Chapter 2694: All Very Obedient

As Feng Yiping expected, now it is Son Zhengyi's turn to be in trouble.

He knows very well that since Microsoft and NEXTDOOR have once again raised their bids, the people responsible for the acquisition of Yahoo will now be more inclined to Microsoft's acquisition plan.

As Yahoo's largest investor and former largest shareholder, he undoubtedly has a very deep understanding of this point.

Purple Yahoo looks very noble, but since the majority of Yahoo's investors have become Wall Street, especially Yahoo's market value has dropped from its peak of more than 100 billion U.S. dollars to the current 20 to 30 billion U.S. dollars. , and after it seems difficult to reach that level again, those investors who regret not cashing out at the high price have their only requirement for Yahoo, which is return, to put it bluntly, money.

So the people at Yahoo care so much about money, it's because of their investors.

When Microsoft and NEXTDOOR once again increased their offer by US$1.2 billion, Son did not expect that this was a more intuitive plan they gave after calculating his unchanging promise. He only thought that Microsoft and Feng Yiping , and brought this competition to an area where they have more advantages.

That is, neither Microsoft nor NEXTDOOR are short of money.

But his SoftBank is now very short of money.

After thinking about this, he smiled even more at the bankers from China. At this time, he especially needed their strong support.

He quickly expressed his thoughts clearly, "I like Chinese culture very much, especially the theories about the transformation of things in ancient Chinese philosophy."

"For example, crises often contain huge opportunities. Indeed, at this time when many companies feel that it is a cold winter, SoftBank has keenly discovered the huge opportunities contained in the market,"

"So Zhang, my old friends, are you interested in such a good opportunity?"

"I very much hope that I can work with you to take this rare opportunity to jointly advance our career to a higher level,"

The old friend he mentioned was obviously a little surprised at this time.

They are here to discuss the previously negotiated financing agreement with Sun Zhengyi again. According to the current general trend, they will naturally reduce the loan amount.

But you still want to improve?

Sun Zhengyi said at the right time, "Zhang, my old friend, I think that your other colleagues abroad will not have the opportunity to seize such an opportunity, so don't you want to stand out and strive for a greater future for yourself?" Qualification for responsibility?”

I have to say that he really understands the pursuit of these "old friends".

He could tell that his old friend was already a little moved.

Yes, Mr. Zhang was indeed a little tempted when faced with such an opportunity to make outstanding achievements. The problem was that he also had his difficulties.

"Mr. Sun, I very much believe in your vision and thank you for providing such an opportunity. However, we all know that under the current general trend, in order to overcome the difficulties that may come, we must accumulate more strength,"

"The most important responsibility of our job is to our customers,"

Although Sun Zhengyi understands Mr. Zhang's psychology well, he obviously does not know the company where Mr. Zhang works and the other side of Mr. Zhang and his friends deeply enough.

That aspect, to put it simply, is this: not seeking merit, but seeking no faults.

It should be said that many of our large state-owned enterprises have really taken moderation to the extreme. That is, for many companies and many people, stability is the most important thing.

But we all know that when something reaches the extreme, it will definitely change. The same is true for the golden mean. When it is taken to the extreme, it will be very conservative and at the same time very lazy.

Since they are neither forward nor backward, following the trend, neither left nor right, then naturally they will do what others do.

Therefore, although the impact of the subprime mortgage crisis on our financial institutions was relatively small, especially because of Feng Yiping's report, the overseas branches of our financial institutions did not suffer much impact.

But since even those banks in Switzerland are tightening, then naturally we have to tighten too.

This is just as the milk powder problem was exposed. Foreign milk powder companies took the opportunity to increase their prices. Therefore, domestic milk powder companies that had no problems also followed suit and increased their prices. They did not expect to take advantage of this rare opportunity and not increase their prices, but in terms of marketing. Just like increasing investment, spending more money on publicity, and occupying more markets, domestic banks have never thought of taking advantage of such a rare opportunity to massively expand overseas business.

