Chapter 1427 Advanced Intimidation

Before Larry Page came to Li Mu, he had planned to invite Li Mu to take a stake in Google. Whether it was Li Mu's personal investment or Muye Technology's investment, it was a good thing for Google's core management and the capital behind it.

Superficial cooperation comes and goes quickly. Just like in the history of the East and the West, they like to use marriage to enhance political stability. The cooperation between enterprises needs a strong bond to connect them together. The foundations of business and human relationships are not reliable enough. Business will change, and human relationships will also change. The only thing that will not change is capital.

Google's previous cooperation with Yahoo was also very close, and the two sides were mutually beneficial, which is a model of a good partner. If Yahoo didn't use traffic to milk Google in the early days, Google could not have achieved such a rapid development speed. Last year, Yahoo wanted to acquire Google, but Google didn't sit still either, increasing the price all the way to $6 billion, and Yahoo finally gave up on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Now, Yahoo has already set its sights on the search engine. Although Yahoo has not announced it to the public, according to Google's understanding, Yahoo has now started the development of the search engine. Once it realizes that it is ready, it will inevitably part ways with Google.

For Larry Page, even if Li Mu promised to provide Google with search traffic today, this kind of cooperation is rootless and cannot bring a real sense of security to Google. The best solution is to let Li Mu become a shareholder, and then Sign a cooperation agreement.

Li Mu also sees Larry Page's urgent need for traffic. Yahoo is about to break up, and it wants to go public next year. If you can get stable search traffic from yourself at this time, it will be very important for Google's capital operation. Help, it is very likely that because of its own traffic guarantee, Google will directly raise several hundred million more in its IPO next year, and even increase its stock price by a few percentage points.

Therefore, when Li Mu mentioned that he was a shareholder of Baidu, he was thinking a little bit of Larry Page. If you want traffic, you can let me take a stake in Google first.

Larry Page really got on the road, and even took the initiative to invite Li Mu to become a shareholder.

So, Li Mu asked Larry Page, "Larry, does Google's board of directors have any preliminary intentions, if I come here with traffic, how much share is Google willing to dilute to me?"

One point and two points Li Mu would definitely look down on it. Even if Google's market value is hundreds of billions of dollars in the future, Li Mu will not look down on Google's one point and two points.

Larry Page is also unequivocal. Whether it is him or the Google board of directors, what they are thinking about right now is to go public quickly. No one dares to hope that they can expand to a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars in the future. Their thighs, they also understand that they are reluctant to let their children catch the wolf.

Immediately, Larry Page said seriously to Li Mu: "Mr. Li,

If you can promise to open a search portal for Google on YY and YY.com, and keep it unchanged for five years, we are willing to dilute five points, and we will give you the five points based on the valuation of 6 billion US dollars. "

After that, Larry Page added: "Google's current valuation is around $10 billion."

Li Mu smiled slightly and said, "Larry, give Google a search entry, and keep it unchanged for five years. Will you agree to this?"

Larry Page looked at Li Mu with dodging eyes, and after a while he pretended to be confident and said, "I will agree, because this is an additional benefit for me."

Li Mu shook his head, and after a while, stared into Larry Page's eyes, and said very seriously: "Larry, if you give Google a search entry in my most important product and keep it for five years, then you will leave me here. What you get is not only five-year traffic guarantee, but also five-year security guarantee! If I promise you, Muye Technology will not be able to get involved in search engines in the next five years. After all, my most important product has your entrance. If I do the search again at this time, isn't that killing my own job?"

Larry Page didn't know how to answer for a while. Li Mu was right. If he agreed to this condition, the most valuable thing was not that he provided Google with traffic for five consecutive years, but that he could not be engaged in search engines for five years. In wartime, this equates to a five-year non-aggression pact of invaluable value.

After thinking for a moment, Larry Page said with a serious face: "Mr. Li, if you have any objection to this time, then we can discuss it again. It is not impossible to shorten it properly. In four and a half years, you..."

Before Li Mu could finish speaking, he reached out his hand to interrupt him and said very seriously, "Larry, my objection is not the length of time, but the amount of extra money you are willing to pay for this time window. You have to understand a little more, your appeal, in my understanding, you must pay me a protection fee!"

Although it seems very street culture to describe it as a protection fee, it is very appropriate. Google naturally knows that it is impossible for Li Mu to sign a non-compete agreement, which clearly states that Muye Technology is not a search engine, so they want to use this kind of restraint to make Li Mu think There is no way to do it, or it is very difficult to start, but Li Mu is not a vegetarian. Google's low-priced offering of a few points of shares is not attractive enough to Li Mu. It is not that the richer he is, the more appetite he has. But it was too little for him to look down on at all.

