Chapter 899: Li Mu Gave You a Routine

Elon Musk was confounded by a word from Li Mu. . :.

Before he came, Elon Musk deduced countless times, if he proposed the idea of ​​selling PayPal to Li Mu, how would Li Mu answer.

In his opinion, for a person like Li Mu who has such a wealth at the age of 20, he is 90% unlikely to consider acquiring Paypal, because in his current form, Paypal means more to him. 'Chicken' ribs, and yy's development space must be much larger than that of PayPal, so at this time, it is also a big loss to use yy's shares to acquire PayPal. Li Mu can't agree.

Therefore, in Elon Musk's view, Li Mu's biggest possibility is to reject himself in various ways.

For example, he may ask himself: "How important do you think paypal is to yy or Muye Technology?"

Or Li Mu would say, "I don't think yy needs a product like paypal right now."

In short, Elon Musk concluded that Li Mu 90% will decline his sales intentions.

However, he didn't really want to sell PayPal to Li Mu himself, he just wanted to use Li Mu to put some pressure on eBay and make a breakthrough in the price stalemate between the two sides.

However, he did not expect that Li Mu would not play the cards according to his expected routine, and said, "I have this idea!"

This made Elon Musk dumbfounded. He considered countless possibilities, but he did not calculate that Li Mu would say such a thing directly.

Stepping back 10,000 steps, even if Li Muzhen is interested in paypal, according to the normal logic of the mall, he will take the initiative to sell, Li Mu has the absolute initiative, so he should definitely not directly say that he has the idea of ​​acquisition, because once exposed 'exposed' If he loses his intentions, his initiative is lost.

Normally, even if Li Mu really had this idea, he should have pretended not to be very interested, and then waited for him to further promote it, and then reluctantly asked the price.

Therefore, Li Mu had 10,000 possible ways to answer, but he chose the most unlikely one, and it was the one that Elon Musk never expected.

Within a moment, Elon Musk felt a little 'disordered', but fortunately, he immediately adjusted after a while, and then said to Li Mu: "It would be great if Mr. Li is interested! We can go deeper into this topic. Let's talk."

Li Mu nodded and said, "Then you can make an offer directly. I know that you should also be negotiating acquisitions with eBay. You should quote a price first, and I will consider it."

Elon Musk thought to himself, eBay is now willing to give the price of 1.5 billion US dollars, and he is here to increase the price. It doesn't matter if Chinese people really want to buy it, as long as the price meets expectations, no matter who buys it, he And partners and behind-the-scenes investors will agree to sell.

So, Elon Musk said to Li Mu: "Mr. Li, our current offer is: an overall packaged acquisition of $2 billion."

"Two billion?" Li Mu smiled slightly and said, "I'll just say two points, first, the price is expensive; second, I can't afford it. Muye Technology doesn't have so much cash, even if it gets the C round, it's impossible. With so much cash available, even if I am interested in acquiring it, it can only be a merger of cash shares, I will accept paypal, and you will become a shareholder of Muye Technology."

Elon Musk immediately said: "There is room for adjustment in the quotation. As for the merger of cash shares you mentioned, I have no opinion on this method. It mainly depends on how much cash and how many shares you are willing to give."

When he said this, Elon Musk's mood had relaxed a lot. Although he didn't expect Li Mu to answer like he just did, but thinking about it carefully, Li Mu was interested in paypal. A great deed that is beneficial and harmless.

If Li Mu is interested in paypal, even if he can't negotiate in the end, his attitude will bring great pressure to eBay.

Ultimately forcing eBay to raise its takeover offer;

If the M&A conditions given by Li Mu are more favorable than eBay, then sell PayPal directly to him, everyone will take part of the cash, and then part of the shares of Muye Technology. In this case, in the near future, the shares alone may be one A huge number of pens.

Li Mu smiled and said, "Mr. Musk, I want to ask you a 'private' question."

Elon Musk hurriedly said, "Mr. Li, please speak."

Li Mu looked at him and asked with a smile, "Do you want to completely get rid of PayPal and change it into other fields, or do you want to continue working in PayPal for a while to win a bigger future?"

Elon Musk was stunned for a while. He didn't expect Li Mu to ask himself such a question. Of course, he was inclined to let go completely. From the beginning of this project to now, there have been several times in the middle of the wrong path because of his immaturity. It is like a painter's first 'female' work. Although it is enough to be a blockbuster, the painter knows in his heart that there are many places in it. There are better ways to deal with the writing, 'coloring' and presentation methods, but it's a done deal. , there is no way to recover.

