Chapter 72 Acquisition
In March 2007, Google announced the successful acquisition of the word processing site Writely, followed by the release of an online word processing and spreadsheet application service.
In April 2007, Google announced the successful acquisition of Irows, an Israeli web-based spreadsheet company, to make up for the lack of icons in spreadsheets.
In August 2007, Jung Kim Kyung-sook, executive director of Google Korea, announced that it was about to complete the acquisition of Thinkfree, an office software manufacturer owned by Haansoft, a subsidiary of South Korea.
However, it was later denied by a spokesman for Haansoft Software.
Haansoft Software, South Korea's largest software conglomerate, disclosed that it had already held two in-depth meetings with Google's acquisition team and held closed-door meetings.
However, due to the large differences between the two sides, no agreement has been reached for the time being, and the company's senior management is not willing to give up control of ThinkFree, but hopes to establish a strategic alliance with Google to promote office software, but the spokesman said that Google has little interest in this.
At present, the ThinkFree website has provided users with free web application services. Although the software is still a little unstable, it has received positive reviews from users overall.
"Hello, Ms. Jung Kim Kyung-sook, I am Mr. Jason's plenipotentiary, and now I would like to know how far the acquisition has progressed."
Han Chenghao was wearing a silver-gray suit, with a blue shirt and burgundy tie, looking very formal, looking very capable, a bit of a professional manager, today instead of Kim Do-jun came to inspect Google's Korean office, by the way to understand the progress of the acquisition.
"Hello, what do I call you?"
Zheng Jin Qingshu quickly tidied up her clothes, bowed and saluted.
Before coming to Google's Korean office, Kim Do-jun had already handed over the information to Han Sung-ho, and this time he would come forward to handle all the acquisitions, which means that he will become Kim Do-jun's top representative of Google in South Korea.
Google's headquarters in South Korea is a very modern office building in Yeoksan-dong, Seoul, and Han Sung-ho took the elevator directly to the eleventh floor of the headquarters.
There are not many employees in the Korean branch, and there are less than 100 employees, and today I heard that there is a very powerful leader in the headquarters, so all the employees are extremely serious and conscientious at work, and no one wants to perform badly and be laid off by the company.
You must know that Google has been the most popular company for employers in the world, the working atmosphere is relaxed, the degree of freedom is high, the office environment is super good, and the salary is almost twice that of other companies.
Han Chenghao walked in alone, without anyone, of course, there was no one to bring, so that when he came in, people thought he was here to apply for a job or something, and when he asked, he knew that Han Chenghao was the hero who came to visit today.
Executive director Jung Kim Kyung-sook hurriedly came to the door to receive him in person, and all the employees had already stood in two rows to welcome Han Sung-ho, bending down and bowing.
Han Chenghao was also taken aback by the sudden battle, what are you doing so grandly, isn't it just to come and take a look, inspect it, and discuss the acquisition with the executive director by the way, what are you doing with such a big show!
After a while, everyone returned to work, and Han Chenghao also came to her office with the executive director.
"Call me Han Chenghao, I won't come to the company often in the future, but I don't want to hear any news about formalism, forget about today's things, don't do it again in the future, Mr. Jason hates this kind of behavior very much, and these behaviors have no effect on improving the company's performance, I think you should understand what I said."
Han Sung-ho knows Kim Do-jun very well, no matter how big the leader is, it is okay to visit the company, and it is very welcome, but if you want employees to stop their work and line up to welcome the leader, this is a very stupid thing, especially in the United States, it is impossible to happen, everyone is an integral part of the company, there is no need to behave like this, how you usually do it, and you don't need to make changes in order to cater to others.
"Yes, Mr. Han Chenghao, I know, I promise not next time."
Zheng Jin Qingshu found that her sweat was dripping, so she quickly wiped the sweat stains on her face with a handkerchief, and gave way for Han Chenghao to sit, while she stood aside and listened to Han Chenghao respectfully.
"What has happened to the acquisition now, when I came just now, I had already read the information, and since the news has been released, what is the situation over there now."
Although Han Chenghao probably read the information, he didn't have an in-depth understanding after all, he just found friends from the former club to help monitor the leaders of the thinkfree branch to see if he could find any useful clues.
"As far as I know, the internal affairs of their head office are also undecided, except for the chairman who does not agree to the acquisition, the rest of the shareholders have clearly expressed their goodwill to us, but the shares of these shareholders are still too small, not enough to produce substantial changes, the only variable is that the president's son, now the second largest shareholder of the company, if he agrees to the acquisition, then all the problems will be solved."
Zheng Jin Qingshu said methodically, lowering her head, not even daring to look at Han Chenghao.
Han Sung-ho sat on the chair, listened carefully to what Jung Kim Kyung-sook said, and was thinking about what way to persuade the chairman's son to agree to the acquisition.
Zheng Jin Qingshu saw that Han Chenghao was thinking, and he didn't answer himself, and suddenly remembered something, and was thinking about whether to tell Han Chenghao, and after thinking for a while, he decided to tell Han Chenghao.
"Mr. Han Chenghao, we found through Google's internal database that the son of the chairman of this company will go to Macau once every half a month, and generally only stay for three days and come back, sometimes he will deliberately fly to Japan first, and then fly from Japan to Hong Kong, take a boat to the past, I sent a colleague to secretly follow in order to verify whether it is true, and found that I went to Macau to gamble, I don't know if this news is useful to you."
After Zheng Jin Qingshu finished speaking, she deliberately raised her head, glanced at Han Chenghao, and found that she didn't have any expression, I don't know whether she was happy or unhappy, and I didn't know whether it was useful or not.
On the contrary, after Han Chenghao heard the news, he suddenly felt happy in his heart, it turned out that this guy likes to gamble, and this couldn't be better.
How can the son of a president go to Macau to gamble every half month! Even if he has money, he won't do this, and the only explanation is that he is addicted to it, and he has lost a lot.
In the past, when Han Chenghao was in the club, he had already seen many examples, once a gambler became addicted, let alone selling a house and land, sometimes his wife and children could be mortgaged to others.
Now that he knows his weaknesses, the next thing is much easier, but he has to pretend to be thinking and meditating in front of Zheng Jinqingshu.
"Okay, I see, this news should still be a little useful, it's not clear now, I think it's almost the same today, that's it, I'll leave you the phone number, call me if there's any news."
After speaking, he picked up a pen and paper from the table and wrote down his number.
He said while handing it to Jung Kim Kyung-sook.
"I don't want a second person to know my number, and if I can't, I think I can do it with another person."
After speaking, he pushed the door open and left Google's Korean branch.
I went out and looked at the sun outside, it was still very hot, I walked to the parking lot, and was about to drive back to the apartment, originally Han Sung-ho had been driving the nanny car, but later because Han Sung-mi was responsible for taking care of Kim Do-jun's life, so he bought an ordinary modern car, and changed it with Han Sung-mi, and now it has become Han Sung-mi who drives a nanny car to take care of Kim Do-jun's life, but he drives an ordinary black modern car.
After standing for a while, he took out his mobile phone from his pocket and called Li Yongzhe.
"Yongzhe, help me find two people to spy on the son of the chairman of Haansoft Software Company, I don't know what the specific name is, I want all the photos of him during this period of time, whether I go to dinner or a date, I have to help me take pictures of who I meet, especially to pay attention to the recent movements abroad, you must keep a firm eye on it, all the expenses, I will give you a card, don't treat the former brothers badly."
After a little advice, I hung up the phone and drove to the apartment.