Wall Street Legend

  Chapter 170 Lobbyists (23)

In Washington, there is a place called "K Street". There are at least 2,000 lobbying companies there. Powerful businessmen also maintain close contact with them, trying to spend money to obtain a favorable business environment for themselves.

Mr. Heath Quinn is one of them. He belongs to the more powerful one. He usually works mainly in Washington, but this time the people behind him bid a lot, so he doesn't mind coming to New York to find Ye Dongqing to discuss some Things, make a quick buck out of it.

Ye Dongqing didn't know anything about this guy. When the two met, he asked straight to the point: "Just now the assistant told me how many companies you represent and wanted to talk to me face to face. Until now, I don't know who you are. Do you mind?" Shall I talk first?"

"...Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, these three companies are my employers. Since you like to be direct, I will also be direct. Some people don't like the company called Skype in your hand. It's violating the rights of my employers, like a parasite clinging to the communication network that was built at great expense.

I have a court subpoena in my hand, and a check of up to 40 million US dollars. You can choose to be our enemy, but I want to remind you that each of them is not easy to deal with, and they have joined forces in this matter. Up, so I suggest you take this check and sell us Skype. "

  Quinn is not handsome. His height of 1.6 meters is obviously a bit short among the white people. With a Mediterranean hairstyle and black-rimmed glasses, he looks like a very capable and highly educated intelligent person.

Before he arrived, he had already sent someone to investigate Ye Dongqing, and he didn't know much about it, for example, he had only been in business for more than half a year, for example, he was not sociable when he was in Manhattan International Middle School, etc. Quinn even talked to one of Ye Dongqing's teachers in person However, after summarizing the collected information, he subconsciously thought that this little guy who had just left school was easy to deal with, which was why he hit Ye Dongqing on the head with a big stick when he came up.

Quinn thought that he already understood Ye Dongqing's character. In fact, there is a big difference between him today and the one he was a few months ago. If he was really a brat, the combined market value of these three companies might be as high as 400 billion U.S. dollars. The giants of the world are frightened, but they are not.

After hearing these words, Ye Dongqing was both unhappy and happy, because this was the first time in his life that he was warned by so many oligarchy companies, somehow he felt that he had some strength, and he put his hands behind his head in a strange state of mind. Finding a comfortable position and lying on the chair, he said: "It doesn't matter. If I want to sue, I have enough money to hire a lawyer to help me. spend so much money.

As a weak and righteous party, I believe that most people will choose to stand on my side. You should know better than me how high the phone bill is. The lawsuit will only make Skype more famous. Anyway, big companies are used to bullying the disadvantaged, right? Well, I knew this day would come sooner or later, but I didn't expect to pay attention to Skype so soon. "

Today at the end of May, Facebook has more than 21 million registered users, and it is still developing at an explosive speed, and active users account for 70% of the total number of registered users. This is a very scary number, which means that many Nearly one in 10 Americans will soon be using the program.

Promoted by Facebook several times in succession, the number of registered users of Skype has successfully exceeded the 6 million mark. A group of chatty users have used up the free call time and started to get some negligible benefits. As long as there are no problems in development, success is Sooner or later.

I heard that these companies are only willing to pay 40 million U.S. dollars. This figure is a shame to Ye Dongqing. The friendship of those communication operators is not worth letting Ye Dongqing give up more than one billion or even billions of U.S. dollars. Potential benefits, it is strange to agree.

Quinn immediately knew that something was wrong. Judging from Ye Dongqing's attitude and tone of voice, it seemed impossible to solve the problem easily, so he slowed down and said: "The forty million dollars is just to show our sincerity. You can Give me an offer, and I will talk to my employers again, I think there must be an amicable solution to the dispute, right?"

"Indeed, but you can't afford it. To be honest, a mere 40 million US dollars can't show any sincerity. Sell it to the Japanese and Silicon Valley technology giants. They are likely to buy it with ten times that amount. I don't think so. Any need to continue talking because I'm not going to sell it at all."

It would be better to resolve some conflicts. Ye Dongqing added: "Your employers make money through mobile phones, and I use the Internet. It's not that users don't pay high Internet access fees. According to your philosophy, isn't it best to connect fax machines?" , E-mail, instant text messaging and other methods are not necessary, just call obediently?

The times are different, sir. As far as I know, video communication technology is about to be born. Don’t try to stop the progress of society, because you can’t stop it at all. Even if I sell Skype to you, other countries, such as China, will soon Similar technology will be born, and even better. "

   Really wanted to say something, but Quinn, who is usually eloquent, was speechless for a while. He also believed that even if there was no Skype, there would be Akype, or something like Bkype.

Quickly organized the language, and hurriedly said: "But at least you should increase the charging standard, such as double, 1.2 times, etc., to achieve fair competition. In order to save that little money, I think users I will still choose to use your company's products."

"That's my company's business. You don't need to intervene in these decisions. In order to show sincerity, don't give wronged money to the law firm. I can even promise you to release some patents and let you develop similar products. That's called fairness." compete."

Skype and Facebook have been partially bundled, and technologies such as instant text messaging and video communication have been put on the agenda. Ye Dongqing doesn't think that communication operators who are already despised by users can successfully win their favor. Considering the interests, it is almost impossible to have a price war, and I would only be happy to see Ye Dongqing raise the price and narrow the cost gap between the two technologies.

  Communication operators invest in infrastructure, erection of optical cables, etc., and the investment is not small, but Ye Dongqing is based on this network, and can make a lot of money with only a small price, and the cost is pitifully low.

  From this point of view, he is indeed taking advantage of the loophole openly, but doing business is a matter of life and death...

  (end of this chapter)