There was a silence in the room after Satya Nadella's speech.

Including President Brad Smith, Microsoft Chief Scientific Officer Eric Horwitz, Microsoft Chief Technology Officer and former LinkedIn head Kevin Scott, Microsoft Corporate Strategy Executive Kurt Del Bain, the four Microsoft bigwigs clearly showed thoughtful expressions.

After a while, Kurt Delbein spoke: "It would be best if we could buy TikTok, but will the Chinese really sell us this software?" You must know that TikTok is already the world's No. 1 software with the most downloads of similar products, and the cumulative number of downloads has exceeded 2 billion, and this year's downloads have even surpassed Facebook. ”

This is indeed the case.

TikTok belongs to Huaxia's alphabet beating, although the alphabet beating company has only been established for eight years now, but it has developed rapidly, and now the market valuation has reached nearly 200 billion US dollars.

Of course, this valuation cannot be compared with large companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Intel, etc., but after all, Alphabet Beat is still a young company, and it can be said that there are infinite possibilities in the future, plus TikTok has become a hit, and it has become the preferred software for countless young people in the world, but if there is a little foresight, it is impossible to sell TikTok at this time.

"This is a question that doesn't need to be considered. We may not be able to shake the position of Changxiang Technology, but that doesn't mean we can't shake the position of other companies. For Alphabet Beat, the best option is to package TikTok for sale in the near future, and what we need to do is to determine a reasonable price and be ready to operate TikTok!" Satya Nadella said in a sonorous voice.

If you have to translate his words, it probably means that Microsoft can't do Changxiang Technology, and it can't do a software company in Huaxia?

Is the Silicon Valley Alliance really an ornament?

When an entire tech conglomerate decides to block a video app, they can even make the letters beat without fighting back.

This is probably the last stubbornness of Satya Nadella.

"If that's the case, I think it's acceptable to buy TikTok under $20 billion. Of course, we also need to be prepared to compete with Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg will probably be restless. Kurt Delbine said.

The Microsoft strategy executive is not exaggerating.

After all, TikTok has almost become a thorn in Facebook's side.

This is still the case that Huaxia Software has many restrictions in the United States.

If Microsoft does acquire TikTok, it will inevitably acquire TikTok's data center, which also means that TikTok will become a software operated by an American high-tech company, and it will no longer have anything to do with the original Huaxia company.

In this case, it's no wonder that Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, doesn't jump to his feet.

This is because TikTok is essentially a short video content media, and the main profit model of the media is advertising, and its growth in overseas markets is the same as Snapchat, Twitter and Facebook, which are competing for advertisers' budgets.

Although Facebook is still firmly in the first social position in the market, because Facebook has higher tool attributes as a social product, in addition to socializing, it has not deeply bound and cultivated users' needs and user habits such as clothing, food, housing, transportation, consumption and entertainment on the platform.

This is not only Microsoft's judgment, but also Facebook's own judgment.

You must know that Mark Zuckerberg has directly attacked TikTok's operating model in many public places, and even repeatedly directly questioned TikTok in public for stealing Facebook's technology, and the data center and moderation methods violated the freedom and privacy of Americans.

In addition, Facebook has also tried to seize the TikTok market by copying TikTok-like software, and using Facebook's social features to promote its own products, including short-form video software such as Lasso and Instagram Reels.

However, after the launch of Lasso, the total number of downloads worldwide was only more than 40,000.

At that time, TikTok's downloads outside of China had reached 640 million times, and it couldn't even catch up.

Instagram Reels are also clearly not very useful.

Even though Facebook spends a lot of money to invite influencers on TikTok to settle in, it still seems that consumers are still not buying it.

It is probably that young people in the United States have also become accustomed to TikTok and are very satisfied with TikTok's intelligent push mechanism, so they naturally will not choose other short video software.

It's embarrassing.

Of course, Facebook's series of operations is also very tangled in the parent company's alphabet beating.

After all, it is not a good thing for any company to make software well and be checked every three days and managed every two days.

If there is a rogue company looking for trouble all day long in their own territory, it is false to say that there is no headache.

