Chapter 187: A Boring Christmas Party

This kind of thing is rarely happening in shopping malls. It's better to have more friends than enemies, and everyone will have room for each other unless they have to.

Li Jiaming, who took advantage of the rules to break his word, returned, and appeared at a party entrusted to Kyle's wife, Betty, to be held by the company's top executives and partners, and Yang Zhiyuan, the company's second largest individual shareholder and vice chairman, of course, had to bring his wife to attend.

Not only attended, Yang Zhiyuan also held his wife and the company's new partner Larry to greet them, politely, and appropriately flattered the glamorous Melissa. There was no hostility at all, as if Google had robbed Yahoo of the opportunity to pre-install software, and it didn't happen at all.

As the host of the party, Li Jiaming wished everyone a Merry Christmas as in previous years, and invited Kyle's youngest daughter to dance her first dance. Just like last year, his clumsy dancing attracted everyone's good-natured laughter, because this year she danced the 'chicken dance' that Li Jiaming had never seen close.

"Ming, you're as stupid as last year!"

Can I be blamed for this? Last year, this little girl did a tap dance, but this time she said she wouldn't tap dance, but she changed it to a chick dance. Li Jiaming pretended to wipe his sweat and received two heavy kisses from her on both sides of his face, which attracted everyone's laughter because she wore lipstick.

Teasing it should be regarded as compensation for her. Who allowed himself to treat Kyle as a cow and horse, and turned a most loving father into a workaholic who turned his home as a hotel?

After the first dance, Li Jiaming and Kyle, who don't like dancing, brought two glasses of champagne to greet colleagues, friends, and partners, and by the way, introduced the negotiators who had been here for a few months to get to know everyone.

The iPod 7 will go on sale soon, the iPhone will also be released in the Lunar New Year, and everyone's negotiations will really begin, so that they can get to know these elites of Wall Street and Silicon Valley, and they can save a lot of spittle. Every year, Li Jiaming entrusts Kyle's wife to hold a Christmas party, purely as a boss for a scene, and even if you want to exchange something on this kind of crowded occasion, it is nonsense.

Of course, there are also many young and beautiful women who come to Li Jiaming's side, and almost all of them don't know each other. It's the same everywhere, a super-rich man with a net worth of tens of billions, without any negative scandals and so young, he is a sought-after commodity everywhere, and some people have named him the 'No. 1 Diamond King and Old Five' in Silicon Valley.

Not interested, especially Melissa here, Li Jiaming is even less interested in these vulgar fans. may be from a poor background, and climb out of the mountains by self-struggle, Li Jiaming looks down on those who climb the dragon and take shortcuts.

entertained two guests, and when they arrived at Melissa, Li Jiaming took the initiative to put his arm around her waist, but said in a voice that could be heard by the people next to him: "Marissa, do me a small favor, I don't want my future wife to ask me how many girlfriends I have had." ”

Melissa, who wants to be strong and independent, doesn't look down on those young girls, takes Li Jiaming's arm, and jokes: "Ming, aren't you afraid that your future wife will be jealous?"

"No, we're standing together, that's the standard Beauty and the Beast, and the beast isn't a enchanted prince. ”

"No, your name is man!"

Aesthetic differences, just like our Lao Li, in China, it is the standard ugly and evil appearance, but in the eyes of foreign girls, it is manly!

With this beautiful shield, there are far fewer girls who dare to come to Li Jiaming, and it also makes him quip: "Marissa, look at you, you are so beautiful that you have no friends." ”

But Li Jiaming's joke did not attract Melissa's response, because her attention attracted a few young people next to her. The topic they talked about was about Internet technology, but those esoteric and difficult technical terms, even if Li Jiaming was in this line of work, listened to it very hard.

Soon, Melissa, who was wearing a luxurious evening dress, chatted with the shy young men in suits and leather shoes, and threw Li Jiaming's male companion aside, he had to leave with a smile, and jokingly told her not to dig into the corner, which is the technical backbone of the company.

Li Jiaming and Kyle, who had lost their female companions again, led a few negotiators to go around, and finally met Yang Zhiyuan, who greeted the guests. Half a month has passed, and this guy is still angry, and he teased with mockery: "Brother Jiaming, I am also the vice chairman of the company, I should have the right to know, right?"

Li Jiaming, who was holding a wine glass, also quipped in Chinese: "Brother Zhiyuan, you are also the CEO of Yahoo, don't you know what checks and balances are?" The company has no intention of doing search, but it also does not want to see monopoly, and there will be progress only if there is competition. ”

Bullshit, Microsoft has a monopoly on the personal PC operating system, and I don't see them raising prices or resting on their laurels. In order to prevent latecomers from entering, monopolists will only reduce product profits while valuing technology.

"Hypocrisy!"

is indeed hypocritical, there is no need for Yang Zhiyuan to ridicule again, Li Jiaming also knows that the other party wants to be crooked, and he must think that he wants to fight, and he is gambling with more than a billion dollars. However, don't laugh at the second boss, in the original HH company financing case, Yahoo didn't retreat from the danger?

The two Silicon Valley celebrities stood there with wine glasses, and the atmosphere didn't seem so good, and guests and friends who wanted to come over to greet them avoided it. The choice of Google as a partner by HH, of which Jerry is the vice chairman, has already surprised everyone, and who knows what kind of conflict they will have. Yahoo is one of the overlords of the Internet, and the HH company is also strong, who wants to be affected in the past?

The two mocked each other a few words, and Li Jiaming, who was at a loss, also gave some compensation after breaking his promise last time, and proposed: "Brother Zhiyuan, that kid Daniel Zhang has done a good job, are you interested in investing some money?"

The social networking sites run by those compatriots are quite good, starting to catch up with similar sites such as myyearbook, and are suing connectu, which originated from Harvard. Although such a social networking site has not yet shown commercial value, its development potential is optimistic, Yang Zhiyuan is very satisfied with this compensation, but still sneered: "Is it an apology?"

How can this be like what he said at the beginning? After a few years of old friends, Li Jiaming didn't care, and made a motion of turning the book with his palm, signaling that this article should be turned over.

Then turn it over, otherwise you really turn your face with this guy? Yang Zhiyuan, who was placed together, raised his glass and touched Li Jiaming, signaling that the matter was over.

"Jiaming, I asked Kyle a few days ago, the company has no intention of going public for the time being?"

This is something that has been decided a long time ago, but the drunkard's intention is not to drink, but Li Jiaming has never made up his mind whether to list in Hong Kong or the United States in the future. Usually everyone is busy, it is difficult to get together to discuss this matter, today happened to catch a busy person, Li Jiaming signaled the two to deviate a little bit and go to the balcony to chat a few words.

Yang Zhiyuan was about to talk to Li Jiaming about this, and last time Yahoo lent HH Company a low-interest loan of 10 billion yuan, there were conditions attached. Now they only give Yahoo the source code, and do not pre-install the software on the iPhone, then they have to return $7 billion in cash according to the agreement. If he hadn't been the vice chairman of HH, he would have sent a lawyer's letter a long time ago.