Chapter 475: The Ruby Company

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"Natalie, resources are limited. Those children who have parents, have enough love, and they are not short of resources. But these orphans have nothing. I hope that my efforts will give them a better future. ”

Natalie nodded.

"When Campbell's Bruce Middle School is built, you're going east to build a middle school of the same size. Since then, the Kwok Charitable Foundation has mainly used the funds to support these charity schools established by us. ”

"I see! I'm going to try to get it done. ”

Guo Shouyun smiled and nodded. In fact, the reason why he is reluctant to accept those children with parents, in addition to the ones mentioned before, another very important reason is that children with parents can also have their parents as emotional sustenance. But the orphan can only use the school, or he and the Guo family as emotional sustenance. The former has two options, the latter has only one. In contrast, it's clear which one is more loyal.

"Hurry up and find a team of teachers for Xiaoling and Natalie, and I want the best team, don't skimp on money. ”

"Yes!"

"Alright. I've seen everything you need to see, and you're doing a good job. It's time for me to go back, too. ”

"I'll send you!"

Guo Shouyun nodded, "I have time to go to the house for dinner with Mata, I haven't seen him for a long time." ”

"Yes!"

"Goodbye!"

"Bye-bye!"

After leaving here, Guo Shouyun did not go home, but came to the headquarters of the Mountain View Ruby Company. He owns five major technology companies, Tencent, NetEase, Google, Ruby and Apple. What he values most is rubies. Because he has no controlling stake in Google, the management of the company is also constrained by the two founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Although more than 80% of Apple's shares are in his hands, Jobs is the soul of Apple. As for Tencent and NetEase, needless to say, political factors determine that it is impossible for him to really control these two companies.

Therefore, only ruby, born out of LinkedIn, is the technology company he values the most and pays the most energy.

"Boss!"

"Tim, is everyone here?"

Tim George nodded, "It's all here, and I'm waiting for you in the conference room." ”

Notify the senior management of Ruby companies for a meeting three days in advance, and no one will drop the chain at this time, especially in front of him, the big boss.

"Let's go!"

Wu Xiaojing and Wang Jue, who arrived here in advance, hurriedly followed Guo Shouyun out of his chairman's office in Ruby.

Ruby today is not what it was three years ago when it was LinkedIn. With the growth of the company's registered members, the expansion of its business scale, and the incorporation of Ruby commodity trading websites, Ruby is now a large company worth more than $20 billion in the eyes of investment banks, funds and many business appraisal agencies. And, of course, the fat they crave to share.

"Whoa...!"

After Tim George walked in with Guo Shouyun, more than 30 company executives stood up in the huge conference room.

After striding to the main seat, his calm and majestic gaze quickly swept over everyone, and he waved his hand simply.

"Sit down... I just read the company's report for the first quarter of '03, and you're doing really well. The number of registered users of LinkedIn and PayPal exceeded 100 million, and the newly established Facebook and YouTube also exceeded 60 million registered users! In terms of revenue, excluding the newly joined ruby commodity trading website, the company's revenue in the first quarter was 637 million US dollars, an increase of 37.2% year-on-year, which is very good. ”

After seeing the happy looks on everyone's faces, Guo Shouyun changed his words, "Although the results are good." But we must not be complacent. Because, our competitors are still waiting for us to make mistakes, then outperform us, occupy our market, and then eat us. ”

Guo Shouyun clicked the computer and operated the projector to release the PPT file he had prepared.

"This is the material I investigated about the biggest competitors of rubies in various fields at the moment. Let's start with LinkedIn, our biggest competitor in the professional networking space is Excellence.com. This name must be familiar to anyone who knows the history of LinkedIn. That's the name LinkedIn was when it was developed in my college dorm room. As for the CEO and president of Excellence.com, everyone is no stranger. Frank Arnell and Joe Johnson left their positions as chief human resources officer and head of security in 0101 due to major management mistakes. ”

Speaking of this, Guo Shouyun smiled, "I really didn't expect that Joe Johnson, a security guard, still has management talent." It seems that it was also my mistake not to see this in the first place. After self-deprecatingly, "Although all the systems of Excellence Network are copies of our LinkedIn, although I am not optimistic about its future, Excellence now claims to have 15 million registered users, which is the second largest website in the field of professional networking, after our LinkedIn." It also received $12 million in venture capital from Fidelity and Sequoia Capital. Therefore, we must pay attention to this company and never give them any opportunity to develop. … Tim, let the company's legal department go to court to sue Joy.com for copying our business model and causing significant damage to the company's development, and sue Frank Arnell for breach of the non-compete agreement. ”

Tim George nodded and said, "Boss, business models don't fall under the category of patents...!"

After waving his hand to interrupt his words, "I know that the purpose of the lawsuit is not to really win the lawsuit, but to disrupt the development rhythm of Excellence.com, so that those investment institutions become cautious in risk assessment and cut off the funding channels of Excellence.com." ”

"Yes, I see!"

"John, as the CEO of LinkedIn, your main responsibility is to lead the development of the company, and the head office is responsible for the lawsuit, you just need to cooperate. ”

LinkedIn CEO John Belden nodded.

"Looking at PayPal, when it comes to third-party payment platforms, our biggest competitor is. His boss, Elon Musk, is a very talented guy. Despite not having the advantage of our group, in the first quarter of 2003, there were still more than 23 million registered users. … Peter, you must know this person well, right?"

PayPal CEO Peter Thiel nodded, "I've talked to Elon Musk a few times at a few gatherings in Silicon Valley, and he's really a very good guy as the boss says." Very interested in the internet, clean energy and space technology. ”

"Looks like you're talking a lot of speculation!"

"In the third-party payments space, we have a lot of points of view that are in line with each other. ”

Guo Shouyun nodded, "Do you have his contact information?"

"Yes!"

"So, you make an appointment with him for me, and I'll meet this person!"

"You want to see him?"

"The best way to beat a strong and good competitor is to buy it. It's a good company, and if it is successfully acquired, it would be a good addition to PayPal. ”

"Understood, I'll call him right after the meeting. ”

Guo Shouyun nodded and continued: "Let's look at Facebook again." Eric, I really wasn't wrong. With over 83 million Facebook registrations in every English-speaking country in the world, you're doing a great job with just over a year old. ”

"Without the reflow of resources provided by the group and the financial support of the boss, Facebook would not have developed so fast. ”