Chapter 1918 We

At the Capital Airport, Chief Yang and his entourage arrived at the VIP room, feeling a little sluggish after being on the plane for more than twelve hours.

The prepared coffee was immediately snatched away. Still holding the coffee in their hands, some people in the traveling team had already taken out documents from their briefcases. Chief Yang had emphasized this matter to them repeatedly before departure and on the way. There is no upper limit to the importance and urgency of the demands placed on their preparations.

Looking at his stern expression at this time, no one dared to relax.

Chief Yang looked at his watch, glanced at the door, and frowned a little more. He said to his assistant, "When you go to assist the crew, you must make all preparations in advance. We need to take off as soon as possible."

"Okay," the assistant hurriedly walked out, and happened to meet Lao Zhou with a group of Yahoo China people at the door.

"Jerry," Lao Zhou's smile was quite bright, after all, there were so many people watching, "It's been a hard journey, the car is outside, let's leave now,"

"No, we won't leave the airport. We'll go meet Jack right away when the crew is ready." Chief Yang did not let go of Lao Zhou's hand and pulled him to the side. "Come, I just have something to discuss with you. This time, You come with us,"

Lao Zhou looked at him in surprise, "Don't you know?"

"What do you know?" Chief Yang glanced at him.

Seeing the meaningful smile on Lao Zhou's face and thinking of the purpose of his trip, his heart suddenly sank, "What did you hear?"

"us……,"

"Jerry," another assistant ran over, "Semmel phone,"

Chief Yang immediately threw Lao Zhou aside. He instinctively didn't want to hear what Lao Zhou had to say.

But as soon as he answered the phone, Semel said the words he least wanted to hear, "Jerry, we got the relevant news half an hour ago. They had already announced the merger at a press conference. news,"

Listening to Semel's somewhat relaxed voice, at least not heavy, and obviously not aware of the importance of this merger, Chief Yang immediately became angry, "Why are you notifying me now?"

"That's when you landed," Semel said.

As soon as he finished speaking, the other party hung up the phone.

Semel, who had some gray hair, shook his head, smiled, gently put down the phone, and said to the two executives across the desk, "Well, in another hour, we can have dinner again, okay? Then let's Continue, I have the following requirements for the company's new advertising system...,"

Like Google's Schmidt, this is also a professional manager with an excellent resume.

Before the Internet bubble burst in 2001 and he joined the loss-making Yahoo, he had been working in Hollywood, from the distribution president of Disney and CBS to the chairman and co-CEO of Time Warner.

In his hands, Time Warner has transformed from a single profit source to a company with multiple profit sources. Its business covers more than 50 countries and regions in the world, and its profits have increased from less than 1 billion US dollars to an eye-catching 11 billion US dollars.

After joining Yahoo, he successfully led Yahoo to carry out major changes in its two pillar business areas (market services and consumer services), bringing some new profit opportunities.

This gave him the confidence to boast in front of many securities analysts and fund managers when Google went public last year, "Yahoo will remain the brightest star in the Internet industry, bar none."

With such a resume and such a foundation of achievements, he is naturally a person with a temper.

Founders and CEOs are like mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, or emperor and prince. Naturally, they are not very harmonious. There are very few like Feng Yiping and Jin Ling. The vast majority are like Steve Jobs and Prince Edward. Same as Scully….

In addition, Semel's stall is a well-known and eye-catching founder like Chief Yang. This is really not a pleasant thing for him, who is used to being the boss, so he and Chief Yang The relationship has always been average.

The longer he joins Yahoo, the more he agrees with Sculley, who successfully drove Jobs out of Apple.

He has been the CEO of Yahoo for more than four years, but when the outside world mentions Yahoo, they still think more of Chief Yang. As for Semel, most people will ask, "Who is that?"

Or, "Is it necessary to know who he is?"

However, he did not have as good a chance as Scully.

But this time, Chief Yang made such an offer to the Chinese company on behalf of Yahoo without consulting anyone, which really challenged Semel's bottom line.

Although in the explanation for most of the day later, he and most members of the board of directors accepted Chief Yang's point of view and believed that it should be a good opportunity for Yahoo China.

But Semel himself cannot be as enthusiastic about this matter as Chief Yang.

Because if this merger is successful, if that company successfully drives the development of Yahoo China, it will be good for Yahoo, but it will be even better for Chief Yang, and his reputation will rise a lot.

Out of professionalism, he still fully cooperated with Chief Yang. However, when he heard that the merger ended up being lost in time as Chief Yang feared, although he felt a little regretful, he felt relieved. tone.

He decided not to think about it anymore.

For Yahoo, M&A opportunities arise every day, and when each M&A is in progress, the person in charge will express how important this M&A will be to the company and how it cannot be missed.

But judging from the results, more than 90% of Yahoo's previous mergers and acquisitions would have been a good thing if they had been missed at that time.

This merger and acquisition is probably no exception.

Many years later, when Semel, who was once the president of two internationally renowned companies, still couldn't find a sinecure like a director of a company, he recalled the past two days and felt a little regretful.

If he had known this, he would never have allowed those people on the board to delay Chief Yang for half a day.

Although Chief Yang's early arrival may not necessarily change the result, there is still some hope, even if he could get 10% of the shares in the new company at that time?

But everything was too late at that time. Although Semel was still alive, his life had already been concluded, "the most incompetent professional manager in the history of American high-tech", or "the most failed CEO in Silicon Valley".

