Back To 1995

   Chapter 489 **** for tat

  Pelle Greeni just came out of the San Jose airport, picked up a newspaper, and saw reports of a group of small and medium-sized banks fighting PayPal.

   A group of small and medium-sized banks headed by Alliance Bank is trying to target PayPal. The headquarters of Alliance Bank is in Arizona. It is self-evident who the head of the financial office in Arizona speaks for.

These small and medium-sized banks are unwilling to cut their meat, reduce transaction fees, and promote low-interest loans to attract users. They are also unwilling to test the waters of Internet online business. There is no way to take PayPal. Use physical means to solve PayPal.

   Just like the director of Arizona, he threatened to ban PayPal's business in Arizona, and even did not rule out pulling the network cable and tearing down PayPal's local server.

   Seeing the hard-core methods used by these banks, Pelle Greeni knew that they were probably already being pressed, otherwise they would not have used these methods in such a hurry.

Pelle Greeni, who came from New York, flipped through the newspaper in his hand. He could clearly feel the difference between San Jose and New York. In the newspapers in New York, the most reported news about the rich and famous and New York congressmen, or else Lace news of various celebrities and celebrities and the like.

Looking around, Pelle Greeni can see the signs of one technology company after another hanging on the streets of San Jose. In the Goldman Sachs office in New York, Pelle Greeni has studied countless technology companies in Silicon Valley, He even boasted that he knew more about their companies than the presidents of these companies in San Jose.

Can know the main business and products of these technology companies, know who their opponents are, know their market share and revenue estimates, etc., but this is Pelle Greeni, one of the few who came to Here, see what these tech companies really look like.

   is far in the horizon and right in front of you. It is no exaggeration to describe the relationship between Silicon Valley and Wall Street. People on Wall Street study Silicon Valley every day, but they rarely see the real Silicon Valley!

When passing by the ICQ office building, Pellet Greene took a special look. He knew that the investment department of Goldman Sachs was also studying ICQ, and wanted to make a venture capital investment before ICQ went public to get the equity of ICQ. Analysts even called this investment the most indispensable investment in the Internet era of Silicon Valley, although ICQ still doesn’t make much money…

Countless Wall Street institutions are looking forward to ICQ, looking forward to the listing of ICQ, but Pelle Greene is clear that in the hands of the big money maker behind ICQ, there is more than one ICQ, Double Click, America Telecom, Alcatel Mobile, Feifei. Tower antivirus, of course, and the purpose of his visit this time, PayPal payment!

Pelle Greeni has seen geniuses in countless industries, but in the past ten years in the technology industry, if he comments on the talents of this decade in the technology industry in the future, Pelle Greeni is sure that the name Bruno Song is absolutely will bear the brunt.

   Of course, if it wasn't so difficult, Pelle Greene wouldn't even mind, and put Song Yang's ranking higher in the talent list!

Unlike the Internet geniuses like Mark Anderson and Yang Zhiyuan, they are willing to accept Wall Street's "help", but Song Yang is willing to take Wall Street's money, but he is unwilling to accept Wall Street's finger-pointing, which is the biggest headache for Pelle Greene. The place.

If you have to compare, Pelle Greene feels that Song Yang can be somewhat similar to the Microsoft guy, but Song Yang's personality is a bit tougher. I don't know if it comes from the place where the cowboys are born in Texas. Because of this, the people who came out were tougher than the other, Song Yang didn't mention it, and so did Jim Clark who was biting with Microsoft...

   Sitting in the car driven by the Goldman Sachs clerk in San Jose, Pelle Greeni went around San Jose, turning ICQ, Fortinet, Alcatel Mobile Industrial Park, etc., all over again.

   Especially in the Alcatel Mobile Phone Industrial Park located in the suburbs, Pelle Greeni stayed for nearly 20 minutes, watching the large trucks constantly entering and leaving the industrial park, obviously pulling P1 machines.

   Just like the hot "Alcatel mobile phone concept stocks" on the Nasdaq now, just from the current scene of the Alcatel Mobile Phone Industrial Park, we can see how the sales of P1 mobile phones are.

   "The next Motorola?!"

Pelle Greeni looked at the Alcatel phone in front of him, and couldn't help but think of the Alcatel phone evaluation given by a Goldman Sachs analyst, which was a bit exaggerated. Now Pellet Greeni feels like... It's really possible come true!

   waved his hand, the car that Pelle Greene was in left, and a security guard of Blackwater Company who was standing at the entrance of the industrial park, who had been staring at Pelle Greene's car, also put down the walkie-talkie in his hand.

   It's not that these black water security guards are too careful, but there are really daring guys who dare to touch the industrial park to steal the machine, because the sale of P1 is really hot.

