Chapter 181: eBay trembles, Ali chops his hands
Xu family, Xuzhou Xu family.
In the structural design of the family consortium, Mr. Xu fully imitated the tax avoidance technology of Jay Pritzker, the founder of the Pritzker family in the United States, and the two models are basically the same, through the establishment of a large number of unrelated family trust funds in the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas, which are tax havens, to decentralize the control of the companies held by the family, so as to achieve the goal of hiding wealth and avoiding taxes.
Mr. Xu holds hundreds of family trusts, scattered in the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, London, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the United States' own tax haven, Nevada, so much so that when Mr. Xu actually controlled Apple, there was still no sign on the Nasdaq stock market.
Mr. Xu didn't even know anyone from Apple, and the other party didn't know him, but he just sent a director to the company in the name of joint authorization from minority shareholders, and this director was also one of the founders of Google.
These family trust funds are the source holding capital of Huayin, and actually control Huaxia Financial Group, Kangbao Company of the United States, Guangzhou Boan Group, Los Angeles Galaxy Gaming Company, Bwin Company of Austria, Apple Inc., and Google Inc.
In Apple's shareholder report, dozens of trust funds disperse their holdings, which does not affect the actual operation of the company, and at the same time, there is absolutely no need to disclose information when the shares are transferred and cashed out.
Mr. Xu is not Bill Gates, and the U.S. tax department doesn't know who Mr. Xu is, nor does he know how much money he has, in short, how much tax he has escaped, no one knows.
In these days and ages, only the poor have to pay taxes.
The really rich people just want to say, let the Forbes rich list die.
The biggest disadvantage of the Pritzker family is that there are too many heirs, Jay Pritzker himself has brothers, and the three brothers have more than a dozen children, and finally after Jay Pritzker's death, they began to make noise about dividing the family property.
It was in this context that Hyatt Hotels Corporation was spun off from these trusts, making these heirs truly billionaires overnight, rather than invisible billionaires.
The Xu family in Weizhou does not have this fatal injury, and the family has only one heir so far, unless Mr. Xu's mother is stupid enough to let relatives and friends join this trust fund, and then let the second generation of the Xu family and the Lan family coax the ownership and dividend rights of the enterprise together.
Xu Teng now has a family trust fund exposed, registered in the Cayman Islands, holding 20% of the equity of Hong Kong Fuxin International Investment Company, since it has been exposed, then use it reasonably.
He used the fund to continue to hold 37.5 percent of Tencent, 50 percent of Tengjian Technology, and 25 percent of Haixing Holdings.
Although the capital is registered overseas, the tax that should be paid is a dime.
At least in the field of corporate tax, there is no dodge of a dime, at most it is just to take advantage of the preferential policies for foreign investment.
It's cloudy again.
This morning, the four office buildings of the Yangtze River Entrepreneurship Center were extremely lively, and each department was holding meetings to actively introduce Tencent Dream.
Xu Teng enjoyed a moment of quiet in his Chunzhu office, which was planted with four seasons of bamboo, sitting in the rattan chair of the tea house, facing the beautiful campus scenery outside the glass wall, and reading several copies of the company report prepared for him by the assistant's office.
According to his design, Guangzhou Tencent Technology Holding Group is the parent company, and Tiantian Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary, responsible for Tiantian's soft, enterprise-level IM, search, and e-commerce businesses, and only most of the online game business is transferred to Tencent Group.
Based on Tiantian Soft, promoting search and e-commerce business is the task of Tiantian Company.
In the past two months, the daily search has begun to expand significantly, and the daily mall has also been officially launched.
In the current domestic search market, Baidu has just begun to rise, and has been authorizing the search engine to be used by the two major portals, and the same is true for Tencent, the fourth largest portal TOM has chosen Baidu Engine a few weeks ago due to competitive factors.
Of the four major portals, the newly born daily search is only Sina, as well as the two main entrances of the daily navigation network and the daily browser.
