Chapter 2639 Lively

The battle for Yahoo, which looks quite tasty at the moment, became exciting all of a sudden because of the participation of Masayoshi Son, who tried his best to protect his backdoor, was also a gambler and liked big scenes.

When the other companies were still unclear and wanted to compete with Microsoft in other ways, SoftBank called out a purchase price of $42 billion the day after announcing its bid for Yahoo.

This was a price that was $3 billion higher than Microsoft's previous highest offer.

When acquiring, Masayoshi Son was as strong as when he invested.

However, he didn't think about who he was facing this time?

Not only Feng Yiping, but also Microsoft.

It was before Bill Gates retired and before Ballmer took over completely, and it was a critical period of transition between the old and the new, so both the old and new helmsmen attached great importance to the acquisition of Microsoft.

Ballmer called Feng Yiping, and then, after SoftBank's high-profile bid for 5 minutes, he added another $2 billion and strongly responded with a bid of $44 billion.

To be honest, at this time, neither Bill Gates nor Microsoft is afraid of money.

Seeing his bid being refreshed so quickly, Masayoshi Son was really led by Microsoft, "45 billion!"

"We offer 45 billion!"

But this time, his radical behavior was firmly stopped by his subordinates who had already rushed to New York.

These original investors and bankers are unwilling to become a joke in the eyes of insiders in the same way as those Chinese ancient building experts who built a mansion for Ellison.

"We should firmly express our attitude," said Masayoshi Son, who was in high spirits.

Of course, he was not so emotional. He just wanted to show everyone, especially Microsoft and Feng Yiping, that he was determined to get Yahoo.

And the reason why he was determined to get Yahoo was that his mentality had changed dramatically from yesterday to now.

If it is said that he announced the bid for Yahoo yesterday, it was mainly because of passive defense, and he did not want Feng Yiping to have an excellent springboard to enter the Japanese market.

So today, he is taking the initiative to attack.

Since we can make Yahoo Japan the number one in the Japanese market, then in the United States, with such a good foundation as Yahoo, there is no reason why we can't do better.

Well, although there are indeed various difficulties, on this point, Masayoshi Son and Feng Yiping agree that they always believe that there are more solutions than problems.

That is, after acquiring Yahoo, with Yahoo as the foundation and platform, they can calmly get involved in social networking, search, e-commerce... and all the fields they want to get involved in in the United States.

That is, he can now attack Feng Yiping with dignity.

For such a goal, for the larger market in the United States than in Japan, Masayoshi Son does not care much about the cost at this time.

But the people who implement it care very much.

"Microsoft has firmly stated their attitude," said an executive.

Yes, only 5 minutes later, Microsoft gave its own offer, and this attitude can be said to be extremely clear-I am interested in Yahoo, and you can't take it away.

"If we want to achieve your intention, we will increase the price by another $1 billion, but it will not have any effect. It is estimated that we will have to increase the price by 10 billion," said another executive.

He revealed another intention of Son: to use high prices to deter competitors.

However, whether it is 2 billion or 1 billion at a time, it will not mean much to Microsoft unless they can raise the offer to more than 50 billion US dollars at one time.

Microsoft may give up at that time, because who is willing to play against a madman?

Son is not a madman yet, mainly because he is not qualified to be so crazy now.

He often makes some promises to entrepreneurs, which can also be compared to writing a blank check, but he does not even have the courage to write such a big blank check now.

"Then let's have a real negotiation with Yahoo," he said with a frown.

However, in the specific acquisition negotiations other than the offer, there will not be such a direct and wonderful drama, just like what we encounter in our daily work. All the moments of glory and highlights always belong only to the company and the boss. Those who do the specific execution work, glory? Highlights? Only bitterness is left.

But the Yahoo acquisition, which had originally made everyone lose patience and not want to pay much attention to, became popular again because of this tit-for-tat offer, and Yahoo's stock price also rose, so that Feng Yiping received calls one after another.

When he received the first call, Feng Yiping was confused.

