Charles didn’t know that Bing’s rival was Skype, which had been making a lot of noise on Wall Street and Silicon Valley recently.

Of course, he did not know that Ning Zimo was not hostile to eBay, the current owner of Skype, but regarded its acquirer, the "Rothschild Group", as a rival.

It's just that the grudges from the previous life were sorted out by Ning Zimo as early as the day of his rebirth, and he had a different way of looking at them.

But the twist of fate finally caused Rothschild's rabbit to crash into the big tree planted by Ning Zimo.

Little did Rothschild know that the grudges from his previous life had finally come to be settled.

He didn't know that Ning Zimo had already prepared a huge net for him and had already put it on their heads.

Not aware of any danger, he was still struggling at the Skype negotiation table.

…

"We all know that all the feedback that Skype can provide to eBay has been eliminated by eBay in the past time. The remaining value can only be reflected in our MySpace system."

Sitting at the head of the negotiation, Rothschild raised his chin and watched Winston approaching the opposite side step by step.

Winston's aggressive style as the second negotiator was a negotiation strategy that their team had agreed upon early on, in order to hand over the opponent's trump card as soon as possible.

It's just that the negotiations have now entered the fourth week of November, and a new change has gradually surfaced, leaving Rothschild somewhat unprepared.

The only difference they have with eBay over the acquisition of Skype is not the price, but has gradually evolved into setting a goal for him to sell part of his shares in Skype!

Partial sale?

Rothschild had never thought about this issue, and it was impossible for eBay to make such a wishful thinking.

Although Skype today has 300 million users, judging from the business data that we have gradually learned these days, the operating income is less than 1 billion a year, and from the profit at the beginning of the acquisition to the potential annual loss of 10 million this year

, all show that Skype has no value to eBay now.

In other words, eBay's so-called wishful thinking of partial sales is to allow Skype to enter the MySpace social system and add value after this acquisition.

In this way, they can one day in the future make up for the original investment loss of US$5.6 billion by selling the remaining value-added shares?

It is even possible that they are optimistic about the development of the social ecosystem. But because of lack of ability, they resort to partial sales to achieve their goals.

Rothschild sensed a hint of danger. After all, the idea of ​​partially acquiring shares in Skype could not be allowed by eBay. He was afraid that such an acquisition would not maximize the benefits of this acquisition.

What's more, where do they have the obligation to spend years in business to help others make money?

The acquisition of Skype must be a complete acquisition, there is no doubt about this!

Thinking of this, Rothschild tapped his fingertips lightly on the table.

As soon as he made this move, Winston on his left leaned forward.

"Ms. Meg, no company is willing to take the project it acquires and vigorously develops without fully controlling it in its own hands. When Skype was acquired by eBay, I don't think you would allow the founder of Skype to retain even the slightest bit of it.

shares?"

Ning Zimo, the rising Internet giant now, was overwhelmed by giants like eBay when he sold Skype.

In the end, eBay got what it wanted and won Skype, an emerging Internet project that was on the rise, and the deal became the biggest hot topic on the Internet in 2004.

This kind of argument has a considerable market after Emperor Penguin has developed to a certain scale in the past two years.

Many people on the Internet are even lamenting: If Ning Zimo had not sold Skype back then, what kind of Internet empire would this Internet giant be sitting on now?

There are those who sigh, and there are even more countless those who lament.

It was as if they were guiding Ning Zimo.

It will allow this giant to sit on a higher mountaintop.

When Meg Whitman thought of this, she couldn't help but sigh silently in her heart.

Only now does she feel that after acquiring Skype, it brought the media trend in such a direction. It was a wise move at the time and earned eBay a considerable reputation.

But after so many years, she realized that everything she thought she had won was actually just a calculation in the eyes of the young founder.

Especially the arrogant second-ranking negotiator in front of him. His remarks just now were somewhat influenced by these remarks.

What he didn't know at all was that everything they were doing now was trapped in the young founder's secret plan.

This secret plan will bring greater benefits to eBay's sale. If it weren't for a decent farewell before leaving office, she would not even be willing to sit at this negotiation table and waste time.

But since she agreed to Ning Zimo's plan last month, she had to sit here as an executor.

eBay CEO is an executor of that young man's plan? Meg Whitman would not believe this fact if she were not at the negotiating table now.

It's just that this young man has exceeded her expectations by far and is no longer the person who was slaughtered by others four years ago.

He only needs to hide in a secret place to have everything under control.

And she really only needs to delay according to his plan, and she can increase the amount of this transaction to a level that their eBay board of directors can be overjoyed.

ε=(′ο｀*)))Alas,

Meg Whitman sighed again. She raised her eyes and glanced at the arrogant second seat opposite, and then leaned forward:

"You have to understand, Mr. Winston, that it is the right of any company to pursue maximization of profits. We do this to ensure that our interests are not damaged, and to ensure that Skype is in your hands and will not harm you. cause losses.

After all, the main purpose of business cooperation is to make profits. But for a positive enterprise, the main purpose of cooperation is win-win.

At present, although Skype cannot bring healthy profits under our eBay system, Skype's current model does lack a social supporting link.

I have been thinking about a question these days, that is, if we cooperate with a company in the social field, will a new path extend from Skype."

Without giving the other side much time to react, Meg Whitman continued, "E-commerce and social networking can be bundled in a sense. At the beginning, we were optimistic about Skype because of its social attributes.

However, the Internet has developed rapidly in recent years, and social networking has become an important segment. However, Skype does lack in the fine aspects of the social field. This is also our original intention to seek changes for Skype.

