Chapter 2447 I have control

Zhou Buqi waved his hand and said with a smile: "Old Ma, don't be so small. It's boring for us brothers to be in a hurry."

Boss Ma said angrily: "Just tell me what you want to do!"

Zhou Buqi said: "Taobao blocked Ziweixing's WeChat, which has nothing to do with Taobao's business. The most important thing is to boycott WeChat payment and prevent Alipay's competitors from becoming bigger, right?"

"wrong."

"Um?"

"Alibaba also intends to develop into the social industry."

"It is true?"

Zhou Buqi frowned slightly.

Boss Ma said: "Alibaba has launched a mobile social product called Laiwang, don't you know?"

"Oh, there's so much communication..." Zhou Buqi felt helpless, "What's the use? The opportunity was missed. Penguin relied on QQ, and the Q-letter it launched also failed. There is a WeChat app in China. That’s enough, and subsequent imitators have no meaning in existence.”

Boss Ma was unconvinced, "I have to give it a try."

Zhou Buqi said: "Even if you want to communicate, there is no need to block WeChat, right? This is too petty!"

"Really?" Boss Ma sneered twice, "WeChat, Friends.com, Xiaonei.com, Weibo, Toutiao... these big platforms of Ziweixing all seem to have blocked promotional links."

"Uh..." Zhou Buqi had nothing to say at this point, "Oh, forget it, let's not talk about this anymore!"

Boss Ma said amusedly: "Which one of us is the smaller one?"

"I don't know about this at all. It's all their decision, and I'm not involved in the business." Zhou Buqi's nose is not a nose, his eyes are not eyes, and he doesn't need to be too polite with Lao Ma, "I'm not discussing social products with you. There is no point in discussing this stuff. What you are doing is just nonsense. I suggest you stop it immediately and reduce your losses."

Boss Ma turned a deaf ear to his offensive words and said angrily: "What on earth is going on?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Do you know Yi Bei's actions?"

"Ebay?"

Boss Ma doesn’t pay much attention to this company anymore.

Although this is also an e-commerce giant, it was beaten by Amazon in overseas markets and even more so by Alibaba in the domestic market. Compared with Alibaba, eBay has been marginalized.

Zhou Buqi said: "Ebay is going to split up PayPal, do you know that?"

"oh, I know."

Boss Ma took this news very seriously, because Alipay is the product he is most concerned about now, and PayPal's product design and every innovation are the objects of Alipay's learning.

Zhou Buqi said: "I promoted this case, you know that, right?"

Boss Ma nodded, "Well, it's been said in the news that you and Carl Icahn worked together to convince eBay's board of directors... It seems that eBay has also established a strategic partnership with Ziweiyun."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Yes, that's an additional condition. I'm talking about PayPal. Scott Thompson, the former president of eBay, is now the CEO of Yahoo."

"Um."

Boss Ma knows this all too well.

He also had plans to acquire Yahoo at one time, and Thompson was poached by Yahoo under his attention.

Zhou Buqi continued: "Carl Icahn has no interest in controlling PayPal."

"Huh?" Boss Ma immediately realized something, "What do you mean?"

Zhou Buqi said: "The way eBay spins off PayPal is a full spin-off, and all eBay shareholders will be allocated shares of PayPal in proportion. Once the spin-off is completed, eBay's holding situation will be broken, and Ziweixing International will Became the largest shareholder of PayPal."

"So..." Boss Ma took a breath of surprise, "So the control of PayPal will be in your hands?"

PayPal is separated from eBay, which means it is independent.

As promoters, Carl Icahn and Zhou Buqi are equivalent to the "founding fathers", and the power of PayPal will naturally be in their hands.

Unless they mess up PayPal and the stock price languishes for a long time, the shareholders' meeting will vote to reorganize the board of directors and weaken their power.

As long as PayPal does well, what reason does the shareholders' meeting have to seize power?

The general meeting of shareholders represents the employer and is mainly about making money.

No interest in power.

They delegate power to whoever makes money for them.

Carl Icahn is also an investor.