So in this case, Elon Musk hopes to get rid of paypal completely, and then take the report obtained from this maiden 'girl' work and put it into the new work, and the new work will start from scratch, With the previous experience and lessons, you can use a better way to achieve your goals.

However, Elon Musk is also speculating in his heart, why did Li Mu ask such a question? Does he want to continue to struggle in paypal? In other words, does he hope that after the acquisition of paypal, he will still be the CEO by himself?

So Elon Musk asked Li Mu: "Mr. Li, what do you mean?"

Li Mu smiled slightly and avoided answering his question, but said, "Mr. Musk, if you can, please answer my question first."

Elon Musk nodded, thought for a moment, and said: "For me, I really prefer to sell paypal in a package and use the cash to invest in other fields."

Li Mu asked him, "Is it because you don't have confidence in paypal's future?"

Elon Musk thought that Li Mu's question was really sharp, how should he answer it? If you say that you really have no confidence in the future of paypal, it is to slap yourself in the face; if you say that you have confidence in paypal, then what you just said is somewhat inconsistent, because if you have confidence, how can you consider selling it as a package ?

After thinking about several sets of rhetoric quickly in my heart, Elon Musk said a little embarrassedly: "It's not because of lack of confidence, but because I think paypal is the blood vessel of e-commerce, and companies interested in paypal must be more We prefer a wholly-owned acquisition because only a wholly-owned acquisition can reassure them, and if we, as the original team, still retain a certain share, it will be a huge destabilizing factor for the buyer.”

Li Mu spread his hands and said with a serious face, "I don't think so. If your original team continues to hold a certain share, I personally can accept it, and I think it's better."

Elon Musk asked him in surprise: "Mr. Li, do you want to invest in paypal, or buy it?"

Li Mu smiled and said, "Let's put it this way, I tend to invest in shares but not shares, and I tend to invest in paypal together with eBay."

Elon Musk was dumbfounded: "Do you want to invest in paypal with ebay?"

Li Mu nodded: "Yes, my idea is to let eBay control paypal, and Muye Technology will take another part of the shares. First, let all the capital behind paypal be cashed out, and then your original team's shares can be partially cashed out. , and leave a part to continue to hold, we will cooperate with the three parties to make PayPal bigger, and you are still the CEO of PayPal."

Elon Musk said embarrassedly: "Mr. Li, eBay is very tough on the acquisition of Paypal. They have always insisted on a wholly-owned acquisition. We have now psychologically accepted the proposal of eBay's wholly-owned acquisition. The problem is that the price has not been agreed, so I think ebay may not be willing to invest in paypal with you."

Li Mu smiled and said, "After all, you and I are meeting here now. No matter how tough eBay's attitude was before, it should be worrying now. As long as there is worry, it will definitely loosen."

Elon Musk's expression became a little embarrassed. In his opinion, Li Mu's words were an understatement, but he had already pointed out his true purpose. He came here this time to meet Li Mu. Let eBay's attitude loosen, has Li Mu already seen through his motives?

Thinking of this, Elon Musk asked "sex" tentatively: "Mr. Li, do you want to put pressure on eBay to give up the wholly-owned acquisition?"

Li Mu nodded and said with a smile: "There is an old saying in China, that people of the Ming Dynasty don't speak secretly. To tell you the truth, paypal is really not very useful for me in the future, but I personally think paypal is a very useful tool. It is a promising payment product, so I hope to be able to participate in it to a certain extent, so this requires ebay to give up the plan to acquire paypal wholly, and consider taking shares with Muye Technology and your original team, so that paypal can always use a The identity of the independent company continues to develop, rather than directly becoming a payment channel in the hands of eBay.”

Just after finishing speaking, Li Mu looked at Elon Musk with a playful smile on his face, and said, "In fact, Mr. Musk, isn't the purpose of your visit to China this time to be able to use Muye Technology to put pressure on ebay? Since In this way, let's do each other a favor. You want to make more money. I want to invest in paypal. Their respective goals. As long as Muye Technology successfully invests in paypal, if your original team really can't wait to get rid of it completely, and you don't want to have any relationship with paypal in the future, then I will not force it."

Elon Musk is stunned! Unexpectedly, I wanted to use Li Mu to put pressure on eBay this time, but Li Mu suddenly came up with an apparently well-thought-out plan to buy shares. It seems that he has long seen through his fundamental motive for coming to Huaxia to see him this time... …

Thinking of this, Elon Musk couldn't help but ask himself: "Is this a trick that Li Mu gave me? Did he want to use him to force ebay to raise the price, or did he want to use himself to force ebay to give up the wholly-owned acquisition, So that he can take a share of it himself?"