Before Li Mu visited the new office building of Makino Technology in Silicon Valley, these bigwigs in Silicon Valley couldn't sit still.

In less than an hour, the public relations department of Makino Technology's American branch received requests from more than a dozen CEOs of companies, including Larry Page, the founder of Google, who Lin Qingya had not yet had time to make an appointment.

Makino Technology is now one of the world's top Internet companies, and has a large number of users and strong promotion channels, which is a dream of in-depth cooperation for all Internet companies, so it is normal for everyone to hope to deepen cooperation with Makino Technology.

Except for Larry Page, Li Mu did not respond to others, for Li Mu, he doesn't want to find too many traffic partners now, which is a bad overdraft for Makino Technology, for example, an American e-commerce company, if you want Makino Technology to give him a diversion, and Makino Technology agreed, it is almost equivalent to spending the potential of Makino Technology to do e-commerce in the United States in advance, although the other party must pay a certain amount of promotion fees to Makino Technology, but for Li Mu, that money is completely insignificant to him.

This is also the reason why Li Mu doesn't want to meet with these people for the time being, he doesn't want to overdraft a lot of possibilities in the future of Muye Technology for a little profit, and now he has overdrawn and fattened others, and if he wants to pull it back in the future, the difficulty has increased geometrically, and it is not cost-effective to do this deal.

Lin Qingya conveyed the decision to meet with Larry Page on behalf of Li Mu, and asked Larry Page the desired meeting time, after Larry Page received the confirmation message, he happily proposed to Lin Qingya that it was best to meet with Li Mu in the afternoon, Lin Qingya officially replied to him after asking Li Mu, and set the meeting time at three o'clock in the afternoon.

Li Mu asked Lin Qingya: "Why do you think Larry Page is so anxious to see me?"

Lin Qingya said with a smile: "Ninety percent want to attract traffic to Google search from our YY and YY Internet, right? We don't do search engines, and Google is very clear about this." ”

Li Mu nodded and said appreciatively: "You can see it very accurately, Larry Page's biggest goal is definitely traffic cooperation, and he is afraid that he is also a little panicked now." ”

"What's the matter?" Lin Qingya looked puzzled.

Li Mu said: "Yahoo has always wanted to be its own search engine, it is only a matter of time before Google is abandoned, and now Yahoo's market share is very high, if they really announce the abandonment of Google, it will be a big loss for Google, not only the loss of a large number of users, but also one more competitor." ”

Lin Qingya asked: "Do you think Yahoo can compete with Google as a search engine?"

Li Mu said: "It should be no problem to start two or three years earlier, but now it is too late to catch up." ”

Lin Qingya said: "According to what you say, then Yahoo's impact on Google should not be too big." ”

Li Mu said with a smile: "The market reaction is excessive, just like the stock price, when the bad news comes, it will generally fall over, and then slowly make up for it, so if Yahoo officially announces that it will make its own search engine, the impact on Google in a short period of time is still quite large, Google needs a period of time to continue to make up for it, and Google should consider an IPO next year, Larry Page must do everything possible to improve the market's recognition of Google before the IPO." ”

Lin Qingya asked again: "Then are you ready to cooperate with him?"

Li Mu said: "Looking at the urgency of his needs, if his needs are urgent, I think we can use resources and money to invest in Google." ”

Lin Qingya said helplessly: "My boss, you have to calculate the accounts in your head, although our valuation is rising, but if you don't raise money, we can't cash out, how can we invest in Google when ......there is no money?"

Li Mu said with a smile: "Don't worry about the money, you have to move forward with the mentality that there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, as long as you can drive all the way to the foot of the mountain, the money will naturally come at that time." ”

Lin Qingya smiled and asked, "What if the money doesn't come?"

Li Mu pouted: "I turned around and came back before the money came, the car can afford to drive, do you still care about the gas money?"

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Larry Page arrived at 2:40 p.m.

The last time I saw Li Mu, Makino Technology had not yet completed Sequoia's round of financing, at that time, Larry Page himself estimated the valuation of Makino Technology in his heart to be about $20 billion, a 20-year-old CEO, making a $20 billion valuation of a company has made Larry Page amazing, but what he didn't expect was that when he really raised money, Li Mu asked for a high valuation of $33 billion from Sequoia.

What made him even more unbelievable was that goodbye Li Mu, the valuation of Makino Technology has exceeded $80 billion.

Sequoia hopes to reinvest in Makino Technology at a valuation of $80 billion The news is no longer news in Silicon Valley, everyone knows about it, this is the news that Sequoia deliberately released, such news comes out, and the valuation of Makino Technology has a certain effect on it, for Sequoia, even if it can not reinvest in Makino Technology, at least it is a shareholder of Makino Technology, as long as it can improve the valuation of Makino Technology, it is a practical benefit for them.

