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  Chapter 1191 The language is not surprising

Seeing Chambers, Ballmer's gaze was a bit subtle, but Chambers didn't care about Ballmer's gaze, and just said to Song Yang, "If the three of us form a team together, I think that when the team The team can definitely build an NBA dynasty!"

   Like Ballmer, Chambers's favorite is basketball, and he once spent a year at Duke University, a famous American basketball school.

  Think about it, a team with Song Yang, Ballmer, and Chambers, the three top rich men in America, is definitely the most wealthy club in the entire NBA league, bar none.

   "That's what I want most after I retire. I can watch my own team play in my arena..." Ballmer said with a smile as he returned to normal.

Song Yang glanced at Ballmer, wondering if Ballmer knew that in his previous life, he spent a lot of money to support the team every year, and the two leading stars in the team were not familiar with each other. There are only a handful of time to play together during the game. Every time I go to watch a game at home, my blood pressure soars a lot. I don't know how he will feel.

When it was time to start, the conference room was already packed to the brim. Song Yang still gave up the main seat to Irene. A group of acquirers sat across from ICQ. At this moment, they were all peaceful. What will be the scene again.

  Chambers took a rough look at the conference room. If any of the companies present in today's conference room were picked out at random, they would all be among the top 100 companies in America, but now they are fighting for a Skype platform.

   "On behalf of ICQ, the parent company of Skype, everyone is welcome!"

  Irene, wearing black-rimmed glasses, looked at the giant companies present, "For ICQ, today is not a day worth celebrating, but a helpless choice must be made!

  Skype platform does not need me to say more, it has solved the troubles with the telecommunications industry, and it is only a matter of time before it becomes profitable..."

As she said that, Irene glanced at her watch, "If nothing else happens, the number of Skype platform users today has exceeded 60 million. It doesn't need to be next year, maybe before Christmas, Skype's global users will be able to break through the 100 million mark." !"

Hearing that in such a short period of time, Skype has swept 10 million users around the world. Ballmer, Chambers and others couldn't help but startled, and then their eyes became more and more fiery. Compared with their imagination, Skype, It is much more popular, which is of course a good thing for them.

"Now the Skype platform not only has ordinary users, but also has its own corporate customers. PayPal has officially connected to the Skype platform and uses it as a communication channel between the platform and users. In addition, it will use Skype to sell credit and funds to users. , insurance, treasury bonds and other products.

  Amazon, ebay, Google, Fortinet, Alcatel mobile phone, New Pets pet platform, Wikipedia, Siebel Automobile, including overseas companies such as Yeadex, Sohu, 8848, etc., have all connected to the Skype platform.

In the future, there will be more TV sales, telephone sales, funds, insurance and even banks, etc., connected to Skype's VoIP for sales, which can greatly reduce their costs. In the future, Skype will have more than 100,000 enterprise users, the total number of users may exceed 500 million! "

Irene made Skype hype, as if it was already a ripe peach, as long as you pick it off and eat it, no matter whether you are an ordinary user or a corporate customer, you don’t need to worry at all, it will happen when the time comes, as long as you buy it and take it home , Lying down and collecting money is enough!

These words sound right. It is true that the entire Song Yang camp’s companies have connected to the Skype platform, allowing Skype to directly get hundreds of millions of users. However, most of these cooperations are at the price of cabbage. Skype doesn't make much money from Google and PayPal at all. Instead, it has to bear a lot of fees. There are a large number of users in the sky, but they can only watch it.

As for those fund companies, insurance companies, TV shopping platforms, etc. that have a large amount of telemarketing business, whether they are willing to cooperate with Skype, then only the devil knows. Anyway, ICQ has painted the big cake, and companies that buy Skype will not eat it. It depends on your ability to eat, anyway, after ICQ sells Skype, it will not be returned or exchanged!

  After bragging, Irene entered the topic, "All acquirers present today can initiate an offer. The starting price of Skype is 10.2 billion US dollars!"

There was a mess in the conference room. Although we all knew that ICQ would open its mouth like a lion this time, we never expected that it would be so terrifying. It started with tens of billions of dollars, even for these giant companies. Can't help being a little silent, there is no first offer.

  "Skype's profitability has not yet been proven. The price of tens of billions of dollars, the risk is too high. If it cannot achieve profitability in the future, then this transaction may become a negative teaching material that will be recorded in history!"

The person who spoke was a representative of Blackstone Investment. His words attracted many representatives of the acquirer to quite agree. Those who have traded and acquired all their lives will be nailed to the pillar of shame.

   "Whether the Skype platform is worth so much money, everyone should know better than me, otherwise I wouldn't come here!"

