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This is simply a surprise.

No wonder Senior Sister Zhenyu urged him to suspend his vacation and come to the United States. So there is such a good thing!
The Los Angeles Dodgers can't do it here, but the San Francisco Giants have a chance!
If given a choice, Zhou Buqi would of course choose the San Francisco giant. After all, the core site of Ziwei Star is the Greater Bay Area surrounding Silicon Valley.

Prior to this, he had already laid out the San Jose Earthquakes and the Golden State Warriors. If he bought another baseball team, it would be more valuable, and the sports industry in the Bay Area would be expanded.

The acquisition of the Los Angeles Dodgers is more of a financial investment, focusing on asset preservation.Winning the San Francisco Giants, in addition to financial benefits, also has important strategic significance in the U.S. business map.

Good thing!

That's a good thing!

Zhou Buqi was very happy, "This Joe Lacob is indeed a famous person, and his level is not ordinary. I really don't know how he was the middleman. , this person can deal with it."

Zhen Yu pursed her lips and said: "The root cause is you. The Greater Bay Area is different from Los Angeles. The entire Greater Bay Area is dominated by the technology industry. You are a leader in the technology industry with strong appeal and influence. Everyone wants to get acquainted with you and make friends with you. In Los Angeles, it’s a little bit worse. Hollywood’s film and television industry has some influence, but it can’t dominate Los Angeles.”

Zhou Buqi took it seriously, "That's true. A metropolis like San Francisco should also do business around Silicon Valley technology companies. This is the general trend of the market. Whoever can grasp the line of Silicon Valley technology giants will be able to win in the business world." There is a place in the territory."

Zhen Yu nodded lightly, "Well, the home stadium of the San Francisco Giants is called Oracle Stadium."

"Oracle bone script again?"

Zhou Buqi was a little funny.

What a coincidence.

The home court of the Golden State Warriors (San Francisco Warriors) is sponsored by Oracle, called Oracle Arena; the home court of the San Francisco Giants is also sponsored by Oracle, called Oracle Stadium.

It can be said that technology companies in Silicon Valley have spread to every corner of all walks of life in the Greater Bay Area.

Zhen Yu said: "However, this is not the main reason why I let you come to the United States. It has nothing to do with sports."

"Ok?"

"It's Boss Ma."

"Boss Ma?" Zhou Buqi was a little curious, "What are you doing? He came to America again?"

Zhen Yu smiled lightly and said, "Yes, there is Masayoshi Son. Don't forget, I am now an independent director of Softbank. Ali and Softbank are planning a big event!"

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Early the next morning, Zhou Buqi set off, accompanied by Ning Yaxian, and Zhen Yu also boarded his plane to go to Silicon Valley together.

The two new secretaries, Gu Zanli and Yao Yao, went abroad for the first time, and they came to Los Angeles. They were full of curiosity and longing for Hollywood. Accompanied by an uncle, I took a tour in Los Angeles.After playing, I will take Zhen Yu's plane to San Francisco.

This kind of arrangement made the young Gu Zanli and Yao Yao really moved and psychedelic.

It doesn't feel real.

The big boss even arranged a private jet for the two of them!
Zhou Buqi didn't care much about this trivial matter, so he called Boss Ma and asked.As Senior Sister Zhen Yu said, this is really a big deal.This vacation almost made him miss a big deal that could really shake the entire technology industry.

If this thing is done, it will be much more shocking than Google's $200 billion acquisition of Twitter!
In the low period of the industry, the major giants are trying to find ways to pick up the bottom.

Unexpectedly, Ali also jumped out!
When he arrived, Zhou Buqi went straight to Sun Zhengyi's house.Then, I saw Boss Ma and Sun Zhengyi who were squinting and smiling. From a distance, these two people really looked like a husband and wife.

Zhou Buqi briefly shook hands with the two of them, and then went straight to the topic, "What's the matter? Why didn't you notify me of such a big event?"

Sun Zhengyi is more polite. After all, the countries are different and they are not too close.

Boss Ma is different, he is more direct, "Is there still a need for a notice? This has been rumored for two months."

In October of this year, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was fired by the board of directors, which is a very embarrassing thing for Yahoo.

In 08, Yahoo's performance fell sharply and it was almost acquired by Microsoft.Yahoo's board, however, held out, arguing that Microsoft's $446 billion offer was too low and not in the interests of shareholders.

So Yahoo didn't sell it, and paid a lot of money to invite the well-known "Iron Lady" and Autodesk CEO Carol Bartz to be the CEO of Yahoo, and gave him the highest salary in the world - 4720 million Dollar.

In the past two years, Yahoo's performance has not rebounded, but has become worse and worse. At one point, its market value was only 160 billion US dollars.

The board couldn't take it anymore and had to fire her.

It doesn't matter that the dismissal immediately caused a shock in the market.

If Carol Bartz can't save Yahoo, who can?

