Chapter 490

"Recommended by Li Yifei?"

President Cao showed a stunned expression on his face and then turned into a bitter smile.

Who is Li Yifei? That was an old employee who had worked in Sina for six years. He was poached by Fang zhe four years ago to start a partnership. Until now, he has served as the CEO of Alipay, an internet financial service company associated with Huizhong.

It's impolite to say that Li Yifei is the most powerful and valuable person among Sina's on-the-job and resigned employees.

Who could have thought that the person who once left sina is now more powerful than his CEO of sina, and what makes him more unexpected and even embarrassing is that now, as the CEO of sina Weibo, Sina's most important business subsidiary, is also appointed by Li Yifei!

Fortune makes people! If I had known it was because of Li Yifei, I'm afraid I wouldn't easily accept Huizhong's conditions at the beginning.

In President Cao's mind, there are countless reasons why Li Yifei asked Wang Gaofei to be the CEO of Weibo. It may be that they were both Sina colleagues before. Li Yifei was optimistic about Wang Gaofei's ability, or it may be just because Li Yifei and Wang Gaofei had a good personal relationship. Even it may be that Wang Gaofei knew in advance that Huizhong wanted to take a stake in Sina Weibo and deliberately "bribed" Li Yifei wants to be an official. Anyway, any reason is possible. It's really a little fun to think about it!

Of course, the probability of the last reason is very small. Cao can't believe that Wang Gaofei "bribed" Li Yifei, who can bribe himself into a necessary condition for Huizhong to invest in Sina Weibo. After all, Huizhong can spend real gold and silver. Besides, Fang in front of us can always be a fool and let the investment of nearly $1 billion drift?

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 doesn't want to tell him. What do you say? Do I want to tell you that I am optimistic about Wang Gaofei because he brought the microblog back to life and went to glory in his previous life?

In his previous life, Wang Gaofei was ordered to reform microblog, adjust the operation direction of microblog and explore the commercialization mode of microblog. In his hand, microblog not only came back from the dead, but also defeated the microblog of several other companies, established Sina microblog as the first brother of microblog in one fell swoop, and finally completely unified the Jianghu.

Since then, Sina Weibo has become synonymous with Weibo. Whenever netizens talk about Weibo, they refer to Sina Weibo, not like now. Weibo can also be the Weibo of Zhang San and Li Sijia!

In Fang Zhe's opinion, without Wang Gaofei's talent, the microblog in his previous life can't turn the world around and become brilliant. Therefore, Fang zhe specially wrote the conditions for Wang Gaofei to be the microblog CEO into the stock agreement. As for what Cao Zong and other Sina executives think, to tell the truth, Fang zhe doesn't care very much!

The main purpose of Huizhong's investment in Sina Weibo is to let it fight with Tencent Weibo. As for the power struggle and internal contradictions of sina's senior management, Fang zhe doesn't care very much. If Wang Gaofei can't hold this seat, it can only blame him for his incompetence and Fang Zhe's eyes!

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

Shenzhen, top floor conference room of Tencent headquarters building.

"Bully too much! Bully too much!" Zhang Zhidong, the CTO of Tencent, slapped the conference table angrily.

Zhang Zhidong is one of the five tigers of Tencent, that is, one of the five founders of Tencent. He is the largest individual shareholder of Tencent except President Ma. This shows how much his position and influence in Tencent is.

However, Zhang Zhidong, a technical background, has always kept a low profile. Let alone that the outside world rarely sees his news, it is normal that many employees and executives inside Tencent can't see him for a year and a half.

However, today, such a person who has always been low-key, modest and seldom loses his temper is angry at the moment.

Zhang Zhidong lost his temper for nothing else because Huizhong took a stake in Sina Weibo. Obviously, Huizhong is going to fight Tencent!

Huizhong wechat has taken away the opportunity of Tencent's transformation to the mobile terminal. Let alone the high-level Tencent microblog, which is highly expected by the high-level Tencent, even many melon eating people watching on the Internet feel that Huizhong is a bit of a bully and wants to kill everyone.

