Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2210

It is an irresistible human nature to go to the doctor indiscriminately for an emergency, even for the best people in the world.

Baidu is like this.

At this time in the previous life, Baidu had already discovered that it was lagging behind in the layout of the mobile terminal, so it was very anxious and tried to quote UC Group.

However, UC Group was very ambitious and ambitious at the time, and wanted to go public independently and become a new technology giant.Baidu retreated to the next best thing and wanted to acquire 49% of the shares, but was also rejected by the latter.

There is really no other way, Baidu has its eyes on 91 Mobile Assistant, and Chacha Ali has also taken a fancy to it.

The three parties launched a tug-of-war.

Ali kept carrying the sedan chair.

In the end, Baidu couldn't bear it any longer. It was a waste of time, so it offered a sky-high price of US$19 billion and completed the acquisition of 91 Mobile Assistant.

The reason for the figure of 19 billion US dollars is because one is "19" and the other is "91", which can be auspicious.

The higher the level, the more belief in luck is everywhere.

Microsoft's current troubles are actually bigger and more urgent than Baidu's.

A very important reason is the threat of power from Ballmer himself.

Over the past few years, Microsoft has done really badly, and Google has seriously challenged Microsoft's position.Apple is even more shocking. Now Apple's market value has reached 6000 billion U.S. dollars, while Microsoft's is only 2800 billion U.S. dollars.

Even Facebook, which is about to go public, has a very clear prospectus, and its market value will inevitably exceed 1000 billion US dollars.

Microsoft has fallen behind.

Ballmer has already felt the pressure from the board of directors, his own power has been threatened, and he might step down.

So he was a little flustered.

Once panicked, it is easy to make a series of wrong decisions.

Last year, in response to emerging social products such as Facebook, Helo, and Ucgram, Microsoft spent $85 billion to acquire Skype.

The deal was jaw-dropping.

After Microsoft completed this deal, apart from completely eliminating its own MSN due to internal business inclinations, it did not show much outstanding performance in the social field at all.

This time Microsoft wants to acquire Yammer, which is actually similar logic.

Yammer is a product for entrepreneurs. It is similar to the "enterprise intranet" under Ziwei Star. It can have enterprise user authentication. Enterprise users can communicate on this platform. If there are some additional needs, enterprise users can also pay to open more. services.

The most typical is the "intranet" service.

The so-called intranet is a company's internal website, which cannot be seen from the outside and is only open to the company's own employees.Generally, large companies have their own intranets, but many non-technology companies or small and medium-sized companies can hardly afford a technical team dedicated to operating the intranet.

Go directly to Ziweixing's corporate intranet, rent an intranet space, and you can have your own company's intranet.

In fact, at that time, Zhou Buqi had the project idea of ​​"Enterprise Intranet", which also originated from Yammer. He participated in the investment in this project in the United States, and when he returned to China, he asked Zhang Yiming to make this product, and established an enterprise service Division.

However, after Ziweixing adjusted its organizational structure, this division was eventually merged into the cloud division.

One of the important reasons why Microsoft will spend more than a billion dollars to acquire Yammer this time is that its own enterprise-level office business is under tremendous pressure.

In the past, this market was almost completely controlled by Microsoft's office family bucket.

Now it's different. Google came first and launched a series of competing products.Now Ziweixing International has also come here, and has created a series of "micro point" series products, which means "Ever" in English. There are EverNote for notes, EverBook for online bookkeeping, and cloud disks. Product EverDrive, EverZoom with cloud video.

Especially micro-books.

Competitors are coming fiercely, and Microsoft has no choice but to trade space for time and rush to complete the acquisition of Yammer at a substantial premium.

Whether it's Baidu or Microsoft, with this level of business, Zhou Buqi really can't rest.

He has to speak out and preside over this matter.

Especially Microsoft!
We must seize the moment!

While Ballmer is still in office, it is the most cost-effective to sell UC Group to him by taking advantage of his mentality of going to the doctor in a hurry.

Zhou Buqi first studied the Yammer case.

The Yammer case must be dealt with first, and then Ballmer can get out of his mind to talk about UC cooperation.

However, after searching for a long time, I couldn't find it.

In the end, she had no choice but to go back to the bedroom and call Ning Lu.

Back in the bedroom, I found that Ning Lu, Wu Yu and Sun Guanran had all taken a shower.The three girls had towels on their heads and only bath towels on their bodies. They were lying on the bed in a row, each holding an iPad in their hands.

Take a look...

Depend on!
Playing a game, "Plants vs. Zombies"!
Needless to say, Wu Yu must have teased the two of them.

Seeing Zhou Buqi coming, Wu Yu felt guilty and wanted to hide the tablet under the quilt, and said with a smile: "Husband, you finished the meeting so soon? Then go take a shower!"

Zhou Buqi said: "I have some materials, but I can't find them."

Sun Wanran asked, "Chinese or English?"

Sun Guanran is in charge of the Chinese ones, and Ning Lu is in charge of the English ones.

Zhou Buqi said, "English."

"Then I'll go."

