“Merger?!” Larry Page exclaimed and asked, “You want to acquire Google??”
Li Mu shook his head and said with a smile: "It's Google's acquisition of Muye & Baidu. Inc!"
"Ah? Why?"
Larry Page is totally dumbfounded.
Li Mu wants to acquire his newly established Muye&Baidu.Inc? The company has just been established a few days ago, and Li Mu only invested US$10 million. Now, except for a Muye search beta version built by Baidu, it is almost an empty shell!
Now Li Mu is talking about Google's acquisition of Muye & Baidu. Inc. Isn't this tantamount to selling this empty shell to himself? !
Seeing that Larry Page was frightened, Li Mu smiled calmly and said, "Aren't you coming to me because you are afraid that Muye&Baidu.Inc will use Muye search to impact Google's share and valuation in the capital market in the future? You If you want me to buy shares now, the additional condition must be that I can stop the Muye search engine. It’s very simple to want me to stop. If you merge my company, I will stop.”
Larry Page looked at Li Mu with empty eyes and asked helplessly: "Mr. Li, what are your terms for the merger and acquisition?"
Li Mu said: "Google will acquire 100% of Muye & Baidu. Inc's shares for no less than 33.3% of its own shares."
When Larry Page heard this condition, he almost jumped up and ran away.
"Mr. Li, how could you use a newly established shell company to steal 33.3% of Google's shares? And you did it without spending a penny!"
Li Mu looked at him and asked calmly: "Why not?"
Larry Page angrily accused: "This is robbery! And it is unrealistic robbery!"
Li Mu smiled slightly and said: "Larry, I will always give others the right to choose freely, so is it inappropriate for you to use robbery to describe me?"
Larry Page didn't know how to respond to Li Mu's harmless face.
Li Mu said with a serious expression: "You must know that I gave you the opportunity to cooperate. At that time, I had not established Muye & Baidu. Inc. As long as you accepted my conditions, I was willing to cooperate in depth with you, but you refused. Now, I have Muye&Baidu.Inc, and you come to talk to me about previous cooperation, how is that possible? What should I do with my Muye&Baidu.Inc? Shouldn’t someone pay for it?"
Larry Page said: "We are willing to pay for it, but only if the price is right. Your current offer is simply beyond the normal and appropriate range. It is not substantially different from robbery."
Li Mu chuckled and said, "How about you go back? I don't want to be known as a robber for no reason. Let's stop talking. I'll ask the driver to take you back to the airport now. I won't sell Muye&Baidu.Inc to you either." Yes, even if you kneel down and beg me, I won’t sell it, so don’t say I robbed you, okay?”
Larry Page was suddenly put off the stage by Li Mu again. He hurriedly explained: "Mr. Li, you misunderstood, that's not what I meant..."
"What did I misunderstand about you?" Li Mu frowned at him and said with an unhappy expression: "I didn't want to meet you at all. Don't you have any idea? I didn't want to see you when I was in the United States. I thought I didn't want to meet you. There is no need to meet with you again to talk about offers. Since we all have different opinions, let’s just do our own thing. It was you who rushed from the United States to meet me and wanted to talk to me, so I gave you a new offer. In the end, you accused me of robbing you? Are you the one who would travel thousands of miles to someone else and take the initiative to deliver it to someone else’s door for them to rob?"
Li Mu suddenly turned against him, making Larry Page nervous and blushing.
Li Mu was right. Originally, he was trying hard to meet Li Mu but had no chance. In the end, he had to fly all the way from the United States without saying hello. As a result, he became angry and accused him of robbing him. In this case , Li Mu will definitely be angry...
Larry Page could only say to Li Mu very devoutly: "I'm sorry, Mr. Li. It was my inappropriate choice of words. I apologize to you."
Li Mu nodded and said, "I accept your apology. By the way, I would like to remind you that when you take the initiative to ask for help from others, you must lower your head, bend down, or even kneel down."
Larry Page said hurriedly: "Mr. Li is right, I have learned a lesson."
After finishing speaking, Larry Page looked at Li Mu and said with a bit of pleading: "Mr. Li, your quotation is really too high for me. Please lower it appropriately so that we can continue." talk."
Li Mu shook his head and said: "The quotation is the final quotation and will not be changed."
After speaking, Li Mu looked at Larry Page and said to him with a smile: "Actually, this is not robbery, but blackmail. Do you understand what blackmail is?"
Larry Page was stunned. He had never seen such a shameless person who took blackmail so lightly and for granted.
Just when Larry Page was refreshed by Li Mu, Li Mu said to him very seriously: "Larry, think back to the international situation from the 1940s to the present. Isn't it true that your U.S. government has been taking advantage of it all day long?" Do you carry out nuclear blackmail everywhere with nuclear weapons? No matter whether you have goods in your pocket or not, you will go out and blackmail others. This is already known to everyone. Why can't you accept it when you come to me?"
"In 1945, you built a total of three atomic bombs. You detonated one in a test and threw the remaining two into Japan. When you were done with it, you lied to the Japanese government and said that if they did not surrender, you would drop more atomic bombs on them. , isn’t this just typical blackmail?”
