Reborn multinational giant

Fang Zhe, Huang Siyi and others looked in the direction of the sound. The person who made the sound was an old man with gray hair and age spots on his face sitting on the far side of Paypal.

"Carl Icahn"

In Fang Zhe's mind, this name is a bit slurred. This name that most Chinese people have never heard of is very famous in the United States and on Wall Street!

If Fang Zhe remembers correctly, Icahn is now more than 70 years old. Most Chinese at this age are retired and have grandchildren, but obviously this is not the case in front of him. He is a Jew and the world. The top 100 billionaires on the rich list are notorious "corporate predators" in the American business world and a naked capitalist!

Icahn’s main business is to invest in or hostile acquisition of companies he likes, to promote the reform of the company’s management system or to encourage the company’s bankruptcy and liquidation, etc., through various means to make the company’s stocks or assets quickly appreciate in a short period of time, and then sell them for cash. In other words, he is the kind of "speculative" person.

In Icahn’s 70-plus years of life, dozens of companies have been applauded by him, including TWA, Time Warner and other well-known companies that have become his favorites. Compared with the movie " In "The Wolf of Wall Street", the male protagonist makes money by selling junk stocks. Icahn is the true "wolf of Wall Street" in reality.

In this homework for paypal and eBay executives, Fang Zhe’s impression of Icahn is even more profound than those of the ceo and eBay’s founder Omidyar. In his previous life, Paypal can In the spin-off from eBay, Icahn, the capitalist, is the main promoter and Fang Zhe identified as one of his potential supporters.

Although Icahn is a serious "speculator", his business vision is beyond doubt. Now Paypal is subordinate to eBay, which has severely restricted the development of Paypal. If Paypal can be split and listed independently, then Icahn will certainly make a fortune from it again!

Accompanied by Icahn's "exaggerated" exclamation, Fang Zhe and others, as well as those on the paypal side, all looked at him.

"God, your company called PayTong has so much potential, do I still have a chance to invest in him?" The sophisticated Icahn asked with a surprised expression.

Fang Zhe looked at him with a smile, and said in cooperation: "Yes, we pay through, and we really want to get out of China as soon as possible!"

When Fang Zhe said this, Omidyar and the others sitting opposite him couldn’t help but feel their ears. After reading the data report of Paytong for the past two years, they have clearly realized in their hearts that if Paytong goes out of China, The consequences will be disastrous.

Icahn's face also showed a wonderful smile, and he was complimented and said:

"The report says that it took only over two years for Paypal to exceed 100 million registered users from its establishment to the present. How long has it taken paypal to do this, seven or eight years? Marcus "

"Eight years!" Marcus gave an accurate answer.

"Eight years, a gap of 4 times, this is nothing. What's more terrifying is that I noticed that it was written in the report that because at the beginning of the year, you connected Alipay and WeChat Pay and engaged in some activities. In just one month, more than 30 million users have been added, and more than 60 million users have been added in less than 10 months! It’s terrible, this data is terrible!"

Icahn's tricky and sharp perspective and analysis shocked Marcus, Omidyar and others. If this momentum continues, I am afraid that within three years, PayPay will be able to surpass its global business. Paypal, and it has a binding with WeChat Pay, the user limit and development potential of Alipay will be far more than just binding to an eBay Paypal.

"This old man actually helped us speak." An entourage of Huizhong next to Fang Zhe muttered inwardly.

Fang Zhe looked at Icahn with a smile, and said, "Mr. Icahn supports our terms?"

"I support money!" Icahn answered with a smile.

"As expected to be the wolf of Wall Street, the nature of a capitalist is fully demonstrated by him!" Obviously, Icahn doesn't care about whether paypal is split or not. What he cares about is maximization of benefits. Obviously, split paypal and let paypal and WeChat Cooperation and independent listing are just in his best interest.

Fang Zhe does not underestimate Icahn’s energy. Although he only holds 2% of eBay’s shares, his voice and supporters are far more than that. After all, his maximization of interests also represents some of the other shareholders’ interests. Maximize the benefits.

If you can't make money, then give the money to people who can make money to help you earn it. This is one of the reasons why Icahn is famous on Wall Street. Wall Street has a pack of wolves, and Icahn is the wolf king!

After Icahn’s voice, Omidyar’s persistence was also somewhat shaken. Although eBay’s CEO Donahoe still has a deep business relationship between paypal and eBay, the split of paypal will affect eBay’s development and other reasons. Express the views he rejected, but it is obvious that he is irrelevant in this negotiation.

Following Donahoe’s defense, Marcus, the current CEO of Paypal, also has something to say:

"Mr. Omidyar, Mr. Fang Zhe, as the CEO of Paypal, I want to express my views from the perspective of Paypal's development.

The report provided to us by Mr. Fang Zhe showed that it took less than a year to add tens of millions of users after Paypass opened WeChat Pay in China. I believe the authenticity of this data, and more I believe in the sincerity of Mr. Fang Zhe and Huizhong to cooperate with us.

As far as I know, WeChat currently has more than 600 million users worldwide, of which more than 400 million users in non-China regions. If we can cooperate with WeChat to open up WeChat payment in some countries around the world, even if only one-tenth of the users. There are as many as 40 million payment users who can be converted into paypal, which is equivalent to our accumulated users in the past three to four years!

What's more, everyone knows about the growth trend of WeChat. It is a very conservative estimate that this software has exceeded 1 billion users in two to three years!Therefore, I very much hope that our two sides can truly reach cooperation!"

Huang Siyi, who was sitting on both sides of Fang Zhe and other entourage, was utterly stunned at this time. They never thought that during a negotiation, the other party had two heavyweights speaking for us!

The smile on Fang Zhe’s face is even stronger. He has always hated the Wall Street manager system, because the CEOs and other corporate leaders cultivated by this system are especially a group of senior wage earners, in the face of the interests of shareholders. They can abandon the soul and values ​​of the company, and they can abandon the company in the face of their own interests!

The Wall Street wolf king Icahn supported himself to make money, and Marcus supported himself, even to greet him at the door himself. Obviously he hoped that he would continue to be the CEO of Paypal. Otherwise, he would use the American manager system. Sex, he must be ousted like his previous life, because the shareholders feel that he is not worthy of being the ceo of independent paypal, or that they need a more obedient ceo!