Chapter 955 Overseas must be self-reliant

"Guan Peisheng" is easy.

The three new little secretaries, Yang Xue, Ning Lu and Sun Guanran, were all very happy when they heard about it. The main reason is that I spend every day in the general affairs room, which is really boring.

Zhou Buqi really can't be ruthless, and circle these few high-quality seedlings. Women who have no talent are virtues. It sounds like raising vases, but in fact it is raising pigs. Feed every day and the pigs will be happy.

But it's a little cruel and unfair to these fine young girls.

Many people can do this kind of thing. Anyway, there are many people in the country, and there is no shortage of excellent people. Without these three, it will not affect at all. Just circle around and enjoy the beauty.

Zhou Buqi couldn't bear it, especially he couldn't do anything to his female junior high school classmates.

It is up to them to provide them with opportunities for career development and room for growth in life. It is up to them how they will go in the future and how they will choose opportunities.

At that time, even if a lot of them fell into the arms of Boss Zhou, he could only accept it calmly.

Since ancient times, beauties love heroes.

I'd rather be a hero's concubine than a mediocre wife.

There is no way, whoever told himself to be too outstanding has to accept his fate.

The new semester is about to start.

Ziweixing Research Institute provided a material to apply for a special fund of 300 million yuan to invest in the university. Among them, 100 million yuan will be given to Tsinghua University, 100 million yuan will be given to Peking University, 100 million yuan will be given to Zhejiang University, and artificial intelligence laboratories will be established with the computer schools of the three universities to do some research in this area.

Needless to say, Peking University and Tsinghua University are the two most outstanding universities in China. On the Zhejiang University side, not long ago, Ziweixing acquired two artificial intelligence companies in Hangzhou, and merged them to form the Hangzhou branch of the research institute, relying on the technology and human resources of Zhejiang University.

The funding was approved by the technical committee and signed by Zhou Buqi.

Money, money, money is used everywhere.

Before the B round of financing, Ziweixing had a reserve fund of more than 8 billion, and obtained another 3.575 billion US dollars through the B round... It has only been a few months, and more than half of it has been invested.

Ten billion yuan of special funds for subsidies, 10 billion yuan.

The operating capital of the Japanese business is US$500 million, and another US$200 million will be invested in infrastructure and cloud data centers. Some time ago, it successively acquired several companies such as UC and Shanda Literature...

Currently, there are still 5.5 billion Huaxia coins left in Ziwei Star's account, plus 1.8 billion US dollars.

Next, we will invest in JD.com, and cooperate with JD.com to do e-commerce in Japan, with a capital of about 200 million US dollars.

It will also go to Silicon Valley and Japan to establish a research center, with an estimated investment of 100 million US dollars.

Especially to promote YikYak to the European and American markets, this is an arduous task, and we have to prepare 300-500 million US dollars...

Fortunately, for Ziweixing's domestic business, except for the constant investment in the research institute, other businesses can generate relatively stable profits. Even the search business and the engineering institute's outsourcing business have received good news after the Spring Festival.

Huangtu's automatic identification program sold 55 orders once it was sold. This one deal alone brought Ziwei Star 270 million yuan in revenue. Even through the gold coin wallet system, I can probably receive a service fee of 1.2 million to 1.5 million yuan from Sohu this month.

Judging from the current situation, even if the country wants to do cloud computing and artificial intelligence laboratories, with the healthy development of Ziweixing's business and the promotion brought by strong traffic... Ziweixing has suffered huge losses in the domestic market for two consecutive years The market is coming to an end.

A loss of 1 billion the year before last and a loss of 6 billion last year.

This year, during the period of the outbreak of the economic crisis, Ziwei Star will generate huge profits in the domestic market.

Overall estimates, this year's domestic market profits are expected to be between 2.2 billion and 2.5 billion.

This is the goal set by the board of directors at the beginning of the year.

At present, it must be low.

Under the financial tsunami, the advertising supply side is centralized, and the income of Ziweixing's various business segments will explode in a blowout.

The trouble is the foreign market.

It is best not to transfer the money earned at home to foreign countries, just use the money raised from Softbank. There is still 1.8 billion US dollars of foreign exchange remaining, and we will strive to secure foreign markets.

Soon, the money came again.

Tang Binchen did not go home for the Spring Festival.

"Old Zhou, I found out!"

"Ameba?"

"Yes, I talked with their boss for two whole days. You don't even know that I'm going. I was given Japanese sake to drink. My mind is still buzzing now."

Zhou Buqi laughed and said: "Going to drink? Good thing, this shows that they intend to cooperate. If I treat you as an outsider, I won't invite you to drink."

Tang Binchen said: "Well, Fujita... is the big boss of Ameba, his name is Fujita Jin. He is very young, not much older than us, and he is definitely different in the Japanese business society. He welcomes Ziweixing's investment, and he also admitted it. In the process of development, Ameba was greatly inspired by Friends.com.”

Zhou Buqi said: "They are all smart people who can clearly see the current economic situation."

Tang Binchen said with a smile: "Yes, even Softbank has stated that it will invest cautiously in the next two years to prevent unpredictable risks. Now we are willing to take money. If Ameba does not accept investment, it is not certain whether it will survive."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Tell me about the specific situation."