"After the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in nuclear blackmail in the international community all day long. They threatened to use nuclear weapons at every turn, and then forced so many countries to sacrifice so many interests. Isn't this also blackmail?"
"It can work between countries, but what can't work between companies?"
When Larry Page heard this, he felt like a mouthful of old blood was about to spurt out...
Li Mu continued: "Let me open the skylight to you and speak frankly, just like the first time I talked to you and told you that sacrificing shares is equivalent to paying protection fees."
After a pause, Li Mu continued: "What I'm playing with you now is, to put it bluntly, it's infinitely close to nuclear blackmail. The reason is very simple. Either you agree to my conditions or be prepared to accept my nuclear strike. If you think I don’t have enough nuclear weapons in my hands and I don’t pose a huge threat to you. Then you can reject my conditions and we will see the truth in the subsequent competition. If you think that I do have enough nuclear weapons and can blow you into pieces. If you have the ability to destroy the ruins, then don’t have any angry youth thoughts, as long as you accept my conditions, I will stop nuclear deterrence against you, so you can think carefully about whether you accept it or not."
Larry Page didn't realize what Li Mu was playing until now. What he was playing was not a general business competition. He didn't necessarily really want to build a Muye search to compete with him desperately. He just wanted to use Muye search to blackmail himself. , just like the United States uses nuclear weapons to blackmail other countries, the United States may not actually use nuclear weapons against targets. It just pulls out nuclear weapons, aims them at the targets, and then lets the targets judge for themselves whether they dare to launch them.
Nuclear weapons are also bound by international conventions, but Li Mu has no restrictions!
Whether you call him hegemonic or hooliganistic, Li Mu's open and transparent blackmail also represents Li Mu's ability and confidence.
When Li Mu finally revealed his huge ambition, although Larry Page was surprisingly angry, he did not dare to blindly protest or refuse.
Li Mu’s words have been very straightforward. Now Muye&Baidu.Inc is his nuclear weapon aimed at Google. If you can talk about it, you can succeed, but if you can’t talk about it, you can fight. Although Muye&Baidu.Inc is still just an empty shell, the strength of Makino Technology is beyond doubt. Yes, Li Mu just established this company, causing Google's valuation in the capital market to plummet. If Li Mu fully operates this company and imports resources into Muye search, the impact on Google will indeed be like the scorched earth strategy of nuclear weapons. By that time, Even if Google doesn't die, it will lose half of its life.
Seeing that Larry Page was angry and scared, Li Mu's expression became more and more calm. He smiled slightly and said: "You, don't think that you will suffer a big loss if I exchange Muye & Baidu. Inc for your 33.3% shares. In many cases, the accounts are not like this. Calculated."
Larry Page looked at Li Mu and asked him helplessly: "Mr. Li, why do you say that?"
Li Mu smiled and said, "What do you think if a robber kidnapped you and demanded a ransom of 10 million US dollars, but all he used to threaten you was a US$200 pistol and a bullet of less than US$1. It’s a big loss, but have you ever thought about what if he shoots?”
"This..." Larry Page felt a chill on his back.
Li Mu spoke in an understatement, but it still made Larry Page feel the bloodthirsty and cruelty behind the smile and calmness.
He couldn't help but ask himself in his heart: "Yes! What if the robbers shoot?"
At this time, Li Mu said again: "Although Google acquired Muye & Baidu. Inc, and Muye & Baidu. Inc did not pay an extra penny for the acquisition, you have to understand that Muye & Baidu. Inc is like my daughter, and I also want to give her money when I send her off. It’s a dowry, so if you acquire Muye&Baidu.Inc, then I will still promise not to be a search engine within five years and direct all search traffic from non-Chinese users to Google. This is the dowry I have prepared for Muye&Baidu.Inc.”
Larry Page did some math in his mind.
Originally, Li Mu's request was to purchase 15% of Google shares at a valuation of US$6 billion, but Google executives proudly refused;
Now, Li Mu’s request is to directly use Muye & Baidu.Inc, a newly established shell company, in exchange for 33.3% of Google’s shares without giving a penny...
The gap between the two is really huge!
It's like missing out on the feeling of Bitcoin. When it's $100, you buy it but you don't. When it rises to $15,000, can you not feel uncomfortable
It’s weird if it’s not uncomfortable.
Li Mu also knew that Larry Page must be feeling uncomfortable, but he didn't think there was anything wrong at all. In the capital market, profit comes first. What does it matter if he blackmails Google? You would be a fool not to take a bite of the meat that reaches your mouth.
Attacking Google by yourself will only cause these Google shareholders to lose part of their profits. In the final analysis, it is a war between capitalists. And Soros set off a financial turmoil in Asia for profit, causing thousands of people to fall into trouble, and how many people went bankrupt and jumped from buildings. Compared to him, I was already very kind.
Seeing that Larry Page seemed to be struggling, Li Mu suddenly added: "Larry, if you can get Google to finally agree to this condition, after the merger is completed, I will authorize you all the voting rights corresponding to 33.3% of the shares. By then, you won’t have to argue with your mentally retarded shareholders every day!”
(End of chapter)