And now Microsoft is even more interested in TikTok, if it can really succeed in the acquisition, it also means that Facebook has a lot less reasons to touch porcelain, and for Facebook, the most terrible thing is that it will have to compete directly with an old American high-tech company, and it is still in the current situation that the war situation is not dominant.

Of course, probably in this operation, TikTok's parent company's letter beating is definitely the most confusing.

Ma Dan, the small video push algorithm is doing a good job, who is it to provoke whom?!

"So let's do it, everybody is going according to plan, we'll be in contact with alphabet jumping in the near future, but that doesn't mean we're going to give up on windows X. In addition, in order to allow Changxiang Technology not to interfere in the TikTok transaction, and according to the resolution of the board of directors, Microsoft will consider selling the headquarters building of the Asia-Pacific R&D Center to Changxiang Technology as a whole, and at the same time announce that Microsoft will suspend all business in China!"

Finally, Microsoft President Brad Smith made a final summary.

......

Chen Cheng really didn't know that when he invited Wang Yufei to a meal, Microsoft, thousands of miles away, made several decisions in a row that were enough to shock the world.

The suspension of its business in China means that Microsoft has completely abandoned the Chinese market. Of course, for the current Huaxia, this does not have much impact. After all, there is not much left of Microsoft's market share in China now. In its cloud computing and server fields, Huaxia also has ready-made alternatives.

Microsoft decided to sell its Asia-Pacific R&D center as a whole, and approached Alphabet Beat to acquire TikTok, officially opening the mode of competing with Facebook for advertisers.

At the moment of the announcement, it was definitely a series of decisions that shocked the world.

Theoretically, this is obviously conducive to the promotion of the Xin system of Changxiang Technology, after all, a year ago, probably no one would have imagined that there would be an operating system provider that could be recognized by Microsoft.

If you know this, Chen Cheng's mood will probably be much better.

After all, even Microsoft admits it, and compared to Microsoft, he definitely deserves the sentence "nothing!"

So this meal was tasteless.

It's okay if you don't have face, and you still have to worry about whether Wang Yufei will release him from the blacklist.

Extremely painful.

Ge Lingyue and Gu Bingjun recovered their emotions after a short period of stunned.

Lose no time in reporting some of the company's current situation to Wang Yufei.

Of course, it's not a classified content.

Some large contracts are about to be announced, such as reaching a strategic cooperation agreement with several domestic car brands, in addition to starting to design power batteries according to the requirements of car companies, but also for these car companies to tailor a set of special on-board Xin system, and send technical personnel to participate in the on-board intelligent hardware system of these car companies, and jointly develop a future-oriented unmanned driving system.

Several production lines of relatively simple electronic battery have been successfully commissioned, and a new generation of solid-state mobile phone batteries will be produced for brands such as China and Rice.

In addition to these domestic brands, negotiations on electronic product platforms such as Apple and Samsung are also proceeding step by step.

Of course, in terms of business expansion, Ge Lingyue has also begun to plan the next step of the company's development, such as registering branches, subsidiaries, or opening offices in other cities in China and overseas according to different situations.

Of course, this piece has actually been a work in progress.

Because of the preparation for the construction of data centers in China, the touch of Changxiang Technology has also begun to deploy in China through these data centers.

Wang Yufei patiently listened to Ge Lingyue and Gu Bingjun's reports.

Compared with Bill Gates, who likes to talk about business while walking, Wang Yufei prefers to listen to these reports during meals.

Compare without wasting time.

And listening to the report did not delay him to eat at all, after all, his dual-purpose ability is really not bragged.

As for Chen Cheng and Lu Jia......

Lu Jia followed him to listen to some company decision-making and development issues, which was Wang Yufei's arrangement, which can be regarded as cultivating Lu Jia's business thinking ability.

In Wang Yufei's opinion, Lu Jia's temperament is completely immersed in research, or it is a waste.

Becoming a technical manager is more in line with his expectations.

As for Chen Cheng, it doesn't matter if he hears this.

By the time he was eighty percent full, the dishes on the table were almost wiped out.

Ge Lingyue and Gu Bingjun also almost reported the current situation of the company.