Now this P1 phone is a hard currency. As long as you get it and the price is slightly lower than the official website, you can sell it immediately. This attracts a lot of daring guys. After all, stealing a mobile phone is much less risky than selling those gadgets. Blackwater security had to step up patrols. Just now, Pellegrini's car was parked opposite the industrial park, so the security of Blackwater had to beware, did he come to step on the spot!

   If Pelle Greene knew about the security of Blackwater, and regarded him as a stepping-on, I don’t know how he would feel.

After reading the dishes, Pelle Greene made such a big trip today to evaluate Song Yang. If Song Yang was a newcomer to Silicon Valley, then Pelle Greene would go to the meeting directly, using In the name of Goldman Sachs, tell the other party to carry out rectification in accordance with Goldman Sachs' requirements, prohibit access to certain businesses, and require Goldman Sachs to take shares.

But if it is Song Yang, Pellet Greene needs to think about it. Facing Song Yang before last year, Pellet Greeney and even Goldman Sachs will make completely different things. treat.

   Force PayPal to submit?

  Pelle Greene could have dared to do this in his dreams, let alone him. Even if Paulson came, he probably couldn't force PayPal into submission.

   did not take a break and returned to Goldman Sachs' office in San Jose. Pelle Greeni asked the local office staff to bring Song Yang and PayPal's information to start researching, trying to find a breakthrough.

   Paulson's energy is now on the Asian side, and PayPal's side can only be carried by Pelle Greene.

   After one night, Pelle Greeni, who was lying on the office chair, was awakened by the dazzling sunlight and rubbed his sore eyes. Last night, he read the materials in the middle of the night, and only squinted for a while in the morning.

Looking at the pile of documents on the desk, Pelle Greene felt that his head was starting to grow. After reading the PayPal information yesterday, and then looking at Song Yangdu's information, Pelle Greene had to Yang's worth, and then increase a part.

In addition to those industries that have attracted attention, Song Yang has also invested in a lot of businesses that are no longer in the mainstream media's sight, such as PA Semiconductor, eBay, Amazon, Lao Maozi's Yeadex, Asia's Sohu, 8848, Yinghaiwei, etc. No one can say how much these companies are worth, but with just one Yeadex, Pelle Greeni has to pay attention to three points.

  Song Yang's investment industries are now inconspicuous, but once they develop or go public, Pellegrini feels that Song Yang's worth will skyrocket!

The door of the office was knocked open, and a young female assistant in business attire walked in and brought a cup of coffee in front of Pellet Greeni, "Director Pellet, Bruno Song has already made an appointment, for today's meeting, you need to Don't need a break?"

  The female assistant said "concerned" to Pellet Greene, she seemed to care a little about Pellet Greene, and said with a bit of "hint".

Whether Pellegrini is from Goldman Sachs headquarters or Paulson's confidant, for the people in the San Jose office, including this female assistant, it is a "one-step" opportunity. If he can be transferred back to the New York headquarters, it will be compared For San Jose, who can only do research and report on data collection, New York is a flowery world in Shiliyangchang. After the transfer back, the salary and income can also increase a lot, and such opportunities are rare.

   glanced at the female assistant, she was really good looking. I heard that she graduated from an Ivy League university, but Pelle Greeni still held up the coffee and said, "The coffee is good!"

The conditions of this female assistant are not bad, but in the Goldman Sachs headquarters, it is nothing, grab a lot, and there are many more tricks to play on Wall Street, what scene Pelle Greeni has never seen ?

   Came to the ICQ office building, Pelle Greeni sorted his clothes and walked in this Wall Street company with a valuation of over 10 billion dollars.

   After entering, Pelle Greene saw that ICQ's office building was busy, but the daily tension of Goldman Sachs was not seen in ICQ.

  ICQ is a "serious" Silicon Valley company. The staff office can grow plants, bring some small pets to work, and there will be logistics staff to help feed and take care of them.

In terms of salary, ICQ is not the highest in Silicon Valley, but it is also in the top five. It also provides employees with one copy, including medical insurance for the whole family, gym, physical therapist, free meals ordered from outside, transportation subsidies, housing subsidies, etc., In a place like San Jose where land is expensive, if housing subsidies are not issued, young people who have just joined the job will probably have to sleep on the street.

However, the most anticipated thing for companies in Silicon Valley is the equity reward. This is a big killer that leads to freedom of wealth, and it is also the reason why countless people squeeze their heads and want to enter Silicon Valley. Financial freedom?

  ICQ naturally also has equity awards. In the open letter that Irene sent to all ICQ staff at the beginning of the year, it was clearly stated that if the listing plan was launched, all employees would be rewarded with equity.

   (end of this chapter)