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This time I came to the United States and I was pressed for time.

Zhou Buqi originally wanted to go to New York and Los Angeles, but now it seems he has no time.

Fortunately, the work results in Silicon Valley are outstanding.

All cooperations have basically been achieved.

The most important of them are of course three blockbuster transactions - Changyou bought the game division of MSI for more than 8.2 billion US dollars, Google bought Twitter for a sky-high price of 20 billion US dollars, and Asda bought it for 4.86 billion US dollars. Bought Motorola's mobile phone business for US dollars.

The first blockbuster transaction has been officially announced, and the market feedback has been very good.

Changyou's stock price has been rising in the past few days, with an increase of 27%.

Various signals have become more and more obvious, and some institutions have even set odds, believing that the probability of Mr. Zhou Buqi becoming the new chairman of the board of directors of Changyou has exceeded 94%.

This is of course the biggest good news for all shareholders of Changyou.

The next two acquisitions will take some time to complete before being officially announced.

But the basic price has been negotiated.

One is US$20 billion and the other is US$4.86 billion.

Especially the latter. Asda is spending US$4.86 billion to purchase Motorola's mobile phone business. This is definitely a sky-high acquisition, because Motorola's core assets have been retained by Google, and the rest is only low-end business.

Those who didn't know the inside story would really think that it was Google's clever calculation that tricked the idiots at Astar.

In fact, Asda's psychological valuation of the assets of Motorola's mobile phone business is US$3 billion. This transaction was also promoted based on the scale of US$3 billion.

Asda's current valuation is US$35 billion, and it is expected that 8.5% of the shares will be diluted.

Now that the transaction price has been raised to US$4.86 billion, Asda is still only diluted by 8.5%, so we need to find a way to raise Asda's valuation to US$57 billion.

The nature of the transaction remains unchanged.

Google made revenue figures, Asda made valuation figures, and everyone was happy.

However, there is a drawback.

It is possible that Aisda will be misunderstood by the outside world and criticized as being taken advantage of by some people who do not know the inside story but think they are knowledgeable.

Changyou’s shareholder meeting will be held in China on September 15th.

So on the afternoon of September 13th, Zhou Buqi and his party were about to leave for home.

Unexpectedly, he met Larry Page at the airport, and he came to see him off. This made Zhou Buqi a little flattered, and the affection was a bit too great.

On the one hand, I have a lot of face.

On the one hand, it is also pressure.

I'll have to repay this face later when I get a chance.

What Larry Page is most concerned about is the social industry, which is the acquisition of Twitter. For him, as long as he gets Twitter, everything will be fine.

Now, his plan has come true.

At the airport, Larry Page proudly told Zhou Buqi that Google’s acquisition of Twitter would be officially announced no later than the 20th of this month!

Zhou Buqi shook hands with him and said, "Congratulations."

Larry Page was also very emotional, "It was mainly with your help. Without Twitter and Jaiku alone, Google would have never been able to do this business."

Jaiku is a social product launched by Google a few years ago, targeting Twitter.

Poor performance.

Zhou Buqi didn't know much about the Jaiku product. There was nothing he could do about it. There were so many Google products, and he had never heard of most of them.

However, he has been paying attention to the Knol product in the past two days.

The understanding of Google is even deeper.

Jaiku's failure is probably no worse than Knol's failure, just like Google+ will inevitably fail in the future. It's the same reason.

The people at Google are so great.

They are all top talents in the industry.

Geniuses all have genius diseases.

This is very troublesome and a bit ungrounded.

In this regard, domestic Internet companies are the best, and the products made by many geniuses are also very down-to-earth and can be marketed to the general public.

This is a bit like Kong Yiji's gown.

Domestic industry geniuses are subject to more constraints. Social and life pressures are great, which makes them less resistant. If they are asked to wear it, they will wear it. If they are asked to take it off, they will take it off. No matter what technology, product, ideal, or change The world... Let’s make a living first and then talk about it!

The ease, freedom, innovation, and technical control within Google are of course all advantages. But the shortcoming behind these advantages is that these geniuses at Google are too proud and self-righteous, and they cannot take off the "long gown" of being first-class in the industry.

They want to make products with technical content; they want to make high-quality products; they want to make products that are pursuing, have social value, and can change the world...

This is certainly good.

But over time, I lost my grounding and became insulated from the vast majority of netizens. In the niche area, Google's products dominate the world and no one can match them, but the user base is too small and it cannot develop.

Knol is a typical product with too high standards and too many ideas.

After Larry Page became CEO, he has successively shut down more than a dozen products. In fact, they are all excellent and creative products.

But it just can't develop.

