Li Feiteng was reading a book in the study, and Ma Huateng called in.

He made an emergency satellite call, which was transferred to Li Feiteng's own mobile phone.

Li Feiteng hurriedly answered the phone.

Ma Huateng said anxiously: "Chairman, there is a problem with our negotiations with Skype. ”

Li Feiteng asked, "What's the problem?" ”

Ma Huateng hurriedly told Li Feiteng about eBay's sudden entry into the negotiation bureau.

Li Feiteng narrowed his eyes when he heard this, he didn't expect eBay to dare to have such great courage, it seems that there must be the shadow of some consortium in the magnesium country behind it.

"Okay, I'll fly over in a moment."

Li Feiteng hung up the phone and called the housekeeper and asked him to arrange to go to Silicon Valley immediately.

Gao Yuanyuan and the others knew that their husband was going to Silicon Valley in the middle of the night, so they hurriedly asked what was going on, and as soon as they heard that it involved a multibillion-dollar acquisition, they came out together and sent him out of the house.

Skype is the fourth largest instant messaging software in the world, and it has a very large number of users in the foreign market.

The current market for InstantMesson software is like this.

The first place is naturally Longteng QQ, followed by ICQ, followed by MSN, then Skype, and the fifth place is a new software from Cisco.

From a global scale, it seems that Li Feiteng has occupied the user market, but in fact, once he relaxes, he will be swallowed up by many competitors.

The acquisition of Skype is not only to fight against Microsoft's MSN, ICQ, but also to fight against ebay.

eBay is currently the largest payment platform abroad. The competitors are Taobao Group and Alibaba Group. Among them, Li Feiteng's most critical Alipay. It is the biggest competitor of eBay.

Alipay has already made some alliances with Longteng QQ, so Alipay's development is very fast, and the turnover is soaring, in the eyes of eBay, they are more determined to acquire Skype.

With 45 million active users and 200,000 new sign-ups every day, Skype is the world's free voice communication software, compared to the features of Longteng QQ. It's more like WeChat, and once it grows up, it's a strong competitor for Li Feiteng.

So since last year, Ma Huateng has been busy acquiring it, and it was almost successful, but no one thought that eBay would also be inserted, on the plane, Li Feiteng used a satellite phone to communicate with Silicon Valley, and he got eBay's chips.

"eBay actually offered $1.3 billion in cash and $1.3 billion in equity. Coupled with the next 2 billion conditional cash to acquire eBay, it is really iron-hearted! ”

Li Feiteng really wanted to scold. The $4.6 billion bargaining chips are much higher than what he opened, and it is no wonder that Skype will stop negotiations with Ma Huateng.

"Yibei, you are so powerful, it seems that I am going to buy you too."

Li Feiteng is not short of money now, but his funds have been transferred to China, if he buys Yibei, he will have to pay a lot of price, since Yibei is so determined this time, then he can only do this.

He remembered a particularly important thing, which was that Microsoft also acquired Skype in 2011.

It can be seen from this that there are many people who are staring at Skype, and if they have a slight chance, they may let other opponents take it.

From the perspective of Li Feiteng's long-term development, it is not a very cost-effective thing to acquire Skype and eBay, because since then, the resources of Alibaba and Longteng Group have been overlapped and wasted abroad, and the external development and competitiveness of the two companies have been weakened.

"Forget it, no matter so much, completing the unification plan earlier will also have more benefits for your e-commerce empire."

Li Feiteng thought about it for a while, and he still decided to mobilize a large amount of funds to accomplish the purpose of this time.

To buy Skype, it will now cost at least $6 billion, and to buy eBay, it will cost at least $20 billion.

It's a total of $26 billion, and of course Li Feiteng can't come up with so much cash, and the amount of cash he can mobilize is $7.8 billion.

"Mr. Ru, you sell off the stocks of some listed companies, sell all the profitable ones, and at least help me raise $2 billion."

"Okay, I know the chairman, then I don't think there is any need to speculate in the gold market at present."

"Okay, then sell all the gold futures that have been speculating."

After Li Feiteng hung up the phone, he called the Yamaguchi-gumi and a bank in Europe to transfer some of the funds to the company through the transaction of Guò enterprises, and this time he was going to scrape together at least $13 billion in cash, and then take the stakes of other companies to carry out the acquisition plan of the two competitors.

