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Over the past 30 years, Carl Icahn has bought dozens of companies by skillful use of various capital and non-capital means such as leveraged buyouts, hostile takeovers, power of attorney disputes, demands for board seats, use of the media, and inciting minority shareholders. A large number of shares in listed companies have earned tens of billions of dollars in profits through coercion and lure of the board of directors and management.

In the past few years, it was all for traditional industries.

The wind has changed dramatically in recent years.

Started to focus on technology stocks.

Yahoo, eBay, and this year Netflix and Dell.

The matter of Netflix has come to an end. Under the strong opposition of Zhou Buqi, Carl Icahn failed to successfully enter the board of directors of Netflix, which led him to emptied Netflix's stock now.

However, because Netflix's stock has performed well, it has risen by 70% this year, which has also brought him huge profits, earning more than 3 million US dollars in a wave of operations.

This makes Carl Icahn and Zhou Da boss forged an indissoluble bond.

The "cooperation" between the two parties is not once or twice!

Such as the Yahoo case, including the previous acquisition of Motorola's mobile phone business by Asda.

Why did Motorola choose to be split and sold?

The mysterious force behind it is Carl Icahn.

After Apple launched the iPhone in 07, Motorola's stock price continued to plummet. Carl Icahn saw the opportunity and decisively bought a large amount of Motorola's stock.

However, after several efforts, he failed to obtain a seat on the board of directors.

Carl Icahn was furious and sued Motorola in the second year. He also asked the lion to ask for 4 board seats and asked the company to spin off its mobile business.

The lawsuit has been going on for several years, but Motorola couldn't hold on to its internal and external troubles, and finally split into two independent companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions, in early 2011, bidding farewell to the extremely glorious history.

This is the follow-up operation of Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility, and Asda's acquisition of Motorola mobile phones from Google.

Going forward, there are actually origins.

The current largest entertainment giant in Hollywood is Ziweixing Universal. Its revenue is second only to Time Warner and Disney, but its profit scale ranks first.

The reason why it can become the first is mainly to surpass Time Warner.

Why can it surpass Time Warner?

Because in 06, Carl Icahn bought Time Warner's stock generously, and then started fighting with the board of directors and management, demanding that Time Warner be split into four companies.

After a series of struggles and compromises, Time Warner was finally split into three companies. In addition to the main company of Time Warner, America Online AOL and Time Warner Cable Network were all independent.

This greatly reduces the profit of Time Warner Group.

It gave Ziwei Star Global the opportunity to become the number one in the industry.

This time, the two sides will cooperate again.

It is necessary to join hands to win eBay and promote the spin-off and independent listing of PayPal.

Zhou Buqi is going to take the initiative, and Carl Icahn is of course happy.

The PayPal case has been going on for several years.

Now that Boss Zhou is the right-hand man, wouldn't it be a good idea to take it down?

Carl Icahn didn't even have a bodyguard, only a 40-year-old male assistant named Hardy, the vice president of his company, said: "EBay's biggest competitor is Amazon. These years, eBay eBay has been left behind by Amazon by a large distance. In their view, PayPal is the most powerful weapon for eBay to compete with Amazon."

This is indeed a strategic need.

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "I'm not interested in bringing down eBay, on the contrary, I want to help eBay do better. PayPal is the most popular payment tool, and it does provide eBay with It is a great help. But we have also seen the reality that PayPal cannot save eBay. In the past few years, the gap between eBay and Amazon has become wider and wider. It is unrealistic to put eBay’s hopes on PayPal.”

"Oh?" Carl Icahn vaguely heard something, and was very excited, "Do you have a solution to this matter?"

Zhou Buqi said: "We can promote the strategic cooperation between eBay and Ziweixing International! What PayPal can't do, Ziweixing can help them do it!"

Hardy seemed to have foreseen it a long time ago, and said excitedly: "It should, it should be like this! Ziwei Star International has Helo, Yahoo, Weishu, Evernote and other popular products, and has the largest traffic advantage on the client side. .”

Zhou Buqi nodded, "That's right, if eBay is willing, Helo can open an entrance. Helo users can directly jump to eBay through Helo."

Just like the quick entrance to JD.com in WeChat.

You can jump to Jingdong directly through WeChat.

In the previous life, Jingdong relied on such a strategy to solve the traffic dilemma.Of course, the price is also expensive, selling a large number of shares to Penguin at a price far below the market price, making Penguin the largest shareholder of JD.com.

Ziweixing International and eBay have no shareholding relationship.

But you can give money.

Every year, eBay pays a "service fee" to Ziweixing International to open an interface in Helo, so that eBay can get more and more scarce traffic support.

Helo on the domestic computer side has been doing similar business for several years and has accumulated rich operational experience.Such a successful experience must be replicated in overseas markets.

To provide services in the field of cross-border e-commerce, Ziweiyun needs to help those cross-border e-commerce websites attract traffic.

This can not rely on Helo.

If Helo provides such a quick entry for those small companies, it will really lower the level of Helo.Ebay is different. This is a world-class e-commerce giant with sufficient brand and popularity.

Helo can be connected to eBay to help eBay increase traffic.

Then, connect those cross-border e-commerce stores to the eBay platform to introduce eBay's traffic, and then you can obtain traffic indirectly.

With traffic, you can sell goods.

Traffic is the lifeblood of e-commerce business.

Carl Icahn didn't know much about the Internet business, but he clarified the general idea and said happily: "Use business cooperation to make up for the disadvantages of the spin-off. If we can do this, then our plan has no possibility of failure!"

Zhou Buqi said: "This is only one aspect, it's just traffic access and strategic services. Amazon's strength comes from the support of Amazon Cloud behind it, which can help e-commerce businesses solve all technical difficulties. eBay does not have such an advantage.”

Carl Icahn understood now, and said convincingly: "That's right, eBay can be connected to Ziwei Cloud! Amazon has Amazon Cloud behind it, and eBay has a more powerful Ziwei Cloud behind it. What reason does Bayi’s board of directors have to refuse? That’s it!”

After a pause, he made a decision like a final decision, "As you said, we will go in two directions together! Ziweixing will provide business and strategic help, and I will also operate it..."

Zhou Buqi asked: "How does it work?"

Carl Icahn has too much experience in this, and blurted out, "Participate in TV financial programs, criticize eBay for squeezing PayPal, and create public opinion pressure. You know, I still have a certain appeal in the capital market. Yi Bei dare not sit back and watch the stock price drop sharply."

Zhou Buqi twitched the corner of his mouth.

Sure enough!

This old boy knows how to use threats.

Carl Icahn went on to say: "Second, I will incite other shareholders of Ebay to sign a concerted action with me. Third, I will publicly request to enter the board of directors of Ebay! This is basically enough. After the three axes come down, they will carry Can't stop!"

"it is good."

Zhou Buqi was not polite to him either.

Okay!

Carl Icahn continued to play his coercion and coercion, while Zhou Buqi adopted a mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation method.

The notoriety is for Carl Icahn.

Enjoy the good reputation by yourself.

Well, this kind of cooperation model is very reliable.