In Washington, there is a place called "K Street", where there are at least 2,000 lobbying firms, mainly working with certain institutions in Washington, D.C., to provide consulting services, and the for-profit development model has made some powerful businessmen maintain close ties with them, trying to spend money to obtain a favorable business environment for themselves.

Mr. Heath Quinn is one of them, he belongs to the more powerful kind, usually mainly works in Washington, but this time the person behind the bid is relatively high, so he doesn't mind coming to New York, finding Ye Dongqing to discuss some things, and make a quick buck from it.

Ye Dongqing didn't know anything about this guy, and when the two met, he asked straight to the point: "Just now the assistant told me that you represent several companies and want to talk to me face to face, until now I don't know who you are, do you mind talking about it first?"

“…… Verizon, Sprint, AT≈T, these three companies are my employers, and since you like to be direct, then I'm going to be straightforward, some people don't like the company called Skype, which is infringing on the rights of my employers, like a parasite attached to a communication network that has been built at a great cost.

I have a court summons in my hand, and a check for $40 million, and you can choose to be our enemy, but I want to be warned, each of them is not easy to deal with, and they have joined forces in this matter, so I suggest you choose this check and sell us Skype. ”

Quinn is not handsome, his height of more than one meter is obviously a little short in the white group, with a Mediterranean hairstyle and black-rimmed glasses, he looks like a very capable and highly educated kind of smart person.

He had already sent someone to investigate Ye Dongqing before he arrived, and he didn't know much about it, such as only being in business for more than half a year, such as being unsociable when he was at Manhattan International High School, etc., Quinn even talked to one of Ye Dongqing's teachers in person, and after summarizing the information collected, he subconsciously thought that this little guy who had just left school was easy to deal with, which was also the reason why he knocked Ye Dongqing's head with a big stick when he came up.

Quinn thought that he already knew Ye Dongqing's character, but in fact, he was very different from the one he had a few months ago, if he was really a hairy boy, he might be frightened by these three giants with a combined market value of up to 400 billion US dollars, but this is not the case.

After hearing these words, Ye Dongqing was both unhappy and happy, because this was the first time in his life that he was warned by so many oligarchic companies, and inexplicably felt that he had some strength, quite a strange mentality, put his hands behind his head, found a comfortable position to lie on the chair, and said in his mouth: "It doesn't matter, if you want to go to court, I have enough money to hire a lawyer to help, even if I throw in 200 million US dollars, in my opinion, Skype is worth letting me spend so much money."

As a weak and righteous party, I believe that the vast majority of people will choose to stand on my side, you should know better than me how high the phone bill is, the lawsuit will only make Skype more famous, anyway, big companies are used to bullying the disadvantaged, isn't it, I know that this day will come sooner or later, but I didn't expect to pay attention to Skype so soon. ”

At the end of May, Faebook has more than 21 million registered users, and it is still exploding, and active users account for 70% of the total registered users, which is a very frightening number, which means that nearly 1 in 10 Americans will soon become users of the program.

Faebook has been promoted several times in succession, so that the number of registered users of Skype has also successfully exceeded the 6 million mark, a group of chatter users have used up the free call time, began to get some negligible benefits, as long as the development is not a problem, success is a matter of time.

I heard that these companies are only willing to pay 40 million US dollars, this figure is simply humiliating in Ye Dongqing's opinion, and the friendship of those communication operators is not worth making Ye Dongqing give up billions, or even billions of US dollars, it is strange that he can agree.

Quinn suddenly knew that it was bad, judging from Ye Dongqing's attitude and tone of voice, it seemed impossible to solve the problem easily, so he slowed down his tone and said: "Forty million dollars is just to show our sincerity, you can make an offer, I will talk to my employers again, I think there must be an amicable solution to the dispute, isn't it." ”

"Yes, but you can't afford it, and to be honest, I can't show any sincerity for 40 million dollars, and sell it to myself, the tech giants in Silicon Valley, and they're likely to buy it for ten times that amount, and I don't think there's any need to continue talking about it, because I'm not going to sell it at all." ”

It is naturally better to be able to resolve some contradictions, Ye Dongqing added: "Your employers make money through mobile phones, and I use the Internet, and users do not pay high Internet fees, according to your philosophy, is it better not to even have fax machines, e-mails, instant text messaging, etc., and all of them are obediently called?"

Times are different, sir, as far as I know, video communication technology is about to be born, don't try to stop the progress of society, because you can't stop it at all, even if I sell Skype to you, soon other countries, such as Huaxia, will give birth to similar technology, or even do better. ”

I really wanted to say something, but Quinn, who is usually able to speak, was speechless for a while, and he believed that even if there was no Skype, there would be something like Akype, or Bkype.

After quickly organizing the language, he hurriedly said: "But at least you should increase the charging standard, such as doubling the current one, one or two times, etc., to achieve fair competition, in order to save that money, I think users will still choose to use your company's products." ”

"That's my company's business, these decisions don't need your intervention, in order to show sincerity, don't give unjust money to the law firm, I can even promise you to release some patents, let you also develop similar products, that is called fair competition." ”

Skype and Faebook are partially bundled, coupled with instant text messaging, video communication and other technologies have been put on the agenda, Ye Dongqing does not think that the communication operators who are already despised by users can successfully win their favor, combined with their interests to consider, there is almost no price war, only happy to see Ye Dongqing raise the price and narrow the cost gap between the two technologies.

Communication operators invest in infrastructure, erect optical cables, etc., and the investment is not small, but Ye Dongqing can make a lot of money based on this network, and the cost is pitiful.

From this point of view, he is indeed taking advantage of loopholes openly, but doing business is a matter of life and death......