Chapter 1429: Temptations One After Another

Jerry Yang did not urge or disturb Feng Yiping who was deep in thought. He waved his hand gently and asked the waiter to replace the cold coffee in front of the two.

He really admired Feng Yiping.

He knew that in the eyes of most people, he was naturally a genius.

Before 2000, someone once said that in the American IT industry, there were three people who ran out to start companies without finishing college and eventually became famous billionaires. They were Bill Gates, Mike Dell and Jerry Yang.

It can even be said that Jerry Yang and Dell are two people who will make Bill Gates, the world's richest man and leader in the IT industry, feel inferior.

This is naturally based on facts. Without considering different social backgrounds, Dell is more successful than Bill in any age group.

But if Jerry Yang and Dell are compared again, Jerry Yang's development will be even more terrifying.

Almost in the blink of an eye, he became a new leader in the Internet industry. Almost in the blink of an eye, he went from a poor student to a billionaire.

He is even more comprehensive in the IT industry in the mainland.

When he founded Yahoo, Dr. Zhang, 31, was still messing around after graduating from MIT; the 31-year-old richest man Ma had just learned what the Internet was; the 24-year-old Pony Ma was still conceiving the prototype of Penguin; the 24-year-old Ding was working for an American company; the 24-year-old Zhou Doushi was studying for a master's degree at Xi'an Jiaotong University. I'm afraid he would never have thought that he would fight and offend all the people above, including Jerry Yang.

By the way, Mr. Zhou can be said to have not let himself go. 3721, which he relied on to start his business, was also killed by himself.

Jerry Yang, who was born as an engineer, calm and focused on data, also thought that he was a genius, even if he said it very modestly, but when he looked at Feng Yiping's information, he found that to others, he could only be said to be terrible at best, while Feng Yiping was really crazy.

The young man in front of him is only 24 years old this year. In terms of wealth, his net worth has steadily exceeded 10 billion US dollars; in terms of career, in China, his Forex Group is the leading private enterprise. In the United States, the several projects he invested in, Google is a success that is obvious to all, and the other ones are undoubtedly very promising.

The key is that they all have very mature and reliable profit models.

When he was 24 years old, he was still studying at Stanford, and he was not studying too seriously. It was not until he was 26 that he started Yahoo.

What kind of achievements will Feng Yiping have when he is 26 years old? Although there are only more than two years, Yang Zhiyuan found that he was really unsure.

The man opposite, wearing a clean white shirt and a humble face, looks like a young man who just walked out of the university campus. Yang Zhiyuan not only admires him very much, but also has some respect for him.

Looking at his vision and integration ability, these projects in the United States can produce a company that can develop comparable to Google in the future. Yang Zhiyuan feels that he will not find it strange.

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After listening to Jerry Yang's proposal for cooperation, Feng Yiping was indeed a little shaken and hesitant.

Yahoo at this time is not the sick tiger that it was later. Whether it is Yahoo in the United States or Yahoo in China, although it is slightly declining, it is still strong.

Take Yahoo China for example. Under the leadership of Zhou Doushi, it is indeed the biggest rival of Baidu in the search field.

Yisou, a subsidiary of Yahoo China, has a much more successful market influence than Google. Its email users are only second to NetEase.

It is said that such achievements are still based on the fact that Yahoo does not even allocate millions of dollars in research and development funds to Chinese companies.

He is right. Cooperation with Yahoo in China can indeed bring traffic to the e-commerce platform it is developing, and it can also increase the positive influence of its own e-commerce platform.

Because it is undeniable that in many cases, domestic users still have some blind worship and trust in internationally renowned companies.

Of course, these are not the key factors that make Feng Yiping a little shaken.

The key to his hesitation is that according to the original development, the cooperation between Yahoo and Alibaba next year will use Yahoo China as a bargaining chip.

If he agreed to cooperate with Yahoo China now, wouldn't it mean that next year, when Yahoo wants to cooperate with Alibaba, it will lose its biggest bargaining chip?

