Reborn multinational giant

"Recommended by Li Yifei?"

A stunned expression appeared on Mr. Cao's face and then turned into a wry smile.

Who is Li Yifei?That was an old employee who had worked at Sina for six years. He was poached by Fang Zhe to start a business partnership four years ago, and he now serves as the CEO of PayTong, an Internet financial service company that is deeply connected to Huizhong.

It is fair to say that Li Yifei is the most powerful and worthy person among Sina's current and former employees.

The ghost can imagine that the person who once resigned from Sina is now more powerful than his Sina CEO, and what makes him even more embarrassed is that as the CEO of Sina Weibo, a subsidiary of Sina’s most important business, he is now Also appointed by Li Yifei!

Good luck!If I knew it was because of Li Yifei, I'm afraid I wouldn't easily accept Huizhong's terms.

In Mr. Cao’s mind, there have been countless reasons why Li Yifei asked Wang Gaofei to be the CEO of Weibo. It may be because the two were former Sina colleagues. Li Yifei is optimistic about Wang Gaofei’s ability, or it may just be because Li Yifei and Wang Gaofei have a good personal relationship, even It is possible that Wang Gaofei knew in advance that Huizhong was going to buy a stake in Sina Weibo, and he deliberately "bribbed" Li Yifei to run to be an official. Anyway, any reason is possible. It's a bit tricky to think about it!

Of course, the probability of the last reason is very small. Mr. Cao doesn’t believe that Wang Gaofei’s “bribbing” Li Yifei can bribe himself as a necessary condition for Huizhong to invest in Sina Weibo. After all, Huizhong is really spending real money. Besides, can Fang in front of him always be a fool and let his nearly $1 billion investment go to waste?

President Cao believes that there must be other very important reasons, but it is obvious that Fang Zhe is not willing to tell him.

Of course Fang Zhe didn't want to tell him.Do I want to tell you that I am optimistic about Wang Gaofei because he led the Weibo to come back to life and glory in the previous life?

In his previous life, when Weibo was on the verge of weakness in 2013, Wang Gaofei was ordered to reform Weibo drastically, adjust the direction of Weibo operation, and explore the commercialization model of Weibo. In his hands, Weibo not only came back to life, but also defeated it in one fell swoop. The Weibo of several other companies established Sina Weibo's status as the first brother of Weibo in one fell swoop, and finally completely dominated the world.

Since then, Sina Weibo has become synonymous with Weibo. Whenever netizens talk about Weibo, they refer to Sina Weibo, not like it is now. Weibo can still belong to Zhang San and Li Sijia. Weibo!

In Fang Zhe’s view, without Wang Gaofei’s talents, Weibo in his previous life would not be able to turn things around and move towards glory, so Fang Zhecai deliberately wrote Wang Gaofei’s conditions as Weibo CEO into the stock agreement. As for Mr. Cao and other Sina executives, what ideas do they say? To be honest, Fang Zhe doesn't really care!

The main purpose of Huizhong’s investment in Sina Weibo is to make it fight Tencent Weibo. As for the power struggle and internal conflicts at Sina’s top management, Fang Zhe is not very concerned about it. If Wang Gaofei cannot keep his position, he can only be blamed for his incompetence. Fang Zhe looked away!

After the announcement of Huizhong’s stake in Sina Weibo, as expected, Tencent’s share price fell by 5% again. In less than a month, Tencent’s share price fell by 15%, and the entire Tencent’s market value shrank. one seventh!

Shenzhen City, the top meeting room of Tencent Headquarters

"Too much bullying! Too much bullying!" Tencent CTO, Chief Technology Officer Zhang Zhidong, slapped the conference table with anger.

Zhang Zhidong is Tencent's five tigers, one of the five founders of Tencent. He is the individual shareholder with the most shares of Tencent except Mr. Ma. This shows how much his position and influence in Tencent is.

It's just that Zhang Zhidong, who is a technical background, has always been low-key. Not to mention that the outside world rarely sees his news. It is normal for many employees and executives within Tencent to not see him for a year or a half.

However, today, such a person who has always been low-key, humble, and rarely loses his temper, is now in a rage.

Zhang Zhidong’s temper was not for anything else. It was because of the news that Huizhong had invested in Sina Weibo. Obviously, Huizhong was going to confront Tencent!