Baidu、Every day is in fierce competition,There was 3721 before,It's not a coincidence,Every day is the nemesis of 3721,The emergence of every day security optimization master and every day browser,Basically wiped out 3721's various crazy hooligans,Occupy the other party's market space。
3721 was forced to sell to Yahoo.
Now it's all left for the two heroes to fight, search every day to open every day encyclopedia, chat every day, knowledge, music, pictures, videos, maps, ...... A series of search applications, regardless of the product experience, are launched first to seize the position.
Baidu doesn't have to work hard to be creative, the corresponding Baidu Encyclopedia, Baidu Tieba, and Baidu know that you can fight all the way.
In order to compete with Tencent's Tiantian Alliance, Baidu is in the third round of capital raising, recruiting teams to make browsers, antivirus software, and computer guards.
After all, Huayin has 1/4 of the shares in Baidu.
Therefore, Xu Teng is well aware of Baidu's various plans at this stage, and all morning, he has been quietly analyzing the decisive battle between daily search and Baidu search, another e-commerce battlefield, and he will also start a decisive battle during this time.
One against two.
He doesn't coax, but he really doesn't have much confidence.
THERE ARE TWO MODELS OF E-COMMERCE, ONE IS JD.COM, ONE IS TAOBAO, OR THE DISPUTE BETWEEN AMAZON AND EBAY.
Xu Teng used Tiantian Mall to do the former, and the original plan was to use Tesco every day to do the latter, but he was still hesitating whether he should directly invest in the merger and acquisition of eBay and Taobao to make a quick decision.
TENCENT TIANTIAN ALLIANCE AND EBAY HAVE A COMMON VENTURE CAPITAL, AIG ASIA FUND, SO TWO MONTHS AGO, WHEN EBAY WAS TRYING TO INVEST IN EBAY, XU TENG MADE A FEEDBACK AND SENT AN EMAIL TO EBAY'S FOUNDER, MISS TANG HAILING, SUGGESTING THAT SHE SHOULD NOT RUSH TO ABSORB EBAY'S INVESTMENT FOR THE TIME BEING.
Mr. Xu's Huayin system accounts for nearly 1/3 of Alibaba's investment, and it can even be said that as long as Ali is willing, Huayin can increase investment at any time, but the problem is that Ali is unwilling, worried that Huayin will overhead the entrepreneurial team, and would rather continue to absorb venture capital from SoftBank, IDG, and Yahoo.
Therefore, Xu Teng now has three choices, one is to launch Tesco, the second is to merge with eBay, and the third is to persuade Ali to join and form a larger industrial alliance.
Without a doubt, the third way is the best option.
He fought fiercely with Huawei, ZTE, and the three major portals, and beat Baidu and Ali at the same time, which is simply mad and kills.
All morning, Xu Teng was in the office looking at the data, remembering all the data in his mind, thinking slowly, and brewing the answer.
In the afternoon, Sha Liqi of AIG Asia Fund accompanied Ms. Tang Hailing to Jiangzhou, taking Xu Teng's Gulfstream G550 special plane.
Both of them are beautiful presidents in the IT industry, of course, not at the level of Xu Teng's three wives, that is the standard of goddesses, girl idols and the seven golden hairpins of Chinese opera.
Xu Teng drank tea with them in the office, and deliberately changed a set of the most precious squirrel grape pots, and drank Longjing Hang chrysanthemum tea.
Jiangzhou has the most clouds and rain in July.
When the two female presidents, Sha Liqi and Tang Hailing, arrived at the airport, it was only cloudy in Jiangzhou, and when they arrived at the Yangtze River Entrepreneurship Center by car, black clouds were already overwhelming the city.
Through the thick and clear glass wall, in front of the beautiful Nightingale Mountain and the Yangtze River Campus, not far away are the Nightingale Mountain Golf Course and the Yangtze River Gymnasium.
The hot mist of tea wafted up, and Sha Liqi came almost every two weeks to analyze the IT technology industry at home and abroad and analyze the situation of Tencent Group with Xu Teng's Chunzhu office.
The three of them all know in their hearts that if they can't talk about it this time, Tencent Group will directly start the Tesco project, plus the Taobao network just launched by Ali Group in May, the fierce competition between the three will be inevitable.
