Chapter 2982 Snatching Food from the Tiger’s Mouth

How to deal with Qualcomm? Actually, Zhou Buqi doesn't need to give advice.

Boss Lei has already had an idea.

Even the whole plan was planned by Boss Lei, and Zhou Buqi was kept in the dark for a while.

The reason why he came here specially was not to ask for advice, but to ask for instructions.

This is the attitude expressed by Lei Jun.

He is not Zhou Buqi's subordinate, nor is he Zhou Buqi's younger brother. With his status and position, he can't be a subordinate to others and work for others. But in the interaction between the two, Lei Jun is obviously lowering his posture and deliberately putting Boss Zhou in a higher position.

Especially here is the United States.

This requires Zhou Buqi to "lead" him even more.

After all, there was no Zhou Buqi in the previous life. Xiaomi still did well under the leadership of Lei Jun. As expected, it reached a strategic cooperation with Qualcomm when Xiaomi was very weak, and also carried out cross-shareholding with each other, becoming "in-laws", which solved Xiaomi's shackles on mobile phone chips in one fell swoop.

When other smartphones are lacking chip supply, Xiaomi has never been restricted in terms of chips.

Especially high-end phones.

It can be said that there are only three high-end mobile phones in the world that are not restricted by chips. In addition to Apple and Samsung, there is only Xiaomi. Other mobile phone manufacturers will definitely be more or less restricted by chip supply.

Because there are few high-end chips, Qualcomm has given priority to Xiaomi. Other mobile phone manufacturers need to queue up slowly to get chips, which makes it difficult for them to get the opportunity to launch chips first, and the fresh experience opportunities are snatched away by Xiaomi.

In this regard, even Samsung is not as good as Xiaomi.

Now, Lei Jun has come to the United States and took the initiative to follow the process of "asking for instructions early and reporting late". Zhou Buqi will not be able to use Qiao's status to show off, as if he is so great. Instead, he will return the favor and share the business secrets of the acquisition of LinkedIn with him.

And Lei Jun's views on mergers and acquisitions are indeed very reasonable.

Ziweixing International should initiate an acquisition of LinkedIn!

If Ziweixing International does not buy, judging from the attitude shown by Reid Hoffman, it will definitely look for other buyers, which will pose a potential threat.

In particular, Kurian, as the CEO of Ziwei Cloud, wrote a long exposition report, expressing the importance of acquiring LinkedIn in many aspects. Especially in the development of Ziwei Cloud, LinkedIn can complement Ziwei Cloud!

LinkedIn is a business social product, which is aimed at business people and professionals, and these people happen to be the target of corporate users.

Zhou Buqi immediately thought of Microsoft.

In his previous life, after Nadella came to power as the CEO of Microsoft, he stood firm and stabilized his power, and soon showed his acquisition maniac personality and started buying all the way. The largest transaction was the acquisition of LinkedIn for US$26.5 billion in 2016.

At the same time, Microsoft Cloud has achieved rapid development under the leadership of Nadella.

Accumulating strength and growing rapidly.

Every year, the market is expanding, and every year, the market that originally belonged to Amazon Cloud is encroaching.

This makes people think.

Is the development of Microsoft Cloud related to Microsoft's acquisition of LinkedIn? After all, before this, Microsoft Cloud was always in a half-dead state, and after the acquisition of LinkedIn, it soon underwent a qualitative change. Microsoft Cloud became the world's second largest cloud computing platform, second only to Amazon Cloud.

It is of great importance and must be cautious!

Whether it is for the expansion of its own social business or the ecological synergy effect formed by the cloud business, Ziweixing International has sufficient reasons to launch mergers and acquisitions on LinkedIn! Just as Lei Jun said, at least we can't let such an excellent company as LinkedIn fall into the hands of competitors!

Lei Jun left Zhou Buqi, and he was going to Qualcomm to "secretly communicate".

Zhou Buqi must not show up for such things.

He called Microsoft's Ballmer.

"Happy New Year!"

"Haha, Happy New Year!"

Although it is already January 3, 2014, it is still New Year's Day, and there is still a New Year atmosphere.

Zhou Buqi simply exchanged a few pleasantries with him and then asked, "I'm curious, have you chosen your successor?"

"Yes."

Ballmer sighed.

He was about to lose his power, and he felt a little disappointed.

Zhou Buqi asked with a smile: "Satya Nadella?"

Ballmer laughed and kept it a secret, "You'll know when the time comes."

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "Why wait? Everyone knows that you have already chosen the Indian?"

"Well..." Ballmer hesitated, sighed, and told the truth, "It's mainly because Gates likes him very much, you know... Gates has incredible influence in this company. When he and I have disagreements, the board of directors will support him one-sidedly."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "When I was young, I always admired Bill Gates, and I was also fascinated by Steve Ballmer. In my eyes, you are the same."

Ballmer was in a very good mood and said with a smile: "You are really... We are old friends, do you have anything to do?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Nothing, just caring about old friends... By the way, when will you hand over?"

"Next month, after the year-end board meeting next month, I will officially step down."

Ballmer didn't hold anything back.

As Zhou Buqi said before, this is no longer a trade secret. It has spread in Silicon Valley that Indian Nadella will replace him as Microsoft's new CEO.

Zhou Buqi knew what he was doing and asked, "Why not wait until April? I thought you had to wait until after the shareholders' meeting before handing over the job. At least you can accept the applause of all shareholders at the last shareholders' meeting, This is what you deserve."

Ballmer smiled, then sighed, "It's almost time, let go and relax. By the way, do me a favor!"

"you say!"

"You own an NBA team, right?"

"Well, the Golden State Warriors have done really well this year. Their record in the regular season is far ahead. It is very likely that they will win the championship this year."

Zhou Buqi couldn't help but show off.

Because the other party is a loyal basketball fan, as a busy boss, he often shows up at NBA stadiums to watch games.

Ballmer said: "Then you help me pay attention and see which team in the NBA is willing to sell. I also want to buy a team. It must be a big city, Seattle, DC, New York, Los Angeles, etc. The city doesn’t want it.”

Zhou Buqi said: "Okay, let me ask you."

After making this call, Zhou Buqi hurriedly called Lu Qi over and said solemnly: "I just learned about the situation. Microsoft will announce the appointment of the next CEO at the fiscal year board meeting next month. That’s Nadella!”

Lu Qi didn't quite understand what he meant, so he smiled and said, "I will send a congratulatory letter in the name of the company at that time."

Zhou Buqi waved his hand and said in a deep voice: "After Nadella came to power, he was under a lot of pressure. He had to stabilize the power in his hands, make the executives who were at the same level with him return to their duties, and handle the company well. Internal interpersonal relationships. Another point is that Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia is too large, with a huge number of employees and assets, and will encounter many integration difficulties. These are all problems left to Nadella in a short period of time. It’s hard to get your hands free.”

Lu Qi was a little surprised, "Why are you so interested in him all of a sudden?"

Zhou Buqi said firmly: "We must take advantage of this weak opportunity to complete the acquisition of LinkedIn before Nadella makes his move! We must not leave him a chance to breathe. Once he has sorted it out, Internally, he will definitely try to steal LinkedIn from us!”

Lu Qi was shocked, "You want to acquire LinkedIn?"

"This is everyone's opinion, and almost all the executives agree!" Zhou Buqi couldn't hesitate at this time, "We have to take action immediately and contact LinkedIn. We have to be fast, and we must be in time. Ballmer did us a big favor before Della dealt with Microsoft's internal problems. He left Nadella in a mess. We must not miss such a precious opportunity! Eat, grab LinkedIn!”