Top of the Great Era

Until around 11:15.3 in the morning, Changyou's rising stock price began to fluctuate.When Zhou Buqi left, the stock price still rose by as much as [-]%.

Two consecutive good news made the market smell opportunities to make money.

This made Zhou Buqi somewhat flustered.

The shadow of the tree of names.

Changyou is about to hold a general meeting of shareholders. The outside world generally believes that Mr. Zhou Buqi will become the new chairman of Changyou's board of directors... After that, the market gave very positive feedback.

This shows the status and influence of Boss Zhou in the industry today.

I left the company and went to the side of Sand Hill Road.

In the car, Zhou Buqi was sitting in the back row, Ning Yaxian was on the left, Ning Lu was on the right, and the new secretary, Guan Nanqing, could only sit in the front passenger seat.

Hearing the big boss in the back row say that Shaqiu Road is the "Wall Street" of Silicon Valley, Guan Nanqing was very curious and turned her head away. Immediately she made a big blush and turned around quickly.

Seeing the big boss in the back row, he hugged left and right, put his arms on the shoulders of Ning Yaxian and Ning Lu, and looked down honestly.

The two of them are still smiling, you and I look so sweet.

After all, the sharp rise in Changyou's stock price is a commendable happy event, which reflects the approval of the biggest boss in the capital market.

Ning Yaxian now puts more energy on her children.The eldest daughter, Zhou Xin, is 7 years old this year and is in elementary school.

The youngest daughter, Ningning, still needs to be taken care of.

Moreover, her younger sister Ning Yameng has been working outside for a long time, and her son Zhouzhou has also been entrusted to her to take care of her, so she has not paid much attention to the affairs of the company recently.

This is also impossible.

Women in the workplace seem to be able to take care of each other when it comes to having children, but in fact they often choose one of the two.Zhou Buqi suggested that she hand over the child to the nanny, but she was not at ease.

Ning Yaxian had met Guan Nanqing before, and seeing her turn her head shyly, she asked with a smile, "Qingqing, what do you think of our boss?"

Guan Nanqing said sincerely: "It's amazing. You are a big shot at the top of the pyramid. You took me to meet Jobs yesterday."

Ning Yaxian asked abruptly: "Have you ever dated someone?"

"Ah?" Guan Nanqing was slightly taken aback, feeling that this topic was private and a little embarrassing, "No...no."

Ning Yaxian smiled and said, "You are so beautiful, no male classmates chase you at school?"

Guan Nanqing said in a low voice: "Yes, but I don't want to talk about it, I haven't thought about these things."

Ning Yaxian looked like someone who had come here, "Do you think that the male students in the school are all young boys and are not good enough for you?"

Guan Nanqing shook her head and didn't say much.

Ning Yaxian smiled lightly and said, "What do you think of our big boss?"

"what?"

Guan Nanqing became flustered immediately.

Ning Yaxian then asked more directly, "How nice our boss is, he is also a nice person, young and handsome, talented and rich, do you want to be nice to our boss?"

"me……"

Guan Nanqing was speechless.

She is a big girl, how do you say this kind of thing?
She looked up at the rearview mirror in the car, and found that the big boss in the back row was holding Ning Yaxian and Ning Lu, two big secretaries, with a smile on his face, plain and calm.

Ning Lu chuckled and said, "If you want me to tell you, just make a decision quickly. If you just go back to the country like this, wouldn't those little elves in the office laugh at you to death?"

"Yes!"

Guan Nanqing suddenly thought of this.

Under their envious and jealous eyes, they went on a business trip abroad, but they returned home unchanged... I don't know how they will be scolded by the little sisters.

Look at how good Mai Feixue is.

Then look at Yan Qiqi who accompanied the boss on a business trip south, and then came back in a daze.

The contrast is obvious.

Snatching other people's opportunities and firmly grasping them, that's all.By taking someone else's opportunity and then squandering it, it's easy to make those who didn't get it angry.

At this time, Zhou Buqi spoke, simply and neatly, "That's it, I will take some time these few days, and I will take it when I need it, and I will recover as soon as I finish it. Is it convenient for you physically? Don't run into relatives or anything." of."

Guan Nanqing said in a very low voice: "It's convenient, I... I won't come to my relatives until the end of the month."

"That's settled then."

"Ah."

……

Sand Hill Road is a VC street, and the venture capital institutions in Silicon Valley basically have offices or institutions here.Including the Zhou family's family fund managed by Senior Sister Zhen Yu.

There is a venture capital fund called ZZY, a subsidiary of the family fund. There is a small office here, with a total of three employees, one male and two female. They are usually looking for some high-quality investment projects.

Zhou Buqi came here, so it can be seen that this lunch is about to discuss a deal related to investment.

The other party is the current CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, who has been in contact for a long time.

