Chapter 197: AOL, the man behind the scenes
At lunchtime, Xu Qing came to Black Bean's room and asked Black Bean and Black Pearl to eat.
Usually Black Bean and Xu Qing eat together, Xu Qing eats at the dining table, and Black Bean eats next to the table.
Black Beans will usually run around Xu Qing and lie on their stomachs when it is almost time to eat, waiting for Xu Qing to enter the restaurant, and then it will follow.
Today, Xu Qing waited in the restaurant for a while and didn't see Black Bean, wondering if this guy was still showing affection with Black Pearl in the room.
Xu Qing pushed open the hidden door and saw that black beans and black pearls were adding hair to each other, Xu Qing knocked on the door: "Black beans, black pearls, it's time to eat." ”
Black Bean looked up at Xu Qing, ignored it, and continued to add hair.
Xu Qing was speechless, is this guy a single dog reincarnated, he has a wife, he is tired of it all the time, fortunately Xu Qing is now his grandfather's girlfriend, otherwise he will be angry with Heidou's show of affection.
Since these two guys didn't want to eat, Xu Qing didn't force it and walked back to the restaurant.
The lunch of the blue fat man and the hairball had been put in their cages, and now Xu Qing was not familiar with them, Xu Qing did not dare to release them.
After Xu Qing had lunch, he called the black beans and black pearls to the lawn and accompanied him to eat.
The black bean bit the flying saucer and ran to Xu Qing's feet, looking at Xu Qing, Xu Qing took the flying saucer and threw it into the distance, and the black bean immediately turned into lightning and caught up with the flying saucer and bit it.
Xu Qing felt that the speed of the black bean was very fast this time, faster than any previous time, the black bean had evolved?
beckoned, the black bean ran back, Xu Qing took the flying saucer and continued to throw, the speed of the black bean was still faster than before.
"Black Bean, have you evolved?" Xu Qing squatted down and touched Black Bean's head, only to find that Black Bean's eyes always looked at Black Pearl.
Xu Qing finally understood why the speed of the black bean was so fast today, and he was a little strange just now, why did the black bean take the initiative to let him throw the flying saucer today, it turned out that he wanted to show his demeanor in front of the black pearl, all of this is the power of love.
"You guy, you will definitely be a strict wife in the future. ”
Xu Qing patted Black Bean's head, Black Bean split his mouth and showed a happy smile, as if to say, it doesn't matter if his wife is strict, he is very happy if he has a wife.
Black Bean ran back to Black Pearl, happily circling around Black Pearl, Black Pearl was wandering the world, was disturbed by Black Bean, a little impatient, and a paw on Black Bean's face.
Black Bean didn't care at all, and continued to circle around the black pearl stupidly, Xu Qing had already walked to the living room, he really couldn't stand the stupid appearance of Black Bean, just like the * silk who was in love with the goddess.
After watching TV for a while, Xu Qing's phone rang, and Brooke called and told Xu Qing that the supporter behind the 59 accounts was AOL.
AOL (AOL) is an online service company, the Internet hegemon of this era, and its position on the global Internet is equivalent to that of Facebook in later generations.
AOL is powerful, with billions of dollars in assets and millions of users, and has a monopoly on the channels for American netizens to access the Internet, and many netizens are online through AOL.
Its leader, Case, was ambitious and wanted to turn AOL into a big company like Microsoft and Apple.
In order to accomplish this goal, AOL under the leadership of Case was very domineering and forced the acquisition of many potential Internet companies, and the acquisition did not achieve destruction.
It's a bit like the Facebook of later generations, with a special monitoring system to monitor whether there are potential Internet companies in the market, and if there are, they will be acquired.
Case was an extremely tough leader, and in 1993, AOL's development caught the interest of Allen, one of the founders of Microsoft, who wanted to buy AOL.
Alan was still a member of Microsoft's board of directors at the time, and out of fear of Microsoft, Casen proposed to Allen that if you quit Microsoft's board, you could consider letting you buy it.
Alan didn't want to leave the Microsoft board, so Caseh rejected Allen's acquisition, and Allen used various means to acquire AOL, and even threatened Case:
"This is America, if I want to invest in AOL, no one can stop me, I will definitely be able to do it!"
In the face of Allen's various methods, Keith responded calmly, and finally thwarted Allen's acquisition, allowing AOL to escape.
AOL had just escaped, and another catastrophe had come, and it was an even bigger catastrophe, and Bill Gates wanted to buy AOL.
While AOL and Allen were fighting, Gates was secretly observing AOL, and Gates thought that online services were profitable and wanted to start a business in this area.
For Microsoft, the fastest way to start a new business is to acquire companies related to that business.
So after Allen's failure, Gates immediately offered to buy AOL, but Keith still refused, no surprise, Gates showed Keith that he had always been tough and threatened AOL:
"I can buy 20% of AOL, or I can buy all of AOL, and I can also give Microsoft access to AOL's market, when the fate that awaits you is death. ”
Gates's remarks made all the AOL staff very worried, because Microsoft has a lot of history and has ruined many promising companies by entering the other party's market.
If Microsoft also uses this method to deal with AOL, no one is confident that AOL will be able to resist.
Immediately after Gates's remarks, AOL convened a meeting, when the two leaders of AOL, Keith and Jim, had opposing views.
Carlyle rejects the takeover, Jim is in favor of the takeover, and AOL votes on whether to agree to the takeover, and in the end the rejection of the acquisition is narrowly won by one more vote than the pro-takeover.
After Gates was rejected, he adopted the approach of entering the other party's market and launched the online service project "Microsoft Network", grabbing some of the AOL's market share.
Carlyle is tough but not egotistical, has a good relationship with employees, invites employees to drinks every week, and takes any good advice.
Such a strong, leader-led and tough company is backing those 59 accounts, which shows that AOL has noticed Future.
This time their conspiracy was discovered by Xu Qing, so what conspiracy will be used next time, Xu Qing doesn't know.
The reason why AOL did not propose to acquire Future is very simple, Xu Qing's current net worth is more than 1 billion US dollars, and Xu Qing does not look down on the acquisition of Future Company with tens of millions of US dollars.
Buying a future company for hundreds of millions of dollars, AOL felt that it was not worth the price, so he used a conspiracy to build a future company.
At present, Xu Qing does not plan to retaliate, first of all, AOL's strength is stronger than Xu Qing and the Xu family are together, and the price to pay for revenge against AOL is very large, and it is impossible to kill AOL, this kind of revenge is meaningless.
Xu Qing can only endure this breath first, and by next year at the latest, Xu Qing will shoot AOL to death.
Now Xu Qing seems to have a net worth of more than 1 billion US dollars, but his real strength is still very weak, and he still has a long way to go if he wants to be provoked by no one.