In YouTube's office, Zhang Ran looked at the company's more than 50 employees and said with a smile: "We have reached an acquisition agreement with Google, and Google will hold a press conference on Monday next week to officially announce the news!"

It's six days after Zhang Ran met the Murdochs, and after meeting with the Murdochs, Zhang Ran contacted Google CEO Eric Schmidt directly. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In fact, among the many companies interested in acquiring YouTube, there is Paramount's parent company, Viacom. However, considering the ending of the "Melrose" movie platter investment, Zhang Ran gave up seeing Viacom.

In 03, Paramount and Wall Street engaged in "Melrose" platter investment together, and planned to co-produce 40 films in the next 7 years. It was supposed to be a win-win situation, but Paramount used Hollywood's tricks to wipe out most of the profits from the joint investment projects between the two parties. Wall Street is not easy to bully and directly sued Paramount to court. The lawsuit started in 08 and did not end until Zhang Ran was reborn. Paramount even dared to do a pit on Wall Street, if Zhang Ran engaged in platter investment with them, I am afraid that he would not even be able to get scum.

Zhang Ran was cheated by Disney and knew that Hollywood was all guys who ate people and didn't spit out bones. However, he also knew that it had been Murdoch's wish to enter China for many years, and he would definitely not dare to pit himself in this situation, and only under this premise did he dare to cooperate with News Corporation.

Zhang Ran's negotiations with Google went very well, and Google sincerely wanted to buy YouTube for $2.24 billion, which could be all Google shares or no more than $1 billion in cash plus shares. This price is quite reasonable, with a premium of 60%.

But Zhang Ran didn't agree, after all, it was only the first time to offer, and there were many competitors, so he could raise the price, so he paid back 2.5 billion.

Two days later, Google accepted Mr. Zhang's offer and agreed to buy YouTube for $2.5 billion. On the one hand, Google is indeed bullish on YouTube, and on the other hand, Schmidt secretly poked the media the news that Google was preparing to buy YouTube after meeting with Zhang Ran, and in the next two days, Google's stock rose sharply, and its market value rose by nearly $4 billion. In other words, the market is very optimistic about the integration of Google and YouTube, and if Google completes this acquisition, it will not only spend money, but also earn more than 1 billion.

As a result, the next negotiations went very smoothly, and Google gave the green light to the content of the negotiations, and directly agreed to many of Zhang Ran's requests.

Zhang Ran smiled and continued: "I believe everyone has noticed that Google's stock has risen sharply in the past two days, and its market value has risen by 4 billion, which shows that the whole market is very optimistic about Google's development! Therefore, I suggest that if you don't want to start your own business or make an investment, it's best not to sell Google's stock, and Google's stock will definitely continue to rise in the next two years." Of course, now that you're all millionaires, it's better to consult your financial advisor on how to deal with it!"

Everyone laughed and applauded when they heard this. For more than a year, everyone has been working hard, which has led to today's results, and everyone's hard work has not been in vain!

Youtobe is Zhang Ran's brainchild, and he invested $10 million at the beginning, so he owns 60% of the shares. Bai Yunfei and Mike Solomon contributed more, owning 10% of the shares, Chen Shijun 5%, and now they are both billionaires. The other employees enjoy the remaining 15% of the shares, and the first employees to join the company have relatively high shares and become multimillionaires, and the remaining employees also have millions of profits.

After Zhang Ran and others applauded, he said: "I believe that people who know something about Google know that Google likes to let the acquired company move to Mountain View, and will conduct a second interview with the employees of the acquired company, Google has high requirements for employees, and even requires a university average score, so many companies are facing resignation after being acquired by Google, but this will not happen to YouTube, YouTube will maintain its independence, and everything is business as usual!" It's the first time Google has done this, but it's not Google's handout, it's something you earned, because you beat Google's video team in the market and gave them only 7% of the share, and you're the king of video!"

Everyone felt their blood boiling, applauded vigorously, and the hall applauded like thunder!

Meanwhile, inside Google's CEO's office, CEO Eric Schmidt is talking to Larry Page about the future of YouTube.

Larry Page smiled, "I'm very optimistic about Youtobe's future prospects, and with the acquisition of YouTube, we can provide powerful media and entertainment services to users, content owners, and advertisers, and the gap between Yahoo and us will widen even further!"

Schmidt was very happy: "Yahoo has also been in contact with YouTube, and to be honest, I am worried that the owner of YouTube will sell the company to Yahoo, after all, the founders of both companies are Chinese." Fortunately, Yahoo's offer is too low, and the YouTube owner is smart enough to be honest, he's a great young man!"

Larry Page rarely hears Schmidt praise people, and can't help but say, "It seems that you are very optimistic about that Chinese director?"

Schmidt nodded slightly: "I have seen many entrepreneurs and many successful people, but he is the most peculiar one, and I can't see through him at all." I've looked at the development of YouTube, and the whole process is extremely smooth, there are almost no detours, and his judgment on the development of the website and video industry is extremely accurate and frightening!"

