America's Road to Fame

Chapter 271 Addicted to Acting?

When the plane arrived at the Modu Airport in Huaguo, Chen William first placed Sasaki Nozomi and her bodyguards in one of his properties in Modu, and then took Erica to Yan's Garden.

Originally, William Chen came here to surprise Ivanta, and he would go to Japan in advance, and he was not sure where he would stay for how long, so he didn't tell Ivanta, and ended up being empty in Shanghai. Only then did he know that Ivanta led the team to Guangdong Province.

The previous plan of Troup-Chen Business Management Company was to develop in the southern Guangdong Province after completing the layout in the free shipping area.However, the last time I came to Huaguo, because Yanjing had a better opportunity, I went there to buy the third phase of China World Trade Center, and made some layout in Yanjing.

Now that Ivanta returned to China, after sorting out the previous projects, he went to Guangdong Province again as planned, preparing to build TC buildings in Yangcheng and Shenzhen respectively.

Since this is the case, Chen William is going to deal with his own affairs first, and then go to Guangdong Province to find Ivanta.When he came to Huaguo this time, besides accompanying her, Chen Weilian's main purpose was to continue sorting out Huaguo's business.

Chen William's investment in Huaguo was all made with the investment of Huaxia Future Capital. With the increase of Huaguo's business, especially after several acquisitions, Chen William decided to transfer the Meta Group's Huaguo office Gradually upgraded to Meta Asia Headquarters.

But things have to be done step by step. The current Meta Group mainly has three businesses - Internet, entertainment media and investment.

Regarding the direction of the Internet, companies under Meta Technology, such as Twitter, Reddit, and Siri, are not yet ready to conduct business in China. Their businesses in other Asian countries can be temporarily managed by the headquarters, or they can set up overseas branches on their own. companies, there is no need to specialize in integration.

HOLA has joint venture branches in China and Japan, so the main business of Meta Technology in China is the big data center to be established in Yunnan and Guizhou to provide support for various businesses in Asia.

As for the direction of entertainment media, the current investment industry includes the acquisition of Kugou music player, holding shares in Huayi Company, Enlight Media, and indirectly holding shares in Huace Film and Television through Fan Bingbing Studio, and investing in Youku.com.

Next, William Chen is going to find a suitable CEO for Meta (Asia) Entertainment Media Company, and has entrusted a headhunting company to screen.

Due to policy reasons, it is not good for foreign capital to directly produce film and television entertainment content in these Asian countries. Most of them have to cooperate with local companies to complete it. However, William Chen will work in the entertainment media industry in Japan, South Korea and other Asian countries There will also be layouts, so he needs a CEO who can help him manage these businesses.

As for the candidate for the CEO of Meta (Asia) Investment Company, after a period of investigation, Li Ying has been trusted by William Chen, and he plans to hand over the position to her after talking with the other party.

But before that, he first waited in Modu for Boss Ma who came here to meet him.

Sure enough, after the meeting, Boss Ma talked to William Chen about Alipay after a short exchange of pleasantries.

After Chen William prepared to make payment, he once hoped to cooperate with Alipay to conduct related research. At that time, Boss Ma's reaction was quite positive.However, after William Chen acquired PayPal, the other party's attitude changed subtly. Regarding the cooperation in the payment field and the progress of joint research on related technologies, it immediately slowed down.

The reason for this, William Chen can also see, in the final analysis, it is the prevention of competition.Meta Technology before the acquisition of PayPal and Meta Technology after the acquisition of PayPal are two completely different companies for Alipay.

As a Huaguo company, who hasn't the ambition to expand their business to overseas markets?

Now that Alipay has dominated China, the next step is to expand overseas markets. By then, PayPal will be their biggest competitor.

Before Meta Technology purchased PayPal, Boss Ma was still very interested in their cooperation. After all, as Meta Technology with several applications that are very influential in overseas regions, if it becomes a partner, it is still very important for Alipay's overseas market. Helpful, it can help Alipay when it develops overseas markets. Although they also make payments, their volume is not large compared to Alipay, and they will not be the main competitor.

But after the acquisition of PayPal, it was different.Owning what can be said to be the largest online payment company in the world, Meta Technology has become the biggest threat to Alipay in the overseas market. It can even be said that in the domestic market of Huaguo, Alipay needs to start to guard against the competition of PayPal.

So at this time, technical cooperation with Meta Technology in the field of payment, for Alipay, is in danger of becoming an "enemy". It is no wonder that their attitude towards cooperation has become ambiguous.

Sure enough, after the meeting, Boss Ma began to talk to William Chen about Alipay's overseas plans. They planned to expand Alipay's overseas markets starting from Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia.At present, the Alipay branch in HK has begun to be established, and will serve as the vanguard of Alipay's overseas market in the future.

"So, you think that after the acquisition of PayPal, Meta Technology will pose a threat to Ali, so you hesitated, right, old horse."

Hearing Chen William's words, Boss Ma didn't show any embarrassment at all. He said solemnly:

"William, I am not the only one who is worried. I believe in your character. After all, we have cooperated for so long, but Alipay has other shareholders. It is normal for them to have concerns."

Hehe, regarding Boss Ma's words, Chen Weilian did not expose him directly, but he still had to tell him what should be explained clearly to him.

"Lao Ma, let's open the window and speak frankly. It is completely unnecessary to worry about PayPal. What are you worried about? Worried that PayPal will be an obstacle for Alipay to become the world's number one payment software? You know, this is impossible, anyone can To become number one in the payment field, only Alipay is impossible, it can be said that Huaguo’s payment software is impossible to be the number one, as long as the current global financial order is still dominated by the United States, this situation is impossible.”

What William Chen said was the truth, and it was also a very cold reality.As long as the global economic order is dominated by the United States, it is impossible to allow Alipay to become the largest mobile payment method, which is originally determined by national interests.

This is unlikely to happen unless Hua Guo surpasses the United States and becomes the dominant world order.

The height a company can reach is determined by the strength of the country behind it. If you compare the ranking of the world's top 500 companies with the GDP rankings of countries around the world since the last century, then this conclusion will be clearer .

If it were other Americans, they would not speak so bluntly to Boss Ma.However, Chen William's soul was originally from Huaguo in the previous life, and his sense of identification with America did not surpass his sense of identification with Huaguo, so he would not mind saying that.

"So Lao Ma, in the global payment field, Alipay will only have a relatively large share at most, but will not become the dominant player. So from my point of view, PayPal is now in the leading position, but it is still following behind. Many chasers, so even if PayPal sits No.1 in the global payment field, it will not become a monopoly, and even if PayPal is an American company, it will not allow it to become such a monopoly.”

"So you need Alipay as an ally?"

Boss Ma said thoughtfully.

"Yes, old horse, PayPal needs to stabilize its position in the global payment field, and it is doomed to be impossible to completely eat this field, and it is even difficult to achieve half of the share. In the payment field, it is destined to be a pack of heroes."

"So why does Alipay not form an alliance with PayPal, especially now that you have not even started to really enter the overseas market, is it a bit early to be wary of PayPal now? We are cooperating to drive other payment methods out of this market, It is in our respective interests.”

After listening to Chen William, Boss Ma nodded slowly, and said cautiously: "What you said makes sense, William, but I need to go back and discuss this matter with Alipay's board of directors. "

I K, Ma, you are addicted to acting. William Chen gave him a squinting look as if I was just watching your performance, and said speechlessly:

"Anyway, I've said everything I need to say, and you can make your own decisions."

(End of this chapter)