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Chapter 2101 Mobile Payment
Zhou Buqi is not clear about the details of some changes in the future of PayPal. He just knows that in the next few years, PayPal will indeed break away from the control of eBay and complete the independent listing.

Once the two parties separate, eBay, which can still compete properly with Amazon, will be completely out of business.

So if you want to buy a wave of PayPal in this time period, you really have to follow the notorious Carl Icahn.

This is undoubtedly a very accurate judgment.

Carl Icahn is indeed an expert in capital operations, especially in terms of corporate infighting and the dismemberment of giant companies.

This person started out in traditional industries, such as airlines, steel companies, energy companies, automobile companies, real estate companies, video companies, etc., including Marvel, MGM, Viacom, Time Warner, Motorola, etc. There is his shadow behind every major dismemberment case.

In 08, he attacked Yahoo.

This time it was deflated.

Silicon Valley is the only place where IQ can be compared with Wall Street talents. It gathers the world's top talents. When Carl Icahn first arrived, he fell into it and encountered Yang Zhiyuan's tricks.

However, Carl Icahn was not discouraged.

Soon it was PayPal again.

PayPal has been in operation since 09. After a round of operation, it tried to compete with eBay's board of directors and promote the spin-off and listing of PayPal, but finally failed.

But he is still not discouraged. He is the prototype of the super capitalist in the Hollywood classic "Wall Street".

Still in constant operation.

Until 2014, he finally did it!

Carl Icahn defeated eBay's board of directors and pushed PayPal to go public independently.This is not a big deal, there is a more violent impact behind it, the winner is the king and the loser is Kou.

In this battle, Carl Icahn, the representative of the management, won a big victory and successfully promoted the independent listing of PayPal.Of course, the loser is John Donahoe, the CEO of eBay represented by entrepreneurs. Such a star-level professional manager resigned from get out of class sadly and resigned from eBay.

You know, John Donahoe can also be regarded as Yibei's meritorious coach.

When he first became the CEO of eBay, eBay was in chaos, with years of business losses, constant internal conflicts, executives leaving, internal business and management conflicts, and conflicts between shareholders, the board of directors and senior management .

The reason why Carl Icahn picked PayPal at that stage was also because he valued the chaos of eBay at the time, so he had the opportunity to take advantage of the fire.

However, after John Donahoe took office, he quickly stabilized the situation, withstood the pressure of Carl Icahn, and miraculously reversed the company's fortunes.

During his seven years as the CEO of eBay, eBay's stock price has increased by 5 times, which is a remarkable achievement!
Normally, it is impossible for such an outstanding CEO to leave eBay. He should have control over eBay and be convincing enough to conquer all shareholders.

However, under Carl Icahn's operation, John Donahoe failed.

He could only agree to eBay to spin off PayPal to go public independently, and he himself left eBay sadly.

Zhou Buqi is not at all interested in Yibei's life and death.

Just looking at the business model, eBay can't do it.

It is far worse than Taobao.

However, the mobile payment giant PayPal is still very valuable, and Zhou Buqi intends to promote PayPal to join the Helo payment camp.

For domestic WeChat, only one WeChat payment is enough; for overseas Helo, dozens of payment tools must be connected to Helo payment in order to meet the diverse payment options of overseas users.Among the most core payment tools, it is best to have a shareholding relationship with Ziweixing and be able to reach a strategic level of cooperation.

In Zhou Buqi's view, the value of Ziweixing's acquisition of PayPal's shares is even more important than the 35% of Yahoo Japan's shares held by Yahoo.

Both eBay and Yahoo are relatively chaotic big companies in Silicon Valley.

A big company means big fish in deep water.

Chaos means there is an opportunity to fish in troubled waters.

After negotiating with Boss Ma several times, Zhou Buqi felt that it was inconvenient for Yahoo to mess around for the time being, while eBay seemed to have a great opportunity.I don't know what's going on inside them. Now that PayPal's development situation is so good, PayPal's president has left... This is enough to show that new differences have emerged within eBay.

The more confused the other party is, the more chances there are to intervene.

Zhou Buqi asked Lu Qi to help him collect some current information on eBay and PayPal.

Lu Qi froze for a moment, seeming to see what he meant.

This is trying to attack PayPal!
Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "EBay has no value to Ziweixing, but Helo will launch a mobile payment platform in the future. PayPal should be the leader in mobile payment now, right?"

Lu Qi nodded, "It seems to be that PayPal's mobile terminal downloads seem to have exceeded 6000 million times, and it has more than 2000 million mobile users."

Zhou Buqi was a little surprised, "You know all of this?"

Lu Qi smiled and said: "Joe Nathan came to me just now and told me that the reason why he is interested in PayPal is also related to Ziweixing's consistent proposition. He also firmly believes that the era of mobile Internet is coming. And PayPal's mobile terminal The development prospects let Joe Nathan see the opportunity of this product.”

Zhou Buqi said: "Has Helo's mobile payment product plan been made?"

The current Helo has not launched the mobile payment function, and it needs to be polished and designed many times internally.A very important reason is the uncertainty of the payment method.If no better opportunity can be found, Ziweixing International can only promote and update the more sophisticated QR code payment technology by itself. This is what domestic Alipay does.

Lu Qi nodded, "I did, it's already the third edition, and Joe Nathan is hosting this matter."

Zhou Buqi narrowed his eyes, and said in a deep thought: "It seems that it is not impossible for Joe Nathan to switch to PayPal as the president."

Lu Qi had already understood what Boss Zhou was thinking, and twitched his lips, "Do you want to bring money into the team?"

Zhou Buqi laughed, "Yes, join the team with money!"

eBay wants to invite Joe Nathan, a product expert on the mobile Internet, to be the president of PayPal, which is definitely poaching Ziweixing's corner.

However, Boss Zhou's pattern is unusual.

Want to poach a wall?
you can!

dig it!

Not only can I take people away, but I can also send you money!

Lu Qi was a little worried, "EBay and PayPal, it's very complicated there, the shareholders of both sides are fighting each other, and the internal chaos is chaotic. Do we really want to get involved?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Because of the chaos, it is the best opportunity to participate."

Lu Qi said: "Participate in the name of the company? PayPal's current valuation is not low, and it may cost a lot of money."

Zhou Buqi didn't take it seriously, "How much money is in the account now? EA's stock has been sold off, isn't there $25 billion?"

Lu Qi nodded, "Almost, the US side is 25 billion US dollars. The Japanese side is making continuous profits, and the available funds in the account have exceeded 5 million US dollars."

Zhou Buqi said: "Then you should go online. Don't talk about anything else. If you invest in PayPal now, you can make a lot of money from the perspective of financial investment. Not to mention the strategic level. There is also Japanese business. PayPal wants to cooperate with Softbank Cooperation, to establish a mobile payment company in Japan, to face the more complex local payment market in Japan, Ziweixing should also participate.”

(End of this chapter)