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Zhou Buqi has a wide social circle. One of the important reasons is the binding of interests. He has Pluto Capital, and his investors are all wealthy upper-class American businessmen. Wexner, the big boss of Victoria's Secret, is one of them. one.

Not only that, Zhou Buqi often gives some gifts, all of which are bought from China, including some contemporary calligraphy works or traditional Chinese paintings, or a set of exquisite JDZ porcelain, or some jade ornaments...

In fact, they are all very cheap.

The cultural attributes are very strong and it is easy to fool foreigners.

As courtesy reciprocates, Zhou Buqi will also receive many gifts in return, some of which are very valuable. For example, a member of the Morgan family sent back a Ming Dynasty brush washer, and someone else sent back a painting of Bada Shanren. landscape painting.

Wexner, the boss of Victoria's Secret, is a secular person with a poor reputation in the industry. He often uses the opportunity to sign contracts with supermodels to lure them into engaging in intimate behaviors.

The entire Victoria's Secret company has this kind of atmosphere from top to bottom. Anyone who dares to report it will completely lose the chance of getting a Victoria's Secret show contract.

During the Spring Festival this year, Wexner gave a return gift, which was the Ocean Fantasy bra worn by Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr and displayed at the Victoria's Secret show in November last year. It was worth up to US$2.5 million.

However, none of the Zhou family were interested in this stuff.

Underwear encrusted with dense jewelry has no practicality. More importantly, this has been worn by others, no one wants it.

No one cares about second-hand goods worn by a model.

Just hang it up as an exhibit.

When Zhou Buqi first started, he was also very interested in models. He held several big parties for models. When there was a Victoria's Secret show, he would also go to watch it... and he would also take advantage of his identity to go there. Backstage, you can see the naked Victoria's Secret supermodels having their makeup artists apply powder, oil, and change into underwear.

However, after learning more about the inside story, I lost interest.

I haven’t paid much attention to the Victoria’s Secret show for many years.

The Evan Spiegel in front of him is only in his early twenties, and he is a good academic boy from an upper-class family. He is curious and impulsive in this regard, but has little knowledge.

Zhou Buqi could tell something from his state, and said with a smile: "Miranda Kerr? Want to get to know her?"

Spiegel took a deep breath and said, "Is that okay?"

Zhou Buqi said: "What's wrong with this? Any Victoria's Secret supermodel will do. If you are interested, wait until this year's Victoria's Secret show, and we can go and have a look."

Spiegel marveled: "Miranda is so fascinating!"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Do you like the ocean fantasy underwear she wore?"

"ah?"

Spiegel was stunned for a moment, hearing the meaning of the other party's words, and his excitement was palpable.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "If you like it, you can give it to you later. It's useless for me to keep it."

"thanks, thanks!"

Spiegel is so beautiful that snot bubbles are almost coming out of his nose.

That is the fantasy bra worn by Miranda Kerr in the big show. It is priceless and cannot be bought even if you want to buy it. It even has certain collectible properties.

If you can give this underwear to the other person as a gift, wouldn't the relationship be established?

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The two chatted in the office for 20 minutes. They didn't talk about anything serious at all. The topic was all about women. From Hollywood actresses to popular female singers, we talked about Victoria's Secret's world-famous models.

Although this Spiegel has picked up many girls, in front of Boss Zhou, he is just like a junior brother, who can be coaxed into being happy with just a few words.

It feels like a door to a new world has opened.

In another conference room, Yang Zhiyuan was leading people to discuss the details of the acquisition with the Snapchat team. Spiegel opened the door and walked in, announcing loudly: "No need to talk! Just implement the last plan." Got it!"

"ah?"

The conference room immediately fell silent.

Not to mention the people at Snapchat, even Yang Zhiyuan was stunned and didn't know what was going on.

Is this done?

No need to talk?

At this time, Yang Zhiyuan once again sighed deep in his heart, or he had made such great career achievements at such a young age and even acquired Yahoo.

