2015 finally arrived, and Zhou Shi did not participate in the New Year's Eve speech hosted by Analysys International, nor did he watch the live webcast. Of course, this matter is not important, the important thing is that Uber's financing was crossed by Goldman Sachs, and more investors joined the Uber camp, and finally raised $1.8 billion at a valuation of $40 billion, including Baidu's investment of $600 million, and Goldman Sachs helped Uber issue convertible bonds to customers, which could bring billions of dollars of investment to Uber.

This incident shows that Uber is breaking away from Zhou Shi's control.

"I was careless in this matter!" Hu Zuniu, there is no doubt that Hu Zuniu should bear the main responsibility in this matter. It was so easy for Goldman Sachs and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick to reach an agreement. Not only does it lose face, it will make people look down on it, but it also loses some benefits.

"What can you do?" Zhou Shi, he has always solved problems when they go wrong, rather than first thinking of punishing senior executives, which has a lot to do with the talent gap that his company has had for a long time. However, he didn't think it was a bad habit, so he kept it up.

"Goldman Sachs is taking food from the tiger's mouth, so naturally we have to bear our anger, and we will teach them a lesson when we have the opportunity. But they are powerful, and we need to control the scale of the conflict, and we need to be careful not to let things turn into full-blown conflicts.

We have given Travis Kalanick so much support and trust, but we have not received the reward he deserves, so naturally we will not trust him anymore. But he's the founder and CEO of Uber, and it's difficult for us to deal with him without harming Uber's interests, and the best thing to do is to remove him from power, which will take time. "Hu Zuniu

"If you know in your heart, Kalanick has a lot of character flaws, he is suitable for pioneering, but he is not a qualified entrepreneur. Give him more support, more honors, and more praise...... I think that after that, Kalanick's affairs may not need to be involved. Zhou Shi had long remembered that Kalanick was kicked out of the company's management by the company's board of directors in a small notebook, and met and chatted with him several times, plus Zhou Shi's study of psychology knowledge, he had a better understanding of Kalanick. The method given at this time should be the most effective and economical way to learn lessons.

"Okay, I'll arrange it when I go back, but it really works?"

"You can try it first, and if it doesn't work, we'll teach him a lesson after going public, anyway, we don't agree with the AB shareholding structure, and Kalanick can't stay with Uber forever. "Zhou Shi

"That's right, we've always been invincible!"

With a valuation of $40 billion, Uber is probably the most valuable start-up on the planet, the quintessential unicorn. It is also a classic case of Galaxy Capital, the Blue Dragon Fund, and even Russia's Digital Sky became a shareholder of Uber in the early days. Time Holdings invested in Uber at the beginning, so you know, this is basically Zhou Shi's business. It's just that because of legal issues, Uber's CEO is not destined to be Chinese.

It seems that starting with Uber, startups all over the world are in no hurry to go public, and big companies like Xiaomi and ByteDance (today's headlines) seem to be not short of money. There is no such urgent need to go public, and the founders are not in a hurry to go public in order to better manage the business and implement their own strategies.

This may be good for companies, but not good for investors, and there are many reasons for the gradual inequality of rights and obligations between the two parties, but this phenomenon should not last long. Maybe after the failure of local tyrants like SoftBank Vision Fund, everything will return to rationality. But for now, there is still a long way to go before Uber goes public. If it is not listed, it will be difficult to effectively curb Kalanick's rights, but the development of Uber has fallen into a bottleneck, and investors collectively do not believe that Kalanick can break through this bottleneck or that Uber will not have great development in the short term. This may be one of the reasons why Kalanick was driven away in his previous life.

Sun Zhenyi didn't say anything about this investment, but said to Zhou Shi on the phone:

"Isn't the Vision Fund a little smaller?"

"A venture capital fund with a scale of 10 billion US dollars, who would say that the scale is small, and this former Sun Zhenyi, who owned half of the Internet in the past, will have such pride!" Hu Zuniu said to Zhou Shi

Although Zhou Shi knew that the Vision Fund was creating a bubble, it was difficult to judge the pros and cons of doing so. You must know that the largest source of funding for the Vision Fund in the past life is the oil tycoons in the Middle East. If they have a stalemate with the US imperialists, this money will definitely not be returned. Did Sun Zhenyi want to hack this money, it shouldn't be, even if there is such an extreme situation, the US imperialist government has the lion's share of the black money. If the Vision Fund's investment fails, Sun Zhenyi will not only lose his reputation, but may also sink to the bottom of the sea.

"Does Sun Zhenyi really want to promote the information revolution of the next generation?" Zhou Shi

"He probably wants to be a Berkshire Hathaway!"

Dreams are fragile, and it is difficult to judge whether a person like Sun Zhenyi is a realist or an idealist, and I am afraid he himself cannot tell. Just like everyone is complex, both human and animalistic. A few years later, after the Vision Fund invested $100 billion, it planned to go public, hoping to raise funds through an IPO to continue to invest globally.

"No matter what, I agreed to let him invest in Wework. Zhou Shi, as a pioneer, the world's most valuable sharing economy business model is basically related to him.

Wework Coworking Co-working is a company that has always been in the hands of Zhou Shi's team of assistants, and many of them have been trained in it. It has always had a close cooperative relationship with Galaxy Capital, Qinglong Fund, and Time Cloud. It has received extensive support in the construction of capital, real estate and Internet infrastructure. The only regret is that his assistant team (which has a fund of their employees) has lost a controlling stake in the same shares as normal entrepreneurs.

"Well, it shouldn't be a problem to get him on board. "Hu Zuniu,

"Even if there is a problem, are you afraid?" Zhou Shi, Sun Zhenyi is a former Internet legend, but Zhou Shi is a legend in the current high-tech industry. It doesn't matter who is strong and who is weak, the point is that they have no need to be afraid.

"Problems are inevitable, and the key is to be able to meet all challenges. I'm still ...... "Hu Zuniu."

"Don't think too much, in the United States we don't have arrogant capital, only proud courage, and there are many problems in the future. "Zhou Shi

"No matter what the problem, I believe Galaxy Capital has the ability to deal with it!" Hu Zuniu

"I believe it!" Zhou Shibai took a look at the latest chapter of "The Rebirth of the Post-80s Legendary Claw Book House" to read for free for the first time.