Chapter 1460 Self-Deception

Google.

When Larry Page informed all the board members of Li Mu's latest asking price, there was a sudden scolding in the conference room.

In front of this gang of American capitalists, Li Mu became a vicious capitalist who bullied the market, coerced and enticed, made impromptu attempts, and raised prices on the ground.

Larry Page knows the feelings of these people very well, and asking them to dilute 15% of the shares is indeed an unacceptable thing, not to mention that after the dilution, Li Mu will become a new shareholder of Google, a 15% shareholder who owns 15% of the shares. A new shareholder worth tens of billions of dollars, such a shareholder actually has a very large weight, and can even have a long-term and far-reaching influence on the entire Google in the future.

Although these people can understand the benefits of Li Mu's investment in Google, they cannot make an accurate measurement and judgment. The direct loss of 15% of Li Mu's investment at a low price is compared with the net profit after Li Mu's investment. Which is bigger? Larry Page insists the latter is bigger, but some shareholders disagree.

They felt that it was okay for Li Mu to want benefits, but the benefits had to be limited. Even if he built a highway, the tolls could not account for 15% of the entire car. This was no longer cooperation, but robbery.

Subsequently, in the first voting result, 78% voted against, and the new offer was not approved by the board of directors;

Larry Page hurriedly explained to the board members present: "Although Muye Technology's way of raising prices on the ground is hateful, we must be aware of the potential threat of Muye Technology. If Muye Technology enters the search engine, our future will be greatly improved. Affected!"

A shareholder said: "Muye Technology is about to complete the privatization acquisition of Apple, and Li Mu will invest a lot of experience in corporate integration. In this case, I don't think Li Mu has experience in developing search engines. We are experts in the field of search engines, we know very well how strong technical support and development cycle an excellent search engine needs, and when Li Mu launches his first search product, I believe we have successfully launched it."

This view has been endorsed by many people, and some people echoed: "I admit that Muye Technology is very powerful, but he is not omnipotent. Even if he is omnipotent, his energy and physical strength are limited. Muye Technology wants to be on the search engine. It will take at least a year or two to form positive competitiveness with Google.”

Larry Page shook his head and said: "If Li Mu wants to do a search engine, he will never develop a new one from scratch. He said last time that he can ask Baidu's Robin to open all Baidu's technologies and patents to the public at any time. He, and then divided the world with Baidu, Baidu became China's homeland, and Muye Technology was the overseas market. In this way, Li Mu could directly own a self-owned search engine with a core overnight, and it could be embedded in all the next day. In the products of the company, it is necessary to know that Baidu's technical strength is not too different from ours."

"Hahaha!" One shareholder laughed: "Larry,

Are you too easily deceived? Baidu will open its own technology patents to Muye Technology? Why is Li Mu so confident? This is the core wealth of an Internet company, how can it be given to others so easily? As for the thing that divides the world, it's even more ridiculous. Is Baidu willing to be a local search engine in China for a lifetime? As long as you cooperate with Muye Technology, it is equivalent to directly locking yourself in the Huaxia market. If it is you, will you agree? "

Larry Page explained: "You have ignored Li Mu's influence in the Chinese Internet industry, and he is a shareholder of Baidu himself."

The shareholder curled his lips and said disdainfully, "I am a shareholder of Google, but I have also invested in many companies in Silicon Valley. Does this mean that I will one day ask Google for Google's patents and technologies? ?"

Larry Page retorted: "As I said just now, you ignore Li Mu's influence in the Chinese Internet industry."

The shareholder asked again: "Let's put aside Li Mu's influence and talk about the possibility first. As far as I know, Baidu itself is also a company invested by Silicon Valley capital. The purpose of capital is to develop and expand. Baidu's shareholders We definitely look forward to Baidu being able to step out of the door of the Chinese market and lead overseas markets to seek breakthroughs. Under this premise, how could they be willing to limit their scope of activities to the mainland of China? Don’t they want to develop overseas?”

Larry Page said: "I think the character of Baidu Robin should be more stable as Li Mu said."

At this time, a member of the board of directors frowned and said, "Larry, do you know Robin?"

"Strictly speaking, don't know," Larry Page said.

The director said, "If you don't know him, how can you determine what kind of character he is? Is it because Li Mu said he is more stable, so you believe it?"

