Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2050 Kong Yiji's long gown
This time I came to the United States, and I was in a hurry.

Originally, Zhou Buqi wanted to go to New York and Los Angeles, but now it seems that he has no time.

Fortunately, the results of work in Silicon Valley are outstanding.

All cooperations have basically been reached.

The most important of these are of course the three blockbuster deals-Changyou bought Ziweixing International’s game division at a price of more than 82 billion U.S. dollars, Google swallowed Twitter at a sky-high price of 200 billion U.S. dollars, and Estar wanted to buy it at a price of 48.6 billion U.S. dollars. US dollars to buy Motorola's mobile phone business.

The first blockbuster transaction has been officially announced, and the market feedback is very good.

In recent days, Changyou's share price has been rising all the way, with an increase of 27%.

Various signals have become more and more obvious, and some organizations have even offered odds, believing that the probability of Mr. Zhou Buqi becoming the new chairman of the board of directors of Changyou has exceeded 94%.

This is of course the greatest good news for all shareholders of Changyou.

The next two acquisitions will take a while to be officially announced.

But the basic price tag has been negotiated down.

One is $200 billion and the other is $48.6 billion.

Especially for the latter, Asda wants to spend 48.6 billion US dollars to buy Motorola's mobile phone business. This is definitely a sky-high acquisition, because Motorola's core assets have been intercepted by Google, and the rest is only low-end business.

Those who don't know the inside story really think that Google's ingenious calculations have fooled those idiots of Esta.

In fact, the psychological price of Motorola's mobile phone business asset assessment on Astar's side is 30 billion US dollars.This transaction is also advancing in accordance with the scale of 30 billion US dollars.

Asda's current valuation is $350 billion, and it is estimated that a dilution of 8.5% of the shares will be enough.

Now that the transaction price has been raised to US$48.6 billion, and Astar still only dilutes it by 8.5%, it is enough to find a way to raise the valuation of Astar to US$570 billion.

The nature of the transaction has not changed.

Google earns revenue numbers, Asda earns valuation numbers, and everyone is happy.

However, there is also a downside.

That is, Asda may be misunderstood by the outside world, and criticized as being taken advantage of by some people who don't know the inside story but think they know it.

On September 9th, Changyou's shareholder meeting will be held in China.

So on the afternoon of September 9th, Zhou Buqi and his party will leave for China.

Unexpectedly, at the airport, I ran into Larry Page, and he came to see him off. This made Zhou Buqi a little flattered, and the affection was a bit big.

On the one hand, I have a lot of face.

On the one hand, it is also stress.

I have to pay back this face in the future when I find a chance.

Larry Page is most concerned about the social industry, which is the acquisition of Twitter.For him, as long as Twitter is fixed, everything will be fine.

Now, his plan is complete.

At the airport, Larry Page proudly told Zhou Buqi that the acquisition of Twitter by Google would be officially announced on the 20th of this month at the latest!

Zhou Buqi shook his hand, "Congratulations."

Larry Page was also very emotional, "Mainly relying on your help, if there is no Twitter, relying on Jaiku alone, it is impossible for Google to start this business."

Jaiku is a social product launched by Google a few years ago, and its target is Twitter.

Behaved poorly.

Zhou Buqi doesn't know much about Jaiku, so he has no choice. There are too many products under Google, most of which he has never heard of.

However, he has been paying attention to the Knol product these two days.

The understanding of Google is even deeper.

The failure of Jaiku is probably not worse than the failure of Knol, just like Google+ will inevitably fail in the future, it is the same reason.

The people at Google are great.

All top talents in the industry.

Geniuses have genius diseases.

This is very troublesome and a bit ungrounded.

In this regard, domestic Internet companies are doing the best, and the products made by many geniuses can also be very down-to-earth and can be aimed at the general public.

This is a bit like Kong Yiji's gown.

The industry geniuses in China are subject to more constraints. The pressure from society and life makes them less resistant. Let them wear it, they wear it, let them take it off, and they take it off. What technologies, products, ideals, changes? The world... let's eat first and then talk about it!
The ease, freedom, innovation, and technical control within Google are of course advantages.But the disadvantage behind these advantages is that these Google geniuses are too proud and self-righteous to take off the "long gown" of the industry.

They want to make products with technical content; they want to make products with strong style; they want to make products with pursuit, social value, and products that can change the world...

This is of course good.

But after a long time, I lost ground and became insulated from the vast majority of netizens.In the niche area, Google's products dominate the world, and no one can match it, but the user scale is too small to develop.

Knol is a typical product with too much force and too many ideas.

After Larry Page became CEO, he has shut down more than a dozen products one after another, and they are actually excellent and creative products.

But it just can't develop.

