"Actually, I don't want to see that." Zhou Xin said.

Li Jingyi looked at Zhou Xin with puzzled eyes, and she asked, "Why?"

The merger of the two companies will create a de facto monopoly in the search engine space.

I remember that Xinxing Investment was a shareholder of both companies, especially Baidu's largest institutional shareholder. The premium they can enjoy after the merger is still considerable. Compared with the depression of the Internet industry a year ago, this year's Nasdaq is much better. ”

Li Jingyi stayed in San Francisco for almost a whole year, and with Zhou Xin's side, she had the opportunity to get in touch with a lot of information.

Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial information and investment opportunities will be reported to Zhou Xin by emerging investments, and capital market dynamics will be reported to Zhou Xin by emerging capital management. She is not a novice who has just arrived at Ameriken, and she already has a certain market sensitivity.

Zhou Xin said: "There are several reasons, the reason why I told you earlier that I don't care about this income is because of the mentality of watching fun.

I'd like to see that the search engine space isn't monolithic. There are two companies that compete better than one, and watching the fun is just the appearance. Internally, I think there is a lot of potential in this area, and I don't want a company to monopolize the market. Search engines are currently a field no less than operating systems.

After the birth of such a company, sooner or later it will enter the field where my company is located. I'm not afraid of competition, but it's always annoying.

Another reason is that the longer it drags on, the more the value of the search engine will be seen, and then they want to merge, and the more valuable the chips in my hand will be.

The benefits that can be brought to me now are far from comparable to those that will be available in a few years. ”

Li Jingyi is a master's degree in a computer-related program, and Ameriken's master's degree is a project-based master's degree, which is more like a certification than a degree than a doctorate.

She knows search engine technology very well, and in her daily communication with Zhou Xin, she knows the other party's views on the Internet, and search engine companies have both data, computing power and a large number of engineers who are proficient in algorithms, and they can indeed burst out a large amount of energy.

Zhou Xin's research institute only has the last two of them, computing power and computer scientists.

Li Jingyi asked: "As a major shareholder of Baidu and one of the shareholders of Google, you can prevent them from merging. ”

Zhou Xin said: "First of all, I can't do it, I don't have a controlling stake in any of Baidu and Google, the original opponent of the merger between Google and Baidu was only me and Robin, and now Robin has accepted it, only I am alone, and I have no control over Baidu."

All shareholders except me want to merge, unless I go to buy the shares of some Baidu investment institutions at a premium, but the problem is that after Robin relents, everyone knows that Baidu is going to merge with Google, and no one wants to sell my shares.

If I do this myself, there will be many negative effects, such as Robin's distrust of me, I got control of Baidu, the relationship between me and Robin, will Baidu's operation continue with him in the future, or will I just kill him? Also, will I really be able to make a successful acquisition? Goldman Sachs can also use legal means to stop my control of Baidu.

And it's too late, Robin told me that it's too late, and it's too late for me to do these things.

So forget it, wait and see what happens, Robin will regret it sooner or later.

In my opinion, whether Baidu swallows Google, or Google swallows Baidu, the essence behind it lies in the capital invested in these two companies in the hope of making a profit.

The post-merger chairmanship is just a pie for Robin, and even if he does sit in this position, he will be ousted in less than two years.

I don't know how the Goldman Sachs guys drew the pie for him, and I don't know how they signed the merger agreement, but I know it's definitely not that simple.

The way I can think of alone is to be sued by the federal court in the name of monopoly in the future, and after the lawsuit, it is called to split the merged Baidu-Google, and in fact to remove Robin from power.

Last year, Microsoft was not the same case, and in the end, Bill handed over control of Microsoft in exchange for Microsoft not being split up by the antitrust lawsuit.