However, the business competition has always been cruel. If I don't kill others, others will kill me. Fang zhe didn't want to intervene in the microblog war of several companies too early, but who let you Ma always destroy my heart of gathering people? Can you start Tencent socially? Social networking can only be Tencent's of your family. There's no such reason in the world!

Compared with Zhang Zhidong's angry temper, Mr. Ma's face is a lot calm. There is an inexplicable light in his eyes. He doesn't know what he's thinking.

After Zhang Zhidong's temper eased down, an executive said: "according to our previous analysis and prediction, Huizhong should not be so anxious to take a stake in Sina Weibo. At least it should wait until the end of the year when Sina can't support it. That's in the best interests of Huizhong!"

"Yes, just from the perspective of investment return, Huizhong's investment has wasted a lot of wronged money!"

"Whether it is wronged or not, it's best to collect all the money!"

"Who is Wang Gaofei? Do you know anyone? I heard that Huizhong specifically takes him as the CEO of Weibo as a necessary condition for taking a stake in Sina Weibo. I think this person should have some skills!"

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Executives expressed their views on Huizhong's stake in Sina Weibo. At this time, an executive sitting at the end suddenly said after looking up and looking at President Ma:

"I think Huizhong's stake in Sina Weibo has little to do with sina, but has a lot to do with us!"

As soon as he said this, the meeting room fell into silence. Then, many executives who wanted to understand nodded their heads to agree. Finally, almost all executives agreed with him.

"During this period, we have narrowed the front, eliminated the business conflict with Baidu and Alibaba, and actively cooperated with these two companies. Presumably, president Fang is alert to danger in times of peace and has realized the sense of crisis. Only then can we be anxious. We would rather spend more wronged money than take a stake in Sina Weibo!"

"What can we do if we realize such a big business adjustment? We don't expect to hide it for long. Now our three companies don't have a direct competitive relationship. On the contrary, the three companies have a lot of competition with Huizhong, which means that we have a common enemy. Even if Huizhong is powerful, we can't win if we fight one of them?"

The topic discussed by executives has gradually shifted from Huizhong's stake in Sina Weibo to bat's three companies working together to deal with Huizhong. President Ma, who has been sitting in the main position and silent, is full of complexity in his eyes at the moment.

"For more than a year, I have planned for more than a year. Finally, I have this situation today!"

President Ma was disappointed that since Tencent failed one after another in its strategies and actions against Huizhong, from the general meeting of shareholders to many executives, it began to be unconvinced and even challenge President Ma's authority, and all hostile acts or major actions against Huizhong began to be difficult to pass at the executive meeting and the general meeting of shareholders.

Especially at the shareholders' meeting, the shareholders who hold most of the shares do not want and are not willing to support President Ma to work with Huizhong. After all, compared with President Ma's less than 10% shares, their loss is the biggest. Their willingness to support President Ma to continue to serve as CEO of Tencent has given him a lot of face!

Ma Zong's life is hard!

Therefore, for the sake of their own authority, to continue to deal with Huizhong, to avenge and wash away the humiliation suffered by themselves and Tencent in recent years, several core Tencent executives, such as Ma Zong and Zhang Zhidong, began planning more than a year ago. How can executives and shareholders agree to continue to deal with Huizhong and make them believe 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!

Tencent's way to win is to unite Baidu and Alibaba to deal with Huizhong together.

From Tencent's shrinking front, cutting off various businesses in conflict with Baidu and Alibaba, to trying to promote the cooperative relationship between the three, to today's meeting, Zhang Zhidong, who has always been modest, suddenly lost his temper, and the last executive suddenly attributed Huizhong's hostility to Tencent to Huizhong's stake in Weibo, which can be seen as the result of President Ma's efforts to plan and direct.

In order to form today's situation, Ma always took great pains!