Age of Dreams

On the day Buer was born, Xiao Qi bought Skype.

This American version of WeChat has one more feature than WeChat, which is the function of the phone.

When you use skype, you can not only chat, video, text chat, and transfer files, but you can also call landlines, mobile phones, and domestic and foreign calls.

Of course, there is a charge for making a call, but this charge is far lower than the normal call charge, which is almost 10% of the price.

And if the person you want to contact also has a Skype account, then even if you are not in the same country, the call charges between you are free.

This feature is hailed as the biggest challenge to the traditional communications industry and one of the important reasons for the rise of skype.

But for eBay under the financial crisis, skype is still a serious loss-making subsidiary. The profits it creates are not proportional to its losses, and the burden is very serious. Therefore, under the lobbying of the Blackstone Group, they agreed At a price of 2.8 billion US dollars, all Skype was sold to Xiao Qi.

After Xiao Qi took over Skype, he didn't do much, but it was very important.

First, he found several elites with network experience from the headhunting company, and let them join the senior management team, which is regarded as bringing innovation to this team.

**Second, Xiao Qi insisted on acquiring patents and intellectual property rights, so that skype could actively build its own p2p network.

The p2p network is short for peer-peer, which means "partner to partner".

Specifically in skype, as long as the p2p network is built, people who use skype no longer need to relay various messages and files through the skype web server, but can send messages and messages to each other between two or several users. file.

Such an approach. It makes the communication between users easier and guarantees the privacy of their communication, which in turn will make more users like Skype and use Skype.

Third, Xiao Qi announced that he would develop a new revenue stream, which is to vigorously develop the role of skype as a telephone. Expand business between Europe and the United States, allowing more people to abandon the original mobile phone bills and fixed-line phone bills and use cheaper Skype calls.

For this reason, Skype will establish its own marketing network in 28 countries in Europe and America within half a year, and sell more of its call charge cards.

At the same time, Xiao Qi also announced the introduction of paid video services, and everyone is welcome to shoot the best videos. Pass it to the skype network and set the viewing fee to earn income.

Wechat’s emoticon package policy has also been implemented in Skype users. Not only are the official emoticons set, users can also set up emoticons and upload and download them for income.

The fourth, Xiao Qi announced. Skype will cooperate with Internet giants such as Microsoft to let Skype use their technology. And to realize the sharing of user account information of these websites, becoming a more open and harmonious platform,

The fifth is the most important one. After Xiao Qi announced these strategies, he made a huge sum of US$1 billion into his Skype account and declared that he hoped that Skype could use the money in a planned and purposeful way within a year. Light. Lay a solid foundation for skype to become a century-old store.

At that time, the Skype executives knelt.

They were originally dissatisfied with Xiao Qi's parachuting of a few high-level officials to seize power, but now their eyes and hearts are all one billion dollars, and they can't see anything else.

You know, in eBay for so many years, they have only 500 million dollars in their hands. And there are so many in total!

Now the richest man in the world wants them to use it up within a year...

Oh my!

The days of the upstart and local tyrants on the Internet, skype is finally able to pass it!

As the founding team, they had many ideas and many experiments, which were limited to funds and did not make them.

I used to sell to eBay because I wanted their sufficient funds to serve skype. As a result, eBay was also a miser. After several years, there was no investment at all, and it was completely blind.

Now it has been resold to the world's richest man, and life is completely different.

Look at people, one billion dollars must be used up within a year, how generous and bold!

The middle and low-level employees of Skype are also very happy, because Xiao Qi also increased their salaries.

Although it is only a 10% increase, in such a financial crisis, not only does it not lay off staff, but also the salary can be increased, which is already a very satisfying thing.

The high-level staff have funds to operate, and the middle and low-level staff have raised their salaries. With a single mind, naturally, in the past few months, the development has been smooth and very fast.

For example, the most intuitive improvement is that the number of Skype users has increased to 380 million. Among them, the number of users of several major cooperative websites who also log in to Skype with the same account has exceeded 13 million.

The call score, which best reflects the performance, also increased by 39% over the same period last year.

The total amount of recharge cards sold during the same period also exceeded 700 million U.S. dollars, far exceeding market expectations.

At the same time, the various service upgrades launched by skype have also played a very good role. According to the survey, their user viscosity has increased by 17%, even surpassing the same period, second only to Heiwa.

In just over two months, Skype had such an immediate change, which surprised everyone.

Most people don’t put credit on the skype team, but on the strategy of the genius boy and the golden dollar policy.

If it weren't for Xiao Qi's drastic reform of various measures, or if Xiao Qi hadn't thrown out $1 billion during this financial crisis, how could Skype have changed so much?

Including investment banks like Goldman Sachs, they all envied Xiao Qi with so much cash in his hand to support him in completing so many corporate reforms.

According to Wall Street's calculations, the person with the most cash flow in the world should be Xiao Qi.

Under the financial crisis, the smart electronics industry is like Noah's Ark, and has not been affected at all.

As the leader of the intelligent electronics industry, Fairy Company’s income is getting higher and higher, and Xiao Qi has no habit of spending money, and each investment is limited, and he did not spend money lavishly.

The only few large-scale projects were for disaster relief, but they cost no more than 12 billion U.S. dollars.

Therefore, they believe that Xiao Qi should have more than 160 billion U.S. dollars worth of cash in his hands. Whether he holds U.S. dollars, renminbi, yen, or euros, no one can calculate it clearly. It is estimated that it is the strongest renminbi and Japan. Yuan is mostly.

But only by relying on Xiao Qi's several transactions and each sale, they can roughly calculate it.

The only difficulty Wall Street faces is that Xiao Qi’s cost and profit data are very secretive, and he divides his various income into many parts, such as patent fees, such as according to the tax system of various countries, and then Then in a few financial institutions, the transfers back and forth between the districts, splits and merges, etc....Anyway, it makes analysts see it in the cloud.

Because of this, the 160 billion U.S. dollars they gave Xiao Qi is also a bit more conservative.

But even this number has aroused the coveting of countless investors and entrepreneurs.

Especially entrepreneurs who want to succeed.

What they covet is not only the huge cash flow in Xiao Qi's hands, but also Xiao Qi's reputation as the "king of investment".

There is a word circulating in Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

"Once Xiao Qi is ready to invest in or acquire your company, congratulations, your company will embark on the road of becoming a big winner."

Leaving aside, doesn't the current skype prove Xiao Qi's vision?

Although Xiao Qi only spent 2.8 billion US dollars to buy Skype, but according to this momentum, Skype exceeded 10 billion US dollars in market value valuation, which is a matter of one or two years?

But envy cannot come.

First of all, you must have Xiao Qi's financial resources to support Skype's development without any restrictions, and to conquer cities without any scruples.

Then you have to have Xiao Qi's keen mind, so that you can plan the most correct path for skype and let them continue to integrate and develop.

These two conditions are not something ordinary people can have ~www.readwn.com~ so the success of skype does not belong to eBay, but to Xiao Qi.

Indeed it is.

A company with a market value of less than US$50 billion and even less than one-third of Xiao Qi's cash flow can expect them to be as good as Xiao Qi and win the same victory?

However, for Wall Street and Silicon Valley, the more interested they are in Xiao Qi's investment, the more people will compete with the company Xiao Qi wants to buy in the future.

Things like this easy acquisition now may not be too much in the future.

But Xiao Qi didn't care.

His main business has always been the intelligent electronics industry. In this regard, his layout has already been perfected. Other investments can be made if there is one, and nothing else.

After all, it is impossible for people to take advantage of all the benefits. You have to learn to be content! (To be continued...) I1292