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This was an unexpected surprise.

No wonder Senior Sister Zhen Yu strongly called on him to suspend his vacation and come to the United States. It turned out that there was such a good thing!

The Los Angeles Dodgers are unsuccessful, but the San Francisco Giants have a chance!

If he had a choice, Zhou Buqi would of course choose the San Francisco Giants. After all, Ziweixing's core territory is the Greater Bay Area surrounding Silicon Valley.

Prior to this, he had already deployed the San Jose Earthquakes and Golden State Warriors. If he bought another baseball team, it would be even more valuable, and the sports industry in the Bay Area would be spread.

The acquisition of the Los Angeles Dodgers is more of a financial investment, focusing on asset preservation. Winning the San Francisco Giants, in addition to financial gains, also has important strategic significance for Zhou Buqi's business expansion in the United States.

Good thing!

What a good thing!

Zhou Buqi was very happy, "This Joe Lacob is really a big shot, and his level is extraordinary. I really don't know how he managed to get in the middle, and he has made great contributions. It seems that I can take care of him more when I make investments in the future." , this person can handle it."

Zhen Yu pursed her lips and said: "The fundamental reason is still you. The Greater Bay Area is different from Los Angeles. The entire Greater Bay Area is dominated by the technology industry. You are a leader in the technology industry, with strong appeal and great influence. Everyone wants to get to know you and be friends with you. Things are a bit worse here in Los Angeles. The Hollywood film and television industry has some influence, but it cannot dominate Los Angeles."

Zhou Buqi deeply agreed, "It is true that a big city like San Francisco must do business around Silicon Valley technology companies. This is the general trend of the market. Whoever can seize the lead of Silicon Valley technology giants will be able to succeed in business." There’s a place in the territory.”

Zhen Yu nodded lightly, "Well, the home stadium of the San Francisco Giants is called Oracle Arena."

"Oracle Bones again?"

Zhou Buqi is a little funny.

What a coincidence.

The home stadium of the Golden State Warriors (San Francisco Warriors) is sponsored by Oracle and is called Oracle Arena; the home stadium of the San Francisco Giants is also sponsored by Oracle and is called Oracle Arena.

It can be said that technology companies in Silicon Valley have spread to every corner of all walks of life in the Greater Bay Area.

Zhen Yu said: "However, this is not the main reason why I asked you to come to the United States. It has nothing to do with sports."

"Um?"

"It's Boss Ma."

"Boss Ma?" Zhou Buqi was a little curious, "What are you doing? He came to the United States again?"

Zhen Yu chuckled and said: "Yes, there is also Masayoshi Son. Don't forget, I am now an independent director of SoftBank. Alibaba and SoftBank are planning a big thing!"

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Early the next morning, Zhou Buqi set off, accompanied by Ning Yaxian, and Zhen Yu also boarded his plane to go to Silicon Valley together.

Gu Zanli and Yao Yao, two new secretaries, went abroad for the first time and came to Los Angeles. They were full of curiosity and yearning for Hollywood. Zhou Buqi asked Ning Lu to take them and arranged for two more from the security office at home. Accompanied by an uncle, we traveled around Los Angeles. After the fun is over, we will take Zhen Yu’s plane to San Francisco.

This arrangement made the young Gu Zanli and Yao Yao really moved and psychedelic.

It doesn't feel real.

The big boss actually arranged a private jet for the two of them!

Zhou Buqi didn't care much about this trivial matter. He called Boss Ma and asked. Just like Senior Sister Zhen Yu said, this is really a big deal. This vacation almost caused him to miss a big deal that could really shake up the entire technology industry.

If this thing is done, it will be much more shocking than Google spending 20 billion US dollars to acquire Twitter!

During the trough period of the industry, major giants are trying to find ways to pick up the slack.

Unexpectedly, Ali also jumped out!

When he arrived at the place, Zhou Buqi went straight to Sun Zhengyi's home. Then, I saw Boss Ma and Son Zhengyi, who were smiling with squinted eyes. From a distance, they looked like a couple.

Zhou Buqi briefly shook hands with them and exchanged greetings, and then went straight to the topic, "What's going on? You didn't even notify me of such a big matter?"

Son Zhengyi is more polite. After all, the countries are different and they are not too close.

Boss Ma is different, he is more direct, "Does this still need a notice? This has been spreading like wildfire for two months."

In October this year, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was fired by the board of directors, which was a very embarrassing thing for Yahoo.

In 2008, Yahoo's performance declined significantly and it was almost acquired by Microsoft. However, Yahoo's board of directors persisted, believing that Microsoft's $44.6 billion offer was too low and was not in the interests of shareholders.

So Yahoo didn't sell it. Instead, it paid a lot of money to hire Carol Bartz, the well-known "Iron Lady" and CEO of Autodesk, to serve as Yahoo's CEO, and gave him the highest salary in the world - 47.2 million. Dollar.

In the past two years, Yahoo's performance has not rebounded, but has become worse and worse. At one time, its market value was only US$16 billion.

The board of directors couldn't bear it anymore and had no choice but to fire her.

It didn't matter that the dismissal immediately caused a shock in the market.

