The conflict between Yahoo and Ahri became more and more intense, and Zhou Shi appeared in front of the public without any obstacles, specifically in the sight of Yahoo investors. Thinking about it carefully, it seems that there is no candidate more legendary and more versatile than Zhou Shi. Including Yang Zhiyuan and Sun Zhenyi, they are seriously considering the possibility of cooperation between Yahoo and Zhou Shi.

Zhou Shi is the major shareholder of Disney (Disney's equity is dispersed, and 7~8% of Jobs' shares are Disney's largest shareholder), one of the board members, and it is natural to get its public opinion support. In the last cooperation, the Washington Post owed Zhou Shi a lot of favors and gave him a lot of fire support. Needless to say, Goldman Sachs, the head snake, also has a traditional cooperative media. Zhou Shi's personal image building, to put it bluntly, is to create a business idol, and in the absence of a conflict of interest, not many people are against him. Nature will not linger and be sympathetic, and the twists and turns are moving. And it can also distract everyone from the Araba Spring, which can be said to be the right time.

Zhou Shi himself still hugged the pipa and half-covered his face, and he always refused to show his true intentions. Instead, he withdrew from Yahoo's negotiations and focused on Yelp's personnel overhaul.

The competition in group buying is becoming more and more fierce, and Yelp, who has a large amount of money, has not given up the competition in the first-tier cities, after all, he is the market leader, and now he takes a step back, and it may take ten times the effort to regain the original market in the future. However, learn from the experience of retail, subsidize some merchants with obvious head effects, and sign exclusive cooperation agreements with them. Since the beginning of preparations in February, it is finally time to start moving. Targeting New York, London, Hong Kong, Beijing, Singapore, Shanghai, Sydney, Paris, Dubai, Tokyo, Shenzhen...... More than 50 first-tier cities around the world have started exclusive cooperation agreements (although there is an anti-unfair competition law, but it can be circumvented in a variety of ways, for example, if you only cooperate with yelp, there will be special preferential measures for merchants, Inter is how to deal with AMD, but at this time, there is no such trick in the American group buying market, there is no setting here, after all, there are many merchants who signed exclusive cooperation after the start of takeaway in China. It is also possible to subsidize consumers, such as all the commissions that should have been extracted are rebated to consumers, and even some businesses will pay their own subsidies), each large city temporarily deployed 30~50 employees, more than 2,000 employees participated in the conference battle, the goal is to lock in more than 3,000 ~ 5,000 exclusive cooperative businesses around the world (chain counts as one), and the amount of activities is expected to be between 3~500 million US dollars.

"Simon, I think we can have a good talk!" Yang Zhiyuan was encouraged to come to Zhou Shi to test the possibility of him joining Yahoo Operations.

"What are you talking about?" Zhou Shi

"Of course it's Yahoo's problem, Carl made things worse, and everyone doesn't want Yahoo to have a big problem, and it's also for your investment. "Yang Zhiyuan, Sun Zhenyi told him the news of Zhou Shi's investment in Yahoo, and then he felt hopeful, otherwise Zhou Shi had a great future, would he be able to use Yahoo? Now it is said that Yahoo is a mess, and Yang Zhiyuan himself does not have the ability to change all this. Just like he chose Jackma before, this time he chose Zhou Shi, and it may not be impossible to create a miracle like Ali.

"I'm sorry, I don't have time during this time, I'm planning the biggest action since the establishment of a company!" Zhou Shiyan said insincerely, how can it be so convenient for others to take the initiative to take the initiative, and under the collusion between inside and outside, the final acquisition of Yahoo is no one else!

"What action did you make, didn't you say that the personnel adjustment was coming to an end?" Yang

"Yahoo is also a shareholder of the company, and I hope you will keep it a secret for the time being. Zhou Shi said, and took out a plan: "Billion dollar consumption plan!"

This plan is also the specific implementation plan of the exclusive cooperation mentioned above, just like the ancient army battles, which always falsely reported the number of troops, Zhou Shi is also boasting.

Yang Zhiyuan silently looked at this plan, and admired Zhou Shi even more in his heart, as long as this plan can be implemented, the possibility of YELP's success is very high.

After Yang Zhiyuan, all the investors and shareholders who knew the news rushed over, and such a big plan could not be hidden from the board of directors, and there were few investors who were interested in it. It was an unexpected surprise attack that even clashed with the decision Zhou Shi made when he rushed back to the United States. At that time, he said that their future focus would be on weak first-tier and second-tier cities. It's only been a few days, and I changed my mind right away.

"There were some people who had not been fired before, and for the sake of secrecy, we wanted the effect of a surprise attack, and ending the battle as quickly as possible was the most economical way. If we can't defeat most of our opponents this time, then we must fully shrink the front and be prepared to fight a protracted battle. This is the most critical battle we have since our inception and probably the next few years, and it is a battle that will determine our survival......" Zhou Shi explained to the company's management and investors.

"If I am short of money, I am willing to invest again......"

"I'm willing to ...... too"

"I'm willing to ...... too"

Several big investors in a row agreed with Zhou Shi's actions, which strengthened his confidence, and there was nothing more exciting than fighting. At the end of March, YELP launched this campaign to change the landscape of the group buying market.

On the first day of April Fool's Day, a document called "Billion Dollar Battle Plan!" began circulating on Facebook and Friendster, Twitter, Reddit and other sites.

"What is this, would anyone believe it?"

"Maybe there's such a stupid fork!"

"Uh, upstairs, I'm the stupid fork you said! This is the action plan that our company sent out last month, why did it leak!"

"Damn, that's only part of it, you've leaked it, be careful that someone checks your water meter!"

"Don't say it, withdraw ~~" on the fifth floor

"It seems to be true, and I believe it a little!"

A boast that no one knows is not called a boast, and besides, it is not an official Yelp document, so who knows if it is true or not. In the eyes of outsiders, this kind of activity is called overpowering, and YELP, which has raised more than a billion dollars, is desperate to invest in marketing, and will soon hit the entire market. To be honest, YELP is facing the global market, and there is not much financial advantage over local copycat companies in local areas. But who has the ability, this is the global market!

Even if only this name came out, it made the group-buying companies in the whole industry tremble, and YELP, who concentrated superior forces, formed a big shadow in the hearts of many start-ups in the following time. Watching the days pass, the number of merchants who signed cooperation agreements appeared in the background of various branches around the world at the same time, allowing them to see the results of themselves and others every day, and one by one star teams stood out.

"MD, a poor boy has become a rich man, he doesn't know how hard it is to make money, so he makes money indiscriminately, do investors know?" said the host of a well-known program on Twitter

"I think Simon is doing a great job!" Yang Zhiyuan responded publicly on Twitter

"Since he did a good job, why don't you give him the position of chairman of Yahoo?" a netizen was not angry with Yang Zhiyuan's actions and ridiculed him

"If Simon wants to, why not?" said Yang Zhiyuan

With his reply, Yahoo's matter once again made waves!