Chapter 762 I think it’s worth 15 trillion

Author: Linjiangxian

Next, Lu Yiming analyzed the success of selling 3721 to Yahoo.

With Lu Yiming's analysis, Zhou Hongyi felt more and more that this deal could be successful.

Compared with going public to make money, Zhou Hongyi is actually more interested in selling to Yahoo.

The stock market is like a card table, and it is even more dangerous than the card table. I don’t know how many times more dangerous it is. When you are on the table, winning or losing is out of your control.

Although Zhou Hongyi is always confident in herself, the stock market doesn't care about you so much. What's more, during the Internet winter in recent years, many Internet stocks have become waste paper.

But selling to Yahoo is different. You can argue with reason and clearly mark the price. When the time comes, you can just leave the market with the money, and the profit will be guaranteed regardless of drought or flood.

As for how much money Yahoo can make with 3721, that is Yahoo's own business.

If Zhou Hongyi’s goal is to go public and then become bigger and stronger and create greater glory, then she will definitely not be happy to listen to Lu Yiming analyzing Yahoo here.

However, Zhou Hongyi’s goal is just to collect money and cash out, so naturally whoever gives the money is the boss, and it doesn’t matter whether it is listed or not.

Zhou Hongyi looked at Lu Yiming and said with a smile: "Mr. Lu, aren't you a shareholder of Yahoo? Why don't you help me out? After all, you are also the major shareholder of 3721. This deal is done, and the most profitable thing is still

you."

Lu Yiming laughed and scolded: "Damn it, according to what you said, I am at best left-handed and right-handed. Where can I make money? But I do want to go to a beautiful country recently. I can help you ask."

"Then I'd like to thank Mr. Lu first."

A few days later, Lu Yiming took a plane to the beautiful country and walked into Yang Zhiyuan's office at Yahoo headquarters.

"Mr. Yang, long time no see."

At this time, Yang Zhiyuan was sitting in front of his desk, with a depressed expression and wandering eyes, as if he was immersed in a certain pattern.

In fact, he was sad.

He recalled his entrepreneurial experience in the past nine years, and felt more and more deeply that the times were changing so fast that it was dizzying and unprepared.

In early 2000, Yahoo's market capitalization reached its peak of US$128 billion, which was US$20 billion higher than the market value of Berkshire Hathaway, a company controlled by investor Warren Buffett.

This allowed him to dominate the entire Internet market for a time, with unparalleled prestige, and he was the well-deserved industry leader.

However, in just three years, Yahoo has experienced ups and downs. Now, although it is back to its peak, with the gradual recovery of the Internet cold wave, Yahoo's revenue this year has also taken advantage of the situation to break through to 1.6 billion US dollars.

But they knew their own business, and Yahoo had exhausted its potential, especially when it lost to Google in the search field. This was a very fatal strategic mistake, and it was tantamount to giving away its own traffic entrance to others.

An Internet company that has lost its traffic, even if it is still worth some money now, has lost its maximum investment value to investors.

So Yang Zhiyuan is worried about this. In fact, he has already thought of all the commercial solutions he can think of. However, the search engine technology is not as good as others. This is a fatal flaw and makes him completely unable to use Google.

Hearing the sound, Yang Zhiyuan raised his head, and when he saw Lu Yiming walking in, his eyes suddenly shone with light.

"Mr. Lu, why are you here?"

Lu Yiming nodded and thanked Yang Zhiyuan's secretary next to him, then walked in and sat on the sofa, smiling and saying: "I came to the beautiful country to do something, and I haven't come to see you for a long time. Why don't I come in and have a look."

Yang Zhiyuan stood up and asked his secretary to come in to make coffee, but an idea flashed in his mind.

Yes, Lu Yiming is not only a shareholder of Yahoo, he is also a shareholder of Google. Why don't you leave this problem to Lu Yiming to solve? He is a shareholder of both sides, and he has a share in the losses of both sides!

