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Finally it was settled.

Changyou will invest US$50 million to acquire 3% of Square’s shares, while Zhou Buqi will personally invest US$40 million to acquire 2% of Square’s shares.

In addition, Zhou Buqi will also invest US$3 million in Bluesky, a new entrepreneurial project that Jack Dorsey wants to do.

At this point, some of the differences and frictions that existed between Zhou Buqi and Jack Dorsey in the early years have finally come to an end.

Back then, Zhou Buqi looked down on this kid.

Especially when I saw him eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, with all his tattoos and a nose ring, I really couldn't bear it. In addition, in order to promote Senior Sister Zhen Yu to become the president of Twitter, she will naturally confront him in terms of power and want to take away his power and give it to Senior Sister Zhen Yu.

Later, Zhou Buqi even did a big job and sold Twitter directly to Google.

Startups are all sons of founders.

This is equivalent to Zhou Buqi robbing someone else's son and selling his son without telling him!

After this communication, both parties finally let go of their grudges.

What is past is past.

Have to start over!

Zhou Buqi also promised that as long as Square is successfully listed, he will withdraw from the board of directors and only cooperate financially to maintain Square's independence. To avoid being misunderstood, it seems that Boss Zhou is on Square’s board of directors and secretly takes Square’s internal documents and strategic plans and shares them with PayPal or Helo for payment.

In fact, the financial market in the United States is huge, and it is entirely possible for the three companies to coexist and develop peacefully, and the competitive relationship is far less intense than in China.

If you look at the scale of mobile payments alone, the United States obviously cannot compare with China.

The country is relying on mobile payments on the Internet to become a cashless society.

There are also various debit and credit cards in the United States.

However, in terms of earning power, the United States is much better than the domestic one.

The main thing is that the handling fees are unbeatable!

Domestic Alipay, WeChat Pay, etc. currently have no handling fees. Whether users are withdrawing, paying or transferring money, there are no handling fees, and they have strong financial flexibility. It can be said that it has greatly reformed the traditional financial industry.

Even if there is a charge in the future, the handling fee will be extremely low, at most a ratio of one thousandth or one ten thousandth.

It's different here in the United States.

For example, Jack Dorsey said that Square's next plan is to acquire a food ordering website. The main reason for completing this acquisition is to launch a payment product for the catering market to pay handling fees... Reached 7%!

Financial service fees in other fields may be lower, and can easily exceed 2%, which is dozens of times higher than in China.

The intermediate cost of finance is much higher than that in China.

Therefore, in Europe and the United States, there are many small-scale Internet payment products that cannot survive in China, but they can survive in Europe and the United States. The main reason is that there are too many financial institutions in Europe and the United States. The complexity makes the connection rates between each other too high, and users need to pay very high fees to get through the relationship.

It's a pity that the newly promoted secretary Huo Huahua Vase has high attributes and poor English. Although she was highly praised by Boss Zhou and allowed her to accompany Senior Sister Guzanli, she didn't understand anything at all.

But she didn't feel pity at all.

I am very happy to have the opportunity to work with a big boss and come to a big city like New York to discuss business.

Went to the garage.

After getting in the car, Huo Hua took the initiative to hold Zhou Buqi's arm, and his soft and youthful body snuggled into the big boss's arms. He said sweetly: "Boss, that Jack is so handsome!"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Well, he is a handsome young man, but his style is not very good."

Huo Hua blinked his big eyes and was very curious, "Bad style?"

Zhou Buqi knew this very well and said, "When he started his business before, he was in Silicon Valley. This time when he started Square, he chose to leave Silicon Valley and come to New York. Why do you think this is?"

Huo Hua's beautiful eyes widened and she said crisply: "Because New York is a metropolis? This is the fashion capital, and there are many beauties from all over the world."

"Yes." Zhou Buqi nodded, "Not only is it a fashion capital, home to many of the world's supermodels, it's also a TV capital. Movies are produced in Hollywood, and American dramas are all launched here in New York. Speaking of beauty There are not many actresses in Hollywood, and most of them are in American TV series.”

Huo Hua hummed softly: "It turns out he is a romantic young man!"

Zhou Buqi said: "It is human nature. He is only in his twenties, so he inevitably likes to hang out in social places and make friends with all kinds of beautiful women. For entrepreneurs, a very important attribute is freshness. From a spiritual perspective, Innovation and freshness are the same thing. A person's innovative ability is integrated. You can't just keep him innovative in his career and be conservative in his life. Isn't this a split personality? "

"Yeah, yeah, understand, understand."

Huo Hua covered his mouth and snickered, leaning into his arms intimately, with a faint fragrance on his body.

At the end of May, summer has already entered in New York.

She was wearing a blue short-sleeved, white hip-hugging skirt, with white arms and straight legs. She looked professional and fashionable, and her light makeup showed off her delicate and lovely side.

Zhou Buqi was very graceful. He held Gu Zanli's little hand on the right and Huo Hua's white tender catkins on the left. He said, "It's graduation season. You don't have to go back to school to defend yourself?"

"The worst possible outcome is not getting a diploma."

Huo Hua has a big backer, and he doesn't even care about the school's diploma.

"Ah?" Zhou Buqi was surprised, "How is this possible? Didn't you graduate from the Chinese Theater Academy? You don't even need a diploma from such a good school?"

Huo Hua said with a smile: "No, I have finished writing my graduation thesis and passed it with my teacher. When the company goes public next month, I will return to China, and passing it with my teacher will be considered a defense. We are Art schools are not as serious as other universities. They won’t delay your important events!”

Zhou Buqi asked strangely: "What's the big deal for me?"

Huo Hua felt a little embarrassed, so he leaned into his ear and whispered: "My senior sister told me, she said... it was the night before the IPO, and you wanted to have sex with me, so come and beg me. That’s a good sign. Then you’ll have to rely on me.”

"How could such a thing happen?" Zhou Buqi's expression changed drastically, feeling that he had been slandered, "Did Zhao Li Muge say that?"

Huo Hua nodded slightly and was in a daze, "Isn't it?"

Zhou Buqi said: "It's nothing about Wuying!"

"That's it..." Huo Hua suddenly felt that his role had been greatly reduced, and he hesitated, "Then... then I will return to China in the next few days, just in time for the thesis defense, so I don't have to find a teacher in the future. It’s a one-man show.”

Zhou Buqi coughed, "There's no need to go back, let's stick to the original plan. The listing of Ziweixing International will be an unprecedented capital feast, and the whole of New York will be excited by then. Such a big scene, you It’s better to be there and see it.”

"Oh." Huo Hua was also clever. He blinked and leaned into his ear again, whispering, "I'm still a girl, clean and tidy, so do I... Well, you are starting a business. Home!"

"Say it again! Say it again!"

Zhou Buqi is becoming more and more unable to resist the little girl now.

Each one of them has really strong subjective initiative.