My Age of Investment

  Chapter 237 Paralysis Tactics (Deepwater Dead Cat Lord 810)

   "Peppa wants to talk to me?"

  Xia Jingxing frowned.

  This Peppa is not Peppa Pig, but Larry Peppa.

  If you compare Silicon Valley to the rivers and lakes, Facebook, a potential rookie, is just a fitter, while Google is the leader of a large society, very fierce, and it has repeatedly retreated from another veteran leader, Yahoo.

  Now Google is taking aim at Facebook’s place. If you can’t negotiate, there will only be war.

   "If you don't want to see me, I just refuse Meyer."

  Kristina saw Xia Jingxing groaning, thinking he didn’t want to talk to Google.

  In fact, she also feels that there is no need to talk about it, because it is impossible for Facebook to sell to Google.

   "What if Google opens us 10 billion dollars? Do you want to sell it?"

  Xia Jingxing looked at the foreign girl with a smile, and started a joke.

  The foreign girl smiled and shook her head, "Stop dreaming, it's impossible, at most 2 billion US dollars."

   "That's a lot, it's almost 10% of Google's valuation."

  Xia Jingxing counted with his fingers, "With so much money, I can do a lot of things.

  First spend 100 million U.S. dollars to buy a super large farm for retirement; then spend 100 million U.S. dollars to buy a private jet, and vacation around the world; and 200 million U.S. dollars to buy a team to increase its reputation..."

  The foreign girl chuckled and laughed, 2 billion US dollars, so it was clearly planned by the other party, and there was no money left.

  "Okay, don't be kidding, do you want to attend Mr. Page's private dinner?" The foreign girl asked.

   "Go, why not go?"

  Xia Jingxing shrugged, “Anyway, he doesn’t spend money, and he doesn’t give gifts. The big family who send them to the door must eat.”

  The foreign girl froze, "You don't want to sell the company, so... not so good, right?"

   "Who said I don't want to sell? It's just that their prices are not what I like."

  Xia Jingxing had made up his mind and must go to see Peppa.

  The big eaters are incidental, and the main purpose is to see if they can divert the other's attention.

  Explained a little bit with the foreign girl, and the other party understood his intentions.

  Google is about to go public, and there are a lot of funds on the account. If all the firepower of this big dog pours on Facebook, it is really not a good thing.

  …………

  …………

  Larry Page’s house is in Palo Alto, not far away, so Xia Jingxing drove his Tzero and went to a banquet with a foreign girl.

  After parking the car in front of a villa, Xia Jing walked down, followed by the babes.

  He looked around outside the gate, the villa was very ordinary, not the famous technology mansion in the previous life, it looked very ordinary.

  But the price is not cheap, because it is located in Silicon Valley, at least several million dollars in this area.

  At present, Google has not yet been listed. Living in such a house is not considered aggrieved by the future technology giants.

  Both of them were all dressed up today.

  Xia Jingxing did not wear the T-shirt that she wears for daily work. She wore a more formal light blue long shirt. She tucked the corners of her shirt into off-white slacks and tied a belt. It was very formal.

  Kristina was wearing a strapless blue and white dress. She took Xia Jingxing’s arm, and the two walked towards the villa’s door and rang the doorbell.

  After a while, Larry Page and Mayer walked out of the room and opened the door.

  Paige is not full of silver hair at the moment, her hair is black, and she looks very young.

   is actually very young, only 31 years old this year.

  Paige stepped forward enthusiastically and shook hands with Xia Jingxing, and smiled and said, "Dalun, welcome you, I have long wanted to meet and chat with you, but there has been no suitable opportunity."

  Paige did not act like the “social brother” who had followed Facebook. He was very amiable.

  But Xia Jingxing was not confused by this superficial effort. Google is a hungry wolf and wants to get involved in any field.

   "Me too, very glad to meet you, Mr. Page!"

  Xia Jingxing shook his opponent's hand and shook it vigorously, as intimate as an old friend he hadn’t seen for many years.

   "Daren, you are as young and handsome as the rumors say!"

  Meyer also smiled and shook hands with Xia Jingxing.

  This woman is wearing a blue deep V low-cut outfit, the lights are very dazzling, and her gestures are full of amorous feelings.

  Xia Jingxing glanced at this blonde babe, who looked a bit like Scarlett Johansson, and finally knew why Larry Page had an office romance.

   After a few greetings, Larry Page made an invitation gesture to greet Xia Jingxing and Christina to enter the house.

  For this dinner, Page also specially invited a chef from a high-end hotel.

  Four people in a team, sitting on a long table in the living room, eating and chatting.

  "Daren, speaking of it, you and I are still Stanford alumni."

   In order to get closer to each other, Page came up to talk about Stanford.

  Xia Jingxing nodded, "Yes, you are the object of our computer science students' admiration, and professors often use you as examples."

  Paige laughed, thinking that the young man sitting opposite was very good at chatting.

  Meyer was not happy, "Not only you and Darren, but Christina and I are also Stanford students?

