Reboot 2003

Chapter 255 034: Added value (two-in-one)

Although Ah Yue's reaction was a bit slow, this guess seemed quite reasonable.

Chen Qin seemed to ponder after hearing this: "Servers are made for people to use. Alibaba's servers are so large that it is not that simple to move them to a cloud server. What's more, the cloud server itself is a service commodity. If Alibaba doesn’t want to buy it, Yahoo can’t force them to buy it.”

Ah Yue said furtively: "I heard that more than 60% of Alibaba's shares are now in the hands of foreigners, and they seem to have other agreements. In two or three years, they still have Some voting rights need to be returned to Yahoo, and then foreigners will have the final say over Uncle Ma’s entire company.”

Chen Qin nodded and pretended to be a little surprised, but he was actually not surprised by this - he knew about Ma Yun's equity stake quite early.

Of course, Ma Yun is not entirely to blame for this. After all, online shopping is very expensive. When Ma Yun first started Taobao, he took a large amount of financing from Masayoshi Son. Later, in order to redeem the shares of the subsidiary Taobao, he had to divest it from Yahoo. To say that his operation has been very good, at least the pressure from foreign capital has been isolated at the head office level.

In another dimension, Ma Yun relied on this method to finally take a desperate risk and temporarily stabilize the control of the company. This incident is quite famous in the Internet circle. At that time, Alibaba directly bypassed the board of directors and took control of the company. The core asset Alipay was transferred to other companies on the grounds of "evading state censorship". After the matter was completed, the government relaxed the foreign investment restrictions on the online payment business and put the blame entirely on Alibaba. However, Alibaba clearly violated Turn a blind eye to equity manipulation in compliance with corporate law...

This scoundrel is not easy to play. After all, this is equivalent to using the country's credit to endorse Ali. The steel trade crisis coincided with the steel trade crisis. Coupled with the impact of this incident, there was a credit crisis for Chinese companies on Wall Street. Ali is He ran away with Alipay, but other listed companies in China suffered.

It is related to the national economy and people's livelihood. This can only be said to be a necessary sacrifice, but the situation today is obviously different.Chen Qin's own development of cloud computing is actually to pursue remote control of the company. Of course, his company itself has no intention of breaking away from his control, but Ali is different. Ali accepted investment in 06, but when the storm blew up in 07, The overall market share of online shopping has nearly doubled, and it is expected to continue to grow. Now, in addition to broadening the ecosystem, the only problem facing Alibaba is to regain the company's equity, which is the top priority...

Chen Qin nodded, pondered for a few seconds, and asked her: "Then what are you going to do?"

A Yue said: "I think we can take advantage of this..."

"How to use it?" Chen Qin asked her, "No matter what, your company is doing this business. Now you know that people are hostile to your company, but you are on the company's side anyway."

A Yue said uncertainly: "Uncle Ma and the others are afraid that the cloud service will be controlled by Alibaba, and they also want to get the Alibaba shares in our hands, but Kuaikan Media is not Yahoo after all, and we do not intend to use this against Uncle Ma and his company. "

"so?"

"So... why don't you ask Uncle Ma and the others to really participate in the management of Kuaikan Company? This impeachment of the company's CEO was originally just a means to curb Yahoo, but if the impeachment is really successful, Uncle Ma and the others don't have to worry Yahoo will use Kuaikan’s cloud servers to deal with them, and I think Uncle Ma is an old friend of my father’s, and he should be more concerned about the company’s future than Yahoo.”

Chen Qin smiled and shook his head: "You are young, but you are very thoughtful. When I taught you to quarrel with Lao Zhou that day, I never taught you such bad ideas."

Ah Yue asked diligently: "Then do you think it's okay?"

"Okay." Chen Qin said, "Now that the stock price of Kuaikan is so low, why don't you discuss it with them and secretly acquire Kuaikan's stock together, which can also increase Kuaikan's stock price at the same time. It's like killing three birds with one stone."

"Is this okay?" A Yue hesitated, "Didn't you say that there was such a thing as a 'hostile acquisition' before? When you signed the contract, you also said that equity changes need to be disclosed..."

Chen Qin taught her: "You and Ali are secretly communicating. The outside world doesn't know that you are a group of people, and you can secretly increase your holdings of a lot of shares."

"But I don't have money..."

"If Alibaba really agrees to the plan you mentioned, you can ask them to help you pay."

