Fight to the third generation

On the other end of the phone, her tone was cheerful and relaxed, and she asked, "My dear brother Hao, did you miss me when you went to America?"

"Of course there is. After inspecting the company today, I bought a house near the company. The total cost is about 400 million US dollars. You can run horses in the yard. I will bring you to play with me next time." Su Yehao dozed off, it was already night in local time After seven o'clock, the sky outside the window began to darken.

The location of this new hotel is a bit remote, but fortunately, the environment is quiet and comfortable to live in.

"So... you suddenly had an idea, and bought a house for $400 million just after you went there? What style of house is it, and is it beautiful?" Xiao Nizi asked.

Su Yehao told her:

"The landlord is a German. It has a brown exterior wall and a dark blue super-large sloping roof. There are three floors in total. The interior decoration is a bit like British style, mainly made of walnut wood. Because it is a new house, it looks very beautiful, and it should be very comfortable to live in. Comfortable, there is a 15-meter-long outdoor swimming pool, the garden is exquisite, and the grass is green this season.”

"Wow, I wanted to go find you."

Su Yehao, who couldn't laugh or cry, hurriedly said: "Didn't we just separate for a day? I haven't found a reliable CEO to help me. This time I should stay in the United States for a while. You can wait a week or two before coming back. I live now. The hotel and the house haven't been cleaned up yet, and even if you come, I don't think I have time to play with you, so I can take you to New York after a while."

"...Whatever you think about others is really a lie, hmph."

Acting coquettishly habitually, Nangong Tian continued down the topic: "Well, I haven't been to New York yet. I almost chose to study in New York at that time. I heard that shopping is very cheap and there are often discounts."

"The little money from the discount is not enough for the fuel cost of the plane."

Su Yehao continued to doze off, but after being contacted by her, his drowsiness was relieved a bit, so he found out IBM's laptop, searched the Internet for recent news about Silicon Valley, and wanted to see if there were any good projects worth selling.

Chatting with Xiao Nizi while surfing the Internet.

As expected of Silicon Valley, the transmission speed of the network is much faster than at home. Although the lag is still obvious, it is acceptable. There is no harm if there is no comparison.

Speaking carefully, according to the real estate agent, the neighbor who lives on the left side of the new house is an IBM shareholder, worth more than one billion US dollars.

On the right is an investor, who is also worth a lot. As the most expensive area in Silicon Valley, Su Yehao's wealth is not outstanding in the local area. There are two super rich people worth more than tens of billions of dollars in the community. Those are well-known figures on the global Forbes rich list. They are one of the founders of Hewlett-Packard and a major shareholder of Intel.

Staying on the three-acre land in Hong Kong City, there is always an illusion that the end is coming.

When I came to this kind of place, I realized that a mountain is higher than a mountain. At least Su Yehao's worth does not start with "B", even if the whole family adds up, it is enough.

"Billion" level, one billion US dollars, this is the watershed between the rich and the super rich. Currently, Su Yehao has not touched the threshold personally. He is often plagued by intermittent ambition at home, and he often has nothing to do , along with buying a house in Silicon Valley, he is indeed planning to stay for a while, and then find his passion for venture capital.

As for the business in the mainland, basically you don’t need to worry too much. There are only 90 to [-] Internet users, which is less than one-sixth of the number in the United States. Even if all of them use TAT instant chat software, the valuation is only ten percent. About [-] million Hong Kong dollars, I need to let the bullets fly for a while, so I can't be impatient.

While searching for information, I accidentally saw news about Qiu Yaohe, the son of Uncle Qiu's family.

The press release is in English, and Su Yehao checks up words from time to time. His level is only good enough for daily communication, and he is incomparable with a San Francisco resident like Linda Yun. The translation probably means that Qiu Yaohe's company is recruiting people from all over the world. Came to America to disrupt the web chat market.

Just take a look, it is clear that apart from about 3000 million US dollars, there is no achievement yet, but it does not prevent Qiu Yaohe from bragging first.

Now that Su Yehao has also made a decision to open up the international market through the revised TVT, he will definitely compete for market share with the other party in the future, so the idea of ​​inviting Qiu Yaohe, who also came to Silicon Valley to develop, to have a meal, turned around in his head. Circle, was wiped out in the cradle in a blink of an eye.

