Vol 4 Chapter 382: Angry businesswoman

The eBay headquarters park in San Jose, Silicon Valley can be said to be the least distinctive among the high-tech companies in Silicon Valley. Of course, we can also say that this is the simplest headquarters park.

The only bright spot on the ordinary and plain brick building is the bright primary color letters in the eBay trademark on the wall.

The entire headquarters, under the embellishment of those four letters, finally seemed a bit alive, but overall it was still dull, just like the eBay queen here.

Ms. Meg Whitman, the president who was hailed by the American business community as "with a charming smile like Shirley Temple," is a little bit hard to laugh now.

She is very angry now.

If Feng Yiping is now in Silicon Valley, she will definitely make a call right away, "What/are/you are doing?"

Like our Miss Dong, these strong business women in the United States, such as Ms. Whitman, who is about to be elected the top name of "Most Powerful Business Women in 2004" by Fortune Magazine, are always prone to anger.

Although externally known for her charming smile, internally, in many cases, like Miss Dong, she may use the topic because the welcome applause is not warm enough.

Of course, we have to understand that, in addition to physical factors-such as menopause, the reason why a strong woman becomes a strong woman and why a strong woman is irritable is actually socially forced.

When they first started their careers, when they were running towards the goal of being a strong woman, they had to be tougher than men in order to stand out from the workplace of men everywhere.

In the beginning, this was done to cover up. After more than ten years of cover up, it became instinct and became one of their most distinctive traits.

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Like Miss Dong, Whitman is also eBay's biggest hero.

This is also a strange woman who has been very interested in business since she was a child.

While studying in Princeton, when disco was popular, young energetic young people who had nowhere to vent were obsessed with dance steps such as space walks. Few college students would read the Wall Street Journal.

But she never tired of it, and asked people to send newspapers to the dormitory every day.

This made the other students find it incredible, and it strongly explained her passion for business and the ambition of this girl with a charming smile.

No idea, just look at vogue and go to one party after another with your male classmates. In the future, it will be enough to find a good person to marry. Who would be patient to nibble on the professional and boring Huari Street Journal every day?

In the late 1970s, the young Whitman was admitted to the Harvard Business School. Her class later became a veritable star class, including Zhao Xiaolan, the first Chinese minister in the United States at this time.

After graduating from Harvard Mba, she worked as a consultant for Procter & Gamble, Disney, and Bain. She was in charge of Hasbro before being dug into the company as president by eBay.

Oh, by the way, after stepping down from eBay, she became the helm of another well-known it company, the CEO of HP.

After joining eBay, Whitman, who had never been involved in the Internet field before, had an eye-catching performance. In only half a year, he successfully led eBay to go public. After that, various mergers and acquisitions continued, including the acquisition of paypal founded by Musk.

At the same time, under her leadership, eBay began a continuous global expansion, entering Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Austria, South Korea, Italy, New Zealand, Switzerland, Ireland, and Singapore..., of course, including China .

Conquer cities all over the world.

It can be said that it is under her leadership that eBay has become the world's leading e-commerce company.

With such a glorious performance blessing, Whitman at this time, like Miss Dong later, had a great temper.

It's so easy to force Ali to the corner in China. Why did you Feng Yiping jump out at this time and smash my good deeds horizontally?

Don’t you know if I let go, Taobao can only exist for 18 months?

Looking at the bad-faced boss, the secretary who was cautious in his words and deeds, notified the executives, including the chief operating officer, to come to the meeting.

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"Our arrangements in China have now undergone new changes," Whitman’s opponents said in the first sentence, "The young Feng took over all the shares of Ali held by Goldman Sachs. They have now become Alidi. The two largest institutional investors, eBay’s feedback is that Jiasheng and Ali have formally reached a strategic cooperation."

Knowing this news, her men were not calm.

Although eBay’s current main competitors are in the United States, Amazon and Yahoo Auctions, what worries them most is actually Alibaba, which is growing.

The main reason is very simple. They know the iron rule that users are king.

In the face of China's huge population base, the tens of millions and hundreds of millions of users they are proud of are not like a joke, but there is really nothing to be proud of.

Ali does not need to be busy all over the world like them. As long as they work hard in mainland China, they can easily have over 100 million users.

With the increasing economic strength of China and with China’s basic conditions, such as better and better network construction, the ownership rate of PCs is getting higher and higher. It is foreseeable that Ali has more than 200 million users and more. Hard thing personal doctor

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Especially when one insists on charging for services, but Ali insists on providing free services.

Therefore, if Ali doesn't fall for a day, they can't sleep well, even if Ali's revenue is only a few tenths of theirs.

The most beneficial way for our side is to try to expand our market share in China, and at the same time, try every means to suppress Ali and its nascent Taobao, try every means to squeeze their living space, and ultimately leave them nowhere. Can go.

"Not just financial investors?" asked the chief operating officer who felt the pressure suddenly increased.

"It has clearly disclosed the relationship of strategic cooperation to the outside world," Whitman said. "Why haven't we heard anything about the transfer of shares of Goldman Sachs before?" She knocked on the table and asked.

The heads of the marketing department and the public relations department lowered their heads in shame. The most concerned competitors and their investment structure have changed. They actually only now know that this is indeed their negligence.

"The Paulson of Feng and Goldman Sachs is said to have a good personal relationship," someone still distinguished.

It should be said that his sentence also touched on the truth.

Who knows that Goldman Sachs and Jiasheng, in a few words, casually settled such a thing?

"Don't always find reasons for your negligence and oversight," Whitman choked back.

"Maybe, Feng and his company don't know the stakes in this?" Another subordinate said tentatively.

"Look at that Feng's recent move. Do you think he is someone who speaks and does things like this without going through his brain?" Whitman said angrily. "Before he invests in a company, he will not investigate the basics of that company." The situation? Don’t know the main challenges that company faces?"

"I think ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ still does not rule out Feng and his company. Although we are clear about our competition with Ali, we don’t know how fierce this competition is. We all know that Jack is a Very persuasive person," said the operations director.

Whitman thought for a while, she also knew the skill of the Chinese opponent, "I really do not rule out this possibility,"

"Then did we contact Feng's company in Silicon Valley once to express the current situation clearly? I think Feng should have the right choice after knowing the details."

"We have a partnership with Coin Star to let Merbach of Coin Star spread the word," someone suggested.

"No," Whitman shook his head. "It's useless to talk about it. They have officially announced to the outside world that they have reached a strategic cooperation. Do you think it is Ali or Feng that will withdraw such a promise?"

Ali naturally wouldn't. As for that Feng, even if he was deceived, but he had already let out his words, naturally he couldn't take it back because of his own words.

They know that their company does not have that much influence on the richest man in mainland China.

"This is not how we express our opinions," Whitman said proudly.

Feng Yiping couldn't be subdued just because of what they said. Similarly, she didn't want to express her opinions in such a weak and weak way.

The question is, what to do?

Feng Yiping had a closer relationship with Amazon, and he was also a major shareholder and executive of Google. However, Google is the most important channel for eBay promotion. If you want to deal with Feng Yiping, it is very likely that Feng Yiping, his r, coin star, and Google, completely push to Amazon?

"I think we do this," Whitman said. (To be continued.)