After he confirmed that he was about to raise funds, Google COO Danielle Kenning immediately released the news, telling others that Yahoo was trying to acquire Google for US$1.2 billion.
This can be regarded as a warm-up for Google's financing. A minimum price will be determined first. When representatives from venture capital institutions actually start to contact them, the offer will only be higher than US$1.2 billion.
Larry Page and others can all see that Yang Zhiyuan and others have begun to fear Google's performance and are trying to kill it.
How could those venture capital managers who rely on their eyesight not realize the key to this?
Su Yehao had a hunch that Google's financing should be more lively in the future, so after receiving a report call from Danielle Kenning, he took the initiative to contact Lin Youfeng, Vice President of KOKO Venture Capital's Silicon Valley office, and asked him to arrive on time
Help assist Google.
Financing is risky, so I warned in advance not to agree to any gambling agreement, and at the same time announced a trial price of US$2 billion, which would help eliminate institutions with insufficient strength...
at the same time.
Yang Zhiyuan and Hirosue Mamoru, the senior vice president of Japan's SoftBank Group, finished their Texas Hold'em poker game and went to have lunch together.
Today's card game was originally prepared for Su Yehao. He left early and the group soon dispersed.
Hirosue Mamoru is only 34 years old this year. He studied at the University of Tokyo and later studied at the Yale School of Management. He is an old employee who joined SoftBank when it was first established. Now he has become Son’s right-hand man, staying in the United States all year round to take charge of the business.
Take care of business.
At this moment.
Hirosue Mamoru asked in English:
"Jerry, do you think the boss of Google will sell the shares to us? I have been using Google's search engine recently, trying to know myself and the enemy. I must admit that it has begun to surpass Yahoo in terms of user experience and search accuracy.
The scary thing is that it has an algorithm, and as the number of users increases, the search results will become more and more accurate."
"...If you ask me, I don't know, but if I make more than ten times the profit in half a year, I will probably sell it. The problem is that Su Yehao is very rich, and he has been in an environment where there is no shortage of money since he was a child.
When I grow up, and considering the prospects of the market, I’d say it’s probably a 50-50 split between agreeing and not agreeing.”
Google has shown plenty of potential, but after all, its user base is only about one-eighth of Yahoo. Yang Zhiyuan has made a lot of money in the past two years, and his mentality has become more Buddhist. At this moment, Dan Ding said:
"Just two years ago, I was still thinking about providing the best service to users. Later, I had to consider the interests of shareholders and the evaluation of institutions and media, so I could only continue to increase advertising efforts. At that time, Yahoo's usage evaluation was not good.
Very good, they are just repeating the same path. Even if the acquisition fails, trying to attract more new users to join us can still ensure our significant lead. Regardless of reserve funds, total revenue or profits, Yahoo will crush them in all aspects.
Google."
After hearing this, Hirosue Mamoru nodded and said with a smile:
"Nietzsche said that if you fight with the dragon for too long, you will become a dragon yourself. If you stare into the abyss for too long, the abyss will stare back. The prince of the Hong Kong business community has seen how Yahoo makes money, and their financial pressure should have been over.
Once you start trying to increase revenue, the core advantage of simple pages will disappear. For example, his emoji group is also looking for ways to increase advertising."
"Well, that's the truth..."
They thought Su Yehao needed to think about it for a while and wanted to wait patiently for news.
After chatting with Yang Zhiyuan, SoftBank's Senior Vice President Hirosue Mamoru returned to the office and sent Son Masayoshi an email. There was a time difference between the two places, and the matter was not important enough to disturb the boss's rest.
The market for high-tech companies in Silicon Valley has been very good in the past two years. Su Yehao is not the only one who has made money from it. Japan's SoftBank has relied on bringing generous returns to investors. During this period, it has raised a large amount of funds through private equity.
The focus on Google this time was actually led by Mamoru Hirosue, who introduced it to Masayoshi Son at the beginning of this year. However, they met Su Yehao, who was not short of money, and they never found opportunities to raise capital and participate in shares.
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Regarding Google's next development plan, Su Yehao probably has an idea.
He put the matter aside for now and went home to work on documents in his study. There was a golden nanmu box with four seals in it.
The seal was given by Mr. Tang.
The materials are Tianhuang, Soapstone, Imperial Green Jade, and Hotan Jade.
The seals at the bottom are "Su Yehao's seal", "Be prepared for danger in times of peace", "A thousand pieces of gold is not easy", "Contented and always happy, the best is like water". The last three are more like seals of proverbs, which belong to the teachings from my grandfather.
I still remember that my mother helped my grandfather buy an ancestral seal two years ago. This is an old tradition.
It can be imagined that what Su Yehao uses the most is of course the Tianhuang seal with his name engraved on it.
The color of Longquan inkpad made of lotus root silk is very pleasing. After signing some important documents, stamping the seal at the same time not only looks formal, but also has anti-counterfeiting function.
After finishing the business, turn on the computer, reply to messages from Xiaonizi and the others, and then try out the new game developed by the company.
Valve Games, the company that developed "Half-Life", released the "Half-Life: Brawl" game disc two months ago, and now its sales have officially exceeded 500,000. The company is now applying for US$10 million in funding.
Used to develop a new generation of game engines.
Although Su Yehao didn't know what a game engine was at all, it didn't stop him from feeling that Valve Game Company's new game was better than before, so he quickly approved the company's management's application and sent an email to the assistant office to inform him.
call.
Stay at home until evening.
Lin Youfeng, the vice president of KOKO Venture Capital, called to tell him that the plan was ready and that some data needed to be discussed with Su Yehao.
So we went out again and met at a Western restaurant, and Yin Liuli went with us.
The so-called data refers to nothing more than how many integrated chips are purchased from Qualcomm, how many mobile phones are promised to be produced in how long, etc.
[To be honest, I have been using Yeguo to read and catch up on books recently. I can switch sources and read aloud with many sounds. www. Android and Apple are available.]
According to Qualcomm's regulations, in addition to obtaining the development authorization for CDMA mobile phones in the production process, you must also pay an intellectual property transfer authorization fee equivalent to 2.5% of the selling price, an authorization fee for upgrading the chip software, and a mobile phone that is forced to use a CDMA network.
Can buy Qualcomm chips.
It seems that in this era, there is no full network access, and there is a competitive relationship between CDMA and GSM.
to be honest.
Qualcomm is a robber, buying and selling by force based on the patents it holds.
Unfortunately, even though he knew this, Su Yehao still couldn't get around it. He wanted to seize the opportunity to accumulate some experience in producing mobile phones, and then slowly consider breaking out of Qualcomm's framework restrictions.
He decided to promise to produce 20 million mobile phones within five years, and the total purchase from Qualcomm would not be less than one billion US dollars.
The premise is to reduce the acquisition price to US$100 million...