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   Chapter 269 There are no taboos

Voting rights and patent licensing, etc., seem to support Bezos, but they are also threats. If Bezos does not accept Song Yang's investment, Song Yang will use patents and other things to invest money in it The opponent is so cruel that Amazon is disgusting!

What Bezos was worried about, Song Yang of course understood that there was Zhuyu, who was expelled from Jobs and Cisco, and saw the two founders of Netscape, and he humiliated because of the stock price in order to gain the support of those investors. To say Bezos With all the Internet peers, don't worry that it's fake.

   For Amazon, Bezos has never given up his equity, and firmly controls the control of Amazon, even if he is swept out of the house one day.

This time, Song Yang will take away 35% of Amazon's shares as soon as he comes up, which makes Bezos even more worried, but Song Yang's reputation and the high valuation of Amazon also make Bezos a little concerned. Move, with this money, Bezos has the opportunity to kill Barnes & Noble and become the largest book retailer in America!

Song Yang handed over the voting proxy rights of this equity to Bezos, which also relieved Bezos from worries. As for whether to continue to delegate the voting rights to Bezos after three years, or to withdraw the voting rights, then That said, it depends on how far Bezos can play Amazon.

Song Yang's team for the trip to Asia is also constantly making preparations, and the investment in Amazon is only one of them. The investment in PA Semiconductor and the acquisition of the mobile phone business from Alcatel Group are also busy. These few The time of day is so fast that my feet don't touch the ground.

  The ICQ office building is only a dozen kilometers away from the Yahoo headquarters building. Yahoo is already in Mountain View, and has also circled a lot of places to build a landmark building.

   At this moment, the scale of Yahoo's internal staff has expanded several times compared to the scale at the time of listing, and the entire office building is full of busy figures.

   And the rules naturally began to appear. Before the listing, there were only hundreds of people. All employees who had ideas or problems could enter and leave Yang Zhiyuan or Ferro's office at will. Now, the rules have begun to appear.

   The key is that Yang Zhiyuan has also started to get busy. Media interviews and various activities are continuous, and even Stanford invited Yang Zhiyuan to return to school to give a speech.

After the listing, the exposure began to increase exponentially. Yang Zhiyuan was treated far better than Mark Anderson at the beginning. The skyrocketing stock price of Yahoo made Silicon Valley and Wall Street start a new round of god-building movement. He is now a Yahoo! Business card, it represents Yahoo!

   "SoftBank proposes to establish Nippon Yahoo in Nippon, and Softbank directly controls and manages Nippon Yahoo, the headquarters of Yahoo in America, invests in brand and technology, and holds 35% of Nippon Yahoo!"

There is a meeting going on at Yahoo headquarters. Yahoo executives Coog, Yang Zhiyuan, Ferro, Brady, etc., as well as representatives of Sequoia Investment in Silicon Valley and several major institutions on Wall Street are all participating, but if you are careful, It will be found that the veterans before Yahoo, except for a few people such as Brady, have disappeared in the management, and Wall Street is taking over Yahoo.

Even Brady, Yahoo's No. 1 employee, had a gloomy expression at this time. He sat at the end of the conference room. After Yahoo went public, it began to "regularize" and invited a large number of professional managers from Wall Street to come. As executives, these people are all from famous universities and have served as executives in large groups.

Brady naturally has opinions on what these executives from Wall Street are doing. As soon as these people arrive, they let Yahoo buy and buy. Four11, Viaweb and other companies are all these professional managers, and let Yahoo buy them. Down, some of it did help the Yahoo business and the stock price started to soar, but some of the…

It’s hard to describe the companies that were acquired. Those companies obviously had some business with Wall Street investment banks. Think about what Yahoo is doing, and as a result, they bought a company that develops Internet software with a lot of money. Isn’t this funny? Yahoo’s current technology , Looking at the whole Silicon Valley is first-class, what kind of software technology can't be developed, if it can't be developed, it is not technology, but a patent troll, just like ICQ!

   Brady wanted to say, but looking at Yang Zhiyuan, who was already surrounded by Wall Street people, and looking at the familiar faces in the conference room, all of them had disappeared, and Brady could only sigh.

   "I agree, the Nippon Yahoo brand is established by the software in Nippon!"

After Kuger raised his hand to vote, it was passed without any suspense. Softbank is now the largest shareholder of Yahoo, the largest shareholder, using the name of Yahoo in Japan, what happened to opening a Japanese Yahoo, the holding of Japanese Yahoo! What's wrong with the power being controlled by Softbank? When he invested in Yahoo at a time of crisis, shouldn't Sun Zhengyi get some return? !

  The newly appointed Yahoo product manager said at this time, "I propose that Yahoo develop its own brand of e-commerce platform as soon as possible. According to data, e-commerce may be one of the main battlefields in the future!"

