Chapter 1683 Expectation

There was no tug-of-war between Yuanfang and Ali.

Ali's asking price of 10 billion US dollars is naturally a bluff. Both Ma Yun and Yahoo understand that this is impossible.

Before changing to Double Eleven, there was this possibility.

After Double Eleven, 10 billion US dollars will be completely useless.

At this time, in the distance, the desire for treasures is not so great.

According to Tan Haiying's words, there is actually no need to acquire Dibao at all, and Yuanfang Mall will develop itself for half a year or a year, and Dibao will have no value at all.

Is it necessary to use billions of dollars to shorten the development time of Yuanfang Mall to less than a year?

have!

At least in Li Dong's view, it is necessary.

Different from traditional industries, e-commerce is developing very fast now. In one year, even Li Dong doesn't know what the situation will be in one year.

In Li Dong's view, it is worthwhile to shorten the one-year development time and spend so much money.

...

So, when both parties have this need.

Some things are easy to talk about.

In 6 days, from Ali's rumor on the 19th to the 25th, only 6 days later, the two sides roughly reached an agreement.

Ali will sell, that's for sure.

Yuanfang wants to buy, which is also Yuanfang's established goal.

Ma Yun hopes to sell it for 8 billion US dollars, which is of course out of the question.

In the absence of competitors, when Jingdong just jumped out and was cut off by several major appliance manufacturers, no one is willing to compete with Yuanfang.

As a result, the two parties finally settled the deal at a price of 4.5 billion US dollars.

This is also the largest e-commerce platform merger and acquisition in the world!

4.5 billion US dollars, this price is definitely not low, but it is not necessarily high.

Online shopping is developing rapidly all over the world nowadays, and the market prospect is not small.

Since entering 2009, Amazon's market value has been growing. Even if it loses the title of the world's number one online shopping platform, Amazon's market value is still growing.

From just over US$20 billion at the beginning of the year to US$30 billion in the middle of the year, it is now approaching the US$40 billion mark.

Even if Dibao is not as good as Amazon, and its main business direction is different, one is mainly C2C and the other is B2C.

But whether it is C2C or B2C, it is not easy to achieve the scale of digging treasures.

Dibao is spun off and listed separately. It may not be as much as Amazon, but it is worth billions of dollars. Everyone knows that it is still worth it.

Today, Dangdang is the only domestic e-commerce platform seeking to go public.

According to external estimates, Dangdang's market value should not be too low when it goes public, and it is certain that it will exceed US$1 billion.

Even if Dibao is overwhelmed by the distance now, it is not comparable.

In addition to Ali’s sale this time, as well as other businesses, the transaction price of 4.5 billion U.S. dollars, although high, is not too high compared to Li Dong’s bid of 10 billion U.S. dollars in April.

In 7 months, Ali lost more than 5 billion US dollars on Taobao!

It is not an actual loss, but the key lies in losing its position as the No. 1 C2C platform in Asia and China.

What outsiders see is the price, and it is Yuanfang who bought the treasure.

But for people in the industry, especially big companies in the IT industry, what they see is cruel!

Compared with traditional fields, the IT industry has more brutal competition.

In traditional industries, you fall from the first to the second, where the value is almost fixed, and the difference will not be too big.

Just like Guomei, who fell from the first place to the second place at the beginning, if Lao Huang hadn't entered, the value would not have changed much.

But for IT companies, it's completely different.

Teng Xun fell to the throne in the strongest instant messaging field, and in an instant, Teng Xun lost more than half of his value.

The same is true for digging treasures.

Looking back at other IT companies, they are all similar. The value of Shanda, which was once very prosperous, has fallen from the throne, and its value is not the same.

Since Sina was surpassed by Yuanfang in various fields, its stock price has fallen again and again, even though their performance has not declined.

In the IT industry, or new fields, the first is of great value, and the second is completely different.

In fact, the performance of Dibao has not declined, and there is still a considerable increase compared with 2008.

However, Wanjia.com has caught up and surpassed the most powerful field of Dibao in the C2C field, so the value of Dibao has been lost.

Losing more than half of its value in 7 months, in the case of rising performance, almost never happens in traditional fields, but it is commonplace in the IT industry.

And no one complains about that.

Where there is gain, there is bound to be loss, the loss is great, and the gain is also great.

The reason why it was valued by the outside world this time, which makes people feel cruel, is that the treasure died in the midst of prosperity.

The performance of Dibao has been growing, which is still somewhat different from Teng Xun before.

When Teng Xun and Yuanfang faced each other, users kept losing, and it went from prosperity to decline.