The reason why he said Jerry Yang was the most successful American businessman investing in China was because of Yahoo's original investment in Alibaba next year, which was also an investment that he wanted to compete with.

What he had to consider now was whether it would be more beneficial or more harmful if he agreed to cooperate with Yahoo in China now. He weighed the pros and cons quickly.

Finally, he made a decision, "Yahoo is a very great company, and so are you..."

Jerry Yang interrupted him immediately, "I plan to use the entire Yahoo China, plus cash, and the online platform you are developing to form a new e-commerce company. As for the shareholding, we can be fifty-fifty,"

He really didn't expect that he would have to throw out his trump card so soon, but he couldn't not throw it out. Didn't he hear that Feng Yiping didn't even want to listen to the specific details, so he planned to refuse?

After saying these words, he looked at Feng Yiping seriously.

He thought that his bargaining chip was still attractive enough.

It seems to work! He saw that Feng Yiping seemed a little surprised, but wait, how come this surprise only flashed by?

Yang Zhiyuan's heart sank, isn't this enough?

He rushed to increase the stakes before Feng Yiping could speak, "For cash investment, we don't set a cap, we only look at the needs of the newly formed company,"

He thought that for the online platform that Forex was developing, his conditions were generous.

Of course, he was not being generous without principles.

The success of Yahoo RB made him and his partners deeply understand how important it is to find the right partner.

In China, they believe that if this partner is Feng Yiping and his Forex, it is undoubtedly excellent.

His Forex covers many aspects of the consumer field in China, and has an excellent reputation in the minds of users.

Another important point is that so far, all the projects that Feng Yiping has decided to do, whether they are founded by himself or acquired, have been very successful without exception.

He is now going to build an online platform, and it is conceivable that he is absolutely sure to succeed. Yahoo decided to take advantage of his opportunity even if the initial investment is larger.

Jerry Yang saw a smile spreading from Feng Yiping's mouth, but he still shook his head?

"I am very honored to be recognized by you and Yahoo, but, for the time being, I really have no intention of cooperating with external parties for the online platform that is being developed and planned."

"Is this your final result? Don't you think about it again?" Jerry Yang felt very powerless, and these were the only chips he could bring out.

"Yes," Feng Yiping nodded, "This is indeed a very attractive condition, but I am still willing to try it myself first,"

"So," Jerry Yang's disappointment was beyond words. He really didn't understand. Could it be that his Yahoo was so despised?

"Is it because of Google, or Google has restrictions on you in this regard?"

"There is a factor of Google," Feng Yiping nodded, "but Google has not made such restrictions,"

Whether in the United States or China, Google and Yahoo are rivals.

As we all know, online platforms, whether sales or advertising, cannot do without search. Cooperating with Yahoo means that you must use Yahoo's technology. If this is the case, where do you put Google?

Yang Zhiyuan did not ask any more questions.

Even if he asked more questions, Feng Yiping would definitely still have this attitude. In fact, the biggest reason is that Google has been thriving, while Yahoo has been getting worse and worse.

Then, who to choose as the most important partner, isn't it obvious at a glance?

Moreover, with Zhou Doushi around, Feng Yiping felt that the integration of Yahoo China must be a big problem. Didn't even the richest man Ma fail to do this well later?

"Then, I guess you don't need partners for these projects in the United States at the moment," Yang Zhiyuan said.

Originally, he was also interested in NEXTDOOR, Facebook, and YouTube.

But I heard before that Feng Yiping flatly rejected Amazon's acquisition request for NEXTDOOR. Now, he has no intention to cooperate with anyone for a project that has not been officially launched in China. It is conceivable that Yahoo will not have any chance to cooperate with his current businesses in the United States that are in full swing.

"That's the case at the moment," Feng Yiping said.

"So, are you interested in becoming the CEO of Yahoo?" Jerry Yang asked his last question.