And that's just the trick I can think of, so even if Robin wrote in the pre-merger board resolution that he wouldn't be ousted, there was a risk that he would be kicked out from a higher level. ”

Li Jingyi asked, "Did you talk to Robin?" What you say, he may reconsider. ”

Zhou Xin shook his head: "Originally, I wanted to remind him, but I saw that he was ambitious and ready to do a big job, so I still didn't pour cold water on him." ”

Zhou Xin's relationship with Robin is okay because he never interferes with Baidu's specific operations, and will give Baidu some resources.

Robin's desire to control the company can be said to be the strongest among the BAT three, whether it is the earliest founder team of Tencent or the earliest founder team of Alibaba, he can work in the company for a long time without making mistakes.

Only Xu Yong, an alumnus of Yan University who started his own business with Robin, left Baidu before its IPO.

And before Baidu's IPO, Robin was forced to leave Baidu in order to maintain absolute control of Baidu, and at the same time, he also acquired a large number of Baidu shares in Xu Yong's hands in cash.

In Silicon Valley in 2001, the merger of Baidu and Google was the general trend, and all investment institutions were staring at this opportunity.

Before the news of the merger was fully finalized, the financial media on Wall Street had already reported on the news, citing insiders in various ways.

The financial media claimed that the merger of Baidu and Google would create the biggest unicorn among unlisted companies, which would spur investors around the world.

And Zhou Xinguang just looked at the news pushed to him on the WeChat public account every day, and he knew that the merger of Baidu and Google and the subsequent listing were ready to go.

This set of public opinion propaganda is building momentum and raising expectations for subsequent listings.

Zhou Xin thought to himself: "Goldman Sachs still has the ability, this kind of obviously monopolistic merger can be promoted and licensed, and it would have been rejected long ago if I were to promote it."

These old Wall Street money are somewhat unscrupulous in order to eat new money from Silicon Valley. ”

The merger of Baidu and Google is only a microcosm of the recovery of the Internet, although it is far from returning to the heyday of the late 90s, but the entire Internet enterprise entrepreneurial environment is indeed facing a recovery.

When Mphone was launched at the beginning of this year, most people were skeptical about this product, thinking that this product would be Zhouxin's Waterloo.

Towards the end of the first half of the year, Matrix announced sales on its website, and the number of Mphone sales exceeded one million units.

That's a huge success for a phone priced from $599, not to mention Matrix's first phone.

This result is something that other mobile phone companies can predict, and everyone only questioned Mphone at the beginning.

In an interview, the president of Nokia's Americ Ken declared: "Who would want a $599 phone? Newman's loyal fans may not be able to accept the price either.

No, I seem to be wrong, and Newman's loyal fans will laugh and pay for the Mphone even if it is $599 and tell everyone that it is worth it.

But in reality we all know that it's not worth the price, and only Newman's supporters will pay for it. Unlike the Internet industry, the mobile phone industry does not rely on supporters alone. ”

It was clear that he was slapped in the face after the sales data for the first three weeks came out.

When the sales of Mphone exceeded 1 million units, when the media interviewed him again, they completely changed their words and did not mention that they were not optimistic about Mphone before.

"I'm very optimistic about Newman, I expected the success of Mphone for a long time, it is such a different product, it is loved by almost all young people. The price of Mphone is so high, I still see in media reports that there are many young people who save their usual living expenses to buy it.

Nokia is also working on a similar phone internally, and we will launch a more powerful phone than the Mphone. ”

It's not just Nokia that's doing this, but other mobile phone companies are also trying to replicate Mphone's success.

Because of this, the new start-up boom in Silicon Valley is the development of Internet applications for mobile phones.

At present, the common cooperation model is that mobile phone companies invest in several Internet companies, and then work with Internet companies to develop Internet applications on mobile phones, and Internet applications are owned by these Internet companies.

This cooperation model not only ensures the interests of both parties, but also ensures that Internet companies will do their best to develop Internet applications.

"Anthy, the effect of this screen still can't meet my ideals.

The chip built into the first generation of Mphone was actually very powerful, and it was able to exert far more powerful functions than it does now.

But the reason why we didn't do it is because the memory and storage space are too small, and we need to reserve a lot of space for applications such as WeChat and Weibo.

