When Tang Yuan walked down from the car just now, he was still a little puzzled why so many people gathered outside the Four Seasons Minfu, and it wasn't until he walked into the Four Seasons Minfu and looked at the empty environment inside that he realized that Cao Weiguo had chartered the entire Four Seasons Minfu.

Under the warm welcome of Cao Weiguo's secretary Guo Wei, Tang Yuan took Xiao Yayue to the best viewing position of the Four Seasons Minfu Forbidden City Store, which is only a few hundred meters away from the Forbidden City, which belongs to the distance that can be seen from the Forbidden City.

Soon, Tang Yuan met Cao Weiguo, a legend of the Chinese Internet.

The other party is wearing a black business suit today, wearing a gray tie, his figure looks a little strong, his appearance looks unremarkable, and it is a little dark, if it weren't for Tang Yuan knowing that he is the chairman of Sina Weibo, if he met him outside, Tang Yuan would probably think that the other party would be a coal boss, because of the other party's appearance conditions, it looks too simple.

However, Tang Yuan will not make such a low-end mistake as judging people by their appearance, in the past four days, Tang Yuan has spent all his time on Sina Weibo and Cao Weiguo except for tasting Yanjing food and signing the equity transfer letter.

Cao Weiguo is a CFO by training, long before joining Sina, he worked as a senior manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of the world's top five accounting firms, and participated in the listing projects of a number of high-tech companies on NASDAQ during his tenure, and has extremely rich experience in capital operation.

After returning to China, he joined Sina in 1999, led Sina's listing on NASDAQ in 2000, served as Sina's president in 2006, became Sina's chairman in 2012, and became Sina Weibo's chairman in 2014.

Even today, Cao Weiguo's 2000 initiative to list domestic companies through offshore companies is still used by many domestic Internet companies, which shows his wisdom.

There is such a sentence, and the evaluation of Cao Weiguo is quite pertinent, that is: establish people with the system, speak with the market, enthusiastic and calm, meticulous and resolute, good at strategy and good at tactics.

For such a figure who can be called a pioneer of China's Internet, Tang Yuan is still more respectful and curious in his heart, and when Tang Yuan is looking at Cao Weiguo, Cao Weiguo is also looking at Tang Yuan.

Young!

Too young!

It is hard for Cao Weiguo to imagine that such a young man, who is about the same age as his son, has raised his cards on the Nasdaq stock exchange in the past four days and frantically acquired a full 25% stake in their company.

In fact, as early as the first day, when Tang Yuan raised his card on the NASDAQ stock exchange for the first time, Cao Weiguo received the news, and at the same time, he made a response as soon as possible, but the speed of the other party was too fast, so fast that even if he knew that someone was frantically buying the equity of their company, he could only watch it, and it was difficult to make any strong countermeasures.

This is the second acquisition challenge Cao Weiguo has suffered since Shanda's forcible acquisition of Sina in 2005, and this acquirer is more menacing and unstoppable than the first one.

According to Cao Weiguo's investigation for many days, the other party's method of acquiring Sina Weibo is not complicated, and it can even be said to be simple and crude, which is quite like a feeling of breaking 10,000 in an urban stallion.

To put it simply, it's to take money and smash it.

In the current market, Sina Weibo shares worth $80 per share, the other party directly acquired at a premium of 50%, in this case, if Sina Weibo's equity appreciation potential is larger, Sina Weibo many small shareholders may still insist on insisting, but since the beginning of this year, Sina Weibo's market value has plummeted, and in just one year, the market value has directly ushered in halving, which makes many small shareholders have long been panicked.

Now that such a person who is willing to take over at a high price has suddenly appeared, one by one naturally chooses to cash out and leave, and is not willing to continue to accompany Sina Weibo to stick to it.

Ali Group has strong financial resources, and people invest in Sina Weibo for strategic goals, even if they lose tens of billions of yuan, they will not blink, and Sina Company, the largest shareholder of Sina Weibo, in order to maintain their control over Sina Weibo, is a loss of pants, and they have to continue to stick to it.

These small shareholders are different, their purpose of investing in Sina Weibo is very pure, that is, to make money, so now some people are willing to take over at a high price to make up for their losses this year, and they are naturally very happy.

In this case, Cao Weiguo really has no way to stop Tang Yuan's acquisition except to watch, unless he can also offer a price of $120 per share, so as to use the chairman's power to give priority to recovering the shares in the hands of minority shareholders.

But the problem is that neither he nor Sina Company can come up with so much money.

At the same time, Cao Guowei has been thinking about riding his sister these days, and he can't understand why Tang Yuan is doing this, isn't this a loss-making deal?

Unless Tang Yuan can acquire all the shares of Alibaba Group at one time, even if Tang Yuan acquires all the shares on the market, he will still not be able to shake Cao Weiguo's control of Sina Weibo.

Many troubles and doubts made Cao Weiguo not sleep well these days, and often suddenly started in the middle of the night, hating and scolding: Is this person sick? What the hell is he trying to do!

This situation continued until yesterday, until Cao Weiguo found out that Tang Yuan stopped the acquisition after the acquisition of 25% of Sina Weibo's shares, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, but when he realized that Tang Yuan's equity and Ali Group's equity were added together, it happened to reach 51% of the relative control stipulated by law, and his blood pressure was high.

Deliberately!

It must have been deliberate!

Although Cao Weiguo holds more than 70% of the voting rights of Sina Weibo, even if the other party holds more than 51% of the shares, he can still maintain a greater advantage and right to speak, but the premise is that you have to see who this other party is.

Who is the other party?

That is the Ali Group, which occupies half of China's Internet, has always been the master of eating people and not spitting out bones, and the two used to be at peace with each other, because the gap between them is too large, and now if Tang Yuan, who controls 25% of the equity of Sina Weibo, defects to the other party's camp, then the other party has quite a lot of room for maneuver.

Just as Tang Yuan initially guessed, Cao Weiguo also didn't think that if Ali Group had the opportunity to eat Sina Weibo, the other party would be merciful and choose to let Sina Weibo go.

After perceiving this situation, Cao Weiguo naturally did not dare to take it lightly, and hurriedly asked his secretary to call Tang Yuan's secretary today, wanting to ask Tang Yuan out to meet.

Seeing Tang Yuan today has only one purpose......

That is, no matter what reason Tang Yuan acquires so many shares of Sina Weibo, he must win Tang Yuan to his side, at least not let Tang Yuan defect to Ali Group.

(End of chapter)