Age of Dreams

The patents and talents of Nortel Networks are what Xiao Qi must hold in his hands.

The reason is simple. Nortel's technology patents in optical fiber, 3G, 4G, network switching, wireless communication, etc. are all world-class. If Xiao Qi wants to continue to develop, he must obtain these patents and talents.

Especially talents are the most important.

If you have a patent, it is currently 20 years of protection. Perhaps most of the time for many patents has passed, and there are only a few years left for the benefits of patent authorization.

But if you have talents who can continuously develop new patents, you can ensure that your patent monopoly can continue.

I have never heard of a company’s patent barrier that can be achieved only by a few or dozens of patents, at least hundreds or thousands of patents will continue to come out, and then they will continue to introduce new ones over the course of decades. This can constitute a long-term patent monopoly.

In this regard, INTEL and IBM are both leaders.

Regardless of their usual reputation and strength, it seems that they are not as good as emerging companies, but their potential strength makes people feel terrible-did you see that the US government, defense, scientific research and other institutions use their products? It's impossible for such a company to fail unlucky! Is the name of the government-supported enterprise a joke?

As for the absorption of these large numbers of experts and technicians, it will greatly increase the burden of Mingxiang Holdings' North American Laboratory, and the expenditure will skyrocket, which is not a problem.

The scale of Mingxiang Holdings' North American laboratory has never been too big for Xiao Qi. A Chinese company wants to develop high technology. You can't get past these European and American experts who have received advanced education and use foreigners to fight for your own business. That is undoubtedly a good thing.

Moreover, these experts are not the experts who are only qualified to eat. They have real talents and can contribute their strength and ingenuity to Xiao Qi, earn money from them, and earn several times or even dozens of times the investment. . It's not such a difficult thing.

In addition, Xiao Qi's other most important acquisition is the wholly-owned acquisition of the company.

He had this plan after the previous offer for the shares of Alibaba he owned was rejected. This was not a venting of anger at all, but their rejection. Instead, Xiao Qi felt a sense of openness in front of him.

There are many good things about search engine patents, various company stocks, strong R&D personnel, etc. As the first online listed company in the United States, the background is even deeper than that.

The same is spent so much money, not only can get the shares of Ali Baba, but also get so many accompanying gifts. Idiots are not willing!

According to the history of previous lives, at the end of this year, the lowest price in history will be reached-the market value is only 12.7 billion U.S. dollars.

It is conceivable that the management of such a large company can have its net assets higher than its market value. It is conceivable, and Chairman Yang has once again proved it to the world. The truth that a good company founder is not necessarily a good manager.

Of course, Xiao Qi couldn't be so hindsighted, and at that time he would talk to important shareholders about acquisitions and go to the stock market to buy their stocks.

Buying stocks is not like it is written in the book. Today, there is only 12.7 billion US dollars. If you drop 12.7 billion US dollars today, you will be able to hold wholly-owned shares. This is obviously just a dream.

The equity is very complicated. Management holdings, institutional holdings, retail holdings, tradable shares, etc., let alone one person, is to give you dozens of elites in a department, you can be within two or three months Get the entire acquisition. It's also a very powerful performance!

During this period, it is possible that the value of stocks will increase. You need a premium to buy from institutional investors, and a premium is also required for compulsory acquisition and privatization...

The person who wants to buy the lowest point, the person who cares about the penny. Definitely not the one who does big things!

Because you don't know at all, whether someone will compete with you by then, let alone any surprises.

Therefore, after Tong Wencong completed the privatization of IMAX, Xiao Qi began to prepare relevant information. Once the financial crisis broke out in September, he could immediately engage in contact and talks with shareholders, striving for the fastest The speed of the acquisition of the shares is completed.

Of course, the acquisition is more than that simple. First of all, the US Anti-Monopoly Committee and Fair Trade Committee will pay close attention to this incident.

Generally speaking, if they find that Xiao Qi is acquiring, then the first reaction is to determine that the acquisition is illegal and order Xiao Qi to stop the acquisition—because these companies in the United States that are involved in cybersecurity are not allowed to be Chinese controlled.

