Chapter 65 LinkedIn News

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"Boss, this is the information from the huge accumulator company sent by Mr. Moretz. ”

As soon as Guo Shouyun arrived at the office the next day, Wendy put a thick stack of faxes in front of him.

"You tell Moretz that I've got the money ready. When he signs the contract, I'll call Phoenix Capital's account. Guo Shouyun glanced at it and nodded.

"Yes!"

"Also, let Tim come up in two hours!" After explaining, Guo Shouyun waved his hand.

After answering, Wendy Solo turned and walked out.

Flipping through the information, Guo Shouyun looked at it attentively. As a result, the more he looked at him, the more his brows furrowed, and the strength of the giant company exceeded his estimates.

Not only does it have its own wafer fabrication facility, packaging and test facilities in Milpitas, California, but it has also expanded globally by establishing its own independent associates in RB, Europe and Canada. Now, the company, which was listed as high as $135 million in 83 years, has become a Silicon Valley technology giant with a market value of nearly $800 million after more than ten years of development.

If Guo Shouyun goes all out, the acquisition of Juji is not hopeless. But for the sake of an opportunity to plug in mobile phone chips in the future, it is obviously unwise to give up the huge gains brought by shorting Enron.

Shaking his head, he casually left the materials on the table, and he paced around the office in an irritated mood.

"Do you want to give up?"

Guo Shouyun, who was frowning, was silent for a moment, but he still couldn't make up his mind. The connection between 3G and 4G is too close, and it is very telling that Huawei, Samsung, and Apple will not be able to bypass Qualcomm's patent barriers.

MediaTek's chips have developed a series of CDMA-based mobile phone chips based on the CDMA series by virtue of the CDMA authorization obtained from VIA, which suppresses Samsung and Huawei and occupies 20% of the global mobile phone chip market. That's tens of billions of dollars in revenue, billions of dollars in net profit, and huge industry influence.

Every time I think of this, Guo Shouyun's heart sways.

After going back and forth in the office for more than half an hour, his eyes couldn't help but focus on the huge accumulation of company information on the table again. Walk over and pick it up, calm down and look at it over and over again, hoping to find any loopholes or opportunities that you can drill into.

Nearly an hour later, Guo Shouyun, who was frowning, showed a hint of thought in his eyes.

"Maybe you can give it a try!"

Touching his chin and thinking about it, a look of determination flashed in his eyes. Then he quickly got up and picked up the phone on his desk.

"Let Nicholas come to my office!"

After a short time, there was a knock on the door.

"Please come in!"

With a 'squeak', the tempered glass door was pushed open, and a middle-aged Chinese man in a dark blue suit, about thirty-six or seventeen years old, with a serious expression stepped in.

"Boss!"

Looking at the head of the M&A team that he had poached from the ***** M&A department with a high salary, Guo Shouyun pointed to the sofa opposite him.

"Sit!"

Qin Zhicheng, English name: Nicholas Qin. In the early 90s, he studied in the United States and stayed in the capital after receiving a doctorate in financial engineering from Princeton.

"Take a look at this information!"

"The boss wants to buy Juji Electronics?" Qin Zhicheng said in surprise after reading the entire information.

"No, to be exact. I am only interested in the CDMA R&D department of Juji Electronics and the CDMA patents in their hands. Guo Shouyun shook his head slightly.

Here's the workaround he came up with. Since the overall acquisition of JaeGene does not outweigh the losses, it is an acceptable note to acquire only its CDMA patent and R&D divisions. In addition, the company's business focus is on ASIC series products, as well as the manufacturing, packaging, and testing of semiconductor chips. CDMA is not a core business. This is also a matter of course, although Qualcomm has given a series of patent licenses around CDMA to avoid antitrust investigations, but it will not cultivate a strong competitor for itself.

“CDMA?”

"That's right, you can contact JaeGene for me and see if they have any intention of selling the CDMA R&D department and patents. If there is, you will officially come forward to buy it on my behalf, if not...!" After hesitating for a moment, Guo Shouyun shook his head slightly, "Forget it if you don't!"

"Understood!"

"Knock...!"

The knock on the door rang again.

"Please come in!"

"Boss, Mr. Tim is here!" Wendy Solo said, pushing the door in.

