Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

Chapter 723 Everyone Feels Outrageous
After hearing Lu Yiming's "crazy words", everyone became short of breath.

"My God, $35 billion?"

"Lu, are you serious?"

Musk was also very excited, but he considered more things, and said worriedly: "$35 billion is really good, but I am worried that eBay will not accept such an offer."

Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Then we can force them to accept it."

Hearing what Lu Yiming said, Musk not only didn't feel disgusted, but became even more excited.Because he himself is a person who likes PUA others, whether it is making payments now or making cars in the future.He always wants everyone to do what he says, even paying customers.Although the customer is God, but the belief of this product is not very pious.

"Forcing them to accept? How to force them to accept?"

Lu Yiming said flatly: "Go and spread the news that PayPal is also planning to launch an e-commerce project, and like eBay, we are also doing C2C."

When Musk heard it, he couldn't sit still: "You want to do e-commerce? Are you crazy?"

eBay is in the beautiful country, and Amazon is one of the two kings in the field of e-commerce, and its position is unshakable.Lu Yiming came to do e-commerce now, isn't that courting death?

No matter how many trump cards there are, the beautiful country has its own national conditions.

Lu Yiming raised his eyebrows and jokingly said, "What? Can't it be done?"

Musk shook his head like a rattle: "It can't be done."

Although Musk is a person who doesn't follow the rules, he just doesn't follow the rules, and it's not that he doesn't understand the rules.

Lu Yiming had no choice but to explain: "Don't worry, I don't really want to be an e-commerce company, I just put on a corresponding gesture. Of course, although the project is fake, we have to do it as it is. After all, we don't move a little Bei's cheese, how can it stimulate their nerves?"

Musk instantly understood Lu Yiming's intentions, suddenly realized, and laughed loudly: "That's right, compared to negotiations, the effect of intimidation is more immediate."

He asked enthusiastically, "What are we going to do?"

On the third day after Lu Yiming arrived in the beautiful country, reports about him suddenly appeared in the media.That handsome face once again dominated the headlines, and the title of the article was even more offensive - "The Harvester from the East, He's Coming Again".

Speaking of Lu Yiming, in the capital market of the beautiful country, it can be said that everyone knows everyone.It is an exaggeration to say that at least half of the people on Wall Street want to eat their flesh raw.

Now, as soon as this report came out, it immediately caused a sensation in the capital market of the beautiful country.Even many companies have become anxious, fearing that they will become the next crop of leeks in the hands of Lu Yiming's sickle.

Investors in the capital market have been cut off since ancient times, but in Lu Yiming's case, it is the old stockholders who ruthlessly cut off the leeks in the capital market, which is simply terrifying.

And this time, the company mentioned in the report was eBay.

While other companies breathed a sigh of relief, eBay was on the verge of a formidable enemy.

At eBay's headquarters, Meg Whitman, who got the news, had a very ugly expression on her face and asked her subordinates, "Who can tell me what's going on? Why did Lu Yiming come to Beautiful Country? When did he come?"

The subordinates were also helpless, saying: "Lu Yiming didn't come here this time, he didn't take his private plane, but took an ordinary flight, and we only now learned that he has arrived."

Meg Whitman has some headaches. Although eBay is in full swing now, the impact of the Internet winter has not completely passed.

It’s okay if someone else announces to enter the e-commerce field. Meg Whitman doesn’t think that eBay will lose with its current size, but now it’s eBay’s confidant who wants to “rebel”——PayPal !

As an e-commerce company, the importance of payment software is self-evident, and it is definitely its lifeblood.

However, eBay's technical team is so poor that it is simply unsupportable. In the state of Meg Whitman's madness, she was still beaten by PayPal.

If not, why did she spend a lot of money to acquire PayPal?

Now, this small company that pinches its own life, actually said that they also want to engage in e-commerce?

Meg Whitman felt a little ridiculous, but she was still a little uneasy.

After all, PayPal alone is doing things, and she still has the confidence to suppress it. After all, eBay is a giant compared to PayPal.

The big deal is to use the power of capital to crush it.

However, the crux of the problem is that Lu Yiming is also capital, he is too rich, if he is willing to burn money for PayPal's crazy plan, it is really possible to succeed in the rebellion.

Even if it is just cracking the ground to seal the king, it is unbearable for eBay, and the stock price will definitely suffer a heavy setback because of this.

In fact, in the past few days when PayPal released the news, because of Lu Yiming's appearance, eBay's stock price has begun to fluctuate violently.

As a last resort, Meg Whitman could only grit her teeth and tell her subordinates: "Help me make an appointment with Mr. Lu, I want to meet him."

In the PayPal headquarters, in order to create the illusion that an e-commerce platform is going to be launched, Lu Yiming is doing everything according to the real standard.

Whether it's recruiting a technical team or starting to spend money to rent servers, it's all very similar.

