America's Road to Fame

Chapter 252 No nutrition
"William, I'm not bothering you."

Yang Zhiyuan also saw William Chen coming, walked to his side, and said to the two of them.

"Of course not, Jerry, long time no see."

William Chen shook hands with him and said with a smile.

"You guys chat first, I'll go to Wendi's place to have a look."

Quan Zhixian winked very much, seeing that Yang Zhiyuan must have something to say to William Chen, she took the initiative to find an excuse to leave.

After she left, Yang Zhiyuan raised his glasses and said, "Recently, Alipay found something good. It seems that you made a very wise decision to buy Ali's stock."

"You regret it, Jerry."

Hearing his words, William Chen joked.As he said, among the first batch of third-party payment licenses issued by Huaguo, Alipay is among them, and it is one of the two omni-channel licenses, which is very rare, and it also represents Alipay It has been recognized in the payment field of Huaguo.

"No, I agree with what you said before. Yahoo should not be too distracted. If it focuses on the search field from the beginning, it will not let Google catch up." Yang Zhiyuan shook his head and said: "But now these are also related I have nothing to do with it, I seldom get involved in Yahoo’s affairs now, and I plan to quit Yahoo completely in the next two years.”

"Oh? Why?"

"At Yahoo, the internal chaos is too much, and my opinions are increasingly being questioned. I know that the board of directors is ready to remove Carroll. I don't think this is a wise decision, but it is becoming more and more powerless, so It's time to leave."

Listening to Yang Zhiyuan's rather low-pitched words, Chen Weilian realized that from now on, Yahoo has already begun to come to an end.Carol Bartz took the position of CEO of Yahoo through the recommendation of Yang Zhiyuan, and now the board of directors has kicked her out, which makes Yang Zhiyuan disappointed with them.

But having said that, if you look at it now, Yang Zhiyuan's refusal of Microsoft's $460 billion acquisition of Yahoo is a very big mistake.But this is also understandable. After all, Yahoo was created by him alone, but he would not give up so easily if there is hope, and the situation of Yahoo at that time was far from as bad as it is now.

Moreover, Yahoo has made more than one mistake for so long, so there is nothing to say too much. It is not only Microsoft's acquisition that has been missed, but also giants such as Google and Facebook, which were almost lost to them. Acquisitions, if we hadn't been so hesitant about these acquisitions at the time, the current Internet landscape would have been rewritten.

And William Chen is not without credit for this. Although Yahoo has declined, the Ali shares it acquired will at least give shareholders a generous return in the future, but now it is also acquired by William Chen at a price of 40 billion US dollars.Although this price is many times higher than when they invested in Ali, it is too cheap compared to its future value.

"Stop talking about this, William, I heard that you are planning to acquire PayPal?"

"Yes, Jerry, I have this idea because of the development of Alipay. I think the Internet payment field is still very promising in the future."

"I'm afraid it won't be easy though, eBay takes PayPal very seriously as a company."

"Always try. If you don't succeed, you can only do it yourself. By the way, Jerry, what direction are you planning to go next?"

"I haven't thought about it yet. I have the idea of ​​being an investor. I want to create a venture capital fund and invest in technology companies."

It's a good direction, and to be honest, running a company, especially one of Yahoo's size, is really busy.Moreover, he needs to communicate with the board of directors, think about the development strategy of the company, and solve various practical problems encountered. Compared with this, he uses his popularity and connections in the Internet industry at this time to invest in some start-up companies. Using experience to guide their development will be a very good way out.

However, in William Chen's memory, there were no amazing examples of Yang Zhiyuan's subsequent investments, so as a business, it was impossible for him to invest in Yang Zhiyuan's venture capital fund.

As a friend, Yang Zhiyuan is a very good mentor and friend. He is a good person recognized by the Internet, but his character is really not suitable for running a company because of his kindness and indecision. It can be seen from his performance at the time, and these can also be used by William Chen as an example to warn himself.

As William Chen realized before, as an ordinary person, kindness is a virtue and is praised.But as the leader of an enterprise, one must not be kind and soft-hearted. The Holy Mother will destroy the entire enterprise, so he must be decisive.

Like the red giant once, is Getu a good guy?Yes, he was the most highly rated Soviet leader by Western values, which got him the Nobel Peace Prize, but ruined the entire Red Soviet.

In this charity gathering, William Chen once again donated US$5000 million to the National Asian American Mutual Aid Charity Fund. This time he represented the Kaitlyn Charitable Foundation. This year, the Caitlyn Foundation has a charitable quota of US$10 billion. , he will continue to use it.

When the banquet was in the middle, a guest was ushered in, the candidate for governor of New York State, Mr. Pete Frolick, er, Alicia's husband in the legal sense, he also came here in the banquet.

After all, the state election is about to be held, and the Asian-American group is also the target of his voters.In the United States before, because early risers of Asians were not very enthusiastic about participating in politics, this group was often easily overlooked by candidates for election. Enlisting your support to guarantee your interests will sacrifice the interests of Asians in the formulation of many policies.

For example, Asians generally attach great importance to education, so in the admissions of well-known universities, the proportion of Asians is not low.But later, in order to win the support of Hispanics and African Americans, the enrollment ratio of ethnic minorities was skewed like them, which encroached on the interests of Asians.

But there is no way. Who told you that although you have a large number of people, the turnout rate is low?

However, with the influx of more highly educated Asian immigrants and the growth of the second and third generations of Asians, the political influence of Asian groups is also increasing, and they gradually become the targets that these politicians need to win over.

Although this situation has improved, compared with other ethnic groups, the presence of Asians is still relatively low. This is also the situation that Chen Williams and his National Asian Mutual Aid Charity Fund need to work on improving.

"William, nice to meet you. I have met your uncle many times. I hope you can invest more in New York State and support the recovery of our local economy."

Pete specially came over to chat with Chen William for a while, and his attitude was very enthusiastic.

"As long as the policy is appropriate, I have to say that in terms of policy, we lag behind many places. You can see that, Mr. Pete, now not only New York, but also places like California are facing the situation of losing large companies. After all, the policies of other states Better, no?"

"Don't worry about this, if I can be elected, I will definitely focus on promoting preferential policies for enterprises..."

Pete Frolick, how should I put it, is that kind of standard political star, with a good appearance, humorous conversation, and always with a kind and kind smile. This is the best thing they face the public after countless training Perfect side.

However, William Chen would not believe too much in everything they said, so although they chatted a lot, most of them lacked nutrition and were just superficially polite, and on this occasion, it was impossible for them to have any real substance The conversation is nothing more than an approximation.If you really want to benefit yourself in terms of policy, you still need to promote it in other ways.

After the banquet was over, William Chen left here with Quan Zhixian.

This South Korean beauty is very interested in William Chen's manor on Long Island, and William Chen doesn't mind taking her there for a visit, maybe they will also learn about the United States and South Korea together.

(End of this chapter)