The Ten Years of Rebirth

Chapter 252 Jack Ma's $10 Billion Dollar
Ma Yun imagined many occasions to meet Xu Xing.

It may be a magnificent luxury hotel box, or an elegant and quiet hidden tea room.

Most people with successful careers usually have their own exclusive place to receive guests, which is more convenient for communicating some important things.

However, considering the age of the boss Xu Xing and the speed of his achievements, Ma Yun didn't find it so strange when he looked at the store in front of him, which was obviously more of an ordinary restaurant.

This year, the mobile Internet has just started, Jack Ma is already well-known in the industry, and outside the industry, he has also created a very successful personality by virtue of his outstanding appearance and an inspirational story.

The skill of storytelling is already a deep-rooted instinct for these Internet tycoons.

Commonly known as painting cakes.

The secretary who had been in contact with the other party followed behind Ma Yun. While taking out a mask for Ma Yun, he said softly: "Mr. Ma, Mr. Xu has arrived 5 minutes earlier, in room 201."

"Let's go."

Ma Yun put on a mask to avoid being recognized by others. After approaching the restaurant, he heard lively shouts from three round tables not far away.

At a glance, it is probably a group of young people having dinner together, which is very noisy.

Ma Yun didn't care about these episodes, but followed the waiter's guidance all the way to the door of the box on the second floor.

The moment the door was opened, a handsome young man was in front of him.

The other party was sitting on the window seat. He was smiling and talking to the female secretary next to him. When he heard the movement at the door, he turned around and looked over. Get up from your seat.

"Mr. Ma, I have admired your name for a long time." Xu Xing walked all the way from his seat, reached out to shake hands with Ma Yun, and looked down at this celebrity who could only be seen on the Internet. like an antique.

Ma Yun took off his mask and shook hands with Xu Xing with a smile, without showing any aggressive side, he just said: "Mr. I'm young, I only realized when I saw you that I'm really old."

"Mr. Ma can work for another 20 years at least." Xu Xing also responded with a smile, and led the two people who came in to their seats.

"According to what you say, you can work for at least another 50 years?" Ma Yun sat down, sitting on the seat next to Xu Xing, looking closer, and joked with a smile.

"That's not enough." Xu Xing shook his head, "I'll retire after another ten years of work."

Ma Yun: "...you may be beaten if you say this."

A 20-year-old said that he would retire after another ten years of work. You can tell me that.

But what Ma Yun didn't know was that Xu Xing's words really came from the bottom of his heart.

After all, he has been back to the present for ten years against the current, and there are only a few years of advantages. After using these advantages and earning enough money, of course he will go to retirement.

In the future, I will do charity, support the development of the country, and be a rich man with peace of mind.

"The waiter serves."

The people on both sides joked with each other, and after they became a little familiar, Xu Xing called for the food to be served.

Because they wanted to talk about things, Xu Xing and Ma Yun didn't drink white wine, and the beer seemed less formal, so they opened a bottle of red wine, clinked glasses, and chatted while picking up vegetables.

Neither was the first to say anything important about a partnership acquisition.

"Now that the mobile Internet is emerging, Mr. Xu must be able to take advantage of this trend to achieve this point. He must have his own insights." Ma Yun said after considering, "If your WeChat can be read from the hands of QQ in the computer era Next piece of meat, do you think Ali's Taobao is also in danger?"

"This is not a concept." Although Xu Xing didn't think so in his heart, he still said, "The nature of e-commerce is different from that of social software. The key to social software is to grasp the user's relationship chain, reverse Force users to use it, otherwise the friends on the relationship chain will be gone.”

"The key to e-commerce lies in the supply chain, commodity prices and quality, as well as the efficiency and service of express delivery. Ali is strong in this regard, and the mobile terminal is only a port of function."

"In this regard, I think that apart from JD.com, no one can threaten Taobao's position in e-commerce."

Well, it's true that there isn't one now, but I won't be able to tell in the future.

But Jack Ma is not his father, so it is impossible for Xu Xing to tell him all the important information.

Fudge is over.

In fact, with the introduction of functions such as Tmall Supermarket, Taobao has gradually embarked on the road of formalization.

