Before Larry Page came to Li Mu, he had plans to invite Li Mu to take a stake in Google, whether it was Li Mu's personal shareholding or Muye Technology's shareholding, it was a good thing for Google's core management and the capital behind it.

Superficial cooperation comes and goes quickly, just as in the history of the East and the West, they like to use marriage to enhance political stability, and the cooperation between enterprises needs a strong bond to tie together, this bond is not strong enough to build on the basis of business and human feelings, business will change, human feelings will also change, but the only thing that will not change is capital.

Google's previous cooperation with Yahoo is also very close, the two sides are mutually beneficial, it is a model of good partnership, if there is no Yahoo in the early days with traffic madness Google, Google would not have achieved such a rapid development speed, last year Yahoo wanted to buy Google, but Google was not settled, all the way to increase the price to 6 billion US dollars, and finally Yahoo gave up this golden opportunity.

Now, Yahoo itself has set its sights on the search engine, although Yahoo has not yet announced it to the public, but according to Google's understanding, Yahoo has now begun to work on the development of the search engine, once it feels ready for itself, it will inevitably part ways with Google.

For Larry Page, even if Li Mu agrees to provide Google with search traffic today, this kind of cooperation is rootless and cannot bring a real sense of security to Google, and the best solution is to let Li Mu take a stake and then sign a cooperation agreement.

Li Mu also saw Larry Page's urgent need for traffic, Yahoo is about to break up, and wants to go public next year, at this time, if you can get stable search traffic from your own hands, it will be of great help to Google's capital operation, and it is very likely that because of its own traffic guarantee, Google's IPO next year will directly raise hundreds of millions, and even increase the stock price by a few percentage points.

Therefore, when Li Mu said that he was a shareholder of Baidu, what he thought was a little bit of Larry Page, and if he wanted traffic, let me take a stake in Google first.

Larry Page really came to the road, and even took the initiative to invite Li Mu to buy shares.

So, Li Mu asked Larry Page, "Larry, does Google's board of directors have any preliminary intentions, and if I come with traffic, how much share is Google willing to dilute to me?"

One point or two points Li Mu will definitely not look down on it, even if Google will have a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars in the future, Li Mu will not look down on it one point or two points, if you want to come, at least 5 to 10 points to start.

Larry Page is not ambiguous, whether it is him or the board of directors of Google, what he wants at the moment is to go public smoothly as soon as possible, and no one dares to expect that he can swell to hundreds of billions of dollars in market value in the future, so now in order to hug Li Mu's thigh, they also understand that they can't bear the wolf if they are reluctant to have children.

Immediately, Larry Page said to Li Mu seriously: "Mr. Li, if you can promise to open a search portal for Google on YY and YY.com, and keep it unchanged for five years, we are willing to dilute five points, and we will give you these five points at a valuation of 6 billion US dollars." ”

Larry Page added: "Google's current valuation is around $10 billion. ”

Li Mu smiled slightly and said, "Larry, open a search portal for Google, and keep it unchanged for five years, will you agree to this if you change this?"

Larry Page looked at Li Mu's eyes a little evasive, and after a while, he pretended to be very confident and said: "I will agree, because this is an additional benefit for me." ”

Li Mu shook his head, and after a while, he stared at Larry Page's eyes, and said very seriously: "Larry, if you open a search portal for Google in my most important product and keep it for five years, then what you get from me is not only a five-year traffic guarantee, but also a five-year security guarantee! If I promise you, then Muye Technology will not be able to set foot in the search engine in the next five years, after all, my most important product has your entrance on it, and if I do a search at this time, wouldn't it be my own job?"

Larry Page didn't know how to answer for a while, Li Mu was right, if he agreed to this condition, the most valuable thing was not that he provided traffic to Google for five consecutive years, but that he couldn't engage in search engines for five years, if it was placed in wartime, it was equivalent to a five-year non-infringement treaty, and the value was immeasurable.

After thinking for a moment, Larry Page said with a serious face: "Mr. Li, if you have any objections to this time, then we can discuss it again, and it is not impossible to shorten it appropriately, if it is four and a half years, you ......"

Li Mu didn't wait for him to finish, then stretched out his hand to interrupt him, and said very seriously: "Larry, my objection is not the length of time, but the question of how much additional remuneration you are willing to pay for this time window.