The other is the screen, which limits play. Only a single screen that can be touched allows software developers to unleash their creativity.

There will also be more companies in the Mphone ecosystem to help us improve together, rather than just relying on our own strength to develop applications.

There are several main problems with the current screen, one is to take a photo, and it takes a long time for the black shadow to disappear after touching.

In addition, the speed of feedback is too slow, and the switch from click to page is not smooth enough. Then there's the inability to add touch feedback to the screen.

Clarity is also an issue. ”

Anthy, who is in charge of the mobile phone business and also poached from Nokia, listened to it and said, "Boss, this is just the effect of the first version."

It's already a big improvement over the previous generation, and this isn't the final sample yet, and we're going to continue to optimize it.

In fact, the effect you want is the effect we want to achieve, and everyone's goal is the same.

It's just that the multi-point touch screen itself is not so simple, and we are now trying to solve this problem by using a diamond-shaped capacitive sensor, and then adding transparent rectangular electrodes to the display, we expect to be able to iterate on a relatively satisfactory touch screen in a month and a half. ”

Zhou Xin can fully understand that this work is not so simple, and it is a difficult thing to open up wasteland, unlike the future mobile phone manufacturers who only need to integrate the supplier's solution, now if you want to achieve the effect, many key components need to be developed together with the supplier.

Touchscreens need to be developed entirely by themselves.

"This year is the year of Mphone's launch and the success of Mphone, and I am very happy to be here to celebrate the sales of Mphone over 1 million units, which is just the beginning of Mphone's brilliant future!

Let us all look forward to that day coming soon. ”

The reason why Zhou Xin came to Matrix today is also because Matrix chartered a hotel to hold a celebratory dinner to celebrate the sales of Mphone exceeding 1 million units.

One million units in half a year means that Mphone is on the right track, and it is only a matter of time before it becomes profitable.

So Zhou Xin went to Matrix half a day in advance to learn about the research and development progress of the touch screen by the way.

Goldman Sachs regretted the success of Mphone, and Goldman Sachs regretted why he had to set such a high price for Quora back then.

Xinxin Technology does not look promising, Goldman Sachs will not invest, and they do not look down on semiconductor companies headquartered in China.

But Matrix is promising, especially after the launch of Mphone. Goldman Sachs executives were thinking that if Zhou Xin had not been given so much cash that year, with the amount of funds for the development and production of mobile phones, Zhou Xin would inevitably need to bring in external investment.

As a result, now they can only look at a company with huge potential, and there is no way to make a profit from it.

After Zhou Xin finished speaking, the employees below burst into warm applause, and only after staying in Matrix did they know how much effort they put into Mphone.

Zhou Xin's requirements for Mphone are not too harsh to describe, and it took no less than ten rounds of adjustment of the key size of the 26 keys to determine the final plan.

"Hopefully next year when we launch the second generation of the Mphone, we will get even better results and we will come here to celebrate."

It is definitely too late to launch Mphone this year, and if the problem of touch screen is not solved, there will be no fundamental changes in the launch of the second-generation Mphone.

Therefore, this year, Zhou Xin only plans to upgrade the version, and at the same time launch an app store, allowing users to download apps from their computers and then install them on Mphone.

At present, only Apple's music store has been negotiated, and Apple will launch a music store after the iPod is released in the fall.

Zhou Xin actually hopes that there will be some games to enrich the ecology of Mphone.

Today's mobile games can do less than take up as much memory and storage space, and can greatly improve the playability of mobile phones.

Moreover, the Mphone mobile phone store supports the form of charging, which also gives game developers an incentive to port their games to the Mphone platform.

At such a time, it is necessary to feel how convenient it is to have built-in electronic payment on mobile phones.

One of the most important reasons why Apple can rely on the closed IOS system to compete with Android in the mobile Internet era is that Apple can bring benefits to developers, which is why countless developers have participated in the improvement of Apple's application ecosystem.

And Mphone will take this approach to unite developers now.

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