Wang Haoyang acted quickly and formed a negotiation team to go upstairs to discuss important matters.

Go in three steps.

First, reduce the price.

The price of 100 million US dollars was too high. Boss Zhou boasted about his awesomeness in front of the stage. He had to smile and be shameless to make up for it, and he had to lower the price no matter what.

It's a pity that we didn't reach an agreement.

The only option is to take the second step and complete the acquisition of Sogou in the form of "cash stocks". Large-scale pure cash transactions are not impossible, but they are rare.

For example, when Google acquired YouTube, the offer was completed in the form of a small amount of cash, most of which was exchanged for Google stock.

For enterprises, cash flow is too important to be easily touched.

But for the acquiree, cash is of course better.

Zhang Chaoyang, in particular, is not interested in investing or anything else. His biggest hobby is hoarding cash. Despite Sohu's small size, its market value is only US$900 million.

But the cash reserves are the highest among domestic Internet companies. He bought the Sohu Building and spent US$277 million in cash, but only used 30% of Sohu's cash reserves. This is the information disclosed in Sohu's financial report, and it is true enough.

It's amazing.

If only Lao Zhang had any idea of ​​investing outside, he would have dominated the world long ago. Back then, both Mr. Ma paid homage to him, hoping to become his younger brother and obediently hand over their companies.

But Boss Zhang was not interested.

Same this time.

Upstairs and downstairs, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Ziweixing has a very bright future. But Boss Zhang has no intention of asking for Ziweixing shares.

Zhou Buqi listened to the advice and knew that spending US$100 million in cash to acquire Sogou was a bit too big a step and a bit too much.

Next, he will cooperate with Zhou Shaoning and Yan Guangming to build a mobile phone company!

That's a big investment.

If you spend all your money, it will be difficult to make arrangements when the time comes.

Zhou Buqi went upstairs and came to Zhang Chaoyang specifically to persuade him.

As a result, he was severely criticized by Zhang Chaoyang: "I said, Xiao Zhou, what's the matter with you? We both agreed, do you want to go back on it? I have communicated with the senior executives and also with Wang Xiaochuan about the sale of Sogou.

I explained the situation. Now you are doing this again with me. What does this mean?"

Zhou Buqi said quickly: "Old Zhang, don't get me wrong! I'm just giving you a suggestion, a feasible plan. You can definitely see the potential of Ziweixing. We are upstairs and downstairs. You have taken a share.

We can interact with each other more often."

Zhang Chaoyang shook his head, "Not interested!"

"Ziweixing hasn't even opened its A-round yet. Can you clearly see the current situation?"

"I'm not even busy with Sohu, so how can I have time to take care of your business? I'm not interested!"

Zhang Chaoyang shook his head repeatedly and refused on the spot.

Usually, he has to travel around and deal with female celebrities, which takes a lot of time. He also has to find time to take care of Sohu's affairs... He really doesn't have time to take care of Ziweixing.

Zhou Buqi continued to persuade: "Then you don't want to be a director, you can just invest. If you participate at this time, I guarantee you that in ten years, the return rate of 50 times is even less than what I said."

Zhang Chaoyang's face remained calm and he glanced at him, "For money?"

"right."

"Not interested!"

"What?"

Zhang Chaoyang hummed: "I can't spend all my own money in a few lifetimes, so why do I make so much money?"

Zhou Buqi was shocked by his divine theory, but faced with such a master who had no ambition and only thought about eating, drinking and having fun, he didn't know how to refute.

This Buddhist life requires no explanation.

After thinking for a while, Zhou Buqi said inexplicably: "If you don't even want to make money, just hand over the power and retire. If you leave Sohu to others, you will definitely be able to do better. You have been fishing for the past three days.

After two days of posting on the Internet, don’t you feel that the internal management of Sohu is very loose? I ran upstairs more than a dozen times and I can feel it.”

Zhang Chaoyang shook his head, "Retirement is impossible."

"What's going on?"

