"Mr. Murdoch, I learned from the media this morning that ICQ has acquired 29 companies in a row in just one year since it was listed on NASDAQ last year. What's the matter?"
Zucker talks to Rupert Murdoch, and then he talks to ICQ.
Murdoch's face changed slightly.
After a sip of champagne, he sighed: "it's also strange that we are too eager for quick success and instant benefit. The representatives of all parties on the board of directors believe that relying on the huge number of users of ICQ to drain other industries, we can achieve rapid and large profits."
"It's no problem to drain other industries."
Juke frowned.
ICQ is an instant messaging software. When the technology of video chat and voice chat has not been realized, it is mainly based on text chat. Its own profit-making means are extremely limited, which is nothing more than the income of users handling membership and undertaking advertising.
However, ICQ has hundreds of millions of users!
ICQ chat software as the center, radiation film and television, beverage, clothing, food, games, music and other industries, is bound to be able to drain a large number of users in a very short period of time, so as to achieve rapid profits.
Tencent QQ group is to make a fortune!
"The crux of the problem is that we are too anxious. Whether it's the management represented by weisger and wadi, or the shareholder representative groups of Sequoia Capital, Goldman Sachs and my News Corporation, we are too big. In just one year, we have acquired 29 companies all over the world, covering film and television, games, media, magazines, toys, food, clothing, finance, banking and many other industries. "
Murdoch said in a deep voice, "do you know how much it cost, Juk?"
"How much?" Zucker is curious.
"5.8 billion dollars!"
Murdoch never stops talking.
what the fuck!
At this moment, Rao is used to the wind and waves of Zhuke, also can't help but be surprised. The capital of 5.8 billion US dollars completely exceeds the wealth of Zhuke's four years of struggle.
"No way. It cost US $5.8 billion to buy 29 companies?" Chuck blurted out.
"No
Murdoch shook his head: "the acquisition of 29 companies costs a lot of money, and the subsequent integration investment adds up to $5.8 billion. But do you know how long it's been since ICQ was updated? "
Zhuke shook his head and said, "I don't know. However, when I did not leave ICQ and served as the chief creative officer, I once gave instructions that ICQ must be updated on a small scale in 2-3 months, and it must be updated once in 10-12 months, so as to keep users fresh all the time. Well, didn't they do that? "
"He's making a fool of himself!"
Murdoch murmured: "in 15 months since its launch, ICQ has been updated twice, and the range is not large. There is no creative update."
Hearing the speech, Zhu Kezhi shook his head.
A piece of software, can not maintain a certain degree of freshness, especially in the case of other competitors, is undoubtedly the way to death!
In addition, Zhuke also learned from Murdoch that the board of directors is quite dissatisfied with the management teams such as weisger and wadi.
Since the rise of ICQ, weisig has been investing in new Internet enterprises while operating ICQ.
In more than a year, the number of Internet enterprises invested was as high as 40; Among the many enterprises invested, a graphics processing software company was listed on NASDAQ in early February this year. Weisger owns 13% of the company, bringing him $40 million in profits.
As a result, weisige is not doing his job!
"So you're really very dissatisfied with weisger and wadi." Joking.
Hearing the speech, Murdoch gave Zhuke a bad look.
.......
At the end of the chat with Murdoch, Zucker chatted with other visitors.
The top management of IBM: TEV Schindler;
Intel executives: Smith Williams;
HP executives: Dana mlito;
Chairman of Oracle: Larry Ellison;
Dell boss: Dell;
And so on, as many as a dozen people, and Zhu Ke business mutual blow.
Especially Larry Ellison, he left a deep impression on Zucker, because his girlfriend was so beautiful.
"Larry, you old man, where did you get such a beautiful companion?" Chuck poked him with his arm.
"Ha ha!"
Larry Ellison immediately said: "envy. And I'll tell you that I've had nine new partners since the beginning of this year. "
"What a beast you are Zucker's eyebrows quivered.
"Ha ha, thank you very much."
Larry Ellison added: "I heard jobs say yesterday that you increased your stake in Apple last month?"
"There's nothing to hide," Juk nodded. I'm not happy with jobs, but I'm optimistic about Apple! "
Larry Ellison made fun of him, and slapped his pretty girl on the butt in front of him, which made him very upset.
What a playboy, old man!
Looking at the Internet and technology giants in the United States, Larry Ellison is the craziest one for beauty. He doesn't want jobs, gates and others to sneak in and hide. He dares to say in front of the media that his biggest hobby is to hook up with beauty.
Listen, how many American billionaires are like him?
Even Zhuke was careful when he was stealing.
.......
Not long after, under the auspices of weissger, the reception of ICQ's third anniversary officially began!
Weissger made a speech in front of hundreds of guests.
"ICQ" was founded on May 15, 1996, and has come to this day with a bumpy road. Everyone in our team has put in 12 points of energy. Every one of us in ICQ should be proud and proud. "
"We started with just a few people, and today we have 27000 employees worldwide."
"From a small company with a value of less than $1 million to a giant company with a market value of $7.2 billion and an instant messaging overlord."
"From one company to a large-scale enterprise with more than 40 subsidiaries dominated by ICQ."
"Every step we take is related to the pulse of the times and the change of technology network!"
"Ladies and gentlemen, as the chairman of ICQ, I would like to welcome you here!"
When the voice fell, it was applause.
Even if ICQ is a bit bad recently, all the people invited here are scene people. They will never embarrass ICQ weisger and others at this time. Although I know if ICQ will win this battle in the field of instant messaging.
If we win, the more opportunities for cooperation in the future, the better.
Those who make enemies in business for no reason will never come to a good end.
As soon as he stepped down from the stage, wadi came to him sullenly.
Wadi whispered, "weisger, why did you revise the speech?"
"I didn't." Weisger denied.
Vadila stopped weisger and whispered, "I'm not kidding you. I mean you deleted all the contents about Mr. Zucker Wald in the speech. What do you think?"
Weisger is dumb.
"Weisig, you first proposed to welcome Mr. ward back to ICQ and save the current decline of ICQ. But now, you can't hold your face down. What do you want us to do? " Wadi gritted his teeth.
Weisger's heart is burning!
He really can't save face.
"Also, weisger, long time no see."
At this time, a middle-aged lady came. Her arrival interrupted the argument between weisger and wadi.
All of a sudden, weisger left wadi alone.
"Fool!"
Wadi looked at weisige's back and said in a low voice, "is face valuable? If you don't go to Mr. Wald, I'll go! I will never let ICQ go into ruin
"He changed his mind on the way?"
At this time, Goldfinger, one of the founders of ICQ, came to wadi: "he is such an indecisive master that we should not have trusted him at the beginning."
"Yes, if Mr. Wald had been the chairman of ICQ, we would not have been so far." Wadi sighed.
The second watch is on.