As the source of funding for Makino Technology’s acquisition of Apple was exposed, this caused a great shock to the US market.
On the one hand, this shock is because Makino Technology, as a private enterprise, is endorsed by the central bank. On the other hand, it is also because Makino Technology’s influence in China is so great that in a few days, it can raise funds worth 25 Hundreds of millions of dollars in RMB funds, this is really scary.
The extremely curious American media immediately began to dig into Li Mu’s funding sources, and soon, the CSC club surfaced.
The CSC club has a great reputation in China because it has participated in charity projects such as Veterans' Survival and the Fight against SARS, and has given huge charitable financial support. However, the American media has never paid attention to this local Chinese club with supercars as its core. Love interest club.
However, when the media began to dig into the core of the CSC club, they discovered that the energy behind this seemingly ordinary hobby club is extremely amazing.
You can say that.
Most of the wealthy people in China who are over 40 years old and have children over 18 years old, almost all their children have joined the CSC club.
This is a gathering place for the children of China's high-income class. They use sports cars as an excuse to gather closely around Li Mu and have great trust and respect for Li Mu. The capital power behind them is terrifying when gathered together. It only calculates its own assets, but does not calculate the leverage strength of the capital behind each person.
Some people have assets of 100 million. If necessary, his 100 million can leverage 500 million in funds. Five hundred million is his leverage strength, and leverage strength is one of the measurement standards that cannot be ignored in the capital market. All Funds and private equity all operate on leverage.
After starting the CSC club, the U.S. capital market became even more wary of Li Mu, because although he entered the U.S. capital market single-handedly, behind him were thousands of troops representing the Chinese entrepreneurial community.
Because of this fear, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs throughout Silicon Valley are on tenterhooks. Maybe Li Mu will direct the iron hooves of Makino Technology to rush into their development territory. With such capital strength, combined with Makino Technology itself The huge advantage is simply invincible.
This is why Larry Page has been panicking recently. When Li Mu asked him for protection money, he was still a little angry. Subconsciously, he had the urge to risk his life and look for opportunities to counterattack. However, when Li Mu has been asking for protection money recently, When he didn't bother to talk to him, the anger in his heart and the delusion of counter-attack had all disappeared. He was now panicking because Li Mu didn't care about his protection money at all. Now he was afraid that Li Mu would refuse Google's protection money. Because that means that Li Mu's war on the search engine market has not ended.
Li Mu’s last threat to Larry Page inadvertently created a strong psychological suggestion ability. Li Mu said that Baidu’s stuff can be taken out at any time and operated by Makino Technology in markets outside China. Larry Page The more he thought about it in the past few days, the more scared he became, because the more he thought about this theory, the more feasible it became.
If Baidu is really not prepared to enter the overseas market, then as long as Baidu can hold on to the domestic market, its technology can be conditionally opened to Makino Technology. In this way, Makino Technology can directly build a shell based on Baidu. Conduct a "Muye" search, and then promote it crazily through the YY product matrix, and you can quickly steal Google's market share.
At this time, Google is far from becoming the super giant it will be in the future. Their technical strength with Baidu is not very great. It is relatively close to the technical strength of Makino Technology, but overall it is weaker than Makino Technology. Now Li Mu has another After acquiring Apple, it immediately surpassed Google in terms of overall technical strength. Under such circumstances, if Li Mu wants to be a search engine, Google's prospects will be extremely worrying, whether at the capital level, user level or technical level.
Due to such concerns, and the fact that Li Mu showed his muscles through the acquisition of Apple, Google's fear of Li Mu has become increasingly strong.
At first, Larry Page thought that Li Mu would happily accept a 5-point share. Then he came to Makino Technology with his own plan, but was directly threatened by Li Mu;
Immediately afterwards, Google's senior management met several times to discuss and initially settled on an 8-point plan. The shareholders collectively diluted 10 points of their shares to Makino Technology at a valuation lower than the market price as protection fees. In exchange for Li Mu giving up the development potential of Makino Technology in the search engine field;
Now, Li Mu is swallowing Apple like a whale. Google executives have re-evaluated Li Mu's threat and Li Mu's appetite. Finally, shareholders passed a new decision: dilute 10 points to Makino Technology, and accept Makino Technology's listing before paying for the acquisition. terms of payment.
They felt that Li Mu would be happy to accept this plan.
However, Li Mu's routine was not something they could figure out.
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Larry Page has recently been conveying his wish to meet Li Mu through Li Ziwei, and he has been at a disadvantage in terms of psychological warfare.
Chinese people are very good at bargaining in business, and they have an iron rule that they must always hide their true intentions.
When you really want it, you act indifferent, but when you don't want it, you act very interested. Our ancestors were familiar with this psychological tactic thousands of years ago, but Google's technical geeks don't understand it at all. , in other words, they don’t have a cunning city government at all.
The more anxious Larry Page is to meet with Li Mu, the more it proves that he has a strong fear of Li Mu.
The last time Li Mu threatened Larry Page, he was using a scheming conspiracy. He directly told Larry Page how he would compete with him in the future, and made Larry Page feel that he would resist every one of his strategies. No, as long as Larry Page is timid from the beginning, he will become more and more timid. If Larry Page was not timid at that time, he would directly confront Li Mu with a high-pitched talk, and confidently tell Li Mu how he would respond. Every one of Li Mu's strategies and Li Mu's threatening methods are difficult to succeed.