  You just ignored the two ladies, what does this mean? "

   "Yes, we are all alumni. Today is also a gathering of alumni. Let's have a drink together."

  Paige picked up the wine glass, smiled and greeted Xia Jingxing and Christina to drink.

  Not talking about business matters, Page and Meyer cooperated with each other, and kept talking about Stanford-related topics, so that everyone got to know each other first.

  After the third round of drinking, and everyone talked eagerly, Page suddenly said with emotion: “In fact, starting a business is very difficult. It is a mental and physical competition, as if there is no end to it.

  We invited Mr. Schmidt to serve as the company’s CEO in 2001. Sergey and I slowly learned to let go, and the whole person was relieved a lot.

  Google will be available in two months. I want to wait for the listing, then slowly withdraw from the company and do something meaningful.

  In order to start a business, I don’t even have a family and my life is messed up.

  After all this is removed, I also have more time to plan my life. "

  Paige speaks deeply and affectionately, as if he has seen through the business shit.

   Had it not been for Xia Jingxing to hang up, he would almost believe in his evil.

  Google is listed, you relax, and come to persuade me to return to the mountains and forests, not to ask the world.

   sounds good, but I’m only 20 years old?

   At the age of 20, you persuaded me to retire. Is this fair?

  Facing Peppa’s eyes, Xia Jingxing pretended to empathize: “Yes, we are constantly developing products, expanding the market, and constantly defeating competitors.

  To be honest, I am also a little tired of this kind of life! "

  Paige's eyes lit up, and as soon as he was about to speak, he was preempted by Xia Jingxing. The latter sighed, "But I'm only twenty years old. I'm retiring now. It always feels weird.

  And on the day I dropped out of school, I vowed in front of Principal John that the company must be listed.

  So, even if there are many difficulties and obstacles right now, I can only overcome them one by one.

  In a few years, when Facebook is listed, I might rethink my life like you, Mr. Page. "

  Paige saw that his words had no effect at all, and frowned and asked: "Dalun, why do you insist on listing the company?

  In the European and American business world, mergers are very common, and it is not necessary to go public to be successful. "

  Xia Jingxing nodded, "No way, the oath must be kept.

  I want to go public in another two or three years, when the number of Facebook users reaches 50 to 60 million, or 70 to 80 million.

  After the listing, I don’t care about it.

  If Google is still interested in "cooperating" with Facebook, it is not impossible to consider it. "

  "Wait another two or three years before listing?"

  Paige frowned, a little distrustful of Xia Jingxing’s words, and asked: “I see that Facebook’s current user growth is very good? Why don’t you wait anymore?”

  Xia Jingxing shook his head, with a serious face: "Can’t wait, Facebook’s situation, maybe you also know, lack of money, very lack of money.

  And our business model has not been figured out yet, choose to go public early, do you know? "

  Xia Jingxing smiled and blinked at Peppa.

  Paige chuckled slightly. The stock market today is not in the 1990s.

  No money can be made, and there is no stable profit model. Even if it is listed, it will soon be abandoned by investment institutions.

  If you develop Facebook with this kind of thinking, what will happen in the future? It’s a little hard to say?

  The situation of Facebook, he also knows roughly, only spend money, not make money.

  User growth is pretty good, but when you think about it, it’s actually the same.

   "Facebook is a social networking site and your main business, but tubing isn't it? Have you ever thought of stripping out tubing? Google is very interested in tubing."

  Paige smiled and looked at Xia Jingxing, and said something like this.

  Xia Jingxing took a breath of air in her heart. It turned out that the other party was interested in the oil pipe?

  It is possible that Facebook mergers and acquisitions are all fake shots. The real purpose is to take a fancy to the online video industry.

  Unsurprisingly, Page said in his heart: “I don’t hide it from you. Google’s mission is to make the world digital, which of course also includes online video. This business will help Google improve its search engine.

  In the future, users will not only search for text and pictures, but also include videos, which will serve as a data source for our search and mining. "

  Xia Jingxing nodded slightly, Google can develop into a search tyrant, naturally has its extraordinary vision.

  Tubing has just shown a little bigger sign, and Google has insight into the trend.

The old antiques of the   media group still think it doesn’t matter. These Internet giants are much smarter.

  Xia Jingxing quickly thought about the countermeasures, thinking of acting harmless to humans and animals, so he said:

   "In fact, I want to make YouTube a sub-product of Facebook, video social networking, and everyone can complete social networking through video sharing."

  Paige frowned, "Have you ever thought of making it into an Internet TV? Kill traditional media?"

  Xia Jingxing shook his head and continued serious nonsense: "I dare not think so big, as the Fox executive said, they have money and have a good relationship with the TV and film production team..."

  Paige nodded, not feeling that Xia Jingxing was talking nonsense, because this is the status quo, this is the fact.

  Tubing is just a little ant in several major media groups.

  If someone can comment on you a few words, it's a lot of face. Ignoring directly is a normal attitude.

