Chapter 1748 A Different Kind of Attention

"Wait, wait," after wandering outside for more than an hour, Feng Yiping drove back to the Google parking lot again. However, just when he was about to get out of the car, Mayer started acting coquettishly again.

"What's wrong?"

"Look at me again, look at me again," Mayer took his hand, "with your tender eyes,"

Feng Yiping shook his head in embarrassment, his tender eyes? He glanced at Mayer, are you sure these are mine?

"I'm getting drunk, I'm getting drunk," Mayer said, clasping her hands in front of her heart.

This man was really hopeless. "I'm in," Feng Yiping, who was in a brighter mood, shook his hair and looked cool. He walked out of the car with a few folders in his arms, leaving Meyer behind. I was giggling in the car.

As soon as he entered the building, he saw Brin with a big beard, riding a scooter towards the door coquettishly. When he saw Feng Yiping, he was indescribably happy. "Hey," he hugged Feng Yiping heavily. , "In Davos, this is what you performed," he gave a two thumbs up without hesitation.

"Thank you," Feng Yiping patted him on the shoulder and praised him, "The results of my recent practice have been good."

"Really?" Brin immediately moved the muscles in his shoulders a few times as if to show off.

"Where's Peppa Pig, what are you doing?" Feng Yiping asked.

"What's wrong with you?" Brin asked, looking at the folder in Feng Yiping's hand.

At this time, Mayer walked in with wind at his feet. When he passed by them, he deliberately shook his hair. The brilliance of his hair made Brin stunned.

"Yes, it is a pretty good company. We asked if we are interested in acquiring it," Feng Yiping said with his head lowered.

He knew what Mayer meant by flipping her hair.

"Oh, then you have to call him over,"

"I'm going to find Schmidt," Feng Yiping said. It's hard to exclude Schmidt, the CEO, from such a matter.

"Schmidt," he knocked on Schmidt's door.

"Hi Feng, you're back," Schmidt interrupted his speech and greeted Feng Yiping with a smile.

"Yes, do you have time now? We have something to talk about at the moment," Feng Yiping said, standing at the door.

"Okay, I'll be there soon," Schmidt said hurriedly to the two people at the desk, "I don't care what you do, I want to see a significant boost in sales in the near future, that's it," He picked up a notebook from the table and hurried out.

Two stressed-out sales executives were left behind.

Regardless of his relationship with Page and others, Schmidt, who is currently sitting firmly in the CEO position, is extremely lethal to people in business departments like them.

Schmidt walked quickly towards the conference room, wondering what happened this time.

Feng Yiping had previously initiated meetings with advance notice, but this was the first time that he had initiated an impromptu meeting like this.

Could this be something important, was it the only thing I wasn't notified of in advance? "Hi." Through the glass, he saw the three people arriving. Page and Brin were all holding a document and looking at it. Feng Yiping seemed to be at ease, sitting on his chair and turning left and right.

"This is the Autonomy information I collected. You can take a look first," Feng Yiping handed him a folder.

Autonomy? Schmidt immediately searched his mind and seemed to have some impression.

He opened the folder and took a look. Oh, it was also a search company, from the UK. By the way, wasn't Feng's last stop in the UK?

But, why are we looking at this?

"Its founder approached me and wanted us to acquire it," Feng Yiping explained in a low voice.

"Oh," Schmidt was shocked. It turns out that's what happened. But, how come you always have good things coming to you wherever you go? He began to read the information line by line.

After more than ten minutes, everyone put down the materials in their hands.

"This is some information I collected in the UK. Although it is not comprehensive, it is absolutely true," Feng Yiping stood up and said.

"Let me first talk about my impression of Mr. Lynch. First of all, he is not a traditional British gentleman. He makes no secret of his desire for success and money,"

"Two, this is a person who thinks very highly of himself. He likes others to call him the Bill Gates of Britain,"

But in the view of Feng Yiping and others, a person who is willing to be called such a person is not too high in the hierarchy.

"He also likes to tell people how he came from a working-class family, entered Cambridge, successfully stayed at the school to become a lecturer, and later started a business with $3,000 funded by a friend,"

This doesn't mean anything, it's just that this kind of personality is not what some of you here like. If the acquisition is successful in the future, working with such a person at work will not be a particularly worry-free and smooth thing.

"Let me tell you what I think about his proposal." This matter can also be said to be caused by himself. Feng Yiping hopes to clearly express his attitude to everyone.

"If we can successfully acquire Autonomy, the benefits will be huge. First of all, it will make up for our only current shortcoming. From then on, we will also be in a leading position in the field of enterprise search. This one plus one, I believe the result is greater than two. "

Page and the others listened carefully to Feng Yiping's words. The reason why they spent more than ten minutes looking at these materials was mainly because of this thought.

"However, there are naturally problems. We can see that among his clients, intelligence agencies from various countries account for the majority,"

Mike Lynch started his business because a British intelligence agency needed a better way to organize, classify and retrieve a large amount of information in stock.

But the problem is that many inventory files use the code names of agents. If it is a well-known "00" series agent, it is not a big deal and will not cause any obstacles, but some agents' code names may be "pistol".

