2008 was definitely a very important year that can be remembered by history, and many major events happened during this year.

For example, the global financial crisis, and then the first Summer Olympics held by the imperial capital, held by the Chinese, and the total number of gold medals won by the Chinese ranks first in this Olympics, surpassing the United States and becoming the world's number one gold medal power.

At the same time, the game industry has developed rapidly during this year. Because of the large number of games produced by Bomi Company, it has been able to reverse strongly in the overall economic downturn this year and become one of the companies with rapid development. Therefore, this year in the game industry is also called Bomi Year in 2008.

It is not only Bomi that can develop at the same time. Basically, Internet companies have not been affected by much financial crisis, but have developed well, becoming a safe haven for many capitals.

Bomi's share price has risen from HK$400 at the time of issuance to almost HK$600 now, with an increase of almost 50%, which is an amazing miracle.

The United States, including the entire Western countries, were relatively pessimistic at this time, because the financial crisis still left people unable to see the end, the stock market fell continuously, and even if it had already been flooded, there would be no improvement. Many investors even believed that this time the United States' stock market crash would last until at least 2010.

Only Boss Cao knows that the decline in the stock market will stop around next year, that is, around March 2009, and then a long period of strong reversal will be ushered in.

So during this period, he was anxious to buy some more valuable but currently has a relatively low stock price.

The only thing that makes Boss Cao feel more resentful is

Why is the stock price of Bomi Company not falling? He originally wanted to take advantage of this wave of financial crisis. If Bomi Company's stock price falls below the issue price, he can use the funds raised before to repurchase some of the stocks. This way, one sells and buys back is equivalent to making money for nothing, and at least earning billions of dollars in vain.

The growth rate of Bomi's stock price is really rapid, mainly because Bomi's performance this year is really good. Even if Bomi is squandering and spending all his money to develop other businesses, such as doing charity, investing in cloud computing and AI technology, establishing funds, buying, buying...

However, Bomi's revenue is also quite considerable, which leads to investors being confident about Bomi. More importantly, in the current global financial crisis, most capitalists do not know where to invest their money. Finally, there is such an extremely excellent company around the world. In addition, the operating conditions are extremely good, and hot money will naturally flow in.

According to the current growth momentum of Bomi Company's stock price, the entire market value may double again next year.

But that would be too terrifying. Now Bomi is a super giant company with a market value of 250 billion meters. If it doubles up, this kind of economic strength can make every country feel scared.

Fortunately, one of the very important shareholders of Bomi Company is the national fund. Otherwise, with such a huge size as Bomi Company, if it engages in monopoly, it will be split by the superiors.

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Overall, in 2008, corporate life in the whole world was not very easy, except for Internet companies.

Internet companies in China have more or less increased to varying degrees.

Even if the online game industry is baptized by the financial crisis, its impact will be extremely low. Whether in the long run or in the near future, the development of China's Internet, especially the digital entertainment industry, still has great potential. It can be admitted that the safe haven for the financial crisis is the online game industry.

During the global financial crisis, China's Internet will not be indifferent to the prospects of industries such as online games;

On the other hand, China's Internet advertising industry will not be affected too much, and will remain a gradual growth highlight, among which the search advertising field is still strong and optimistic.

The Internet has profoundly changed the lifestyle and communication methods of Chinese people. China has a large population and more and more people are online. No matter what environment it is, online advertising and marketing is still one of the ways most Chinese companies choose.

Including the rising online shopping, which has been driven by the financial crisis, it has given new consumption exports for many people who do not leave their homes and do not want to consume outside.

Therefore, Alibaba's market value has also increased significantly.

Alibaba's market value now has reached more than HK$180 billion, equivalent to 22.5 billion meters.

If Bomi had not existed, Alibaba's growth rate would definitely be recognized by the whole world. It is believed that this is a super-large company with great potential to grow into a giant in the future.

And in fact, this is true. In Boss Cao's mind, it will be a matter of time before Alibaba's market value exceeds one trillion yuan.

