Vol 6 Chapter 503: Cheer up
? San Francisco.
In the past two days, people in some mansions on Nob Hill had an illusion when they went out or returned home. Did I live in Japantown (a Japanese-American neighborhood in San Francisco)?
Those who got off from luxury cars, got off from dangling cars, and even walked up on the sidewalk leisurely...all in this kind of weather, still wearing suits, speaking weird English, or simply Japanese. people.
This is actually because Sun Zhengyi’s Softbank booked most of the rooms at Fairmont, a luxury hotel on the mountain, to hold Softbank’s temporary executive meetings.
Bringing senior executives to meetings abroad is very common in SoftBank, but it has never happened before to temporarily summon SoftBank executives to San Francisco and hold an ad hoc meeting in such a luxurious hotel.
The main reason is that Sun Zhengyi, who had been very strong in the outside world when he was calling the price, is now bulging.
He wants to use this method to show the outside world that we are not short of money.
Of course, even if the money is not bad, Sun Zhengyi will not squander like a nouveau riche. There are other in-depth considerations for holding this temporary executive meeting.
Because like before, the acquisition of Yahoo was almost a temporary decision he made on his own. The executive team did not support all of it. In addition, Facebook and Twitter publicly announced that they were negotiating the acquisition, which brought the SoftBank team. In the recent talks with Yahoo, the M&A team has almost always been crushed by the teams of Microsoft and NEXTDOOR; and this time, although he has raised enough funds to acquire Yahoo, it also means that, As a result, SoftBank took on high debt...
It can be said that the morale of the entire Softbank team at this time is quite low.
No matter how confident Sun Zhengyi is, he knows that under such circumstances, no matter how powerful he is, it is not easy for him to perfectly complete such a big move as the acquisition of Yahoo.
After all, he is not a Super Saiyan.
Boosting morale is his inevitable choice at this time.
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In the presidential suite, Sun Zhengyi is practicing his next speech in front of the mirror. This is a habit he has kept.
"We...we..." Like an actor who is very strict with himself, he adjusted his facial expressions and gestures in the mirror.
"Knocking", the door was knocked, and a gentle female voice came, "Sir,"
Sun Zhengyi looked at the person in the mirror again, straightened his neckline, and walked calmly towards the door step by step.
On the way to the banquet hall surrounded by assistants, he kept his mouth tightly closed, saying nothing, and his movements were calm to a little slow, but as soon as he entered the banquet hall and looked at the standing executives, he moved quickly. stand up.
He stepped onto the stage quickly, with a confident and calm smile on his face, but in his usual tone, as if he were talking to someone in an office, he asked the audience, "Hello everyone!"
In any case, everyone in the audience stood up, applause was enthusiastic, and cheers were everywhere-such an atmosphere is not difficult to create, especially when most of the people present are Japanese who like to follow the crowd.
"Please sit down, please sit down," Sun Zhengyi greeted. He lightly pressed the remote control in his hand, and a chart was quickly displayed on the projection screen.
"27 years ago, the predecessor of Softbank, Universal World was established,"
Having said this, he couldn't help but remember that when he returned to Japan from the United States 27 years ago to start his own business, Feng Yiping should have not even gone.
Well, Feng Yiping had just turned one year old, and he really couldn't walk.
"At that time, we had no funds, no connections, and no mature business ideas. Only me, two colleagues, and a firm belief."
There was real laughter in the audience this time.
Because everyone knows that not long after the company was established, the first two employees left one after another because they felt that this guy who was short in Japanese was too unreliable and arrogant.
So that the later "Internet emperor" almost became a real lonely family.
"On the day of establishment, I said, "We will be the number one company in Japan... The company's turnover will reach 10 billion yen in 5 years, and 50 billion yen in 10 years..."
"In the first two years, we walked relatively slowly. At one point, we lost as much as 300 million yen a year..."
