Chapter 893

Paypal is like the sand that will eventually become a brilliant pearl, it can only develop into a pearl in the right mother.

And the right parent is eBay. Apart from it, it is difficult to have a second platform that can fully incubate paypal.

Because of this, Li Mu clearly realized that if he could not incubate PayPal, even if he had money, it would be difficult to do so.

He had to put PayPal in eBay's stomach to incubate. Li Mu wanted to bite off a piece of meat from PayPal in the future. The best way was actually to reach an agreement with eBay, and everyone would invest in PayPal together.

Because ebay just needs paypal, so he can take the big part. I just want to take a ride and make more money in the future, so I can take a small part. The existing shareholders of paypal, including Elon Musk and the others, In fact, it was a one-shot deal, and now I want to cash out, but if there is a longer-term profit, they can definitely stay in the team, so I and eBay bought most of the shares of PayPal and let them make money first , leaving a small part of the shares to them, so that they have the opportunity to make a lot of money in the future.

If you do this, in the process of acquiring shares, you must use contracts to limit the cash-out speed of the original paypal team. If you and eBay take 80% of paypal's shares together, if you need to pay 1.2 billion or several billion dollars in cash, then this The money must be split and paid, and how long it will take, how many times it will be paid, how much will be paid each time, what Elon Musk, what Peter Thiel, and less about Silicon Valley and the world in the future. All-powerful, honestly, let's talk about it on ebay for a few years.

In fact, for entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, if they can retain shares and win a future on the premise of cash protection, they will basically not refuse. Li Mu has been reborn until now. I understand a little. In 2002, many of the great characters in the previous life were not as scary as the future. They were also growing. Before they were reborn, they had already evolved to the ultimate body. More than ten years to go.

If you can convince Elon Musk and the others to keep doing PayPal, and then trick eBay into letting him incubate PayPal for him and himself, then PayPal is not just for eBay, but for eBay. Common child, can't this eat meat? And a lot to eat.

In addition, Li Mu feels that eBay will not refuse. The reason why they are eager for paypal is because of the rigid demand of business development. Holding paypal in their hands can solve many of their problems and potential crises, but there is no need to acquire them completely. It’s okay, not to mention that you can gain an ally. Muye Technology has a very strong momentum now, and any Internet giant company in the world will never underestimate its existence. If yy and eBay are tied up in overseas markets in the future to jointly conquer the city, then It's really a good thing for mutual benefit.

Li Mu's decision was immediately approved by everyone!

Leader Lei even said excitedly: "If we can join hands with eBay to invest in paypal, not too much, even if we take 20% of the shares, our overall valuation will increase a lot. A Chinese enterprise, which is developing rapidly overseas, can recharge more than 1,000 per day. The astonishing data of 10,000 US dollars, at the same time, it has also invested in paypal, the world's largest payment channel, and has also reached a capital cooperation with the giant ebay. This concept is amazing!"

Ding Zhenglin, who is good at capital operation, also said excitedly: "If we can reach a unified consensus with ebay and paypal, and then publicize it, the concept of the company will be amazing. With so many big moves one after another, our valuation will still be high. Higher, by that time, we have negotiated the C round,

Bring in the money and then pay for the funds invested in paypal, everything goes smoothly and smoothly. "

Kong Lingyu, who doesn't understand overseas capital markets, couldn't help but ask: "Can the US government allow us to invest in paypal? After all, it's a payment channel, and it's quite sensitive..."

Ding Zhenglin said to him solemnly: "Old Kong, the United States is not Huaxia, you can't take the situation of Huaxia into consideration of the American market, not to mention that there are several non-Americans among PayPal's current shareholders; in addition, American banks are almost all private. Banks, even banks are privately owned, and the payment channel is just using the Internet to open up the banking transaction system, and the US government will not care. Besides, let's not talk about payment channels and US banks, you know that even the US specializes in Are the Feds that print dollars all private institutions?”

Kong Lingyu was stunned: "Isn't it, this US 'central bank' is private?"

Ding Zhenglin shook his head helplessly: "Don't always bury your head in writing code, and occasionally understand the international situation..."

Kong Lingyu smiled: "Okay, I'll go back and study."

There is no doubt that the degree of freedom in the US market is very high, especially in the Internet industry. Makino Technology, let alone investing in paypal, is really rich and has no problem with paying paypal.

At this time, Senior Brother Liu laughed and said: "This Elon Musk must have never imagined that he wanted to run over to have a friendship and touch porcelain, but before he met, he was calculated by Mr. Li. After he came to Huaxia, he would definitely be confused. I was dragged into the car by President Li, hahahaha!"