"Let him in!"

Guo Shouyun's words fell, and Qin Zhicheng also stood up, "Boss, then I'll leave first!"

"Hmm... By the way, take this information with you and go back and have a better look!"

Qin Zhicheng nodded and left with the information on the table about the giant company.

At the same time, Tim George followed suit.

“Boss!”

"Tim, you gave me good news last week. LinkedIn reached 7 million registered users and generated more than $1.2 million in revenue. This achievement far exceeds my expectations for LinkedIn, and your credit is indelible. Guo Shouyun said with a smile.

"This is all because the business model designed by the boss is good enough, especially the launch of the 'recommendation letter' program, which has exploded the number of registrations on our website!"

Guo Shouyun nodded, "LinkedIn is a professional networking site, the more registered people, the richer the content, the better for our development." Therefore, the construction of blogs and forums should be strengthened. In addition, the management of content should not be relaxed, and the professional social nature of LinkedIn should be emphasized, and any life entertainment content unrelated to career should not be published in the forum. As soon as it appears, it is necessary to force a cleanup. ”

"I understand!"

"Hmm... By the way, I have a plan here that you give to Martin and ask him to organize the people in the development department to perfect it in the shortest possible time!"

As he spoke, Guo Shouyun got up and took out a document prepared in advance from his drawer and put it in front of Tim George.

"LinkedIn News?"

Looking at the title page, Tim George was surprised.

"Yes, in the lower right corner of the homepage of the LinkedIn website, a 2*3-inch pop-up window has been developed to publish the hottest news of the day according to the time period!" Guo Shouyun nodded.

"Will this affect the user experience of the site?" said Tim George frowned slightly.

"There will be an impact, but we need to minimize it. Therefore, it is necessary to limit the number of pop-ups to once every two hours, and automatically hide after 10 seconds at a time. If the user is interested in the news, they will be automatically redirected to the homepage of the news content after clicking on the pop-up window. ”

After nodding clearly, "In this case, is LinkedIn News going to develop into a portal like Yahoo?"

"No, we don't do portals, just news!" Guo Shouyun emphasized.

The content of the portal is too much, too cumbersome, and too complicated. It's hard to sit still and browse. In the PC era, he appreciated personalized news sites such as 'Observer' and 'Tiger Sniff'.

“… Also, because of the nature of LinkedIn's website, when doing news, the content of the report should focus on the professional field, and the content of life entertainment can be there, but not more than 30%. Also, set aside 2~3 sections on the homepage for digital advertising. After all, we need to make money too. ”

"Understood!"

"Is the company's funds still enough?" Guo Shouyun nodded and said.

"If you count the revenue, it should be able to support until the end of next year! But once the internationalization strategy is started, it will not be enough!" After a pause and a slight hesitation, "Boss, someone from a venture capital has approached us!"

"Oh?" Guo Shouyun said with interest, "Who is it?"

"Three days ago, it was De Fengjie!"

"Defengjie!" Guo Shouyun nodded clearly, he was no stranger to this world-class VC.

"What conditions did they give?"

"$20 million, 20% of the shares!"

In the current environment, this condition is also somewhat sincere. But we're not short of money, so let's say no!"

Tim George nodded, not surprised by Guo Shouyun's answer. Now the boss is a well-known best-selling author, and he really has no shortage of money for the booming sales of books such as "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", "Fifty Shades of Grey" and "Pirates of the Caribbean".

"Alright, that's all I have to say. … Take the plan, and remember, develop it as fast as you can. ”

Tim George stood up, "Boss, then I'm leaving!"

"Good!"

Guo Shouyun nodded, got up and sent him out. I went back to the office, looked at the time, picked up the coat on the hanger next to me, put it on, pushed the door and walked out.

"Wendy, I'll go out. You don't have to follow, call me if you have something!"

"But...!" Looking at Guo Shouyun who was striding away, Wendy Solo frowned and had to stop talking in the back, after such a long time, she felt that she had no charm at all in front of Guo Shouyun.

Guo Shouyun didn't know what the pretty secretary was thinking, so he drove out of the office building and drove to downtown San Francisco, and soon stopped in front of a store with a capital 'PARIS'.

After getting out of the car, I stood in front of the door and looked at it briefly, and then walked in.