Chapter 1904 Unchanged

Are you tempted?

Chief Yang thought about the advantages and disadvantages between himself and Jiasheng, but he missed the most important one.

The reason why he missed it was because even though he now knew enough about Lao Ma and his company, he still didn't know that Jack Ma had already contacted him once many years ago.

And when Lao Ma thinks about that incident now, it still seems like yesterday.

That was in 1999, when he set out again and led 18 Arhats. When he founded Alibaba, he did not intend to learn from Yahoo's model and start a portal website. Instead, he sent an email to Chief Yang, "What do you think of Alibaba?" What about Baba? Maybe one day the names Alibaba and Yahoo will go well together.”

Have you ever felt that there are pink hearts beating between the lines?

Even if there is still Lao Ma's signature arrogance in these words, even if it can be interpreted as Lao Ma's expectations for his own business this time, or it can be said that this is Lao Ma's message to motivate himself.

After all, from the perspective that failure is the mother of success, Lao Ma already has several mothers on the road to entrepreneurship, and he really can't afford any more...

But this can certainly be regarded as an e-mail expressing love in a Chinese euphemistic style.

And we all know that Lao Ma actually has a delicate heart that is very inconsistent with his appearance, so when Chief Yang called him like this, did you say he was tempted?

Yahoo, that is his Ali’s dream girl, Yahoo, that is his Ali’s first love!

Of course, for Chief Yang, this may be an out-and-out secret love.

At that time, because he ushered in a new era of the Internet, he could be said to be an idol in the global Internet community. Every day, he received emails like this from all over the world, not in sacks, but in carloads.

How could he read every single one?

I believe that even if he is not the first user of the spam blocking functions developed by Yahoo Mail, he is definitely a user who has an urgent need for it.

As for Lao Ma's email from an unfamiliar email address, it was probably sent to the trash can of Chief Yang's mailbox as soon as it was sent.

But now, it doesn't matter.

A goddess you had a crush on when you were frustrated many years ago suddenly comes over to show you her love for you when you are already on the road to success, and she is still pulling you behind her. Even to you at this time, she is still dazzling. Some people dare not look directly at the dowry, "Let us join hands to create a better tomorrow!"

At this time, who would still ask, "Did you receive the email I wrote to you back then?"

Besides, although Lao Ma was already on the road to success at this time, he was not the richest man in the future, a world-famous boss. When he went to work every morning, he would not see the same people from all over the world at the door of the company. The people who showed their love to him with the sign, faced with such a straightforward and powerful confession from his first love, do you think he would be tempted?

He smiled, with a bit of shyness in his smile, and a bit of relief that he had fulfilled his long-cherished wish, "If you say that you are not tempted at all, it would be a lie. That's Yahoo."

But in the next second, he quickly pulled away from that emotion, "I think this fully shows that we are now firmly on the road to success,"

On the way to starting a business, after being taught by several mothers, if Lao Ma still can't be emotional, then it will be a failure.

He is a little tempted and a little hesitant, but whether he should continue and let love get closer step by step cannot be decided by personal feelings.

Because this is a major event that involves the entire company and the future of many people. If the decision is wrong, the result cannot be described with words such as sadness or joy.

Mr. Cai immediately said, "I'll have people prepare food and drinks."

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"What are you going to do?" Outside the window, the lights were bright. At this moment, Lao Ma was already drunk, and his face was flushed with happiness.

"I'm going to give Yiping a call later," he said.

"At times like this, you still have to be cautious about things like this," Mr. Cai said.

If he were Feng Yiping, then he felt that at this juncture, if he received a call like this from Lao Ma, he would definitely think that Lao Ma wanted to raise the price.

"Don't worry," Lao Ma waved his hand, "How can I have other thoughts at this time?"

"I just feel that instead of hearing it from other people, it's better for me to tell him directly,"

"That's right," Mr. Cai and Lao Ma had a small drink.

It stands to reason that such a thing should not be leaked, because at this time, only the two of them know about it in the country.

But this is a mall.

Chief Yang's attitude fully demonstrated his determination.

Therefore, at this time, Feng Yiping had already heard some rumors, which was not surprising. As long as Chief Yang leaked a little bit of news in Silicon Valley, it would naturally spread to Feng Yiping's ears soon.

Will Chief Yang do this? should be!

"Do you think it is possible for Yahoo to participate as a third party?" Mr. Cai asked again.

"I don't think Yiping would agree to this," Lao Ma said.

"I think so," Mr. Cai also asked himself.

Previously, Feng Yiping's only condition for the cooperation between the two companies was to withdraw all venture capital from Alibaba, especially those from overseas. Mr. Cai was also very clear about this.

We just cleared out a large group of people including Softbank's Masayoshi Son. How could he agree to invite Yahoo's Jerry Yang to come in?

"It's just that Yahoo China," Lao Ma said again.

He was still somewhat tempted by the dowry that Jerry Yang promised to give, because it was Yahoo.

"Yes, Yahoo China," Mr. Cai also sighed.

"However, I think that although Yahoo China is an attractive asset, in terms of effectiveness, at least the current Yahoo China's help to us is far less than that of Forex," he analyzed.