Xu Teng doesn't like straightforward negotiations with female presidents, and he has carefully analyzed Tang Hailing's resume, his parents are architects, graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 94, his first job was McKinsey & Company, he went to the United States to study at Harvard Business School in 97, and worked at Goldman Sachs for half a year after graduation, and then returned to China to start a business.
Tang Hailing's advantage is that she is good at management and communication, it is said that even if the company is in the most difficult stage, she has not paid wages for several months, and everything is still in order, and the defect is that she does not understand technology, and she does not understand it very much.
Xu Teng asked the Dragon Slayer Lab to analyze eBay's data architecture before he came into contact with eBay, and in the words of Director Lu, the director of the "Everyday Security Antivirus Optimization Anti-Plug-in Anti-Trojan Browser Joint Project Department and Director of the Dragon Slaying Laboratory", eBay's website architecture is "a dinosaur skeleton shelf glued with glue", and there are defects everywhere.
IT'S NO WONDER THAT AFTER EBAY LATER ACQUIRED EBAY, THE FIRST THING IT DID WAS TO COMPLETELY REPLACE EBAY'S DATABASE ARCHITECTURE WITH EBAY'S SET, AND THE RESULT WAS TRAGIC.
The daily mall uses the structure designed by the e-commerce project department of Tencent Group, Director Lu has a high evaluation, the idea is very exquisite, and the level is not worse than him, and the architecture of Tesco is made by Director Lu himself, which is similar to the architecture of Taobao, with database and product search as the center.
This can only be said that the hero sees the same thing.
The simplest and most efficient mode, that's basically it.
Xu Teng is not in a hurry to talk to Tang Hailing about these messy things, it is estimated that she, like herself, is the type who is good at communication and management, and knows little about technical things.
There happened to be Sha Liqi, the eldest sister in the IT industry, and the three of them casually chatted about the small things in the early days of their respective companies, and explored each other's styles in this way to see if they could cooperate.
We chatted for half an hour.
Xu Teng also observed for half an hour, and felt good, the female president, careful, good at communication, is actually very suitable for being an executive, but not suitable for being a leader, lacking the leadership temperament of Xu Teng and Ali Ma with ADHD.
If you want to talk about ADHD, flickering syndrome and leadership temperament, Xu Teng is really in charge, he has been the school's little bully since junior high school, from childhood to adulthood, as long as they play together, the people around him like to run with him.
That's how his leadership temperament comes from, ADHD is innate, and flickering syndrome is the skill accumulated with Yang Fuyou and Mr. Xu in his previous life.
Xu Teng sometimes thinks about it, he can only achieve the skill of Ma Fang by double accumulation, which is really ashamed.
A female president like Tang Hailing, if she follows Ma Zhu to do things, she will definitely be a senior executive president, and she will be LOW if she works alone, she has no clue, and she can't do hegemony.
Xu Teng thought about it, it was also good to do it for him.
He was about to cut to the chase when there was a commotion in the hallway outside.
"What are you doing, I'm your chairman's sister...... Cousin, let go, let go of me. Xu Qianqian cried wolf and howled, yelling angrily, probably being caught.
"Our leaders are talking about things, what are you doing? Han Dai wanted to pull her away.
Xu Teng motioned to Sister Sha and Tang Hailing to wait first, and walked out of the office to take a look, good guy, the two security guards dragged Xu Qianqian, Han Dai and Yu Suyun were all persuading her not to get excited, and there were Xu Qianqian's parents next to the key, Xu Teng's uncle Xu Dayou, and aunt Li Dafeng.
Xu Dayou, Li Dafeng - Mr. Xu's eldest brother and sister-in-law, Xu Teng's aunt and uncle, these are all uncles.
Several security guards stopped them, and Yang Fuyou persuaded them.
"Xiao Teng. Xu Qianqian's eyes were sharp, and when she saw Xu Teng coming out, she pointed at him and screamed, it was like seeing a savior.
Dizzy.