"One of the things a man needs to do to establish himself in the world is to be rich. I already have enough money. Money has lost its appeal to me. The other thing is to have power. Where does my power come from? I have to rely on Sohu.

?Only when you have power and money can you live freely and freely, and do whatever you want."

Zhou Buqi sighed with emotion: "Yes, he kills people like nothing, spends money like water, and has a unique skill in picking up women."

Zhang Chaoyang said with a smile: "This metaphor is quite good."

"It was said by a foreign teacher who was training us English. He was training CCTV hosts. The female hosts over there all follow this standard for finding partners. By the way, aren't you single anymore? You didn't want to go to the TV station to find someone.

indivual?"

"I haven't tried it."

"Do you really have any ideas?"

"By the way, aren't you in an entertainment company? You also have in-depth cooperation with Yanjing TV. I even recorded 3 episodes of the variety show "Workplace Master" and hired 5 people!"

"Congratulations!"

Zhang Chaoyang said angrily: "Congratulations! Four of them didn't even pass the probation period and were fired directly. They were all related to so and so, and they were late every day."

Zhou Buqi said matter-of-factly: "It's not surprising. Who in the normal world would go to TV to find a job? They are either related people or cooperate with the show's hype. There are very few contestants who are truly valuable."

Zhang Chaoyang waved his hand, "Come here! You can help me with this!"

"What's the matter?"

"Female host, isn't that what you said? There's no need to use CCTV's, Yanjing TV's is pretty good. Please introduce one to me. It just so happens that it's the National Day holiday, so I'll take her to the United States. Well,

I’m going to talk to a few important investors about the sale of Sogou.”

Zhou Buqi said speechlessly: "Is this your job?"

"No delay." Zhang Chaoyang chuckled and winked, "I'll teach you a trick. If you want to get a woman quickly, the best way is to take her to a strange place. Let her rely on you and leave her own safety to you.

Mountain climbing and skiing adventures, if you can’t do these, just take them out of the country.”

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, not wanting to get involved in this kind of thing, "You go directly to Xu Baihui and ask her to get you a copy of the information on the female hosts on the station, and you can choose it yourself."

Zhang Chaoyang gave a thumbs up, "Interesting!"

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "I'm sorry, you are a little short of 100 million U.S. dollars, but you can shout out! Aren't you feeling guilty?"

"You said it yourself."

“I don’t want Sogou’s brand, I’ll give it back to you.”

"Um?"

"Sogou is still well-known, and it goes well with the name Sohu. It's useless if I ask for it. You can keep it for yourself. Maybe you can use this brand to do other things in the future."

The implications are obvious.

Such a big brand must be worth a lot of money, right? With a business value of US$100 million, the brand value is not much different!

Zhang Chaoyang glanced at him, "How many do you want?"

"Half and half."

"You're crazy!"

Zhou Buqi said plausibly: "Lao Zhang, do you understand trademarks? Do you understand marketing? If you replace the LV bag with another unknown brand, 90% of the value will be considered small. I will tell you

Even if it’s half and half, you still take advantage.”

Zhang Chaoyang crossed his legs and said leisurely: "Then keep it for yourself, I don't want it."

Zhou Buqi said: "Old Zhang, this is boring for you. Ziweixing is not as big a business as Sohu, and 100 million US dollars puts a lot of pressure on me. In the past few days, I have been criticized by many people in the company.

criticize."

Zhang Chaoyang was surprised and opened his eyes wide: "Is there anyone else criticizing you?"

"Yes, there are quite a few. Even my secretary said that I am lavish and have no concept of money."

"Well, your secretary is pretty good, have you slept with her?"

Zhou Buqi said righteously: "I'm a serious person, don't do this with me. Come on, let's get down to business! Sogou, how much do you want to spend to repurchase it?"

Zhang Chaoyang stretched out two fingers and said, "Two million US dollars."

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "Are you dreaming?"

"Then how much did you say?"

"ten times!"

"20 million US dollars? That's too deceptive, isn't it?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Compared with the last time you tricked me, it's still far behind."
To be continued...