After Peter Thiel went out, only Musk in Silicon Valley and Wen Lisha, who stayed behind to translate, were left on one end of the computer in the living room, and Chen Chuliang was sitting alone, ready to talk to Musk face-to-face.

"Okay, Mr. Chen, we can talk openly and honestly now. ”

Musk asked the female translator to translate the words into Huaxia and talked to Chen Chuliang with great sincerity. Peter Thiel's mess in China has made them face unprecedented difficulties in PayPal, although they have not been worried about selling, but if they continue like this, as Chen Chuliang said, the day the bubble bursts, they will not be able to get good things.

Chen Chuliang knows that Musk has absolute control over PayPal, and it is better to talk about things face-to-face with this bull, and Chen Chuliang is still willing to talk to Musk than with Peter Thiel, who does not know how to be flexible.

"Mr. Elon, I know that you are in a hurry to sell PayPal because you want to invest in another field, and the Internet industry is like a pediatrics in your eyes, just a place for you to quickly cash out." So, let's open the skylight and say something... Our company is planning to buy PayPal, but your asking price is too high, and your approach is one-size-fits-all, taking a long-term view, which is a pattern that is not good for anyone. I hope we can talk more deeply about some of the conditions that are good for everyone, and I would like to make Mr. Elon a friend. ”

Chen Chuliang kept a natural smile and talked to Musk.... He spoke Huaxia throughout the whole process, giving people a kind of momentum crushing. Especially when talking about acquisitions, Chen Chuliang is like teaching Musk how to operate.

Musk didn't expect the young Chen Chuliang to educate him, but Chen Chuliang was right, the Internet industry is just a place for him to cash out, and he needs to use the cash to invest in his ideals. Now, Chen Chuliang told him that their package sale method was not the best, and Musk asked: "Then Mr. Chen told us, what should we do with PayPal? However, the price of 600 million US dollars is too low." Even if I agree, the capital behind me will not agree. ”

Chen Chuliang smiled and asked him, "Mr. Elon, before answering your question, I want to ask you, do you have a longer-term plan for the prospect and development of PayPal? Or are you ready to continue to blow up this bubble?"

Musk said bluntly: "Mr. Chen, to be honest, I didn't think about blowing up the PayPal bubble and even listing on the NASDAQ." Because, for now, I don't have so much energy to manage this part, my original intention of creating PayPal is to let me and the people around me have a guarantee of online transactions, but I didn't think about making this thing bigger... Because, Internet products, to put it bluntly, are the maximum bubble, which is very boring, there is no technology content at all, it is all to defraud investors and shareholders' money, which is also my consideration for packaging and selling PayPal. ”

Chen Chuliang knows that people like Musk or some computer cows in Silicon Valley in the United States are especially forced to |||||Shape. I just got something out casually, the original purpose was to make it convenient for myself and others, and I didn't think about making this thing bigger, so that I could cash out and leave, and just do what I was interested in, which is probably a common problem for all American cattle people. And the same is true of Musk in his previous life, after cashing out his PayPal, he immediately entered aviation technology and new energy..... which are more challenging than the Internet and are also in line with the value thinking of Americans.

But Chen Chuliang is different.

He is a real Internet practitioner, and his purpose is to use the Internet to leverage the lifestyle of people around the world, which can be said to be the future prosperity of the Internet that Musk did not expect.

After chatting well with Musk, Chen Chuliang quickly got to the point: "Mr. Elon, you don't have confidence in PayPal to make it bigger, but you are not in a hurry to sell it immediately.. Have you ever thought about giving PayPal a big change, that is, kicking out the original capital controlling party of PayPal....leaving a simple PayPal shell, now controlled by me and you, and at the same time making PayPal bigger?"

Musk smiled: "Sorry, I don't have such big ideals. ”

Chen Chuliang said: "If I contribute to the withdrawal of all the capital behind PayPal, and then let your founder team cash out another 50%, the remaining shares will be used as the number of shares in the newly established PayPal.." What do you think?"

Musk continued to smile: "It depends on what Mr. Chen's valuation of our PayPal is, if it is 600 million US dollars, there is no need to talk about it." ”

Chen Chuliang said: "What if it's a billion?"

Musk was moved.

One billion dollars was the price he negotiated with Meg Whitman for half a year.

Just yesterday, though, Meg Whitman had already lowered the price to $700 million.

Now, Chen Chuliang has opened the door to negotiations and valued PayPal at 1 billion again.

Although, this is still the previous price.

But Musk has a feeling that he has earned it.

If calculated according to their own shareholding ratio in PayPal company close to 12%.

PayPal's $1 billion valuation, he can get $120 million in cash, which is also a large amount of cash in the Internet industry.

But now, if he agrees with Chen Chuliang's suggestion, their founder team cashes out 50%, and PayPal's capital side all cashes out, and the remaining shares are all added to the newly established PayPal, then he can also cash out at least $60 million.

