Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2952

Indian executives seem to be particularly good at mergers and acquisitions.

It's not just Kurian.

After Nadella came to power and became the CEO of Microsoft, he relied on non-stop buying while reviving Microsoft.

During Ballmer's era, Microsoft launched a merger and acquisition on average once a month, which was frequent enough.

After Nadella took power, the number of mergers and acquisitions doubled, with an average of two mergers and acquisitions launched every month.

Zhou Buqi analyzed the reasons.

I found myself feeling the same way.

When Ziweixing was doing domestic business, he seldom went into the market for large-scale mergers and acquisitions, using capital means to kill potential competitors, but instead relied on market competition to win fairly.

Splitting off Ziweixing International and developing in the United States is very different. Many businesses were acquired through acquisitions.

Some of these acquisitions are benign and can benefit all parties.

For example, Yahoo, Snapchat, Rotten Tomatoes, Fandango, Twitch, Shopify, Quora, Evernote, etc., have all seen significant improvements in their business after being acquired by Ziweixing International. However, there are only a dozen or so successful cases.

In the past four or five years, Ziweixing International has initiated more than 70 mergers and acquisitions in the North American market!

It is fair to say that a large number of very creative and growth-potential small businesses and start-ups in the United States were killed by Zhou Buqi's capital operation strategies.

Because he is a foreigner, he has no psychological burden.

He doesn't care about the life or death of the American technology industry!

He just wants to do his business well.

But it won't work in the domestic market. He really can't bear to do that. He has feelings and love for the industry. He would be merciful to use such means to kill the "young saplings" in the industry.

If something has to happen, it’s the survival of the fittest through fair competition in the market.

The continuous mergers and acquisitions of small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups by large companies will inevitably lead to a decline in innovation in the market. Many scholars and scientists are very opposed to this phenomenon and have written many articles criticizing the lack of innovation in Silicon Valley, which is due to this phenomenon.

Many Americans are very cautious in this regard and have some patriotic sentiments.

At least it would be a little embarrassing.

Feel sorry for yourself.

Just like Zhou Buqi couldn't bear to destroy the industry's "young saplings" too wantonly in the country.

But it’s different for foreigners.

  Indians have no spiritual or cultural identification with the United States, and even their religious beliefs are different. They don't need to care about the God-supervising law of "God is watching what you do", so they can do whatever they want!

Everything starts from the origin of business and is to pursue maximum profit!

As long as there are no legal restrictions, continuous mergers and acquisitions are the best choice for super technology giants! Whether from the perspective of talent, products, industry competition, internal innovation, or from the perspective of stifling potential competitors, it is of great significance.

Choosing an Indian as CEO can really avoid many non-commercial factors.

Zhou Buqi is now a little undecided.

He is not optimistic about Lu Qi.

When his contract expired three years later, I really didn’t want to renew it with him.

If the contract with Luqi is not renewed, who will be chosen as president?

  Tang Binchen?

Xu Liangjie?

Zheng Xiaoli?

Zhou Buqi suddenly felt that Kurian seemed more suitable. He was a rival of Microsoft CEO Nadella, which was a huge internal motivation. Both of them were bigwigs in the Indian community, and they could also compete to attract more outstanding Indian engineers for Ziweixing International.

There is an even more important point.

Kurian and Nadella had previously been on the same level.

Nadella has become the CEO of Microsoft. If Lu Qi is replaced without being promoted in the future, he will definitely be dissatisfied and he might even leave Ziweixing in anger... Judging from his performance, he is fully qualified and justified for promotion.

If there really are any business disputes at Ziweixing International in the future, and the person in charge needs to go to Congress to answer questions from members of Congress...it would be more appropriate to let the dark-skinned Kurian come forward than Tang Binchen or Zheng Xiaoli.

When answering some sensitive questions, Kurian can give a straightforward response, unlike Tang Binchen or some other Chinese executives who are afraid to respond directly. Once he beats around the bush and evades, it will give the congressmen a very bad impression, and they will think that there is something fishy inside the company, and they will blame it on a company, causing the company to suffer an unwarranted disaster.

Just like the decision of TikTok to be punished by Congress, it was all just hearsay, with no solid evidence at all. But at the previous hearing, the Chinese CEO of TikTok performed extremely poorly when facing the questioning of congressmen.

