Zhou Shi has never pinned his hopes entirely on the news and information APP and the unpredictable development of Yahoo Messenger, the development of search engines can still be expected, Yahoo News and Toutiao in Europe and the United States can develop only God knows. Even Yahoo Messenger, a WeChat-like product, may not be able to grow or develop. So the question is, how can he be foolproof, obviously, socializing is his choice.

Someone once said that LinkedIn is a professional social networking site, which has enough HR data, reflects personal activity information, and indirectly reflects the development dynamics of society, which can allow enterprises to better adjust their strategic layout and cater to the development of society faster. Although Zhou Shi doesn't agree or understand, LinkedIn has a natural connection with the SaaS industry, which is of great benefit to the development of NetSuite. In addition, the career changes and enterprise information of hundreds of millions of people will have a great effect on the future of big data analysis. Famp; amp; F's big data gold mine was basically abandoned by him, and dIn can be said to have entered his sights very early, but only after it was determined that he could buy Yahoo.

Zhou Shi is also familiar with LinkedIn founder Red Hoffman, who is a member of Silicon Valley's famous PayPal "gang". He doesn't really approve of Zhou Shi's idea of buying LinkedIn, but investors are willing, and his role in this kind of big thing is quite limited.

"Actually, you don't have to worry, I don't want to interfere with you easily, and the core culture of Linkedin will not be changed. "Zhou Shi

"Then why did Yahoo buy LinkedIn, and what are your reasons?" said Red Hoffman

"Purpose, no purpose, I'm just optimistic about the development of workplace socialization. I also hope that he will bring more possibilities to our advertising and marketing. "Zhou Shi

"Is that really the only way?" said Red Hoffman, apparently unconvinced

"I really don't have any purpose, but I want to create an internal communication and collaboration platform after acquiring LinkedIn to ......serve small and medium-sized enterprises all over the world," Zhou Shi said, describing Ali Dingding. This software that has tormented many people can continue to torment many other people in this world.

"This platform can be called DingTalk, it is an aggregate collaborative office system, on our platform can gather a variety of high-quality resources, such as various services provided by various SaaS services. "Zhou Shi, of course, this is nonsense, in fact, workplace socialization is really useless for Yahoo in the short term, at most, its own development can bring value-added. It's not right, there is also a more comprehensive data brought to them by these user information, which can bring more convenience to Toutiao's recommendation system.

To a certain extent, LinkedIn is a SaaS company, and its main business is to sell its headhunting services and talent resumes to nearly 100,000 corporate customers around the world. It is also a company that drives turnover growth through business analysis and big data technology, which can greatly improve efficiency, catalyze the rapid expansion of the turnover of the entire enterprise, and greatly reduce marketing costs. This is a big benefit for Yahoo, and in the final analysis, it is the talent factor, and they have a group of excellent talents. In the previous life, LinkedIn's turnover in 2010 was only $100 million, and by 2015 it had reached $3 billion, and their user size and excellent team were the main reasons for this miracle.

"I heard that Yahoo has an artificial intelligence news recommendation project, does Simon want to use LinkedIn's information to the intelligent recommendation algorithm and then form a synergistic effect?" said Red Hoffman.

Yahoo's acquisition of LinkedIn is actually good for the development of Linkedin, LinkedIn's main way of development is through email, and Yahoo Mail is currently the world's largest mailbox service provider. Yahoo has more Internet users than Famp worldwide; amp; F, second only to Google, shows that the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse. Of course, it is still the advantage that still exists, and a few years later, with Famp; amp; With a full shift to the mobile Internet, Yahoo's advantage will no longer exist.

"It's okay, but it's not worth the $5 billion acquisition, and I want LinkedIn to be a platform and a few other Yahoo products that make up our social network. "Zhou Shi

"Finally willing?" said Red Hoffman

"I don't really have a detailed idea of LinkedIn right now, and the number of users is not enough to support too many ideas, but now it's more to make up for Yahoo's lack of social networks, in addition to LinkedIn, we also promote Yahoo Pass, Yahoo Mail and Flickr photo social, and even integrate Yahoo News into the social information department. The other is our artificial intelligence and search services, big data is naturally related to artificial intelligence, so our expectations for LinkedIn are more expectations for the future. If LinkedIn has more than 500 million users, your value will be highlighted. "Zhou Shi

"Are you saying that Yahoo will have two divisions, social information and intelligent search?" Rader Hoffman summed up Zhou's words.

"That's right, the development of yelp and Yahoo will not have much to do with it, LinkedIn is mainly responsible for developing business social networking and multi-terminal collaborative office communication systems! "Zhou Shi, although it is said that the Indians who have the strongest ability to fool in Silicon Valley may be Indians, but Zhou Shi's level has also grown a lot, after all, he will fool the public and investors more in the future.

Red Hoffman finally accepted Zhou Shi's explanation, besides, except for the change of ownership, everything will not change in LinkedIn in a short period of time, in this regard, Zhou Shi's credibility seems to be ??? as if he just drove out the founder of Yahoo!! Red Hoffman was a little worried and thought, Simon should not cross the river and tear down the bridge, right?

The acquisition negotiations between the two companies are going well, and such a high valuation is of great benefit to both parties to give an unlisted company a smooth early exit for its investors. Zhou Shi's risk was only a few months ago with a margin of less than $300 million, and if the acquisition price of $5 billion cannot be completed, the $300 million will not be returned to Zhou Shi. If the acquisition can be completed, the acquisition amount can be offset against the acquisition amount. Anyway, the operation method is very complicated, and Zhou Shi is desperate to make money. No wonder some people secretly say that Zhou Shi is an acquisition maniac, as if it will be uncomfortable if he doesn't acquire it one day!

However, the news of Yahoo's acquisition of LinkedIn has not yet been announced, and the news that Apple and Google finally acquired Motorola mobile phones for $21 billion came out, in which Apple got and shared part of the patents, and Google got all of Motorola.

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