Who are our enemies?

Who are our friends?

This question is the first question of the revolution.

This used to be the idea that guided the foreign policy of a red empire, and it was also Li Jiaming's struggle science - to find opponents with a microscope and strangle all potential opponents in the cradle.

When this quotation from 40 years ago was uttered by Li Jiaming in English, most of the directors in the boardroom were startled, and then fell into a long silence. Although they didn't have the vision that Li Jiaming had at that height, they could hear what he meant.

The sin of the guilty applies not only to the Chinese, but also to these white people. Yahoo, which owns more than 20% of Apple's shares, has the ability to challenge GCA in the field of wireless office, and may even challenge in the field of smartphones, which is why GCA sent a new director to warn.

For GCA, Yahoo is just an investment for them, and the loss of profits is bearable. If Yahoo and Apple join forces to challenge themselves in the wireless office space and then cooperate again in the smartphone space, it will hurt their core interests.

“Boss!”

The first to break the silence was not Kyle, nor Wang Zhidong, but COO Shirley. After getting Li Jiaming's approval, the meritorious veteran and director of Hanhua immediately said: "Kyle, do we want to speed up the negotiation process with Sogo?" ”

asked Chairman Li Jiaming to speak, but suggested to the CEO that Shirley is a woman with very high emotional intelligence. It is precisely because of her high emotional intelligence, high IQ, and great ability that she will quickly become the COO of Hanhua, second only to Li Jiaming and Kyle in real power.

"No, things haven't come that far".

“hy?”

Why, a single percentage point of regression at the negotiating table can mean billions of dollars. The negotiation process with Sogo can be accelerated at any time, but it is still unknown whether Yahoo will compromise.

For Yahoo, search is their core business, and Apple can give up even if it is their strategic transformation, but at a critical moment. What's more, there is also a lot of cooperation between Yahoo and GCA in artificial intelligence and computing cloud, and if the information delivered by GCA is ignored, they will have to consider a total failure in these two areas.

"Kyle, I think it's still necessary to make a deal with Sogo, just like Yahoo became a member of Apple's board of directors!"

Shirley is a pure American, and she thinks that Li Jiaming, the big boss, makes sense, so she firmly supports it, but how can things be so simple? Kyle has worked with Li Jiaming for more than ten years, and of course knows that even if he goes that far, he can be flexible, and everything depends on the situation.

"Ok, I know your opinion, is anyone else going to speak?"

Hanhua held a board meeting, which was usually very lively, but after Shirley finished speaking today, the rest of the people did not have the will to speak, and they all looked at Li Jiaming. If Yang Zhiyuan is the god of Yahoo, then Li Jiaming is the god of Hanhua, and everyone is convinced of him on strategic issues. Even though Shirley vetoed the relocation of the Hanhua Research Institute out of profits, the environmental pollution there became more and more serious just a few years later, and the political factors considered at that time were not so important; Once again, it was proved that Li Jiaming was right, and Beiping was indeed not suitable for a behemoth like the Hanhua Research Institute.

But Wang Zhiyuan still has doubts, it's not that he doesn't trust his old friend, but that Hanhua's struggle with two tech giants will be too serious.

"Jiaming, am I really going to come this far?"

May or may not be needed, Li Jiaming quoted Taizu's quotations, a big reason is the need to express an attitude to the directors. In terms of core interests, it is impossible for Hanhua to compromise, as long as Yang Zhiyuan and Yahoo cross the thunder pool by half a step, he would rather give up all his interests in Yahoo and FL, but also resolutely fight back.

"Those who do not seek eternity are not enough to seek a moment."

understood, and Wang Zhidong, who understood the meaning, echoed: "Jiaming, I agree with your opinion."

Most of the directors in the audience could not understand Mandarin, but they understood that the relationship between the vice chairman and the boss was very close. Wang Zhidong's statement, the other directors also breathed a sigh of relief, the boss is just showing everyone an attitude, not necessarily to go that far; But as soon as the opponent attacks, he will immediately fight back at any cost.

"Who disagrees?"

Everyone shook their heads, and Li Jiaming announced the end of the meeting when he saw this, leaving only Kyle, Wang Zhidong, and Shirley.

"Shirley, how's it going over there in Washington?"

Shirley, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, tightened her heart and hurriedly said: "The situation is not optimistic, if the two of them jointly lobby, the Ministry of Justice will definitely restart the investigation, and it is very likely that the iPhone will also be included in the scope of the investigation." ”

After the report, Shirley hesitated again: "Boss, is it really going to get to that point?" ”

Just now, I insisted on reaching a cooperation agreement with Sogo, but now I am hesitating again, and I have to say that the company is big, and office politics are inevitable.

"Jiaming?"

When Shirley asked, Wang Zhidong, who knew that his means and scheming were not as good as these ones, also became nervous. If the Department of Justice also launched an investigation into the iPhone, the consequences would be too severe.

There are only three core layers left, and Li Jiaming also revealed the truth, sighing: "In fact, this is difficult to avoid, since Yahoo acquired Apple shares, it was destined to be this result." At this point, I am not very sure that they will compromise, but I am more confident that the relationship between the two sides will break down. ”

"Then you still supported it at the beginning?"

"Is it useful for me to object or snipe?"

Yes, with the strength of Yahoo at that time, it was really useless, opposing or sniping, but it would immediately clash with Yahoo; At that time, Hanwha needed Yahoo's spokesperson in Washington to help defuse the Justice Department investigation provoked by Apple.

"Kyle, you and Sherry have a detailed plan for counterattacking. I'll go talk to Jerry once. If we can't reach a consensus, we have to strike first. ”

GCA is the CEO in charge, but when it comes to strategy, Kyle's obedience to Lee Ka Ming is unconditional. In addition to Li Jiaming being the real controller of this company, he is also deeply convinced of Li Jiaming's strategic vision.

"Yes, Boss, we'll make plans secretly and contact Intel".

"Zhidong, speed up the optimization of the system and the development of chips, if the negotiations break down, Sogo will replace Yahoo as quickly as possible."

"Understood".

It's good to have full intellectual property rights, the main applications on the iPhone are its own, Yahoo wants to fight and immediately change the search engine on the browser to Sogo, and can also make their search engine not work on the iPhone. As for the legal disputes caused, everyone will spend hundreds of millions of dollars for two or three years, and at most they will pay a sky-high fine.

Fines are not a problem, Hanhua has cash, but Wang Zhidong can't figure it out. With the 'excellent' mobile operating system dominated by GCA being the mainstream, Yahoo will take such a big risk?

"If it were me, I would".

"Jiaming?"

"It's a matter of controlling and being controlled, and all practitioners except for Hanhua want another operating system to appear, just as everyone wants Microsoft to have a rival."

As soon as the words came out, even Shirley was startled, and she realized that Hanhua's advantage may not be as great as she imagined. If Apple also open-sourced the IOS source, the members of the 'Excellence' alliance may also defect to the opposing side, thereby freeing themselves from the control of Hanhua.