Larry Page was speechless for a while. He really didn't know much about Robin. He believed that what Li Mu said was mostly based on his own intuition and judgment. However, such words were obviously not convincing. Saying it, it's better to hold it in your stomach.

Seeing that Larry Page had nothing to say, the director pressed him step by step: "Larry, in my opinion, you are completely frightened by Li Mu, and the gun in Li Mu's hand not only has no bullets, but even Probably just a dummy gun, like those guys who drop out of high school often do when they rob a convenience store, a dummy gun, a headgear, with the gun pointed at your head and threatening you that if you don't take the money out, He'll blow your head off! In fact, Li Mu just used a set of threatening remarks to scare you to pieces, and when you came back, you added fuel to Li Mu's threats, and then helped Li Mu to terrorize us ."

Speaking of this, the director hurriedly said again: "Of course, I'm not saying that you have intentions to harm Google's interests, but your personal judgment is somewhat influenced by Li Mu."

Larry Page said a little sullenly: "Jesse, it's really irresponsible for you to say that, everything I do is to make Google better, otherwise I wouldn't have to repeat it in Li Mu. In front of you, you are eager for a cooperation opportunity, and what I want to say today is that you should not be swayed by the other party's offer to make your own judgment. When we are going to give Li Mu 5 points, each of you feels that idea. Very good, and they all agree with them very much. They also recognize Li Mu's strength. They think that Li Mu's investment in Google will bring a great improvement to Google; but now, when Li Mu asks for 15%, you not only refuse, but also start to talk about it. It is contradictory to underestimate Li Mu's actual ability subconsciously!"

A shareholder said, "We were also mostly influenced by you before, so it affected our subjective judgment. In fact, thinking about it now, Li Mu can't help us in a short period of time. We just need to seize the opportunity and rush forward. Li Mu is here. If we can't catch up with us in the next two or three years, why not do it?"

Larry Page felt desperate, he kept shaking his head and said: "In the final analysis, you are just unwilling to make sacrifices for your interests. It is normal to be unwilling to sacrifice, but I still hope that everyone can face the reality, you carefully Think about it, you start to think that other people's things must be a pile of useless garbage because of other people's quotations, which is standard self-deception."

"Vote again." The person in charge of the board of directors said: "If we continue to argue, there will be no result. Let's vote again. If everyone still refuses to stand in the majority this time, then we will refuse; if everyone feels that The contract that Larry brought back is acceptable, so we'll sign it and vote for a best-of-three game."

Larry Page rubbed his temples and voted, he wasn't sure.

However, voting is already the best solution in this case.

A few minutes later, the vote came out: 73 percent opposed.

Larry Page did not expect that he said so much, and the opponents only dropped from 78% to 73%, which had no impact on the result at all.

In view of the very consistent results obtained in the first two times, the board of directors immediately announced that it rejected Li Mu's request for a 15% stake in Google.

Larry Page shook his head helplessly and warned: "Everyone, Li Mu gave us 24 hours, which means we have at least one afternoon and one night to revise our decision. I still hope that everyone can accept Li Mu's offer, although it seems that we have lost a lot, but in fact..."

Before Larry Page finished speaking, the director pouted and said: "Larry, please stop being alarmist here. Regarding the matter of Muye Technology, we have given the final result, and the final result is: " no! "

...

The 24 hours agreed with Larry Page are about to pass, and Li Mu still hasn't received any news about him. Li Mu already understands Google's decision in his heart.

Just 10 minutes to 24 hours away, Larry Page called Li Mu, and as soon as the call was connected, he said in despair, "Mr. Li. I'm very sorry, our board of directors has gone through a day and night of After negotiation, it was finally unable to accept your 15% offer, I think this cooperation can only be terminated early."

Li Mu nodded lightly and said, "It doesn't matter Larry, there is an old saying in Huaxia, that business cannot be done without benevolence and righteousness. Although we were not able to cooperate this time, we are still very happy to be friends with you."

Larry Page smiled bitterly, when did you consider me a friend? My whole body is almost driven into a nervous breakdown by you, but he said, "Mr. Li, I hope we will have the opportunity to cooperate in the future."

Li Mu nodded and said with a smile, "Yes, I hope the sooner the better!"

Larry Page: "Hopefully!"

Li Mu smiled and said, "It's not a wish, it's a certainty!"