My Age of Investment - Chapter 1535 one year

   Chapter 1535 Nursing for a year

In the face of Zhou Hongyi's accusation, Xia Jingxing still acted ashamedly and said: "I understand your mood at the moment, but I still have to say, Sogou has already bought it, I can't return it. Bar?

   Besides, Charles also said that the money and goods are clear, and there will be no return or exchange. "

   Zhou Hongyi saw Xia Jingxing's face was ashamed, her tone was not as aggressive as before, she calmed down a lot and said, "Then you can't hide it from me all the time, right? Now the whole Chinese Internet is watching my jokes.

  Some people say that Mr. Xia, you are good at crossing rivers and demolishing bridges. "

   Xia Jingxing sneered: "Those who are afraid of chaos in the world are just like that, they like to talk and stir up differences.

  What friendship do we have? Didn't I come to see you as soon as I got home? "

   Zhou Hongyi waved his hand and said, "Don't, I'm afraid of you now. You can buy any company you like. In short, it has nothing to do with 360."

   "Are you sure it doesn't matter?"

  Xia Jingxing looked at Zhou Hongyi with a smile, and he was keenly aware that the other party's anger had mostly disappeared.

   He came to Zhou Hongyi today, and listening to the other party's two complaints was one of them, and the other had a more important task.

   Zhou Hongyi pretended to be stupid and said, "What do you mean? Are you planning to sell Sogou to 360?"

  Xia Jingxing laughed and replied simply: "Yes! It's enough to let the domestic holding group control 360 Company."

   Zhou Hongyi stopped talking. If he really wanted to sell the company, he wouldn't wait until today.

Seeing Xia Jingxing looking straight at him, Zhou Hongyi immediately changed the subject and said, "Mr. Xia, tell me the truth, Sogou has been acquired by you, so the cooperation between 360 and the domestic holding group How can it be maintained?

   You promised me that WeChat will bundle 360 ​​software services in the future. "

  Xia Jingxing said with a smile: "The cooperation will definitely continue, and 360 Company, Domestic Holding Group and Sogou are not enemies of life and death.

   I remember telling you before that I won't be like that greedy penguin, doing all kinds of business.

   For example, security business, we will not do it. "

Hearing this, Zhou Hongyi's expression changed slightly. The security business is currently the most mature business of 360, and it is also the biggest dependence of 360's impact on the listing. Domestic holdings will not be involved in this business, so the relationship between the two parties is still relaxed. room.

   The anger and unwillingness he just showed were actually largely faked.

   When he first heard that the domestic holding group acquired Sogou and invested in UC Browser, he was very angry and felt that he was used and deceived by Xia Jingxing.

   But when he calmed down, he found that he could do nothing except verbally protest and take the initiative to distance himself from Xia Jingxing.

  I will not say anything about verbal protests, it is useless at all, it is just a joke.

   As for alienating Xia Jingxing, there is no need to mention it, there is no real benefit, but it offends the biggest backer.

  Thinking of his life, punching Ahri, kicking penguins, and not dealing with Chihiro's Robin Lee, he has long been mixed up to the point of being a world-wide enemy.

   If Xia Jingxing is offended again, then there is really no way to go on.

   His character is indeed strong, but he is not stupid. He knows how to make the right choice at the crossroads of fate.

   Building a good relationship with Xia Jingxing and making 360 go public is the most important task at the moment.

  Only when 360 successfully completes the listing and the company's wings grow, can he truly be regarded as a pivotal figure in China's Internet, and at the worst, he will not be sent to Hong Kong Island to take refuge.

   And the Vision Capital behind Xia Jingxing is an important shareholder of 360 Company, so he can't turn against Xia Jingxing at this stage.

   But pretending to be nonchalant doesn't fit his personal style of doing things.

   Therefore, when he saw Xia Jingxing come to the door, he temporarily performed such a performance.

   At this moment, Xia Jingxing gave him the steps to go down, so naturally he also gave Xia Jingxing a step to go down.

   So, Zhou Hongyi said: "Then you mean that we will demarcate each other's boundaries to avoid accidental injury?"

  Xia Jingxing snickered in his heart, Zhou Hongyi is worthy of being an old actor, and he entered the play so soon.

   "Yes, your main business is security, and our main business is social networking. Businesses such as browsers and search engines are secondary to our two companies.

   There is no need to be in tension because of these second-rate businesses. "

  Xia Jingxing paused for a while, and then said, "It's better to go out with guns instead of 360 and Sogou. Some companies have a much higher market share than our two companies."