Not to mention that Huizhong WeChat has taken away Tencent’s opportunity to transform to mobile, but now it’s time to destroy Tencent Weibo, which has high hopes from Tencent executives. Not to mention Tencent executives. Even many people who watch the excitement on the Internet feel Huizhong. It's a bit too deceitful, meaning to rush to kill.

It’s just that business competition has always been cruel. If I don’t kill others, others will kill me. Fang Zhe originally didn’t want to get involved in the Weibo wars of several companies prematurely, but whoever wants you to kill me will never die. , Is it possible that if you started social networking with Tencent, social networking can only be your Tencent, and there is no such reason in the world!

Compared with Zhang Zhidong's fiery temper, President Ma's face is much calmer, his eyes gleaming inexplicably, and he doesn't know what he is thinking.

After Zhang Zhidong’s temper eased, an executive said: “According to our previous analysis and prediction, Huizhong shouldn’t be so anxious to become a shareholder of Sina Weibo. At least it should wait until the end of the year and Sina can’t hold it before entering the game. It is in the best interests of Huizhong!"

"Yes, from the perspective of return on investment purely, Huizhong's investment was a lot of wasted money!"

"It doesn't matter if it is wronged or not, it's better to spend all the money in the crowd!"

"Who is Wang Gaofei? Do you know anyone? I heard that Huizhong specifically regards him as Weibo CEO as a necessary condition for investing in Sina Weibo. If you want to come, this person should have some abilities!"

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The executives expressed their opinions on the news that Huizhong became a stake in Sina Weibo. At this moment, an executive sitting at the end, after looking up at Mr. Ma, suddenly said:

"I think that Huizhong's investment in Sina Weibo this time has little to do with Sina, but has a lot to do with us!"

As soon as he said this, the conference room fell silent for an instant. Then, many executives who wanted to understand all nodded in agreement. Until the end, almost all the executives agreed with him.

"We have contracted the front during this time, eliminated business conflicts with Baidu and Alibaba, and are actively cooperating with these two companies. Presumably that person is always prepared for danger and has realized the sense of crisis, so he is anxious rather than willing. Spend more money and get a stake in Sina Weibo!"

"Recognizing what can be done, we didn’t expect to hold back for such a big business adjustment for long. Now our three companies no longer have a direct competitive relationship. Instead, all three companies have a lot of competition with Huizhong, which means that we have one. The common enemy, even if Huizhong is more powerful, we can beat him one by the three, can we still win?"

The topics discussed by the executives have gradually shifted from Huizhong’s stake in Sina Weibo to the three BAT teams to deal with Huizhong. Mr. Ma, who has been sitting on the main seat and silent, has complex eyes at this moment.

"It's been more than a year, and after planning for more than a year, I finally have the situation like today!"

Mr. Ma was perplexed. Since Tencent failed one after another in its strategy and actions against Huizhong, from the shareholders meeting to many senior executives, they began to be dissatisfied and even challenged Mr. Ma’s authority, and all hostile actions or major actions against Huizhong , Are beginning to be difficult to pass in executive meetings and shareholder meetings.

Especially in the general meeting of shareholders, the shareholders who hold the majority of the equity do not want and are unwilling to support Mr. Ma to continue with Huizhong. After all, compared with Mr. Ma’s less than 10% of the shares, their losses are the biggest. Yes, they are willing to support Mr. Ma to continue to serve as Tencent CEO, which has already given him a lot of face!

Mr. Ma's life is not easy!

Therefore, for their authority, in order to continue to deal with Huizhong, in order to avenge the humiliation of themselves and Tencent, several core Tencent executives such as Ma and Zhang Zhidong have been planning since more than a year ago. Let the executives and shareholders agree to continue to deal with Huizhong, and convince them that Tencent can win this time!

The answer is to make executives and shareholders realize that even if Tencent does not continue to deal with Huizhong, Huizhong will deal with Tencent!

The way Tencent wins is to unite Baidu and Alibaba to deal with Huizhong.

From Tencent’s shrinking front, cutting off various businesses that are in conflict with Baidu and Alibaba, to trying to promote the cooperative relationship between the three companies, to today’s meeting, Zhang Zhidong, who has always been modest, suddenly lost his temper. Guan Suddenly attributed Huizhong’s main reason for taking a share in Weibo to Huizhong’s hostility to Tencent, which can be seen as the result of Mr. Ma’s efforts to plan and direct.

In order to form today's situation, President Ma has taken great pains!