At Amazon's Silicon Valley branch, Wilk, who returned in vain, immediately reported to Seattle, "They refuse? Is it the acquisition method or the acquisition price that you have any objections?" Jeff Bezos asked.

This is a guy who can only see from the front that you can see some hair on his temples and a shiny head. If you follow Mr. Ge’s words, this is a smart head.

It's indeed a smart head.

In 1994, he had already achieved success in his career and accidentally saw on the Internet that netizens were growing at a rate of 2,300% per year. His eyes immediately shone in his eyes. What a big group! And how many opportunities will such a large group contain?

He immediately thought of online sales. After some screening, he chose Yiluo Bookstore and officially changed its name to Amazon, and began his journey to build a business empire.

In order to compete for the market with offline traditional bookstores, he adopted a large-scale expansion strategy, exchanging huge losses for market share. In order to win users, various discounts were his usual means. After a series of cost-effective operations, Amazon stocks were successfully listed in May 1997, establishing its largest online retailer in the United States. In 2001, it began to promote third-party open platforms on a large scale, which has surpassed the scope of an online retailer. Like Taobao later, it has become a comprehensive service provider.

Speaking of which, there is no difference between Netflix, which Feng Yiping is targeting, and Amazon, which is targeting Feng Yiping. They are all about online sales, but one not only has a wider business scope, but has also transformed into a platform, while the other party is still only doing DVD sales.

What is rare is that when the Internet bubble burst in the past few years, Amazon successfully persisted and finally achieved profitability in the fourth quarter of last year - although it was only a few million US dollars, it finally fought back the rumors in the market that Amazon was about to go bankrupt.

Bezos, who is also a computer major, has paid great attention to the technology of his website since he started his business, but he always adheres to the customer-centric concept, which is why he fell in love with nextdoor at a glance.

Nextdoor doesn't matter anything else. The existing registered users with more than 30 million registered users. The number of people participating in the "Find Nemo" group purchase exceeds 10 million, which makes Bezos' eyes shine. There are so many active users and such a high stickiness, and this user group is still growing rapidly - it is not an exaggeration to estimate this wealth.

In addition to considering business development, Bezos also plans to affect the capital market through such operations and boost the sluggish stock price.

Although it is more important to do a good job in the company compared to the stock price. However, when many shareholders on your board of directors express dissatisfaction with the sluggish stock price, if you are still indifferent, then it is not impossible to be kicked out of the company you founded by Jobs.

"No, Jeff, they didn't mean to bargain and weren't interested at all," Wilk said.

"Did you finally raise it to $1.5 billion?"

"Yes Jeff,"

“Where is the backup merger plan?”

"They don't even want to see it,"

This situation is really beyond Bezos' expectations.

Silicon Valley is a place where wealthy people are born, but mergers and acquisitions with a total amount of $1 billion are actually rare. Although it is more than other places in the world, compared with so many companies in Silicon Valley, this proportion is very, very small.

Moreover, it was just a company that was established less than two years ago.

"Since that's the case, then follow the original plan," Bezos's voice could not hear any fluctuations.

People who have achieved success to a certain extent have almost all this virtue. Most of the time, they can be more likely than ordinary people to not be happy with things or be sad with themselves.

"Okay, I'll contact Ms. Huang immediately, two other institutional investors, Jiasheng Capital and Leading Capital. Are there any results for the background investigation?"

Although Buchanan said that he was the only one of the board members in the United States, Wilk already knew that the fourth largest shareholder Huang Jingping has been in the United States.

However, she only holds 10% of the shares, and it is not enough to acquire all her shares.

"I'm investigating, I believe it won't take long,"

"Where is Mr. Feng?"

"I'll contact him directly if necessary," Bezos said.

Although Bezos did not see Feng Yiping's open wealth, he should also contact Feng Yiping for equality and respect.

Yes, although Buchanan clearly expressed his lack of willingness to be acquired on behalf of the board of directors, these people at Amazon do not care at all.

Since nextdoor clearly disagrees with the negotiations on the doorstep, and the good-faith merger and acquisition failed, they immediately launched the next step of action, hostile merger and acquisition, and were preparing to directly contact the shareholders of nextdoor.

