Back To 1995

  Chapter 1103 Refers to a deer as a horse

Even Netscape, which used to be the leader of the Internet, has fallen, let alone Internet practitioners. There are countless bankruptcy and career changes. One day they were still working in the office, and the next day the company declared bankruptcy , In the past two years in Silicon Valley, it is not surprising at all.

  Colin McMillan cannot be said to be the luckiest, but he is definitely not the most unlucky guy. Compared with him, there are not many unlucky people in Silicon Valley, and many of them have already entered federal prisons for advanced studies.

Song Yang nodded to Colin McMillan and the others, and then walked towards the office of ICQ President Irene. After entering, he saw that he was wearing a black lady's suit and a pair of black-rimmed glasses, and he returned to the original set Irene, president of ICQ, dressed somewhat solemnly.

The higher the market value of ICQ, the more "sophisticated" Irene's clothes will be. ICQ is an Internet company, but for the head of a giant company with a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars, the younger the better, too. The young head, at least the leeks are a little worried...

When seeing Song Yang, Irene raised her head and glanced at Song Yang, and said in a "businesslike" way, "Congratulations to Director Bruno, you have completed the wedding that attracted the attention of the whole of America. President, you are also pregnant!"

The stern-faced Irene said to Song Yang with a little bit of ridicule, but there was unavoidable resentment in her eyes. Although Irene had already made up her mind to become the top female professional manager in America, she In fact, it is almost done now, and now, together with the president of the Telephone and Telegraph Group, Betts, and the new president of HP, Fiorina, are called the three top female professional managers in America by the American media!

Irene is a strong woman in the workplace. She is doomed to be a canary if she wants to maintain her current power and status. Equivalent to a super big melon in the Internet industry, Irene's prestige will be gone, and she will be unable to suppress all the people under her command.

  Song Yang came to Irene's desk, looked at Irene in front of him, reached out and took off her old-fashioned black-rimmed glasses, "I said before, these glasses are not suitable for you!"

   Irene exclaimed, but it was Song Yang who hugged Irene up. When she reached the desk, Irene's body stiffened for a moment, and then she wrapped her hands around Song Yang's neck and began to respond violently.

Irene's personal Jewish assistant, Katia, appeared outside Irene's office at some point, forbidding anyone to enter Irene's office. Listening to the looming voice coming from inside, Katia just faced He shook his head expressionlessly.

   "The silly boy!"

  Kagia already knows Irene's thoughts, and will inherit Irene's power and status by "adopting" a child in the future, get the ICQ equity under her name, and perhaps take over the empire of this Internet industry in the future.

As for where to adopt, there is no need to think about it at all. Kagia just feels that it is a pity that Irene could go further. If she forms a family with someone who is also Jewish, then Irene can get more Jewish power in America The support of the characters, even like the old Bruffman, the head of the Bruffman family, has become a real big man in Jewish and American.

   But if she has an illegitimate child with someone, it is doomed that Irene will no longer be able to get the support of the entire American Jewish population.

The office is extremely messy, with documents scattered on the floor. Irene, who has shed her old-fashioned professional attire and keeps exercising all the year round, spends a lot of money on maintenance every year. Song Yang feels that Irene's skin is much worse than it was a few years ago. Still greasy and greasy, of course, he was still like a little wild cat just now.

Irene lay lazily in Song Yang's arms, letting Song Yang's mischievous hands go up and down. Looking at Song Yang's face, Irene couldn't help but recall the scene when she first met Song Yang. It is completely different from the past. Today, even Irene, who has the mentality of being a professional woman, would never have thought that she would become one of the female heads of companies with the highest market value in America!

   "Song, when the ICQ situation stabilizes, I want to have a baby!"

  Song Yang looked at Irene in his arms, and knew that with her personality, it was definitely not a joke. Before Song Yang could speak, Irene pressed her lips to Song Yang's.

   "Irene, today's meeting is about to start!"

Katia outside interrupted Song Yang and Irene's grind. When Song Yang and the well-dressed and radiant Irene walked out of the office, Katia saw the messy scene in the office, so she could only go in and start. Clean it up by yourself. If you leave it to the cleaning department to clean it up, you don't know how many rumors will spread.

