Chapter 69: The Stubborn Yankees
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Yahoo's negotiations have ended, and this is a happy outcome.
Since DFJ Fund has helped a lot in the middle of the mediation, it is impossible to return empty-handed. Chen Bo fulfilled his promise to cash out 5% of his shares for $35 million, and DFJ has the corresponding voting rights.
Although his private shareholding has fallen to 31% within the group, he is still the largest individual shareholder.
These are all carried out quietly, and there is already a $100 million acquisition of Sky Network by Yahoo, so he won't join in the fun, and Defengjie is a private equity fund, so he doesn't need to leak any news at all.
This time, Chen Bo's confidence is enough, although there is only 28 million US dollars left after paying personal income tax, it is enough for him to play a big game.
Only two of Sky's newcomers chose to follow in the footsteps of their new owner, Yahoo, while the others made it clear that they wanted to stay.
Of course, Chen Bo will not treat them badly, except for the $10 million belonging to Lenovo and SoftBank, there are still $90 million left, and after paying various taxes, there is still $70 million left in the Pangu Group.
Give some of the money to the original team members of Sky.com, even the employees who have left and joined Yahoo.com will get some of it. Although the company was not listed, it sold at a good price, so that they could all enjoy the fruits of their struggle, as a way to thank them for their dedication to Sky.com. It is also through this kind of behavior of buying horse bones to attract more talents to join.
In the 21st century, talent is important.
Within the Pangu Group, there are happy rows of seats and fruits. The outside media has begun to boil, the largest acquisition since the new century, of course, refers to the Internet industry, and only refers to the amount.
There are only forty or fifty people in Sky.com, but it has created an output value of more than 100 million US dollars, and Yahoo Huaxia and Sky.com have steadily occupied the headlines of major news all of a sudden.
3721, 8848, FM365 and the high-premium sale of Sky.com have attracted the attention of almost everyone in China, and even the media in Europe and the United States are vying to report on the magical events that happened on this continent they don't know.
More media have deeply excavated the entrepreneurial process of Sky.com, and in just one year, it has gone from 0 to 100 million. Despite the tragic situation in the Internet industry, the high growth rate of the Internet has suddenly stimulated more young people to join the wave of Internet entrepreneurship, and even many traditional industries are also hot.
As the founder, Chen Bo is even more deified, and the 21-year-old genius, ghost talent, etc. can be used to overwhelm the world.
The phone of the group's public relations department has been flooded with calls inviting him for an interview, and they are basically asking for an interview with him.
Chen Bocai didn't bother to pay attention to those, and almost pushed it to Mo Fei, after all, he was the CEO of Sky.com, and the limelight was still left to him.
There are also things that can't be pushed off, such as the CCTV economic channel. Or through Li Shusen, the Pengcheng City Government has already been dispatched, this face must be given, just an exclusive interview, and it won't take long.
The interview location is in his office, which is simply set up, and then set up a fill light and a camera to start. Since it is facing the official media, it is also national. Chen Bo replied very officially, steady and steady, not revealing a drop of water, first praised the support of the Pengcheng City Government, and thanked the media from all walks of life for their attention, in short, hello, hello, hello, hello.
The whole process has a bit of a coping taste, but everyone's experience is not replicable, and it is better to do something practical than to say so much.
In front of the camera, Chen Bo promised to donate 5 million yuan for the construction of a school for the children of local migrant workers in Pengcheng, and another 5 million yuan to respond to the country's call to help build hope primary schools in poor areas in the west.
When the enterprise becomes bigger and makes money, it must bear the corresponding social responsibility, and it is only 10 million yuan, and the profit from the sale of the Sky Network business is simply a drop in the bucket, which is also a necessary corporate publicity expenditure.
Every year, large companies set aside a portion of their funds for philanthropy, not only out of social responsibility, but also to enhance their brand.
A company that only eats and doesn't vomit, that's Pixiu, and how many people are willing to buy it?
The allocation and handover of special funds were all handed over to his deputy, and Zhou Botao was responsible for following up. Through the observation during this time, although he was born in an enterprise or institution, fortunately, he has a flexible brain and handles various affairs within the company very well.
It is simply like a finger, which makes Chen Bo very satisfied, and has been officially appointed as the assistant to the chairman of the board of directors of Pangu Technology Group, which sounds lengthy and scary, but in fact has a lot of power, vice president level.
In this way, even if Chen Bo is not in the company, he can handle the work on his behalf, and the important matters will be screened out and then handed over to him to decide.