The whole conference room burst into laughter.

Indeed, if Li Mu's suit really involved Elon Musk and eBay, it would be really awesome. Elon Musk ran over with the purpose of friendship, but it was delivered to the door. Let Li Mu eat a piece of meat, I don't know how he will feel when he learns the truth in the future...

Everyone was in high spirits, and the only question now was, when Elon Musk came to China, would Li Mu have the ability to fool him and let him and Li Mu fool eBay together.

However, everyone had great confidence in Li Mu. Li Mu's ability to persuade people was really extraordinary. Listening to him gossiping was basically like brainwashing.

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At this time, Elon Musk, who is far away in Silicon Valley, is also very proud.

There is no doubt that he was going to China this time with the fundamental motive of "friendship and porcelain". Why did he send favors to Li Mu first, because he was afraid that if Li Mu refused to see him, or he would not be able to find time in a short time? See yourself.

If I can't see Li Mu, how can I put pressure on eBay? Now the negotiation between PayPal's team and eBay is at the most critical period.

At the moment, ebay is holding on to the $1.5 billion offer and refuses to raise even a penny. Although the paypal team knows that this is the highest offer and the best condition they can get in the global Internet industry, they still think Do your best to raise the price a bit.

So now Elon Musk's thinking is very simple, show goodwill to Muye Technology, show goodwill to Huaxia Li Mu, and then go to meet Li Mu. Li Mu is really awesome. After more than a year of work, he has been built in Huaxia. Having established two huge Internet empires and began to expand externally, eBay must be very jealous of him. Once he meets Li Mu, once eBay feels pressure, the deadlock of the $1.5 billion offer may be broken.

Looking for Li Mu's friendship to touch porcelain once, maybe it will eventually be reflected in the eBay quotation, which is an increase of 100 million yuan, or it may be 200 million yuan or more.

Taking a step back, even if the price can be raised from $1.5 billion to $15.1 billion, this is a big improvement, okay? Ten million dollars! If I can make 10 million US dollars by going to Huaxia, I will stay on the plane and never get off again! Fly to fifty, then get off the plane and enjoy life.

Now Li Mu has promised to meet with him three days later, so Elon Musk knows that his plan has succeeded, so he is in a particularly beautiful mood.

After asking the secretary to book the plane ticket for himself, Elon Musk began to actively arrange the next work of the team, so as to prepare himself for going to China the day after tomorrow.

This time, Elon Musk is going to go alone. He wants to see Li Mu, the young man from China, at the age of 20, who has created such a brilliant achievement. Even Elon Musk is right in his heart. Li Mu was particularly admired.

His partner Peter Thiel was very happy with Elon Musk's move. After Elon Musk arranged the work, he went to Elon Musk and said to him privately: "Elon, you When I go to Huaxia this time, I must try to get in touch with Li Mu as much as possible. When the time comes, I will let the domestic media report it. As soon as the domestic media reports, I will immediately slow down the negotiation with eBay, and eBay will definitely be anxious. , once they are in a hurry, we will ask for a re-valuation, and if we are lucky, we might be able to sell one or two hundred million more."

Elon Musk nodded and smiled slyly: "Don't worry, as long as you make a big splash, eBay will definitely bear huge pressure. That Huaxia Li Mu is still very capable, and eBay will definitely be afraid."

Peter Thiel said: "Maybe that Li Mu will really be interested in acquiring PayPal."

Elon Musk shook his head and said: "I don't think it's possible. Although Li Mu is very powerful and has enough strength to acquire PayPal, he has no reason to do so. Right now, yy's overseas development is his top priority. And his Taobao will definitely be unaccustomed to the US market, so paypal is not very useful to him."

Peter Thiel asked him, "Does eBay feel the same way?"

Elon Musk said confidently: "Don't worry, with eBay's current state of mind, it is impossible for them to do objective and in-depth analysis. They are like little boys who have just been with the girl they are obsessed with. At this time, even if he glances at other boys, he will be anxious, unconfident, and panic. He doesn't even consider whether the girl and the boy are possible. It is so serious to look at it. If the girl suddenly goes to another boy's house as a guest, What will he think?"

Peter Thiel said with a smile: "It really is your most sophisticated strategy! Then I'll be waiting for your good news in Silicon Valley!"

Elon Musk said confidently: "Don't worry, this time I am confident that using Li Mu from Huaxia can help us at least increase our valuation by 100 million US dollars!"