   Zhou Hongyi did not answer this question, sighed and said, "After being knocked on by the Gongxin Yamen, I have long since extinguished many unrealistic thoughts.

  I now want to put 360 on the market with peace of mind, to shareholders, employees, and an explanation to myself. "

   Looking at Zhou Hongyi who was not in his mood, Xia Jingxing felt that this guy didn't tell the truth and was not aggressive. Is that still Zhou Hongyi?

   However, he may have been trapped in a psychological shadow by himself, and he would not dare to rush forward to go to the mine again.

  Thinking of this, Xia Jingxing decided to be more proactive and said, "The 360 ​​secure browser and website navigation used to direct traffic to Google and Chihiro. It seems that Chihiro was your biggest advertiser for a while.

   But I heard that Robin Li is very stingy, suspecting that your traffic is cheating, and including the traffic of non-360 companies into the income statistics, and finally Chihiro sued you for compensation.

   Now that Google has announced its withdrawal from the Chinese market, without these two big sponsors, where will 360 go in the future?

   Is launching your own search engine brand? Or choose to cooperate with Sogou?

   Both options depend on your personal choice.

   However, no matter which option you choose, we have a lot of room for collaboration. "

  Xia Jingxing looked at Zhou Hongyi with a sincere face, and was a little curious about what choice the other party would make.

Domestic Holdings or Sogou does not have too much conflict with 360 at this time. At most, there is a certain degree of competition in the browser business. Because 360 ​​has not officially launched its own search engine brand at this time, netizens use 360 Browser and website navigation, in fact, use Google and Qianxun search engines by default.

   In short, at this time, 360’s huge amount of traffic is still relatively low-level. It is a wholesaler who sells traffic and does not have its own advertising platform. It needs to go through intermediaries such as Qianxun and Google.

Zhou Hongyi in her previous life did not know whether it was because she spent too much energy preparing for the 3Q war and listing, or because she was afraid of Qianxun's strength, she did not dare to launch an independent search engine brand, which wasted the rare development after Google's withdrawal from China. opportunity.

   Zhou Hongyi thought for a moment, then replied: "I still want to wait, before the listing, I don't want to have any more troubles."

   "Then you can direct traffic to Sogou and let Sogou be the default search engine for 360 browsers and website navigation.

  I will let Sogou give you a high price and contribute to the listing work of 360. "

Hearing this, Zhou Hongyi seems a little hesitant. In fact, he has always dreamed of a search engine. From 3721 to 360, who only planned to be a community and forum search technology service provider, his dream has not changed. .

At present, the business model of 360 is to gather users and traffic through various software services such as free antivirus software, browsers, and website navigation. However, 360 lacks sophisticated business monetization methods. He was extremely dissatisfied with being exploited by search engine service providers like Chihiro.

But he did not dare to lift the table, because if the launch of the search engine does not go smoothly, it will have a considerable negative effect on the listing work of 360, and it will be unfavorable to lower the listing issue price, reduce the amount of funds raised, fall below the issue price, etc. The situation is likely to be staged in 360.

   So he didn't dare to take any risks at the juncture of the listing.

   But Xia Jingxing's proposal to make Sogou the default search engine service provider of 360 made him unwilling.

  What if Sogou takes this opportunity to become bigger?

   Waiting for 360 to complete the listing, looking back, good guy, there is no place for yourself.

  Xia Jingxing saw that Zhou Hongyi was a little hesitant, and vaguely guessed what he was afraid of, and persuaded: "Otherwise, Sogou and 360 will sign a one-year cooperation agreement first.

   One year later, the listing of 360 will definitely be completed as scheduled, and various internal problems have been sorted out.

   When you want to launch your own search engine brand, I will never stop you. "

   Zhou Hongyi sighed, he weighed it over and over again in his heart, and found that he seemed to have no choice but to accept the "goodwill" conveyed by Xia Jingxing.

  360 can't launch its own search engine service at this time, so it can only "outsource" this part of the service, and at the same time collect some tolls.

  At the moment when the evil spirits are being fought and Google is withdrawing, it seems that only Sogou, which has the full support of Xia Jingxing, has the financial resources to support 360 for a whole year.

  With this maintenance fee, the financial report can be decorated to look better, and the issue price of 360's stock may be set a few dollars higher.

   "Okay, just follow your plan!"

   Zhou Hongyi looked at Xia Jingxing with bright eyes, and emphasized one more sentence: "You can't cheat me again this time!"

  Xia Jingxing laughed dryly, "How can I cheat on you? I am the one who digs out the real money, I am afraid that you will cheat me!"