  Irene didn't have any dissatisfaction with this kind of questioning, but just responded calmly, if she thinks it's expensive, then she doesn't have to buy it, and ICQ didn't put a knife on their necks to force them to buy it.

The representative of Blackstone Investment was at a loss for words for a while. He just wanted to lower the price, but he didn’t think about quitting directly. In case of a mistake, Blackstone Investment bought Skype, and he didn’t think about operating it himself. Dress up Skype and sell it!

  Yahoo CEO Semel, when Skype was quoted 10.2 billion US dollars, he couldn't help being in a trance, sighing to himself that ICQ's move was really dark, and he dared to call out such a price.

Yahoo wanted to make a big splash in Asia this time, but was entangled with a large group of thugs by the Wishing Star Foundation, who sniped Yahoo frantically, making Yahoo's idea of ​​flatly pushing to occupy the Internet market in Yanjing directly defeated. Wishing Star Foundation Whose company it will be, everyone knows well.

I was blocked in Yanjing, and when I returned to America, I encountered ICQ selling Skype. The reason why Yahoo participated was that it was afraid that it would be completely marginalized in the Internet social networking industry. With more than 10 billion US dollars, Semel couldn't hold back anymore.

  Seeing that many acquirers, including Microsoft and Cisco, were hesitant, Song Yang said at this time, "Skype platform, as early as next year, will have two more models, and in the future there will be more than 100 million partners worldwide!

  The company that acquires Skype can get the priority to invest in this company, including investing in Starlink Communications Group! "

  Song Yang's words once again aroused consternation in the meeting room. A Skype platform will not stop, but also a big gift package, buy one get two free? !

If someone else said this, next year there will be a new platform with over 100 million users around the world that will cooperate with Skype, then those who hear it will basically treat him as a lunatic, but it can be said from Song Yang , that's completely different. In the Internet industry, who dares to question Song Yang's vision, ICQ, Twitter, Skype and other companies are the best proof!

   Indeed, Song Yang wanted to launch a big discount gift package. The company that bought the Skype platform would be eligible to invest in Uber and Starlink, a good person.

Uber's taxi and food delivery business, as well as the Starlink project, are all existences at the level of swallowing gold beasts. They need to eat a lot of dollars to develop. At this time, find someone to take advantage of them. No, it is a big money owner. Of course that would be great, for this reason, even if you give up some equity, so what.

Ballmer, who was hesitant just now, has no more hesitation at this time. He doesn't know what the new platform Song Yang is talking about, but in the face of it, he may get two platforms with over 100 million users. I can still stand it!

Chambers’ complexion also changed a bit at this time. Every family has a hard-to-read scripture. After Cisco’s collapse from Nasdaq, life is very difficult. This time Cisco wants to acquire Skype, but it does not expect it to be successful. How much money is earned, but hopes that Skype can help Cisco conquer the city and stabilize the business of communication equipment and routers. As long as you buy Cisco's communication equipment and routers, users can use Skype to make calls for free.

   "10.5 billion dollars!"

  Brian Roberts was the first to make an offer. He originally wanted to be a trustee, but now he really has the urge to win Skype.

  When the first person bids, the bidding for the acquisition will be like a volcano erupting, and it can no longer be stopped.

   "11 billion dollars!"

Semel also gritted his teeth and made an offer once. He didn't dare to bet. If what Song Yang said was true, then by then, Yahoo would not be the number two in the Internet industry. I'm afraid it would be the tail end of the car. .

   "12 billion dollars!"

  Ballmer made an extraordinary move as soon as he made a move, and directly added a billion dollars. After Ballmer, Chambers followed closely and began to quote, "12.5 billion dollars!"

  The entire battlefield has become Microsoft and Cisco behind Ballmer and Chambers, and everyone is watching the acquisition price of Skype being lifted into the sky.

   "16 billion dollars!"

   When the offer came out, Irene couldn't help but clenched her fists. The price has exceeded ICQ's best expectations!

But in the face of Chambers' offer, Ballmer still followed up. Ballmer and Chambers competed twice again. After Ballmer called out the sky-high price of 18.2 billion, Chambers It also became silent.

  Everyone in the meeting room looked at Chambers, but after waiting for a long time for Chambers' response, everyone understood that today Microsoft won again with its financial ability.

  Even the companies that failed to acquire Skype were shocked at this time. They witnessed another shocking acquisition after the Internet bubble burst, and it may even change the entire technology industry!

   "Microsoft acquired the Skype platform for $18.2 billion!" In the evening, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and other media suddenly reported shocking rumors.

  (end of this chapter)