Thinking of his father's best friend, Uncle Qiu, Su Yehao felt a little stressed.

The main reason is that in order to help his son, Uncle Qiu will ask him to help him to support Qiu Yaohe's business. Isn't this tantamount to giving a knife to a competitor.

The atmosphere of sophistication in the casino city is full of sophistication. The more he thinks about it, the more Su Yehao thinks it is possible. With the idea of ​​planning for a rainy day, he has decided to have a chat with his father when he has time, so as not to let his own father get hot and sell himself inadvertently. .

There are a lot of news about Silicon Valley companies on the Internet. Some people are developing online music, others are trying to develop a new generation of data compression technology, and some people are tossing out an online real estate rental and sales website, with a valuation of more than [-] million US dollars.

There are all kinds of projects, but there are only a few that Su Yehao really values, such as Amazon, which is trembling with spending money, and Cisco, which is desperately trying to seize the market share of 3G communications. The search engine business is still dominated by Yahoo, and the king in the field of instant messaging is AOL. , the market value has gone to 400 billion US dollars, far exceeding ICQ with a valuation of [-] million US dollars.

The reason why the value gap is so large is mainly because America Online has already made a lot of money and has identified the direction of making profits, while ICQ, which has 700 million users, has fallen into a deadlock.

When he was about to turn off the computer, Su Yehao was surprised to find a message saying that America Online was trying to acquire ICQ, and the negotiated price was around 5000 million US dollars.

It's just a tabloid news, covered up under a lot of hot news, and if you search carefully, there are not many search results.

Su Yehao, who has been thinking about how to develop TAT, felt for a moment at this moment, as if the two channels of Ren and Du had been opened up, his eyes opened like copper bells, thinking about what it would be like if he merged ICQ and diverted users to TAT result.

ICQ can't find a profit direction, but Su Yehao has already started planning virtual "T coins" and placing advertisements in his personal space.

If the price is really 5000 million U.S. dollars, if you discuss it with Japanese banks, you may not have a chance to get support. It is equivalent to recharging and upgrading, spending more than 20 billion Hong Kong dollars, and buying 700 million users...

Chapter 310 The Snake Tunxiang's Ambition

Thinking about it, I fell asleep unconsciously.

After waking up the next day, I ate a buffet breakfast in the restaurant of the hotel. I heard from Linda Yun that the new house had been packed overnight, and the home appliances could be brought in today. In addition, several professional servants would be hired temporarily.

then.

Su Yehao decided to go to the new house to have a look again. The total cost was more than 400 million US dollars, and he still had to continue to invest, which was full of freshness.

Return to the small town of Atherton again.

On the narrow road, supercars and luxury cars pass by from time to time, some of which are equipped with accompanying bodyguards.

The house is hidden behind lush trees, and the environment is empty and quiet.

A hundred years ago, it was just a quiet small village, but now it has become a gathering place favored by billionaires. Anyone who meets anyone on the side of the road may have a net worth of over 200 million. The median house price in the local area exceeds [-] million US dollars. Knowing that the U.S. dollar in this era has strong purchasing power.

Even Manhattan, New York, looks weak compared to this kind of town where the super rich gather together.

The new house that Su Yehao bought is very good, but it is not the best real estate in the area. When he finished looking inside and out, and stood on the terrace looking into the distance, he pointed to a house with a red roof and asked : "Who owns that house, it seems to be very big?"

After receiving the news, the real estate agent who was standing next to him laughed and said:

"It's really big. The yard is about 50% larger than yours. There are [-] rooms in total, with almost perfect English decoration. I just sold it to an anonymous buyer in October last year, and it will probably be sold again soon. Resell it, if you are interested, I will notify you when the time comes."

After hearing this, Su Yehao asked curiously, "Anonymous buyer? How do you know you'll sell it again?"

"...This is an almost open secret. I can only tell you that it is registered under the name of a young girl. There are rumors that Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, often visits the house."

It was said to be a secret, but in order to get close to Su Yehao, the real estate agent still put on a "trust me" attitude, smiled, nodded slightly, and continued:

"But Paul Allen has not been here for two or three months, and the hostess of the house is currently living with a male model. They must not be able to afford the high property taxes. They are not really rich like you. people."

Paul Allen.