Ning Lu pursed her lips, then got up and got out of bed, and followed the big boss to the study.

The business is really proficient, and after a few search commands, I found relevant information on Yammer.Because they are all in English, Ning Lu's level is still higher, so she can read them at a glance.

"Ah!" Ning Lu quickly found the point, pointing to the computer screen, "Look here, this company just completed its B round of financing last month."

"Last month..."

Zhou Buqi looked over according to her instructions.

It really is!
Just last month, Yammer just completed its B round of financing, with a financing amount of 8500 million US dollars, and the company's valuation reached 6 million US dollars.

For an enterprise-level Internet company that has been in business for less than four years, this is a very impressive achievement.

Then flipped to the next email.

Because Yammer is an entrepreneurial project that Zhou Buqi personally paid attention to at the beginning, and Ziweixing International is the most important investor in Yammer, so he is the most important decision maker when encountering an acquisition invitation this time.

The influence is not even worse than the founder.

Without the approval of Boss Zhou, even if Yammer's entrepreneurial team wants to sell the company to Microsoft at a high price, it will be difficult to achieve their goal.

The company has sent an email.

It was sent 5 days ago.

Zhou Buqi didn't pay attention at all.

Yammer is the enterprise version of Twitter.

After Twitter was successfully acquired by Google, Ballmer was in a hurry, and he couldn't miss the enterprise version of Twitter, so he hurriedly launched the acquisition plan.

Offer 12 billion US dollars, 100% acquisition of Yammer!

Financing last month, Yammer's valuation was only $6 million.

It has only been more than half a month, and Microsoft is about to double the premium to start the acquisition.

This sincerity is too much!

Yammer's entrepreneurial team is also very tempted, and almost formed a unity of opinion. They all want to sell the company to Microsoft, including those investment institutions, and they are all happy to see the result.

For the employer, this is a rare opportunity to exit.

The final decision-making power lies with Zhou Buqi.

Zhou Buqi was a little surprised, and turned to look at Ning Lu, "This matter is very important, why didn't you tell me?"

Ning Lu said aggrievedly, "I said it!"

"When did you say that?"

Zhou Buqi had no impression at all.

Ning Lu said: "That night, Guan Nanqing came from the capital with her little secretary, Zhuo Wensi, and you dragged us to give Zhuo Wensi that... I told you after I gave her a coming-of-age ceremony."

Zhou Buqi twitched the corner of his mouth, "On the bed?"

Ning Lu nodded lightly, and said "Yeah", "You said at the time that seeing popularity and seeing happiness might bring good luck to Yammer's case."

Hearing this, Zhou Buqi really had some impressions in a trance, then he widened his eyes and hummed: "Don't talk about such important things in bed in the future. Understand."

If it was Sun Guanran, she would have rolled her eyes and looked at him long ago.

Ning Lu's personality was much more docile, and she said with a light smile, "Well, I was wrong, I learned my lesson, and I won't do it in the future."

Zhou Buqi saw that she had a good attitude of admitting her mistakes, so she stopped criticizing her and said to herself, "It seems that I have to make a trip to see Ballmer."

"Do you want America?"

"Ah."

"When?"

"Anyway, not now, let's wait until Baoshan is born!" Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "You can help me answer the email, and tell them not to worry, I will go to Silicon Valley to handle this matter myself."

Ning Lu sat down, replied to the email, and said, "By the way, Kurian has some different opinions. I suggest you communicate with Kurian more when you have time."

Zhou Buqi sent Kurian a message through Weibo: "Yammer, do you have an idea?"

Kurian quickly responded, "Are you free? Video connection?"

Seeing that Ning Lu was only wrapped in a large white bath towel at this time, Zhou Buqi gave up the video call plan to make a voice connection with him.

After the connection, Kurian didn't waste time: "I think Ziweiyun should acquire Yammer, which will be a very beneficial supplement to our big membership system."

It is impossible for Zhou Buqi to agree, "How come? Don't we have a corporate intranet?"

The domestic version is called enterprise intranet, and the foreign version is called Eversite.

They are all products under the Cloud Computing Division.

Kurian said: "Yes, but there is a big gap. Yammer now has more than 500 million authenticated corporate users, and our Eversite only has 60."

Zhou Buqi said bluntly: "I don't think it is a good idea to acquire Yammer. I will talk to Ballmer and sell it to him. Enterprise-level product services, and more importantly, product relevance. I think Eversite is better. It is in line with our own product system, whether it is name, brand or product concept."

Kurian said: "Decided?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Yes, I will go to the United States to discuss this matter with Ballmer after a while."

Kurian can't argue now, so he can only settle for the next best thing, "Then I only have one request. If Yammer is sold to Microsoft, Ziweiyun will cut off all ties with Yammer. In the past few years, The rapid growth of Yammer is largely due to the benefits of Ziweiyun’s customers. We put Yammer and Eversite on equal weight products for development, and introduced many Ziweiyun customers to the Yammer platform. "

Of course there is no problem with this, Zhou Buqi said: "It should be, Ziwei Cloud will only serve its own Eversite in the future!"

(End of this chapter)