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The San Francisco Bay Area is mainly composed of five parts, the North Bay, the South Bay, the East Bay, the Central Peninsula and the San Francisco Urban Area.

Silicon Valley's technology industry cluster is mainly located in the South Bay.

Including Zhou Buqi's football team, formerly called the San Jose Earthquakes, is now the San Jose Purple Stars.

Here in the Greater Bay Area, he also has two teams.

One is the Golden State Warriors of basketball, and the other is the San Francisco Giants of baseball.

Now the Zhou family has a lot of money in their account.

I intend to buy another team here. This time I will go straight to the topic and move towards the most profitable and popular American football...the Oakland Raiders, a football team located in the East Bay.

The value of this team is very high.

Transactions are extremely difficult.

In the afternoon, Zhou Buqi and Boss Ma went north from South Bay to East Bay to visit the Oakland Raiders. Then we went to the Oracle Arena, home of the Warriors.

This was Zhou Buqi's territory, and he became more casual, "By the way, where do you live?"

"Me?" Boss Ma is not very interested in sports, but is very interested in the entertainment industry, "It's a hotel, in the city."

"Don't you want to buy a house here?"

Zhou Buqi gave advice with good intentions.

Boss Ma smiled and shook his head, "I haven't considered it."

Zhou Buqi said: "We should consider it while the housing prices are not too high now. In the future, we will have to travel frequently between China and Silicon Valley, and it will be inconvenient to stay in hotels."

Boss Ma said: "It's more convenient to stay in a hotel."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Isn't your son also going to school here? He's studying computers? How will he develop in the future? He can't go back to Ali to take over your class, right?"

Buying a house is just an idea for a wealthy person of this level, so Boss Ma asked: "Are there any good houses nearby?"

Zhou Buqi said: "It depends on where you want to live. If the tax is lower, choose the East Bay. If you want to be more prosperous and lively, choose San Francisco. If you want to be close to Silicon Valley, choose South Bay... Well, The South Bay is great, and Los Angeles is all the way south, and it’s only a few hours’ drive away.”

Boss Ma nodded, "Okay, let's buy it. Now that I'm on PayPal's board of directors, I will always come and go frequently in the future."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Originally, what Alipay cannot do in China, you can let PayPal continue to do it overseas to continue your ambition."

"I don't have as big ambitions as you."

Boss Ma is now completely convinced. In front of young Xiao Zhou, he can't even think about not being convinced. The thought of comparing and competing with him has also faded away.

Alibaba is also developing very well, but the competitive market is mainly domestic.

How does this compare to others?

Ziweixing’s main competition is with the Silicon Valley technology giants in overseas markets!

That's really what happened.

In the evening, the two went to Pierre's house for a social event together. Zhou Buqi also met David Marcus, the current CEO of PayPal, and his impression was relatively average.

When I got home after socializing, it was already past ten o'clock, and I heard the good news that Sun Wanran came over to report.

"I got it!" Sun Wanran smiled broadly and gently snapped her fingers in front of him, "Facebook failed this time."

Zhou Buqi was a little surprised, "What's going on in France?"

Sun Wanran pursed her lips and said: "Well, the French operator Orange has signed a contract with us on the OTT phone cooperation agreement and payment system development. They rejected Facebook. You don't need to go to Hong Kong Island to meet with Li Now that I’m home, it’s easy to use Facebook, it’s not that complicated.”

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "This can be regarded as a heavy blow to Zuckerberg. It is probably through the relationship between the Li family that he found such a good entry point to cooperate with Orange. As a result, The terms offered were too bad and we robbed them.”

Sun Wanran hummed and said: "Isn't that what the technology giants in Silicon Valley are like? They think they are the best in the world and always bully others when negotiating with others. Now that Ziweixing is here to compete, it is still the same thinking as before, which is asking for it. Eat hard.”

Zhou Buqi pinched her cheek and said, "I understand quite well... I'm going to see if Teacher Wen is asleep. I'll go to her room to take a bath in a while. I hung out with Lao Ma all afternoon and even beat him. Two golf shots made my waist hurt."

"Ah?" Sun Wanran blinked a few times, "How about I press it for you?"

"You can?"

Zhou Buqi looked her up and down.

"What's wrong with this..." Sun Wanran saw his strange eyes and immediately reacted, her face turned red, "Bah, bah, bah, don't even think about pushing three times and one mouthful. I don't know how. Wang Yanan and Chen Yan will come tomorrow. Now, if you ask them to press it for you, I won’t wait for you.”

Then, she glared at him fiercely, turned around and left.

Zhou Buqi went to the study, called Lu Qi, and congratulated him. This time he defeated Facebook and won the order from the French operator. He was absolutely proud.

Lu Qi said with a smile: "I didn't expect it to go so smoothly. I thought I would launch several rounds of bidding with Facebook. I prepared several countermeasures here, but I didn't expect that they would be used at all."

Zhou Buqi said: "This shows that Ziweixing Global's 'Europe First' strategy in the past few years is correct. It has now achieved results. Large European companies are more willing to cooperate with Ziweixing International than those arrogant Americans." people."

Lu Qi said "Yeah", "I have the same feeling. The French seem to prefer to cooperate with us, especially when we offer more affordable terms... Of course, the most important reason is that Helo is now the mobile phone As the number one app on mobile devices, Facebook is still lagging behind.”

Zhou Buqi snorted coldly: "The cooperation conditions offered by Facebook are too bad. No one is a fool. After seeing the conditions we offered, the French, no matter how stupid they are, will know that they have been deceived by Facebook."

Lu Qi smiled and said: "Yes, there will be a sense of humiliation. This sense of humiliation will make them unwilling to choose to cooperate with Facebook. Now Zuckerberg will be angry."

Zhou Buqi said calmly: "Let him do whatever he wants. He has been really nonstop in the past two years and plagiarized our products. It's time to teach him a lesson."

"Will it affect the repurchase of shares?"

"No, the US$6.5 billion will be received in three batches, and the financial department will just keep an eye on it. If he dares to go back on his word, that will be easy. Let's just put the stock into the secondary market and see what he does."

"Is it calculated based on the current stock price?"

"No, last Monday's closing price."

"That's easy to handle," Lu Qi took a breath and said with a smile, "How about letting out the news about Facebook's failure in the French market to add some more pain to Zuckerberg?"

Zhou Buqi thought for a while and said: "Don't do it for now, let's see how they react. We are competing in the market, and it is best not to resort to incitement by public opinion. In the American public opinion field, it is difficult for us to have a long-term advantage. "