This playboy, who has never been married and is also worth more than tens of billions of dollars, bought a house worth more than 600 million dollars for a young girl. The story inside can be guessed without further explanation.

Just listen to gossip.

Su Yehao shrugged and said: "It's nice to have a beautiful neighbor, but I won't buy a house anymore. I have a house worth 6000 million US dollars in Hong Kong City, and I also own a lot of land. I just want to live comfortably when I come here for business. That's all."

"...US$6000 million? Wow, isn't that more than the most expensive property in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. Asians are really crazy and rich."

The realtor saw a car approaching and went downstairs to help.

The house was not cleaned up yesterday, and their company gave a garden and pool cleaning service as a gift, and also helped to prepare a set of exquisite porcelain made by JDZ.

Everyone in their business knows that rich people like to get together, and friends of rich people are often rich too.

So try to provide the best quality service, in order to help introduce more customers, judging from the strength shown by Su Yehao, it is worthy of their serious treatment.

The house is clean.

There are still very few things, and they look extremely tidy. The bookshelves in the private library are still empty. At night, people disassemble the chandeliers made of crystal, wipe them one by one, and put them back together.

Finding that the workers were still busy, Su Yehao went out first to Fengsha Road, where venture capital companies gathered, to find the office of McKinsey Consulting, which his old man had worked with.

A middle-aged Jew named Adrian was in charge of receiving Su Yehao, and Linda Yun, who was an assistant and translator, accompanied him.

She had taught Su Yehao English before, so of course she knew how good he was. He was fine for chatting, but he often had to guess, but English words had different meanings.

Sit in the VIP room.

Su Yehao held the coffee cup in his hand, raised his legs, and said, "My father is a client of your company, and he handled a project worth [-] million US dollars in Huaxia, but it was in charge of the McKinsey Hong Kong City Branch, but it is considered related to you." Over intersection."

It's not that he likes to talk about how rich he is and show off his strength unscrupulously.

The main reason is that you are not familiar with the place of life in Silicon Valley. If you don't show off, it is difficult to be taken seriously by others.

really.

Hearing these words, Adrian immediately regained his energy, became a little more serious, and said with a smile: "No matter which country you are in, as long as you are a client of our McKinsey, we will definitely provide the best service. A few years ago, I was in I have worked in Singapore for half a year, may I ask your father...maybe I have dealt with him?"

No matter how you listen to this sentence, it sounds like you are checking your account.

For companies such as corporate services, it is common to hate the poor and love the rich. Everyone is vying for high-quality big customers, and the service fee has dropped again and again. It is normal for ordinary small individual customers to be lazy.

Su Yehao glanced at Linda Yun.

Linda Yun helped to introduce: "The chairman of Las Vegas Cosmopolitan International Group, Mr. Su Sihai is my boss' father, and that is his family business."

Hearing this, Adrian was full of surprise, because he had really come into contact with it, at a yacht party in Singapore.

I found a connection by beating around the bush, and talked enthusiastically for a while before getting down to business.

Adrian asked Su Yehao, "I want to know, what can our company do for you?"

"ICQ. I am a businessman. I have already become the seventh largest shareholder of Yahoo, and may soon become the sixth. In addition to investing, I am also engaged in entrepreneurship in the Internet field. Recently, the ICQ chat software company wants to acquire my project. But I want to buy them more, so I hope you McKinsey will collect all the information about ICQ for me."

Su Yehao struggled for a moment before going to bed last night, and thought about it again after getting up this morning.

When he found out that if he spent more than [-] million yuan, he would have the opportunity to become the world's largest instant messaging software service provider, and there was nothing to hesitate about the rest.

If ICQ is annexed at a price of 5000 million U.S. dollars, and calculated based on 700 million active users, it will cost [-] U.S. dollars to share on each user.

The cost of acquiring customers is too high, and it will not be profitable for a long time. This is one of the main reasons why ICQ's valuation is too low.

It looks expensive, but it is cheaper than TAT’s current cost of accumulating users. The cost of acquiring customers can be diluted with the increase of users, and it doesn’t matter if the initial cost is higher.

What's more, it can clear the obstacles on the road to expansion in one fell swoop, and win the patents owned by ICQ, and together with the patents of TAT and TVT, create a barrier and create some difficulties for peers to imitate.