In fact, not to mention overseas business, even domestic money is tightening.

They naturally know that expansion may achieve results, but they also know that expansion at this time may also cause losses.

Since if things are done step by step, performance will still improve steadily, then insisting on expansion at such a risky time will naturally not be very attractive to people in Mr. Zhang's position.

But for Sun Zhengyi, as long as he heard the hesitation in Mr. Zhang's words, it meant an opportunity, and that was enough.

What I'm afraid of is that he is too determined and won't be tempted at all.

"Zhang, I completely understand your difficulties, so this time, we will use SoftBank's best assets as collateral. Also," he looked at Mr. Zhang with a smile, "this morning, we took a very rare shot in Tsukiji. Tuna, please enjoy it and dine together tonight,"

Son Zhengyi still has a lot of experience in how to make a deal with these people.

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Silicon Valley.

Feng Yiping woke up in Los Gatos this morning.

However, he opened his eyes according to his biological clock and found that Ma Ling was not in bed.

She got up earlier than me?

He put on his morning jogging clothes, looked around upstairs, and finally called a few "honey," "sweetheart,"

Hearing a reply from downstairs, "I'm in the kitchen,"

Feng Yiping looked at the sky, making breakfast so early?

Besides, the level of breakfast provided by the park is really quite high, so it is not necessary to do it yourself.

When he went to the kitchen to take a look, wow, "What are you doing?"

He looked at those that had been made and those that were being made, and he was making such a fuss, "Are there guests coming?"

It shouldn't be, if there were guests, he couldn't have not known.

"No," Ma Ling smiled, "Can you hurry up, we will send these to your parents later,"

Feng Yiping suddenly realized that this is really a good daughter-in-law.

"Why are you so nice?" He hugged Ma Ling and kissed her.

"Isn't this what we should do?" Ma Ling said, "I've read some Chinese materials and TV dramas,"

"Haha," Feng Yiping smiled and flicked her nose, "That's the old tradition,"

How many daughters-in-law in China now get up early to cook for their parents-in-law? Most of the time, it's the mother-in-law who gets up early to make breakfast for her son and daughter-in-law, but they may not eat a bite.

"Really?"

Feng Yiping felt that Ma Ling was relieved.

"Then I also think it's necessary to do this," she said, "Your parents rarely stay here for a few days,"

What else can Feng Yiping say?

He hugged Ma Ling, "Why are you so likable?"

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This was a happy morning, but that was before Feng Yiping received a call from Ballmer.

On the way to the park in the morning, he received a call from Ballmer, "Feng, Masayoshi Son also raised their offer,"

So fast?

"Really?"

"Yes, they raised it by 2 billion on the original basis," Ballmer said.

We raised it by 1.2 billion, and he raised it by 2 billion. It seems that Masayoshi Son's attitude is firm enough.

In addition to his promise of "double unchanged", he not only increased the price by 800 million on the basis of the new offer, but also increased it by another 2 billion US dollars.

And his quick response also fully demonstrated his attitude, come on, who is afraid of who?

"Feng, what should we do now?" Ballmer asked.

If the partner of this cooperation was someone else, if the one who proposed the price increase was someone else, he should have been unable to resist and criticized at this time.

Because he clearly opposed it at the beginning, raising the price would not work, but would make people feel that they had no better way.

"Steve, I think we should meet," Feng Yiping said.

Ballmer was silent for a while, are you asking me to come over to see you again?

At this time, he heard the other side continue to say, "I will arrange it and go to Seattle as soon as possible,"

That's about right.

"I'll come over,"

"No, I'll come over and bring my parents to appreciate the beauty of Seattle in summer,"

"Are your parents coming too? Then we must prepare well. I think you can live in Bill's house?" Ballmer immediately suggested.

And that was exactly what Feng Yiping wanted.