Chen Cheng glanced at the plate that had basically been emptied, and then at Ge Lingyue and Gu Bingjun, who really hadn't eaten much, and asked weakly while a few people were talking: "Why don't you add two more dishes?"

I'm very worried.

He ordered a full ten dishes, which is usually enough for ten people. How do you feel that he, Ge Lingyue, and Gu Bingjun haven't eaten much, and the dishes have all been eaten? This is still when everyone hasn't drunk.

Does this seem that he is very insincere in his invitation this time?

"I don't need it, I'm full!" Ge Lingyue smiled and waved her hand, she really didn't eat much.

"I'm a person who sees that people have good appetites, and they can be full. Gu Bingjun smiled and said.

I don't know if it's the truth, but Chen Chengzhi is not reluctant.

"Okay, if you're full, I'll tell you what I think. Wang Yufei said.

"After careful consideration, I decided to split Changxiang Technology as a whole. In the future, R&D and business will be completely separated, and finances will be independent of each other. The specific idea is that I will be the director of the Changxiang R&D Institute. All the inventions, technology patents and intellectual property rights of the company belong to the future Changxiang R&D Institute. The R&D institute will license these patents and intellectual property rights to the business company at a lower price. Changxiang Research Institute does not have a profit mission, and the profits obtained from the business company are mainly used for re-research and development. The business company is mainly responsible for making profits. ”

"Huh?"

"Huh?"

Ge Lingyue and Gu Bingjun looked at Wang Yufei in surprise, not quite understanding why Wang Yufei suddenly thought of such a play.

Lu Jia and Chen Cheng also looked at Wang Yufei in surprise.

It is no secret that many high-tech technologies in the world have their own R&D institutions.

For example, Google has many laboratories, Xiaoriba also has its own Damo Academy, and Microsoft Research is world-famous......

But there are really not many people like Wang Yufei who are so thorough.

Financial self-financing, the business company uses the patents and intellectual property rights of the R&D institute and needs special authorization, and spends money to purchase, which is probably equivalent to enjoying the identity of the general agent of the R&D institute in the future, which also means that in Wang Yufei's future planning, the R&D institute and the business department will become two completely separate entities.

Naturally, everyone couldn't figure it out.

"Why?" Ge Lingyue asked.

"I've been thinking about it for a long time, and the way the company is running is actually not healthy. For example, I'm obviously not very interested in business and other things, but I want to restrict your operations. In addition, as a company executive, you will not get too many equity incentives. After separation, different compensation systems will be used on both sides. In the future, I will be mainly responsible for R&D, and Mr. Ge will be in charge of business, so I will get more discretion and of course more equity incentives. ”

Wang Yufei explained.

"Boss, have you decided?" asked Ge Lingyue.

Wang Yufei nodded.

Ge Lingyue understood Wang Yufei's temperament, and once he made a decision, he would definitely not change, so he began to follow Wang Yufei's train of thought and said: "So which side of the assets of the investment company under construction belongs to?"

"Of course, it is the R&D Institute, and at the same time, the R&D Institute will be saddled with the full loan of the current company. In the future, the institute will build more laboratories, all of which are assets belonging to the R&D institute. Wang Yufei replied.

Ge Lingyue nodded, he really had to do this, otherwise the bank would have a headache.

Banks are willing to lend money to Changxiang Technology, and they value the company's ability to monetize its patents and intellectual property rights. If the loan is fully calculated in the name of a business company without any property rights, the bank will most likely be in a hurry.

"What about the profit from signing the contract before?"

"After the separation of the institute, we will re-sign the authorization contract, and the financial part will be paid to the account of the institute in accordance with the re-signed authorization agreement. ”

"Is the future of Changxiang Technology the only agent of the research institute?"

"The institute will only contact some fixed-point cooperative enterprises, which may involve some patent reciprocity. In addition to the patent and intellectual property rights authorization in addition to cooperation, Changxiang Technology will be the only agent. The contract is signed once a year. ”

"Do you sign it once a year?" Ge Lingyue fell into deep thought.

Gu Bingjun, who had been unable to interject beside him, finally found a chance to speak: "What about me? Will I be in the research institute or a business company in the future?"

Wang Yufei smiled: "Then it depends on how Mr. Gu positions your future." ”