That's a lot of money.

Although, less than half of 120 million.

However, he still holds the remaining 6% of the newly formed PayPal shares.

This is a bet on whether PayPal can appreciate in value, then the money can be doubled.

In this regard, Musk was a little hesitant.

Chen Chuliang's suggestion is to let their founder team not all abandon the PayPal they worked so hard to create, but they can cash out part of the money to invest in others, even if the investment fails, isn't there still a relatively stable PayPal support?

This is a guaranteed way out, I don't know, is it that the Chinese people think about the problem, and they like to think about the back road?

Seeing that Musk was hesitating in the video, Chen Chuliang continued: "Mr. Elon, if I add one more to you." A year later, regardless of the success of the new PayPal, the remaining 50% of your founders can cash out at any time... Do you agree with my plan?"

This offer is said, and now, Musk can't sit still at all.

Chen Chuliang's article.

It seems to have been telling him.

The back retreat has been repaired, and you can cash out at any time after a year.

Whether he chooses or not depends on how he thinks about it.

After thinking about it for a while, Musk really couldn't find a reason to refuse.

Although he has only invested in two companies now, it is not that he is short of money, but the capital behind PayPal wants to cash out early.

Now, Chen Chuliang has given him such a way to make sure that he will not lose money.

If Musk continues to hesitate, it may be the old saying in Huaxia. When I came to this village, there was no such shop anymore.

"That's it, Mr. Chen....I'll think about it again. I'll get back to you soon..."

Musk's tone can obviously hear that he is tempted, but he can't show it directly, when talking about business, he always has to pause in moderation to give everyone a buffer.

Therefore, this practice of temporarily interrupting the dialogue has been adopted.

Chen Chuliang is not in a hurry, because he knows that Musk is a smart person, and understanding his suggestion will not harm him.

"Mr. Elon, I can wait, but time waits for no one, you must know that I am not the only one who wants to buy PayPal, besides, not anyone, there are people like me, especially optimistic about PayPal and especially optimistic about Mr. Elon, you are an industry leader......Maybe in the eyes of others PayPal is just a tool used to blow up bubbles, but in my eyes, if I invest PayPal, then I will treat it as my own child..... I think you would like to see one day PayPal become the payment software used by everyone in the world, right?"

Before ending the call, Chen Chuliang reminded Musk of his 'kindness'. In the same way, it also gave him a blueprint for the future.

Although in terms of price, Chen Chuliang gave Musk a valuation of one billion.

But if Musk and his founding team are allowed to cash out half of it before joining the new PayPal, it is estimated that the money to be paid to the capital behind PayPal is about 600 million US dollars. This is definitely the lowest price to acquire PayPal, you know, in Chen Chuliang's memory, PayPal was acquired by Meg Whitman for 1.5 billion.

Of course, Chen Chuliang also retained the original PayPal team.

In doing so, he adopted the strategy of foreigners to control foreigners.

After all, PayPal is a Silicon Valley Internet company, and when it comes to management, the original team is more powerful.

The two sides hung up the phone and had a good chat, at least, Chen Chuliang could see that Musk had no way to refuse, so he stood up at this time and said to the female translator in front of him in Huaxia: "Thank you...."

The female translator looked at the young boss in front of her with some admiration.

Just now.

She witnessed the conversation between the other party and Musk throughout the whole process.

To put it mildly, a few words can be done.

This is no simple feat.

"Goodbye, Mr. Chen...."

The female translator took to heart the conversation between the two bigwigs she had learned today and walked out of the conference room.

Chen Chuliang picked up the phone and told Lao Xiao that he could prepare the money, which was about 600 million US dollars.

......

Silicon Valley, USA.

Musk, who hung up the phone, did not pass on the results of his discussion with Chen Chuliang.

He just stood in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling windows and looked at the whole of Silicon Valley in the United States.

Suddenly, it was like a heartbeat.

I feel that the conditions given by Chen Chuliang from Huaxia are more attractive than Meg Whitman's.

"It's still the Chinese who know how to do business. Musk sighed, ready to notify him, and held a meeting to notify all the capital parties to be present to talk about things.

At this time, the manager in charge of the business negotiation department hurriedly knocked on the door.

"BOSS, ebay just called us, the offer for PayPal was reduced to $600 million, and said, want to meet BOSS you to talk?"

The manager who knocked on the door ran in and reported bad news. I didn't see the bright smile on Musk's face a moment ago.

Musk turned his head, and the smile was gone, replaced by a face that could wring out water: "You tell the people at eBay, sorry, we don't sell." ”

The manager who entered the door was a little confused: What do you mean?

Musk said again: "Since you are also here, then, you go down and inform me, invest the company's capital side, I want to talk to them, PayPal sell, and, by the way, book me a ticket to Huaxia, ..... as soon as possible."

The manager was confused throughout the whole process.

How do you feel, today's boss is different from usual, as if he doesn't care about anything.