It needs to be reminded that there is a modifier behind these two titles that everyone knows but is too lazy to say, "no one else".

Because during his tenure as CEO of Yahoo, he made two unforgivable major mistakes: missing the opportunity to acquire Google and missing the opportunity to invest in Alibaba.

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Chief Yang, who hung up the phone, had a pale face and a swaying figure.

He had not rested much since he called Lao Ma the night before yesterday. Now that he knew he was still a step late, he suddenly felt that his strength was fading like the tide at low tide, and fatigue came like the tide at high tide, and he could not hold on any longer.

Lao Zhou, who was closest to Chief Yang, was dissatisfied with him like a torrent of river water, but as an entrepreneur, he still felt a little bit reluctant to see Chief Yang like this.

He also remembered the experience of those opportunities that were originally expected in his entrepreneurial process, but finally slipped away from him.

He held Chief Yang's hand calmly, "Are we leaving now?"

Chief Yang glanced at him, "Thank you, I want to see the report first,"

Chief Yang clicked on the website where he added Yahoo China and saw the special topic at a glance.

The background picture of the special topic has a very simple and unforgettable name, "We".

It was a photo of Feng Yiping and Lao Ma standing side by side in front of the stage with a smile on their faces, each holding a red-covered agreement in their hands, similar to the photo taken when a couple gets a marriage certificate.

Chief Yang now looked at the photo of Feng Yiping, who he was familiar with, and who had always had a good impression of Feng Yiping. He felt very uncomfortable at this moment.

But he couldn't hate or complain.

The business world is like a battlefield, and the winners are always qualified to smile.

Moreover, Feng Yiping had long been fond of Jack and his company, but he only noticed Jack and his company in recent days after being reminded by Masayoshi Son. It was reasonable that things didn't go well this time, and he couldn't blame anyone else.

But in this heart, it was really not happy no matter what.

What you can't get is always in turmoil.

Chief Yang was extremely certain at this time that he might have missed the most important acquisition in his career.

Why did I have to deal with those directors who didn't understand the situation for most of the day? Why did I have to wait for them to come up with the final conditions after the meeting before leaving for China?

Why didn't I be tough to the end, come to China to finalize the conditions with Jack, and then do the work of the board of directors?

He leaned back in his chair dejectedly and clicked on the latest news. It was what Jack said in an interview with reporters, "...We just want to make business easier for everyone."

Okay, then you make my business easier first?

Chief Yang closed his computer. I was really confused, really!

I really shouldn't have wasted more than ten hours. If I hadn't wasted more than ten hours, I would definitely be... now.

Many years later, he came to China again to attend a forum. During the interview, a reporter asked Chief Yang, who was no longer prosperous, "Who is the most impressive literary figure in your life?"

He said a person's name without any hesitation, "Xianglin Sao,"

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"Son, the city we are going to this time has the most beautiful and poetic lake in China. Are you happy?"

After attending the signing ceremony, Feng Yiping rolled on the thick carpet with his son in his arms.

The signing ceremony was here, but the listing and opening of the new company was in Lao Ma's old nest, so of course he had to attend.

Feng Yiping completely agreed with Lao Ma's opinion and put the entire e-commerce group on the shore of West Lake.

In my impression, Lao Ma's company seemed to have been operated in other places, but in the end it returned to the old place, and it developed so smoothly, so there was no reason to change.

Vincent chuckled. At this time, as long as the child was willing to accompany him, he would be happy, so he didn't care where to go.

"So many comments so quickly," Xiao Zhijie and Wang Changning were holding the computer and browsing the special reports on the Internet.

After a while, Xiao Zhijie shouted, "Yiping, Yiping, come and see this comment, haha, it's really funny,"

"What is it," Feng Yiping asked while lying on the ground.

"Look," Xiao Zhijie held the computer in front of him.

It was a guy named Duanqiaoliu who commented on the photo, "Alas, it's really a good flower, but it's stuck in cow dung,"

"Haha, I didn't expect you to be a flower too," Xiao Zhijie laughed evilly.

"Go on, you can go to the balcony to water the flowers now,"

"Ah, why?" Xiao Zhijie was stunned.

"It means your mouth is like a watering can now," Wang Changning said.

Feng Yiping wiped his son's face with his clothes, "Wouldn't the conscience of the guy who wrote this comment hurt?"

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"Sister Bingbing, we have to go to the set," the assistant reminded Fan Haomen, who was also in front of the computer at a hotel by the Huangpu River.

She is filming a fashion drama here.

Speaking of which, her treatment benefited from Feng Yiping during this filming, and her treatment improved a lot.

This is also a film co-produced by the Mainland and Hong Kong. Since the news of Feng Yiping's decision, the Hong Kong actors on the crew have become much easier to get along with, allowing the crew to finally use more resources to take care of the mainland actors.

Coupled with the second round of "A Gentleman's Dignity" that has been broadcast on other TV stations, her popularity has solidly increased a lot, making her very concerned about Feng Yiping's current situation.

"Wait, let me take another look. Look," she said, pointing to the photo, "Mr. Feng is so awesome. It's just the name of the photo, but it's so good. 'We' is such a good word. It really hits the mark." in my heart,"

"Ah?" The assistant looked confused. Is this also called that?

Mainly because he is Feng Yiping!