"I agree with this valuation!" Keys didn't hesitate before saying something that shocked Jiang Yizhou.

Jiang Yizhou suddenly wanted to sell it like this, really, not mixed with water at all.

Sometimes a lot of things really just weren't bid high enough, and now it's clear that Keith has far exceeded his expectations.

In his previous life, he didn't even have 100,000 yuan at most, but now maybe as long as he nods, everyone is happy, and the venture capital will gladly agree, less than ten times more than hundreds of times the profit, or settle in the pocket, who doesn't like it?

Jiang Yizhou had an airplane mansion in his mind for a moment, all kinds of things that he couldn't think of flew in his mind, money is the second in ten thousand years, but it is also the second in eternity, maybe sometimes a person will feel that love is supreme, but he may also turn around and throw his broken heart to the ground.

Money will not, unless you are a wild man who has left the civilized world, otherwise he will occupy an unshakable position in people's hearts from birth to death. Even if they were hermits, even if they could cultivate their own land, could they cultivate their own grain, could they weave their own cloth, could they make their own salt?

Money means recognition of value, no matter how much some people hate money, thinking so much, Jiang Yizhou is actually just convincing himself.

"Mr. Case, I think, there should be additional conditions, right?" Behind such generosity, there are naturally harsh conditions, and Jiang Yizhou naturally asked.

"Of course, one billion dollars is just my valuation of your future, in other words, this is a performance reward drawn in advance, which is my valuation of QIM at this stage is 500 million US dollars, I will also acquire according to this valuation, and the rest will be unlocked according to the different stages of QIM's future development!"

Jiang Yizhou slowly calmed down in his heart, he didn't want to be so trapped, "Mr. Case, with all due respect, all you and your AOL need is qim, to be precise, the users who need it, and qim itself is actually on the right track, and what I am doing now is how to use these users to make a profit!"

He explained to Keith as calmly as he could, unaware that he had acquiesced in his desire to sell Qim.

"And your AOL has done all the work I want to do, even if I work for you, it will be useless!"

Especially for such a large company, it is the least likely to let itself the founder of the acquired business have much power.

"So, Tony, what do you mean ......"

"I don't think you've impressed me, I'd rather continue my career in Arumes!"

It means that either you bid a little higher, or I will continue to grow bigger and stronger, and you will buy me at a higher price in the future, anyway, Jiang Yizhou's previous second round of financing will last until the end of the year without pressure.

Although qim was even a little pulled down by ICQ at the beginning because of the lack of adaptation and running-in problems, after two financings, compared to being trapped in the second place, the valuation of the venture capital that contacted ICQ did not meet expectations, and ICQ has not raised too much money so far.

The surging of the Internet bubble can not be measured by reason, in the peak of the Internet bubble, as long as there is a ".com" plan, someone will immediately invest, and all kinds of companies that are clearly cheating money can also be listed to make money.

All kinds of madness, so that Jiang Yizhou, who can see clearly from the future, feels both excited and scared, although his ability is good, but in the Internet field where elites gather, he is just an ordinary person, although because QIM is already a well-known figure in the eyes of industry insiders.

If it goes public with QIM, it may be a unicorn-level, that is, a star company with a market value of more than one billion dollars, and as the Internet bubble continues to expand, it may eventually blow to tens of billions.

But the result of this is that it is difficult to ride a tiger, as the founder of a listed company, it is difficult to leave the market, you can imagine that if Yang Zhiyuan sells all his Yahoo shares, or reveals such a meaning, Yahoo's stock price will fall in response, a series of chain reactions, with Xing Zhutou's sentence explained, "My mother, this may affect the career!"

The best way is nothing more than to find a pick-up man, isn't the Keyes who just contacted him such a pick-up man?

Moreover, in the original history, AOL spent 287 million US dollars plus a later performance reward to acquire ICQ, which was generally regarded as a big bargain acquisition at the time, especially compared with the later growth of QQ into the world's Internet giant and the largest market value company in Asia, it is a pity that AOL messed up ICQ.

And the reason why they picked up this bargain may be that the founder of ICQ is the same as Jiang Yizhou, who lacks ability and does not have enough ambition, maybe in their opinion, this is already a great luck, and then happily divide the money and return to his hometown.

What Jiang Yizhou wants to do now is to develop QAIM to the top in order to sell it at a better price next time.

……

Stephen Keys is determined to get QIM, AOL, since its inception, is to provide a stable and convenient service for the majority of ordinary Internet users, users pay a monthly fee, and enjoy high-quality services from AOL.

If there aren't enough attractive products and services, it's a serious blow to it, especially now with an endless stream of challengers, from Microsoft, to Netscape, to Yahoo, to Qim, and I don't know how many challengers there will be in the future.

So it's important to build a moat for a brand, and in addition to QIM, his next acquisition target is Netscape, a company that has recently been mired in a lawsuit with Microsoft.

Even so, if you want to buy Netscape, the price you pay is in the billions of dollars, and if you wait until that kid develops Qim's Elome to the listing stage, this price is no less than the acquisition of Netscape.

But the point is that he still owns 55% of the shares, and even if AOL buys the remaining shares, it can only impose constraints on him, and cannot completely get QIM.

This is an acquisition case with different ghosts, the difference is that Jiang Yizhou is not in a hurry, at least before the arrival of the millennium, he can develop calmly, with the expansion of the Internet bubble, the company's valuation will also rise, and it is Stephen Case, who wants to build a moat of brand services.

So two people, one is unconsciously playing the game, and the other is thinking hard about how to complete this acquisition.