He simply didn't dare to respond to many sensitive questions.

The less you respond and the more you beat around the bush, the more people will think you are guilty, just like whining after making a mistake.

This will easily lead to a unified thinking among all parties and a consensus on punishment.

In fact, there have been more serious similar incidents in the United States. Facebook is suspected of using user data to interfere with votes in the US election. And this is not just speculation, it has really been found out and has been confirmed... The nature of this is extremely serious, much more serious than TikTok, which is suspected based on hearsay.

Zuckerberg was almost kicked out of office, and even Sheryl Sandberg, the so-called First Lady of Facebook, resigned. As a result, Zuckerberg bravely stood up and went to Congress to answer questions in person. He went there several times and responded to all questions openly, even answering many sensitive issues between China and the United States. He completely cut off the possibility of Facebook's development in China, leaving a deep and good impression on Congress and the public, who thought he was frank and sincere enough.

Then I forgave him.

It can be said to be turning the tide.

Facebook emerged from the trough and recovered.

Zhou Buqi was thinking about the future.

Prepare for the worst.

If one day he really has to answer questions from Congress, he will definitely not go.

Once those sensitive questions were asked, he had no way to answer them. If he told the truth, his domestic business would be ruined, and even his personal safety could not be guaranteed. If he didn't tell the truth and kept beating around the bush, Americans who didn't understand the domestic situation would think that Ziweixing International must be doing something fishy, ​​and then his overseas business would be in trouble.

Send out foreigners like Kurian.

All the responsibility is put on him.

Even if some truth is told, they can still deny the connection and shirk responsibility by saying that Indians are unruly.

Tell all lies and not all truths.

If we must speak the truth openly on some sensitive issues, let the dark-skinned Indians do it.

More and more American companies are looking for a "foreigner" to be their CEO.

Zhou Buqi made a basic judgment that this was probably the choice made by the board of directors to distance itself from the issue and shirk responsibility under the increasingly politically correct left-wing trend in the United States. If someone was really offended and some politically incorrect decisions were made, there would be reasons to maneuver.

If we look at his abilities alone, Kurian is fully qualified to be the president or CEO of Ziweixing International.

He is a top-notch professional manager rarely seen in Silicon Valley.

Zhou Buqi planned to observe further.

Let’s wait until Ziweixing International goes public.

Let’s see how it performs after it goes public.

Let’s see whether Ziwei Cloud can continue to develop rapidly under Kurian’s leadership after Nadella becomes the CEO of Microsoft.

There are still a few years left, so we can slowly observe.

That morning, Zhou Buqi met with four senior executives.

It's all about our company and has nothing to do with Facebook.

Judging from the situation, I won’t be able to get away in the afternoon.

But it’s also good this way, at least he can have a comprehensive and holistic understanding of Ziweixing International’s business.

At noon, Shen Xiangyang also came over and took the opportunity to take him out for lunch.

Zhou Buqi said with emotion: "I have only been on vacation for a month, and it feels like countless things have come to me."

"It's the end of the year." Shen Xiangyang smiled, "Who doesn't want to show off in front of the big boss and get a better year-end bonus?"

"Huh?" Zhou Buqi was a little surprised. "How can I make a decision? Isn't it the human resources department that counts and evaluates the performance of the work?"

Shen Xiangyang said, "But you still need to review and approve it. You can just change their reports however you want, right?"

Zhou Buqi waved his hand and said, "I won't change it!"

"Well, it's right not to change it. If you change it, you have to take responsibility. If you don't change it..." Shen Xiangyang is also a management master. "If there is a problem if you don't change it, and someone is dissatisfied with the evaluation, there will be room for maneuver and the responsibility can be pushed to the Human Resources Department. If you personally wrote the revision and there are different opinions, then there is really nothing you can do. You can only part ways and resign."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Well, this is the significance of shirking responsibility."

The two went to a nearby Chinese noodle restaurant to eat together.

Most of the people nearby are industry practitioners.

When two people are discussing, they should keep their voices down.

Shen Xiangyang said: "This time I came to you to talk about an incident where a scientist was shirking responsibility."

"Scientists shirking responsibility?" Zhou Buqi was very curious, "What's the matter?"

Shen Xiangyang said: "The one you kept telling me about, the super big project you've been dreaming of!"