"From the big promotion before the New Year last year, we can see how much traffic Forex's system, including online and offline, has brought to their mall?"

After the merger, these traffic will naturally belong to the newly formed e-commerce group.

"Tell me again, what kind of advantage can their huge logistics network plan give us in the e-commerce field?"

Talking about e-commerce without logistics is just like talking about feelings without material things, which is ultimately unrealistic.

"You are right," Lao Ma's attitude became more resolute.

Even though he has some imagination and understanding of what he can achieve in the future, he has not reached the height of the future after all, and cannot treat companies like Yahoo China as trash.

"We all have a certain understanding of Yahoo. From my point of view, cooperating with Yahoo may not be a blessing, and it is more likely to be something we will regret. Look at the start-ups that Yahoo has acquired before," said Mr. Cai.

"Yes, I think Lao Zhou is probably a little regretful now," said Lao Ma.

In China, although BAT at this time is far less glorious than later, except for Feng Yiping, the most active people in the domestic Internet circle at this time are the later big guys.

As a veteran in the domestic Internet field, although Lao Ma and Zhou Doushi are not very close, and there is no intersection in business, he has met more than once in some meetings and forums.

He is roughly aware of Lao Zhou's current situation.

Let me just say one thing. After he joined Yahoo China with the 3721 team, although he had the title of President of Yahoo China, there were still more than a dozen layers between him and Chief Yang. It can be said that he was very grassroots.

"Compared with Yahoo's entire acquisition, the acquisition of 3721 is really nothing," said Mr. Cai. "There are too many start-ups that originally performed well, but disappeared quickly after being acquired by Yahoo, without even a splash."

"Of course, many talents of the acquired companies were left by Yahoo."

"In fact, there is such a joke in the industry that companies acquired by Yahoo are not necessarily successful. Those companies that Yahoo had the opportunity to acquire but ultimately missed are likely to succeed in the end."

"For example, Google, right," Lao Ma interjected.

Because Feng Yiping successfully invested in Google, they are quite familiar with the grievances between Yahoo and Google in the past and now.

"Some people even say that Yahoo's acquisition is a guiding light for other investors. Anything they let go is definitely worth investing in," Mr. Cai said again. If Chief Yang knew about this, he would definitely be so sad that he couldn't breathe.

But compared with Yahoo's actions, this statement really makes a lot of sense.

"And Yiping's side, the companies he acquired have all developed better than before," said Lao Ma.

"Yes, even from his current arrangements, after this merger, our Alibaba's development will also be qualitatively improved,"

For the founders of every acquired company, this is also a very critical issue.

And in this regard, Forex is ahead of Yahoo in all aspects.

The founders of many companies acquired by Yahoo later condemned Yahoo on various occasions, but the founders of the companies acquired by Feng Yiping are actually still doing the same work as before the acquisition.

It's just that now he can mobilize more resources and get more support, and he will not be confused about the future development direction of the company, which is a matter of life and death.

By the way, at this time, far away in New York on the other side of the ocean, Marvel's Palmater, at this time, has the same understanding as Lao Ma.

"I will reply to Chief Yang in a while," Lao Ma said.

Mr. Cai looked at his watch, "It's too late there,"

"I'll send an email," Lao Ma said.

Mr. Cai didn't understand. You can just send an email, why are you so excited?

If he had sent an email to Jerry Yang many years ago and had never heard from him since then, he would understand Lao Ma's current mood.

The kind of mood similar to "You ignored me back then, and now you can't afford me."

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At two o'clock in the morning, Chief Yang, who had returned home, still had no sleep.

He felt more and more that the decision made today was a major event that would affect the future of Yahoo. He was already somewhat excited and excited to describe the future Yahoo, which would also be the best in the e-commerce field.

While writing down some of his own ideas, he also did not forget to pay attention to his mailbox.

Although he felt that it would be impossible to receive a reply within an hour or two for such a big matter, he still had some hope. After all, his company was Yahoo.

More importantly, the conditions he offered were unprecedentedly generous. He believed that such conditions would be difficult to refuse for any Internet company in the world that has not yet been listed and widely recognized by investors.

Finally, a new email appeared in the prompt box. As soon as he saw the name "Jack", he immediately clicked it.

After a few dozen seconds, he took off his glasses and wiped them again, then read it again from the beginning. The more he read, the uglier his face became.

With the previous analysis, he naturally had some predictions about the results of his proposal, but he decided to refuse it in such a short time, and refused it so straightforwardly? This was really beyond his imagination.

He went to the bathroom and washed his face with cold water. When he saw the person in the mirror, he was stunned for a moment.

Although the person in the mirror was in his prime, he had already clearly revealed some fatigue.

Chief Yang put on his glasses, put these emotions aside, returned to the study, and began to reply to Lao Ma's emails.

He was not the kind of person who was easily rejected.

This email was very long. When he was halfway through writing, Chief Yang paused for a moment, tapped his fingers on the table a few times, and quickly wrote the same email to several people.

In this case, some methods that he originally didn't want to use must be used now.

The night outside the window was dark and deep...