Chapter 1707 Gathering

As the Internet e-commerce company with the highest market value in the world and a veteran business leader, Feng Yiping already worked for well-known companies such as Procter & Gamble and Bain Capital when she was still in elementary school, and eventually became the vice president of Disney, Whitman After arriving in Davos, the itinerary was also very full.

Just like Feng Yiping, many people she knew and didn't know approached her.

People who don’t know her come to her, not only to sell her high-end and rare luxury goods such as islands, but also to use eBay and PayPal to help develop their own businesses.

Naturally, she has many acquaintances. The increasingly influential World Economic Forum also provides a rare opportunity for businessmen from all over the world to meet and communicate. On other occasions, if you want to bring so many people together, Not an easy task.

And just as Whitman once said in front of Feng Yiping, eBay's business has spread all over the world, it has partners all over the world, and its relationship with local governments also requires public relations.

So not only were people looking for her, she also took the initiative to visit officials from some countries that had already arrived.

At this time, she had just met with French officials and hurried back to her hotel, where another meeting was waiting for her to host.

Economically developed Europe is naturally a region that eBay needs to focus on developing in addition to North America. Taking this opportunity, she summoned all the business leaders from various European countries to meet, encourage and learn about it.

Thanks to the overall improvement of the world economy in the past two years, as well as the improvement of technology, especially the improvement of broadband speed and other favorable conditions, eBay's performance in Europe has also improved to a considerable extent. The atmosphere of this meeting was very neat. rapport.

Of course, according to Whitman's temper, this meeting will not always be so harmonious. Some regional leaders who did not perform well were let go at the end of last year, but this does not mean that they can continue to work in their original positions. Stay.

If we didn't deal with it at the end of last year, we have to wait for today.

After successively dismissing two responsible persons for poor work and poor performance, the atmosphere in eBay's internal meeting quickly became serious. In any case, the regional director is a very good position and deserves everyone's seriousness. treat.

Seeing the awe in those people's eyes when they looked at him, Whitman was very satisfied. Facts have once again proved that such thunderous methods are indeed one of the best ways to establish prestige.

For a professional manager like her, it is not enough to just submit a satisfactory answer to the board of directors. If she does not have enough prestige among the company's senior executives, her position will be easily challenged.

To be honest, behind the fame of Whitman and others, they really paid a lot.

But precisely because of the beauty of their location, many people are eyeing their location all the time.

Therefore, for them, workplace competition and office politics are real challenges and threats, and they must always remain highly vigilant against these aspects.

Feng Yiping does not need to use such thunderous means to maintain his authority and consolidate his position, but Whitman is indispensable.

Whitman, who was in a good mood, walked out of the conference room under the watch of more than a dozen regional executives. She had just poured a glass of wine and had not even taken a sip. The news reported by her assistant immediately made her mood worse. , "Jack from China just arrived and went to Feng's hotel immediately,"

This time, she was not annoyed by Feng Yiping. She was still vividly aware of the fact that San Jose Airport was at a disadvantage again, and the scars were not healed. Naturally, she could not forget the pain so quickly.

Reason told her that at this time, she really shouldn't vent her anger on Feng Yiping, as it would definitely not have good results - this was a very painful realization.

But towards Lao Ma, she couldn't restrain her anger. Why do you want to appear here?

Not long after Taobao was launched, she once said her conclusion to the outside world in an understatement, "It will die in 18 months."

Whitman remembers clearly that when he said that sentence, it was July 2003. Counting from then to now, no more, no less, it is exactly 18 months. However, has Taobao died?

not at all! They are developing well!

Not only did they not, by joining forces with Feng Yiping, they had actually squeezed their business in China into a small corner.

Not only that, at the end of last year, Microsoft's MSN, in order to compete with China's local instant messaging tools, decided to find a partner in China. In the end, they chose Taobao.

In all countries except China, Microsoft's global choice is eBay - this is already a heavy slap in the face.

But this time since Jack, it's not a slap in the face.

Whitman himself has not forgotten his original bold words. It is conceivable that there must be quite a few colleagues who will not forget his original bold words. Even if they have forgotten some, they will probably remember them after seeing Jack. .

Many of them, like themselves, have poor ability to identify Asians, but who knows that due to congenital reasons, Jack is the kind of person that you can easily forget?

Then, Whitman could imagine that everyone who saw Jack would inevitably laugh at him. Every time they looked at him at that time was equivalent to a slap in the face, so why did you come too? This occasion?

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"Laoma," "Yiping," Feng Yiping stood at the door of the hotel to greet Lao Ma who had just arrived.

Whitman's dissatisfaction was not within their consideration, or rather, Whitman was not important enough for them to examine their behavior.

As for why Lao Ma came to Davos, it was very simple. His e-commerce platform needed the Davos platform to promote it, and he also hoped to listen to more opinions and learn more experiences at this Davos Annual Meeting.

As for my appearance, it might embarrass Whitman, but what does it have to do with me? You just asked for it, okay?

"Did the journey go smoothly?"

"It went smoothly," Lao Ma stretched his body, "I was a little confused at first, but when I got here, I woke up all of a sudden. I was thinking, there are so many heroes here, how many interesting opinions can we hear these days?"

At this time, Lao Ma had not yet reached the point where he would express his opinions every time he arrived at a place. Now in such occasions, he could only be a listener.

It was not because some of his views were immature at this time, but because he was still just starting his career, which was not enough to support him to attract many celebrities to listen to his voice, that is, his strength was not enough.

Feng Yiping was worried about the challenges from his peers and the media, but Lao Ma did not have such worries at present.

"Why didn't Mr. Sun from Softbank come this time?" Feng Yiping asked. He also planned to take this opportunity to negotiate with Softbank and clear the obstacles for the merger with Alibaba.

"He said that there was an important work to be handled," Lao Ma said.

"Do you think he might be deliberately avoiding us?" Feng Yiping asked.

"It is not ruled out that there is such a possibility. It is understandable that he avoids the edge in front of you," Lao Ma smiled and patted the shoulder of the young partner, "As far as I know, the negotiation methods he usually uses will not have any effect on you at all,"

The short Masayoshi Son is very tough against entrepreneurs, but Feng Yiping is an entrepreneur who is stronger than him.

"Don't worry, he won't avoid you all the time. He probably hasn't thought of the overall strategy to discuss with you yet. He may also hope to get some information from your statement at this annual meeting,"

"In short, the general trend is that he can't stop us from doing what we want to do, right?"

It should be because he has a lot of contact with SoftBank, and Lao Ma obviously knows the style of the other side very well.

Yes, at most it will take more time and effort, "Let me introduce you, this is Cummins, the head of our US department,"

"Thank you, thank you for your support for our e-commerce business," Lao Ma said to Cummins.

For the overseas business, that is, directly purchasing light luxury goods from the United States and selling them on the platform, Feng Yiping handed it over to Cummins.

"This is Mike, Zuckerberg, and Sandberg from Facebook, and this is Randolph from YouTube..."

The meeting between Feng Yiping and them has always been very friendly and happy. We all know Lao Ma's eloquence. Just a few words made these American elites look at him with new eyes.

Looking at Lao Ma who was at ease, Feng Yiping was also very emotional. It is really true that character determines destiny.