Chapter eight hundred and seventy fourth gathering
As the world's most valuable Internet e-commerce company, as a veteran business leader Feng Yiping, when she was still in elementary school, she had already worked in well-known companies such as Procter & Gamble and Bain Capital, and finally became Disney's vice president. After Whitman arrived in Davos, her itinerary was also very full.
Like Feng Yiping, many people who know or not come to her.
People who don’t know look for her, in addition to selling high-end and scarce luxury goods like islands to her, there are also some that can help the development of their own companies with the help of ebay and paypal platforms.
Of course, there are many acquaintances to her. The World Economic Forum, which has increasingly influenced her, also provides businessmen around the world with a rare opportunity to meet and communicate. In other occasions, it is not easy to get so many people together.
Just as Whitman once said in front of Feng Yiping, ebay's business has spread all over the world, with partners all over the world, and relationships with local governments also require public relations.
So not only did someone look for her, but she also took the initiative to visit officials from some countries she had arrived.
At this time, she had just met with French officials and hurried back to the hotel where she was staying. There was another meeting waiting for her to preside over.
In economically developed Europe, it is naturally a region outside North America. EBAY needs to focus on developing. Taking this opportunity, she summoned all the business leaders of European countries to meet, cheer up, and touch the bottom line.
Thanks to the overall improvement of the world economy in the past two years, with the improvement of technology, especially the increase in broadband speed and other favorable conditions, ebay's performance in Europe has also improved to a considerable extent. This meeting was neat and harmonious.
Of course, according to Whitman's temperament, this meeting would not always be so kind. Some of the poorly-worked regional leaders were gently let go at the end of last year, but this did not mean that they could continue to stay in their original positions.
I won't deal with it at the end of last year, and I'm waiting for today.
After a row of two poor and poor performance leaders, the atmosphere of ebay's internal meeting quickly became serious. In any case, the regional heads were a very good seat and deserved to be taken seriously.
Whitman was very satisfied with the awe in his eyes when he looked at him. The facts once again proved that such a thundering method was indeed one of the best ways to establish prestige.
For a professional manager like her, it is not enough to just hand over the board of directors to a satisfactory answer. If you do not have enough prestige among company executives, your position will easily be challenged.
Speaking of which, behind the Whitmans' glory, they have really paid a lot.
But it is precisely because of their location that many people are eyeing their location at all times.
Therefore, for them, workplace competition and office politics are real challenges and threats, and we must always be highly vigilant about these aspects.
Feng Yiping does not need to use such thunder means to maintain his authority and consolidate his position, but Whitman cannot do it.
After watching from more than a dozen regional executives, Whitman, who was in a good mood, had just poured a glass of wine and had not yet taken a sip. The news reported by the assistant immediately made her mood worse. "The Jack from China just arrived and went to Feng's hotel as soon as possible,"
This time, it was not Feng Yiping who was annoyed. San Jose Airport was at a disadvantage again. It was still vivid in my mind. The scars had not healed, so naturally she could not forget the pain so soon.
Reason told her that at this time, she should not take her anger at Feng Yiping again, and that there would be no good results.
But she couldn't help but feel angry at Lao Ma. Why did you appear here too?
Not long after Taobao was launched, she once said her own statement to the outside world in an understatement, "It will die in 18 months."
Whitman remembered it very clearly. When he said that, it was July 2003. From then on, it was not much or less, just 18 months old. But did Taobao die?
No! They are developing well!
Not only that, when they joined forces with Feng Yiping, they have actually squeezed their business in China to a small corner.
Not only that, at the end of last year, Microsoft's msn decided to find partners in China in order to compete with local instant messaging tools in China. In the end, they chose Taobao.
In all countries except China, Microsoft has chosen ebay worldwide, which is already a heavy slap in the face.
And this time since Jack, that's not a slap in the face.
Whitman himself has not forgotten the bold words he made. It is conceivable that there will definitely be a lot of colleagues who will not forget their bold words, but they have forgotten them a little. After seeing Jack, they will most likely remember them.
Many of them, like themselves, have poor recognition of Asians, but who made Jack the kind of person who is easy for you to remember for innate reasons?
Then, Whitman could imagine that everyone who saw Jack would inevitably laugh at him. Every glance they looked at him was equivalent to slapping himself in the face, so why did you come to this occasion?
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"Lao Ma," "Yi Ping," Feng Yiping stood at the entrance of the hotel to welcome the newly arrived Lao Ma.
Whitman's dissatisfaction was not within their considerations, or Whitman was not important enough to let them both examine their actions.
As for why Lao Ma came back to Davos, it was very simple. His e-commerce platform needed the Davos platform to promote it. He also hoped to listen to more opinions and learn more experience in this Davos annual meeting.
As for your appearance, it may make Whitman look ugly, so what does it have to do with me? Are you asking for it all by yourself?
“It’s going well on the road?”
"It went very smoothly," Lao Ma stretched out his body. "I was a little confused, but when I arrived here, I suddenly woke up. Here are a group of heroes. How many interesting opinions can we hear these days?"
At this time, Lao Ma had not yet reached the point where he would express his own opinions. Now in such occasions, he could only serve as a listener.
It is not because some of his views were immature at this time, but because he was only a fresh starter career and was not enough to support him to attract many well-known people to listen to his voice, that is, his strength is not enough.
The challenges that Feng Yiping is worried about may come from his peers and media, and Lao Ma will not have such troubles at the moment.
"Why didn't Mr. Sun from SoftBank come this time?" Feng Yiping asked. He also planned to take this opportunity to negotiate with SoftBank to clear obstacles for the merger with Alibaba.
"He said there is a very important work to deal with," said Lao Ma.
"Do you think he might be deliberately avoiding us?" Feng Yiping asked.
"It is not ruled out that there is such a possibility. It is understandable that he will avoid the edge when facing you," Lao Ma smiled and patted the young partner's shoulder. "As far as I know, the negotiation methods he used will have no effect on you at all."
The short Masayoshi Sun is very tough when facing entrepreneurs, but Feng Yiping is an entrepreneur who is stronger than him.
"Don't worry, he won't keep avoiding the disappearance. He probably hasn't figured out the overall strategy he would talk to you yet. He may also hope to get some information from your statement at this annual meeting."
"Anyway, the general trend is that he can't stop what we have to do, right?"
He probably has a lot of contact with SoftBank, so Lao Ma obviously knows the style there.
Yes, at most, you can spend more time and more trouble. "I'll introduce you to you. This is Cummins, the head of our American part,"
"Thank you, thank you for your support for our e-commerce business," Lao Ma said to Cummins.
In terms of overseas business, Feng Yiping handed over to Cummins to purchase light luxury goods directly from the United States and sell them on the platform.
"This is Mike, Zach, Sandberg from Facebook, this is Randolph from Youtube...,"
The meeting between Feng Yiping and the others was always very kind and happy. We all know Lao Ma's eloquence, but just a few words made these American elites immediately look at him with admiration.
Looking at the easeful old horse, Feng Yiping also sighed very much. It is true that personality determines destiny.
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Chapter completed!