Even some ordinary PayPal employees think that their company is really planning to enter the e-commerce field and grab eBay's cheese.

In the conference room, Lu Yiming was giving lectures to the new technical team when the cell phone in his pocket rang.

"Sau Rui, I'll answer the phone."

Lu Yiming answered the phone, hung up after saying a few words, and said to everyone: "That's all for today, everyone should leave."

Musk came over and asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "Meg Whitman called, she couldn't sit still. She asked me to meet and wanted to talk to me."

Musk suddenly raised his head and laughed: "Your strategy is really effective."

The next day, Lu Yiming met with Meg Whitman.

When Meg Whitman saw Lu Yiming, the expression on her face was quite complicated.Without being too polite, she said straight to the point: "Mr. Lu, what exactly do you want to do?"

Lu Yiming smiled and asked back: "Pretty lady, what do you think I want to do?"

Meg Whitman sneered and said: "Your purpose is actually not difficult to guess. It is nothing more than forcing eBay to make concessions on the price. Do you think this trick can deceive me?"

Obviously, as a working woman, Meg Whitman has a very high IQ to be the CEO of eBay and to be in charge of such a well-known large company in the United States.

But business negotiation, to put it bluntly, is still the trick.

They bluff each other, test the bottom line, and then guess the purpose and means of the other party. What they play is that what is false is true, and what is true is false.

Lu Yiming smiled slightly, facing the aggressive Meg Whitman, he said calmly: "PayPal is an excellent payment software, and it is also a sharp sword that can stab eBay. The problem is that this In whose hand will the sword be held?"

Meg Whitman frowned slightly: "What do you mean?"

Lu Yiming looked at Meg Whitman in his spare time, and said in a slow tone: "In 1998, Google wanted to sell it to Yahoo for 100 million US dollars, but Yahoo refused. In 2002, that is, the previous year's Back then, Yahoo wanted to buy Google for $20 billion, but this time Google turned it down because they thought they were worth $50 billion.”

"I believe it's only a matter of time before Google surpasses Yahoo. Ms. Whitman, how much do you think PayPal is worth now? Is it the money that matters, or the eBay market?"

Meg Whitman understood Lu Yiming's implication, which was threatening her not to make the mistakes that Yahoo made back then.

A problem that can be solved with 100 million US dollars can not be solved now with 20 billion US dollars.

In comparison, how similar is the relationship between eBay and PayPal?
PayPal wants to do e-commerce, this may be just an illusion.

But what if it was true?

Can eBay afford the bet?

Meg Whitman got up and said: "You are not unreasonable, I think I need to discuss it with my colleagues."

Lu Yiming said, "Then I will wait for your good news."

Meg Whitman felt that she had seen through Lu Yiming's cards, and she had indeed seen through Lu Yiming's cards.

That's what Lu Yiming thought.

This is a bright card.

Back at eBay headquarters, Meg Whitman immediately called a board meeting.

Several eBay investors were all present.

"Boss, why did you call us here?"

"That's right, what's so important that you can't say it at the company's regular meeting tomorrow, and you're going to have such a meeting this afternoon?"

Many people are making complaints, obviously they are also the ones who don't like meetings.

After all, the beautiful country is a free country, and meetings are not free at all.

Meg Whitman didn't even bother to say the opening remarks, and said directly: "I talked with Lu Yiming from Xia Guolai this morning. He said that he represented PayPal and expressed his willingness to sell PayPal to us."

Several investors couldn't help but be overjoyed after hearing this.

"Thank god, they nerds are finally willing to sell paypal."

"They can't bear it anymore?"

Last year, eBay had already set its sights on PayPal early, but no matter how Meg Whitman asked for a price, Musk and others were determined not to sell it, which caused everyone a headache.

"How much are they asking?" asked one executive impatiently.

Meg Whitman said: "$35 billion."

Everyone at the scene was shocked when they heard the price.

"$35 billion? Is he crazy?"

"There is no doubt that his price has no sincerity at all."

"Is he joking with this price?"

Many people were angry. There is no doubt that they felt that the price was too insincere, and even Lu Yiming was deliberately humiliating them.

However, what shocked them even more was that Meg Whitman said slowly: "I have verbally agreed to his offer."

Upon hearing this, all investors immediately turned their attention to Meg Whitman.

"This is ridiculous!"

"Ms. Whitman, we need a reasonable explanation!"

"It's just a payment software, 35 billion US dollars, we can find someone to make a hundred or a thousand such software, why spend money to buy?"

Many members of the board of directors could not understand the decision made by Meg Whitman, and they even wondered whether there was some ulterior secret deal between Meg Whitman and Lu Yiming.

But in the face of these people's doubts, Meg Whitman's answer was unhurried: "We have tried countless times to promote our own payment software, but users are obviously more willing to accept PayPal. Failed. So guys, I think it's time for everyone to accept reality."