Google naturally knows that it is impossible for Li Mu to sign a non-compete agreement, making it clear that Muye Technology does not make search engines, so they want to use this kind of bondage, so that Li Mu can't do it if he wants to, or it is difficult to start, but Li Mu is not a vegetarian, Google sold a few points of shares at a low price, which is not attractive enough for Li Mu, not that the richer he is, the greater his appetite, but too little He simply can't look down on.

Larry Page hesitated for a moment and said, "Mr. Li, if that's the case, we can appropriately lower the valuation as compensation, what do you think?"

Li Mu shook his head slightly, and said: "Larry, Makino Technology is currently the world's largest Internet company, one with the largest traffic, and no one has our high user activity, let alone our user loyalty, theoretically speaking, Makino Technology is much easier to do any Internet products and models than other companies, so you see the two simple games we made, but they can bring huge profits beyond all online games in the world; ”

Li Mu said this, deliberately paused, and said to Larry Page: "If one day Makino Technology decides to make a search engine, how long do you think it will take us to catch up with Google? ”

Larry Page felt that Li Mu's question made him a little embarrassed, but he still said with three points of toughness: "Mr. Li, the search engine is actually a product model with very strong technical requirements, not only to have a strong technical foundation, but also to have a set of very accurate logical algorithms, and then based on the algorithm, to cater to users and advertisers, this set of things, can almost be regarded as the current Internet industry, the highest technical threshold." ”

Li Mu asked him with a smile: "Do you think we don't have the technical strength to be a search engine?"

Larry Page hurriedly explained: "I just think that if Makino Technology invests a lot of technical costs in search engines, it will have a great impact on its own business development. ”

Li Mu said: "You are wrong Larry, if I make a search engine, I don't need to invest a lot of technical costs to redevelop, I just need to take Baidu's set of technology, although I am not a major shareholder of Baidu, but I can tell you that if I want Baidu's full set of technology, I will be able to get it, and I can get it in minutes." ”

Larry Page looked surprised, but his heart was 10,000 unconvinced.

Baidu is also a technology-based company, for technology-based companies, technology is the most important asset and dependence, which is impossible to authorize others, Li Mu said is simply a fantasy, unless he acquires Baidu wholly owned, otherwise such a thing cannot happen.

Li Mu saw that Larry Page didn't believe him, he smiled playfully, looked at Larry Page, and said: "Larry, whether you believe it or not, what I want to tell you is that as long as I promise Robin now that he will open the full set of technology to me, I will promise that Makino Technology will not touch the Huaxia search engine market, and continue to guide him in Huaxia, Robin will book the earliest ticket to fly from the United States to sign a contract with me, you, believe it?"

TF……

Larry Page looked horrified.

And in his heart, he already fully believed what Li Mu said, if Li Mu really reached such a partition agreement with Baidu, then Baidu would definitely agree, because for Baidu, they have no ability to hit the overseas market at all.

At this time, Li Mu sighed: " Robin this person, there is a very big advantage is to see the reality clearly, he knows that Baidu is not able to open up foreign markets now, and will not be able to compete with Google in overseas markets in the future, not only that, even if it is the domestic market, Baidu has to worry about Google's invasion, but also worried that Makino Technology will one day rob him of his job, if I promise not to compete with him in the Chinese market, he will be satisfied to develop the domestic market, and will never covet the overseas market, in that way, I can cooperate closely with him, he uses Baidu's technology to do the Chinese market, I use Baidu's technology to do the market outside ChinaWe don't interfere with each other, we don't conflict with each other, and we can even improve and progress each other. ”

Speaking of this, Li Mu's expression suddenly became playful, looked at Larry Page, ready to give him a high-level intimidation, and said with a smile: "Larry, you may think that Baidu's search engine technology is still worse than Google, but you must also know that for most users, the product with the highest comprehensive score of convenience and practicality is the most popular." ”

"Don't think that McDonald's doesn't sell pizza because he can't make pizza well, and don't think that McDonald's can't sell the best pizza stores even if it sells pizza, in fact, the real situation is that as long as McDonald's pizza is not unpalatable, he can quickly steal a large part of the market from pizza stores;"

"If he happens to learn the full range of techniques for making delicious pizza from another professional pizzeria, he'll have a lot more space in the market!"

"In this competition, Makino Technology is McDonald's, the search engine is pizza, and as for Google, it is the pizza store with the best production technology, but fortunately, the gap between the second and you is not big!"