Fate is too mysterious, only what is unclear is called, but what is clear is not called.

Late at night more than ten years ago, a transoceanic phone call from his home country made Yang Zhiyuan hear about Li Jiaming on the other side of the ocean. At that time, he had the impression that the young man on the other side of the phone was very close to him, but that was all. Later, when I invested in Sohu, which was still in its infancy, business factors were the main reason, and I wanted to do something with young people in my home country, which was also one of the important reasons.

The later development of events proved his judgment and also exceeded his expectations, the success brought about the rise of the Sohu system, and also contributed to the myth of the Hanhua system, which was unexpected enough, but he didn't expect that a bigger surprise was still to come.

The young man who fell in love with him came to Stanford, and the two of them really fell in love at that time. The two of them have endless words every day, and in order to accommodate Li Jiaming, who is studying hard, Yang Zhiyuan can drive back to his alma mater for more than an hour to chat and eat with him.

In Yang Zhiyuan's eyes, Li Jiaming is his best friend, many of the two have the same ideas and opinions, and no matter what problems he encounters, the other party can always give valuable advice. Compared with Li Jiaming, who is knowledgeable and well versed in human nature, Yang Zhiyuan, who almost got a doctorate in computer science, is still young, and it is those suggestions that often cause controversy that finally imperceptibly changed Yang Zhiyuan.

During the time he was messing with Li Jiaming, the religious Yang Zhiyuan learned what he lacked the most - struggle. In particular, when Frank returned to China to report on his work, he told him a very despicable fact, when investing in the Sohu case, those sudden skyrocketing advertising fees were all conspiracy to mislead Yahoo. After Yahoo and Zhang Zhaoyang negotiated the investment intention, Li Jiaming turned around and blackmailed Lenovo, and finally solved the expansion funds and equipment at a very small price.

Under the influence of Yang Zhiyuan, Li Jiaming began to integrate into the United States, and under his words and deeds, this humble gentleman also transformed, from a humble gentleman to a real businessman, or a business leader.

Of course, Yang Zhiyuan, who was not old enough at the time, was still very grateful to Li Jiaming. He believes that it was the exchange and discussion during that period of time that not only allowed Yahoo to avoid the stock market crash, but also dragged the behemoth of AOL into the quagmire, and finally let the monster quickly decline. Therefore, when he realized the risk exploitation procedure and vetoed the Yahoo investment in Hanhua that he had promised, he still gave Hanhua financial and celebrity support in his private name.

However, it turned out later that he was wrong, and it was very wrong. Since the day of its birth, GCA seems to be a miracle worker, from the iPod to the iTunes Store, the iPad to the iPhone, as long as it is the product they are ready to make, there is nothing that cannot be done, and there is no one who cannot become the king.

Of course, Yang Zhiyuan was annoyed by this mistake, although he invested his money privately and obtained huge benefits in Hanhua, but it proved that his vision was not as long-term as Li Jiaming, and his courage was not as good as that of the other party.

Later, the two teamed up to bring down Qualcomm, and with the epoch-making product of the smartphone developed by Hanhua, they jointly established the 3G communication standard with the monster of Intel, and swept traditional mobile phone chip manufacturers such as Texas Instruments and Ericsson into the garbage heap in one fell swoop.

With these brilliant achievements, Yang Zhiyuan and Li Jiaming are known as legends of Silicon Valley, and the limelight has overwhelmed all the business leaders of their time, and even Warren Buffett, who is most touted by investors, will be overshadowed in front of them.

However, Yang Zhiyuan, who is also in the sky, is very jealous of Li Jiaming, an old friend.

How is it possible for a person not to make mistakes?

Even if Yang Zhiyuan feels very good about himself, he admits that he has made many major mistakes, such as letting Son invest $100 million at the last moment, and as a result, he surrendered Yahoo's best interests, and he missed the Hanhua investment case, and he let Google develop, and finally had to kill it at a greater cost.

But Li Jiaming did it, he didn't make a mistake since that guy started his business, and he could always see the future that others couldn't see, and he took the lead step by step, and finally developed Hanhua into a listed company with the highest market value in the world. What's even worse is that Yang Zhiyuan knows Li Jiaming very well, and those predictions about the future are not intuition and premonitions at all, but rely on mathematical models to analyze.

It's horrible!

Li Jiaming's kind of analysis and reasoning ability made Yang Zhiyuan very jealous. Because of this, even if there is a big conflict between the two, Yang Zhiyuan will not really fall out with Li Jiaming. This is not only because of the nonsense of friendship, nor only because the two have too many common interests, but because he wants to borrow Li Jiaming's analytical and reasoning ability.

However, the world makes people, and no matter how jealous Yang Zhiyuan is, he wants to rely on Li Jiaming's analytical and reasoning ability, and he is also put in the ring by Yahoo and Apple's board of directors, and has to fight head-on with this old friend and close comrade-in-arms.

However, just as Yang Zhiyuan was about to launch an attack on Hanhua in the wireless office market, the representative sent by Li Jiaming made him throw a mouse into the trap with two or three sentences.

"Gentlemen, I have two pieces of bad news for you. The first piece of bad news is that Yahoo's search referrals are not compatible with our first-generation 'Excellence' system, and we hope that Yahoo will immediately work with GCA Research to resolve the related technical issues."

The second bad news is that FL's chip performance is too poor to meet the needs of the next iPhone, and I hope Jerry urges them to come up with a solution immediately. ”

Although Wharton, the director of Hanhua who was temporarily replaced, spoke with great skill at the Yahoo board of directors and did not leave any legal implications, the meaning of the expression was clear. If Yahoo were to go against GCA, all smartphones with the 'Superior' operating system would immediately become incompatible with their search engines, and all allies would be banned from purchasing FL chips.

It's a threat!

However, those who can sit in the boardroom have long since lost the urge to refute the disagreement, and think that it is merely a threat. They had considered these issues, but they didn't think that GCA would do that. Hanhua and Li Jiaming have huge interests in both Yahoo and FL, and to harm the interests of Yahoo and FL is to damage their own interests.

Who will harm their own interests?

However, Yang Zhiyuan, who presided over the meeting, was silent, he knew Li Jiaming's character very well that he either didn't do it or did it, and naturally knew that this was not a threat, but an ultimatum. Li Jiaming has up to 45% of the voting rights in Hanhua, plus Wang Zhidong and Ren Yanpin, they are only looking ahead, if he is really determined to do that, no one will be able to stop him. The failure of the relocation of the Hanhua Research Institute back then was largely due to his own undecidedness, otherwise Yang Guoqing would not have won that game.

What's more, Yang Zhiyuan and Li Jiaming are of the same status, and they understand that while the other party attaches importance to wealth, they also value the control of wealth representatives. If you lose control of a resource, no amount of wealth is just a number.

After thinking about it, Yang Zhiyuan, whose face was as heavy as water, closed the folder and said tentatively: "Alton, how is the negotiation between Kyle and Charles?"

As expected by the boss, Wharton shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently: "Charles is too greedy to exchange 20% of Sogo's shares for 5% of Hanhua's shares, and asks for a seat on Hanhua's board of directors. ”

As expected, Li Jiaming even found an excuse to convince the board of directors.