Chapter 333 of the text They don't care

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Amazon's Silicon Valley division, Wilk, who had failed to return, immediately reported to Seattle, "Did they refuse? Is it the acquisition method or the purchase price that they disagree with?" asked Jeff Bezos.

This is a guy who you can only see some hair on his temples when you look at it from the front, and it seems to be a bare guy on his head, if you say Uncle Ge, this is a smart head.

And indeed a smart head.

In 1994, when he had already achieved a successful career, he happened to see on the Internet that the number of netizens was growing at a rate of 00% per year, and his eyes immediately lit up.

He immediately thought of online sales, and after some screening, he chose to take books as his main business direction, and in July 95, he officially changed the name of the online bookstore he founded called Catabra to Amazon, and began the journey of building a business empire.

In order to compete with offline traditional bookstores for the market, he adopted a large-scale expansion strategy, in exchange for market share with huge losses, in order to win users, all kinds of discounts, is his usual means, after such a series of cost-free operations, in May 97, Amazon stock successfully listed, established its position as the largest bookstore in the United States.

Subsequently, he first expanded his business field to music, and then in 2000, he was no longer satisfied with only these two aspects of business, transformed into the largest online retailer, and began to promote third-party open platforms on a large scale in 01, which has gone beyond the scope of an online retailer, and later Taobao, has become a comprehensive service provider.

Speaking of which, Feng Yiping's eyeing Netflix and Feng Yiping's Amazon, there is no difference in nature, both of them are online sales ideas, but one not only has a wider business scope, but has also transformed into a platform, while the other party is still only doing DVD sales.

What is rare is that when the Internet bubble burst a few years ago, Amazon successfully persevered, although it was also difficult, and finally succeeded in achieving a profit in the fourth quarter of last year, although it was only a few million dollars, but it finally effectively countered the rumors in the market that Amazon was about to go bankrupt.

Bezos, who is also a computer science major, has always adhered to the customer-centric concept since starting his business, although he has paid great attention to the technology of his website, which is why he fell in love with Nextdoor at a glance.

Nextdoor doesn't matter what else matters, the existing more than 30 million registered users, and more than 10 million people participating in the "Finding Nemo" group buy, make Bezos's eyes shine, so many active users, and the stickiness is so high, and this user base is still growing at a rapid pace, how to estimate this wealth.

In addition to the overall acquisition of Nextdoor, Bezos also plans to use such operations to affect the capital market and boost the depressed stock price.

Although it is more important to do a good job than the stock price, when there are many shareholders on your board of directors who are dissatisfied with the depressed stock price, if you are still indifferent, then it is not impossible to be kicked out of the company you founded like Steve Jobs.

"No, Jeff, they didn't mean to bargain, they weren't interested at all," Wilk said.

"Did you end up raising it to $1.5 billion?"

"Yes Jeff,"

"What about the backup merger plan?"

"They don't even want to look at it,"

Such a situation is really a bit unexpected by Bezos.

Silicon Valley is a place where rich people come out, but mergers and acquisitions worth $1 billion are actually rare, although there are more than other places in the world, but compared to so many companies in Silicon Valley, this proportion is very, very small.

Moreover, that's just a company that's been around for less than two years.

"In that case, let's go as planned," Bezos's voice didn't make any noise.

People who have succeeded to a certain point are almost all of this virtue, and most of the time, it is easier for them than ordinary people to be not happy with things and not to be sad about themselves.

"Okay, I'll contact that Miss Huang right away, the other two institutional investors, Jiasheng Capital and Leading Capital, do you have any results for the background check?"

Although Buchanan said that he was the only member of the board of directors in the United States, Wilk already knew that Huang Jingping, the fourth largest shareholder, was currently in the United States.

It's just that she only holds 10% of the shares, even if she can buy all her shares, that's not enough.

"I'm investigating, I believe it won't take long,"

"What about Mr. Feng?"

"If necessary, I will contact him directly," Mr. Bezos said.

Although Bezos doesn't look at the wealth on Feng Yiping's surface, it is just to show reciprocity and respect, Feng Yiping should also be contacted by him.

Yes, although Buchanan made it clear on behalf of the board of directors that he was not willing to be acquired at all, these people at Amazon don't care at all.

