Chapter 1474 I Am Blackmailing
"M&A?!" Larry Page exclaimed and asked, "You want to acquire Google??"
Li Mu shook his head and smiled: "It's Google's acquisition of Muye&!"
"Ah? Why?"
Larry Page is utterly stupid.
Li Mu wanted himself to acquire his newly established Muye&? The company was just established a few days ago, and Li Mu only invested 10 million US dollars. Except for the internal beta version of Muye search built by Baidu, it is almost an empty shell!
Now Li Mu is talking about Google's acquisition of Muye&, doesn't that mean selling this empty shell to himself? !
Seeing that Larry Page was frightened, Li Mu smiled lightly and said, "You came to me, aren't you afraid that Muye& will use Muye search to impact Google's share and valuation in the capital market in the future? I am a shareholder, and the additional condition must be that I can stop the Muye search engine, and it is very simple to want me to stop, if you buy my company, I will stop.”
Larry Page looked at Li Mu blankly, and asked weakly, "Mr. Li, what are your merger and acquisition conditions?"
Li Mu said: "Google acquired Muye & 100% of its shares with no less than 33.3% of its own shares."
Larry Page almost jumped up and went wild when he heard this condition.
"Mr. Li, how could you use a newly established shell company to take away 33.3% of Google's shares? And on the premise of not spending a penny!"
Li Mu looked at him and asked calmly, "Why not?"
Larry Page indignantly accused: "This is a robbery! And an unrealistic robbery!"
Li Mu smiled slightly and said, "Larry, I will always give others the right to choose freely, so is it inappropriate for you to use robbery to describe me?"
Larry Page didn't know how to respond to Li Mu's harmless face.
Li Mu said with a serious expression: "You must know that I gave you the opportunity to cooperate. At that time, I hadn't established Muye& yet. As long as you accepted my conditions, I was willing to cooperate with you in depth, but you refused. Now, I have Muye&, and you came to me to talk about the previous cooperation, how is that possible? What about my Muye&? Shouldn’t someone pay for it?”
"We're willing to pay for it," Larry Page said.
But the premise is that when the price is right, your current offer is simply beyond the normal and appropriate category, which is no substantive difference from robbery. "
Li Mu laughed and said: "Why don't you go back, I don't want to get a reputation for robbery for no reason, let's stop talking, I'll let the driver take you back to the airport now, Muye & I won't sell it to you, Even if you kneel down and beg me, I won't sell it, so don't say I robbed you, OK?"
Larry Page was caught off stage by Li Mu again, and he hurriedly explained, "Mr. Li, you misunderstood, that's not what I meant..."
"What did I misunderstand you?" Li Mu frowned at him, and said with an unhappy expression: "I didn't want to meet you at all, don't you have any points in your heart? When I was in the United States, I didn't want to see you, I thought I felt There is no need to meet with you again to talk about an offer. Since everyone disagrees, it is better to do your own thing. It is you who rushed from the United States to meet with me and talk to me, so I gave you a new offer. In the end, you accused me of robbing you instead? Is there someone like you who traveled thousands of miles in front of others and took the initiative to send them to your door for others to rob?"
Li Mu suddenly turned his face, making Larry Page nervous, and his face was red.
What Li Mu said was right. It was because he was trying so hard to meet Li Mu that he had no chance. In the end, he had to fly all the way from the United States without saying hello. As a result, he was annoyed for a while and accused him of robbing him. In this case , Li Mu will definitely be angry...
Larry Page could only say to Li Mu very devoutly: "I'm sorry, Mr. Li, it was my wording that was wrong. I apologize to you."
Li Mu nodded and said, "I accept your apology. By the way, I remind you that when you ask someone else, you have to lower your head, bend down, and even kneel on your knees."
Larry Page hurriedly said, "Mr. Li is right, he has been taught."
After finishing speaking, Larry Page looked at Li Mu and said with a bit of pleading: "Mr. Li, your offer is too high for me, please lower it appropriately, and we can continue on. talk."
Li Mu shook his head and said: "The quotation is the final quotation, and it will not be changed."
After finishing speaking, Li Mu looked at Larry Page and said to him with a smile, "Actually, this is not robbery, but blackmail. Do you understand what blackmail is?"
Larry Page was stunned. He had never seen such a brazen person taking blackmail so lightly and for granted.
Just when Larry Page was refreshed by Li Mu, Li Mu said to him very seriously: "Larry, think back to the international situation from the 1940s to the present, your US government does not take it all day long. Do you carry out nuclear blackmail everywhere with nuclear weapons? No matter if you have any goods in your pockets, you will go out to blackmail others.
"In 1945 you built a total of three atomic bombs, one was detonated in the test, and the remaining two were thrown into Japan. When the eggs were all gone, you lied to the Japanese government that if they did not surrender, you would drop more atomic bombs on them. , isn't this typical blackmail?"