In fact, even if Larry Page directly told Li Mu last time, "Come on, I'm not afraid of you," Li Mu would not really confront Google. He had too many important things in his hands, and Google's priority was not at the top. Front.
If we understand the powerful relationship in the form of war, it is this: if Li Mu invests a large-scale main force to attack Google, he does have a high chance of winning, but several of Li Mu's main forces have more important battles. There is no time to fight him. If we really send out a large-scale main force to fight Google, it will be equivalent to making the mistake Germany made in the middle and late stages of World War II, blindly going to war against the Soviet Union and getting itself into a multi-front battle predicament.
Therefore, for Li Mu, this war is basically impossible to fight. If Larry Page is really tough, there is really nothing he can do against him. Acting on impulse has never been Li Mu's routine.
It's a pity that neither Larry Page nor the entire Google shareholders have the courage to shout with Li Mu.
Sitting in front of Li Mu again, Larry Page was much more mentally stressed than before. He first congratulated Li Mu and said, "Mr. Li, congratulations on your successful acquisition of Apple."
Li Mu smiled and said: "The privatization is still in progress, and the acquisition has not been completed yet."
Larry Page said with a smile: "Nasdaq has passed the privatization plan, and the rest is just a matter of time. There will be no more changes, so I still want to congratulate you and Makino Technology."
Li Mu nodded slightly and said politely: "Thank you for your congratulations."
After finishing speaking, Li Mu said a little apologetically: "I've been very busy recently. I went to Harvard to see my girlfriend, and I came back to work on the purchase of Apple. I'm really sorry that I can't spare time to meet you."
Li Mu said this deliberately to put more pressure on Larry Page.
You see, I can fly from the west coast of the United States to the east coast to see my girlfriend. I spend more than ten hours flying in the sky, but I can't even spare an hour or two to meet you. Why? Because you are not important enough.
Larry Page also realized this in his heart, and he couldn't help but feel a little more nervous. If Li Mu had lost interest in Google, then his wish would probably come true today.
Under great psychological pressure, Larry Page could only follow Li Mu's words in embarrassment and said: "Mr. Li, you are so busy, but you can still find time to meet with me. I am really grateful."
Li Mu smiled calmly and said, "Don't be so polite. The acquisition of Apple has been resolved, so I have plenty of time recently."
Li Mu's words made Larry Page even more depressed.
I originally wanted to say thank you to Li Mu for taking the time to see me, but Li Mu said, I have plenty of time now, and the subtext is don't be sentimental, you are not that important to me, and I can only thank you when I have a lot of time. Will meet you.
Larry Page took a deep breath, then adjusted his attitude, and continued to smile and said to Li Mu: "Mr. Li, it's like this. After our last meeting, our shareholders seriously considered your proposal, Larry, and we all agreed. , if we can reach capital-level cooperation with Makino Technology, it will be a good thing for the future development of both parties, so we also very much hope to promote this cooperation, so we are willing to give Makino Technology a 10% equity investment plan for 6 billion Based on the U.S. dollar valuation calculation, the funds for the shares can be paid after Makino Technology is listed.”
Hearing this, Li Mu felt happy, but there was no expression on his face.
Larry Page kept staring at Li Mu's expression and every change in his facial features, hoping to capture Li Mu's heart. Even if he could see that he was slightly excited, it would be enough for him to judge that Li Mu was interested in this plan. Are you really satisfied
However, Li Mu didn't show any performance at all...
Larry Page felt a little desperate inside. What kind of heart did this young man in his early twenties have
For about thirty seconds, Li Mu said nothing, and his eyes did not waver. When he looked at Larry Page, at that moment, Larry Page subconsciously avoided his eyes, but this time After a moment of dodge, Li Mu judged deep in his heart that Larry Page was not sure about his offer.
In other words, Larry Page is unsure of his appetite.
He doesn't know whether 10% can satisfy his appetite.
In fact, the last time Li Mu openly threatened Larry Page, his psychological expectation was 10%, but now it seems that he still has a chance to get a little more.
Immediately, Li Mu suddenly spoke after being silent for more than a minute. He looked at Larry Page with an indifferent expression, but his eyes were full of determination. He said in a calm tone: "Larry, I regard you as a friend. I don’t want to beat around the bush with you, other conditions remain unchanged, I want 15%!”
Larry Page's heart skipped a beat...
At this time, Li Mu continued: "If you accept it, Makino Technology will add Google search as the only entrance to search engines in important products in the next five years. Listen, it is the only entrance; in addition, Makino Technology promises that within the next five years, I am not engaged in any search engine business. In other words, you don’t have to worry about me becoming your competitor in the next five years, unless you take the initiative to challenge Makino Technology in other fields. But don’t worry, even if you challenge Makino Technology in other fields, Makino Technology will not tear up this search engine contract."
At this point, Li Mu paused and then said: "It doesn't matter if you don't accept it. No matter how fierce the competition between companies is, we are still friends."
Larry Page was silent for a moment, looked at Li Mu with a depressed expression, and said in an extremely candid tone: "Mr. Li, 15% is too much. I can't decide, and it is indeed difficult to achieve..."
Li Mu was half lying on the sofa, stretched out a finger towards Larry Page, and slowly said three words in the unquestionable tone of an officer issuing military orders to soldiers: "Make-It-Happen!"
(End of chapter)