Larry Page doesn't see it that way: "You're exaggerating, selling YouTube is enough to prove his short-sightedness, like Mark Cuban, who sold the broadcast site to Yahoo and made $2 billion, at that time he was much richer than us, but now he can only toss basketball in the NBA, and we are the Internet leader!"

Schmidt shook his head gently: "Robin Zhang sold YouTube not for money, but for the inability to solve the copyright problem, and it is too difficult for a Chinese to solve the copyright problem in the United States." In addition to Zhang, the other two founders of the company also chose to leave and did not continue to work at YouTube. Now that they have enough money in their hands, they will definitely do a big job next, and I am very much looking forward to what he will do next!"

Indeed, as Schmidt thought, after having dinner with YouTube staff, Zhang Ran and Bai Yunfei came to Mike Solomon's house to discuss future development plans.

Bai Yunfei and Mike Solomon are now both billionaires worth $250 million, and there are many options, whether they can stay on YouTube or set up a fund to do venture capital, but they were both moved by Zhang Ran's words.

Zhang Ran told them that YouTube can change the world, but YouTube's own shortcomings make us unable to make it bigger, so we can only sell it. Now that we have enough money, would you like to do it with me again? This time we're going to change the world together!

Bai Yunfei and Mike Solomon have both seen Zhang Ran's foresight of video and the Internet, and are convinced of Zhang Ran's ability, and they are willing to do it again with him.

The room was quiet, and Bai Yunfei and Mike Solomon stared at Zhang Ran with their fiery eyes, waiting for his plan to change the world.

"I've heard that the founding team of Silicon Valley has a curse that a three-person startup often doesn't last long, but we seem to work well together. Zhang Ran made a joke and then began to talk about his plan, "I want to be a social media platform next." ”

Bai Yunfei was disappointed when he heard that Zhang Ran was going to be a social networking site: "Now SNS social networking sites, Myspace accounts for the majority, there are already hundreds of millions of users, Facebook also has tens of millions of users, the market has been carved up almost equally, we are not a wise choice to do this!"

Zhang Ran agreed with Bai Yunfei's statement: "You're right, it's not wise to do SNS social networking sites now, but what we need to do is not SNS, but social media platforms." The essence of social networking sites is relationships, Facebook is an acquaintance relationship based on classmates, Facebook needs to be verified, and you can only see me if I agree. What we're going to do is completely public, kind of like a blog, except that it has a word limit and is a microblog!"

In fact, what Zhang Ran is going to do is Twitter, of course, the real Twitter has been launched in March and released the first message in May. However, Twitter is still called TWTTR, and the main colors are not blue and white but green and white, and more importantly, Twitter is now only an internal information system of Odeo, which will not be officially launched until July.

Zhang Ran has used Twitter, and has seen the whole process of Weibo's development, and now he has the funds in his hands, and the help of Bai Yunfei and Mike Solomon, as well as strong enough resources, it is easy to make a similar website to defeat Twitter and other competitors.

However, Bai Yunfei still couldn't understand: "Blogs are now in decline, why are microblogs popular with users?"

Zhang Ran explained: "Blog is a platform for people's thoughts and spiritual world to display and communicate, is a continuation of traditional magazines on the Internet, writing a blog needs to consider the integrity and logic of the article, the author's writing ability is very important, and the micro blog is very short, only more than 100 bytes, users can record the bits and pieces of life through websites, text messages and other ways at all times, and more importantly, these contents can have media attributes." For example, if I see Charlize Theron and Keanu Reeves kissing on the street, it will take an hour or two for the TV to publish the corresponding news, and the newspaper will take longer, but I can just take a picture and send it to my microblog, and netizens will see the news quickly. On microblogs, everyone can be a media, everyone can be a news publisher, and microblogs will open the era of self-media. ”

After listening to Zhang Ran's words, Bai Yunfei and Mike Solomon finally understood what it meant, which is actually a continuation of YouTube, which is where everyone can make videos and share them with others. However, not everyone can make videos, but everyone can publish news, so the market will be even larger. If YouTube can be successful, then microblogging will definitely be even more successful!

Bai Yunfei said with a little excitement: "Everyone is a media, in the era of self-media, this time we can change the world!"

Mike Solomon nodded firmly, "I'll do it with you!"

Bai Yunfei's management and Mike Solomon's skills are both needed by Zhang Ran, and he said with a smile: "We will each contribute 10 million funds, I will account for 40% of the shares, and how about 30% of each of you?"

Bai Yunfei and Mike Solomon have no objections, after all, Zhang Ran can completely leave them alone. Bai Yunfei asked, "I don't know if you have figured out the name of the website?"

Zhang Ran had already thought about it: "flymessage, translated into Chinese is Feixin!"