Chapter 429

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

"Carl Icahn"

Fang zhe remembered this name in his mind. It is a name that most Chinese have never heard of. In the United States, it is famous on Wall Street!

If Fang zhe remembers correctly, Icahn is now in his 70s. Most Chinese at this age retire and enjoy their grandchildren. However, it is obvious that this is not the case. He is a Jew, the top 100 richest man in the world, the notorious "enterprise Predator" of American business and a naked capitalist!

Icahn's main business is to invest in or maliciously acquire favorite companies, promote the reform of the company's management system or encourage the company to go bankrupt and liquidate, etc., and make the company's shares or assets appreciate rapidly in the short term through various means, and then sell them for cash. In Chinese words, he is the kind of "speculator".

In his more than 70 years of life, Icahn has played with dozens of companies, including world wide airlines, Time Warner and other well-known companies, which have become his playthings. Compared with the children's playing method in the movie "wolf of Wall Street" starring little plum, Icahn is the serious "wolf of Wall Street" in reality.

In this homework for PayPal and eBay executives, Fang Zhe's impression of Icahn is even deeper than those two bright CEOs and omidia, the founder of eBay. In his previous life, PayPal could be separated from eBay. Icahn, a capitalist, is the main promoter and one of Fang Zhe's potential supporters.

Although Icahn is a serious "speculator", his business vision is beyond doubt. Now PayPal is subordinate to eBay, which has seriously restricted the development of PayPal. If PayPal can be separated and listed independently, Icahn will certainly make a lot of money from it!

With Icahn's "boastful" cry, Fang Zhe and others and PayPal's eyes fell on him.

"God, your company called Alipay has great potential. Do I still have a chance to invest in him?" the mature Icahn asked with a surprised expression.

Fang zhe smiled at him and said, "yes, we pay and want to go out of China as soon as possible!"

As soon as Fang zhe said this, omidia and others sitting opposite him couldn't help tightening their ears. Just after reading the data report of Alipay for the past two years, they have clearly realized that if Alipay goes out of China, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Icahn's face also showed a wonderful smile. He praised and said:

"This report says that PayPal has registered more than 100 million users in just two years since its establishment. How long has PayPal done this, seven or eight years? Marcus"

"Eight years!" Marcus gave an accurate answer.

"In eight years, the gap is four times, which is nothing. What's more terrible is that I noticed in the report that you opened up Alipay and wechat payment at the beginning of the year and carried out some activities. Alipay has increased more than 30 million users in just one month, and now it has increased more than 60 million users in less than 10 months! It's terrible, this data is terrible ！”

Icahn's tricky and sharp perspective and analysis have shocked Marcus, omidia and others. If this momentum continues, I'm afraid Alipay will surpass PayPal in global business in less than three years. Moreover, it has a binding with wechat payment, the user limit and development potential of Alipay, It will be far more than just binding an eBay PayPal.

"The old man is actually helping us speak." a member of Fang Zhe's entourage whispered in his heart.

Fang zhe smiled at Icahn and said, "Mr. Icahn supports our conditions?"

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

"Worthy of being the wolf of Wall Street, the capitalist's nature is incisively and vividly demonstrated by him!" obviously, Icahn doesn't care whether PayPal is split or not. He cares about maximizing interests. Obviously, it's in his best interests to split paypal and let PayPal cooperate with wechat and go public independently.

Fang zhe will 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 the maximization of the interests of some other shareholders.

If you can't make money, give it to someone who can make money to help you make money. This is one of the reasons why Icahn is famous on Wall Street. There are a group of wolves on Wall Street, and Icahn is the wolf king!

After Icahn spoke, omidia's insistence also wavered. Although Donahoe, CEO of eBay, still expressed his rejection on various reasons such as the deep business relationship between paypal and eBay, and the spin off of Paypal will affect the development of eBay, it is obvious that he is irrelevant in this negotiation.

Following Donahoe's explanation, Marcus, the current CEO of PayPal, also has something to say:

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

The report provided by Mr. Fang Zhe to us shows that after Alipay opened wechat payment in China, tens of millions of users have been added in less than a year. I believe in the authenticity of this data and the sincerity of Mr. Fang Zhe and Huizhong company to cooperate with us.

As far as I know, wechat currently has more than 600 million users worldwide, including more than 400 million users in non China. If PayPal can cooperate with wechat and get through wechat payment in some countries around the world, even if only one tenth of users can be converted into PayPal payment users, there are as many as 40 million, which is equivalent to our user accumulation in the past three to four years!

Moreover, we all know the growth trend of wechat. It is a very conservative estimate that the number of users of this software will exceed 1 billion in two or three years! Therefore, I very much hope that we can really reach cooperation! "

Huang Siyi and his entourage sitting on both sides of Fang zhe were shocked. They never thought that there were two heavyweights talking for us in a negotiation!

Fang Zhe's smile is even better. He has always hated the manager system on Wall Street. It is because the CEOs and other enterprise leaders trained by this system are a group of senior wage earners. They can abandon the soul and values of the enterprise in front of the interests of shareholders, and they can abandon the enterprise in front of their own interests!

Icahn, the wolf king of Wall Street, supports himself to make money, while Marcus supports himself and even greets himself at the door. It is obvious that he wants to support him to continue to be the CEO of PayPal. Otherwise, due to the urine of the American manager system, he will be ousted as in previous lives, because shareholders feel that he is not worthy to be an independent CEO of PayPal, or, They need a more obedient CEO!