Chapter 245: Before Valentine's Day
Zhou Shi's mood at this time was really complicated, on the one hand, he was very grateful to these people who believed in him, and on the other hand, was it appropriate for him to work for others as a billionaire? Amazon's development prospects are far better than Yahoo's, and no matter how hard Zhou Shi tries, it may be difficult to surpass Amazon. Although the mobile Internet is awesome, but no one has relied on him to become a 100 billion scale enterprise, Yahoo in addition to Ali and Yahoo Japan's assets, in the previous life was acquired by billions of dollars, it is very telling, Yahoo does not have much valuable things. Wait, Ali Zhou Shi thought that there was still a lot of Ali equity in Yahoo's hands. Maybe it's an opportunity!
"I'm sorry, I already have a preliminary goal to start a business, and although Yahoo is very attractive, I really don't have much confidence in it. I don't think I'm in a position to get him out of this mess right now, and Yahoo's acquisition by Microsoft is actually the best ending for him. "Zhou Shi
"If you really think so, you want Yahoo to be acquired by Microsoft. Deng Wenxuan
"Only a fool has such hopes, and it is not a good thing for an entrepreneur like me for the Internet to join the competition of a giant. "Zhou Shi
"You really want to start a business, what are you going to do?"
"It's hard to say now, I'll tell you when it officially comes out, it's inconvenient now" Zhou Shi doesn't have any entrepreneurial ideas now, it's not to reject you better.
Deng Wenxiao got a definite reply from Zhou Shi's side, so he didn't entangle. Yahoo may not be a good target.
Unexpectedly, Yang Zhiyuan also found Zhou Shi the next day.
"I want you to join the Yahoo Board of Directors. Yang Zhiyuan said straight to the point
Zhou Shi was confused all of a sudden, why didn't he go back for a long time, did his status on the Internet in Silicon Valley improve a lot all of a sudden? Why did they all come to him for help!
"I don't know what I can do for Yahoo?" Zhou Shi refused after a brief thought.
"I need a helper on the board, and you're the right fit. "Yang Zhiyuan
"In addition to Microsoft's acquisition, has anything happened to Yahoo?"
"Cal Icahn has his eye on us. Yang Zhiyuan said a little tiredly that a series of recent events have made him physically and mentally exhausted, and he is likely to lose his beloved Yahoo.
"Karl Icahn?" Zhou Shi, who is more familiar with finance, quickly called up his memories of Karika, a typical Wall Street wolf, a corporate predator, he is a person who takes billions of plundering as his mission, profiting from other people's mistakes. Marvel Entertainment, in which Zhou Shi was a shareholder before, formed the current pattern under his destruction.
"Buy what others don't buy, buy when no one else buys" is a phrase that Carl Icahn often says, but in essence, he is best at hostile takeovers, by holding shares in public companies, and then trying to promote changes in corporate management or strategy, so that the company's stock and value can rise rapidly in a short period of time. After that, the profit is gone, and then the chicken feathers are all over the place. In order to protect the listed company from falling under Icahn's control, the majority shareholders are even willing to pay a so-called "ransom" to Icahn to buy back the shares from Icahn. This "green ticket blackmail" allowed Icahn to quickly accumulate a large amount of wealth.
"This is a troublesome guy! Is it really useful for me to join Yahoo's board of directors?" Zhou Shi suddenly had some thoughts.
"You underestimate your influence, even if you resign from YouTube, but you are still the majority shareholder of Amazon, a member of the board of directors. And there is a company with a valuation of tens of billions of dollars like Friends.com, no one will underestimate your influence!"
"Well, I've heard a lot of rumours about Cal Icahn and I'm looking forward to fighting him"
“???” A series of question marks popped up above Yang Zhiyuan's head, and this was the reason? But things were still going well, and Yang Zhiyuan didn't care a lot.
Zhou Shi is still very curious about Yahoo, and he doesn't know what kind of experience it will be like to join such an old company. But Valentine's Day is coming soon, and Zhou Shi's troubles have arrived. Wang Xirui and Li Ying are both in Silicon Valley, but Zhou Shi has only one, fortunately he is not a hesitant person.
On February 13th, Zhou Shi and Li Ying were together, they chose the cinema and watched a movie that had no impression at all, called "Fool's Gold", which tells the story of Ben and Tess, a happy couple who rediscover their true love in the process of a dangerous treasure hunt, probably like this. Zhou Shi really didn't have any impression after reading it.
"Today's movie isn't good, why don't we watch 'Jumper' together tomorrow?" Li Ying said playfully.
"Tomorrow, tomorrow, I have something to ...... tomorrow" Zhou Shi
"What's the matter, accompany Wang Xirui to watch a movie?" Li Ying
"By the way, it seems that there is an amusement park nearby, why don't we go and play together?" Zhou Shicai didn't want to discuss another person with her, how embarrassing.
Li Ying glanced at him and didn't say much, Zhou Shi may have ideas in other aspects, but he doesn't have so many ideas with her. I watched the movies during the day, what an idiot. Although it was very uncomfortable for him to be with Wang Xirui tomorrow, she already knew that since she still chose Zhou Shi, she could only accept it.
"Let's go to Sand Hill Road," Li Ying
"What are you going to do there, you might as well go home and have a good rest. "Zhou Shi, the dune road that Li Ying said is the legendary VC street, where a large number of venture capital is concentrated.
"Do you have one, where is your home?" asked Li Ying
"Where there is love, there is home, and home is the harbor of love!" Zhou Shi hugged Li Ying
"There are many of your harbors!" Li Ying did not resist
"Hey!" Zhou Shi found that he really couldn't let a woman be idle, and as soon as he was idle, it gave him a headache, how would he live in the future. "You're thinking too much, why make us all so uncomfortable?" Zhou Shi said in a deep voice
Li Ying didn't speak, she really did venture capital, and although she had more time, she ran outside more times. The time spent with Zhou Shi didn't increase much. Maybe it really shouldn't be like this, and it may be a better choice to live happily every day now.
"I don't know who I've offended, and my industry in China may be seriously threatened and hit. The most serious situation will be the loss of all domestic industries!" Zhou Shi still tried to divert her attention.
"What's wrong, what's wrong?" Li Ying was in a hurry and pushed Zhou Shi away
Zhou Shilou walked to the place where they lived while talking.
"Why didn't you say it earlier, I could help too. "Li Ying
"I don't want you to worry, I don't even know who is trying to harm me, what's the use of looking for you. "Zhou Shi
"Then you are now running to the United States to escape and let them infringe on Time Company?"
"Why, I think I can get close to the government, but I can't get close to politics. So I'm not going to find someone to help me talk and compromise or anything like that. "Zhou Shi
"Then you're going to die?" Li Ying
"How much do you think I value wealth? Without the constraints of being Chinese, I can do more abroad. "Zhou Shi
(End of chapter)