Therefore, many private equity funds started to operate, wanting to buy Yahoo at the bottom.Even Larry Page told Zhou Buqi about it, saying that Google wanted to enter the market because Google could solve Yahoo's advertising revenue problem and convert the growing online advertising in the Internet and mobile channels into actual income.

But Google is too busy.

There are too many big cases in operation this year, and the top priority is to eat Twitter as soon as possible, so there is no way to get distracted.

Zhou Buqi knew that a group of capital hungry wolves had taken a fancy to Yahoo, which was seriously underestimated by the market, and wanted to take advantage of the situation to buy the bottom, but he was unmoved and never cared much.

The foresight played a role. He knew that neither the hedge funds nor Microsoft and Google, which had been coveting Yahoo for a long time, had not swallowed Yahoo.

So don't waste energy on this matter.

Unexpectedly, Ali actually got involved.

This is different.

Zhou Buqi said: "It's been rumored for several months. They like to spread the word. Who would have known that you would also make a move? You want to do something in the United States without notifying me?"

He speaks Chinese, so there is no taboo, Sun Zhengyi is beside him.

Boss Ma also spoke Chinese, and said a little ashamedly: "I don't think this matter has much to do with Ziweixing, I'm afraid you are not interested."

Zhou Buqi said: "Are you interested? If you open your mouth, can I help?"

Boss Ma jokingly said: "In case your boss Zhou is too airy."

Zhou Buqi snorted and said, "I was on vacation in Australia. I heard about you, so I flew here specially. Ma, you need help, and then I took the initiative to run all the way here. Who is more arrogant?"

"Yes, yes, sorry, I should have notified you in advance."

Boss Ma clasped his palms together, like a monk saluting.

This is indeed human nature.

Among the domestic technology companies, Boss Zhou is the only one who has developed well in Silicon Valley, and Ziweixing International already has the spirit of an IT giant in overseas markets.

Under such circumstances, if domestic IT colleagues want to go abroad to do some big things, they should inform him anyway, maybe they can get some help.

If ordinary people heard Zhou Buqi's words, they might be very moved.

But Boss Ma is different.

He had already seen through this kid.

help?

snort!
This kid, it's too late to get out of nowhere!
If you say that you have come all this way for pure help, you are lying to yourself!It's nothing more than that he also took a fancy to Yahoo!
Taking advantage of the period when Yahoo is at its lowest point, I want to join forces with Ali and Softbank to bite off a few pieces of meat from the lion of Yahoo!

If it works well, it might be able to swallow the lion.

In front of Sun Zhengyi, the two kept communicating in Chinese like this, which was not very polite. Zhou Buqi switched to English and asked, "What's going on? How did you plan?"

Sun Zhengyi said: "There are mainly three parts."

"Which three parts?"

Zhou Buqi actually knew all about it. Zhen Yu is an independent director of Softbank, and Softbank provided her private jet. She already told him the inside story last night.

It is precisely because he knows these inside stories that Boss Zhou attaches great importance to it and wants to participate.

Masayoshi Son was very patient and said without hesitation: "Yahoo's core assets are mainly divided into three parts. First, it holds 40% of Ali's shares; second, it holds 35% of Yahoo Japan's shares; third, The business assets of Yahoo headquarters. For these three parts, the three parties will cooperate to receive them respectively. Ali takes back the 40% of the shares, Softbank takes back the 35% of the shares of Yahoo Japan, and there are two other private equity institutions, Blackstone Group and Beibei. En Capital, they will buy the main business of Yahoo’s headquarters.”

Zhou Buqi nodded thoughtfully, "It's a tripartite cooperation, Alibaba, Softbank, and private equity capital represented by Blackstone and Bain. Each takes what it needs."

Sun Zhengyi smiled, "Yes."

Zhou Buqi glanced at Boss Ma, "Alibaba's stock price in Hong Kong has fallen like that, do you have the strength to buy back that 40% of the shares?"

Boss Ma said confidently: "Money is not a problem."

Zhou Buqi smiled, "Aren't you telling the truth?"

SoftBank is sure to be fine.

Yahoo Japan was originally an Internet company established by Softbank. Because it used the "Yahoo" brand, Yahoo was the second largest shareholder at the beginning.

Now that Yahoo is critically ill, Softbank has enough strength to take back the 35% of the shares held by Yahoo.

Where did Ali get the money?

At present, the domestic e-commerce market has not yet taken shape in full swing, and Taobao can only make a small amount of money.

Zhou Buqi had heard about this before.

At the end of September this year, Ali Group completed a round of financing, diluted 9% of its shares, and received US$5 billion from Silver Tiger Capital, DST Capital, Yunfeng Fund and Temasek Capital.

One of the purposes of getting this money is to complete the delisting of Ali’s B2B business in Hong Kong, and the money will be used to repurchase shares.

It can also be seen from this transaction that the current valuation of Ali Group is about 320 billion U.S. dollars, and it has also fallen into a deep trough, just like the stock price in the Hong Kong government. hope.

Ali can't spend that much money to buy back the shares held by Yahoo.

Zhou Buqi felt that since they were all compatriots and friends, it was only natural that they should help.