Entering the conference room of ICQ, I am familiar with Irene, the technical president Wesley and other executives who have worked together for many years, all found some abnormalities in Irene, but when they saw Song Yang, they all looked at each other The look of the wooden man watching the heart.

In other giant companies, executives who intend to challenge Irene's position at this time may start to use tactics. Office fighting skills are common all over the world. Office fighting is not at all lighter than the fighting on Capitol Hill. No matter how many, they try their best to climb up little by little, and don't miss any chance.

   But in ICQ, this kind of scene basically doesn’t happen. The gossip between Irene and Song Yang doesn’t happen every day or two. It’s hard to think about making trouble with the affairs of ICQ’s largest shareholder!

   "Twitter's users by the end of this year are expected to exceed the 110 million user mark, which will make Twitter one of the top ten Internet platforms with the largest number of users in the world!

  Technically, the technical department is constantly making adjustments, launching new versions, and adding new functions of Twitter! "

Wesley said in high spirits that in addition to the title of "Father of Instant Messaging", he also has the title of "Father of Twitter". The media with good things has already started touting that Wesley is the father of Java. Gosling, the father of Linux, and Linus, the father of Linux, are compared. This is of course a flattery, but it also makes Wesley, who has achieved freedom of wealth and is now pursuing fame and the historical status of the Internet, excited.

As the earliest technician to join Song Yang's camp, Wesley has already realized the freedom of wealth, not to mention comparing with Song Yang, now Wesley is definitely the most valuable among the millions of technology practitioners in America, and even the global Internet One of the characters!

Although the media is making hype, Wesley knows how talented he is. If it weren't for Song Yang, Wesley probably wouldn't know which company he was in. The current status in the arena is simply impossible.

Wesley has no pursuit of power. Although he only needs to change jobs now, there are a lot of Internet companies willing to let him be the president or something, but his family knows their own affairs and left ICQ. Without Song Yang's support, Weisley Sli felt that he was about to reveal his secrets, and the muddy body inside would be exposed when the golden body was broken...

Staying in ICQ as a member of the founder team, the salary and dividends are not low, not to mention the status in the world, such as launching ICQ, Twitter, etc., and being able to pretend to be in front of peers. When you retire, entering the American Internet Hall of Fame is a certainty Things, what is Wesley fussing about? !

   "However, the current loss of the Twitter project has exceeded 121 million US dollars. In the future, the number of users will continue to increase, and server costs, operating costs, and promotion costs will continue to increase!

   And Twitter’s current profitability, including the next few years, may not be very good! "

  The financial director of ICQ poured cold water on it. Since Twitter was launched, it looks very glamorous, but the development costs, promotion costs, server costs, etc. add up to a mess.

  Thinking back in the past, after ICQ went online, although it also lost money, relying on the advertising of ICQ’s community space function, and relying on NFT avatars to cut a few crops of leeks, ICQ’s performance was very impressive at the beginning.

Twitter is different. Each message is only a hundred or two hundred bytes of content. If all of this is added with advertisements, users can say that they have no experience in using it. In the future, Twitter’s advertisements will not be like ICQ. Unscrupulous.

This makes Twitter seem to be in a hurry, but if it makes money, it may take many years to lose money. On the financial side, I want to remind ICQ executives. When looking at Twitter’s loss bill every year, don’t blame them. No reminder!

   “Twitter promotion can’t stop!”

  Irene said decisively, it seems that although Twitter is a gold swallowing beast, it has been losing money since then, but a yearly loss of 100 to 200 million dollars, or even more dollars, is completely acceptable for ICQ.

  In terms of market value alone, ICQ’s share price has almost doubled thanks to Twitter, and its market value has increased by tens of billions of dollars. An Internet platform with 100 million users is also a favorite in the global technology industry.

Now ICQ has three major Internet platforms, ICQ Community Space, Xueleshan Game Platform, and Twitter. The number of users of these three platforms has exceeded the 100 million mark, or even more. With these platforms, no matter how much you earn At least, ICQ is equivalent to having the power of public opinion in the Internet industry. Coupled with the three major TV stations of ICNC, NBC, and CNN, ICQ really has the power to turn clouds and rain in the media and public opinion industries. It is no exaggeration to say that a deer is a horse!