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On August 6, Li Feiteng's plane landed in San Francisco, and after he got off the plane, he rushed directly to Skype.

Tony. Bates, the president of Skype, brought a group of directors to Philip Lee.

Li Feiteng saw this group of foreigners, he held Tony's hand and said, "Mr. Tony, I want to tell you a very important thing, that is, I came this time to prepare to acquire eBay Company first. ”

When President Tony heard this, he and a group of directors behind him were shocked, and they didn't expect Li Feiteng to do such a desperate job, and actually pointed his ambitions directly at the strongest competitor Yibei.

"Then I wish you all the best."

"Please."

Li Feiteng followed them to a conference room, the two sides sat at a table, divided into two sides, and Ma Huateng also sat next to him.

The secretaries, including the accompanying family reporters, began to document the important negotiations.

Li Feiteng opened his mouth and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, we already know the price that Yibei has offered you, so I won't say anything, I came in person this time and offered you a cash acquisition of 4.6 billion US dollars. I really want you to enjoy it with money. ”

$4.6 billion in cash. This is Jean Tony President. The directors of Skype, including those sitting across from them, were all in a heartbeat.

However, President Tony still said very calmly: "Li, I think the development momentum of our Skype company is very good, and the development and development of your QQ software of Longteng Group in the overseas market is not successful, and our Skype company has always been planned and purposefully entered the Asian and Chinese markets, so I think all directors will not give up the future because of this immediate interest." ”

President Tony's words also calmed down the directors of Skype a little. They all nodded and exchanged heads.

"That's right, Tony is right."

"It makes sense, we at Skype don't need to make a decision lightly."

"That's right."

Li Feiteng looked at them, and said with a sneer on the corner of his mouth: "Directors, I can't deny what President Tony said, but you must first make it clear that our Longteng Group is not a company fighting, and the largest shareholder of this company is not me, nor is it Taobao Group or others. It's Google. ”

After the word Google was spoken, their faces couldn't help but change.

In Silicon Valley. Everyone doesn't want to hear the word Google, a company that has only been established for six or seven years, and with the efforts of Li Feiteng, a magical oriental boy, this company has really become the world's largest Internet company, as Page and Brie said at the beginning, and as Li Feiteng said.

Google's user market already includes about 30% of the world's online market users, and more importantly, its features, every product it develops today shows a level that they are difficult to surpass.

Li Feiteng smiled and said: "In addition, I think everyone should not forget that I still have Apple, I think it won't be long before the electronic technology hardware market will be occupied by our company, and now you don't make an interesting decision, I think it won't take a few years, even if you want to sell, I'm afraid we won't negotiate with you like now." ”

"Li, I think you're a little confused, and you're also a little alarmist, in that case, why are you still making a big fuss here?" President Tony asked with a smile.

Li Feiteng also smiled: "Then I will sue you, because my money has been placed in the bank and is about to stink, I think you should know that the money cannot be sent in the bank for too long, because once it is put for too long, the loss will be greater." And since we can complete the market annexation faster, why let time torture each other, I think the directors should understand that the longer it drags on, the less valuable your company will be, the risk is very large, and I really don't want to see your company go bankrupt one day. ”

Just when Tony wanted to retort, one of the directors said, "I think Mr. Li, you can continue to raise the price, our board of directors will consider it very seriously." ”

"Okay, I'll raise you by $100 million, $4.7 billion, as long as 70% of the equity, I believe that each of you only needs to throw out that part of it, and you can get a lot of money." After Li Feiteng finished speaking, he quickly stood up.

He stretched out his hand to shake hands with the director who had just spoken, then looked at the other directors and said, "I think your president really has some people who don't know how to behave." ”

"You!" President Tony listened, and he was a little angry.

However, Li Feiteng didn't care about his feelings at all, and turned around and left Skype with the top management of his company.

When he got to the car, Li Feiteng said to Ma Huateng: "If Skype agrees before we buy eBay, then we will buy it, if we have already acquired eBay, this company will give up, and we will go directly to buy ICQ." ”

"ICQ, chairman, this is a much bigger price." Ma Huateng couldn't believe it.

Li Feiteng nodded, but he smiled: "Apple, Google, Longteng, Yunteng, I have so many companies, it's time to put the equity away, Google will go public next year, I hope to completely monopolize the user market this year, such as Skype, if you don't know how to be interested, let it be competed!" (To be continued......)