dissatisfied. So during this period, he founded another Internet financial company, Square.

On the contrary, a bad thing turns into a good thing.

Give Dorsey another career.

This company has New York as its business branch. It is currently mainly engaged in online transfers, online payments, and online wallets. It is the best-performing startup company in the Internet finance field in the New York area.

Online payment must be the general trend in the future.

This thing is much easier to use than a credit card.

However, there are too many foreign payment platforms, and competition with each other is very fierce. There is no situation where a few products can monopolize the market.

PayPal and Square are doing relatively well, but their market share is only about 20%.

Helo wants to add a fast online payment service in overseas markets. It will be difficult to popularize it in the market just by building it on its own. There are too many products of this type, and users from different countries and classes have different usage habits.

Therefore, Helo cannot be like WeChat in China.

To use WeChat, all you need is WeChat Pay.

To promote Helo overseas, you must adapt to the diversified market background of foreign markets. It is best to provide a payment platform, which can include Helo's own Helo payment, or many third parties such as PayPal and Square. Payment instrument.

Give users more choices.

Just like Amazon.

When shopping on Amazon, you can use Amazon's own payment tools or hundreds of other third-party payment tools to meet the different payment needs of each user.

In this field, overseas markets are much more complex than domestic ones.

Investing in Square is a very good opportunity.

Even Zhou Buqi has planned it. When eBay spins off PayPal in the future, he must look for opportunities to invest in PayPal and follow up.

With the shareholding relationship, strategic cooperation can be further reached, and the two payment giants PayPal and Square can become self-operated tools in the Helo payment platform.

This business will be more stable and more secure.

Jack Dorsey was indeed much more mature and said with a smile: "Elon also specifically told me that I can put aside my differences and cooperate with you boldly."

"Elon?" Zhou Buqi raised his eyebrows, "Elon Musk?"

Dorsey said: "Yes, that's him. He said there is a deep cooperation between you."

Zhou Buqi nodded with satisfaction, "Yes, the cooperation is very close."

Dorsey said sincerely: "In fact, as early as June, Square's Series C financing was basically negotiated. Kleiner Perkins Caufield \u0026 Byers led the investment, and the investment scale reached US$100 million. However, at that time, Google had already launched the promotion The special acquisition case may be related to Square’s financing, so I have temporarily shelved the C round.”

Zhou Buqi was even happier.

It seems that Larry Page is still very good. He may have seen Dorsey countless times in private, and he has already broken through his level. Well, Musk also helped a lot.

It seems that in retrospect, we can continue to increase our holdings of Tesla shares to show respect for him.

Zhou Buqi asked: "How much does Square cost?"

Dorsey said: "I hope to get 150 million U.S. dollars and dilute 15% of the shares. Well, I will give you a share of 100 million U.S. dollars at most. No way, I have many other institutions to account for."

That’s a valuation of $1 billion.

no problem!

Zhou Buqi was short of time and had a heavy task. He really couldn't bargain with Duo Xi over such trivial matters. The other party's sincerity is already great, and he can't be too shabby.

I agreed immediately.

However, he still strived for a little more.

In addition to Ziweixing International investing US$100 million as a strategic investment in Square, obtaining a 10% stake. The venture capital fund under the family foundation managed by Senior Sister Zhen Yu will also invest US$5 million for a 0.5% stake.

It was an instant hit.

Everyone is happy.