   "According to the size of Facebook, it must be very difficult to promote these things."

  Page changed the subject: "But Google is different. We can support the tubing to fulfill bigger dreams.

  Dylan, you can seriously consider my suggestion.

  Give the tubing to Google, there must be a better future for development.

  At the same time, Google and Facebook can also form a good cooperative relationship. "

  Kristina saw that the two were able to talk enthusiastically and never interrupted. At this moment, she couldn't help but interject: "Actually, Mr. Page, I think Google’s most important task is to defeat Yahoo."

  Hearing the name of his rival, Peppa reflexed normally, and quickly turned his gaze to look directly at Christina.

  The foreign girl looked at Peppa without showing any weakness, and said in a calm tone: "Yahoo is Google's worst enemy.

  Only when the main business of the search engine wins, can Google rely on a steady stream of advertising revenue to invest in other businesses.

  Compared to Yahoo, Facebook is just a startup company that only completed Series A financing.

  Many of our businesses are still being explored, and they have been developing around business related to text, pictures, videos, etc. and social interaction.

  We are not a search engine, we just want to gain a place in the social field. "

  Paige laughed, spread her hands, and looked innocent: "Kristina, you misunderstood me. I didn't treat Facebook as an enemy, but wanted to be friends with you."

  Xia Jingxing nodded and smiled, “The same is true for us. The main businesses of our two companies are actually not very competitive.

  Even if Google wants to launch a video website, it is more of a complementary relationship with us. "

  "Complementary?"

  Paige was a little skeptical of this word, and looked at Xia Jingxing with surprise.

  Xia Jingxing smiled, "Yes, you heard it right, it's complementary.

  Google wants to subvert traditional media and move TV to the Internet, right, Mr. Page? "

  Paige pursed his lips. This young man was right. Google has such ambitions and disdains little trouble.

  "Equivalent to Google’s video business, it wants to play movies and TV shows on the Internet.

   Facebook videos are basically personal videos uploaded by users.

  Is there a conflict between the two? "

  Xia Jingxing looked at Peppa with a smile, and continued to pour ecstasy on the other party: "This is not a conflict, these are two different video modes.

  What we want to do is to bring more possibilities to Facebook’s social business.

  Now most of the Facebook users are YouTube users. They upload videos, share them to Facebook, and let their friends like and comment.

  So YouTube is a leg of Facebook, and it is impossible to sell to Google.

  I suggest you make one yourself and follow Google’s own ideas. "

  When Xia Jingxing said so, Peppa suddenly felt as if he was wrong.

  Google has a team of thousands of engineers. It is not too difficult to build a video website.

Although there are many users of   Tubing, the foundation has been laid, but it is not particularly suitable for them to be more realistic.

  There are also disputes among the top executives about "purchasing YouTube Video or launching its own video website".

  He decided to contact Xia Jingxing first to see how the conversation was going, and then make the final plan.

   "Well, Darren, let’s talk about it today!"

  Page smiled and said: "I hope our two companies can have more cooperation, traditional media, that is the object of our innovation."

  If you can think so, then I can rest assured.

  Xia Jingxing slandered, and smiled on his face: “Of course, we are going to expand the market and cake together, and more should be cooperation to overthrow the old world order together.”

  Paige has a smile on his face, but he is actually making quick calculations in his heart.

  He recognized some of Xia Jingxing’s views, but at the same time reserved some of his own opinions, or the opinions of the company.

  Google does have the idea of ​​entering the field of online video, but it can’t guarantee success.

The development model of   Tubing is still somewhat deviated from the ideas of Google’s top executives.

  They have analyzed that the video quality of the tubing is a bit bad.

  Originally, they wanted to acquire the oil pipe, and then make some transformation, using the user base of the oil pipe to quickly expand the video site.

  But Xia Jingxing rejected his kindness, so Google could only launch its own video website to compete with it.

  Xia Jingxing said that the two websites are complementary, but he does not believe this at all.

  If Google Video launches higher-quality videos, will YouTube suffer a devastating blow?

  This is not something he should consider.

  He also didn’t remind Xia Jingxing of his obligation, the other party was just so paralyzed, it’s good!

  Paige smiled and looked at Xia Jingxing who was also smiling, both of them had their own thoughts.

  A dinner party, although nothing was successful, both sides believed that it was a great gain, and both believed that they paralyzed the other.

  Paige and Meyer sent Xia Jingxing and Christina out of the villa.

   "Thank you Mr. Page for the hospitality, then we are going."

  Xia Jingxing sat in the car. Before leaving, she shook her hand to Peppa and said goodbye.

  Page also waved, nodded and smiled.

   Watching the bright yellow sports car fade away, the smile on Peppa's face gradually disappeared, replaced by a cold expression on his face.

  　 It’s a bit late, I’m sorry to everyone, and I went to the wedding venue with the planner today.

  　　 A big chapter of more than four thousand words, make up for the apology.

  (End of this chapter)