Xu Teng understood, the three of them really dragged the county prince Yan Yan and refused to let go, and when they went to bed, they asked others to be responsible to the end, and if they were not responsible, they came to Xu Teng and forced the other party to comply.
Xu Teng really had a headache this time, this matter was provoked by himself, but he didn't expect Xu Qianqian to be quite single-minded.
"What's the situation?" Xu Teng walked over and looked at their family of three, "Uncle, Qianqian, didn't I let Xia Li tell you, invite you to dinner in the evening, and talk about something at night, I have a lot of things to do these days, I really don't have time." ”
"Xiao Teng, don't delay your time, you can call the person surnamed Yan and tell him that it's okay to break up, and you have to compensate your cousin. Xu Dayou is really arrogant, he probably has forgotten, he has basically not seen Xu Teng a few times over the years, he only remembers that he and Xu Dachang are brothers, and Xu Teng is his nephew.
"It's useless to call the person surnamed Yan, call his father, call the county magistrate, is our Xu family so easy to bully?" Li Dafeng is even more arrogant, this is really right for Tang Jun, he simply regards them as the level of the leaders of the provincial party committee.
"There's no urgency, let's talk about it in the evening. Xu Teng didn't know what to say to them, so he instructed Yang Fuyou and Yu Suyun, "I'm almost going to negotiate the price here, you first send my uncle's family to the company's second-floor lounge, or send it to ......!"
He didn't finish speaking, in this company, someone dared to interrupt him.
"Xiao Teng, what is more important than the face of your old Xu family, more important than your sister's reputation?" Li Dafeng is really worthy of being a concubine who has quarreled with Xu's mother Lan Huiying for many years, and has fought with a rolling pin, but her words are very beautiful.
"I'm going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy someone else's company, do you say it's important?" Xu Teng was not angry, and slowly unbuttoned the sleeves of his shirt, which was a bit like a move, and personally sent their family of three downstairs.
"Dafeng, Xiao Teng talks about business is important, and we will talk about family affairs in the evening. Xu Dayou hurriedly pulled Li Dafeng and his daughter away, anyway, Li Dafeng was also scared stupid at this time, not like the past at all, he didn't mess with Xu Teng.
Xu Teng sometimes thinks about it, Xu Ma was so splashed in the chemical compound later, and most of them were forced by Li Dafeng, this concubine is really not to deal with, and the source is to blame grandparents.
One for each family of his generation.
Xu's mother had a good life and gave birth to a son, Li Dafeng's life was not good, she gave birth to a daughter, and her grandparents have always been biased towards Xu Ma and Xu Teng, and the pensions of the two elders are basically subsidized by Xu's mother.
Li Dafeng was unhappy, very unhappy.
Every time Xu's mother comes back for the New Year, she will quarrel with Li Dafeng at her grandparents' house, even if they don't quarrel, the two are sarcastic to each other, and later, Xu's mother ignored Li Dafeng and didn't have the heart to look at this sister-in-law.
Li Dafeng didn't do it, and scolded Xu's mother around the corner.
Xu Teng didn't say anything else, when he was admitted to Yangtze River College, his godfather, godmother, sister-in-law, and uncle all gave red envelopes, and his uncle Yang Yonggang also had a lot of trouble, so he specially called his uncle Xu Dayou and asked them to come to his grandparents' house for dinner and bring an extra red envelope.
Li Dafeng can taunt next to him, taking the exam to a private school with three broken books, and he is embarrassed to ask for a red envelope.
That voice, that tone, that snarky, Xu Teng hasn't forgotten it now, of course he doesn't care, he already knows who the other party is.
He didn't forget these things, and everyone else forgot them.
People remember one thing now, I am your aunt, my aunt, you are my nephew, your father has to call me sister-in-law, when your father and your mother got married, the family was poor, and the furniture was purchased by me and your uncle.
You were just born, and the first person to hold you was your aunt, and it was your aunt who took care of your mother for confinement.
Your aunt forgot what happened next.