"...But in the end, because we found the right way and because of the success in magazine publication, we all successfully completed the 5-year and 10-year goals ahead of schedule, and laid a solid foundation for the current SoftBank..."
"...17 years ago,"
At that time, should Feng Yiping still attend a primary school in a backward rural area in China?
Yes, that was exactly the year before Feng Yiping was about to undergo a "big change".
"After careful consideration of many aspects, we decided to officially focus on the Internet field, which is also our life's business..."
If Feng Yiping was at the scene, he would definitely scorn Sun Zhengyi's remarks.
Shit's "careful multiple considerations".
In fact, Softbank ended up in a mess when it started its publishing business.
A large number of magazines piled up in the warehouse and no buyers were found. What's worse, the magazines that have been sold have the final return rate of 85%!
The so-called publishing industry, which laid a solid foundation for Softbank, eventually added various aftermaths, resulting in a total loss of more than 1 billion yen. The rest is the paper cut from the new magazine in several large warehouses...
The hero does not mention that he was counseled.
The set Sun Zhengyi is talking about now is based entirely on the description in his autobiography that has been highly processed.
And his autobiography is mainly based on his interview...
Of course, for businessmen, bragging can be called bragging. That is packaging and propaganda.
"...Because we have a precise grasp of the timing," ——everyone can hear that the "us" in his words clearly refers to "me".
"We became the first company in Japan with a market capitalization of more than one trillion yen!"
Speaking of this, his tone couldn't help but become a little higher, and some of the old employees in the audience were also honored at this time.
That was indeed the brightest moment for SoftBank.
It was during that period that Sun Zhengyi was named the "Internet emperor" and briefly became the world's richest man.
However, the good times will not last long!
"Although we encountered the Internet cold wave that swept the world next, but because of our focus on the Internet field, because of our consistent successful decision-making, our market value has now approached 2 trillion yen!"
It looks like this at present, but this actually depends on how the situation will develop in the future.
"Whether it is compared with 17 years ago or compared with 27 years ago, now Softbank, whether it is in terms of financial strength, or in terms of network resources, or in terms of business philosophy, or in terms of corporate influence... Got an unimaginable improvement,"
"...We have invested in more than 400 companies and are shareholders of more than 50 listed companies. Among the companies we have invested in, there are hundreds of companies waiting to be listed."
"Through these investments, we have received more than 40 billion U.S. dollars in return,"
Well, it's on the books.
After all, he has also been the world's richest man for a day.
"Our investment layout covers all Internet fields such as portals, search, social networking, e-commerce, etc.,"
"We are also a world-renowned broadband service provider,"
"..."
"We have become a world-class internet investment company! We have become the most successful internet investment company in the world!"
"After the company was founded 27 years ago, I want to set another 10-year goal,"
Sun Zhengyi's actions became bigger, "Our goal in 10 years is to change the company's market value from the current 2 trillion yen,"-there is no 2 trillion yen yet.
With his hands folded into a fist, he waved vigorously in the air, "Improved to 200 trillion yen!"
Some people were dumbfounded, some cheered and stood up.
Those who stand up are all Japanese, and those who are sitting are basically not Japanese.
"For this, we will continue to focus on the Internet field, but we will no longer stick to specific technologies and business models,"
"We will carry forward all our advantages further, and we will perfectly replicate our existing successful experience on a larger platform,"
"This platform is Yahoo!"
"This platform ~www.wuxiaspot.com~Yahoo is also our platform to enter the world's largest Internet market,"
"This platform, Yahoo, is also a key platform to increase our market value from 2 trillion yen to 200 trillion yen,"
"I also want to tell you that the total amount of funds we have raised currently exceeds US$50 billion!"
"We have sufficient funds to win this platform, and we also have sufficient funds to invest in other promising projects,"
"The key is," he pointed to the audience, "we now have so many high-quality talents to realize our vision,"
At this time, everyone stood up.
At this moment, the applause of "Wow!" from Softbank overwhelmed the bell of the car.
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