Now, there are two ways in front of Skype. One is to sell all the shares to you, and the other is a cooperation that will benefit both parties. For us at eBay, we touched on some new things during the negotiation process.

After thinking about it, I prefer to choose the latter.

Because our cooperation with you will bring Skype to a new high point. But if we are separated from each other, we will separate the advantages of bundling e-commerce and social networking."

Meg Whitman squinted her eyes and scanned Rothschild's face.

When she raised her chin again, she said meaningfully:

"What do you two think?"

This sudden change in style made Rothschild, who had been leading a rhythm in the past four weeks, very uncomfortable.

For some reason, he vaguely sensed a hint of risk.

***+***

"There must be some changes here. I don't believe they can have such a big ideological change in just one month..."

After retreating from Mountain View to Cameo Coast, Wen Luoshang suddenly changed from the person who made progress at the negotiation table to a very angry person.

Seeing his subordinate losing his temper, Rothschild, who was deep in thought, had no time to consider his reaction.

About one month into the negotiation, the full acquisition suddenly turned into a partial share acquisition. This would be unbelievable to anyone who was fully prepared!

"Will there be any new suitors?" Zhang Junhao said suddenly.

Wen Luoshang and Rothschild were stunned for a moment, but they both shook their heads.

Wen Luoshang still had a sullen face, "It's unlikely. Recently, we have withdrawn all the people from Ning Zimo's side to follow Meg Whitman secretly. But at this time, they didn't find anything."

"Although Ning Zimo is in the United States now, all his movements are under the attention of the media." After a pause, Wen Luoshang added, "In recent times, his focus has been on cooperating with Bing.

, I think he is planning to put some effort into search traffic.”

In recent days, news that Bing is about to go public has spread throughout Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

After Bing digested Google this year, it has become a hot search engine. Choosing to deepen cooperation before its listing will surely attract enough attention to the craze for Bing's listing.

"Emperor Penguin's Treasure Digging Mall is competing with Amazon. At this time, whether to choose a fixed-line social network or expand search traffic is the biggest problem Ning Zimo needs to face."

Wen Luoshang suppressed his anger and put on a look of disdain, "He is such an arrogant person and chose to give up when he acquired MySpace. This to a certain extent shows that he will not do it again on Skype.

Moreover, in his eyes, our size makes us his competitors. And it is this kind of contempt that seems to be an important space for us to survive in the 'crack'."

Wen Luoshang shook his index and middle fingers and deliberately named the word "in the cracks" with quotation marks in his mouth.

Then, he suddenly realized, "We cannot forget another possibility, which is that Meg Whitman wants to obtain more funds for eBay's board of directors before leaving office to make her departure dignified."

Zhang Junhao nodded and stopped talking to Ning Zimo for a while.

Taking into account the remarks of the two right-hand men beside him, Rothschild quickly calculated the changes in this acquisition in his mind.

As he was thinking about it, he glanced at Ling Shengnan, who was sitting beside him without saying a word.

Seeing that she seemed to be listening attentively, he tried his best to show his calm side in the face of danger:

"The Internet has the characteristics of becoming famous overnight. Since we decided to acquire Skype early on, we should not be affected by any side effects.

I think the changes that occurred at the negotiating table today should be some kind of strategy by Meg Whitman to raise prices. And for such changes, there is no need for us to get into trouble.

After all, although we initially estimated an acquisition price of 5 billion, we only estimated that Skype would be of insufficient value to eBay, and that eBay would not be able to see the dividends that social networks would bring to e-commerce.

But today's situation shows that our initial rapid acquisition plan has been shattered. The other party seems to have woken up and understood the value of bundling social networks and e-commerce.

Just as we plan to expand our cooperation with Amazon after acquiring Skype, it is impossible for a company as big as eBay and so many think tanks to be completely unresponsive to this."

While the negotiations were ongoing, the Rothschild team had already discussed the development of Skype after its acquisition.

After studying Dibao Mall under Ning Zimo, they became increasingly optimistic about the bundled development of social networks and e-commerce.

For this reason, when the team acquired Skype, they also sent inquiries to Amazon.

At present, the cooperation between MySpace and Amazon has a preliminary framework.

This makes them attach more importance to the future development of e-commerce after the acquisition of Skype.

However, their plan is not likely to be a partial acquisition of Skype and eBay to reach some kind of cooperation, as Meg Whitman said.

They want to focus on a larger market, so naturally they choose Amazon, which can compete with Ning Zimo's Dibao Mall.

Rothschild made up his mind, "There is no doubt that we must resolutely implement the original plan. At this time, even if we make an appropriate premium, we must fully acquire the shares of Skype."

After making a decision gracefully, Rothschild asked the person on the side, "Katsuo, as a woman with a delicate mind... what do you think of the situation and decision we are facing today."

Ling Shengnan had been sitting "outside the circle" and quietly listened to the discussion of several people. When Rothschild asked, she was so confused that she didn't know how to answer.

As an "undercover" who accidentally infiltrated Organization X and accidentally broke into the team of his sweetheart's mortal enemy.

She was fully aware of the purpose of the group of people in front of her who had been staring at Ning Zimo in the darkness.

They had closely followed Ning Zimo's development trajectory, copied it and accumulated a lot of funds.

In the past, they may have been just mosquitoes buzzing in the night, but after acquiring Skype, they may become larger vampires.

Moreover, they have many plans to follow up step by step.

Perhaps one day, they will turn from a small stumbling block into a threshold or a wall in front of him.

Although you have made various efforts in secret, have you noticed the existence of this enemy?
Chapter completed!