   Zhou Hongyi thought for a while, it seemed like such a rationale, he shouldn't suffer any loss, smiled and said, "Okay, that's it, I'll sign the agreement tomorrow."

  …

  …

   Hearing that Xia Jingxing had returned to China, Jack Ma rushed to the capital all the way.

   As soon as he met Xia Jingxing, he said with a sad face, "Daren, I'm in big trouble!"

  Xia Jingxing asked in confusion, "What's the trouble? Do you need my help?"

  Jack Ma nodded fiercely, "I need it! I need it very much! Only you can help me!"

  Xia Jingxing was speechless for a while, motioning Jack Ma to clarify things first and then talk about other things.

   "Isn't the regulator going to issue a batch of third-party payment licenses?

  Ali also submitted the application materials, but our materials were called back, saying that we did not meet the conditions for applying for a third-party payment license. "

   Jack Ma picked up the cup on the table, took a sip of water, and then continued: "Our company is very unconvinced, why is Ali not eligible for the application?

   Later, I asked someone to inquire, because Ahri's shareholding structure was not enough, so he was stuck.

  According to the requirements of the regulatory authorities, the first batch of enterprises to obtain the conditions for the issuance of online payment licenses must be 100% domestic enterprises. "

  Xia Jingxing rubbed his head, he had basically guessed why Jack Ma was looking for him, and the Alipay equity transfer incident that made a lot of noise in the previous life happened at this juncture.

   "Haifutong also submitted the application materials, but we were not called back?" Xia Jingxing replied calmly.

   Jack Ma waved his hand and said: "The situation of the domestic holding group is not the same as that of Ali, you hold the vast majority of the shares of the domestic holdings, and the vast majority of the shares of Ali are in the hands of foreign investors.

  Envision Capital (US) holds 33%, Facebook holds 11%, and SoftBank holds 20%.

   adds up to a total of 64%, which means that foreign capital is the major shareholder of Ali.

   Regulatory authorities may be worried that the online payment license will fall into the hands of foreign investors.

   As you know, our country’s financial opening policy has always been conservative, and so far foreign financial institutions are not allowed to set up wholly-owned companies in China. "

   Speaking of this, Jack Ma sighed, "If Ahri loses the election this time, what should he do!

  Our e-commerce business is booming, and a payment license is very much needed to complete the business closed loop.

   Lack of the most important payment link, Ali's business system has loopholes, whether it can keep its position as the leader of e-commerce, there is a big question mark. "

  Xia Jingxing glanced at Jack Ma lightly, as expected of a master of fooling, if he hadn't known about the issuance of online payment licenses in his previous life, he might have been fooled by Jack Ma.

  Strictly speaking, Penguin is also a major shareholder of MIH and other foreign investors, while Ponima and its management are only minor shareholders, but Tenpay finally obtained the online payment license.

   Jack Ma came to tell him this now, and he was a little suspicious of Jack Ma's true intentions.

  Xia Jingxing smiled and said, "Then do you have any good solutions?"

  Jack Horse's eyeballs turned quickly, and then said solemnly: "We may need to stage a golden cicada escape!"

   "The golden cicada escapes its shell?"

   "Yes, we split Alipay into a domestic enterprise!"

   Jack Ma said while observing the expression on Xia Jingxing's face.

   The objects that Jack Ma needed to persuade in his previous life were Yahoo and Softbank, but in this life he became Xia Jingxing and Softbank.

  Envision Capital and Facebook together hold 44% of Alipay’s equity. As long as Xia Jingxing agrees to this, Jack Ma’s transfer of Alipay’s equity will basically be done.

   SoftBank agreed to see Xia Jingxing, so it shouldn't be too much entanglement.

   So Jack Ma's abacus is very good, and Xia Jingxing is listed as the first goal to win!

  Xia Jingxing nodded lightly, and then asked, "Then what?"

Jack Ma didn't see anything unusual on Xia Jingxing's face, so he had to continue to explain the plan he designed: "This is my plan, our management will take out a sum of cash to buy out the Alipay equity corresponding to Ali's shareholders at one time. "

  Xia Jingxing pondered for a moment and said, "Old Ma, this is a bit difficult to handle!"

   Jack Ma's eyes suddenly sharpened, and he said in a serious tone: "I know, so the management and I will give a price that will satisfy all shareholders."

  Xia Jingxing said in a joking tone: "Did I agree to this transaction, you agree to sell the Sogou equity to the domestic holding group?"

   (end of this chapter)