Chapter 861: Revisiting RB
"Ren Cannon refused?" Zhou Shi was a little puzzled, most of the time the invincible invitation was directly refused.
After all, he is in real estate and has no experience in the logistics industry. "Zhu Yunlai
"Well, I didn't expect everyone in the world to be willing to join us" Zhou Shi
"What should I do then?" said Zhu Yunlai
"Let's buy TNT first, don't think about it when the bamboo basket is empty," Zhou Shi
"This is extremely unlikely!" Zhu Yunlai
"If you can't do it at home, you can use it from abroad, and if you can't do it with Chinese, you can use it if you can't do it!" Zhou Shi
"That's all it can be!" Zhu Yunlai
After a few more days in Yanjing, all kinds of entertainment, and all the people of the company went to various parts of the world to start work, and dealt with the affairs of Yahoo Huaxia, he flew to Japan.
Yahoo search occupies a certain market, but it is difficult to rise, fortunately, the users of today's headlines are growing rapidly, the number of downloads is almost 100 million, and the number of users of Flicker is more than 100 million, and Yahoo Pass is half-dead, with a lot of downloads but the number of active users is only 10 million, and there are no financial services.
Fortunately, Yahoo Huaxia is only a part of Yahoo, here only needs to develop steadily, time for space (market share) on it, Yahoo Huaxia is not in a hurry to make money in the search experience is much stronger than Baidu, especially now there are many self-media people who publish the comparison between Baidu and Yahoo search, the search quality is about the same, Yahoo search has more conscience, at least there are not so many ads.
Naturally, he went to Japan to pay for Sun Zhenyi's appointment, and by the way, he visited Yahoo Japan, Japan's No. 1 Internet company controlled by Sun Zhenyi. Because Yahoo Japan, Toutiao, Yahoo Pass, Flickr and other products have not been able to enter this market. Yelp and LinkedIn can continue to expand and stay strong here. However, even so, he will not do anything to Yahoo Japan until Yahoo's financial situation is completely improved, and the future development will depend on their respective developments.
Zhou Shi's company did not develop smoothly in the Japanese and South Korean markets, whether it was WeChat or WeChat did not occupy much market share, but let the local Line take the initiative, fortunately, Instagram won many fans with its outstanding performance, coupled with the lack of competition from Flickr, it soon became the king of the market.
After getting off the plane, Zhou Shi actually saw Sun Zhenyi come to greet him in person. Well, Zhou Shi's net worth and status are indeed no worse than Sun Zhenyi, and there is nothing that he can't stand it.
"Mr. Zhou, long time no see!" Sun Zhenyi
"Long time no see!" Zhou Shi saw Sun Zhenyi and hurriedly ran over, secretly scolding Sun Zhenyi in his heart, is there nothing to do, come and pick him up when you are so free. After several adjustments, SoftBank has launched a Yahoo board of directors, and there may still be some shares, Zhou Shi is not very clear and does not care, anyway, Sun Zhenyi will not affect his rule in Yahoo.
The two of them got into a car and went directly to the headquarters of Yahoo Japan, where Sun Zhenyi is the chairman of Yahoo Japan. He has always wanted the right to operate products such as Toutiao and Flickr, but Zhou Shi was not very willing, and it took a long time to give it to him. However, Yahoo Japan's level is simply not enough. Just like when Zhou Shi accepted Yahoo, there were not many useful talents in the whole company, and the level of Yahoo program apes at that time was outrageously low. In order to support Yahoo's brain, Zhou Shi cleaned and laid off employees several times, otherwise the stock price would not have fallen sharply in those few times. Even if Japan's Internet talent management and operation is over, they are still a little worse than the more high-end gameplay such as artificial intelligence recommendation algorithms. What's more, there are many obstacles to communication between the two sides. SoftBank owns 43 percent of Yahoo Japan's shares, and Yahoo owns 35 percent of the shares, but the management is in the hands of SoftBank.
The relationship between Zhou Shi and Sun Zhenyi is more complicated, at the beginning of the establishment of SoftBank Mobile, Zhou Shi's husks and nuts gave it great support, basically did not make money, but in Japan mobile phone sales increased from scratch, and also accumulated a lot of experience. However, when the iPhone came out, Sun Zhenyi accepted harsh conditions and chose to cooperate with Apple. Guoke's strong attack with Google, cooperation with NTT, and its huge network advantage and localized operation to suppress the development of the iPhone in Japan.
Nutshell and SoftBank still cooperated later, but SoftBank launched its own mobile phone business, promoting their customized phones, and the cooperation with nuts became less and less, and the cooperative relationship between the two sides gradually faded......
SoftBank's domestic operations include SoftBank Communications, Yahoo Japan and Gungho Online Entertainment (game companies), and international operations include Sprint Telecom and Alibaba's stakes, although it is not as good as it used to be, but it has a debt of about $60 billion, almost exceeding the market value of its companies. However, Japan in 2014 was completely different from Japan in 2006, and now in the era of negative interest rates, their financing situation is much better. There is no need to calculate Zhou Shi at all, Zhou Shi bought part of Ali shares from SoftBank, but signed a contract, for example, Galaxy Sixiang wants to cash out Ali shares, SoftBank must have the right of first refusal, and this right is valid for ten years at first, and later it is also valid for eight years under bargaining. That is, this year, this pre-emptive right of SoftBank expired. However, even if Zhou Shi is willing to transfer part of Ali's shares, they don't have the money to buy it now!
"It's better to borrow money from Japan. Zhou Shi was a little tired after a day of communication, thinking that Yahoo has been borrowing money in recent years, although it is not difficult, but compared with Softbank, the treatment of the two sides is really different.
"Yahoo's current financial situation should be considered to be at the bottom, and there is no need to borrow money, and SoftBank doesn't know when it will be repaid for its tens of billions. "Wei He
More than 60 billion dollars, annual interest, well, the interest on loans in Japan doesn't seem to be high at all, it's simply zero interest rate. Looking at it again, the mortgage interest rate in Japan is only about 0.5 percent. Hey, this world!
"It should be, Sun Zhenyi ...... "Zhou Shi this time."
"I'm afraid he really wants to reach a strategic relationship with Mr. Zhou. "Wei He
Zhou Shi and Sun Zhenyi, there is still a lot of room for cooperation between the two sides, Zhou Shi is a Chinese after all, and things like the acquisition of ARM are basically impossible. Especially with his growing reputation in Europe and the United States, the more hindrances the galaxy will be, even if some companies do not involve sensitive information at all, there will still be a lot of trouble. Fortunately, the lawyer has paid a lot of fees, whether it is Galaxy Sixiang or Yahoo, lawyers are basically the core decision-making level.
"You said that if you really cooperate with him, will you be like he gave up husk nuts before, when we are in trouble again......" Zhou Shi
"It's just cooperation, and there are some things that don't be expected from others!" Wei He
Yes, it's just cooperation, and it's not a brother of life and death.
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