Chapter 2604: Shame on Oneself

The main changes were made by Dorsey and Stone.

Stone turned his head and looked at Williams. Although he was trying his best to hide it, anyone could see his surprise, because his mouth was still slightly open.

It's really not his fault that he didn't have a cunning mind. In fact, Williams' offer was beyond his expectation.

$800 million?

You know, when discussing this number before, he jokingly said, "$500 million,"

Everyone was stunned at first, and then laughed wildly.

Because that can be said to be the biggest number they can think of.

Last July, the valuation was 25 million, and they only confirmed it this year. This valuation should be close to $100 million. He jokingly said to sell it for 500 million, and then everyone really confirmed that it was 500 million, but now you have become 800 million again?

I'm not a billionaire, so can anyone tell me, is it true that after reaching 100 million, the US dollar is just a number?

Stone really wants to ask at this time, is there something wrong with my ears, did I hear it wrong, or is there something wrong with your brain, did you say it wrong?

Dorsey didn't look at Williams. He tried to look calm and looked at Feng Yiping and Lao Ma calmly. However, he was speechless at this moment.

He didn't understand why Williams started to offer so early, and he didn't understand why Williams suddenly added another $300 million to the $500 million that everyone agreed on.

Why?

He wanted to have a good talk with Williams right now, but now was obviously not the time to hold a small meeting or to have an internal conflict.

What made him feel that things were not so bad was that the two people on the opposite side, whether Feng Yiping or Lao Ma who attended the meeting for some reason, didn't seem to be too surprised by the offer.

In other words, they looked unmoved and still kept a smile on their faces.

Williams, who had been paying attention to Feng Yiping after he spoke, also noticed this situation.

After shouting out $800 million, he felt a little guilty, but at this time he felt that his offer might still be too low.

This offer that he thought would scare Feng Yiping and make him no longer interested in this meeting might not scare him.

Perhaps, I should just offer $1 billion?

As for the amount of more than 1 billion US dollars, even he couldn't imagine it at this time.

He didn't have the courage to quote a price that everyone knew was unreliable in front of Feng Yiping.

There are many ways to make yourself uncomfortable, and angering Feng Yiping, who has a huge influence in the industry and Silicon Valley, is undoubtedly the stupidest way.

They know Feng Yiping a little bit, and they know Feng Yiping's other side.

After all, Whitman, known as the Queen of Silicon Valley, has not taken any advantage of this young man who always has a gentle smile, either verbally or in reality.

There are even rumors that Michael Eisner, another well-known and powerful business leader in the United States, the former helmsman of Disney, who has always looked down on Jobs, has also suffered from Feng Yiping.

As for his successor Iger, he is not Feng Yiping's opponent, otherwise, Marvel should belong to Disney now.

And Jobs, who has become more and more powerful in the past two years, only targeted the unlucky Android Rubin after Feng Yiping's company released the Android system, which would have a major adverse impact on Apple.

Not to mention Feng Yiping, he didn't even mention Android.

Everyone knows that there must be a very strong reason behind Jobs and Apple's actions, and that reason is probably related to the young man smiling opposite.

"Feng, although it's a bit early, this is a very reasonable offer after repeated discussions," Dorsey said.

What else can he say?

Could it be that, oh, Williams is wrong, our request is only 500 million?

At this time, he can only agree with Williams.

Feng Yiping waved his hand, "I like your style, really," he said, "but my focus is actually the advantages of Twitter,"

This made Dorsey blush a little. The offer was made right at the beginning, which really seemed like they were very greedy for money.

Generally speaking, it is indeed necessary to talk about one's own advantages, one's own understanding of the industry, and one's future plans first...

Only transactions like the one that caused the former New York Governor Spitzer to step down, the transaction price is determined at the beginning.

"That is, why don't we acquire Jaiku?"

Jaiku is a European light blog or micro blog established almost at the same time as Twitter.

They are very distinctive. In addition to functions similar to Twitter, they also have a function named "Life Broadcast", which can integrate various records of users on other Internet products and your mobile phone's location data.

Jaiku is very popular in Europe at this time.

"Let me ask you, Williams," Feng Yiping looked at Williams who had been observing his reaction, "How many registered users does Twitter have now, and how many MAU (monthly active users) and DAU (daily active users) are there?"

"Okay, since you are embarrassed, I won't ask these questions," Feng Yiping said immediately, looking at his face.

Twitter has always been very secretive about their user numbers, especially the MAU and DAU data.

They have a unified view on this, saying that "the release of relevant data will trigger a simple comparison with Facebook data, which is unfair because Facebook's data includes the number of users of its independent messaging application,"

What "we hope investors pay more attention to our growth rate,"... and so on and so on.

I believe that anyone who has ever done sales will be very familiar with their reasons, especially the latter one.

This is a reason that people often use when comparing their performance with other colleagues or other competitors in the same industry, "The focus is on my growth rate."

Last month my repayment was 10,000, and this month my repayment was 15,000. This is an increase of 50 pct...

It also seems that some people (just some people) look down on some high-priced consumption for various reasons. In fact, in the final analysis, is it because they don’t have money?

Everyone knows the reason why Twitter doesn’t publish these data. Isn’t it because it can’t be compared with Facebook at all?

As of the end of the first quarter of this year, Facebook’s number of global users has already surpassed the goal of 300 million users. Twitter, according to Facebook’s comprehensive statistics, their registered users are now the highest. That’s about 20 million.

How does it compare to Facebook?

Dorsey wants to announce this data now. After all, there are some things that cannot be hidden from other people, including the social giant Feng Yiping.

But when I think about Williams's quotation of US$800 million... those figures, I'm really embarrassed to say them out at this time.

"So, maybe you can tell me, Twitter's business model?" Feng Yiping asked another key question.

This is another important reason why Twitter has been criticized by investors. Since its establishment, Twitter has never clearly announced their business model to the outside world, let alone disclosed their revenue data to the outside world.

"In front of me, don't say anything like making sure the product is flawless first, or saying, 'In 1998, no one was worried about how Google would make money,'"

"Just tell me clearly," Feng Yiping sat up straight, put one hand on the table, and tapped it with one finger, "How do you position your product?"

"Stone said just now," he glanced at Stone, "our work is similar,"

"But after looking at all of Twitter's performance, I highly doubt that,"

Stone was a little dumbfounded. Why did the problem suddenly come to me?

Besides, what's there to doubt about that?

"Can you three tell me clearly whether Twitter is positioned for social networking or whether it focuses on information dissemination?"

"Social," Williams said immediately, without thinking.

At the same time, Dorsey also spoke, "Information..."

Stone, who was silent, couldn't help but lower his head.

This was truly a humbling time for them.

As the three founders of Twitter, they can't agree on such an issue.

It's really a joke to say it.

The key is that the opponent is still Feng Yiping.

Then, for such a company that doesn’t even have clear strategic goals, they just announced a high price of US$800 million.

Doshi ignored the heat on his face and immediately changed his mind, "We can unify the two organically,"

"Oh," Feng Yiping opened the mineral water, took a sip, and said softly, "Really?"

This naturally does not mean "yes".

At this time, even Williams' face felt a little feverish.

Feng Yiping then added, "On the premise that you can't even agree on the quotation?"

Suddenly, the three people opposite felt a little embarrassed.