Xu Teng almost watched the uncle's family of three being escorted out of the corridor, walked back to the office slowly, poured wine, borrowed wine to drown his sorrows, and asked Sister Sha and Tang Hailing by the way, "Two beauties, what do you drink, I have all kinds of wine, and I have a bottle of vodka." ”
"Whatever, whatever you drink, just pour me and Xiao Tang two more glasses. Sister Sha has long been used to it, and knows that Xu Teng likes to drink Hennessy, a cup can be drunk for half an hour, and she can enjoy it slowly.
"I don't need it, just drink tea. Tang Hailing is still quite polite, and she really doesn't like to drink.
"Xiao Tang, you don't have to be too rusty, our Xu Teng and the beauty have always been very happy to cooperate, even if you can't negotiate this business, let him help you think of a way to borrow some funds, it's probably no problem." "Sha Liqi is quite leisurely, she knows Xu Teng, and her willingness to drink means that this thing is done, and now it is a matter of price.
"Okay, add more mineral water, I can't drink cold wine. Tang Hailing smiled, a little relieved, she has two founders of eBay, both of whom don't know much about technology, congenital defects, started a business in 99, and only realized that there are many problems with the website at the end of 2000.
A key problem, she and her partners are both graduates of Harvard Business School, the idea is similar, but the division of labor is not clear, 1+1 is actually not greater than 2, and the venture capital of nearly 10 million US dollars has been burned before and after.
In the past few months, if there is no capital injection, the website will face the dilemma of breaking the capital chain.
OF COURSE, TANG HAILING HAS A GUARANTEED PRICE CODE, AND THE AMERICAN COMPANY EBAY HAS PUT FORWARD CONDITIONS AND IS WILLING TO INVEST $30 MILLION TO ACQUIRE 1/3 OF EBAY'S EQUITY.
Xu Teng poured three glasses of Hennessy Richard cognac, returned to the tea house, gave each of the two female presidents a cup, and took a cup to taste slowly, thinking for a moment before telling Tang Hailing, "I don't plan to buy shares, because I objectively judge that you are not the opponent of Ali and other competitors, but I can merge you and incorporate you into the Tencent Tiantian Alliance." We can discuss the specific transaction, in short, we will not let you suffer, and will also give you a new space to develop and start a business together in the head office. ”
"Yo. Sha Liqi didn't wait for Tang Hailing to answer, she was already dissatisfied, "I will bring someone over and negotiate with you, but as a result, you will kick me and AIG out of the game again." ”
"Don't let AIG out, anyway, you also have shares in Tencent Group. Xu Teng smiled bitterly, his decision was indeed not conducive to AIG, according to Sha Liqi's plan, it should be that he and Sha Liqi joined forces to invest in eBay.
"Xiao Teng, what can we do with our 2.25% shares?" Sha Liqi is really unhappy, Tencent Tiantian, an alliance company, really wants to absorb venture capital, she can invest hundreds of millions of dollars at one time, the key is that the online game business of these bastards is very strong, and there is no shortage of funds at all.
In May this year, during the merger of the two sides, the game business of Tencent + Tiantian Alliance was only the second in China, and now it is the first in China, and the operating data of "Magic Sword" is getting stronger and stronger, which can be called the only European and American masterpiece in China, with an excellent reputation.
The highest number of online users of "Miracle MU" even surpassed that of "Legend" of Shenzhou Media, and "Ragnarok" was just launched on July 1 and refreshed to 70,000 online in two days.
"Shushan", which was developed by Tiantian Company and impacted NetEase's "Fantasy Journey to the West", is roughly the same type of game, relying on the platform advantages of Tiantian Soft and QQ, and the momentum of its rise is extremely fast.
Although the follow-up of "Decisive Battle", which was originally represented by Tencent, Shanghai Netzen Company, a subsidiary of the group, has developed an online game "Galaxy Samurai" with the same theme, which is currently in internal testing.
The group also has two martial arts games in production, "Sword" and "The Legend of the Ancient Dragon", and also holds shares in a number of game companies in South Korea and is developing new games.