The online OA office system used in the group is developed by Wang Xiaochuan, which is very convenient and user-friendly, and most of the paperless office and approval can be carried out as long as there is a network.
Dingdong's C2C platform has been launched, and there has been no large-scale promotion, even if it is promoted now, it cannot change the current environment, and the conditions for online shopping are actually not mature, and frogs need to be boiled in warm water.
Among the three most important links, the user base is too small, online payment is inconvenient, and logistics is not smooth, all of which restrict the development of this industry, so 8848 did not withstand the pressure of investors and collapsed in advance, and the development of e-commerce websites such as Excellence, Dangdang, eBay, and Ali is naturally not much better.
Dingdong is still slowly draining, it must be precipitated, waiting for the opportunity to accumulate strength to complete the change from quantity to quality, even if Chen Bo has his own golden finger, it is impossible to change the entire environment, he is at most a catfish.
Chen Bo will habitually open the official website of Tencent every morning to check the current news hotspots in real time, and at the same time, he will also experience his own products in person, and put forward suggestions for rectification. The first thing that senior officials in the company have to do every day is basically the same, if they have even used the products they have made, how can they make more users satisfied.
Today's news comes from a special report made by the Tengxun Yanjing Branch, which illustrates some of the US military's actions in the Middle East and the changes in the local area since then.
The Middle East has always been not peaceful, rich in oil resources coupled with ethnic . The contradiction makes it an opportunity, and there are not many points worth paying attention to.
But Chen Bo felt a little uneasy in his heart, as if he had missed something, where was it?
The U.S. military, the Middle East, oil, and Arabic began to spin in my head, and I inadvertently glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the computer screen, September 1, 2001!
Chen Bo slapped his head, Fuck! I remembered that it was the famous 9/11 terrorist attack in my previous life!
The twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York were drowned in a sea of fire, and the entire North American continent was plunged into a haze of terror, with direct economic losses of more than $30 billion in New York City, and even triggered a panic plunge in global financial markets.
In fact, just a few days before the incident, the intelligence department had reported that there were terrorists planning the hijacking in the White House, but the document was pressed to the bottom of the case before it was discovered.
"Boss, what's the urgent matter to call so late? That's not your style. ”
On the other side of the ocean, it is time to fall asleep late at night, and Chris, who has always paid attention to human rights, is naturally a little unhappy when he is woken up in the middle of the night.
"I hope it didn't disturb your sleep time, but I have an urgent matter to inform you now, immediately sell all the stocks, funds, and financial products in the hands of BP funds, and short all the funds on hand on the Dow Jones and Nasdaq."
Although Chen Bo said politely, he actually used an order tone, now all the money of the BP fund is in the financial market, otherwise all the hard work will be burned down with the two buildings, all of which will be turned into ashes, and even all the money will be lost.
"What, all sell-off? Sorry, boss! Forgive me for not being able to carry out your request, in the financial investment market, please believe my professionalism, our current portfolio will be very profitable in the future, if you throw it away now, it will all fall short! ”
The stubborn Chris ruthlessly rejected Chen Bo's opinion.
He couldn't tell Chris about the catastrophe that would happen in the future, even if he strongly asked for it, even with the orders of his boss, he didn't care, preferring to stick to his principles, which was almost like a stubborn German, without any American style.
No matter what he said, the other party just wouldn't let go, and Chen Bo was so angry that he hung up the phone directly.
No, we must not watch the chess pieces that we have secretly laid in the United States be abolished like this.
It seems that I can only go to the United States in person, but fortunately, I went to Apple last year to apply for a B1 business visa, which has not yet expired. You can go back and forth many times, otherwise you have to apply for a visa temporarily, and you have to trouble others.
Although Depp is the supervisor of the BP fund, Chris is in charge of the main business, and Jason is in charge of venture capital, which has nothing to do with him, and there are no companies worth investing in now, so he has been doing preliminary market research and evaluation.
Chen Bo quickly booked a ticket to San Francisco, fortunately, the company location of BP Fund is not arranged on the East Coast, but in San Francisco, which is also convenient for investing in technology companies in Silicon Valley in the future, and many venture capital companies are set up here, such as Sequoia Capital.
After arranging the work in the Pangu Group, he set off alone, even if he wanted to bring other people, it would be in vain without a visa. This trip was by Huaxia Air China, although the flight attendant was colder, but it was safer and more reliable to fly from her own country.