Thinking of this, Yang Zhiyuan felt that the burden on his whole body had been relieved a lot, and he felt indescribably relaxed.

"Hi, Mr. Lu, why didn't you call me earlier? I can pick you up at the airport. And I can also help you arrange your itinerary."

Yang Zhiyuan swept away the previous haze and sat across from Lu Yiming, talking and laughing.

Facing Yang Zhiyuan's attentiveness, Lu Yi was obviously more enthusiastic. After all, he came here today to trick Yang Zhiyuan into spending money. Of course, he would not be stingy with his compliments.

"Mr. Yang, you have so many things to do every day, how dare I alarm you? To be honest, Mr. Yang, you are my idol. I chose to start my own business after reading your entrepreneurial story. How can you say that you would let your idol

What’s the point of picking me up at the airport?”

Although this statement is suspected of flattery, Yang Zhiyuan still has a lot of cards in the circle.

In 1995, Robin Li was still working on Wall Street, Lei Jun and Xiao Ma were still typing code, and Jack Ma had just resigned from Hangcheng Institute of Electronic Industry to found Xia Guo Yellow Pages, and they were all unknowns.

Yang Zhiyuan, a doctoral student at Stanford University, has already founded Yahoo and soon received an investment of US$10 million from Sequoia Capital.

You know, at that time, the Internet industry was in its infancy. People who wanted to browse the web could only find the corresponding domain name by querying the directory and input it. The operation was very troublesome. This gave Yang Zhiyuan the idea of ​​​​creating an "Internet navigation service".

In short, what Yahoo did was to gather a large number of websites on one web page for everyone to use for free. It was this idea that allowed Yahoo to go public just one year after its establishment and created a new business model for the Internet.

Thanks to the huge traffic gained through this, Yahoo can make profits by selling advertising space.

While other companies are still dreaming of making money by charging based on Internet time, Yahoo has been able to allow users to have a good Internet experience by only paying for phone calls and broadband.

In just the year after it went public, Yahoo's advertising business had already generated more than $70 million in revenue.

In September 1999, when Lu Yiming was still in his senior year of high school, Xia Guo Yahoo's website had been launched, and within a few months, Yahoo's market value reached a high of 128 billion U.S. dollars. I don't know how many people in the beautiful country were shocked.

Xia Guo’s Internet counterpart.

It can be said that many people in this circle are actually Yang Zhiyuan's "fans".

Yang Zhiyuan was quite proud of Lu Yiming's words. After all, it was the highlight of his life. He just said modestly: "Mr. Lu, you are too polite. You can become the richest man in Asia at a young age, and you are very good in the field of investment diversification."

He is even more outstanding, and he is truly formidable."

As the bridal sedan carried people, Lu Yiming and Yang Zhiyuan became more and more excited as they chatted, almost cutting off the chicken head and burning the yellow paper.

Lu Yiming laughed and said: "Haha, Mr. Yang is joking. My small business cannot be compared with Yahoo. To be honest, the first email in my life was Yahoo. That was my first impression of the Internet.

, I still can’t forget it.”

Lu Yiming's face showed nostalgia, which was a rare expression of true feelings.

After chatting for a while, Lu Yiming did not forget the business and began to explain his purpose: "Mr. Yang, I came to see you today, mainly because I want to discuss a business with you."

However, as soon as Lu Yiming finished speaking, Yang Zhiyuan also said with a smile: "What a coincidence, Mr. Lu, I saw you coming here today and I also want to negotiate a big deal with you."

This was beyond Lu Yiming's expectation. He joked: "We don't want to get together, do we? Tell me first, what kind of deal do you plan to negotiate with me?"

Yang Zhiyuan was not coy, but said straight to the point: "To be honest, I want to buy the Google stock in your hands, Mr. Lu."

Then, he smiled and said: "Mr. Lu came here today, doesn't he just want to sell Google shares to me?"