"After the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in nuclear blackmail in the world all day long, threatening to use nuclear weapons at every turn, and then forcing so many countries to sacrifice so many interests. Isn't this also blackmail?"
"It's okay between countries, but what can't be done between companies?"
When Larry Page heard this, he only felt that a mouthful of old blood was about to spit out...
Li Mu continued, "Let me open the skylight and tell you something bright, just like the first time I talked to you, I told you that sacrificing shares is equal to paying protection fees."
After a pause, Li Mu said again: "I'm playing with you now, and to put it bluntly, this set of infinitely close to nuclear blackmail, the reason is very simple, you either agree to my conditions, or prepare to accept my nuclear attack. If you feel that I don't have any nuclear weapons reserves in my hands, and I can't pose a huge threat to you, so I can reject my conditions. We will all see the truth in the follow-up competition; if you think I do have enough nuclear weapons, and I have bombed you all As long as you accept my conditions, I will stop nuclear deterrence against you, so whether you accept it or not, you can consider it carefully.”
Larry Page didn't realize what Li Mu was playing until now. He's not playing ordinary business competition, and he doesn't necessarily want to get a Muye search to compete with himself. He just wants to use Muye search to blackmail himself. , just like the United States used nuclear weapons to blackmail other countries, the United States may not really use nuclear weapons on the target. He just pulls out the nuclear weapons and aims them at the target, and then let the target judge for himself whether he dares to launch it.
Nuclear weapons are also bound by international conventions, but Li Mu has no constraints!
Whether he is a hegemonist or a hooligan, Li Mu's open and transparent blackmail also represents Li Mu's ability and confidence.
When Li Mu finally revealed his huge wolf ambitions, Larry Page was surprisingly angry, but he dared not blindly protest or refuse.
Li Mu's words have been very straightforward. Now Muye& is the nuclear weapon he aimed at Google. If you talk about achievements, you can't achieve a fight. Although Muye& is just an empty shell, the strength of Muye Technology is unquestionable. Li Mu is just a The establishment of this company will cause Google's valuation in the capital market to plummet. If Li Mu runs the company with all his strength and imports resources into Muye Search, the blow to Google will indeed be like the scorched earth strategy of nuclear weapons. At that time, Google will not die. Also get rid of Half-Life.
Seeing that Larry Page was angry and scared, Li Mu's expression became more indifferent, he smiled slightly: "You, don't think that if I exchange Muye& for your 33.3% shares, you will lose a lot of money, many times the account is not calculated like this. ."
Larry Page looked at Li Mu and asked him feebly, "Mr. Li, why do you say that?"
Li Mu smiled and said: "You think, if the robber kidnapped you and demanded a ransom of $10 million, and what he used to threaten you was a $200 pistol and a bullet for less than $1, what do you think? It's a big loss, but have you ever thought about it, what if he shoots?"
"This..." Larry Page felt a chill on his back.
Li Mu's words were an understatement, but it still made Larry Page feel the bloodthirsty and cruelty behind his smile and calmness.
He couldn't help asking himself, "Yeah! What if the robbers fired?"
At this time, Li Mu said again: "Although it was Google's acquisition of Muye&, Muye& did not pay an extra penny for the acquisition, but you must understand that Muye& is like my daughter, and I will give her a dowry when I marry her, so if You acquired Muye&, then I still promise not to be a search engine for five years, and to direct all search traffic of non-Chinese users to Google, this is my dowry for Muye&.”
Larry Page made a mental calculation.
Originally, Li Mu's request was to buy 15% of Google's shares at a valuation of $6 billion, but Google's executives arrogantly refused;
Now, Li Mu's request is to directly use Muye&, a newly established shell company, for 33.3% of Google's shares, and not give a penny...
The gap between the two is really huge!
It’s like missing the feeling of Bitcoin. When it is $100, you buy it and you don’t buy it. When it rises to $15,000, can you not feel uncomfortable?
Not uncomfortable but strange.
Li Mu also knows that Larry Page must be uncomfortable, but he doesn't feel anything wrong at all. The capital market is the first interest, so what's the point of blackmailing Google? It is a fool not to take a bite of the meat to the mouth.
By sniping Google by himself, at most these Google shareholders will lose a part of their profits. After all, it is a war between capitalists and capitalists. Soros set off a financial turmoil in Asia for the sake of profit, causing thousands of people to fall into fire and water, and how many people went bankrupt and jumped off the building. Compared with him, he was already very kind.
Seeing that Larry Page seemed to be struggling, Li Mu suddenly added: "Larry, if you can make Google finally agree to this condition, after the merger is completed, I will authorize all the voting rights corresponding to the 33.3% shares to you. At that time, you won't have to fight with your mentally retarded shareholders every day!"