"Wouldn't this all be Alibaba's equity? Will the company be acquired by Uncle Ma and others?"

"Of course it is possible, but you can use some skills to avoid this problem." Chen Qin said, "I have a pyramid shareholding structure here, which allows other companies to contribute money while preventing the equity from being taken away by outsiders. Later you can give Your elders, please tell me..."

Chen Qin gave in half and gave him a bunch of crooked ideas. Ah Yue was eager to give it a try. Then she concentrated on thinking about the next plan, drawing and writing in the textbook for the new semester...

At this moment, Chen Qin looked at her focused side face and became a little distracted again.

The students in the classroom were laughing and joking, and there was a commendation list at the end of last semester posted next to the blackboard. The name 'A Yue' was still hanging on the top. No one cared about Li Sitong, who had just been promoted to No. 2. Compared to As a result, A Yue has become a well-known grade star in the first grade group.

And I vaguely remember that when she first entered school, her reputation was not good due to some unexpected incidents. Now, because of her personal image and status as a top student, she seems to have some special aura among her classmates, but such things do not seem to be good. It was not in her consideration, and probably even Teacher Qiu, who had just spoken to her, probably didn't know that she was currently thinking about such strange things in the classroom.

But...it's quite interesting to think about it carefully. Wasn't her father like this back then?

Because normal business activities have been repeatedly frustrated, he has turned to other fields that others cannot understand.

After achieving unexpected success, he finally encountered such an accident...

"Have you figured out what to do next?"

Thinking of this, Chen Qin suddenly asked her.

Ah Yue thought about it very seriously: "I'll go back and discuss it with my grandparents and aunt..."

"Well, that's what it should be. Secondly, you have to pay attention to your personal safety. You ask your aunt to come and take care of you. What does she do? If you can't go to her, then you ask her to accompany you."

A Yue raised her eyes and looked at Chen Qin, smiling and nodding for some reason.

Chen Qin said seriously: "Secondly... although these capital operations may be effective, you should always remember to be vigilant. This is a zero-sum game and is inherently dangerous."

"Zero-sum game?"

"That is to say, in a business transaction with boundaries, if someone gains something, someone will always suffer a loss. Such a business essentially violates the laws of social production and will bring considerable uncertainty. For us, don't Forget that the product is the most important thing.”

Chen Qin educated her earnestly, but Ah Yue was very relaxed: "You know so much."

Then he asked: "By the way, actually I also have plans in this regard. Our "Friends Brawl" is already on the right track. What should we do in the future?"

Chen Qin said, "Have you forgotten what I told you?"

Ah Yue was stunned for a moment before reacting: "'No silver bullet'?"

"Yes." Chen Qin continued to educate her, "Look at the company's Three Kingdoms game. It just wanted to take shortcuts. Now the news is gone."

A Yue nodded: "That game... After their recent operation failure, they are now in a very unfavorable situation. Now the company is preparing to cancel this game directly."

"This is the result of trying to take shortcuts." Chen Qin frightened her, "In terms of software development, they have money, people, and IP, but if they don't make content well, players will naturally not buy into their account. Then the game was announced. Sometimes I wanted to take the exclusive route, but the content was so bad that it dragged down the parent company’s social networking site. How do you think you are better than them?”

A Yue said depressedly: "Okay, I know I was wrong. I must at least finish "Friends Fight" first..."

"It's not that you can only do one thing, but that you have to concentrate on the project. Now that you are facing such complex capital issues, and you need to use real results to strengthen your company's influence, but you have entered the company's daily operations, You have to do what you are doing well, understand?"

A Yue didn't know why Chen Qin taught her lessons so seriously, but in any case, she listened to Chen Qin's instructions.

During this class, she also drew a bunch of diagrams of the relationships between companies on paper. During the next class, she began to discuss future game development plans with Guo Yang.The recent plan to optimize character animations in the game has almost been completed. The next step seems to be to find a way to make the game officially make money. Following Chen Qin's instructions, A Yue started to get busy with this 'business'...

Chen Qin breathed a sigh of relief and thought to himself that this little niece has a very good understanding. This time Ali will let her do it by herself. Chen Qin did not say anything about the possible risks behind this matter.But when I think about it, there is really no problem. The big deal... He, as an uncle, can also come out and take the blame. Now that Yahoo has been messing around for so long, seeing that Kuaikan Media after the split is a complete mess, I want to take this piece from their hands. It shouldn’t take much money to buy the brand.

