Reborn Entrepreneurial Giant.

Chapter 453 Acquisition and Acquisition

Google's internal code warehouse is said to have more than one billion lines of code, and Windows seems to have 5000 million lines of code. Qu Li doesn't know how many Jumei's internal code warehouse has. Anyway, he can't understand it, but he knows that there is such a thing, including in Qu Li arranged for people to try to get in touch with GitHub, which is popular among programmers.

Although Qu Li is not a programmer and does not understand programming, he is familiar with GitHub. He often downloads software and applications from this website, including drone flight controls. Anyone who loves to mess with software and hardware technology products should be familiar with GitHub.

Investing in this website is not to make money. Automatic programming of artificial intelligence should require a lot of code training, and GitHub has a lot of high-quality open source code.He is trying to catch a rabbit in the grass, whether it is useful or not, he will invest first.

Another investment is not so simple. This is a small company, but it has great growth potential. This is Stripe, a financial payment company. In the future, this company will be valued at close to [-] billion US dollars.

Why doesn’t Qu Li do third-party payment in the United States?Of course, he lacked energy. He didn't even start Jumei Payment, let alone develop third-party payment overseas. He might as well buy shares in advance and leave a wedge for future acquisitions. Even if he couldn't acquire it, he could still make money.

Stripe is a startup project incubated by YCombinator, a well-known startup incubator in the United States. Its founders are brothers Patrick and John from Ireland.Entrepreneurs of overseas Internet technology companies are generally "geniuses", and the same goes for these two brothers.

Shopee is a B2C platform that supports credit card payments to company accounts without the need for third-party payment transfer.Qu Li’s investment in Stripe was prepared for Shopify. In the short term, Shopify will not be able to develop its own payment tools until it has adopted their business model. Let’s talk about that at that time.

These two investments were made in GitHub through Fanxing Fund, and in Stripe through Jumei. As a result, a Shopee executive asked Qu Li: "Do you particularly like the letter S?"

"I like women with S-curves..." Qu Li said honestly, counting his companies, including Shopify, Shopee and Shein. Fortunately, Honor does not have an S-curve, otherwise it would be hard to explain. Can he say it was a coincidence?Should I no longer invest in an “S” corporation?

Let's wait, the investment in Stripe and GitHub has not been settled yet.

While Qu Li was busy in Silicon Valley, Ma Yun held a media communication meeting in Hangzhou to formally respond to the payment guarantee incident, saying that her decision to transfer equity was "not perfect" but "correct."

Before that, he also attended a meeting in the United States and explained the issue of Alipay's shareholding. American media such as Barron's did not take this matter very seriously. The importance of Alipay did not appear in 2011. They generally believe that Alipay's compensation is easy to negotiate, but the repurchase of Ali Group's shares is more complicated.

At the beginning of the year, Ma Yun proposed to acquire Yahoo's 35% stake in Ali for US$15 billion, but Yahoo's CEO rejected it.According to Yahoo’s latest quarterly financial report, it holds a total of 43% of Ali’s shares.

Relevant domestic departments are worried that Ahri will be controlled by Yahoo, which is completely justified. Therefore, Jumei has almost no difficulty in obtaining a payment license, just because Qu Li has obtained super voting rights. The same is true for Baidu, Li Yanhong, and even Goosechang Xiaoma Brother has not encountered any difficulties.

The media vaguely mentioned that it was also a VIE structure. Why was everyone else fine but only Ahri? This was just pretending to be confused.Before this, Ma Yun's team had the possibility of being eliminated. Now, with the nuclear weapon of payment guarantee, it is basically impossible to be eliminated.

Qu Li originally wanted to return to China, but there was a Nortel Network patent auction on June 6, which would have a huge impact. He wanted to see if Honor could sign a binding contract with Motorola before that day.

But before that, Honor held a new product launch conference in Silicon Valley. The senior vice president of Microsoft attended and jointly released the Honormatex7.5 based on Windows Phone 1, the mateP1 based on KOS, and the HPad2 with self-developed chips and KOS systems.

Less than two weeks after the release of IPhone 4S, Honor released a new phone. It was certainly not a temporary move. Especially since Honor joined the Windows Phone camp, it had a great impact on consumers.

Affected by this, Microsoft's stock price rose by several percentage points, and Google's stock price fell by several percentage points. The next day, there was a queue to buy the Honor flagship store here.Microsoft bought a lot of press releases, boasting that the excellent performance of Windows Phone mobile phones exceeds that of iOS.

As for Qualcomm’s chip being worse than Apple’s A5, it doesn’t matter. Anyway, the Honor mate

Qu Li is not one to brag, so he did not attend the press conference.

荣耀同时发布两款手机，一款WindowsPhone的mateX售价549美元，一款KOS得mateP定价499美元，都低于Honor4plus的599美元和IPhone4S的649美元。

The iPhone has a higher price, but it has better sales. It is useless to be far ahead. Only low prices can bring more sales.Of course, Honor's brand power is taking shape, and the MV for the brand promotional song "Sea Shanty Medley" finally exceeded 5 million clicks on YouTube after a few months.

This magical song became a hit in European and American society and made a certain singer famous, including Liu Yifei, who also left a very deep impression on people.At the same time, it promoted the sales of self-balancing vehicles and drones, making these two projects profitable.

Unfortunately, the possibility of more than 10 billion clicks is very small. There is no way around it. The "dance" of this divine song is not as viral as Gangnam Style.

Fortunately, the two mobile phones have sold more than 500 million units within one week of their launch. They are still second only to IPhone 4S and Honor 4plus globally.The domestic prices have risen to 3499 yuan and 3999 yuan respectively.

With the existence of Quli, Honor will certainly not miss the trend of light, thin, high screen-to-body ratio and large screen mobile phones. It can be said that Honor has been leading the development direction of smartphones. Compared with the Galaxy SII and Honormate P that Samsung has exposed, there is no comparison. Competitiveness.

There are mixed reviews about Windows Phone 7.5 in the market. The lack of applications is the main problem. There are too few developers to adapt to this phone. It’s not that developers dislike it. It’s mainly because Microsoft has gone too far and is incompatible with Windows Phone 7. This is Developers need to develop it again. Small teams don’t have the energy. Large teams need to consider cost-effectiveness.

But even so, relying on Honor's influence, 100 million units were sold globally within a week, and then there were all kinds of regrets from consumers.The performance is good, the response is fast and smooth, and the battery life is longer, but the playability is not high.

The reputation of Honor Mate

Qu Li said on Twitter: "The cooperation between Honor and Google will not change. Using Windows Phone system mobile phones is to have one more choice and improve Honor's ability to deal with risks..."

However, bigger blows followed. Microsoft and Apple bought Nortel Networks' patent package for US$45 billion. This price was five times that of Google's US$9 million. As long as the relevant departments approved it, there would be almost no setbacks. Google There will definitely be no price increase.

It had just been approved by the relevant departments to acquire these patents from Nortel Networks, but it was immediately slapped in the face. Who can understand Google's hardship?

So Qu Li was invited again by the Sun Valley Conference to attend this big gathering this summer.