It would be difficult for Kong Yiji to blend in with the ordinary people unless he took off his long robe.

Before the Indian Sundar Pichai became the boss of Google, Google had always been floating in the industry. It was aloof and could be viewed from a distance but not played with.

Zhou Buqi also discussed this with Lu Qi and others.

The ideas are relatively consistent.

Google's current product line serves the technical line, not the operational line. To put it bluntly, Google attaches too much importance to technology research and development and takes technical talents too seriously.

This kind of corporate culture allows Google to have super competitiveness over all IT peers for technical geniuses. As long as Google makes a technical offer, other companies will not be able to grab people.

This is Google's advantage.

However, in the midst of this ebb and flow, the product line's voice is destined to be too low, and operational talents are unwilling to come here.

Products like Knol and Jaiku can be made by just a few college students, so what kind of top-notch technology is needed?

The core of making this kind of product is operation.

Whether the technology is good or not has little effect. It mainly depends on whose operation team is strong. But Google focused all its hopes of making its products stand out on product design and technological innovation, and it went in the wrong direction.

Including Google+.

Last time, Larry Page showed off to Zhou Buqi, saying that they were using artificial intelligence to research a "face recognition" algorithm, which could be applied to Google+ as long as it passed the privacy review.

Zhou Buqi was stunned.

Google+ is just a social product, why is it so fancy? Technology is very powerful, but is it useless? It can only be a side effect.

If you operate it well and do a good job in product positioning and marketing, with Google’s strong traffic advantage, are you still afraid that you won’t be able to build a social product?

It's a waste of money to think too high and high every day about what we have and don't have.

Baidu was in a similar situation. It once controlled domestic Internet traffic and recruited all the domestic Internet geniuses, but nothing could be done.

In comparison, Penguin is much better. It doesn't have as many industry geniuses as Baidu, but it is better at being stable. It doesn't do any fancy things, and just does a good job of "imitation" honestly. Then, we took advantage of our own traffic to promote products, and we promoted them all the way.

There are too many companies in the world with traffic advantages. The ones that can really master traffic are Penguin... and Ziweixing under Zhou Buqi's rule.

Ziweixing can't compete with Google in the competition for technical talents, so it will have to compete for experts in the field of operations, which will be a blessing in disguise.

The two products Helo and Ucgram are popular all over the world. The credit of technical talents is almost zero, the credit of product talents is 40%, and the credit of operational talents is 60%.

In terms of products and operations, domestic Internet companies are much better than Silicon Valley.

After getting on the plane, Zhou Buqi called Guan Nanqing over and consoled him: "I originally thought I could take time to go to Los Angeles to see the situation of the Dodgers. I can't help it, I really can't take the time. Next time, go down. I visited Los Angeles and New York.”

Guan Nanqing pursed her lips and smiled: "It doesn't matter, I'm already very happy. I've been to more than a dozen cities in Silicon Valley these days."

"What kind of city is this?" Zhou Buqi shook his head, "The concept of cities in the United States is different from that in China. Any small place may be called a city. It is a subsidiary city of a subsidiary city under a big city. But it doesn't matter. , didn’t we agree that when the National Day holiday comes, I’ll take you all on a vacation abroad.”

Guan Nanqing said with great anticipation: "Go to Phuket."

Zhou Buqi thought for a moment and said, "Let's see, should we go to the Aegean Sea or Hawaii."

Guan Nanqing's beautiful eyes were filled with anticipation.

Seeing that it was getting late, Zhou Buqi planned to go to the bedroom to rest, and was thinking about whether to lead Ning Lu and Guan Nanqing back to the room together...

At this time, Ning Lu handed over the phone.

It was Senior Sister Zhen Yu calling.

The discussion happened to be the Los Angeles Dodgers.

It is said that "Magic" Johnson has contacted several investors and found a senior manager in the baseball industry to partner, and he is determined to win the Dodgers.

Zhou Buqi was a little unhappy, "So fast?"

Zhen Yu said helplessly: "He has been operating this since last year."

Zhou Buqi said: "Then let's hurry up."

Zhen Yu said softly: "The key is that Johnson's side is very strong. He has found seven or eight intermediaries alone."

Zhou Buqi didn't care about this.

How much money can a basketball player have? How many people can I know? How much credibility can it have? Can you still compete with yourself for the team? Isn't this a joke?

If word gets out, I can’t afford to lose this person.

Zhou Buqi ordered: "Senior sister, go and find out which investment institutions that guy is looking for."

Zhen Yu was slightly startled, "What are you doing?"

Zhou Buqi said calmly: "Ask them to lend me the money, and I will buy a Los Angeles Dodger!"