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Boss Zhou is going to make a big move again, focusing on cross-border e-commerce, which makes many executives very worried.

Email after email came.

Even Tang Binchen made a special phone call that night.

"I read the group news on Weibo, saying that the next step may be acquisitions in the field of cross-border e-commerce? Do you want to take action?"

Tang Binchen is now the senior vice president of Ziwei Star International, located in London, England, in charge of all business in the European region.The two parties met in London before and discussed the status quo of cross-border e-commerce.

However, Zhou Buqi had not communicated with Kurian at that time, and his attitude was not clear enough.

After all, Ji Xiaqing, the product director of the International Department of Shanghai Metropolis, said happily that he wanted to develop a website building template product for cross-border e-commerce.

But after communicating with Kurian, Zhou Buqi gave up the idea of ​​self-development, and planned to make a direct move. He should go directly to Vancouver, Canada and buy the company Shopify!

This is currently the most popular website template in the field of cross-border e-commerce. It has a good reputation and a wide audience. It is well-known in the industry by word of mouth.

This thing is not technically difficult. With Ziweixing's strength, if it is self-developed, it is estimated that it can be developed in a month.But if you want to stand out in the market competition, it is too uncertain.

Zhou Buqi said: "Yes, a Canadian company called Shopify should be the most popular product in the industry at present. The time is tight and the task is heavy. If it is self-developed... Even if the self-developed product is completed, it must be completed. The year of the monkey is coming, and Amazon has already reacted.”

Tang Binchen said with a smile: "Can you really catch Amazon by surprise?"

Zhou Buqi said helplessly: "Whether you can do it or not, you have to try it anyway. E-commerce is the headquarters of Amazon Cloud. Whether you can dig a hole in this field depends on whether you can integrate cross-border e-commerce. Done. Taking advantage of the fact that the cross-border e-commerce market is still vague and everyone can’t see it clearly, hurry up and enter the market.”

Tang Binchen smiled and said, "Curian said it?"

"Hmm." Zhou Buqi was a little surprised, "Is there a problem? That's what I mean too. It's the same reason. The best strategy at the moment is to acquire Shopify and develop similar products by ourselves. The movement is too slow and the competition is too great. "

Tang Binchen said: "From Ziweiyun's point of view, this is the truth. The company's recent actions are a bit too big, and many people are worried about indigestion."

Zhou Buqi resolutely said: "Even if you have indigestion, you have to eat it! Let's not eat it now, and eat it after digestion is complete. It's not sure whether we can grab it."

Tang Binchen sighed, "Yahoo's integration has made many people frightened, but that's not enough. Yang Zhiyuan has new moves... A lot of media have spread the word."

"Really?" Zhou Buqi didn't have time to pay attention to those media reports, "What did you say?"

Tang Binchen said: "Yang Zhiyuan, on behalf of Ziweixing International, wants to initiate an acquisition of Snapchat, a social product that burns after reading. It is said that the offer has reached 10 billion US dollars."

Zhou Buqi read Yang Zhiyuan's email and said with a smile: "It's not that exaggerated, it should not exceed 8 million US dollars. The cash payment is estimated to be tens of millions of dollars."

It is the end of July in 2012, and Snapchat really became popular in Europe and America in 7.

When it really exploded, it really shocked everyone.

In the previous life, in 2013, the momentum of Snapchat's development really shocked the social giants, and Facebook came forward and offered a $30 billion acquisition.

Also full of threats.

Of course, Zuckerberg developed an almost identical product to Snapchat called Poke.Then tell them, either sell Snapchat to him, or Facebook will officially launch Poke, and then the two parties will either die or die.

Snapchat withstood the pressure and felt that the offer was too low, so it rejected it decisively.

The domestic Internet giant Penguin also participated, and the offer reached 35 billion US dollars, but the other party still felt that it was too low and rejected it again.

Since then, Facebook has fucked Snapchat.Basically, whenever Snapchat introduces new and interesting features, Facebook immediately copies them.

Zuckerberg directly blackened.

There is really nothing to do on Snapchat's side, there is really nothing to do if it is always copied like this. Facebook's strength is too strong, and I'm afraid it can't be done by its own strength.

At this time, I thought of penguins again.

He turned his head and threw himself into the arms of the penguin.

Penguin invested and became the largest shareholder of Snapchat, and taught relevant experience of "plagiarism and anti-plagiarism", and also transformed this product in terms of business model...

It's still early.

Zhou Buqi's foresight does not cover much of the overseas Internet industry, but he must have heard of the famous Snapchat and will never give up.

This time, he appointed Yang Zhiyuan as his "special envoy" to acquire Snapchat on behalf of Ziweixing International.

The effect is very good.

Snapchat can form a mutually beneficial product matrix with Helo, Ucgram, YikYak and other social products under Ziweixing International.

Zhou Buqi said: "When the opportunity comes, you can't miss it. If you want to do something big, you can't leave the leverage!"

Tang Binchen said with a smile: "This leverage is big enough."

This is not a financial leverage, but a leverage in management, and it is very risky.

While Ziweixing International is busy reorganizing Yahoo, it is also planning to acquire Snapchat, and it is also eyeing the field of cross-border e-commerce.

From the perspective of financial resources and business, with the strength of Ziweixing International, it is not difficult to win these things.

The difficulty is the follow-up business management.

One Yahoo is quite enough, and several of them came at once.

Zhou Buqi said: "It's not that serious. We attach so much importance to cross-border e-commerce because we are looking at the future. There is not such a big market in this industry now. Shopify is a small company. When it raised money last year... it seemed The valuation is only $1 million."

Tang Binchen pondered for a moment, "It may be related to your attitude towards Kurian."

"Ok?"

"You give Kurian what he asks for, which can make a lot of executives unbalanced."

"What?" Zhou Buqi was slightly taken aback, "You too?"

Tang Binchen said with a smile: "I'm sure I'm fine, I'm afraid that others will have opinions. Most of the executives are from the social business side, and Kurian is in charge of it alone."

"Chinese executives have any opinions?"

Zhou Buqi vaguely understood.

Many Chinese executives have jumped to join Ziwei Star International. One of the important reasons is that in other IT giants, the ceiling of Chinese executives can be seen, and the most is to be a senior vice president.

But it is different in Ziwei International.

It is really possible to reach the top here, compete for the position of president, and truly take charge of a technology giant.

But now the environment inside the company does not seem quite right.

Boss Zhou seems to be particularly fond of Kurian and attaches great importance to him.

Zhou Buqi said: "I see, it's okay! There is a way. Let Kurian be such a piece of iron, it's not such a thing."