Hollywood Starts with Animation

After days of hard work, Zucker's work schedule in Seattle was finally completed.

On this day, Zucker accepted the invitation of Bei Baldou, chairman of Amazon Mall, and went to his home.

"Zuke, see it. From LinkedIn's announcement of its Series A financing, to the entry of Amazon, Microsoft, Heidrick \u0026 Struggles, and Blue Crown Capital, until today after the dust settles, the topic of LinkedIn has always been the media. Focus." Bezos laughed while sitting on the sofa in the living room.

Zhu Ke toasted him with a glass of wine and said with a smile, "What do you want to say? Haha, are you proud!"

"Of course."

After Bezos drank the whisky in the glass, he said, "I know you very well~"

"Oh, how to say?" Zucker played with the taste.

Bezos looked straight and said solemnly: "Two days ago, in your speech at the shareholders' meeting, you mentioned the key points of future development, whether it is to open online news information, or rely on the advantages of LinkedIn platform to vigorously develop online Education and offline education can both bring a lot of profits.”

profit!

These two words have always been a topic that a company cannot avoid!

An Internet company that cannot achieve profitability, or that takes a long time to achieve profitability, will definitely be eliminated by the market even if it has a large number of users. After all... the market will never lack competition of the same type. opponent.

Bezos stared at Zucker with fiery eyes, and continued: "Although you did not explicitly mention LinkedIn's future earnings direction at this shareholder meeting, don't forget, I have known you for many years. "

"The money you've put into LinkedIn, over $100 million, is definitely the biggest of all the companies you've started."

"Remember, start a company, not take a stake in another company."

"Furthermore, you have built a huge industrial park for LinkedIn. According to your personality, I am sure that you have certain ideas about how LinkedIn can quickly achieve profitability."

"Do not!"

"Maybe... I underestimated you!"

"Do you already have a specific plan for making LinkedIn profitable?!"

Bezos stared closely at Zucker,

Want to find clues from his face.

However, he failed!

He didn't find the slightest information from Zuke Gujing Wubo's face.

However, no information found is the greatest information!

Zuke waved his hand and said with a smile, "Man, you're thinking too much. If I already had a way to make LinkedIn profitable, why would the company keep burning money?"

"yes?"

Bezos laughed, he didn't believe a word!

In fact, he guessed right!

Don't forget, Zhu Ke is a transmigrator! From the moment he founded LinkedIn, Zhu Ke has made detailed plans for the development of LinkedIn, including various ways and means of making profits in the future. However, Zu Ke has never allowed LinkedIn to reach this point. .

Why?

Although LinkedIn is now the leader in online recruitment and online employment, and the company with the largest market share, there are not a few competitors of the same type that are desperately catching up!

In the North American market alone, there are no less than 100 companies, large and small, applying for jobs online!

"As long as we can truly become the overlord of this industry and have a market share of more than 80%, then, won't it be easy to make money?"

"In a word, as long as you defeat and crush the opponents in the entire industry, then this market is up to you!"

What Zhu Ke's LinkedIn company has to do at the moment is to sweep the entire online job search industry and kick out all potential and competitive opponents!

"Ha ha!"

Bezos smiled and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't tell me. I also understand that you just want to have more say in the future B rounds and C rounds of financing!"

Zucker sneered: "Dude, isn't that how Amazon's shareholders have been miserable by you?"

The boss does not say the second child.

Bezos is also an out-and-out, very cunning fox in business!

Think about it, too, how easy is it for a man who has not been able to beat Bill Gates in personal wealth and ascend to the throne of the world's richest man for several consecutive years?

Zucker and Bezos are true friends, very close friends, but....in a business environment, even your best friend can be your biggest competitor!

Next, the two deliberately or unintentionally skipped the topic of LinkedIn and turned to Amazon.

Amazon~

For Amazon, both Zucker and Bezos are doing the same thing today, which is to buy as much Amazon stock as possible from shareholders, the primary market, and the secondary market.

Up to now:

Bezos's stake in Amazon has reached 23.9%.

This share is definitely not low. Before the dotcom bubble burst, Bezos' stake in Amazon was only 21.9%.

A full 2% increase in the proportion of shares!

That is to say, Amazon is now deeply affected by the Internet environment, and its market value has been greatly reduced. Otherwise, this is a big business involving at least billions of dollars.

In the future, this 2% stake, according to Amazon's trillion-dollar market value, is tens of billions of dollars!

"Zuke, your shares are quite a lot. It seems to have reached 12.1%, right? My dear, it is 4.1% more than before you sold Amazon's stock. You are more ruthless than me!" Bezos curled his lips. .

Zucker smiled.

The boss doesn't talk about the second child~

Zucker and Bezos, as allies, are clearly occupying the most delicious part of Amazon's pie.

The two made a lot of money, no doubt, they do not accept refutation!

Don't ask, you just don't know!

........

That night.

It was also Zucker's last night in Seattle during this trip.

Felix Luca, senior vice president of Adidas, is very excited.

"He's finally willing to see me again!"

The proposal to acquire or take a stake in Under Armour has almost become an obsession of Luca.

Since 1999, Luca has noticed Under Armour and has been following it for nearly a year. After that, he proposed to acquire Under Armour several times on the board of directors of the company.

Since then, he has continued to collect information on Under Armour, the parent company Jin Shuguang Entertainment Group, and Zu Ke himself.

During this period, he paid a lot of hard work!

At this moment, he and Zucker are sitting opposite each other in a restaurant in downtown Seattle.

"Mr. Wald, please believe in the sincerity of our Adidas side. As long as you can accept our shareholding in Under Armour, then as an intermediary, as a link between the two companies, I assure you that I will persuade the board of directors to Product technology, product sales channels, sports spokesperson information and other aspects have given Under Armour huge support!"

Luca's tone was very sincere.

To be honest, Zucker can also clearly and clearly feel the sincerity of Adidas.

but!

Zucker shook his head and said, "Luka, you're right. I'm also very moved, but I still choose to reject you."

"This, this, why is this?" Luca was frantic.

In terms of investing in Under Armour, Luca asked himself that the sincerity he gave is absolutely the dream of countless sporting goods companies, and it is hard to refuse.

However, he didn't know that Zhu Ke was a transmigrator!

Zucker suddenly said: "Luka, you know, I have a Manchester City team in the Premier League, and I'm planning to buy an NBA team, and in the future, I'm going to buy another MLS football team to establish A professional sports operation company."

"This......"

Luca is shocked!

Zucker: "This future large-scale sports operation company still lacks a CEO. I wonder if you are willing to serve as this CEO!"

Luca: "......"

" "The first more is sent.

Thanks to the book friend "woofer" for the reward, sorry, the reward a few days ago, the author has never seen it, woo woo~~