This would have been a good sign.

But this also means that the pirated and low-quality products that once helped Taobao break through the sky have also been squeezed out by Taobao itself.

That's fine if no one sees it, but there's never a shortage of people looking for opportunities.

Well, Pinxixi, which is famous for relying on tens of billions of subsidies and slashing a knife, is actually similar to the original Taobao in terms of the logic of its rise, and it is all taking the cheap and cheap path.

To put it bluntly, the e-commerce market is doomed to have low-end, mid-end and high-end product markets at the same time.

Only relying on one piece of software to accommodate all the unique products is not conducive to the development of the brand, and the second is that the regulatory issues will be very cumbersome. In addition, there are various problems that are difficult to deal with and coordinate.

It is basically difficult to achieve a dominance by one family.

In the era of the computer terminal, the number of users was not too large, and the e-commerce cake was not big enough, and Ali could still take the lead.

However, with the advent of the mobile era and the popularity of smart phones, it means that the number of Internet users will explode with a geometric growth curve.

At this time, a Taobao can no longer bring all users into its own network.

Ali can either start from scratch, or he can only accept this fact.

In later generations, Ali launched the Taobao Express Edition and Taote software, in fact, to solve this problem, including as much as possible a full range of low-, medium- and high-end products into its own industrial matrix.

The two chatted along the e-commerce section, and Ma Yun talked about social software. Taking advantage of the relaxed atmosphere of the meal, Ma Yun joked: "According to the current momentum of WeChat, I am afraid that it will be able to share the same with QQ in the future." The world is over."

"I don't dare to take it." Xu Xing hurriedly said modestly, "QQ is our senior, and we should have respect. I have played QQ since I was a child, and my classmates also have QQ. They are all memories of our youth. Doing WeChat The news is also to pay tribute."

Salute to you big head ghost!

Ma Yun had a smile on his face, and he was already scolding for Teng Xin in his heart.

Fortunately, you paid tribute to QQ. It is best to keep paying tribute in the future, and don’t worry about Ali’s business.

Of course, it would be great if they could become a family in the future.

"WeChat relies on itself, and maybe it really can't catch up with QQ, but if you have the heart, Mr. Xu, I can help you." Ma Yun raised his glass and touched Xu Xing. After taking a sip of red wine, he continued, " The best tribute to your predecessors is to catch up with him, to be better than blue.”

"Boss Ma's words are good." Xu Xingxin had a drink with him, and then asked tentatively, "So, how are you going to help me?"

"Before, you used 10% of Weixin shares to raise 1.5 million yuan." Ma Yun shook his red wine glass, and said after a moment of deliberation, "I can understand your thoughts, you were unwilling to accept Ali's acquisition before, and you didn't want to Let go of this business."

"In this case, I don't have to control the power. Wechat is still controlled by you."

"Ali just needs a seat on the board."

Xu Xing raised his eyebrows when he heard this.

Ali's style has always been very distinctive. As long as it can be acquired, it will try to acquire it and integrate it into Ali's own system and ecological chain.

Only those who really can't be completely acquired will relax.

The more classic cases in the previous life are Meituan and Didi. These two have been relying on Ali and Tencent for many years, using the relationship between the super giants to achieve a delicate balance, thus ensuring their relatively independent status. .

It's just that in this life, the status of WeChat is a bit magical.

Because Qunxing, the parent company preparing for the exam, has a steady stream of funding from Tianshu Games, Weixin does not need to consider its own funding at all.

This is what worries Ali and Tengxin.

"So, what does President Ma mean?" Xu Xing asked curiously.

"I want 35% of Weixin's shares, one billion." Ma Yun tapped his fingers on the table, and said very neatly, "It's a dollar."

Hearing this number, Xu Xing's eyes froze, and he was a little surprised.

Yan Chijiu, who had been obediently helping Xu Xing with food, also flicked his wrist, almost thinking that he had heard wrong.

35% of the shares is almost one-third, so what did Jack Ma say?
$10 billion? !
Is this really not taking money as money?

You know, just a few months ago, when Ali came to discuss the purchase price of Weixin, the price of 100% equity was 10 billion US dollars!

