Chapter 503: Cheer up
San Francisco.
In the past two days, some people in luxury houses on Nob Hill have an illusion when going out or going home, whether I live in Japan City (a Japanese-American settlement in San Francisco)?
Those who get off the luxury car, get off the Dangdang car, or even walk up leisurely from the sidewalk... are all Japanese who are still wearing suits, speaking weird English, or just speaking Japanese in such weather.
This is actually because Masayoshi Son's SoftBank booked most of the rooms in Fairmont, a luxury hotel on the mountain, to hold an interim executive meeting of SoftBank.
Taking executives abroad for meetings is very common at SoftBank, but it has never been before that SoftBank executives were temporarily summoned to San Francisco to hold an extraordinary meeting in such a luxurious hotel.
The main reason is that Masayoshi Son, who was very strong outside and had sex when he was clamoring, is now getting rich.
He wanted to use this method to show the outside world that we are not short of money now.
Of course, even if you don’t have enough money, Masayoshi Son would not spend so much like a nouveau riche. There are other deep considerations to convene this temporary executive meeting.
Because as before, the acquisition of Yahoo was almost a decision he made on his own, and the executive team did not support it; not long ago, Fabk and Twitter announced that they were negotiating for the acquisition, which brought a blow to SoftBank team; and in recent talks with Yahoo, the M&A team has almost been hit by Microsoft and Dr. teams; and this time, although he raised enough funds needed to acquire Yahoo, it also means that SoftBank has assumed high debts as a result...
It can be said that the morale of the entire SoftBank team was quite sluggish at this time.
No matter how confident Masayoshi Son is, he knows that under such circumstances, no matter how powerful he is, it is not easy to complete such a big move as acquiring Yahoo.
After all, he is not a super Saiyan.
Boosting morale was his inevitable choice at this time.
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In the presidential suite, Masayoshi Son was practicing his next speech in front of the mirror, which was a habit he had always retained.
"We...we..." He adjusted his facial expressions and gestures in front of the mirror like an actor who was very strict with himself.
"Qukou", the door was knocked, and a gentle female voice came, "Sir,"
Masayoshi Son looked at the person in the mirror again, tidied up the collar, and walked towards the door step by step.
On the way to the banquet hall by his assistants, he kept his mouth shut without saying a word, and his movements were calm and slow, but as soon as he entered the banquet hall, he looked at the standing executives, his movements suddenly became swift.
He quickly stepped onto the stage with a confident and calm smile on his face, but in his usual tone, he asked the audience in the tone of his usual conversation with people in the office, "Hello everyone!"
In any case, everyone in the audience stood up at this time, applause was warm and cheers were everywhere - this kind of atmosphere was not difficult to create, especially when most of the people present were Japanese who liked to follow the crowd.
"Please sit, please sit," Masayoshi Son greeted. He gently pressed the remote control in his hand, and a chart was quickly displayed on the projection screen.
"Seven years ago, SoftBank's predecessor, Global World, was founded,"
Speaking of this, he couldn't help but remember that when he returned to Japan from the United States and started his business seven years ago, Feng Yiping probably didn't even walk.
Well, Feng Yiping had just turned one year old at that time and really couldn't walk.
"At that time, we had no funds, no connections, and no mature business philosophy. We only had me, two colleagues, and a firm belief,"
This time there was a real laugh from the audience.
Because everyone knows that shortly after the company was established, the two employees at the beginning resigned one after another because they think this guy who is short in Japanese is too uneasy and arrogant.
So much so that the later "Internet Emperor" almost became a real lonely man for a time.
"On the day it was established, I said, "We want to be a number one company in Japan... The company's turnover must reach 1 in 5 years.
Chapter completed!