Back To 1995

   Chapter 210 Beating the gongs and drums

On both sides of the road leading to the Nasdaq trading floor, posters of Yang Zhiyuan and Ferro, the two "Internet chiefs", are plastered everywhere. The number of posters even exceeds the number of Yahoo LOGOs. If you don't know that today is the day Yahoo goes public, it is estimated that At this point, I thought which American congressman was going to participate in the election of the chief commander.

   After coming out of the North Shore Manor on Long Island, Song Yang and Xie Qing saw this scene when they went to Nasdaq.

Yahoo's propaganda department, in full accordance with the routine of the election of the chief leader, is "confessing gods" for the two founders of Yahoo, promoting outdoor advertisements, TV interviews, newspapers, and magazines, and even Yahoo's own acquisition of media and magazines. publicity.

  Xie Qing, Deng Feng, and Ke Yan were a little stunned when they saw this kind of battle for the first time. They knew that the Internet was hot right now, but at this point, it was beyond their expectations.

Especially when passing Manhattan Avenue, the giant electronic screens on both sides of the road were almost dominated by Yahoo's advertisements, and the hundreds of screens in Times Square were occupied by Yahoo. More than half, this situation is compared with the listing of Netscape last year. , that's still much more crazy!

Xie Qing, who was still calm about the listing, couldn't help but have the idea of ​​sending Fortis to the market when he saw this scene. He finally suppressed it. As a person in the Internet industry, who doesn't want to be the focus of the world? Is sought after by thousands of people? !

  Song Yang understands that Yahoo is the focus of New York today, so he doesn't mean to steal the limelight. He just entered the Nasdaq Center with Marcus and others in a low-key manner. Song Yang refused even the interview with the reporter at the door.

   After entering the hall, Song Yang saw that the number of people present today was much larger than that of the last Netscape.

  The scene of the Nasdaq trading floor was busy. Looking at the center surrounded by a large group of reporters and media carrying long guns and short cannons, I knew that Yahoo people were inside.

In addition to these, there were mainly people of two skin colors gathered at the scene. In addition to the familiar faces in Silicon Valley, there were also a large number of Chinese people gathered here. Among the people Song Yang recognized, except for those who had seen familiar ones on TV Besides the Chinese-American faces Bei Jinming, Li Changyu and others, the most familiar one is the leather-clad swordsman Huang leader who just hugged Microsoft's thigh and established Nvidia this year.

Today, almost all the companies established by Chinese in Silicon Valley are here to cheer for Yahoo. Not to mention Nvidia, it just embraced Microsoft’s thigh this year. The release of Microsoft’s Windows 95 system is like a life-saving straw for Nvidia. Nvidia, which has been established for two years, is rapidly developing A graphics card compatible with Microsoft's system was produced, and one million sets were sold in four months. Finally, it survived in the graphics card industry where gods fight.

   These days, the software industry has been killed by Microsoft, and in the hardware field, they have hugged Microsoft's thighs one after another. Even if they hate Microsoft, there are still countless people who rely on Microsoft to eat...

  In addition to NVIDIA, there is also WebEx, an online conference software for the Internet that was just established this year. Although it has just been established, it has been approached by many Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

The founder of WebEx also came here, and behind the founder of WebEx is another person. Yuan Zheng, the founder of Zoom, the founder of the 100 billion dollar market value in the future, is still a little dumb at the moment with the boss of WebEx Zhu Min Behind him, his language is still a little out of the question. He is mainly acting as a coding robot in WebEx company, which is the same as Wesley's work. I came here today mainly to gain insight.

In addition to those in the Internet and technology industries, the most popular is the boss of Solectron, the second largest electronics contractor in America. Solectron, who started out by working for IBM, is one of the earliest electronic assemblies in the world. The factory, Chen Wenxiong, the boss of Solectron, also came to support in person.

Looking at the group of people on the trading floor, Song Yang could feel that Yahoo was really working hard today, and Yang Zhiyuan also used a lot of connections. Otherwise, it would not be easy to gather so many Chinese faces together. .

   When Song Yang, Xie Qing and others arrived, they quickly attracted a lot of attention from the scene. When a group of Chinese people saw Song Yang, they all looked at him with curiosity and scrutiny.

Since Song Yang's debut, the speed of rushing up is much faster than that of Wang An's company in America, but Song Yang is basically surrounded by the Italians of the Bruno family, as well as the red necks from Texas. The Chinese elites in America were somewhat vague about Song Yang's attitude.

Looking at those eyes with various meanings, Song Yang couldn't help sighing, if someone from a certain ethnic group would have used the first drop of blood principle on Song Yang long ago, he wished that all the celebrities in the world would be them Ethnic people, and then propaganda and promotion with great fanfare.

   Turning his eyes, Song Yang stepped forward with a smile on his face, and began to greet everyone on the trading floor.

   "Director Li!"