But now all the light has been suppressed by Bomi. It can no longer be said that he is the light of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life of the life

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So there is a reason why this year is called Bomi Nian. Some good reporters also interviewed Ma Yun because of this.

When Ma Yun was asked how she viewed the rapid growth of Bomi Company, her face was stiff.

I had known that I shouldn't have made that bet with them back then. Although it was just a joke at that time, I didn't expect that I had been hyped by the media for so many years. As the 5-year period was approaching, Alibaba showed no sign of catching up with Bomi Company. Instead, they were far behind, and the gap was getting bigger and bigger.

"That's right," Ma Yun replied lightly, "Bomie is undoubtedly a very great company. I admire Mr. Cao's vision and courage. It is really incredible to be able to do the company to such an environment.

But these are two things.

I still think that as an Internet company, competing with each other is actually a benign relationship, and I never mind others comparing our company to Bomi.

Because I am still optimistic about Alibaba, Alibaba has infinite potential.

Perhaps it will not be able to surpass Bomi Company within 5 years, but at least we know that Alibaba's current upward momentum is very strong.

My confidence in Alibaba has a solid foundation.

As we all know, we are an Internet trading platform, and all transactions are based on physical products, so it is equivalent to having a huge physical market behind us as a strong backing.

But I still maintain a skeptical attitude towards the virtual economy, mainly referring to how far a virtual product like a game can go in the future and how much value it produces.

So you can look at it a little longer. You should see that in 5 years, 10 years, and 20 years, since Alibaba is backed by a huge real economic system, we will surely continue to grow and grow with the continuous improvement of the country and the overall social productivity. This is unquestionable."

Although Alima did not directly name the money Bomi Company made now is false, it basically expressed this meaning.

Therefore, the smell of gunpowder is still very strong and has been widely reported by media reporters.

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Although Alima's mouth is very hard, her heart is anxious.

Why?

Because he has been working on mobile Alipay and QR code payment systems recently, but he has not obtained a payment license.

The main reason is that the above is not particularly at ease with Alibaba. The point that is not at ease is that Alibaba Ma is too close to foreign capital. Several of Alibaba's major shareholders are all foreign, such as Yahoo and SoftBank. The two large companies occupy more than 40% of Alibaba's equity. Even if there is a partner agreement, Ma Yun has the final say in the final decision-making power, but it is a hidden danger, which makes the above dare not give such an important payment license to Alipay.

So now Alima can only think of other ways to make a living.

In fact, it is also because it is too tightly forced by Bomi. Bomi is now developing a mobile payment APP through WeChat. It is a public secret in the industry.

Alima has a very sensitive sense of smell, and he knows deeply what it means once Bomi takes the lead in launching mobile payment function.

This means that even if it is one step later, even if it is about half a year later, the entire payment market will no longer belong to Alibaba.

What's more, the country is behind Bomi Company. In addition, Bomi Company has done everything well over the years and has no bad record. Instead, it has helped the country a lot, so their payment license is quite smooth.

So he has to deal with the payment of the license now.

In the afternoon, Ma Yun convened several important shareholder members of the company and everyone gathered together for a small meeting, in which he mentioned his affairs and ideas about paying for licenses.

"According to my current idea, I hope to split Alipay, otherwise it would be impossible to get a payment license under foreign-owned holdings."

In order to obtain a very important license as soon as possible, Ma Yun hopes to adjust the ownership of the online payment business "Alipay" and will acquire all the equity of Alipay by a Chinese company he mainly controls.

In fact, Ma Yun didn't need their opinions when she came to the meeting. Alima has always been an iron-fisted person, extremely centralized and extremely conceited person, so today's meeting is just a formality as a notice.

Although everyone was worried, they were embarrassed to mention it.

Only one of the Eighteen Arhats who started their business with Ma Yun at the beginning, and Sun Tongyu, who is also the main person in charge of Taobao, expressed his concerns, "If this is the case, you may be able to get a payment license, but how will Yahoo and SoftBank explain it?"

