Vol 5 Chapter 1150: Different ways

"MySpace?" Old Murdoch obviously didn't know much about this website.

"That is the SNS (Social, Network, Service) website headquartered in Los Angeles?" Murdoch's eldest son, Lachlan Murdoch asked.

"Yes," Ross Levinsohn said.

What is rare is that Mrs. Murdoch actually knows this, "Is that the social network site that gathers many music lovers?"

"Yes, madam, we can really think of MySpace as a music version of Friendster," Ross Levinsohn said with some surprise.

He noticed that the Chairman Murdoch also looked at his wife in surprise. Obviously, he had never expected that his wife knew such a website.

"Before I go to Silicon Valley, I naturally want to understand Feng's current company's main competitors," Mrs. Murdoch said softly in Murdoch's ear.

That's it!

This can be said to be unique to women.

As for Friendster, this dating site established in 2002 should have been the pioneer of American social networking sites, but because Feng Yiping went to Stanford as an exchange student and immediately established NEXTDOOR, this pioneer became a follower. .

This follower can’t be a pioneer, but it is very likely to become a martyr right away. Because of software design limitations and insufficient funds, the hardware cannot meet the development needs. Last year, its registered users were very I intuitively felt the load capacity of the website. The speed of the website was very, very slow, which quickly caused a large number of users to flee.

MySpace, which was only established in 2003, is the beneficiary of the escape of Friendster users.

The establishment of MySpace draws on a lot of experience from NEXTDOOR. It can be said that the reason why it can gather a group of users, like NEXTDOOR, mainly depends on offline promotion in the initial stage.

The main growth of its users comes from their sponsorship of influential bands in Los Angeles, attracting those influential musicians to become their registered users, and then driving their fans to follow up.

Therefore, although MySpace has now added a lot of features, Mrs. Murdoch is right. Its feature is music.

Musicians advertise their works on the website, music fans find their favorite works on the website, and music companies discover promising singers on the website...

Of course, some people are looking for girlfriends or female friends on it.

"Headquartered in Los Angeles?" Murdoch frowned.

Although in Feng Yiping's view, the current News Corporation has not made any achievements in the Internet field, in fact, in the 1990s, News Corporation had already acquired a large number of Internet companies.

However, the companies they acquired, like most companies acquired by Yahoo, did not end well, and they have all disappeared.

But these tuition fees, at least let Murdoch know nothing about the Internet field, for example, he knew it, it seems that there is no clear reason, but the engineers just have no feelings for the city of Los Angeles.

And how can a good Internet company be able to do without good engineers?

"We can set up our branches in Silicon Valley, including Seattle," said Ross Levinsohn, president of Interactive Media.

That means additional expenses.

"The two founders of this website, Chris Devoff, who is in charge of business, are good guys, but Tom Anderson, who is in charge of technology, is still a hacker with a history. When he was 14 years old, he hacked Chase Manhattan Bank. System and was investigated by the FBI,"

Levinsohn said another important situation he had.

"Because he was a minor, the FBI just confiscated more than 20 computers that he and his accomplices used to commit crimes..."

"So if we consider the development of social business ourselves, the acquisition of MySpace is also a high-risk decision, especially under the attack of Feng's NEXTDOOR and Facebook, its user growth is difficult, and its founder's less glorious past."

"But at the same time, considering the rapid success of Facebook in the world, if we intend to develop our own social business, we also feel that the acquisition of MySpace may bring high returns, because based on our foundation in countries around the world, it is equally possible MySpace was successfully promoted in many countries soon,"

He didn't say the next thing, but everyone knows that if such a goal can be achieved, then it can completely replace Skype.

The bigger temptation is that although Skype is undoubtedly a very good product, compared with Facebook, especially in terms of commercial value, the difference is not one and a half. MySpace and Facebook are products of a nature.

Old Murdoch used his eyes to ask everyone for their opinions, and his eldest son spoke first, "I think this is a good idea. No matter how the future develops, it will definitely not hurt to do more preparation now."

This is also the opinion of the majority of the participants.

"Because of the user gap, the price of acquiring MySpace is much lower than that of Skype, and MySpace has great potential for development in the world, so I also think that such preparations can be made," Mrs. Murdoch said.

Although no specific price has been discussed yet, nearly 200 million registered users have been acquired. At present, more than 100,000 registered users are added every day, which is obviously more than 20 million users, and only a few thousand MySpace is added every day. The expenditure is much larger, and the gap can be measured in billions of dollars, which is obviously attractive.

"Still actively following up on Skype," Murdoch said.

Since so many well-known companies are eyeing Skype, it is conceivable that this must be a good opportunity. Since News Corporation is still qualified, there is no reason to give up now.

"At the same time, Levinsohn, you set up a new project team as soon as possible and follow up on the MySpace project immediately,"

Feng Yiping is not the only one who can operate two M&A projects at the same time.

"Good Mr. Murdoch," Levinthorne said happily.

He felt that this would definitely be selected for the most successful crooked building conference in history.

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Silicon Valley, eBay campus, is also holding a meeting with the same purpose at this time. However, the level of this meeting is higher because it is a board of directors.