Tang Binchen said: "That Fujita Jin came back from the United States, so the business thinking is not the same as that of the traditional Japanese. It was only after I met him that I realized that such a popular website as Ameba is not yet profitable. This is in Japanese business rules. It’s unimaginable. He knows the power of Facebook and welcomes Ziweixing’s strategic investment.”

"What about the price?"

"His psychological valuation of Ameba is US$1 billion, but now that the economy is down and there is no profit, his positioning is US$800 million. If we are a strategic investment and are willing to share some experience and business technology of Friends.com in the past, he Willing to transfer 10% of the shares to us at a price of 50 million US dollars."

"No! Too little!"

Zhou Buqi categorically denied it.

10% is a small minority shareholder with no sense of participation and too little voice.

Tang Binchen said: "Yes, I didn't accept it, and his attitude is not that strong. I think we can still talk about it. Well, this kind of American thinking is better. I'm really afraid that he is a local Japanese entrepreneur, as hard as a rock. Yes, that would be difficult."

Zhou Buqi said in a deep voice: "I'll give you 300 million US dollars, 40% of the shares. Later, I will ask Nie Caijun to go to Japan to settle this matter! If he has any objections, he will contact Yahoo people to help negotiate a settlement." .If you can’t do it, you can ask Sun Zhengyi to come forward. He is the director of Ziwei Star, and he can’t just be a name and not do anything.”

"ah?"

Tang Binchen was slightly taken aback.

Zhou Buqi said: "The meaning of Ziweixing's investment in Ameba is to attract traffic to YikYak and help develop celebrity routes. This is only one aspect. From a longer-term perspective, Ameba, like Yahoo Japan, will become our competitor sooner or later."

"I'll go!" Tang Binchen understood what he meant, "You mean we should have enough power to speak and be able to influence Ameba's decision-making, so that we can know ourselves and our enemies when there is competition in the future?"

Zhou Buqi said: "I'll ask someone to send you a confidential material in the future. You can see our positioning on Twitter. Doing overseas business is walking a tightrope on a cliff. If you want to do it, you must In addition to strong products, we must effectively weaken the strength of our main competitors. At home, the government can help us suppress foreign companies. Abroad, we can only rely on our own efforts.”

Tang Binchen took a deep breath, "I understand!"

It turns out that there is still this layer!

The boss is indeed the boss, and the perspective is indeed higher, farther and more macroscopic.

Zhou Buqi said: "This matter must be settled as soon as possible. Um... Tell that vine what, after the strategic investment, Friends.com will open all the codes of the open platform to them for free, expressing our greatest sincerity. "

Tang Binchen was silent for a while, and then slowly said: "If this is the case, then I will quickly contact the local law firm and accounting firm to plan this matter. This kind of matter still depends on the local people to negotiate."

...

Zhou Buqi shared with all M7 and above executives about the large strategic investment in Ameba through Tick and in the form of documents.

The controversy is not small.

Too much money to spend!

This investment has been made, and more than one billion U.S. dollars will be invested in the Japanese market one after another, which is too scary.

Baidu's search in Japan was vigorous and spectacular, and the former chairman of Sony was invited. How much did it cost?

Only $50 million!

Boss Zhou is crazy.

If he personally sits in Japan and grasps this business in person, it goes without saying that everyone will definitely support him with all his strength, even if he fails.

But Tang Binchen...he is a defeated general!

Can he do it?

He Yang left a message: "Be careful."

Cheng Binghao replied: "I reserve my opinion."

Xu Liangjie responded: "Isn't it too risky?"

Fortunately, Ji Zian, Liu Qing, Wang Xiaochuan, Shi Jinglin and Shen Xiangyang strongly supported and stood firmly on the side of Boss Zhou.

Zhang Yiming did not comment on the document, but directly sent an IM message, "Why do you dare to support Tang Binchen like this?"

Zhou Buqi: "I trust him, just like I trust you."

Zhang Yiming: "What if it fails? I don't think it's a good thing. You spent so much money in the Japanese market. If you fail, I'm afraid he will commit suicide. In Japan's environment, it is really necessary to prevent such things. Even if you I have a lot of confidence in him, and I can't put all the pressure on him."

Zhou Buqi thinks it makes sense.

After thinking for a while, I came up with a new idea and called him directly: "I will assign you a new task."

Zhang Yiming readily accepted, "Okay, let's talk."

Zhou Buqi said: "Go to Japan and have a good chat with Tang Binchen."

"ah?"

Zhang Yiming was a little puzzled.

Zhou Buqi went on to say: "Tang Binchen is only M5. It is not compliant to ask him to report directly to me. From now on, you will be in charge of this business and let him report to you. I have already decided on the big framework. Ameba must take Next. How to develop next, you sort out your thoughts, discuss with Tang Binchen and Yu Yongfu, and figure out a correct development route."

Zhang Yiming was a bit jealous, and explained: "I'm not asking you for power."

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "In my opinion, you will be better than me if you take charge of this business."

In the previous life, TikTok was born out of nowhere, not to mention the Asian market, it was able to sweep the global market and beat Silicon Valley giants to the ground. Behind is Zhang Yiming.

He is indeed more suitable.