As a result, how long has it been? One-third of the shares are worth $10 billion. Doesn’t Ali’s total valuation of Weixin has reached $30 billion?
Is it okay to triple it in a few months?

What is even more exaggerated is that just a week ago at the Weixin 2.0 launch conference, Shanghai Stock Exchange Joint Venture Capital acquired 1.5 shares for US$10 million, and the total valuation of Weixin reached US$15 billion.

It's only been a week, and Jack Ma's valuation of Weixin has doubled!
It can be seen from this that when he came to see Xu Xing this time, this Ma Zong really made a lot of determination, and he was bound to win Weixin.

35% of the shares, more than one-third, although there is no absolute control over Weixin, but at least one vote of veto.

This means that in the future, Ali can choose to veto any major decisions that will be unfavorable to Ali within Weixin to protect its own rights and interests.

This is a very correct multiple choice question for Jack Ma.

One QQ on Tencent’s side is enough. If we have another WeChat, if we can’t win over, we must at least ensure that it is harmless to Ali.

Especially when the $10 billion is spent, no matter how you say it, Ali is the second largest shareholder of Weixin.

At that time, even if the cooperation between the two parties cannot completely satisfy Ali, at least there will be a basis for in-depth cooperation.

Although he failed to fully integrate Weixin into his own Ali system, he can still be regarded as a foreign aid player anyway.

It's much more useful than the few social software that I have fiddled with and have no reputation at all.

"This is really a big deal." Xu Xing didn't express his opinion at the first time, but just sighed, "To be valued by President Ma like this, my life is not in vain."

"Mr. Xu is serious." Ma Yun laughed, and didn't force Xu Xing to make a statement, but said, "This is Ali's sincerity, and it also attaches importance to the future potential of Weixin."

"But to be honest." Xu Xing said, "Weixun is really not short of money now, after all, we have just completed the first round of financing."

"No one would dislike having a lot of money, especially in promotion and publicity. If you don't lack money, it means that Mr. Xu is not good at spending money." Ma Yun leaned back in his chair and said with a smile, "TV, Internet, street, etc. , subways, airports, shopping malls, celebrities, there are only things you can’t think of, and there is nothing you can’t spend.”

"That's the reason." Xu Xing nodded, "But 1.5 million US dollars is enough to spend a while on WeChat."

"And then?" Ma Yun asked, "Before WeChat has its own income to cover the cost, you can't keep relying on several mobile games. The game industry is too risky, and no one can guarantee the next one. Can the game explode?"

You can't guarantee it, but I can.

Xu Xing complained in his heart, but it was impossible to say it in person.

During this period, Ma Yun was still in the stage of "Ali will never make games".

But in another year or two, he will probably slap himself in the face.

"I don't want to reach a cooperation now." Ma Yun continued, "This time can be now or a few months later. I am here today just to show my sincerity."

"Well, I do feel Mr. Ma's sincerity." Xu Xing nodded without giving any guarantee.

"Heh." Ma Yun didn't look annoyed at all, just laughed and shook his head, "Ali can definitely give you more than you think, and money is only the most important thing."

"If you want, you can imagine the power of WeChat, Taobao and Paytong's account sharing, just this one move."

"And that's just scratching the surface."

Ma Yun's words are very seductive.

The main reason is that Ali's own cards are too solid, which makes people very appetizing at first glance.

It's just that for Xu Xing, Taobao and Alipay are actually the same as QQ in his eyes, they are very respectable seniors.

Well, senior.

Isn't it just for catching up?

This is what Ma Yun himself said.

Seeing that Xu Xing looked a bit recalcitrant, Ma Yun sighed, as if he had no choice.

But then he said: "There is actually another way of cooperation."

"Oh?"

"Xu Xing." Jack Ma called him by his real name for the first time, "Do you understand Ali's partner system?"

"I heard something."

"Then do you think it is possible for you to become one of them?"

　[Friendship py]: "Miss Witch's Cat"——

　　I treat the witch as my daughter, but she wants to be my mother.

　　"Meow ha ha ha ha, little kitty, mom kisses!!!"

　　"You...don't come here!!!"~~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)