To take a step back, it is only more than 3 million US dollars. As long as Yahoo continues to develop according to the current momentum, it will have a chance to earn back this investment without waiting until the end of this year.

Adrian's heart was pounding for a while, and in order to avoid being agitated, he immediately asked: "I don't understand, do you intend to only let us collect information, or entrust our company to help and take care of all the work of mergers and acquisitions?"

"...Anything is fine. If the price is right, it's okay to hand it over to you. But I heard that Goldman Sachs is the best in this area, and I hope to buy it at a suitable price."

When Su Yehao said these words, he felt a little uneasy.

A business of two or three billion Hong Kong dollars, converted into cash, can fill an entire small warehouse, or two trucks with a load of ten tons.

The thought of so much money made him feel deeply stressed.

Knowing that success is relatively certain, subconsciously, I can't help worrying, for fear that I will screw up if I am not careful, and I will lose the profit I made with the principal and interest.

Sign a service agreement with McKinsey first, so as not to leak information.

Su Yehao continued to seek help, trying to fulfill the ambition of Snake Tunxiang, and contacted the chief executive of the Hong Kong Branch of First Quanye Bank.

The other party was a Japanese, and he didn't dare to give an answer after understanding it. He only said that he would fly back to Tokyo today and discuss it with the executives of the head office...

Chapter 311 Is It A Little Risky

At present, it is only Su Yehao's wishful thinking. Whether he can acquire ICQ is still a question mark.

While he was greeting the head office director of First Quanye Bank, Adrian from McKinsey Consulting contacted many friends to inquire.

At this moment.

Adrian walked up to Su Yehao, shrugged and told:

"Su, it's a good thing you didn't contact Goldman Sachs. I heard that the team from Goldman Sachs is responsible for AOL's attempt to contact ICQ. They won't take your business, and they will only make them wary. AOL As for the company, I am not really optimistic about ICQ, but want to spend some money to settle it as a potential competitor. This is a common tactic used by large companies. If you can’t suppress it, then choose to spend money to acquire it, and then throw it into the warehouse like garbage. inside."

Su Yehao didn't know much about the ICQ chat company. He only knew that Xiao Ma used to imitate and created "OICQ", and the defendant changed his name later.

Regarding the subsequent development of ICQ, he also has no impression, at least its name cannot be seen in the news, and it is obvious that it has fallen behind in the future development process.

Considering the fact that AOL started to contact ICQ in order to maintain its leading position in the market, Su Yehao guessed that this popular chat software might be thrown into the warehouse by AOL like garbage.

Behind this, there may be some shadows of communication operators.

For example, in Hong Kong City, there are news from time to time that online chats are not safe enough, and that hackers can browse chat records and other opinions casually, which are published in newspapers every now and then, affecting users who don't know why.

Su Yehao spent a little money some time ago and asked someone to help with the investigation, and finally found the shareholder of City Telecom, who is also an influential celebrity.

The reason for being targeted is nothing more than because of the TAT, which affects the interests of communication operators to a certain extent, and the SMS charges for mobile phones are very expensive.

Faced with such a small friction, Su Yehao did not choose to make the conflict public. Anyway, the other party could only use some small tricks, which had almost no effect on TAT.

After listening to Adrian, Su Yehao stroked his chin and said:

"If it is to kill competitors, perhaps ICQ will be more inclined to cooperate with us. I only value its users and technology, but it can also be repositioned and kept forever. The key depends on how much America Online is willing to pay for it. ICQ’s customer acquisition cost cannot be reduced, and its value in the eyes of others should not be high, and its growth potential is a bit weak.”

Doing business is not doing charity.

In the current ICQ, it costs [-] to [-] dollars to get an active user, advertise everywhere, and the company supports hundreds of people, but the profit is pitifully low.

Such a company is much weaker than Yahoo. Recently, Yahoo has reduced the cost of acquiring customers to about two dollars. Many customers come to them on their own initiative.

As for ICQ, not only losses continued to increase, but also faced many competitors, such as the more interesting AOL chat room.

These have limited investors’ evaluation of ICQ, thinking that it can only survive by burning money, which is equivalent to providing services to users in vain. The plan to add advertisements in the chat window has failed with the loss of users, and it is cheaper. ICQ's competitors.

A similar situation applies to TAT and TVT, which has just been tested publicly. It burns a lot of money, cannot make profits, and has many competitors...