Therefore, when Tong Wencong prepares intelligence, he still needs to spend a lot of money to give to lobbying giants in Washington.

There is a very weird law in the United States, which is lobbying. Lobbying companies and lobbyists must be registered to be eligible for lobbying. Then this law also stipulates many rules and regulations. It is called to restrict and allow lobbying. It is more transparent, but it is actually a bargaining chip for trading.

But fortunately, the United States has these endless lobbying companies, more than 25,000 registered lobbyists, and more than 100,000 indirect service teams. Every decision of the US government is full of conspiracy and transaction.

It cannot be sold to Chinese people, but if Xiao Qi uses them to lobby and then make some promises, such as not moving out of the United States, working as usual, etc., it is probably feasible.

The only thing a teenager has to pay is a large sum of money, hundreds of millions of dollars are small, maybe even more than one billion US dollars to complete the whole, it can be described as a huge cost.

But how could Xiao Qi be a loss-making business?

He paid so much, and naturally received more!

Just think about the 40% shares of Ali Baba. By the end of 2013, it was conservatively estimated that it exceeded 60 billion U.S. dollars, not to mention the above mentioned, there are other assets, patents, etc. in the hands.

In fact, it is precisely because of the huge amount of capital in hand that the US$12.7 billion is only an unexpectedly unreasonable value. After a few months, the value will almost double. Since then, it has not fallen.

If you want to acquire what you want, then you must be prepared this time and hit it!

While slowly preparing for the acquisition, Xiao Qi made a new round of investment and founding a company in the United States, and Hoffman has been busy for this.

The social networking site began its public beta in November, and officially went live in December. It soon adopted the novel sharing function, with the real-time support of the powerful network, and the support of sufficient funds from Xiao Qi, it was immediately established in North America. Among young people, a youth storm of social networking sites has been set off.

People in Europe and the United States love social networking sites the most. They are comfortable and open enough to talk about it, but they still feel that the Internet is better, more interesting than in reality, and can escape many negative things in reality.

Therefore, social networking sites are very popular in the United States.

But another aspect of popularity is that competition is fierce.

There are dozens of well-known social networking sites. You don't have any real skills, and it is difficult to get out of the shadows of those giants.

It is undoubtedly a social networking site with novel ideas, the main slogan of geographical sharing and timely sharing, so that friends can pay attention to the real situation of their journeys, business trips, etc., which is very cool for me, and cool for others, as if I went to the place with my friends and played again.

To be famous for any website, it needs the support of advertising.

With Xiao Qi’s restructuring funds for advertising, it became the coolest website in a short time. The number of registered users exceeded 23 million in one month, and the number of weekly active users exceeded 8.45 million, making it the ninth most active website in the United States. The social networking sites completely exceeded everyone's expectations.

Of course, in addition to the reasons for advertisements and novel ideas, Hoffman also built the website very well~www.readwn.com~ Whether it is uploading location, uploading comment photos, etc., the structure is all It is real, there will be no problems such as stuck network, continuous failure, etc., giving people a very good experience, and naturally attracting more young people.

As for game development, Hoffman really hired 15 game development teams in the industry, and nervously used "Happy Farm", "Happy City", "Texas Hold'em", "Coffee World", "Pet Community", and "Gem "Magic Blitz" and so on, have been transformed into real games, and several of them have entered the public beta. It is expected that they will be able to log in to social networking sites as early as mid-January.

The construction of the website is not a problem. The problem is that at the beginning of the opening, families in various places are invited to join the project.

This is not something that can be done online. Propaganda in various places offline is also very important. Hoffman’s team has begun to travel to various tourist attractions in the United States, using advertisements and so on to promote this concept, and now it seems The effect is not bad, but if you want to reach a preliminary scale, I am afraid you really need to wait a few more months.

No matter how the situation progresses, everything is going for the better in the end. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote recommended votes, monthly tickets, your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users please go to read.)