After months of tug-of-war, News Corp. was the first to exit the YouTube acquisition. During this period of time, YouTube not only improved the company's security protection system, but also began to gain large-scale benefits from those who participated in the "YouTube Partner Program". There are all kinds of exciting videos coming out all over the place, and smart and brilliant creators are constantly joining their partner programs. At the same time, YouTube's advertising revenue is rising, and the growth rate of advertising revenue in the video industry is much greater than that of traditional online advertising revenue.

Soon after, Google raised its offer and officially proposed a $6 billion acquisition plan to YouTube. In the form of cash and shares, the company has the condition to acquire the oil pipe as a whole. At this time, the news that had been kept secret for months instantly spread throughout Silicon Valley. Before they could express their opinions, Microsoft and Yahoo also made offers one after another, and the battle for YouTube between Google, Microsoft and Yahoo officially began.

YouTube refused all news interviews, although they didn't want to admit it, but the current war has nothing to do with them. It's a scramble between several internet giants, and it's a bet on the future.

YouTube's revenue in the first quarter was only more than 20 million, and if you look at this, YouTube is obviously not worth the money. But the video sector is almost universally recognized as the industry that will produce the next giant. Tubing is a monopoly enterprise in this industry, with a market share of more than 70%. What's more, the industry has just begun, and no one knows that the video industry will not be profitable for a long time. The vast majority of the thinking in Silicon Valley is that YouTube could be the next Google. With the news of Google's acquisition of YouTube, Google's stock price jumped 8 percent, officially surpassing the $200 billion market capitalization mark. It's April 2007, the peak of the bubble has not yet arrived, almost all assets are skyrocketing, and Baidu's market value has reached $7 billion. Thinking about it this way, YouTube's $6 billion offer is also acceptable.

Then Microsoft offered $6.5 billion and Yahoo offered $6.2 billion, both with only a small amount of cash and stock, which almost meant that Yahoo was out of the game early. Microsoft's market value is also more than 200 billion US dollars, Yahoo only has more than 50 billion, and more than 5% of the market value of acquisitions must go through shareholders' meetings, which shows that Yahoo will face many difficulties even if it wants to acquire. Microsoft and Google are much more flexible. As long as the price does not exceed $10 billion, there will hardly be any difficulties.

At this time of fierce competition, Lu He suddenly came to Silicon Valley from New York, and at the same time brought a person, Lu Peining, a friend of Senator Mr. O'Guanhai, and the future head of the White House.

"What is he looking for me for?" Zhou Shi asked Lu He, why at such a critical moment?

"He said he wanted to be friends with us. "Lu He

"Is it necessary to talk like this?" "Zhou Shi is not stupid, friend, your sister!

"Ao Guanhai announced his candidacy for president, they are for YouTube and Twitter, right?"

"We are the most valuable in the United States are these two companies, but what is their purpose?" Although the user scale of the friend network is good, and it has a scale of tens of millions of users in just a few months, few people look at him differently, and the MySpace in front of it is too powerful.

"Who knows? It's impossible for us to donate money to Oguanhai," Lu He

"Do you say they are benevolent or malicious?" As soon as Zhou Shi asked this, he felt that it was not good, although Zhou Shi and Galaxy Capital are very rich now, they can be said to have little foundation in the United States, and many things have to rely on external forces. Fortunately, now their investment is mainly focused on finance and the Internet, and the resistance is not very large.

"Look what he says. Lu He also said helplessly.

didn't expect to make money or not become a big man, Zhou Shi also felt sad for himself, and was reborn until now, although the level of contact is getting higher and higher, but he is always hit. I don't know when I can be fearless, although my current life is very exciting, but I am also much more tired than in my previous life, whether it is physical or mental, I am always in various torments.

finally saw Lu Peining, judging from the appearance, he is still an ordinary Chinese image.

"It's a pleasure to meet a young genius like you!" Lu Peining walked up with a smile and took the initiative to greet Zhou Shi.

"I'm also glad to meet you, the future White House Administrator!" Zhou Shi

"Haha, thank you for your auspicious words, if there is really such a day, please watch the ceremony. "Lu Penning

"Oh, yes! I'll thank you in advance," Zhou Shi

"I was still studying when you were your age, and you were already in charge of a large company with a market value of billions of dollars," Lu Peining

"It's an opportunity given to me by the times, and my ability to succeed is part of it, it's more of luck. ”

"We Chinese are just too modest, and we can't achieve such a great achievement by luck."

"My luck is that being able to live in such a wonderful time has given me such an opportunity. If I lived a few decades ago and the internet didn't come along, I wouldn't have achieved so much, so that's my luck. "Zhou Shi

"Haha, it's true, living in this era makes us lucky. "Lou

"So most of us do the Internet with ideals, and my ideal is to change the world and make the world a better place!" Zhou Shi

"I believe that YouTube and Twitter can change the world. "Lou

"This is my goal" Zhou Shi

"But why did you sell YouTube?"

"At this price, I have no other choice" Zhou Shi said half-truthfully, the oil pipe in the previous life is a pity, if it can hold on until 2007, the asset price skyrockets, how can it be sold for $2 billion.

"What about Twitter?"

"There's nothing on Twitter? "Zhou Shi

Some time ago, with the efforts of the other two partners, Lehman took a 20% stake in Twitter. That's not what you think!"

"Galaxy Capital doesn't care about this, a country's propaganda is inherently important, after all, we are foreigners, and we should pay attention to the taboos we should have. "Zhou Shicai won't be able to play with him properly, if he behaves too positively, he doesn't know how he will be played by others.

"At that time, YouTube and Twitter were at worst tens of billions of enterprises, don't you think it's a pity to give up like this?" Lu Peining

"But we are Chinese or mainlanders, and there is no way to do many things. "Zhou Shi

"No, you have a way. "Lu Penning

"Lehman supports Ao Guanhai's opponent?" Lu He was silent for a while, and then spoke.

Lu Peining's face instantly darkened a little.

"Isn't Lehman's president, Forder, black? Why?" Zhou continued

Lu Peining's face darkened a little.

"It would be their regret not to choose Ao Guanhai!" Lu Peining tried to maintain his image and not let himself lose his temper.

Zhou Shi's mood instantly improved a lot, someone came to beg them, what a wonderful thing, this shows that their value is beyond their imagination.

From today, there will be two shifts every morning!

(End of chapter)