Chapter 2657: Exactly the Same

Mike and his friends were also surprised to hear that the call was from SoftBank.

Mike glanced at Sandberg. SoftBank and Masayoshi Son, do they still have the energy and money to get involved in Twitter?

Masayoshi Son really doesn't have the conditions and energy to get involved in Twitter recently. The competition for Yahoo is much more difficult than he imagined.

Although he does have some inherent advantages as one of Yahoo's major shareholders, he is facing the combination of Microsoft and NEXTDOOR.

And now, only these two parties are in real substantive acquisition negotiations with Yahoo.

After the initial trial, the focus of the acquisition is no longer on the acquisition price.

Masayoshi Son knows that raising the acquisition price will not scare Microsoft and Feng Yiping, but will only increase his own acquisition costs.

For the current price of $44 billion offered by Microsoft, adding another $1 billion is not a big increase and has little significance, but no matter which party wants to acquire, listing $1 billion alone is not an insignificant number.

After all, it is $1 billion!

Therefore, the current negotiations with Yahoo are mainly focused on the arrangements for Yahoo after the acquisition, especially the personnel arrangements and the operational arrangements.

Although there are some differences between the two parties in terms of personnel arrangements, the general direction is the same: of course they will lay off employees.

However, the differences between the two parties in terms of operational plans are highlighted.

Microsoft, which is originally a leader of American high-tech companies, not only understands American users better, but also has more time to prepare, so they can come up with better solutions.

Masayoshi Son was previously just a critic of Yahoo in the United States. The Yahoo Japan executives he urgently summoned from Japan found in the negotiations that although they knew that the habits of users in the two countries were very different, they did not expect the difference to be so big.

For example, the most used Internet products by American users, in addition to tools - such as Google, are social networking and shopping.

In Japan, in addition to tool products, their favorite is games.

Such differences are reflected in the market, that is, many American Internet companies, including companies like Yahoo that still cannot figure out their own positioning in the end, a very important source of income, online advertising, still has only a very small market share in Japan.

Television and print media advertising still dominate the Japanese advertising market.

E-commerce, which is increasingly popular among users in the United States and other countries in the world, has also developed very generally in Japan. Offline entities, including convenience stores and vending machines that extend into every community, are still the mainstream.

However, in Japan, the game market is extremely profitable, and it can even be said that it is extremely rich. In this regard, Japanese Internet users are very willing to pay.

But this market is also strange. Its iteration rate is very slow. Most of the most popular game products are still products released three years ago...

Therefore, although Masayoshi Son has added members who are familiar with the characteristics of the American Internet to his team, some of the solutions they have given are far different from those given by Microsoft's Feng Yiping, and even make people on the Yahoo side shake their heads in front of him.

After determining that the acquisition price will only be higher than originally expected, Yahoo's shareholders naturally want to show that they are responsible for the company - it would be best if they can have both money and face.

So in the negotiations, those guys who were most concerned about the acquisition price before showed great attention to the subsequent business plan, as if they cared very much about Yahoo and its future.

Son was already angry about being behind at the negotiation table. Another thing that made him anxious was, of course, fundraising. Because of the general environment, and also because Microsoft and Feng Yiping must have been working hard in secret, fundraising was not going well. So far, at least half of the funds were still missing.

It was also for this reason that when he heard that the three people from Twitter were visiting Facebook again, he asked someone to make the call without thinking.

His funds were very tight, but as the saying goes, too many lice don't itch, and too much debt doesn't worry. Compared with the nearly $20 billion difference he faced, the few hundred million dollars that might be needed to acquire Twitter were nothing?

To put it bluntly, he also wanted to make things difficult for Feng Yiping.

Sandberg was generally aware of these situations, so although she was a little surprised, she saw Mike's eyes and immediately smiled and said, "I think we should talk later."

Seeing her standing up with a smile, Zuckerberg immediately followed up.

He was a little suspicious at this time. The so-called call from SoftBank might be a drama directed and performed by Dorsey and his team, and its purpose was nothing more than to raise the price.

Especially when Stone called out, he felt that the traces of performance were too strong - his feeling was right. Stone's call of SoftBank was indeed somewhat deliberate, and the purpose was the same as he thought, which was to gain more initiative.

But for Zuckerberg, he said those words on behalf of Feng Yiping. Twitter is still playing this game, which can be said to be lacking in sincerity. He doesn't want to waste time on such a person.

Mike also stood up, "Dorsey, this conference room is very safe. You can answer the phone here, or I think we should make another appointment."

Whether it was Mike or Sandberg, they were all smiling when they spoke, but whether it was Dorsey, Stone or Williams, they all felt the coldness under the smile.

They also know clearly that if they leave right now, the so-called "re-date" will definitely mean never dating again.

Dorsey is having trouble making a decision at this time. Hang up the call. Then, they may lose their biggest support and answer it right away. No matter in the minds of the three people at Facebook, this call is not for them. If it's arranged in advance, they probably won't want to deal with Twitter again.

After all, this time, they showed so much sincerity - all fools know that it is impossible for Mike and Sandberg to come here by "coincidence".

When Feng Yiping was in China, three of Facebook's most core executives came forward to receive them, and they all said so privately. If they still hesitated, then their only choice would be SoftBank, because Facebook would definitely not do it again. Have the patience to make tentative contact with them like this.

However, can SoftBank definitely provide good conditions?

Looking at the buzzing phone on the table, Dorsey had trouble making a decision.

Mike smiled and stopped shaking hands with them, "Well, bye!"

Everyone can tell that this means never seeing her again.

At this moment, a person stood up from the opposite side. It was Williams. He strode to Dorsey and took the cell phone that was still making noise on the table. Under the surprised eyes of Dorsey and Stone, , shut down the phone neatly, and then shouted, "Wait,"

Dorsey and Stone were surprised, but also felt that this scene was so familiar.

Oh, they immediately remembered that in China, when facing Feng Yiping, Williams reported a high price of US$800 million on behalf of Twitter without consulting them.

Isn't this scene in front of me exactly the same as that scene?

Dorsey was still a little bit regretful, but Stone soon felt relaxed, even if he turned off his phone!

Mike stopped after hearing this. At this time, he didn't mind giving them a few more minutes. He felt that things would become clearer.

Sure enough, Williams said, "You don't have to wait any longer, we are excited for the opportunity to work with Facebook,"

"Oh," Mike held his outstretched hand, but looked at Dorsey and Stone who were still sitting there.

Stone came over quickly, "I am honored to be your colleagues in the future,"

Now it depends on the attitude of the last person.

Dorsey sighed and walked to the door, "I'm glad to have the opportunity to work hard with everyone,"

"So, we have reached an agreement?" Mike asked clearly.

"Yes, we have reached an agreement," Dorsey still found it difficult to say directly that "Twitter is willing to be acquired by Facebook."

"But I still have a question. After reaching an agreement with us, is Feng still interested in acquiring Jaiku and Tumblr?"

He has not forgotten that Cummins had frequent contacts with Twitter’s competitors a few days ago.

"Of course," Mike said.

Just when Dorsey's expressions changed, Mike smiled and said, "Isn't Twitter interested in integrating these light blogging companies?"

"Ah?" Duoxi was stunned, "Is that prepared for...us?"

"Of course," Mike said.

But he added in his heart, but that is now if you are willing to be acquired by us.

"Thank you, thank you!" Dorsey and the others immediately became excited.

The conference room was full of joy at this time.