"What measures and methods do you plan to take to deal with the pressure and criticism from governments and regulatory authorities?" another senior executive of Carlyle Group asked a question that Fang zhe was not surprised.
Heaven helps those who help themselves. Although Fang Zhe and Huizhong hope to use the influence and power of the world''s top capital to escort Huizhong''s future development in the world, he also knows that these capital are more willing to help a capable Fang Zhe and Huizhong. What they can give Huizhong is only help, not that Huizhong will be completely smooth after accepting their investment.
You know, even multinational giants such as Google and Microsoft growing up in the United States are often subject to antitrust investigations and various penalties and censures by relevant European regulatory authorities that seem to be integrated with the United States.
To put it bluntly, everything is still based on interests. Google, Microsoft and other companies make a lot of money in Europe. If they can''t serve the relevant European departments well, they can''t avoid constant trouble.
"We intend to operate independently in different countries and regions according to the actual situation to meet the regulatory requirements of governments and regulatory authorities.
For countries and regions in need, we can deploy independent servers locally to ensure that the personal data and communication data of local users are kept locally and subject to the supervision of relevant departments.
In practice, similar to the globalization mode before Yahoo and Google, branches in various countries and regions have high independent operation autonomy, but are controlled by the parent company in terms of shares and finance. "
Several executives of Carlyle Group looked at each other. Their answer to Fang zhe was no exception. Looking at the internationalization experience of major successful multinational Internet companies around the world, Fang zhe said this way is the most common, the most common and the best way to reduce various political difficulties.
When Fang Zhe and others left Carlyle Group and flew from HSD to Silicon Valley, as soon as they got off the plane, Fang zhe received the latest news from the U.S. office. The proposal of U.S. congressmen to ban wechat operations in the United States has been revoked!
Fang Zhe and Zheng Siwen looked at each other. Zheng Siwen had no choice but to share his hands with him. There was no way. This is the reality!
The purpose of Fang Zhe and others'' trip to Silicon Valley is to contact Huizhong''s potential financing object apple. Before coming, Fang zhe had asked his secretary Li Wen to make an appointment in advance with Steve Jobs, the founder and CEO of Apple who had dinner with Fang zhe!
To say that in the next decade, to say that in the mobile Internet era, the world''s greatest and most influential company, it can only be apple!
If he had been reborn ten years earlier, perhaps the company that led the trend of smart phones and opened the era of mobile Internet would be a collection of people founded by Fang Zhe. However, when Fang zhe was reborn in 2008 and reborn in apple, he has occupied the most favorable terrain and leading advantage in the smart phone industry and the era of mobile Internet. Fang zhe understands that apple in this life will continue its glory in the previous life!
Even Xiaomi with Fang Zhe''s help will compete with Samsung in the Android camp at most for the position of the leader of the Android camp in the next three to five years, and can''t compete with apple, the leader of the smartphone era and the founder of the mobile Internet boom!
Therefore, in order to make wechat stand firm in the world and make Huizhong a world-class company, Fang zhe had to embrace Apple''s thigh!
In a Chinese restaurant in Silicon Valley, Fang zhe met Apple founder Steve Jobs again.
When Apple released the iPad at the beginning of the year, Fang Zhe and jobs had dinner together, so they were quite familiar. In addition, when Apple released the iPhone 4 a few months ago, the Huizhong testing department instructed by Fang zhe specially fed back the problem of "iPhone 4-day line door" to apple. This feedback can be regarded as a great help to Apple!
Because it had predicted in advance that there was a problem with the antenna signal of the iPhone 4, before the official launch of the iPhone, apple, like previous generations, adopted a compromise method to reduce the impact of this problem by modifying the mobile phone signal algorithm. Therefore, in this life, the "iPhone 4 antenna door" that was noisy in previous generations did not happen.
Even so, apple and jobs still expressed great gratitude to Fang Zhe and Huizhong, because compared with Fang Zhe and Huizhong, who are laymen in the mobile phone industry, apple and jobs understand how serious and funny it is if a mobile phone has a signal problem. You know, the reason why mobile phones are developed is to meet people''s communication needs, It is also the most basic function of mobile phone.
Jobs can imagine that if competitors in the mobile phone industry such as Nokia, blackberry and Motorola know that there is a problem with Apple''s newly released iPhone 4 signal, I''m afraid that while laughing off their teeth, the executives of these companies will also ridicule apple and even step on Apple''s iPhone 4 to advertise!
In fact, these things envisaged by jobs did happen in previous lives. Therefore, when jobs heard that cook told him that Huizhong intended to seek financing from apple, he agreed to meet Fang Zhe and talk about it in detail after thinking carefully for a few seconds!
After nearly a year''s absence, jobs looked much haggard than last time. Fang zhe knew that this was because his condition had worsened again!
Next year, yes, in October next year, there will be only about a year from now at most. The "great man" respected in Fang Zhe''s heart will tell others about the world!
Thinking of this, Fang zhe looked at jobs with a trace of complexity in his joy. However, this complexity did not escape jobs'' eyes.
"What''s on Mr. Fang Zhe''s mind?" jobs asked immediately.
"Well, I didn''t expect that I could meet you twice this year!" Fang zhe nodded and casually explained.
"Hahaha, I didn''t expect it. Maybe this is the so-called fate!" jobs responded casually.
Fang zhe pressed down his heart, predicted that jobs had entered the complex mood of death countdown, and exchanged casual greetings with jobs.
Their topics range from the Chinese food in this Chinese restaurant, to the iPhone 4 antenna door Huizhong helped Apple avoid last time, to the good results of several mobile games newly launched in the app store this year, the mobile Internet industry, the development of the mobile phone industry, the global development of apple and iPhone, and the global development of Huizhong, etc.
It was not until more than an hour later that the two talked about Huizhong''s wechat that Fang zhe slowly said the purpose of his trip. Huizhong was interested in seeking financing from Apple!