Tencent's promotion efforts in the game industry are indeed too strong, and none of the three major portals can match them, let alone other companies, especially those game operating companies that do not belong to the network industry and simply hope to come in and get a vote.
Tencent itself lacks the strength to do the game industry, and Tiantian Company is different, this is the most powerful game development and operation team in China, and it is a multinational operation, and it has absolute strength and experience in game quality control.
Even for the three games "Magic Sword", "MU" and "Ragnarok", Tencent Tiantian Alliance owns part of the shares of overseas game companies and fully participates in the design and development of the games.
"The Final Battle", which had no permission and could not participate in the design, was immediately abandoned and replaced with the self-designed "Galactic Samurai".
Superior promotion capabilities, top-notch game development and operation capabilities, and Tiantian's consistent good reputation are enough to make Tencent Group the hegemon of the game industry.
This is the case now, the output value of the entire domestic online game industry is combined, and half of the turnover is in Tencent's super league every day, and this trend is becoming more and more obvious.
Xu Teng can't take into account Sha Liqi's interests now, he is a full-field killing strategy, the e-commerce field has to start from scratch, and he will fight against Ali Group single-handedly, he admits it.
"PRESIDENT TANG, THE VALUATION OF EBAY THAT I AM GIVING YOU NOW IS $100 MILLION, WHICH IS BASICALLY ABOUT THE SAME AS EBAY'S STOCK PRICE, BUT IT IS STILL A LITTLE HIGHER. So, I'm going to do a very complicated deal with you, you go to the group as the executive vice president, in charge of the e-commerce business department, and hold the group's option shares, 70% of the shares of eBay are included in the group, and 30% belong to other entrepreneurial teams, which operate independently as a subsidiary of the group. ”
Xu Teng's conditions are very interesting, the two founders, one stays, one is transferred to the headquarters, work separately, the original team still retains a certain amount of equity incentives, and at the same time enjoys the promotion and support of Tencent's daily alliance platform.
"Think about it. Xu Teng looked at his watch, "I promise this is a very good deal, we can join forces to make the entire Tencent Group bigger, create a big network era that belongs to Tencent, have a complete ecosystem, and at the same time push eBay to an unprecedented height in this ecological group." ”
"I personally agree, but I have to discuss with eBay's entrepreneurial team before making a final decision. Tang Hailing thought for a few seconds and immediately replied.
It was much better than she had originally envisioned.
At the beginning of the merger between Tencent and Tiantian, the domestic network industry generally believed that the new Tencent Group would be the fourth largest after the three major portals, and the results far exceeded everyone's expectations.
QQ + Tian Tian An soft + Tian Tian Browser + Tian Tian Navigation series of websites super platform, is simply the power to kill everything, Lianzhong chess and cards almost collapsed in two months, Shenzhou Media fell to the first place in online games in two months, Tencent and the traffic of the daily series of websites has been comparable to the two portals.
The newly launched Tencent network focuses on blogs, and in two months, various celebrities have joined, and the traffic has soared.
The daily search launched by the company is indistinguishable from the Baidu search that has been cultivated for several years for two months, and 3721 has already been killed in seconds, and the customers have been lost.
What is still talking about Huaxia navigation, I can't see any shadow at all, and I have completely disappeared, and no one cares about it anymore.
QQ mailbox + 365 mailbox + 365VIP every day gold mailbox locked into a mess, the three major portals tossed a few years of mailbox business, actually continued to lose, can not stop the 365QQ big alliance.
This is 2003, the three major portals have begun to think about investing in free anti-virus + browser + IM platform routine, no fighting, NetEase is desperate for online games, dead mailbox, Sina is acquiring UC, Baidu is launching anti-virus software, and Rising is basically waiting for death.
It has only been two months since the merger, and the national network industry giants are about to huddle together and collectively abuse Tencent Tiantian Alliance as a big hooligan in the Internet industry.
The key is that there is no solution to this platform, once the computer is occupied, the entire desktop is divided between Microsoft and 365QQ.
Now, Tencent vows to enter the e-commerce business, not only eBay will tremble, but Ali will also chop his hands. (To be continued.) )