Ketabao, even now, its performance is still growing.

But even so, the value is not as good as it was half a year ago, which made many people feel cruel and shocked.

It turns out that it is not enough for you to be strong. When you are strong, your opponent is also strong.

You need to be stronger than your opponent, far away from your opponent, so as to ensure that you will always be strong.

Otherwise, even if you remain strong, you will eventually perish while being strong.

The sale of Dibao has created a sense of crisis for many companies.

For a time, leading companies in various fields were seeking new breakthroughs, and various new technologies and applications were continuously launched.

This was something that Li Dong had never expected before.

Many products and technologies a few years later appeared one after another at this time, various difficulties were broken through, and the entire IT field took a step forward.

The Butterfly Effect, this moment is in full force.

2009 is completely different from the 2009 in Li Dong's memory.

The existence in the distance is like a spark, igniting the entire grassland.

...

Lin'an.

west lake.

on a cruise ship.

Both Li Dong and Ma Yun leaned lazily on their chairs, drinking tea while admiring the beautiful scenery outside the boat.

The two have no image at all, and they are not as tense as the outside rumors say.

Even if Li Dong is the richest man in the world, it is impossible to ignore an acquisition worth billions of dollars and tens of billions of yuan.

Lin'an is not too far from Pingchuan, and when the two sides reached an agreement, Li Dong still came over in person.

However, he and Ma Yun did not choose to meet in the meeting room, but in Ali, but set the location by the West Lake.

On both sides of the cruise ship, there are other cruise ships with Li Dong's security personnel on them.

While drinking tea, Ma Yun said contemptuously: "I'm afraid of dying to your level, is it worth living?"

Usually on land, Li Dong's bodyguards are mostly hidden behind the scenes, and there are not many bodyguards on the surface.

This time on the water, the security side didn't dare to be careless, almost all of Li Dong's security personnel were around, Ma Yun just scanned around, and as far as he could tell, there were no less than 30 people!

As for whether there are any support or hidden ones on land, in Ma Yun's view, there must be.

In other words, Li Dong's security team is probably close to 50 people!

Li Dong is probably the only rich man who has made such a big battle in China.

Li Dong didn't care about Ma Yun's contempt, and said with a smile: "If you are rich and self-willed, you don't care how many people I recruit, as long as I can afford the salary, but you, can you afford it?"

Ma Yun snorted and didn't answer the question, he was silent for a while before saying: "Although I have a plan for selling Treasure, but it is really sold, it's not that I am reluctant to take Treasure, but those people.

But they stayed in Ali, Ali now has no room for them to play, and I have no money to support them all the time.

These people are all talents. They have gone to a faraway place, and I hope you will take care of them.

Don't worry, they have entered a distant place, they are people from afar.

Although Ali is still there, but if you are one day, Ali will not enter the field of online shopping again, so don't treat them differently..."

Li Dong smiled lightly: "Of course, if you enter a distant place, you are naturally a person from a distant place.

You handed over the entire team to Yuanfang this time, and didn't even mobilize Lu Zhaoxi. I know what you mean.

Don't you just wait for a day to make a comeback and let them come back completely?

I know, but I don't care.

If you have the ability to fight back, that is your ability. You have already reached this point in the distance. If you still surpass it, then you should take everything away.

The key is, do you have the ability.

To be honest, Yuanfang has achieved this level, there is no difference between me and me.

What I am more interested in now is spiritual support, and the actual existence is of little significance.

If you think that if I leave the distance, you can control the distance, then your thinking is too simple. "

Ma Yun did not deny this, nodded and said: "What you said is true, but there are traces to follow when dealing with Yuanfang.

You are not in the distance, after all, the distance is just a company, a company that has just risen.

You are far away, and the distance is more like an invincible army.

The army and the enterprise are two completely different concepts.

One is a violent institution, which either hurts others or hurts itself.

One is a combination of interests, and the focus is still on interests.

To deal with you, you will either be stabbed to death by you, or you will play yourself to death, it is too cruel and bloody.

But for distant places, it is completely different. Enterprises have their own principles.

In fact, you are not suitable for business. People like you should go to the army in troubled times. Maybe it is more suitable for you. "

Li Dong sneered: "Is this contempt or praise?

I really want to go to the army. In troubled times, I can't live for three days. You really want me to die, don't you?

Don't talk about these useless things, how are you doing here? "

Ma Yun didn't hide anything, leaned on the chair, put his feet on the low table, and said comfortably: "Yahoo wanted to quit a long time ago. If we didn't quit before, we didn't have the money to repurchase it. Have expectations.