"Gentlemen," Whitman did not sit, but walked around the conference table.

"In the last meeting, we have discussed what the acquisition of Skype means to us, and now the problem is coming. This acquisition, which is of far-reaching significance to us, has encountered great challenges."

The directors suddenly became agitated.

Whitman is only a must for Skype because these directors believe that Skype is indispensable to eBay's growth and development.

"I knew it," said a director, "I knew Whitman, you used to target that Mr. Feng everywhere, and it would definitely cause us trouble."

These directors are also well-informed guys, and they know the current situation very well.

"Yeah, for those unnecessary provocations, there will always be a price to pay," another said.

Suddenly, the tone of this meeting seemed to change and it became a criticism meeting against Whitman.

Whitman smiled contemptuously, "Should I not target Feng? What he did has seriously affected our strategy in China. As for the extent of the impact, everyone knows now."

Her words immediately made the directors who accused her have nothing to say.

What Feng Yiping did not only failed their original strategy of encirclement and suppression, but also made hundreds of millions of dollars worth of publicity and promotion expenses vanished. It also made eBay, the number one in the industry at the time, only barely ranked first in the field of Chinese e-commerce. Three.

China, which has the largest population in the world and is getting richer day by day, is an important region that they have high hopes for.

Feng Yiping, almost by himself, easily disturbed their business in China, which they valued so much. It really cannot be tolerated.

If there is a chance, no one in this room wants to give Feng Yiping a few shots. No one will have a good impression of the person who has cut off his money, even if that person is Feng Yiping.

"Even so, such targeting and provocations are too meaningless. No matter how much they do, they will not have any positive help for our business in China."

Another director spoke.

Whitman didn't spit out that sentence. Isn't it meaningless? There is a so-called good or not. Targeting and provoking Feng Yiping will make my old lady not so hot in my heart, can it?

"I think, the best response to Feng's behavior, isn't it that we made unexpectedly brilliant results in China?"

Whitman stared at that person. The most uncomfortable thing about my old lady is that you, an invincible guy like you, made him unexpectedly dazzling results? To put it lightly, can you take a look?

"Also, after all, we are a large international company. We must pay attention to the influence of every word and deed..."

"Okay," Whitman couldn't bear such an act of pretending to be a gentleman.

Please, who doesn't know who, it's all mineral water, what kind of pure water would you fill me with?

"Are we going to solve the problem, or are we going to be like a group of little girls, when encountering a little obstacle, we will whirl at each other? Don't think of a solution, but criticize each other for what has happened in the past?"

We are not criticizing each other, we are criticizing you. Several gentlemen exchanged glances in a vague manner.

"Can we focus all our energy in front of us?" She put the computer in front of her desk together.

At this time, no one came out chirping.

Whitman's "Queen of Silicon Valley" nickname is not without reason.

It was she who successfully led eBay and developed it into the world's number one e-commerce company; it was she who successfully led eBay to go public; it was she who persisted in the board of directors and successfully persuaded everyone to agree to the acquisition of PayPal...

"Yes, discussing those now is equally meaningless. Let us listen to what conditions did Mr. Feng offer?" A director made a round.

"Feng has additional conditions, and he hopes to invest in PayPal,"

"What?" Suddenly, the meeting room seemed to be fried again.

Even people who have no brains can see the development prospects of PayPal at this time. You are welcome to say that PayPal has a great possibility in the future. It will encounter fewer challenges than eBay, so it will continue to bring you High returns.

Feng Yiping's request is tantamount to taking food from their mouths.

Including the director who just criticized Whitman for paying attention to his words and deeds, he did not calm down.

"He is taking advantage of the fire, and we can complain to the Skype board ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ to let them replace the person in charge of the acquisition negotiations," he said furiously.

"Gentlemen, do you think those Skype directors believe in Feng Yiping's vision more or what we say? Why do you think they agree that Feng Yiping is in charge of the acquisition negotiations?"

"Do you think they will care about this? The only thing they care about is their return, that is, our bid. They don't care. In the process, is there any company that has encountered difficulties?"

"Then, let's say that Feng uses this as a condition in exchange for our lower bid," someone shouted immediately.

"Please, do you think this will solve the problem? Skype will replace the person in charge of the acquisition negotiation? Are you stupid for those guys? In this world, how many businessmen are better than Feng Yiping?" Whitman sneered. Look at those guys.

The meaning is self-evident, at least you are not.

"So, how could they reject Feng Yiping's initiative to ask for a proposal like this? How could they possibly replace it? Everyone knows that it is almost equivalent to the negotiation before they started," Whitman shook his head.

"Then what do you say? Do you obediently agree to his request to invest in PayPal?"

This, if you can agree, then I would save a lot of trouble, Whitman thought.

In fact, she really feels that if there is really no alternative, it is not unacceptable for Feng Yiping to invest in PayPal. His business in the US can actually promote PayPal.

But looking at the way these guys look like, "Of course it's impossible. However, his request cannot be ignored. So everyone thinks, if we propose to spin off the business in China, how about it?"

The meeting room was suddenly silent...