Although they knew that they were quite insincere about the goal of nextdoor, whether it was 1 billion or 1.5 billion.

There is no such thing as successful people in the United States. Of course, this principle is probably applicable to everyone.

Let’s talk about Bezos, and later a story about him circulated in Silicon Valley.

A friend of him founded a company. The company's products are very helpful to Amazon and have good development momentum. Just as the company was preparing for a new round of financing, Bezos sent someone to send him a purchase offer. The founder of the company, Bezos' friend, was very excited and decided to give up further financing activities. So, brothers are good, Jeff should not treat me badly.

Then, the two parties negotiated the acquisition for a long time. When the company was out of stock, Bezos asked Amazon to withdraw its acquisition offer and watched the company founded by a friend go bankrupt.

Of course, on the day the company was liquidated, Amazon people came again. They took luxury cars and contracts, waiting at the door of the company, waiting for the software engineers they valued to go out with boxes.

Bezos and Amazon got what they wanted at the lowest cost.

As for the friend who was tricked by him, well, I probably won't get Bezos's words "sorry,"

The American business world is such a ruthless and self-interested place.

Of course, even Jobs and Gates were no exception in this regard.

For example, that year, Jobs heard that Microsoft launched its own graphical interface operating system and immediately called Gates, "Why did you steal my creativity? You are ruthless, you are shameless, you are unreasonable," he said.

Gates retorted, "Brother Steve, if you say this, you are stealing, you are also ruthless, shameless and unreasonable, because this thing was first thought of by Xerox Palo Alto Technology Center,"

These two big names who later emphasized the most powerful copyright, did not hesitate when plagiarizing Xerox's ideas.

Perhaps the only criterion for these people to measure many things is whether they can bring benefits to themselves.

Wilk immediately called Huang Jingping. The information showed that the woman who had been applying for investment immigration not long ago was as young as Feng, only 24 years old, and was just over the age of graduating from university.

"Hello Miss Huang, I am Andy Wilk, senior vice president of Amazon. We are looking forward to in-depth cooperation with the nextdoor you invest in. I think of visiting you in your office. I don't know when it will be convenient for you?"

Wilk heard the screams of the adults and children over there, and it looked very lively. Is she on vacation?

"Mr. Wilk," Yiping said correctly, and he received their call. "Our comments, Mr. Buchanan has already reported to you, so I think there is really no need to meet,"

"Ms. Huang, if possible, I still hope to have an interview with you. Our company is very sincere. According to your wishes, we have formulated several different plans. I think, if you listen to these plans, at least you will not suffer any losses, right?"

"In addition, as far as we know, nextdoor is still in a loss state and its business model is not very clear. Compared with the huge expenses of building sub-sites in various places, the current group buying business cannot completely improve the financial situation of the entire company. We believe that withdrawing at this time is a very wise choice.

Moreover, you can choose the way to withdraw, you can cash, and you can exchange it for Amazon stocks, too.”

Amanda was already calling her mother in Lisa's arms. Huang Jingping didn't want to continue talking to this person, "I'm honored, but I'm sorry, I really don't dare to be interested. Thank you for your call,"

Wilk said so much, how could she sell her shares?

If there is only one person in the world who supports Feng Yiping's approach the most, it must be her.

"Baby, do you still want to ride a carousel? OK, mom will take you to sit,"

"Ping, is it about mergers and acquisitions?" Lisa asked.

It seems that the news has spread.

"Yes,"

"Feng's meaning is really not considered at all?"

"Lisa, believe me, we operate independently, and Mike's future will definitely get much more than Amazon can give now," Huang Jingping said with certainty.

Listening to the buzzing sound on the other side of the phone, Wilk felt that things seemed to be really tricky.

They naturally found out that Huang Jingping is Feng Yiping's girlfriend, and Feng's girlfriend is this opinion. Does it mean that Feng will also have this opinion, the chairman of nextdoor?

If this is the case, it will be more troublesome. You can only use other unconventional means to achieve this. (To be continued.)

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