Sun Tongyu, his previous generation, was successfully persuaded by Ma Yun to leave Alibaba in 2008. There are many different things about Sun Tongyu's departure in the world. Some people say that Sun did too well on Taobao, so that Taobao employees listened to him, not Ma Yun's, and were suspected of having made great contributions and overthrow the master.

Others say that Sun and Ma are both people with a straightforward temper and strong personality. As the saying goes, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, and a company cannot have two strong decision makers. The constant conflict between Sun and Ma caused Alima to eventually kick Sun Tongyu out of the game. So when he received the news of the president's rotation, he burst into tears for a whole day.

However, Ma Yun’s own statement is that employing people should be adapted to local conditions. Sun’s design concept at that time could no longer guide Taobao to develop in a better and correct direction, so he naturally had to find a more suitable person to replace him. So it can only be said that Sun is very capable but did not keep up with the times.

The specific reason is unknown, but Sun was kicked out of the game.

In this life, one of the big reasons why Sun Tongyu has not been swept out by Alibaba is that there is still a strong competitor like Bomi outside Alibaba, and Alibaba is far from growing to a very terrifying level like in the previous life. Ma Yun still needs Sun Tongyu to help stabilize her position, especially now that Taobao is still on the rise and Alipay has not obtained a payment license on the mobile terminal.

Alibaba Ma pondered for a moment. In fact, he had thought about the issue that Sun Tongyu had just mentioned countless times. Alipay was taken out separately to get rid of SoftBank and Yahoo and become a completely Chinese company controlled by itself, which would naturally harm the interests of major shareholders such as SoftBank and Yahoo.

After all, Alipay itself has very market prospects. This thing is like firmly binding an important payment entrance to itself, and the market value it generates in the future will be at trillions.

SoftBank and Yahoo will not receive any benefits from it. It would be strange if they don’t rush to jump.

He had originally intended to put aside these companies, and it can be said that he was willing to do anything. The conclusion was that it had been decided long ago and now there is no doubt at all.

So when Sun threw this question out at the meeting, Alima frowned and felt a little unhappy.

However, his face was still kind and said seriously, "I will talk about Yahoo and SoftBank. You just need to prepare the relevant matters."

All right.

Everyone looked at each other and nodded. Since Big Brother Ma Yun said that, they had nothing to say.

After all, Ma Yun has the highest decision-making power in the entire Alibaba, and everyone knows that Alipay must be on the mobile terminal, otherwise it will lose a big market.

If you don’t eat this cake, you will naturally be eaten by others. From the perspective of their own development, they have to agree with Ma Yun’s proposal.

...

When I saw news about Alibaba Ma's views on Bomi Company or the future development of the Internet market, the young secretary was particularly angry.

"What, this Ma Yun is really like. We don't say that we'll be pessimistic about the battle every few days, but we'll also sing to blame us in the media, making it seem like we'll die sooner or later when we play games."

Ma Yun actually has one thing. There are many things he said that have certain reasons, so that he can intimidate people, especially the argument that the real economy is the lifeline of the country. No matter how you think, you cannot overturn him.

But if you follow his thinking, you will definitely be surrounded by him.

So although the young secretary is angry, it is just out of feelings and standpoints. If you think about it carefully, you really don’t know how to refute Ma Yun.

Fortunately, Boss Cao is relatively sober.

"This kind of thing is hard to say. The real economy is definitely the lifeblood. Food, clothing, housing and transportation are the foundation of people's lives. But whether the game will collapse and how it will develop in the future depends on whether you can contribute to the country and follow the above calls and it is easy to do anything."

Cao Yang smiled and said, "All economists understand the economy, but not necessarily understand politics. But in fact, putting aside politics, the economy is just empty talk."

"Tsk tsk."

Zhuang Yurou tsk her lips, everything you said.

However, when Boss Cao said this, she felt relieved. Now no one knows that Mr. Cao has a good relationship with the superiors and is particularly obedient to the country.

I think there should be no big problem.
To be continued...