Chapter 2615 The Truth

Feng Yiping had just put down the phone when Jin Ling said, "You are really good at playing hard to get!"

Feng Yiping was stunned for a moment. This sounded like a compliment, but when you think about it carefully, it really doesn't sound like a compliment at all.

Old Ma also took sides at the right time, "Yiping is really good at this,"

Feng Yiping was speechless. Can you not be so sarcastic?

"Hmph," he coughed, "I'm the boss,"

"Yes, that's why you are so good at this. I admire you!" Old Ma gave Feng Yiping a thumbs up.

Jin Ling gave Old Ma a thumbs up.

Fortunately, the old uncle who was born in the 1960s didn't continue to make trouble. Old Ma asked, "Is it really Masayoshi Son?"

"Yes, it's our 'old friend'," Feng Yiping said.

Ma couldn't help shaking his head, "Although I didn't appreciate some of his views when I first met him, I really didn't expect him to be such a person,"

"But what I don't understand is how you can be so sure that it's him, and you really guessed it right?"

Ma really wants to know what Feng Yiping based his inference on.

You know, there are so many venture capitals in Silicon Valley alone?

How could you be sure that it was him in such a short time?

"I haven't told you yet that he had already plotted against me once before," Feng Yiping briefly introduced to Ma that Masayoshi Son and Wall Street were planning to use his announcement of the listing of the Android system to snipe at his industries in the United States, especially Facebook, which they were all optimistic about.

"So that's how it is," Ma looked a little depressed, "He really is such a person,"

It can be seen that Ma still had some good feelings for this former investor.

This is understandable. Masayoshi Son's $20 million investment at the time really helped Ma a lot.

Feng Yiping sat down beside him. "To be honest, this is nothing. Isn't this very common in the business world?"

"Humph, it's because of people like them that the business world is so full of intrigues," Jin Ling didn't like Masayoshi Son.

"It's hard to say that. I can only say that there are too few people like us who are so upright and honest, who put everything under the sun," Feng Yiping sneered.

"Yiping, have you figured out what to do?" asked Lao Ma.

"The Twitter thing..."

"I'm not talking about Twitter. I know that if the conditions are not too different, there is no reason for those people at Twitter not to choose you," said Lao Ma. "I'm asking, what are you going to do about Masayoshi Son?"

"This," Feng Yiping held his head with both hands, lazily collapsed on the sofa, looking at the glittering crystal chandelier on the ceiling, "Speaking of it, there is really no good way,"

"His most important asset, SoftBank, is listed in Tokyo, and Japan is actually a very closed market. I thought about it for a long time. It's really difficult to deal with him,"

This is not only because Japan is a very closed market for foreign investment, but also because of the reputation of SoftBank and Masayoshi Son in Japan.

SoftBank, for example, is the first company with a market value of over 1 trillion yen.

And SoftBank, led by Masayoshi Son, has made a successful investment in Yahoo and the success of Yahoo Japan, which has made him a hero in the eyes of many Japanese.

Yes, although we don't have any world-class Internet companies, we are the major shareholders of the world's most well-known and successful Internet companies.

It is precisely because of our investment that Yahoo can become the most powerful Internet company in the world.

Although Yahoo is no longer as glorious as it once was, this still cannot stop many Japanese from calling Masayoshi Son the "Emperor of the Electronic Age" and the "Emperor of the Internet" - and maybe he will be crowned with the title of "The First Investor in Four Thousand Years" in the future.

Under such circumstances, it is really difficult to have a substantial impact on SoftBank through normal business means.

"So, I just want you to help think about it,"

"I never thought about how to target SoftBank before," said Lao Ma.

Although he did not believe Masayoshi Son's words, "Jack, as soon as I saw you, I knew that we would be friends for life," he had never thought about targeting Masayoshi Son's SoftBank one day.

Because he still believed that he should be able to part ways with Masayoshi Son in peace.