In such a short period of time, the market value has doubled one after another, Li Mu has created a legend of a young rich man in the world, combined with the two dimensions of worth and age, Li Mu is the world's highest comprehensive strength of the entrepreneur, which also makes Larry Page amazed and admired, but also hopes to find a strong source of traffic for Google.

Li Mu met Larry Page in the office prepared by Lin Qingya for himself, this office is the best one in the entire office building, the area is very large, about 100 square meters, in addition to the office area, the reception area, there is also a bedroom and a separate bathroom for rest, the office is located in the southeast corner of the third floor, so there are two floor-to-ceiling windows, plenty of light, and a good view.

When he saw Li Mu, Larry Page took the initiative to shake hands with him and said to Li Mu in Chinese: "Mr. Li, we meet again, welcome to Silicon Valley." ”

Li Mu said with a smile: "Mr. Page has been learning Chinese recently?"

"A little bit ......" Larry Page said apologetically, smiling apologetically, "Chinese is really hard, and I think I still have a long way to go." ”

Li Mu nodded, invited Larry Page to sit down in the reception area, and said with a smile: "I heard that our newly rented office building is not far from you?"

Larry Page said, "It's a 10-minute walk, it's really close. ”

Li Mu said: "Then you are welcome to come over often, if I am not there, you can find Ms. Lin Qingya, she is the vice president of our Makino Technology and the CEO of our Makino Technology American branch." ”

Larry Page said busily: "I have met with Mr. Lin a few times, and I will definitely strengthen communication in the future to see if there are good opportunities for cooperation, and I also very much hope that Mr. Li can spend more time in Silicon Valley, for Silicon Valley, you are a legendary existence, I heard that you are here today, the whole Silicon Valley can't bear it." ”

Li Mu smiled: "In the future, I may have more and more time to stay in Silicon Valley, and we can leave a private contact information when we go back, I come to Silicon Valley, or you come to Huaxia, we will contact you in time." ”

"Okay, okay. Larry Page hurriedly took out his business card and handed it to Li Mudao: "Mr. Li, please save my contact information into your mobile phone." ”

Li Mu nodded, took out his business card and handed it to him, and then asked him: "Mr. Page, looking for me in such a hurry, it shouldn't be just to catch up, right? ”

Larry Page rubbed his hands and said with a smile: "Mr. Li, it's okay to call me Larry, I came to you this time, in fact, because of a long-term intention to cooperate." ”

"Oh?" Li Mu asked him, "What kind of cooperation?"

Larry Page said: " We have paid attention to the product structure of YY and YY network, in China, YY and YY network are providing quick entry to Baidu search, convenient for YY users to use Baidu search, but also to Baidu search diversion, I personally feel that this is a very good cooperation model, not only to YY users to provide convenient search services, but also to Baidu search to bring higher quality user traffic, but I also noticed that Baidu search currently has no overseas expansion plan, and even does not provide English search engine services preparation, so non-Chinese YY and YY network users, can not enjoy such a quick search service on YY productsPersonally, I think it's a pity, and it's not a very convenient place for users. ”

Li Mu nodded slightly and said: "Larry, in fact, for me, I am not a very selfless person, just like most technical architectures choose closed source, and I don't want the outflow of users in the YY ecosystem, even if it is only in some areas." ”

Speaking of this, Li Mu said again: " You see, I don't do a search engine, but the search engine will encroach on my users' online time, which is equivalent to dividing a water pipe in my own reservoir, no matter how thick or thin it is, it will only unilaterally absorb the amount of water in my reservoir, if I give my users the habit of using search engines often, it is undoubtedly a part of their online time to the search engine, which is a kind of infringement on my own business, if it were not for my stake in Baidu, I would never open my users to them。 ”

Larry Page didn't expect Li Mu to say so desperately as soon as he came up, first of all, he refused to give external diversion, and secondly, even if he diversioned Baidu, it was because he had invested in Baidu, according to the meaning of his words, he wanted to cooperate with Makino Technology, and the only possibility was to let Makino Technology become a shareholder first?

But then again, being a shareholder of Makino Technology is actually not a bad thing, every entrepreneur has two needs, one is the demand for funds, the other is the demand for resources, those who lack money, will first choose funds, but as long as they are not so short of money, they will choose resources.

This is also the reason why many companies especially want to be invested by Yahoo, Yahoo Investment will give resources in addition to money, and resources are often more important than money.

In fact, in the future of China, almost all Internet models are inseparable from Tengxun and Ali, and the reason is the same, entering their ecology, you can get their resources, which will play a great role in promoting their own development.

Therefore, Larry Page almost didn't think about it for too long, and said directly to Li Mu: "Mr. Li, if Makino Technology is interested in investing in Google, we are very welcome, you can have an in-depth discussion on this issue, or simply set up two project teams to meet in depth, what do you think?"