"Since its establishment on November 11, 2000, Feigou.com started from scratch and quickly occupied the leading position in the domestic e-commerce market in just about one year, creating a development miracle for Internet companies..."
Meg Whitman was flipping through articles translated from Chinese to English. Words such as "entrepreneurship platform", "employment platform", "shopping platform" and "free platform" appeared frequently.
"Meg, these have just been translated."
As the vice president, Matt Bennett submitted the information to Feigou.com, some of which were picked from the Internet, some from newspapers, and some purchased from institutions.
"Compared to eBay, I think Feigou is more suitable to be our springboard to enter the Chinese market."
"But it's also more difficult to negotiate."
Meg Whitman put down the document and said quietly: "Shao commented on this Lu, saying that he is a very, very evil opponent, a genius, a king of ideas, bold, cunning, fierce, sometimes like a wolf, sometimes like a lion."
"That's because they are useless."
Matt Bennett sneered, "80% of the C2C market share was achieved in just one year, but 42% was lost because of Feigou.com. Shao and his senior team are incompetent and are no match for Lu."
"Matt, this is underestimating the enemy. We have only suffered losses in Neon. This time in the Chinese market, eBay cannot suffer losses again."
Meg Whitman looked serious, saying that China was a market that could not be lost because she went overseas and made countless promises to the snobbish capital on Wall Street.
Among them, there is eating the fat meat of China.
"If we can win Feigou.com, it will be easy to win the Chinese market. We will be able to return to Neon and win the Asian market."
Matt Bennett's words speak to Meg Whitman's heart. In the American workplace, strong women are a rare product. She needs only two words to secure her position as the head of a company with a market value of tens of billions of dollars -
Win, make money.
She did not accept failure and cast her greedy eyes on Feigou.com's data.
The number of registered users reached 900,000...the number of merchants settled in exceeded 100,000...the average daily sales exceeded 1.5 million...
"Matt, do you think this negotiation will go smoothly?"
"certainly."
Matt Bennett said with a smile: "Ebay's brand is invincible in China. Have you forgotten how Shao and his team flatter us?"
Meg Whitman stood up and walked to the window.
At this time, Yanjing was covered with dark clouds, violent sandstorms, and mist. The entire sky was a thick earthy red.
This sandstorm lasted for 5 days.
Yanyuan was also shrouded in yellow sand, but the Yanjing Youth Daily, Yanjing Evening News, Guangming Daily and other media gathered at the Zizi Hotel.
All of them wore masks and covered them tightly. Even if the strong wind blew over their heads and faces, and the pungent earthy smell would not leave them.
After a while, Lu Fei and Liu Erdong went downstairs, and two cars were vaguely visible in the dust, parked one behind the other at the door.
Meg Whitman, Matt Bennett, and a Chinese translator got out of the Audi A6 with "Jing A54188" on the back.
"Hello." Lu Fei stretched out his hand.
"You hao." Meg Whitman said in broken Chinese.
The moment the two shook hands, the reporter hurriedly pressed the shutter, and the flashlight flashed like stars.
Lu Fei made an invitation gesture and welcomed them to the 14th floor. The media wanted to follow, but they were all stopped by the security guards arranged by Kyoto University.
"I'm a reporter for the Beijing University newspaper, so why not?"
The male reporter curled his lips and said, "Why is this like this!"
…………
"Please take a seat."
Lu Fei invited people to his office, Tao Yao took notes, Xu Lei and Liu Edong were also there, Feigou.com had a king, a prime minister and a handsome man, facing the queen of eBay.com.
"I thought it was going to be a private meeting between you and me." Meg Whitman said in surprise.
"They are all my most trusted right-hand men. If I let them out, it would be an insult to them."
Lu Fei walked to the coffee table and asked, "Coffee, tea, or water?"
"Hot water, thank you."
Meg Whitman sat down and looked at the layout of the room, trying to find clues to his personality in the decoration.
"It's just that I'm quite straightforward and will say whatever I need."
"I am an honest person and I like to speak openly." Lu Fei handed over the hot water with his own hands.
"Wow, let's get straight to the point."
Meg Whitman was not in a hurry to mention investment. Instead, she talked about the future prospects of China’s e-commerce market, and decisively speculated that it would grow to a large market of US$16 billion in four to five years.
Lu Fei raised his eyebrows. His intuition was accurate, but he still greatly underestimated the Chinese market.
Meg Whitman babbled for a while, and the picture appeared.
"EBay wants to find a strategic partner in China, and the first choice partner is you, Lu."
"But wasn't it Shao Yibo who you were looking for first?" Lu Fei transformed into a bully spirit and started to bully him.
Xu Lei and Liu Edong couldn't help but snicker when they saw their embarrassed faces.
"Our plane lands in Shanghai, it's just nearby." Matt Bennett explained.
Lu Fei didn't stop chasing him, "Well, how can we cooperate like you did with eBay?"
"yes!"