"But I can roughly summarize my impression of him, or the similarities and differences between him and you," Lao Ma said slowly.

"First of all, although his investment in us was not, most of his investments were forced investments. Many entrepreneurs should know his words, 'If you don't accept my investment, I will invest in your competitors,'"

Feng Yiping nodded, this is indeed Masayoshi Son's standard.

Jin Ling shook his head. How come such an arrogant person has not been dealt with yet?

"Secondly, his investment is still very strong. He always hopes that he can occupy more shares and gain sufficient control over the company, so as to have more say,"

"Including expansion speed, IPO rhythm, and even mergers and acquisitions and other key matters, he hopes to be under his control,"

"These two points often lead to him not getting along well with startups,"

But Feng Yiping thinks that the second point mentioned by Lao Ma is actually a common problem of many investment companies. The problem is whether the entrepreneurs who receive investment have the skills like Page and Brin, who can get the funds and other related help they need for their development on the one hand, and firmly grasp the control of their own company on the other hand.

Of course, this is a luxury, and most companies cannot do this.

Most entrepreneurs may not understand what kind of calculations are behind the smiling faces of those investors.

For most investment institutions, startups are just sheep, or pigs. Whether they are fleeced from time to time or killed and sold neatly... it depends on which method can bring them greater benefits.

In short, no matter how they create their own image, they are definitely not like-minded partners of entrepreneurs.

"The third point is that he is an extremely self-centered person. After getting to know him more, you will find that he is always used to taking all the credit on himself,"

"At the same time, he is also a very contradictory person. On the one hand, although he is still far behind you, Iping, it must be said that he is sometimes quite accurate in seeing some major directions,"

Feng Yiping nodded. SoftBank has grown to its current scale, which proves that Masayoshi Son does have a good vision.

"But at the same time, perhaps due to the influence of his growth environment, he often pays too much attention to details, and the details he cares about and is entangled with can have an adverse negative impact on the overall situation,"

Jin Ling concluded, "In other words, he is a person who sometimes sees the general trend very accurately, but at the same time often lacks a big picture?"

Lao Ma nodded, "You can probably say that,"

Feng Yiping expressed his understanding of this.

This is just like many Japanese people, who do have a commendable spirit and attitude in some small matters, but in the overall situation, as a collective, they are collectively unconscious of those cruel and anti-human evils.

Speaking of which, the Japanese devils are such a virtue.

"Finally, and most importantly, he only has six words in his eyes, SoftBank, SoftBank, SoftBank, and he doesn't consider the interests of partners and employees at all,"

"If SoftBank only needs to give up a little bit of its interests in one thing, SoftBank and its partners can achieve a win-win situation, he will definitely not agree to it,"

"Hearing this, I feel very optimistic," Jin Ling said, "because our boss Feng, although he has this or that problem, happens to do very well in the points you mentioned,"

"Yiping is not only good in these aspects, but also in many other aspects," Lao Ma said, "In the specific cooperation process, there is actually no need for any major conflicts. Many aspects that seem small will seriously affect the relationship between the two parties,"

"But there is no such worry when cooperating with Yiping. Cooperating with Yiping is even more comfortable and worry-free than doing it ourselves..."

"Lao Ma, stop talking, hehe, I will be proud," Feng Yiping smiled and sat up.

Jin Ling really didn't know how to talk to him, but she believed that Sun Zhengyi would never talk to his partners like this, but perhaps it was his style that made all his partners and colleagues feel comfortable.

Although sometimes, some of his words and deeds would seem a bit immature - humph, I hate immaturity the most.

"What do you think are your advantages over Sun Zhengyi?"

"This," Feng Yiping looked at them very seriously, "After thinking about it, I think that I have more money than him, is it the biggest advantage?"

PS: I always thought that maybe one day, Jin Daxia would suddenly have a whim and write another martial arts novel that we would want to finish as soon as possible even if we didn't sleep, but now, this thought is completely gone. Farewell, Daxia!