Some people's code names are just like in the 007 movie, which is really a letter. These codes are easily confused with their original meanings.

For example, an agent with the code name "pistol" may be considered a pistol by the computer, not an agent.

So Lynch saw an opportunity and commercialized the graphic recognition algorithm he was studying.

This can also be said to be a search software tailored for intelligence agencies, and it can be regarded as a certain degree of specialization. Therefore, it is not without reason that it is favored by intelligence agencies of various countries, mainly the United States, Britain and some NATO countries.

"If we successfully acquire Autonomy, I think we may face additional scrutiny when we do business in some countries in the future,"

"Or, our acquisition application may not be approved at the beginning," Schmidt said.

Feng Yiping knew that he was talking about himself, because now he is a major shareholder of Google and an authentic Chinese.

"I think this problem is not unsolvable. For example, we can set up a department with high confidentiality requirements within the company, and let that department connect with those government businesses with high requirements,"

Page nodded, "We can discuss these operational issues later. Feng, do you have any other concerns?"

"The biggest remaining concern should be the bid. I said that Lynch attaches great importance to this aspect. When I was in the UK, I heard that he should have deliberately released the wind that he believes that his company should be worth 2.5 billion US dollars at present,"

"On the London Stock Exchange, Autonomy's current market value," Page immediately flipped through the information, "just exceeded 2 billion US dollars," Feng Yiping said, "So, this is another concern of mine, is it worth spending such a large price?"

"With such a large investment, how long will it take us to get a return," Schmidt said.

"The key to the problem is whether Autonomy's technology is necessary for us. After the acquisition is successful, will its core technology have a great role in promoting our search skills?" Page said what he was most concerned about.

"If, I mean if, we increase investment in this area, can we quickly catch up with their technical level," Feng Yiping asked Page and the others, "because I think that semantic-based intelligent search is definitely a future development direction,"

"I think, as long as it is necessary, we will develop any technology we want," Brin said flatly.

Think about AlphaGo, which later defeated humans. He was not bragging when he said this.

As for the necessity he said, Feng Yiping thought that it should be considered from the perspective of input and output.

"Let me tell you my opinion," Brin said, "the most important point is that I think Autonomy cannot pose a big threat to our search business. On the contrary, we will become more and more of a threat to it,"

His words were extremely domineering, but also very correct. Not only Google, but also Yahoo and Baidu are posing a threat to Autonomy.

Being relatively specialized in intelligence agencies is its advantage, but in a certain sense, it is also its disadvantage, because the enterprise market only accounts for a small part of the entire market.

If it is only from the perspective of revenue, Google can really give up this market.

"So I think we can talk to him," Page concluded, "If all the conditions meet our requirements, it is not impossible to consider it,"

"I agree," Feng Yiping said immediately.

"Agree," "Agree," Brin and Schmidt also expressed their opinions.

Such an attitude is actually not too enthusiastic, but Feng Yiping is not dissatisfied.

But no matter what, he wants to let the other people see that he attaches great importance to this issue.

With Lynch's personality, he thinks that he will definitely use this matter to make some articles. One of the most likely things is, why is Feng Yiping not very enthusiastic about this matter? Because he is personally interested in Autonomy.

Based on his understanding of Lynch, that guy can definitely do such a thing.

So Schmidt thinks that Feng Yiping is in a good situation, but Feng Yiping himself doesn't think so at all.

"That's it, Schmidt, I'll leave this to you, okay?" Page said.

Feng Yiping immediately pushed the information he had collected over, "Highly agree!"

This matter will have nothing to do with him in the future.

Schmidt did not refuse, although he knew that if it was an acquisition project that everyone was very interested in, it would never be his turn to be responsible, but this was still an acquisition that might be completed, and he needed to seize such an opportunity.

You know, the previous acquisitions were all hosted by Page.

"Okay, I'll arrange it now," he stood up.

"Wait," Feng Yiping shouted, "The day after tomorrow, my Chinese restaurant will open, don't forget to make time for lunch the day after tomorrow to taste authentic Chinese food,"

"No problem," Schmidt said readily, "I've been looking forward to this day for a long time. I heard that your restaurant is built in an extraordinary way. It's simply a tourist attraction. I must go and enjoy it."

"Thank you, I hope I won't disappoint you."

As soon as Schmidt left, Page explained to Feng Yiping, "Feng, you know..."

"I know, I understand very well," Feng Yiping said immediately, "I agree with you."

In fact, whether a company is worth acquiring is very simple for him. Those he heard about later are still worth acquiring, but for a company like Autonomy, even a senior netizen like him has never heard of the name, and it is in the search field. If it is not acquired, at least there will be no big loss.

"It's about the same time, let's have dinner together tonight,"

"You don't have to accompany Huang and Amanda?" The two guys said in unison.

"I missed you guys a lot when I went out this time," Feng Yiping said, "mainly because I wanted to drink some wine tonight, and there was no one to accompany me at home."

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At around ten o'clock in the evening, Feng Yiping returned home. He was about to go to the refrigerator to get some milk when someone asked him on the sofa, "You're back!"

He looked back and saw Huang Jingping, who was wearing pajamas, sitting quietly on the sofa.