I have been talking about it for almost two months, but there are still many details that have not been worked out, and there are several very critical nodes that I have never been able to break through.

This was Zhou Buqi's first time here, and it only took 20 minutes to get it done.

The matter is settled.

Purple Star International completed the acquisition of Snapchat for US$820 million. Among them, US$40 million in cash and US$780 million worth of stock, approximately 8 million shares.

When leaving, Yang Zhiyuan was still in a daze and couldn't believe it, "Is this done?"

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "A small company that has only been started for more than a year, with 20 employees, can be sold for a sky-high price of US$800 million. What else do you want? Once the money is in place, it's easy to talk about."

Yang Zhiyuan shook his head, "The point of disagreement is not money."

"Um?"

"They want to keep 20% of the shares, the two founders, each retain 10% of the shares and operate independently."

"Yeah?"

Zhou Buqi didn't care at all.

Yang Zhiyuan was very surprised, "You don't know?"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "These are all details, all small things."

It was difficult for Yang Zhiyuan to understand, "Is this still a small matter? Didn't you discuss it in the office?"

Zhou Buqi said frankly: "No discussion."

"How is it possible?" Yang Zhiyuan didn't believe it at all, "Then why did he agree?"

Zhou Buqi left by car with him. Go back to the company first, hold a meeting, inform the good news, and then prepare for the next handover.

Then, Zhou Buqi will go to Canada.

Ning Yaxian has already taken her secretaries all the way north to visit the west coast of Canada. They drove a luxury yacht and could enjoy the beauty of the west coast of North America.

It's midsummer now, and the cooler it gets the further north you go.

It just so happens that Shopify is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, also on the West Coast. Zhou Buqi planned to take a trip with Kurian to visit Shopify and persuade them to sell the company to Ziweixing International.

Then, he took the opportunity to meet Ning Yaxian and their secretarial gang.

Hearing Yang Zhiyuan's question, Zhou Buqi explained casually: "Spiegel is a rich second generation, born in the 1990s. He has the cool feeling of a young man, which is not conventional at all. That kind of entrepreneur. Start with emotion, not reason."

Yang Zhiyuan nodded, "So you adopted different negotiation strategies?"

Zhou Buqi coughed, "It's just like-minded people."

When Yang Zhiyuan heard what he said, he became in awe.

This was the first time the two met.

The conversation was only for 20 minutes, right?

Is this like-minded?

He is indeed a big boss, his social skills are really strong.

Zhou Buqi said: "If you want to win over this kind of person, formal negotiations in suits and ties will have little effect, and there is no point in throwing money at him. People have been short of money since they were young. The most important thing is to start with relationships."

Yang Zhiyuan was a little funny, "What's the relationship?"

Zhou Buqi said: "I gave him a gift worth millions of dollars. As soon as he was happy, he agreed."

"Ah?" Yang Zhiyuan was stunned, "That's it?"

"that is it."

Zhou Buqi gave the answer half-heartedly. For the benefit of the company, the big boss spends his own money to give gifts. The sense of responsibility of this big shareholder must be seen by the board of directors and let the small shareholders know.

In fact, it is also a common management routine that has been used by humans for thousands of years.

If you harvest 1,000 yuan from an ordinary person and return 100 yuan to him in the name of various preferential treatment, welfare, and relief, he will be grateful to Mount Dade and shout long live the mountain.

Yang Zhiyuan didn't believe it, "A gift of several million dollars can solve a case worth hundreds of millions of dollars?"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "It depends on the person. If Zuckerberg came forward and offered an estimated price of US$3 billion, Spiegel would not agree. If Google came forward and offered US$4 billion, it might not be able to close the deal. The first is Ziweixing. International business is more in line with Snapchat, and there is...the power of role models."

Yang Zhiyuan laughed, "Are you his role model?"

Zhou Buqi admitted openly, "Maybe, this damn charisma."