Thinking about it this way, the small problem A Yue is facing now seems to have become insignificant.

However, Chen Qin felt a little emotional when he thought of what he had told A Yue just now.

So just like that, during the day, Chen Qin stayed at school and lived his peaceful daily life. During class, he taught Ayue some important knowledge about the company's equity operations. During extracurricular activities, he held "agile development seminars" and Provided some design advice to "Friends Brawl", which is preparing to undergo a paid transformation.

On the way home in the evening, Chen Qin sent a Fetion message saying that he would not be coming that evening.Xu Lingling's reply said that she happened to have something to do today.

"By the way Aqin, my dad contacted me a very good vocal teacher two days ago. I don't know how the class will be held yet, but I may not be able to come after school recently."

"Vocal teacher?"

"Well, he is a foreign teacher who specializes in singing. I have to go with his translator sister to take his class. It is said that he would not accept apprentices, but my father specifically requested it, so he agreed to give me a week of classes... "

Chen Qin sounds weird. Why hire a foreign vocal teacher?Isn’t there a lot of local professionals in Xiangjiang?
However, he was not an expert on these things. After thinking about it, this might indeed be the case.

But then I thought... Now one is working on the project steadily, and the other is studying diligently...

And in his own words, it's actually pretty much the same.

It's just that I'm forced to have both.

After returning home, of course Mr. and Mrs. Chen have returned to Hanzhang. After the holiday, Hanzhang's infrastructure has almost recovered, upstream and downstream suppliers have returned to normal, and the hotpot city has begun to get busy.

In the bedroom, grandma was watching "Crazy Housewife". Chen Qin moved a stool over and turned on his computer.

After going online, a meeting was held within the company, and the meeting was almost completed.

"...In short, the situation is probably like this. Our Kaitian System government attaches great importance to it and is willing to provide us with research and development support. It is also willing to help us find partners in an official capacity."

"In addition, the Science Bureau has several key support projects, and they said they can also arrange them for us. Xiao Yu said that he approved the 863 project for Namoyou last time, and this time our Kaitian system It’s more technical than last time. If there’s no problem, besides these, we can also talk about other support..."

The one who was making the report was Mr. Li. Mr. Li was talking about the new investment plan of Kaitian OS recently. After the company changed its policy some time ago, the goal of Kaitian OS was set on "defeating Google". Just rely on now. Of course, the scale was no longer enough. At this time, Mr. Li attracted a large number of domestic friends who were willing to join the project, and the government also expressed its willingness to support this kind of technological innovation.

So the channel was full of fun, and everyone said good things like "De Dao Duo Zhu" and "Jin Shi Wei Kai", and then they clapped their hands.

Chen Qin didn't speak. When others were happy, he clapped his hands in front of the screen... Of course, this was not necessary. After all, he didn't even turn on the microphone. Although people in the company paid attention to Mr. Chen's opinions, they didn't I always care about what Mr. Chen is doing.

Grandma saw that he was busy, so she moved her laptop where she was watching American TV series to the next door.

Chen Qin simply closed the door. After Mr. Li finished talking to the people in the company, he saw Chen Qin coming: "Xiao Chen, have you read that email?"

"Mr. Li, let's go out and talk."

Chen Qin said, dragging Mr. Li out... Of course, he just went outside the channel, then entered the 'Hongshui Technology Seminar', and called Ji Xianglin over.

After coming in, Ji Xianglin immediately praised: "Mr. Li, I heard that your recent progress is very gratifying. You can finalize such a big thing with only 8000 million."

Mr. Li was probably happy from the bottom of his heart: "This is mainly a question of talent. I mainly want to add some R&D positions and recruit some who know embedded programming and are professional in testing. But there are not many talents in this area now. Java language engineers don’t need much money, so I think the 8000 million invested this time is more than enough.”

Ji Xianglin nodded, but then asked: "But I also heard that you seem to have attracted investment from the government, and the government seems to have given you a considerable discount. Why is this?"

Mr. Li replied: "I discussed with Xiao Chen before that the direct commercial value of the projects we are currently doing is quite limited, and the added value such as trademarks is not very good..."

Ji Xianglin said: "Yes, I understand this. It is open source after all."

Mr. Li said: "But when it comes to economic value, it is actually very high in some aspects. These aspects are not profitable for individuals and companies, but they are very important to our country..."

