Sunnyvale Yahoo Chairman, Ceo Office, a white man smiled and said, "Yang, I heard that your compatriots had asked you for dinner today, why are you still in the office now?"
The Chinese man who was still looking at the documents looked up and said, "David, it's still early to get off work, and I'm learning about the situation of meeting this fellow today."
As one of the legendary Chinese figures, Yang Zhiyuan is not very familiar with some of the situation in the mainland. Today he received a call. Li Yuhang, chairman of Jianan Supermarket Group, general manager of Xiangjiang Xinyu Investment Company, and general manager of the US IQ Company, invited him to have a meal.
Hope to negotiate cooperation with Yahoo.
Before today, Yang Zhiyuan had no idea about Jianan Supermarket Group, Xiangjiang Xinyu Investment Company and ICTQ Company.
However, in the United States, everyone is Chinese, so Jerry Yang still agreed to the other party's invitation.
After hanging up the phone, he immediately asked the company staff to help him collect information about the Jianan Supermarket Group, Xinyu Investment Company, and IQ Company.
"Yang, is there any news? Could it be that someone who thought he was going back, right?"
"David, you can't be biased against my entire compatriot just because of some people. This time I'm invited by Chinese business elites. There is information, you can take a look."
David Frow took the information handed over by Yang Zhiyuan and read it. The above really surprised him. The chairman of a retail department store with a market value higher than their Yahoo, and the chief investment company with the largest shareholder of the Jianan Supermarket Group
The manager is mainly because of the age of these two people, who are younger than Yang Zhiyuan, and they are indeed considered to be Chinese business elites.
"Yang, you have to remember that you are in the United States now, this is the world of capital, and your arrangement is not practical, I won't disturb you anymore, see you tomorrow."
After David Frow left, Yang Zhiyuan did not stay in the office for a long time and drove his beloved car to the restaurant that Li Yuhang decided.
No matter what Yahoo's future is, Yang Zhiyuan is definitely a legend on the Chinese Internet, and Li Yuhang admires this person very much.
There are very few Chinese people in places like Sunnyvale, which also leads to extremely rare Chinese restaurants. Li Yuhang also found such a restaurant in advance. The owner is a Chinese from Guangdong Province.
Whether Yang Zhiyuan, Li Yuhang and Xu Xinrong, the three of them are just young people in their twenties and can definitely be called heroes in the business world.
When both parties met, they were surprised that the other party was young, and they also took it for granted. There were so many geniuses in the world, and the lucky ones were not just themselves.
"Mr. Yang? Hello! I'm very happy that you can take the time to meet us today? I'm Li Yuhang."
When Yang Zhiyuan shook hands with Li Yuhang, he discovered something very interesting. Xu Xinrong, general manager of Xinyu Investment Company, the largest shareholder of Jianan Supermarket Group, is actually mainly Li Yuhang on such occasions? This is a bit beyond his imagination.
The information he got from Xiangjiang was that although Li Yuhang is the chairman and president of Jianan Supermarket Group? But he only accounts for 1% of the shares of Jianan Supermarket Group. In his opinion, Li Yuhang is just a professional manager? I should have met him today.
Xu Xinrong is the main one.
After all, this is not only the general manager of Xiangjiang Xinyu Investment Company? It is also the general manager of IQ Company in the United States. This time, the company IQ is also the one who talked about cooperation with Yahoo.
As an elite, Yang Zhiyuan quickly thought of a possibility, that is, the boss behind Xinyu Investment Company is the young man who shook hands with him, and Xu Xinrong is his employee? Only in this way can we explain why Li Yuhang would be with him today
Xu Xinrong meets her together? Why does Xu Xinrong always act like Li Yuhang is the main one.
After sitting down, Yang Zhiyuan spoke out: "Mr. Li, we are all young people, and this is the United States, so we don't have to beat around the bush? Please tell me if you have any questions."
"Mr. Yang likes to get straight to the point, so I won't say those polite words anymore? This time I invited Mr. Yang, because of Mr. Yang's achievements in the United States, I admire him very much. I want to meet Mr. Yang.
Second, our Xinyu Investment Company has acquired 3.2% of Yahoo shares in the stock market. Will our company continue to increase its holdings in the future? Please don’t be nervous at that time? Are we simply optimistic about Yahoo’s future? We will not interfere in Yahoo any
transactions.
The third is to hope to reach a cooperation with Yahoo. Our icq company has just been established and has developed a chat software, preparing to advertise on your Yahoo side to promote our software. The specific costs can be discussed in detail by both companies."
Li Yuhang said first, Yang Zhiyuan didn't care, but second, he had to consider it. He didn't expect that Xinyu Investment Company had quietly acquired 3.2% of the shares in the stock market, which was only 1.8% away from 5%.
If Li Yuhang is willing, he will soon become one of Yahoo's major shareholders.
For the time being, he is not worried that Li Yuhang will take him off the stage. After all, his shares, David and Sequoia Capital are enough to ensure that his status in Yahoo will not be shaken.
As for the third item, he naturally welcomes it very much. Although Yahoo is improving, the company is still losing money. This is also the current situation of most Internet companies. The stock market is very good, but the reality is that it is losing money every year.
"Mr. Li, I believe that Yahoo will not disappoint you in the future. As for the cooperation between Yahoo and IQ, there is no problem at all. If you turn around, let your company's public relations department contact our company's public relations department, and the price will be discussed by yourself."
Li Yuhang knew that Yahoo was not Yang Zhiyuan alone, so it would be better for the following to deal with this aspect.
As for reminding the other party, Yahoo will not have that intention at all. When it comes to development, IQ and Yahoo will also become competitors, and Li Yuhang does not want to cultivate the opponent's bad taste.
After the main cooperation was negotiated, the chat between the two parties would be much more pleasant, especially about the development of the Asian Internet.
It is not unreasonable that Yahoo's Japanese company became Yahoo's most important asset in the 21st century. In this chat, Yang Zhiyuan was quite optimistic about the Japanese market.
Fortunately, Yahoo has not yet entered the Japanese market. Dong Haiyan, a Japanese company in icq, has registered in Tokyo, the American icq company holds 30% of the shares, the Yasuda family holds 40% of the shares, and the Bermuda Shiqiao Fund holds 30% of the shares.
In addition to chat software, this company in Japan will also quickly enter browsers, portals and gaming businesses. Yahoo will be one of the company's rivals in the future.
Whether in Japan or the mainland market, it is relatively easy to promote IQ. Only in the United States, Li Yuhang has no foundation and does not have many partners, so his development speed is not as good as that of Japan.
For example, this chat software will be launched in Japan at the same time as the United States, and it will definitely develop faster than this one. The energy of the Fuji Consortium cannot be underestimated.
Yang Zhiyuan didn't know that his compatriots who had a lot of talk with him had already regarded the company he founded as an opponent in his heart, otherwise he wouldn't have talked so much today.
In his opinion, Li Yuhang is more of a retail tycoon. Li Yuhang, who grew up in the mainland, doesn’t understand the Internet industry at all, and there is no competition between the two sides.
Yang Zhiyuan will be upset about what he is today for many years in the future. He believes that if he pays attention to chat software, the ending may not be so miserable.