If even Carol Bartz can't save Yahoo, who can?

Therefore, many private equity funds are operating and want to buy Yahoo at the bottom. Even Larry Page told Zhou Buqi about this, saying that Google originally wanted to enter the market because Google could solve Yahoo’s advertising revenue problem and convert the growing online advertising in network and mobile channels into actual income.

But Google is too busy.

There are too many big cases being worked on this year, and the top priority is to eat up Twitter quickly without being distracted.

Zhou Buqi knew that a group of capital wolves were interested in Yahoo, which was seriously underestimated by the market, and wanted to take advantage of the situation to buy the bottom. However, he remained unmoved and did not care much.

Foresight played a role. He knew that neither the hedge funds nor Microsoft and Google, which had long coveted Yahoo, had swallowed Yahoo.

So I didn't waste any energy on this matter.

Unexpectedly, Ali actually participated.

This is different.

Zhou Buqi said: "It's been spreading for several months. They like to spread the word. Who knew you would take action? You want to take action in the United States without notifying me?"

He spoke in Chinese, so there was no evasion, and Son was by his side.

Boss Ma also talked about Chinese, and said with a little shame: "I don't think this matter has much to do with Ziweixing, I'm afraid you won't be interested."

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "Are you interested? If you ask, can I help you?"

Boss Ma said jokingly: "What if you, Boss Zhou, are too arrogant?"

Zhou Buqi hummed: "I was on vacation in Australia. I heard about you, so I flew here specially. Lao Ma, you need help, and then I took the initiative to come all the way here. Who is the bigger one?"

"Yes, yes, I'm sorry, I should have informed you in advance."

Boss Ma clasped his hands together like a monk saluting.

This is indeed human nature.

Among the domestic technology companies, Boss Zhou is the one who has developed well in Silicon Valley, and Ziweixing International has already gained the momentum of an IT giant in overseas markets.

In this case, if a domestic IT colleague wants to go abroad to do something big, he should always inform him, and maybe he can get some help.

If ordinary people heard Zhou Buqi's words, they might be deeply moved.

But Boss Ma is different.

He had already seen through this boy.

help?

snort!

This kid can't afford to be too early if he has no profit!

If you came all this way here just to help, you would be lying to yourself! It's just that he also likes Yahoo!

Taking advantage of the fact that Yahoo is now at its lowest point, I want to join forces with Alibaba and SoftBank to bite some pieces of meat from the lion of Yahoo!

If it works well, it might be able to swallow the lion.

In front of Sun Zhengyi, the two of them kept communicating in Chinese, which was not very polite. Zhou Buqi switched to English and asked: "What's going on? What's your plan?"

Son Zhengyi said: "There are mainly three parts."

"What three parts?"

Zhou Buqi actually knew that Zhen Yu was an independent director of SoftBank, and her private jet was provided by SoftBank. He had already told him the inside story last night.

It is precisely because of knowing these inside stories that Boss Zhou attaches great importance to this and wants to get involved.

Son was very patient and said calmly: "Yahoo's core assets are mainly divided into three parts. First, it holds 40% of Alibaba's shares; second, it holds 35% of Yahoo Japan's shares; third, The business assets of Yahoo headquarters. For these three parts, the three parties will cooperate to receive them. Alibaba will take back 40% of the shares, SoftBank will take back 35% of Yahoo Japan's shares, and there will be two private equity institutions, Blackstone Group and Shelley. En Capital, they will buy the main business of Yahoo headquarters."

Zhou Buqi nodded thoughtfully, "It's just a three-party cooperation, Alibaba, SoftBank, and private equity capital represented by Blackstone and Bain. Everyone gets what they need."

Son Zhengyi smiled and said, "Yes."

Zhou Buqi glanced at Boss Ma and said, "Alibaba's stock price in Hong Kong has dropped like that. Do you have the strength to repurchase the 40% of the shares?"

Boss Ma said confidently: "Money is not an issue."

Zhou Buqi smiled half-heartedly, "Aren't you going to tell the truth?"

There must be no problem with SoftBank.

Yahoo Japan was originally an Internet company established by SoftBank. Because it used the "Yahoo" brand, Yahoo was the second largest shareholder.

Now that Yahoo is critically ill, SoftBank has enough strength to take back the 35% stake held by Yahoo.

Where did Ali get the money?

At present, the domestic e-commerce market has not yet taken off in full swing, and Taobao can only make a small amount of money.

Zhou Buqi had heard about this before.

At the end of September this year, Alibaba Group completed a round of financing, diluting 5% of its shares and receiving US$1.6 billion from Silver Tiger Capital, DST Capital, Yunfeng Fund and Temasek Capital.

One of the purposes of obtaining this money is to complete the delisting of Alibaba’s B2B business in Hong Kong, and this money will be used to buy back shares.

It can also be seen from this transaction that the current valuation of Alibaba Group is approximately US$32 billion, and it has also fallen deeply into a trough. Just like the stock price in Hong Kong, it continues to fall, making people unable to see anything. hope.

Alibaba cannot afford so much money to repurchase the shares held by Yahoo.

Zhou Buqi felt that since they were all compatriots and friends, it was natural for them to help.