He said: "That is the system support standard. If our Kaitian OS becomes the industry benchmark, then all software must be programmed in the way we provide. Of course, we do not intend to restrict other software developers on this issue now. This is to maintain market share and form a user ecosystem."

Ji Xianglin hummed, and Mr. Li continued to introduce: "But at the same time, the upstream companies are different. For example, mobile phone motherboards, batteries, and even CPU chips all need supporting support from our system... Back then, Wintel used software and hardware to communicate with each other. The closed-loop approach monopolizes the entire CPU chip industry. Although there is no such company in our country now, with Kaitian OS as the downstream, our country's chip manufacturers can freely choose the chip architecture that is beneficial to us, without having to forcibly integrate those Foreign chip manufacturers already have this system in place.”

"Oh..." Ji Xianglin nodded, "So now the country wants to support our project, is it because of the chip?"

"This is on the one hand." Mr. Li said, "On the other hand, such technological breakthroughs are valuable in themselves, and the country also hopes that it can continue to be maintained."

Ji Xianglin nodded: "So... the country now hopes to invest in this project and obtain shares from us, right?"

Mr. Li said awkwardly: "This is just a suggestion. I know you and Xiao Chen attach great importance to it, so since we have money internally, we don't need external investment. The bureau only said that investment is only part of it, and other support has nothing to do with investment. , even if we don’t want to invest, there will be no shortage of support projects.”

Ji Xianglin explained to him: "That's it, Mr. Li, we don't exclude the country from participating, and we don't mind providing some preferential treatment to our country's own industrial projects, but you also know that what we are doing now is a long-term technology Engineering, if too complex a management mechanism is introduced, it may be inconvenient to unify opinions on some issues.”

Mr. Li quickly said: "I have discussed it with the professors I contacted, and they are actually very knowledgeable about IT. I promise they will not interfere easily..."

Ji Xianglin said: "Although the national organization is the most rigorous part of our society, we are all mortals after all. We humans are not suitable for organizing too complex social organizations. We are currently doing Meili Jian's CDO business. This There are obviously big problems with things, but once they are taken apart and everyone goes their own way, many problems cannot be solved.”

He said: "So now we still hope to keep this project in our own hands as much as possible and make its structure as simple as possible; when it matures in the future, we will open up the equity to more interested parties. What do you think?"

Mr. Li quickly said: "Yes, that's how it should be."

At this time, Chen Qin said: "By the way, Mr. Li, the government also said that it can support us in the project. How does it support us?"

Mr. Li became interested and said: "This has nothing to do with investment. Anyway, as long as we say something now, the government can promote the launch of several projects to support research and development and help us solve some of our development problems."

This is much better than the news just now, but Chen Qin hesitated and said: "Are you sure you want this? Our project cannot be profitable, and it is difficult."

Mr. Li said: "The government directly pays to hire people to participate in the project, and we don't have to spend a penny."

Ji Xianglin nodded: "I know there are such projects. The government is very enthusiastic about mastering sensitive technologies. If we take the scientific research route, even local governments also have many such projects."

Chen Qin shook his head: "How do the government plan to pay for hiring people? There are only so many people on the market. The government can't poach people from our galaxy to do research and development in Kaitian, right?"

Ji Xianglin was curious: "Aren't there other companies? Cooperation between companies often has such problems. If it is an individual, everyone may be wary of each other, but if the government takes the lead, cooperation will be more secure."

Chen Qin said, "Lao Ji, you think too simply."

"Oh?"

"You just said that an organization cannot do anything too complex. In IT companies, it actually has nothing to do with the complexity of the organization, but has more to do with the tools to achieve the purpose." Chen Qin said seriously, "For example, the company can assist If Tianos is opened, then the company will either transfer people from within, or find ways to use money to poach people from other companies with high salaries..."

"What about the government?"

Chen Qindao: "The government supports scientific research projects, usually as Party A... inviting bids and recruiting people. Now our country attaches great importance to software and semiconductor development, and will outsource a lot of work to outsiders. Guess how well it is done."

At this time, Ji Xianglin came to his senses: "Isn't this not good? Those domestic softwares don't seem to have a particularly good reputation!"

Chen Qin said: "It's not good. The companies our government can attract are all businesses specializing in ToG business. Although these companies are not useless, their research and development capabilities are not very good."

(End of this chapter)