Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2346 Enemy?

Sun Guanran has already made arrangements. Tomorrow, Boss Zhou will have an official meeting with Samsung Crown Prince Lee Jae-yong to discuss the Yahoo Korea case.

Xu Baihui seemed to have inquired a lot about Li Zairong again, and ran to Zhou Buqi to make irresponsible remarks.

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "You don't care if he's a good guy or a bad guy. What he's talking about is business, not morality."

Xu Baihui rolled his eyes and snorted, "The big chaebol, it's not just bad!"

Zhou Buqi didn't take it seriously, "Rare is more strange!"

"Oh?" Xu Baihui's beautiful eyes flashed, she jumped up from the sofa in the study, and ran over to lean on the desk, "Then, please let the big boss explain the little girl's confusion. What big scenes have you seen before?"

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "It's written in the book that if one succeeds, all bones will be wiped out, does that count? The shopping mall is like a battlefield, and even the bones are commonplace. What's the point of bullying a few starlets in the entertainment industry?" "

Xu Baihui was taken aback, "Boss Zhou, do you really think so?"

Zhou Buqi sighed, "It's not what I think. You have to recognize the reality. This is South Korea. These big chaebols in South Korea are doing business and playing politics. Doing business is simple and obeying the law. They are close to politics. , That is to regard human life as worthless. Under the influence of power, tens of millions of people will die without blinking an eye. If you have this standard, you will feel gentle and elegant when you look at Li Zairong."

Xu Baihui is a girl and doesn't like this kind of heavy history and cruel power. "Anyway, I don't think you should fund Samsung."

"What?" Zhou Buqi was slightly taken aback, "When did I fund Samsung?"

Xu Baihui said, "Aren't you going to sell Yahoo Korea to him?"

Zhou Buqi was amused, "What kind of funding is this? This is selling money. Yahoo Korea has been losing money for five or six years in a row. If they leave such a mess to Samsung, they might be able to sell it at a sky-high price of 10 billion U.S. dollars. You actually thought I was helping them?"

Instead of selling Yahoo Korea to Kakao Group, it sold it to Samsung Electronics... The most important reason is that Kakao is its own company and a godson.

Yahoo is the real son.

For the sake of his own son, the godson will only be allowed to subsidize his own son as a last resort.If there is a choice, of course it is to search from outsiders.

Xu Baihui snorted: "Don't think I don't know, Samsung Electronics is relatively lacking in technology in the Internet field. Samsung's smart phones, smart TVs, tablet computers, etc., Internet services and software services are all purchased from outside."

"Yes, mainly from Yahoo and Ziweixing." Zhou Buqi couldn't help laughing, and gave another set of data, "This year, the order contract between Samsung Electronics and Yahoo is 6500 million U.S. dollars, and the order contract with Ziweixing International is about About $1 million. The order contract with Ziweixing is about $1500 million. In addition, there may be several million dollars from Baidu.”

This is only an approximate figure.

The specific amount of the contract is not exact, it is related to the scale of users.The more Samsung's products are sold and the more customers it serves, the higher the corresponding contract amount will be.

Xu Baihui was not impressed with these numbers, and said with a curled lip: "What Samsung lacks now is Internet technology. You sold Yahoo Korea to Samsung, so you helped them make up for their weaknesses? Yahoo Korea has very strong technology, and it is the Whampoa of the Korean Internet industry." military school."

"Huh?" Zhou Buqi looked at Sun Wanran who was buried in the mail across the table, "Wanwan, you told her?"

Sun Guanran raised his head and glanced at him, "Is this not a leak?"

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "It doesn't count, let me ask how you think about it."

"Me?" Sun Guanran hesitated for a moment, she had more information than Xu Baihui, but the general idea was the same, "I also think this is not good."

Zhou Buqi couldn't help but laugh.

Sun Guanran said: "I know that selling Yahoo Korea to Samsung Electronics may make a lot of money, and solve Ziweixing International's cash flow dilemma to a certain extent..."

"Wait a minute." Zhou Buqi interrupted her, "Tell me, why can you sell it for a lot of money?"

Sun Guanran took it for granted: "Because Samsung needs it, because Samsung doesn't have it! Moreover, in the past, Samsung's main partners were Yahoo and Ziweixing. With the addition of Baidu as a backup, they can sit back and relax and develop slowly. But it is no longer possible. Yahoo and Ziwei Star have merged, and Baidu has no problem in the Asian market, but has no business in the European and American markets. This is a strategic risk. In order to eliminate this strategic risk, they would rather pay a lot of money.”

Zhou Buqi nodded in satisfaction, and said with a smile: "Yes, it seems that I understand."

It's like Astar's mobile phone OEM.

You can't just choose Foxconn as a foundry.

In this way, it is easy to be kidnapped by Foxconn... Later, many domestic mobile phone manufacturers encountered such a dilemma.When production needs to be rushed during the peak season, Foxconn may make troubles, saying that there are too many orders and cannot be scheduled, and they must wait patiently or ask for more money to rush work.

