Vol 6 Chapter 537: question
On the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle, in the dome library of Bill Gates’ Xanadu Mansion 2.0, casually dressed Feng Yiping held up a beer, "Bill, thank you for your kind arrangement,"
At this time, in this world-famous mansion, Gates’s wife was taking Feng Yiping’s parents and Huang Jingping who came together for a visit—someone had to act as an interpreter.
Feng Yiping was a little worried at the beginning that his parents would not appreciate this mansion that the Gates and his wife are very proud of, because as a son, he knows his parents' preferences.
They usually only sigh when they see a towering building, "It's incredible."
Bill Gates's few-story house will probably not be in their eyes.
That would be a bit embarrassing.
However, he found out that he really underestimated the skill of his parents or the tour guide Melinda. He followed for a while and found that his parents were extremely interested in the smart facilities of this house, and they were currently on the market. The digital living facilities that you haven't seen yet are amazing.
There is no need to remedy it on the sidelines at all, so as to avoid the embarrassing situation where the host takes out a well-prepared dish, but the guests frown after eating.
"I like your parents very much," Gates said directly. "They have the kind of simplicity and calmness that people in the fame and fortune circle can't have, and they don't have the hypocritical politeness and arrogance hidden in their bones."
This is also where Feng Yiping admires his father and mother. If you are good, you will say yes. If you are jealous, you will be really envious. But in fact, he is not tempted, let alone jealous. When he shows it, he is really a foreigner who looks down on everything. the taste of.
"It's also due to the environment," Feng Yiping said. "My parents live in the countryside most of the time. As for us, I believe you should have heard Ballmer say that more than ten years ago, it was very backward."
"Isn't the development thriving now?" Gates smiled, "Your parents can be so real and open-minded, it should also be related to you, because they have an excellent child like you."
Indeed, not tempted and not jealous, that is because they believe that their son can do the same, or even better.
"Aren't your parents the same?" Feng Yiping smiled.
He looked at the world-famous super-rich man who was across from him. When he was sitting in his own library at this time, as he did on many occasions, his shoulders collapsed, and the whole person sank in, or shrank in. , There is no domineering, low-key appearance.
But in fact, how could this guy who has been the world's richest man the most times be like this?
Just look up and you will know.
In this dome library, when you look up on the Internet, you can see a sentence on the ceiling, "When a person has struggled for a long time and sees his dream so close, he will not give up easily."
Feng Yiping deliberately searched, this is a sentence in "The Great Gatsby".
How could a guy who engraved this sentence where he looked up could be an ordinary person?
He took such a sitting posture on many occasions, not so much humble and low-key, as lazy and indifferent.
Just you scumbags, it's not worth raising my spirit, nor is it worth even looking at it.
"Haha," Gates smiled. In this regard, he really envied Feng Yiping.
His father is still alive, but his mother died of cancer as early as 1994-that is, in that year, Bill Gates invested 94 million US dollars to establish the Gates Foundation.
"Alright Feng, tell me what you want to talk to us about? Is it about the Yahoo acquisition?"
"Yes, Bill," Feng Yiping nodded, "In my opinion, we have encountered the worst situation, just like the United States in 1941, when we met another Japanese who likes to gamble regardless of the consequences."
This also makes Gates a bit of a headache. They don't care about any opponents, but an opponent that doesn't seem to be rational is really difficult to deal with.
"If this trend continues, the purchase price will soon exceed $50 billion," Feng Yiping said.
Microsoft initially offered 39 billion yuan, and SoftBank strongly increased its price by 3 billion yuan. After that, Microsoft was unwilling to raise the price by another 2 billion yuan, and the purchase price has reached 44 billion yuan.
Ballmer once again raised 1.2 billion the day before yesterday, but Sun Zhengyi raised even more, 2 billion, that is, the current quotation has climbed to 46 billion US dollars.
According to this rate of increase of both sides, two more rounds at most, it will properly exceed 50 billion US dollars.
"In any case, with Yahoo's size and Yahoo's performance over the past few years, I think that a premium of 80% or even close to 100% will never be a wise decision."
"Bill, do you remember, before you mentioned the acquisition in February, what was Yahoo's stock price? It was only $19.18, and the total market value was less than $28 billion."
"Do we really have to spend more than 50 billion US dollars to acquire such a web 2.0 company?"
"So your opinion is, stop here?" Gates asked.
"Of course we can increase the price for one or two rounds, but if an agreement cannot be reached in that way, then I really think that there is really no need to work hard," Feng Yiping said.
"I know what you like about Yahoo. It's undeniable. Although Yahoo's current development has fallen into a decline, the brand of Yahoo still has a lot of gold content. We cannot deny Yahoo's status and importance in the Internet world."
"At the same time, we must also admit that many Yahoo products, such as mailboxes, still have strong popularity."
"More importantly, Yahoo also has many experienced Internet core personnel. It can even be said that some of them are the people with the most Internet experience in this world."
After all, Yahoo is the first true Internet high-tech company.
"And I also understand that Microsoft is now eager to make achievements in the Internet field,"
Bill Gates sat up straight.
This is because Feng Yiping explained their real plan in one word.
To say that when Yahoo was founded, Microsoft didn't really care about Yahoo.
At that time, Yahoo was obviously afraid of Microsoft's games, so they did not introduce themselves as a high-tech company, but always promoted themselves as a media company.
Later, this so-called "media" company quickly became a representative of high-tech companies in the United States and the world, and Microsoft was quickly classified as the "big brother" group.
Domineering, conservative, refusing to keep up with the trend...
But that's okay. After all, even if the market value of Yahoo exceeds 100 billion US dollars, the gap with Microsoft is still very large.
But now, with the rise of more Internet companies, such as Google, Microsoft really feels the threat.
In the high-tech industry, the "Microsoft model", or high-profit model, was the envy of everyone, but the high prices of Microsoft products have also been criticized by many users in the world.
However, Google is different~www.wuxiaspot.com~ They provide products and services for free to end users in many cases, and charge high advertising fees from advertisers. Therefore, "free" and practical Google, Quickly won the love of many users.
The key is that Google's own revenue is not only very generous, but also growing very rapidly.
And some of Google’s products, such as the browsers they developed, have not only succeeded in gaining a foothold, but have also replaced some of IE’s market share...
In this way, whether it is Gates or Ballmer, they all know clearly that Google today is not the Yahoo who was still careful in front of him.
Since they envy Google's model and hope to make a difference in the field of online advertising, in turn, does Google have no ambitions in the field of office software and operating systems?
You know, Google's revenue can now come easily.
Therefore, in fact, it can be said that the focus of Microsoft's acquisition of Yahoo is not the assets of Yahoo Japan or the Japanese market that Feng Yiping said. A large part of their intention is to target Google.
They can't wait for Google to erode their areas of expertise step by step, and they feel that Google is helpless.
"But I think that such a price is definitely not worthwhile," Feng Yiping met Gates' gaze and said the final conclusion.
"Feng," Gates sat up completely, "So, this is why you asked to have a stop in the first place?"
"That is, at the beginning, you guessed the possible future development, or at the beginning, you planned to give up?"
"Do you know? After knowing that we gave up, SoftBank is the only happy one," he paused, and said softly, "and Google,"
"You are a major shareholder, and at the same time you are inextricably linked with the two founders of Google,"