As the founder of eBay, Pierre Omidyar couldn't help but question this matter: "I know we need PayPal, but $35 billion is really too much, can't it be cheaper?"

You know, the world's largest aircraft carrier costs only $40 billion.

If you really want to pay according to Lu Yiming's quotation, eBay is almost equivalent to spending money to buy an aircraft carrier back, and whoever it is will definitely not be happy.

Meg Whitman shook her head slightly, and said: "That's not how the accounts are calculated. Today's eBay is one of the two giants in the e-commerce field, and the C2C market is under our control. The reason why we bought Paypal, It is because the other party has already threatened us, and we must kill it in the cradle."

Later, she moved out the case that Lu Yiming told her: "Do you know that in 1998, Google wanted to sell to Yahoo for $100 million, but Yahoo refused. In 2002, the previous year Back then, Yahoo wanted $20 billion to buy Google because Google was seriously threatening their search business. But this time Google turned it down because they thought they were worth $50 billion.”

Hearing what Meg Whitman said, the scene suddenly became silent.

Those who can appear here are not stupid, they all know what Meg Whitman means by this case.

This reason finally convinced the board of directors.

After all, they invested in eBay, and Zi Ruo didn't want eBay's market share to be taken away by other competitors.

However, in today's C2C field, eBay looks around, and there is no decent opponent at all.

But PayPal has such potential. After all, it is a very popular payment software. If it really enters the e-commerce market and builds its own platform, it is very likely to grab eBay's users.

Even if it's just a possibility!
Ebay is a big company, what it seeks is security, and risks are avoided if possible.

What's more, there is already a negative case like Yahoo. Meg Whitman finally let the board of directors pass the acquisition resolution of paypal.

On the other side, after listening to the call from Meg Whitman in the office, Musk suddenly yelled strangely, then walked around the desk and danced in the office.

He then left his office and announced the good news to all the employees.

"eBay accepts $35 billion offer, guys, let's get rich!"

Originally, the quotation of 35 billion was not only felt by eBay to be outrageous, but even everyone at PayPal felt that it was very bold.

In their view, either eBay will find ways to lower the price and cut it in half at least, or eBay will turn their backs and the cooperation will fall through.

But I never expected that eBay accepted such an outrageous offer without even haggling!
"Is this true? Ebay actually accepted our $35 billion offer?"

"My God! This is incredible!"

"Mr. Lu's ability!"

"How did Mr. Lu do it?"

"Mr. Lu is our hero!"

"We were able to achieve this epic victory thanks to Mr. Lu's strategic planning."

While cheering, everyone thought of Lu Yiming. After all, it was Lu Yiming's design that made this deal possible.

Several people walked over, lifted Lu Yiming up, and threw Lu Yiming into the air.

This scene frightened Zhao Tiezhu next to him to death.

If something happens to Lu Yiming, it will be a lot of fun.

Musk asked Lu Yiming curiously: "How did you do it? EBay is willing to accept such an outrageous offer of 35 billion US dollars. I still find it unbelievable."

Lu Yiming explained with a smile: "The business strategies of small companies and large companies are different. Small companies like our PayPal basically rely on finding a market gap, and then put all their eggs in it, or they will live vigorously. Either die quietly. But big companies are obviously different, especially a big company like eBay, whose market value has exceeded 240 billion US dollars, and their development strategy is completely different from PayPal. To know the current market value of eBay, but It is twice the size of Ford Motor and General Motors combined, and it is currently the largest e-commerce trading platform in the world. Rather than competing fairly with their opponents, they are more willing to spend money to directly buy rivals that pose a certain threat.”

Seeing Musk lost in thought, with a half-understanding look, Lu Yiming patted him on the shoulder: "When you run a large group with assets exceeding tens of billions of dollars someday, you will understand. And I believe, This day will not be too far away, I am very optimistic about you."

"really?"

Lu Yiming's encouragement made Musk happy.

Subsequently, PayPal's deal with eBay quickly became hot news in the circle.

As for the report on this transaction, the news headlines are also very troublesome.

The title given by "Wall Street Journal" is - "The Hunter from the East Completed Another Perfect "Hunting""

In the report, the news that PayPal sold itself to eBay for US$35 billion directly caught everyone's attention.

The most disturbing thing is that in this report, there is an illustration of a handsome young man with an Asian face, holding a double-barreled shotgun, and not far away, there is a fallen head Elephants, with the words "eBuy" written on them.

This is definitely doing something!
In the report, not only did eBay buy PayPal for 35 billion, but also Lu Yiming secretly acquired about 27.8% of PayPal’s shares by continuously injecting capital to increase his shareholding.

This means that with just this transaction alone, Lu Yiming made a net profit of at least 9.73 million US dollars, nearly one billion in cash!
(End of this chapter)