Meg Whitman clapped her hands, "Ebay hopes to invest in Feigou. Let's join forces to expand this market with endless potential. -->>
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And jointly build a global trading market."
"Buy shares?"
Lu Fei had already expected this and said "Sao Rui", "Feigou.com only received its second round of financing in July, and we are not in a hurry to proceed with the third round immediately."
When Meg Whitman made the offer, she thought they would be pleasantly surprised. After all, it had only been two or three months and the valuation had increased by a full $100 million. She didn't expect to be rejected.
"That's it?" Lu Fei said.
"$50 million is not enough?"
Meg Whitman was shocked. She wanted a 35% stake in eBay for only $30 million.
"Lu, how much do you want?"
"I don't want it at all." Lu Fei waved his hand.
Many Internet companies overdraw all their capital in the early stages of starting a business and over-finance in the early stage. When the product is in the right time, place, and right, and the potential truly explodes, they are unable to continue.
It was only 2001, and the trillion-dollar e-commerce market had just revealed the tip of the iceberg.
If you want to get 20% of 50 million, why don’t you go to heaven!
"Money comes second."
Matt Bennett said: "Feigou will also get eBay's brand, traffic, resources, technology, as well as modern management systems and talents..."
"We don't need these anymore." Lu Fei decisively refused.
Matt Bennett was confused. This is what Shao Yibo and eBay dream of, but they don’t want it?
Matt Bennett said arrogantly: "Are you sure you don't need it? Huh, we eBay now have..."
"There are 3.5 million registered users, and a total of 2.35 million products have been sold..."
Lu Fei recited the data from eBay. The numbers were accurate, even to the decimal point.
"One year after our establishment, we will be one-quarter of yours. Give me three or four years, and maybe we can tie it. Give me five years, and maybe we can surpass it."
Meg Whitman shook her head and said, "I don't believe it." "Don't you want Feigou.com to go international? eBay can help?"
“Will you give up overseas markets to Feigou?”
Lu Fei's words made them speechless, and then he said "sorry" again and sneered: "Sorry, I'm just straightforward, I will say whatever I have to say."
These are obviously my words!
Meg Whitman smiled softly but said nothing happened.
"Of course you won't let it."
Lu Fei sneered, "Just like Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola said nicely that acquiring our soda brand would help us develop, but as a result, the Arctic Ocean that I love to drink has been cut back on production, and Coke has been left to develop its brand in the Chinese market."
In the previous life, eBay acquired eBay and Amazon acquired Joyo. At first, they pretended to only acquire Yidiandian, and then exposed their ambitions and acquired them all, using eBay and Joyo as their bridgeheads in China.
Intention revealed!
Meg Whitman was startled, but she remained stubborn and denied, "I'm not, I didn't, how could you accuse us of innocence out of thin air, we Yibei came here with sincerity."
"This is not candid enough. If a dove occupies the magpie's nest, then the dove occupies the magpie's nest."
After Lu Fei finished speaking, the translator was stunned and opened his mouth without daring to speak. He was immediately stared at by the two superiors.
"What did he say, translate." Matt Bennett said.
"Translate, translate, what does 'dove occupying the magpie's nest' mean?" Lu Fei said.
The translator swallowed his saliva and stopped talking.
Lu Fei's expression remained unchanged, "Tao Yao, translate for them, what the hell is it called 'dove occupying the magpie's nest'?"
"Mr. Lu, do you want to turn over the 'terrible land'?" Tao Yao wondered.
Lu Fei almost spit out his tea, "Of course not, China is a country of etiquette and civilization."
Tao Yao thought about it, extended it with "Trojan horse" and translated it.
"Aren't you afraid of pushing us to eBay's side?"
Meg Whitman's face changed, "With eBay's support, it will be a matter of time before it surpasses Feishou."
"In Asia, you can lose in Neon, but in China you still want to win?"
Lu Fei calmly took a sip of tea and poured it again.
………
"Aren't you down yet?"
At the entrance of Ziyuan Hotel, the media were reluctant to leave, and the crowd was crowded. Suddenly, a voice broke out from the crowd:
"Come out, come out."
The reporters looked away and whispered among themselves.
"Wow, they all have a straight face. They don't even look good."
"I guess the negotiations have collapsed."
"What exactly did they talk about? About investment cooperation..."
Everyone was talking about it, but they still didn't forget to take pictures, and there was a constant clicking sound. Some were taking pictures of Lu Fei and his group, and some were taking pictures of Meg Whitman and his group.
The wind was strong and the dust was hazy.
Meg Whitman screamed and missed her footing while going down the stairs. She suddenly lost her balance and fell forward.
"Falled, fell."
"Damn it, the negotiations are so fierce."
Reporters smelled the hot headlines and swarmed over them.
Liu Edong clicked his tongue in surprise, "Accident?"
"Only God and herself know."
Lu Fei curled his lips, "What we have to do is to make her and Yi Bei stumble in China."