It was difficult for Kong Yiji to blend in with the common people if he did not take off his long gown.

Before the Indian Sundar Pichai became the big boss of Google, Google has been floating in the industry, high above, can be seen from a distance but not played.

Zhou Buqi also discussed this with Lu Qi and others.

The resulting ideas are relatively consistent.

Google's current product line serves the technical line, not the operational line.To put it bluntly, Google pays too much attention to technology research and development, and takes technical talents too seriously.

This kind of corporate culture allows Google to have super competitiveness over all IT peers for technical geniuses.As long as Google gives a technical line offer, other companies don't want to grab people.

This is Google's advantage.

But between the ups and downs, it is doomed that the voice of the product line is too low, and operation talents are not willing to come here.

Products like Knol and Jaiku can be made by just a few college students, so what kind of top technology is needed?
To make this kind of product, the core is operation.

Whether the technology is good or not has little effect. It mainly depends on whose operation team is strong.But Google's hope of making its products stand out is placed on product design and technological innovation, and the direction is completely wrong.

Including Google+ too.

The last time Larry Page showed off to Zhou Buwei, saying that they were using artificial intelligence to research a "face recognition" algorithm, as long as it passed the privacy review, it could be applied to Google+.

Zhou Buqi was stunned.

Google+ is a social product, so what are you doing with all the bells and whistles?The technology is very powerful, is there a fart for it?It can only be a side effect.

Operate well, do a good job in product positioning and marketing, and with such a strong traffic advantage of Google, are you afraid that you will not be able to make a social product?
It's a waste of money to think too much about what you have and what you don't have every day.

In a similar situation, Baidu is similar. It once controlled the domestic Internet traffic and recruited all the domestic Internet geniuses, but it failed to do anything.

In contrast, Penguin is far superior. It doesn’t have as many industry geniuses as Baidu, but it is stable. It doesn’t do those fancy things, and it just does the “imitation” well.Then, I used my own traffic advantage to push the product, and I pushed it all the way.

There are too many companies with traffic advantages in the world, and the ones who can really play traffic to perfection are Penguin... and Ziwei Star under Zhou Buqi's rule.

Ziweixing is not as good as Google in the competition for technical geniuses, so it will be a blessing in disguise to compete for capable people in the field of operations.

The two products of Helo and Ucgram can be popular all over the world. The contribution of technical talents is almost zero, the contribution of product talents accounts for 40%, and the contribution of operation talents is 60%.

In terms of products and operations, domestic Internet companies are much stronger than Silicon Valley.

After getting on the plane, Zhou Buqi called Guan Nanqing over, and comforted him, "I thought I could go to Los Angeles to see how the Dodgers are doing. I can't help it. I really don't have the time. Next time, go down and see the situation of the Dodgers. Visit Los Angeles and New York."

Guan Nanqing pursed her lips and said with a smile: "It's okay, I'm already very happy. I've traveled to more than a dozen cities in Silicon Valley these days."

"What kind of city is this?" Zhou Buqi shook his head, "The concept of a city in the United States is different from that in China. Any small place can be called a city. It is a subsidiary city of a subsidiary city under a big city. But it doesn't matter. , Didn’t I agree, when the National Day holiday comes, I’ll take you all to go abroad for vacation.”

Guan Nanqing said expectantly, "Go to Phuket."

Zhou Buqi thought for a while, "Let's see, whether to go to the Aegean Sea or Hawaii."

Guan Nanqing's eyes were full of beauty, and she looked forward to it even more.

Seeing that it was getting late, Zhou Buqi planned to go to the bedroom to rest, and was thinking about whether to lead Ning Lu and Guan Nanqing back to the room together...

At this time, Ning Lu handed over the phone.

It's Senior Sister Zhen Yu calling.

The discussion happened to be the Los Angeles Dodgers.

It is said that "Magic" Johnson has already contacted several investors, and also found a senior manager in the baseball industry to partner with, and he is determined to win the Dodgers.

Zhou Buqi was a little upset, "So fast?"

Zhen Yu said helplessly: "He has been operating this business since last year."

Zhou Buqi said: "Then let's hurry up."

Zhen Yu said softly: "The key is that Johnson's momentum is very strong, and he has found seven or eight middlemen alone."

Zhou Buqi didn't care about it.

How much money does a basketball player have?How many people can you know?How much credibility can it have?Can you still compete with yourself for the team?Isn't this a joke?
If it gets out, I can't afford to lose this person.

Zhou Buqi ordered: "Senior sister, go and find out which investment institutions that guy is looking for."

Zhen Yu was slightly taken aback, "What are you doing?"

Zhou Buqi said indifferently: "Ask them to lend me the money, and I will buy the Los Angeles Dodgers!"

(End of this chapter)