The real mobile phone giants will not have this kind of encounter, and the strategic structure is richer, and this risk has been ruled out early.

Such as Samsung mobile phones and Huawei mobile phones.

The OEM order is divided into three or four parts, one part is for Foxconn, the other part is produced by the self-operated foundry, and the rest is handed over to Foxconn's competitors.

In this way, in order to compete for more orders, Foxconn must provide the best service, the lowest price, the highest efficiency and the best product quality.

This is the value of market competition.

Now, Samsung Electronics has also encountered such a dilemma in the field of Internet services and software business.

Ziweixing and Yahoo merged.

Baidu is out of control.

Other Internet giants simply do not have the strength to provide high-quality services to Samsung Electronics' hundreds of millions of users around the world.This means that Samsung has only Ziwei Star as a company to choose from.

The competition is gone!
Here lies the strategic risk.

Once Ziweixing makes trouble here, Samsung Electronics will suffer.

In order to eliminate this risk, Samsung Electronics has only two options.

First, go to the market to find new partners.

This is too difficult.

The product inventory of Samsung Electronics is too large, and the user scale is too large.Only Internet giants have the strength to operate tens of thousands or 10,000+ servers, and serve hundreds of millions of users around the world at the same time, not even IBM. The website framework built by IBM for Suning.com has 1000 million online users at the same time, and the website is guaranteed to crash.

The second way is self-employment.

Self-operation is the first choice for all large companies to eliminate strategic risks.

This is also what Samsung Electronics is best at. They have done almost all the upstream and downstream of the entire mobile phone industry by themselves.The urgent acquisition of Yahoo Korea is the first step in promoting Samsung Electronics to provide Internet services.

Once an emergency acquisition is made, once it rises to a strategic level, there will be a substantial premium.

Sun Guanran said softly: "I've checked everything. Samsung is strengthening its layout in Silicon Valley. Last year, it invested 3 million US dollars to build a new modern Samsung Silicon Valley headquarters in Silicon Valley. It is expected to be completed in 2015. When we arrive there When this Silicon Valley headquarters is launched, they will rely on Silicon Valley's talent advantages to actively promote the self-operated project of Samsung Electronics' products, Internet services and software business."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "The investigation is quite clear, um, almost. Now the giants in Silicon Valley are engaged in construction. Facebook, Google, and Apple are all building new headquarters."

Xu Baihui said angrily: "Change the topic again, you haven't made it clear yet! Samsung's original plan was to wait until after 2015 to promote the self-operated Internet service business. You sold Yahoo Korea to them, not to help them advance the self-operated business." Is it ready? Isn't this a resource for the enemy?"

Sun Guanran nodded again and again, "Well, I'm also very worried. I taught my apprentices and starved my master to death. Now Ziwei Star can receive 2 million US dollars in services from Samsung every year. If they learn it, won't these orders disappear? "

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "How is it possible? The service fee will only increase and increase year by year. Especially with the addition of artificial intelligence. By 2015, the service fee will definitely exceed US$10 billion."

"They started doing it on their own, why not..."

"Samsung Electronics also has its own foundry, but most of Samsung's mobile phones are also produced by Foxconn. Why don't you say that Samsung itself produces all of them?"

"This……"

Sun Guanran and Xu Baihui looked at each other, and they seemed to understand a little bit.

scale!

If the mobile phone order is small, Samsung's own foundry can handle it, and there is no need to find Foxconn.But once the sales volume is too large and there are too many orders, the self-operated factory will not be able to handle so many orders, so it can only ask outside OEMs for help.

Internet and software services, the same truth?
Zhou Buqi said: "Yahoo Korea's technology is very strong, but it is only in the Korean market. Compared with those Internet companies in Korea, it is at most a dwarf and a big one. Not to mention compared with Silicon Valley, it is not comparable to domestic companies. Fabi."

"That's not right..." Xu Baihui was a little puzzled, "I heard...the Korean search platform Naver has done a good job and defeated Google. They all said that Korean Naver is similar to domestic Baidu Well, what are the three major search algorithms... It seems that the technical level is similar."

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "Who said that? Is it of the same level?"

After all, Xu Baihui is a layman, so she doesn't quite understand, "Isn't it?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Of course not. The core point of Internet technology is scale. South Korea's population is only 5000 million, and there are 13 billion in the country. Naver provides services to 5000 million users, and Baidu has at least 5 million users! In terms of scale, There is a 10-fold gap, and the technical complexity gap is at least 100 times. Just like Google has 20 billion users, the technical level is the skyline."

"That's it..." Xu Baihui now figured out what was going on, "No wonder Samsung Electronics would rather go to Baidu than to go to Naver. It seems that Naver is still in the Samsung camp..."

Zhou Buqi said: "Yes, Naver was considered an internal entrepreneurial project of Samsung. The level is average, and it is okay for the Korean market. It is difficult to go abroad. Yahoo Korea's technology is indeed second to none in the Korean market, but it is only 5000 million yuan. size of the population."

(End of this chapter)