   The executive from Wall Street said eloquently, "Microsoft and AOL are both deploying in the e-commerce industry, not to mention Bruno Song. We must not lose the opportunity this time and be as passive as in the instant messaging industry!"

When he said this, the new product manager glanced vaguely in the direction of Brady. Brady was one of the few people within Yahoo who advocated not to compete with Song Yang, but he is now being criticized for this. I think Brady has dragged down Yahoo's development in the field of instant messaging, and has not been able to launch Yahoo!

   This time, Yang Zhiyuan finally did not agree immediately, but frowned, "Is it a bit too hasty to enter e-commerce like this?"

Yang Zhiyuan, who has a big brother mentality, still doesn't want to be tough with Song Yang. Yahoo e-mail fights Hotmail. Yang Zhiyuan can accept it. After all, Song Yang has already sold America's local Hotmail, and launching Yahoo Messenger is also a last resort. Yahoo needs a A product that connects a huge number of users.

But hurriedly entering the e-commerce industry, the taste of fighting with Song Yang is too obvious, but Yang Zhiyuan knows that Song Yang is not the kind of person who doesn't say a word when he suffers a loss, not to mention that Song Yang still holds Yahoo! With a 9% stake, Yahoo took a lot of effort to get Song Yang's representative out of the Yahoo executive meeting. Otherwise, Song Yang would know if there was any trouble on Yahoo's side.

  Brady also took the opportunity to say at this time, "Bruno Song is not Yahoo's current opponent. Most of Yahoo's current revenue comes from advertising cooperation with DoubleClick. Yahoo should not regard Song as its main opponent!"

Brady, who has the closest relationship with Song Yang, can understand that Song Yang does not want to fight Yahoo, otherwise the situation would not be as calm as it is today. If you look at how Netscape is tricked, you will know that Song Yang has the means to fight with Yahoo. Now that Yahoo has to take the initiative to provoke Song Yang, Brady is also a headache.

Now there are portals, Lycos, Excite and other rivals, Microsoft's MSN, AOL are also eyeing, the search industry has a rival like Altavista, e-mail has just started, the instant messaging industry has to challenge ICQ's dominance, that's it, Bula Di couldn't figure it out, why did Yahoo kill Song Yang? !

Brady can't figure it out, the people on Wall Street are Men Qing, Yahoo has so many businesses, it doesn't matter if they make money or not, the key is to have a reputation, where is the popularity, and whoever is more popular, the higher the stock price. , Isn't this the wealth code? As long as Yahoo's stock price is still skyrocketing, Wall Street will not let this wealth code go.

At this time, the door of the conference room was knocked open, and the assistant of Yahoo President Cooger hurried in and said a few words in Cooger's ear. Brady saw Cooger's face changed several times, and his heart was not good. It feels stronger.

   glanced at everyone in the conference room, especially on Brady who stopped for a while before moving away.

   "I think everyone, you have to put away your previous ideas, maybe your opponent is stronger than we thought!"

Cooger's low voice sounded, with a bit of anger and dissatisfaction, "We can't lag behind our opponents everywhere, Yahoo wants to become a leader in the Internet industry, not a follower, I decided to launch Yahoo's e-commerce platform Yahoo Stores immediately. "

   Hearing this, everyone in the conference room had different reactions. Yang Zhiyuan was a little worried, but the people from Wall Street smiled. The popularity of e-commerce is obviously increasing.

Before Brady objected, Cooger said, "Bruno Song's American Investment Fund, after investing in eBay, has just reached an agreement with Amazon to invest in Amazon at a price of 30 million US dollars! "

Hearing this, there was a sudden uproar in the conference room. Yahoo didn't expect Song Yang to take action so quickly. Just after investing in eBay, he invested in Amazon non-stop. This is the posture of the e-commerce industry. No wonder Kuger couldn't help it. .

  Yang Zhiyuan couldn't say anything else when he heard this. Song Yang started to bet heavily. If Yahoo didn't follow up, it might really be thrown away in the e-commerce field.

  After the conference room was over, Cooger and others left, Brady sighed helplessly, and walked to Yang Zhiyuan's office, "Song, I sent an invitation to Yahoo to join us on a trip to Asia, do you want Yahoo to join?"

   "I'm still thinking about it!"

   Yang Zhiyuan said that he wanted to participate, but Cooger hoped that Yang Zhiyuan would go to Asia alone on behalf of Yahoo, and go to Asia with Song Yang. Yahoo was afraid that Yang Zhiyuan's Bige and Light would be robbed.

Song Yang made a big bet on the e-commerce industry, and finally completely detonated the e-commerce industry. Yahoo and AOL, which have mastered the wealth code, announced their entry into the e-commerce industry on the same day and launched their own brand of e-commerce. These two big companies in the Internet industry , The announcement of the entrance of Qi Shushua has led to a large number of companies pouring into the entire industry.

   (end of this chapter)