But this time, Dibao was defeated, Ant Financial was split up, other businesses did not improve, and Yahoo lost confidence.

If you quit now, you will still make money anyway.

They worry that in another two years, it will be difficult to get the capital back.

In 2005, 1 billion U.S. dollars in shares, together with some industries and technologies of China, supported 1.2 billion U.S. dollars.

This time I was talking about a $7.2 billion repurchase with Yahoo, with a return rate of 500%, less than five years, so it is not a bad treatment for them.

Even in the IT industry, this rate of return is not low. "

"Yahoo agreed?"

"No." Ma Yun said with a smile: "But soon, an unpopular shareholder, they also know that it doesn't make much sense to procrastinate.

The 7.2 billion US dollars may be a bit short, and after a while, it will be almost enough.

With a 39% stake in Yahoo, it's much easier on my side. "

Li Dong didn't think it was too difficult, but he was a little curious: "How much money can you use this time?"

Even with the 4.5 billion US dollars of Dibao, but Dibao raised part of the financing before, not all of this money belongs to Ali.

Those investors who took out the treasure will also take part of it.

The less than 4 billion US dollars left to Ali is not enough to buy back Yahoo's shares.

Ma Yun smiled and said: "You don't need to know about this, losing the online shopping business will still hinder Ali's future development.

But that's good too, if you pack lightly, you may make some breakthroughs that you didn't think of before.

Li Dong, you are in a hurry to leave the distance now, because you feel that you have no opponent.

I think, soon, not too long, you'll be back again.

But when the time comes, you may fall behind. This era is developing so fast that even if I don’t keep up with the rhythm for a day, I feel that I am old.

If you come back in a few years, then, it will not be the era of Li Dongyao's martial arts! "

Li Dong did not refute this time, but nodded seriously: "Indeed, all walks of life are developing very fast, faster than I imagined.

The reason why I want to quit has nothing to do with this.

In the past few years, I have gone too fast and too hastily, and many things have been ignored by me.

Therefore, you can regard my departure this time as a process of learning and precipitation.

But one thing I still want to let you know, even if I am outdated, I am also a business leader of this era.

And you, Ma Yun, are just a loser now. You must maintain enough awe when you treat the leader. "

Ma Yun's face turned dark, what Li Dong said was ugly, but it was the truth.

Even if he is really outdated, the legend of this guy is enough to last until the day when the distance is shattered.

And these people, the target they are chasing now is Li Dong.

As the chased person, Li Dong is so rampant, although it makes people uncomfortable, but if he has not surpassed Li Dong's achievements for a day, then there is no way to refute him.

Just when Ma Yun's face turned black, Li Dong laughed again: "Actually, I hope you can surpass me and achieve greater breakthroughs.

Many times, I always feel that everything I have experienced has been experienced before.

I live in a world that repeats itself!

If it was novelty at first, now it is exhaustion and impatience.

I want something new, something different, to make me feel alive.

Ma, I actually hope that you can bring me some surprises. "

Ma Yun didn't pay much attention to Li Dong's words. In fact, people often feel like this, feeling that they are repeating life cycles.

And the fact is that most people in this society are repeating the same thing over and over again.

Li Dong will have such a feeling, in Ma Yun's view, it is actually a kind of showing off.

Because he has no opponents and no goals to surpass, that's why he feels this way, and that's why he feels boring.

In Ma Yun's view, what Li Dong said was more of a provocation, even a gauntlet!

So, without showing any weakness, Ma Yun said decisively: "You will see it! And it won't be too long!

Li Dong, don't underestimate the people of the world! "

Seeing the angry expression of the old horse, Li Dong couldn't help laughing, and after a while he couldn't help but say: "Forget it, you are not in the realm, and you can't understand my mood."

"..."

Ma Yun felt that he was underestimated by Li Dong!

Before leaving, Ma Yun was very annoyed, angry and aggrieved.

So put down the harsh words, and come back to the sword discussion three years later!

And Li Dong readily agreed.

When Ma Yun walked away, Li Dong laughed happily. The older generation of entrepreneurs in this era can't keep up with the pace, and the younger generation has not yet reached the time to make Li Dong's eyes shine.

What really made him feel a sense of expectation was Ma Yun and his group.

These people are not too old. In the previous life, these people were able to shine like stars, but in this life they were cut off by Li Dong.

But Li Dong felt that the reason why successful people are successful lies in their perseverance, daring to break through and try.

Li Dong closed their way forward, but this group of people may come out on a different path.

And these are exactly what Li Dong wants to see.