After Song Yang passed by, he first shook hands with Li Changyu. Now Li Changyu, who is already famous in the criminal field of America, has broken through the ceiling of the Chinese police in America and became the first brother of the police in Connecticut, that is, The police station in Kangzhou is managed by Li Changyu. Whether it is nominal or real power, he has broken through the ceiling of Chinese people in this line.

Hearing Song Yang speak Chinese, Li Changyu and others were stunned for a moment, and then their attitude towards Song Yang changed obviously. Among the new generation of Chinese in America, there are actually not too many people who can speak Chinese. .

  Song Yang shook hands with Li Changyu, Bei Jinming and others one by one. Xie Qing also quickly got acquainted with Yuan Zheng and others from WebEx Company.

The media and camera at the scene turned the camera around after Song Yang gathered with a group of yellow-skinned people. In America, such scenes are rare, and there are not many famous Chinese people in America. But most of them are alone. The Chinese descent of so many industries are rare.

After talking with a few people, Yahoo saw Song Yang who entered the venue, and quickly pulled Song Yang to take pictures in front of the media.

"Song, thank you for coming!" Yahoo and Song Yang's most familiar Blaudi said to Song Yang.

"Of course", Song Yang frowned, "You know, I always support Yahoo very much!"

When Yang Zhiyuan saw Song Yang, he immediately vacated a position and let Song Yang stand beside him. Yang Zhiyuan's character is not to be said, he is indeed the demeanor of the leader. From the presence of so many Chinese people today, you can see one or two. It's right.

Yahoo President Coogee, when he saw Song Yang's arrival, the media began to shift the cameras to Song Yang, and he felt a little dissatisfied. He painstakingly built all this today to make Yang Zhiyuan the only center of the audience. Saying a little bit of tone, he said to Song Yang, "Song, you have worked hard to come here today."

  Song Yang's face changed when he heard this, and he said in a serious tone, "Today is the most important time for Yahoo, and it is also the day when the chief of Yahoo takes the throne. I will definitely come over to witness it!"

   Hearing this, Yang Zhiyuan couldn't help laughing. Today is indeed the most important day for him. Even if he has no intention of becoming the leader of Anderson's Internet alliance, Yang Zhiyuan does not want to give the position of Internet chief to others.

"Song, are you very optimistic about Yahoo?!" The reporter around him asked Song Yang, the newly arrogant Yahoo "Director".

  Song Yang nodded immediately, "I think Yahoo will become the representative of America and even the global Internet. Double-click the Yahoo shares held by me. I promise not to sell it within three years!"

   The reporters surrounding him heard this and couldn't help but burst into a commotion. Song Yang said this, and he would not sell Yahoo's shares for three years, which really proved that Song Yang was optimistic about Yahoo.

When Kuger heard this, he didn't know whether to be happy or sad. The happy thing was that Song Yang was touting Yahoo. If he didn't sell Yahoo's stock, it would make more investors have confidence in Yahoo. He was working for Song Yang, and Curge was a little uncomfortable.

   In the face of questions from the surrounding reporters, Song Yang praised Yahoo for a while, and even said directly, "I think beyond Netscape, for Yahoo, it is just the beginning".

The market value of the Internet today is still as high as billions of dollars. Song Yang said that Yahoo can surpass the Internet, which is almost equivalent to blowing Yahoo on the sky.

   However, in addition to the question about Yahoo, some reporters also caught the same question about America Telecom, and asked Song Yang whether America Telecom's acquisition of CompuServe was a failure.

Song Yang just smiled and waved his hand at this kind of question. Today is Yahoo's big day. Song Yang didn't want to steal the limelight. Seeing this, Cooger hurriedly invited the directors of Yahoo over. Log in to Nasdaq.

After a while, Sun Zhengyi, the major shareholder of Yahoo's major shareholders, and Moritz, who invested in Sequoia, came to the trading hall.

When Sun Zhengyi, who was not very tall, came to the scene, the flashes lit up and immediately became the focus of the audience. All the people on Wall Street present also looked at him with various meanings. Over the years, because of the hundreds of millions of dollars smashed into Yahoo, it has become a well-known American who has been taken advantage of. Today, there are countless people in front of the TV station who want to watch Sun Zhengyi's jokes.

Sun Zhengyi's face was not different. He knew that many people wanted to see his jokes, but if he didn't feel it, he still had a smile on his face.

   "Song Yang, it should be this name, I've always wanted to meet you!" Sun Zhengyi said Song Yang's name with a slightly weird accent, and said very warmly to Song Yang.

"Me too!" Song Yang and Sun Zhengyi said.

On this occasion, there is no chance to speak. After Song Yang said a word to Sun Zhengyi and Moritz, he stood with a group of Yahoo for a group photo. Unlike the previous Netscape, Song Yang, who was a director of Yahoo, This time, I also brought baseball caps with Yahoo Logo.

  When Song Yang, Yang Zhiyuan, Ferro, Sun Zhengyi, Moritz and others all appeared in a photo, Yahoo's code immediately appeared on the Nasdaq screen!

   (end of this chapter)