  “After the launch of Twitter, the number of ICQ’s advertising providers increased by 41%, including General Motors, L’Oreal, AbbVie, etc., all began to increase investment in ICQ’s advertising pool.

  ICQ's NFT avatar, also because of the appearance of Twitter, sales increased by 1400%!

  ICQ has just succeeded. It has issued bonds and new shares worth 2.4 billion dollars to global investors. There is no need to worry about capital. Now the capital flow of ICQ is very healthy, so there is no need to worry about Twitter! "

  Irene waved her arm and told the executives present that Twitter is still the most important project of ICQ.

  The most important thing about Twitter is the influence of public opinion. Especially in the World Trade Center incident, after showing its ability to ignite public opinion, it has become the reason why many companies and powerful figures value Twitter.

  Twitter is somewhat similar to Wikipedia. It is really difficult to expect how much money they make, but using them to influence public opinion and intentionally disgust people is really getting twice the result with half the effort!

In industries such as automobiles, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics, if there is negative news, sales will immediately begin to plummet, so they are very sensitive to public opinion. Giant companies such as General Motors, L’Oreal, and AbbVie put advertisements on Twitter, basically spending money Buying Ping An is equivalent to paying protection fees. When encountering negative news posts related to them, Twitter can help delete the posts!

This advertising fee is basically a drop in the bucket compared to the huge public relations fees and settlement fees spent in a crisis. This is also the reason why major companies spend huge advertising fees every year. On the one hand, it is indeed for publicity. On the other hand, it is also tied to those media platforms. The big sponsors of advertising are in trouble. These media platforms immediately lost their advertising fees, and their revenue has dropped a lot. ?

ICQ's NFT avatar is universal on the "whole network". As long as you buy it, you can use it on ICQ, Twitter, Google, PayPal, Xueleshan Game Platform, Fortivirus, Symbian Music Store, ebay, Amazon, Hotmail , AOL, Firefox and other platforms, it is a "hard currency", and now there is an additional Twitter, which makes ICQ's NFT avatars more widely circulated.

  Since ICQ launched NTF avatars, many companies in Silicon Valley have started this business. However, over the past few years, most NFT avatar platforms have closed their doors after cutting a handful of leeks, and the remaining platforms are still alive.

Only ICQ’s NFT avatars are still very popular. From time to time, it is reported that NFT avatars sold at sky-high prices have been sold, and the collection value is also rising. The rumor that a rare NFT avatar is worth a house in New York is enduring, isn’t it? It's really hard to say, but everyone says so...

  Song Yang, who was sitting at the end of the conference room, just listened to the reports of ICQ executives from all walks of life, and basically had an understanding of the real situation of ICQ.

The days of the Internet are really difficult now. It can be regarded as a slight recovery, but it is still in dire straits. Even ICQ, which is regarded as a leader in the Internet industry, cannot completely support itself by revenue alone. It also needs to rely on the issuance of bonds. , Issuing new shares to increase cash flow, but the most difficult days are over, and there is no need to worry about bankruptcy and running away.

  After the ICQ executives finished their reports, they couldn't help looking in Song Yang's direction. Even if Song Yang wasn't sitting in the main seat, who would dare to underestimate the existence of the major shareholder who can determine their fate.

   "The bonuses, dividends, and equity rewards for the Twitter team will be issued as soon as possible, and Twitter will be established as a separate product department, which will be managed and operated separately in the future!"

After a while, Song Yang's voice appeared in the conference room, making all ICQ executives **** up their ears. Song Yang appeared in ICQ not many times, but the development of the entire ICQ was almost completely influenced by Song Yang's influence and Twitter's project are also one of the two major projects that Song Yang returned after taking back ICQ's controlling stake from General Electric, and Twitter's current performance is enough to show that Song Yang's vision, he also He is still the one who can cause **** storms in the arena of the Internet, even though he doesn't often walk in this arena...

   "How far has the Skype project been developed?!"

   There is something to deal with, and it was only finished from last night to noon. Today there is only one chapter, I am really sorry.

  (end of this chapter)