He doesn't understand the Internet at all, and has no interest in PayPal's strategic decisions and business operations... The power in his hands must naturally be handed over to Boss Zhou.

In this way, the big thing is basically done.

Although Zhou Buqi is not the founder of PayPal, nor has he contributed much to PayPal's past development, he relied on a wave of capital operations in cooperation with Carl Icahn to successfully seize the power of PayPal!

Moreover, Ziweixing International will be the largest shareholder of PayPal after the spin-off, holding nearly 5% of the shares, and there are legitimate reasons for this.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "I have had several special conversations with Carl Icahn. He is willing to retain part of PayPal's shares and stay on the board of directors to support me. However, this is a Wall Street bad guy, and his words may not be accurate."

Boss Ma said: "What a good and bad guy, what kind of momentum are you now? What do you do? Your companies are lining up to go public. As long as they are not stupid, everyone knows that they can make a lot of money by following you. The more capitalists on Wall Street , the less likely you are to have trouble with money. You only have room to regret it, and there is no way he will regret it."

The two of them were sitting in a small cafe next to the supermarket in Ali Park.

The staff in supermarkets and coffee shops are all young women, and they are all pretty. They all look a little timidly.

He didn't know whether he was afraid of Feng Qingyang's sword skills or Boss Zhou's marksmanship.

Zhou Buqi picked up the coffee cup and shook it at a waitress.

The waitress's face turned red and she hurried over, "Mr. Zhou, what's the matter?"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Refill."

"ah?"

The waitress was stunned for a moment.

Boss Ma said angrily: "You think you are drinking tea and you want to refill it?"

Then he turned to the waiter and ordered two more drinks.

Zhou Buqi waited for the waiter to leave, then said slowly: "If it's as you said, everything will be fine."

"You control PayPal?"

"If it doesn't work, I will ask Thompson to return to PayPal. He will definitely be willing. The board of directors and management are also happy. He has been the biggest contributor to PayPal's rapid development in the past few years. The identities of Yahoo and PayPal were swapped, and he went on to become the CEO of Yahoo , I guess he’s not feeling well either.”

Zhou Buqi is very satisfied with Thompson, the president of Yahoo.

He is not Yahoo's old force, and has been working hard to promote Yahoo's transformation into mobile terminals, and is very supportive of Zheng Xiaoli's work.

However, people's hearts are complicated.

He used to be the CEO and president of PayPal and was a great contributor. Why did he leave PayPal?

Because PayPal was a subsidiary of eBay at the time.

He couldn't do anything because there were a bunch of eBay executives watching him.

In contrast, Yahoo, although terminally ill, was an independent company that could use its talents to the best of its ability without any constraints.

Times have changed and things have completely changed!

Yahoo became a subsidiary of Ziweixing International, and a lot of group executives appeared above Thompson, Yahoo CEO. On the contrary, the old club PayPal will soon be separated from eBay and become an independent portal...

How frustrating is this?

In view of the pleasant experience at Yahoo and Zhou Buqi's kindness in keeping him from making the scandal of falsifying his academic qualifications public, everyone would be happy if he was transferred back to the spin-off PayPal.

Boss Ma was quite shocked and couldn't help but say: "Even PayPal fell into your hands. How awesome!"

Zhou Buqi looked at him with a smile, "What do you think?"

"Um?"

Boss Ma raised his eyebrows, not quite understanding what he meant.

Zhou Buqi said: "Didn't Alipay spin off from Alibaba and become Ant Financial? You must have big plans, right? This is a financial product. With your style... I guess you have to do something. event."

Boss Ma smiled and said nothing.

The matter of "Yu'E Bao" is still confidential and cannot be talked about randomly.

Zhou Buqi said modestly: "Although PayPal will soon be under my control, I lack a strategic understanding of such an Internet financial product. In this regard, I am far behind you."

"Humble! You are so humble!"

Boss Ma doesn't accept this.

He had been shocked again and again by this Xiao Zhou, and in a daze he even thought that this kid was omnipotent and could do anything!