In Washington, there is a place called "K Street". There are at least 2,000 lobbying companies, mainly cooperating with certain institutions in Washington, providing consulting services, and a profit-oriented development model, which allows some powerful businessmen to maintain close contact with them and try to spend money to obtain a business environment that is beneficial to them.

Mr. Heath Quinn is one of them, the more powerful one, who usually works in Washington, but the people behind this time offer a high price, so they don’t mind coming to New York to find Ye Dongqing to discuss certain things and make a quick money from it.

Ye Dongqing knew nothing about this guy. When the two met, he asked straight to the point: "Just just now, the assistant told me that you represent several companies and wanted to talk to me in person. Until now, I still don't know who you are. Do you mind talking first?"

"...Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, these three companies are my employers. Since you like to click directly, I will also order directly. Some people don't like the company you have called Skype. It is infringing on the rights and interests of my employers, such as a parasite that is attached to a communication network built at a cost.

I have a court summons in my hand and a check with a figure 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 that they have joined forces on this matter, so I suggest you choose this check and sell us Skype."

Quinn is not handsome, and his height of about 1.6 meters is obviously a bit short among the white people. He has a Mediterranean hairstyle and black-framed glasses. He looks like a very capable and highly educated smart person.

Before he arrived, he had 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, such as not being good at socializing when he was in Manhattan International Middle School, etc. Quinn even talked to a teacher of Ye Dongqing in person. After summarizing the collected information, he subconsciously thought that this little guy who had just left school was easy to deal with, which was also the reason why he hit Ye Dongqing's head with a big stick.

Quinn thought he had already understood Ye Dongqing's personality, but in fact, he is very different from the one he had a few months ago. If he was really a young boy, he might be scared by these three giants with a combined market value of up to 400 billion US dollars, but that's not the case.

After hearing this, Ye Dongqing was both unhappy and happy because this was the first time in his life that he had been warned by so many oligarchs. He felt for no reason that he had some strength and had a strange attitude. He put his hands behind his head and found a comfortable position to lie on the chair. He said, "It doesn't matter. If you want to sue, I have enough money to ask a lawyer for help, even if you spend 200 million US dollars in it, it seems that Skype is worth spending so much money.

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

At the end of May, Facebook has more than 21 million registered users, and is still developing at an explosive rate. Active users account for 70% of the total registered users. This is a very terrible number, which means that nearly one-tenth of Americans will soon become users of this program.

The number of registered users of Skype has successfully exceeded the 6 million mark by being promoted several times by Facebook. A group of chattering users have used up all the free call time and began to gain some insignificant benefits. As long as there is no problem in development, success will be a matter of time.

I heard that these companies are only willing to pay 40 million US dollars. This number seems to be a humiliation in Ye Dongqing's opinion. The friendship between those communication operators is not worthy of Ye Dongqing's potential income of more than one billion or even billion US dollars. It would be strange if he could agree.

Quinn immediately knew that it was terrible. Judging from Ye Dongqing's attitude and tone of speaking, it seemed unlikely to solve the problem easily, so he slowed down and said: "Forty million US dollars are just to show our sincerity. You can give a quote. I will talk to my employers again. I think there must be a friendly way to resolve the dispute, right?"

"It does, but you can't afford it. To be honest, there is no way to show any sincerity for just 40 million US dollars. Sell it to Japan, the tech giants in Silicon Valley. They are likely to buy it with ten times the number. I don't think there is any need to continue talking, because I don't plan to sell it at all."

It is naturally better to resolve some conflicts. Ye Dongqing added: "Your employers make money through mobile phones, and I use the Internet, and users are not unpaid on the Internet. According to your philosophy, is it better to even have fax machines, emails, instant text communications, etc., just call them all right?

Times have changed. 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 have similar technologies and even do better.”

I really want to say something, but Quinn, who is usually good at speaking, was speechless by these words for a while. He also believed that even without Skype, there would still be Akype, or Bkype and other things.

After quickly organizing the language, he hurriedly said: "But at least you should increase the charging standard a little, such as double the current one, 100% and twice the current one, etc., to achieve fair competition. In order to save that little money, I think users will still choose to use your company's products."

"That's my company's business. You don't need to interfere in these decisions. In order to show sincerity, don't give money to the law firm. I can even promise you to let go of some patents and let you develop similar products. That's called fair competition."

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

Communication operators invest in infrastructure, building optical cables, etc., and have invested a lot, but Ye Dongqing, based on this network, can make a lot of money at a very small price, and the cost is pitifully low.

From this perspective, he is indeed making use of loopholes openly, but doing business is a life-and-death thing...
Chapter completed!