Since Nextdoor clearly disagreed with the door-to-door negotiation and the bona fide merger failed, they immediately started the next step, a hostile merger, and prepared to directly contact the shareholders of Nextdoor.

Although they know that they are quite insincere about a goal like nextdoor, whether it is 1 billion or 1.5 billion.

These successful people in the United States do not have a good stubble, of course, this truth is estimated to be applicable everywhere.

Let's just talk about Bezos, and later there was a story about him in Silicon Valley.

A friend of his, founded a company, the company's products, very helpful to Amazon, the momentum of development is also good, just when the company was preparing for a new round of financing, Bezos sent someone to send him a takeover offer, the founder of that company, Bezos's friend, very excited, decided to give up further financing activities, what, how are the brothers, Jeff should not treat me badly.

Then, the two sides negotiated the acquisition for a long time, and when the company ran out of food, Bezos asked Amazon to withdraw the takeover offer, and watched the company founded by a friend collapse.

Of course, on the very day that the company went into liquidation, the Amazon people came again, waiting at the door of that company with luxury cars and contracts, waiting for the software engineers they valued to go out with boxes.

Bezos and Amazon, as they wished, got what he wanted at the lowest cost.

As for the friend who was cheated hard by him, well, I don't think I can get a word of "sorry" from Bezos."

The business world in the United States is such a ruthless and self-interested place.

Of course, even Steve Jobs and Gates are no exception at this point.

For example, that year, when Jobs heard that Microsoft had launched its own graphical interface operating system, he immediately called Gates and scolded, "Why are you stealing my ideas? You are ruthless, you are shameless, you are vexatious."

Gates retorted, "Brother Steve, if you say that, you are also stealing, and you are also ruthless, shameless, and vexatious, because this thing was first thought of by Xerox Palo Alto Technology Center,"

It was these two big names who later emphasized copyright the most without hesitation when they plagiarized Xerox ideas.

Perhaps the only criterion by which these people measure many things is whether they can bring benefits to themselves.

Wilk immediately dialed Huang Jingping's phone, and the information showed that the lady who handled investment immigration not long ago was as young as that Feng, only 24 years old, and she was just graduating from college.

"Hello Miss Huang, I'm Andy Wilk, Senior Vice President of Amazon, and we are looking forward to in-depth cooperation with Nextdoor, which you have invested in, I want to visit you in your office, I don't know when it will be convenient for you?"

Wilk heard the shouts of adults and children over there, very lively, was she on vacation?

"Mr. Wilk," Ichihei was right, and sure enough, he received a call from them, "Mr. Buchanan has already given you feedback on our opinions, so I don't think there's really any need to meet,"

"Miss Huang, if I can, I still hope to have an interview with you, our company is very sincere, according to your wishes, we have formulated several different sets of plans, I think, listen to these plans, at least there will be no loss to you, right?"

"In addition, as far as we know, nextdoor is still in a state of loss, and the business model is not very clear, compared to the huge cost of building those sub-sites in various places, the current launch of the group buying business will not completely change the financial situation of the whole company, we think it is a very wise choice to withdraw at this time.

Moreover, you are free to choose how to withdraw, cash is fine, and it is also possible to exchange it for our Amazon stock,"

Amanda was already calling her mother in Lisa's arms, Huang Jingping didn't want to talk to this person anymore, "I'm honored, but, I'm sorry, I really don't dare to be interested, thank you for calling,"

Wilk said no matter how fanciful it was, how could she sell her shares?

If there is only one person in the world who supports Feng Yiping's approach the most, it must be her.

"Baby, do you still want to ride the merry-go-round? Okay, Mommy will take you to ride,"

"Ping, is it about mergers and acquisitions?" asked Lisa.

It seems that the news has spread.

"Yes,"

"What does Feng mean, is it really completely unconsidered?"

"Lisa, believe me, we operate independently, and in the future, Mike will definitely get much more than Amazon can give now," Huang Jingping said with great certainty.

Listening to the buzz on the other side of the phone, Wilk felt as if things were really getting tricky.

They can naturally investigate that Huang Jingping is Feng Yiping's girlfriend, and Feng's girlfriend is this opinion, does it mean that the chairman of Nextdoor, Feng will also have this opinion?

If this is the case, it will be really troublesome, and the only way to do this is to use other unconventional means. (~^~)