Yang Zhiyuan wants to buy Google shares?

This was indeed beyond Lu Yiming's expectation. He recalled it carefully in his mind, and indeed he did not recall when Yang Zhiyuan purchased Google stocks on a large scale.

However, Lu Yiming knows very well how awesome Google is. To put it bluntly, if he were asked to choose to give up one of the two companies, Google and Yahoo, Lu Yiming would definitely not hesitate.

chose to abandon Yahoo.

It goes without saying how awesome the Androids of later generations are.

Thinking of this, Lu Yiming did not mince words and said bluntly: "Mr. Yang, I am very optimistic about Google's development potential, so the price will be relatively high. I'm afraid you will be in trouble. How about buying something else? I won't hide it.

You tell me, I still have a lot of good things in my hands."

Yang Zhiyuan had some psychological preparation for Lu Yiming's rejection. Although he felt a little disappointed, he was not surprised. After all, Lu Yiming was not short of money and had a large amount of cash flow in his hand. There was no need to sell out his performance.

Healthy stocks come with cash flow.

However, he still asked reluctantly: "What? Mr. Lu, are you worried that I can't afford the money?"

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "How could it be? I'm just worried that the price I offer will hurt the harmony between our two families. After all, it's Google. If it's too cheap, I feel bad. If it's too expensive, Mr. Yang, what will you think?

I'm a lion, so there's really no need to speak loudly. Mr. Yang, your family is worth hundreds of millions, is there anything in this world that you can't afford?"

However, Lu Yiming's words did not make Yang Zhiyuan retreat. Instead, he saw the hope of continuing the conversation, so he urged him directly: "Mr. Lu, let's not say any compliments for now. In business, just make an offer.

."

"real?"

Seeing that Yang Zhiyuan could say such words, Lu Yiming was actually surprised in his heart, because it meant that Yang Zhiyuan's needs were very urgent, and he even made this urgency obvious, which was a taboo in business.

It's like putting a sign on your forehead that says "I'm the wronged leek, come and cut me off".

However, after careful analysis, it is not difficult for Lu Yiming to understand the reason why Yang Zhiyuan is so urgent. After all, Yahoo is now being beaten by Google and cannot hold its head high. If things continue like this, Yahoo will be directly beaten by Google.

So Yang Zhiyuan came up with a strange idea, which was to buy the Google stock held by Lu Yiming and directly enter Google.

No matter how much money is spent, as long as Google can be defeated, the money will definitely be earned from leeks.

And if you don't do this, what you have in your hands now may be slowly eaten away.

Yang Zhiyuan gritted his teeth and said, "Of course it's true. Mr. Lu, we plain people don't tell secrets. As long as you are willing to sell me the Google shares in your hands, I will accept any price."

Seeing that Yang Zhiyuan had said this, Lu Yiming could only look reluctant and said: "To be honest, Mr. Yang, I have never seen a sincere businessman like you! And we trace our roots back to the descendants of Yan and Huang.

And you are still my idol. If I were to shout a high price to you here, it would definitely be very inappropriate. In this way, I would suffer a little loss and give you a 30% discount based on my psychological price. How about that?"

When Yang Zhiyuan heard Lu Yiming's words, he was overjoyed and even had the urge to kowtow to Lu Yiming on the spot.

In his heart, he was already prepared to be slaughtered, thinking that he would be blackmailed severely by Lu Yiming. As a result, Lu Yiming not only did not ask for an exorbitant price, but was also willing to sell it directly at 30% off the psychological price.

Yang Zhiyuan felt that Lu Yiming was simply his biological father who was not related by blood.

"Mr. Lu, thank you so much! You are the most down-to-earth person I have ever seen doing business!"

Lu Yiming said happily: "Hey, you're welcome, we are all our own people. Are you saying that in this beautiful country, when fellow villagers meet fellow villagers, they burst into tears and cannot support each other?"
To be continued...