After arriving in Seattle, what Li Qing didn't expect was that the bookstore at the airport was actually covered with banners announcing the release of "Harry Potter: The Philosopher's Stone".
Many teenagers are stopping in the bookstore to read "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", and there are many of them.
It can be seen that after "Harry Potter" was launched nationwide in the Barnes & Noble bookstore chain yesterday, the magical power of "Harry Potter" has begun to attract more and more readers step by step.
After Li Qing and others got off the plane, they appeared directly at the airport entrance and exit openly. At this time, they did not suffer from the tracking and congestion of fans like they did in China.
The entire airport hall was crowded with people. Although there were many Asian girls staring at Li Qing with interest, they were obviously very interested in Li Qing's appearance, but no one knew that he was from China.
Artists, no one came forward to cheer or scream.
Everything seemed ordinary.
Obviously, Li Qing's popularity has not diminished even a little bit after going abroad, and it is not a specific circle. Even if someone has heard of Li Qing's name, it is difficult for anyone to see Li Qing's true face.
"There."
After Liu Qin glanced at the crowd picking up the airport, he walked towards one of the nameplates with two Chinese characters for "Li Qing" written on it.
The name tag was held by two white men. One of them was handsome, tall, and in his thirties. Except for his hair being a little sparse, he could almost be regarded as a contemporary star.
Liu Qin checked the other party's information, walked up to him and asked in English: "Hi, Bezos?"
"Yes, I'm Bezos."
Bezos stared at the Chinese beauty in front of him in surprise, "Are you Miss Liu? Wow, I'm glad to meet you. You are much more beautiful than I imagined. Oh, we talked on the phone before."
"Yes, nice to meet you,"
After Liu Qin shook hands with the other party, he introduced to Bezos: "This is our boss."
Bezos glanced at Li Qing, who was standing in the front row. After flashing the other person's information in his mind, he quickly stretched out his hand and showed an excited smile, "Leesin, it's nice to meet you. I'm a fan of your book."
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Li Qing shook hands with the other party politely.
Later, under the introduction of Bezos, he shook hands with a man named James next to him.
James is the vice president of Amazon and a senior programmer. He is Bezos's right-hand man and a classmate in college. James is obviously not too cold about this partner that Bezos calls a reliable partner, especially
After seeing the real person now, he discovered that Li Qing seemed to be young. He didn't know Li Qing's identity, so he immediately classified Li Qing into the category of rich second generation, so he didn't seem very enthusiastic when dealing with others.
Afterwards, Li Qing and others got into the car driven by Bezos and started driving towards the city center.
Both parties had a tacit understanding and did not mention the work content, but talked about their impressions and thoughts about the other party.
Bezos frankly said that he is a fan of "Harry Potter". The British and American versions of "Harry Potter" are now available on Amazon's bookstore. He has also read "The Three-Body Problem" and is looking forward to Li Qing's book.
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At the same time, he also expressed great surprise that Li Qing could run a media company with a market value of US$1.5 billion. Especially when he heard that the company seemed not to have been listed yet, Bezos was even more shocked.
Li Qing said that online bookstores like Amazon have been famous for a long time, and he was very optimistic about this kind of Internet company, so after asking around, he decided to come here to take a look.
These words made Bezos's favorable impression of Li Qing increase rapidly. He felt that because Li Qing was a famous writer, he had a natural affinity for their Amazon bookstore.
During the conversation, Li Qing did not mention investment, and Bezos felt somewhat calm.
The more eager someone is to express the amount of funds and investment intentions, the harder it is to become a partner. This is what Bezos has always said from experience.
Amazon e-commerce is located in downtown Seattle in the United States.
There are no major construction projects in the office buildings here. Most of them are rebuilt on the basis of old factories, maintaining the original appearance and humanistic atmosphere as much as possible.
Li Qing came to Amazon with many thoughts running through his mind.
In its previous life, Amazon had a market capitalization of US$460 billion. As the world's fifth largest company by market capitalization, Amazon's miraculous journey to glory has been praised by many. It can be said that this company has changed the city of Seattle and many things.
people's way of life.
E-commerce is one of the world trends in the future. If Amazon can be involved in the early stage, it will obviously play a very good role in promoting Li Qing's layout of China's e-commerce world in the later stage.
In Li Qing's view, Amazon and domestic e-commerce companies are obviously not the same.
Although there is a competitive relationship between the two, insiders can see that China's e-commerce business model is different from that of foreign countries. At a glance, the operating models of the two are very similar, but the details are very different.
The purpose of Li Qing's decision to invest in Amazon was to summarize Amazon's business development experience and then return to China to create his own Amazon empire.
The market capitalization difference between Alibaba and Amazon in the previous life was only tens of billions of dollars. This shows that China's huge market is comparable to Amazon, which owns the markets of the United States, Japan, Britain, France and Germany.
Therefore, Li Qing does not intend to sacrifice the near and far away and compete with Amazon abroad.
Because managing the market of more than one billion Chinese people is enough to make him proud for the rest of his life.
What he needs to do now is to sow the latest seeds and wait quietly for them to blossom and bear fruit.
"Coffee, please."
After arriving at the reception room of the Amazon company building, Li Qing declined the invitation to visit Amazon. In fact, in Li Qing's opinion, there is really nothing to visit in Amazon today, so he went directly to the reception room and sat face to face with Bezos.
Together, he said bluntly: "Bezos, I want to buy a stake in your company."
Bezos looked a little surprised, "Buy shares?"
"Yes." Li Qing nodded.
"I heard Miss Liu talk about this."
Bezos thought for a moment and said: "We are a listed company. If you want to invest in Amazon, you can buy our shares in the stock market. Of course, you can also buy shares from me or other company shareholders..."
When he said this, Bezos suddenly smiled: "The most important thing is, how much are you prepared to invest? Or can I check your asset certificate? Of course, you can rest assured from me that our company's financial status is
Profit status, operating status, external liabilities, etc. can all be checked for you..."