Larry Page hesitated for a moment and said, "Mr. Li, if that's the case, we can appropriately lower the valuation a little more. As compensation, what do you think?"

Li Mu shook his head slightly and said: "Larry, Muye Technology is currently the largest Internet company in the world with the largest traffic, and no one is as active as our users, let alone our user loyalty. In theory, Muye Technology It is much easier to make any Internet product and model than other companies, so you can see that the two simple games we made can bring huge profits beyond all online games in the world; we make online music, and it will be defeated in a few days. Apple iTunes."

When Li Mu said this, he paused deliberately and said to Larry Page, "If one day Muye Technology decides to become a search engine, how long do you think it will take us to catch up with Google? Just like we catch up with Apple in the field of music."

Larry Page felt that the question of Li Mu made him a little embarrassed, but he still said with a strong three-pointedness: "Mr. Li, the search engine is actually a product model with very strong technical requirements, not only must it have a strong technical foundation. , and there are multiple sets of very precise logic algorithms, and then based on the algorithms, to cater to users and advertisers, this set of things can almost be regarded as the highest technical threshold in the current Internet industry.”

Li Mu asked him with a smile, "Do you think we don't have the technical strength to be a search engine?"

Larry Page hurriedly explained: "I just think that if Makino Technology invests a lot of technology costs in the search engine, it will have a great impact on its own business development. If you lose watermelon with sesame seeds, you won’t be able to get it.”

Li Mu said, "You're wrong Larry. If I were to be a search engine, I wouldn't need to invest a lot of technical costs to re-develop it. I just needed to take Baidu's technology. Although I'm not a major shareholder of Baidu, but I can tell you, if I want Baidu's full set of technology, I can definitely get it, and I can get it in minutes."

Larry Page was surprised, but ten thousand disbelievers in his heart.

Baidu is also a technology-based company. For technology-based companies, technology is the most important asset and support. It is absolutely impossible to authorize it to others. What Li Mu said is simply a fantasy, unless he fully acquires Baidu. , otherwise such a thing cannot happen.

Li Mu saw that Larry Page didn't believe in himself, he smiled playfully, looked at Larry Page, and said, "Larry, whether you believe it or not, what I want to tell you is that as long as I promise to Robin now, he will Open up the full set of technologies to me, and I promise that Makino will not touch the Chinese search engine market, and will continue to guide him in China. Robin will book the earliest flight ticket from the United States to fly over to me to sign a contract, do you believe it? "

WTF...

Larry Page looked horrified.

In his heart, he already fully believed what Li Mu said. If Li Mu really reached such a carve-up agreement with Baidu, then Baidu would definitely agree, because for Baidu, they simply do not have the ability to enter the overseas market.

At this time, Li Mu sighed: "Robin has a very big advantage in that he can see the reality clearly. He knows that Baidu has no ability to develop foreign markets now, nor will it be able to compete with Google in overseas markets in the future. Not only that, Even in the domestic market, Baidu has to worry about Google's invasion, and even more worried that a giant like Muye Technology will one day take his job. If I promise not to compete with him in the Chinese market, he will definitely be satisfied and fully develop the domestic market. I will never covet overseas markets. That way, I can cooperate closely with him. He uses Baidu's technology to build the Chinese market, and I use Baidu's technology to build markets other than China. Everyone does not interfere or conflict with each other. , and even improve each other and improve each other.”

Speaking of this, Li Mu's expression suddenly became playful, looking at Larry Page, ready to give him a high-level threat, he said with a smile: "Larry, you may think that Baidu's search engine technology is still worse than Google's. But you also need to know that for most users, the product with the highest combined score of convenience and practicality is the most popular.”

"Don't think that McDonald's doesn't sell pizza because he can't make pizza well, and don't think that even if McDonald's sells pizza, it can't sell the best pizza specialty store. In fact, the truth is that as long as McDonald's pizza is not bad, he It will soon take a big chunk of the market away from the pizzerias;"

"If he happens to be able to learn the full range of techniques for making delicious pizza from another professional pizza shop, then the market space he can occupy is even bigger!"

"In this competition, Muye Technology is McDonald's, and the search engine is pizza. As for Google, it is said to be the pizza specialty store with the best craftsmanship, but fortunately, the second place is not far behind you!"

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