Chapter 2635 Admission

This afternoon, the staff in Masayoshi Son's office were directed by him to collect the information he needed.

He originally didn't believe that Feng Yiping would really participate in the acquisition of Yahoo, because Feng Yiping should be very clear that his SoftBank is a major shareholder of Yahoo.

And Feng Yiping should be very clear that the current SoftBank is not the SoftBank that cooperated very well in withdrawing from Alibaba before.

Feng Yiping should not and will not expect that SoftBank will provide him with cooperation in such an acquisition project.

Therefore, Masayoshi Son always has some doubts about the rumors that Feng Yiping is interested in Yahoo, but judging from the current situation, this is really not a joke.

After all, Microsoft can't cooperate with Feng Yiping to joke.

So, did Feng Yiping think of using Microsoft's power to complete this plan?

After all, with Microsoft, his SoftBank can't do some things too much.

As a person who was once called the Internet Emperor, he is very clear about Microsoft's virtues. In those years, most of the companies that opposed Microsoft have died at the hands of Microsoft.

Sometimes it can even be said that where Microsoft has passed, nothing can grow.

Although he briefly replaced Gates and became the uncertified world's richest man for a day, he knew without certification that his SoftBank was not qualified to weigh the weight of Microsoft.

Feng Yiping's move was really a big loss of conscience.

So, he is now facing a very difficult choice.

In his opinion, among all the companies currently bidding for Yahoo, the strongest and most likely to win is of course the combination of Microsoft and NEXTDOOR.

After Chief Yang gave in, they undoubtedly have a great chance of a successful acquisition.

If they succeed in the acquisition, then the problem comes.

Because Yahoo still holds nearly 40% of Yahoo Japan's shares!

Therefore, if the acquisition of Yahoo is successful, it means that Feng Yiping has the qualifications to enter the Japanese market in a dignified manner, and through an important business under his umbrella.

This is a result he cannot accept.

He was still planning to find a way to destroy the development of Facebook, YouTube and other companies under Feng Yiping in Japan. As a result, Feng Yiping became the largest shareholder of Yahoo Japan, which has an absolute advantage in the Japanese Internet field, so that he can develop social and e-commerce businesses in Japan with a higher and better foundation... Isn't this a joke?

Masayoshi Son stood in front of the window, his eyes dim, as if he had crossed the vast American land, from the east to the west of the United States, and saw Feng Yiping standing behind Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, smiling implicitly but complacently...

He was not sure whether Feng Yiping was aiming at these two points, taking advantage of Microsoft, and aiming at Yahoo Japan.

But obviously, for him, it is necessary to respond like this now.

So, in the end, it was very clear what measures he should take.

However, even with his temperament of liking big scenes and gambling, it was difficult for him to make such a decision immediately.

It seems that the acquisition of Yahoo is a foregone conclusion, and the final transaction amount must be more than 40 billion US dollars. If he intervenes, then, in addition to the shares held by himself, Softbank will need to raise at least more than 30 billion US dollars.

Because according to the current relevant regulations in the United States, such acquisitions are not just about actual control or absolute control. If a major shareholder like Softbank has an acquisition trend, then all the remaining shareholders have the right to require them to acquire their shares at the same price.

In other words, if they make such a decision, they cannot dream of acquiring nearly 30% of the shares and reaching an absolute control of more than 51% and then stop. Instead, they need to acquire all the remaining more than 70% of the shares.

Now it is 2008, and even Feng Yiping said that the real crisis of subprime loans has not yet arrived, and the harm of subprime loans will not be truly reduced until next year at the earliest.

But anyone can imagine that the negative impact of subprime loans cannot be eliminated so quickly, that is, in the next two years, when the entire capital market is tightening, the risk of implementing such a large-scale acquisition plan is higher than in ordinary years.

But, don't make a move?

He looked at some of the companies that jumped out, and still felt that they could only add some excitement to the show, and would never bring a real threat to the combination of Microsoft and NEXTDOOR.

There are risks in making a move; if he doesn't make a move, he can never accept the consequences...

From morning to afternoon, Masayoshi Son's brows have never relaxed.

But a piece of news he saw shortly after noon quickly prompted him to make up his mind. Yahoo's own website posted a message, "The joint acquisition team composed of Microsoft and NEXTDOOR arrived at Yahoo for a new round of talks."

Now, he could no longer hesitate. Immediately, the bankers collected by SoftBank from all over the world appeared on the big screen opposite Masayoshi Son in the conference room.

"Announce a decision," Masayoshi Son stood in the middle of the field, looking at all his executives, and said very concisely, "I will release a message to the public before 5 pm Eastern Time, and SoftBank will also initiate the acquisition of Yahoo."

On the big screen opposite him, those people with different skin colors had highly unified expressions at this time, and they were all stunned.

After a brief silence, because many people spoke at the same time, Son could only hear an annoying "buzzing" sound from the microphone.

"Quiet!" he shouted, frowning.

"I am not asking you to explore the feasibility of this project. I am informing you that from now on, in principle, new investment projects will be suspended and all resources and energy will be devoted to the acquisition of Yahoo,"

His subordinates have actually long been accustomed to his statements like this.

Although SoftBank has a large number of bankers from all over the world, he alone makes the decision on what projects to invest in, or 99.99% of the decisions related to investment and acquisitions.

Only this time, his subordinates had more opinions.

In any case, as SoftBank has always paid attention to the high-tech field, and as a shareholder of Yahoo, they naturally paid attention to relevant news.

The one with the biggest gap is the financial director. He originally thought that the company would have an income of close to 10 billion US dollars before long, but now it seems that, let alone income, he still has to find a way to raise tens of billions of dollars more.

"President," he quickly calculated, "this means that we need to raise at least 35 billion US dollars in a very short period of time to have a chance of winning. I want to say that in the current environment, this is a very important project. Difficult task,"

Feng Yiping has already analyzed with Lao Ma and Jin Ling that Sun Zhengyi's investment strategy has always been to use the income from previous investments to make the next investment.

And because of Feng Yiping's intervention, his most successful investment project so far is still Yahoo. However, even Yahoo has failed to create tens of billions of dollars in revenue for him.

What's more, this project is aimed at Yahoo.

So after he decided, the financial issue was the biggest problem.

Hearing the financial director's words, he couldn't help but think of Feng Yiping.

He really didn't know where Feng Yiping would get so much money now?

In the past few years, he has spent a lot of money on his projects in the United States, including the restaurant that is hated by many Japanese, and the huge headquarters campus, but has not yet created much real income. Where is he? With so much money, you can participate in such a large investment project?

"Enable all financing channels, and make extensive contact with banks in Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States... and even China,"

He knows that Chinese banks are often happy to provide financing to well-known companies like theirs.

"Use all our means, mortgage all the assets we can mortgage, and cash out all investments that are not expected to have a significant increase in income in the next few years..." He ordered quickly.

Now that he had made up his mind, he immediately became very decisive.

"The acquisition of Yahoo is an excellent opportunity for our business to take our business to a new level," he encouraged everyone.

"At the same time, I have to tell everyone that the acquisition of Yahoo is also to protect the security of our core assets and business in Japan,"

"So," he bowed to the big screens, "Gentlemen, please!"

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Son Zhengyi came out of the conference room as if he was a completely different person than before he entered the conference room.

Before going in, he was still worried about gains and losses. After coming out, he was a general who was ready to launch a war and was sure that he would win the war, showing his full vigor.

He hurried back to the office and shouted to his assistant, "Put me through the phone number in Ballmer's office at Microsoft."