Google wants to acquire Twitter, but it doesn't want Dorsey to leave, and hopes to maintain the stability of Twitter's existing framework.After Google has fully grasped Twitter's business, it will gradually use Google's direct team to take over Twitter to avoid management turmoil due to transactions.

It's not easy to make this happen.

A very important obstacle is Zhou Buqi.

In the past few years, Zhou Buqi and Dorsey have had many disagreements on Twitter's business, and they have used the power of major shareholders in the board of directors to bring Dorsey a lot of constraints in his work.

One of the most typical examples is that Dorsey wanted to promote Twitter to the Korean and Japanese markets, but was rejected several times by Boss Zhou.

Later, there was no way, Dorsey decided to kill first and play later, and did it quietly without going through the board of directors.

Secretly established offices in South Korea and Japan, and recruited employees.

After Zhou Buqi heard about it, he was very dissatisfied and put great pressure on Dorsey.Later, there was no way, and both sides took a step back.Twitter kept its office in South Korea, but was forced to close its office in Japan.

Thus allowing YikYak to completely dominate the Japanese market.

However, there are no enemies in business competition.

This kind of contradiction is about things and not people.

In addition, Boss Zhou took the initiative to invite Dorsey out for dinner this time. He gave him enough face and promised to give him a large sum of money... There were some small conflicts, so he gave up when he should.

Seeing Dorsey again, Zhou Buqi felt that this kid was much more mature, like a successful person in Silicon Valley.

When it comes to staying on as Twitter CEO, Dorsey has no problem either.

The treatment and promises given by Google are very good.

Next, let's talk about another entrepreneurial project.

Because Zhou Buqi restrained Dorsey everywhere during his tenure as Twitter CEO, which made him very angry and dissatisfied.So during this period, he founded another Internet finance company Square.

On the contrary, bad things turned into good things.

Let Dorsey have another career.

The company has New York as its business branch. It is currently mainly engaged in online transfers, online payments, and online wallets. It is the best-performing start-up company in the Internet finance field in the New York area.

Online payment must be the general trend of the future.

This thing is much better than a credit card.

However, there are too many foreign payment platforms, and the competition among them is very fierce. There is no situation where a few products can monopolize the market.

PayPal and Square are doing relatively well, but their market share is only about 20%.

Helo wants to add a fast online payment service in overseas markets, and it will be difficult to popularize it on its own.There are too many products of this type, and users from different countries and classes have different usage habits.

Therefore, Helo cannot be like WeChat in China.

To use WeChat, all you need is WeChat Pay.

To promote Helo overseas, we must adapt to the diversified market background of foreign markets. It is best to provide a payment platform, which can include Helo’s own Helo payment, or many third-party ones like PayPal, Square, etc. Payment instrument.

Give users more choices.

Like Amazon.

When shopping on Amazon, you can use Amazon's own payment tools, or you can use hundreds of other third-party payment tools to meet the different payment needs of each user.

In this field, overseas markets are much more complicated than domestic ones.

Investing in Square is a very good opportunity.

Even Zhou Buqi has planned. When eBay spins off PayPal in the future, it must find an opportunity to invest in PayPal and follow up.

With the shareholding relationship, a further strategic cooperation can be reached, and the two payment giants PayPal and Square can become self-operated tools in the Helo payment platform.

This business will be more stable and more secure.

Jack Dorsey was indeed much more mature, and said with a smile: "Elon also told me specifically, let me let go of my differences, and I can cooperate with you with confidence and boldness."

"Elon?" Zhou Buqi frowned, "Elon Musk?"

Dorsey said: "Yes, it is him. He said that you have a deep cooperation."

Zhou Buqi nodded in satisfaction, "Well, the cooperation is very close."

Dorsey said sincerely: "In fact, as early as June, Square's C round of financing was basically negotiated. It was led by Kleiner Perkins, and the investment scale reached 6 million US dollars. However, at that time, Google had already started to promote The special acquisition case may be related to Square’s financing, so I temporarily put the C round on hold.”

Zhou Buqi was even happier.

It seems that Larry Page is still very good. He may not know how many times he has met Dorsey in private, and he has already broken through this level.Well, Musk also helped a lot.

It seems that looking back, you can continue to increase your holdings of Tesla's stock to show your respect for him.

Zhou Buqi asked, "How much does Square need?"

Dorsey said: "I hope to get 1.5 million US dollars and dilute 15% of the shares. Well, I will give you a share of 1 million US dollars at most. No way, I have many other institutions to account for."

That's a $10 billion valuation.

no problem!
Zhou Buzhi has a tight schedule and heavy tasks, so he really can't bargain with Dorsey on such a trivial matter.The sincerity of the other party is already great, and he can't be too shabby.

I agreed right away.

However, he still fought for a little more.

Except Ziweixing International invested 1 million US dollars as a strategic investment in Square and got 10% of the shares.The venture capital fund under the family fund managed by Senior Sister Zhen Yu will also invest 500 million US dollars and get 0.5% of the shares.

It hits it off.

All are happy.