"Feng, we just found out that you really take care of your own people," Page called and said.

"We are all family members, isn't it too polite to say such a thing?" Feng Yiping thought he was talking about the fund and said with a smile.

"No Feng, we are talking about Yahoo, about Jerry," Brin interrupted, "We just found out that you really take care of Chinese people like you,"

Hearing the sourness in his words, Feng Yiping was stunned for a moment.

Did you really see all this?

He really didn't want to talk to Page and Brin about such issues involving ethnicity and skin color.

"I..."

"Look, if it weren't for your participation, how could Yahoo's stock price be so high now? How could Yahoo receive such a high offer?" Page said.

So this is it, Feng Yiping suddenly felt relieved.

"You two are still so upset about Yahoo now, is it that serious? Didn't you see that it is about to be sold?" Feng Yiping smiled, "You also know that I did Jerry's work and made him agree to the sale. Isn't this also for your consideration, friends?"

"From now on, you have one less thorn in your side,"

"Why do I feel that you are mainly considering Chief Yang?" Page said.

I have to say that this man's intuition is sometimes really accurate.

After them, Feng Yiping received another call from Bezos. Bezos on the phone, and Page and others, were almost in the same tune, that is, more intimate than before, because his relationship with Feng Yiping was also closer than before.

After the last negotiation, Feng Yiping officially became one of the shareholders of Amazon after becoming a shareholder of his IMDB - thanks to the shares given up by Lawrence Fink of Blackstone and Edward Johnson of Fidelity.

Of course, we have to thank Masayoshi Son who instigated them to attack Feng Yiping...

Oh, speaking of which, both Lawrence Fink and Edward Johnson called Feng Yiping.

As one of the representative companies of American Internet companies, Blackstone and Fidelity have invested in Yahoo. In the past few days, their investment in Yahoo has increased a lot.

So, they called to express their gratitude.

Feng Yiping, who only sucked blood from them, actually helped them make money. It's not easy.

Therefore, these two called Feng Yiping with some other intentions.

What do you think? You also made a mistake, didn't expect Yahoo to encounter such a thing, so you regretted not taking part of Yahoo's shares from us!

I have to say that Feng Yiping really made a mistake on this point.

But to be honest, Feng Yiping doesn't really care about these small profits this year. In the UK crude oil futures market, he is ready to make a fortune equal to that of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. If he loses this little profit from Yahoo, then he loses it.

In addition, Lloyd of Goldman Sachs and Mack of Morgan Stanley also called him, feeling a little jealous. Why didn't they take him with them when there was such a good opportunity? "Feng, you know how much we want such income now."

Feng Yiping really has nothing to say about this.

It can only be said that the shamelessness of these two people really surprised Feng Yiping.

They have been calculating Feng Yiping in various ways, big and small, sporadic...

But they are so open-minded that they think Feng Yiping should take them with him when there is an opportunity to make money... Such self-satisfaction and open-mindedness are really unique.

In addition to the above people, Chief Yang himself also called to express his gratitude - this can be said to be the final conclusion of Page and Brin's speculation, "Yiping, Yahoo and I, especially I, thank you very much for your help,"

"Chief, I hope you can understand, and I also hope that you can give everyone more surprises in other fields in the future,"

Feng Yiping's words are sincere.

It turned out that seeing Chief Yang was so unpopular in the US Internet field later, and his financial situation was not good, and he had to sell his private jet later, he, like many people, couldn't help but sigh a little.

Now, Chief Yang will never end up like that.

"I have to thank you Yiping, thank you sincerely, but I really don't know what you like, can you tell me, no need to be polite,"

"Well, last night, Page, Hull, and Jobs gave me a gift, I really like it,"

"What is that?"

"A 256-foot yacht,"

Chief Yang: "..."

Ps: Interview with everyone who has cut off their hands, today, are you looking forward to the express delivery arriving early like you were looking forward to your first date, or are you feeling a little inexplicably empty like after having a full set of big swords in a club?